There's... a lot going on lately, so we're rounding up some of that news this week, starting with Discord's forthcoming age verification policy rolling out globally, with cursory discussion of some of the alternative platforms starting to assert themselves out there. We also touch on the targeting and compromise of Notepad++ by state-level actors, and the latest effects of the computing supply crisis on hard drives, the Steam Machine, and the PlayStation 6. Lastly, we talk about the bizarre case of the autonomous AI agent that started a flame war against an open source maintainer that... well, you really need to just hear/read about that one yourself.

Discord's age verification announcement: https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-default-settings-globally

Notepad++ compromised: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me: https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

(Much more has emerged about the AI agent story since we recorded, including contact with the agent's operator, all described at the link above.)

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