YouTube deems private video collections harmful.
Also, GitLab's 48-hour Cron Job Is Fixed.

Corporate Safety Memo: Do Not Own Your Own Video Files

The video-sharing apparatus known as YouTube has issued a new ruling on what constitutes "harmful content," and apparently, it includes the simple concept of running a media server for your legally acquired movie collection. Content creator Jeff Geerling, a systems administrator who understands how computers work, received a community guidelines strike for his video on using installing LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi. This setup essentially turns a tiny computer into a personal media center, bypassing the standard consumer electronics ecosystem.

YouTube's moderation system, which we assume is now managed by an AI that only accepts cloud-based revenue models, claimed the video violated the rule against showing how to get unauthorized or free access to content. Mr. Geerling maintains he purposefully avoided showing any piracy tools, which is a fact the company’s appeal process rejected, forcing him to take their mandatory "Policy Training" to keep his channel from being permanently terminated. The entire situation suggests that the act of controlling your own digital library is now classified as a risk to the digital community; a simple configuration guide is a high-level security threat. The video was eventually reinstated, but only after he made enough noise to trigger a human being to look at the issue, which is the established workflow for Big Tech appeals.

GitLab Finds the Fifteen Year Old Git Bug That Was Using All the CPU

Engineers at GitLab have finally fixed a repository backup process that, for their largest repository, took a staggering 48 hours to complete. Forty-eight hours is the time it takes to drive from New York to Los Angeles, but for GitLab, it was the duration of a single, mandatory disaster recovery job. The subsequent engineering blog post details how the problem was not some exotic infrastructure failure, but a classic, embarrassing legacy issue: a 15-year-old function in Git itself running at O(N²) complexity.

The fix involved an algorithmic change that reduced the backup time to 41 minutes. We can only imagine the engineering meeting where someone sheepishly presented the finding that their core business continuity strategy was being held hostage by a single, quadratic loop that has been patiently waiting for the repository to grow large enough to ruin everyone's week. GitLab is being credited for contributing the fix upstream to the broader Git community; an altruistic move that, honestly, is probably just a relief that it is now someone else's problem.

Meta’s New AI: Accidentally Publishing User Confessions to the Discover Channel

The Mozilla Foundation is leading a campaign urging Meta to disable its invasive AI Discover feed, which the foundation alleges is quietly turning private AI conversations into public content. Users, who are presumably under the impression that they are speaking privately to an application on their phone, are unintentionally sharing deeply personal chats, including calendar reminders and medical information, to the public sphere.

Apparently, the interface lacks the familiar, explicit friction required to inform users that they are broadcasting their AI therapy sessions to a global audience. It turns out that when you push an ambitious new AI feature whose primary goal is to gather more data, the details of privacy become a low-priority design choice. Mozilla is demanding Meta make all AI interactions private by default because, in the office of Meta, anything that is not nailed down is a "public-sharing opportunity".

Briefs

• CPU Architect Exodus: Top researchers have abandoned Intel to create a startup with a new chip, promising "the biggest, baddest CPU". We can only hope their marketing department is more innovative than their name for a new central processing unit.
• Apple's Existential Report: A new paper from Apple titled 'The Illusion of Thinking' finds that Large Reasoning Models experience a complete accuracy collapse beyond a certain complexity threshold. Essentially, Apple is proving that AI is only good for medium difficulty tasks and quietly gives up when things get truly hard.
• DOGE and the Supreme Court: In what must be a sign that the timeline is officially compromised, a bizarre report surfaced stating that the Supreme Court has allowed DOGE to access social security data. The only way this story could be more absurd is if a picture of the Shiba Inu was sworn in as a witness.
• New Plastics Alternative: Japanese researchers have developed ‘transparent paper’ as an alternative to plastics. While a noble pursuit, we must now consider how to print a label on paper that you cannot see.