Public Service Internet monthly newsletter (Nov 2026)

Scene from the film gravity – Astronaut blown into space high above the earth We live in incredible times with such possibilities that is clear. Although its easily dismissed seeing the AI reskins, hearing how AlJazeera was hacked with a zero click attack and reading about cognitive atrophy To quote Buckminster Fuller “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” You are seeing aspects of this with Norway fining Microsoft’s adfirm for using Grindr data, Proton making clear where those flock camera are and thank you Ondřej Surý and many more for their time working on PHP Does AI make closed source, open? Ian thinks: There has been a lot of talk about Photocraft which is allegedly a whole recreation of adobe’s suite of tools written in Rust. However the important part is the ethical aspects and could this mean all closed source could become exist? Also worth watching the 404 media video about…