WTF now?! #47 – Thursday 6–Wednesday 12 August 2026
Some guy's AI agent exploited software to jump a gym class waitlist and Cloudflare thinks non-human traffic will be 1,000 times more in 5 years.
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A new orphan works scheme is coming to Australia
The Copyright Amendment Bill 2026 passed in the Senate yesterday. This new Act will introduce a limited liability scheme to activate productive and creative reuse of orphan works in Australia, ending a long-running failure of our copyright system.
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