Hey friends, I’m not really active here these days. The platform’s changed in ways that don’t sit right with me. If you’d like to stay in touch or see what I’m up to, check the link in my bio. Take care out there.

Madison Square Garden emailed its staff: your Knicks championship ring is here, no cost to you, pick Championship Gold or Garden Classic. Everyone who clicked won a mandatory cybersecurity class 🫢 MSG now calls it an unfortunate mistake. Would you have clicked? 💍 #Cybersecurity

Software designed a personal #mRNA vaccine from the mutations in each patient's own tumour. In a Phase 3 melanoma trial, it cut the risk of relapse or death by 42 percent versus immunotherapy alone. No approval yet, and overall survival is still the open question. 🧬

Kindle Unlimited is now Kindle+. Same $11.99 a month in the US, same 20 title limit, same ebook library. The real change is audio, with more audiobooks, AI narrated Virtual Voice titles included. Would you listen to an AI narrator? 🎧 #KindlePlus

Your #Kobo now logs every book to StoryGraph automatically. Cleaner stats, less thinking: the manual log was where you asked what a book gave you. Calibre sideloads still do not sync. Would you let the device keep your log? 📚

ChatGPT now locks chats behind a PIN. They leave your history and search, but nothing is encrypted end to end and your training settings stay as they were. Reset the PIN and every locked chat is gone for good. 🔒 #ChatGPT

Audiobooks went from 2.5% of European publishers' revenue in 2021 to 5.3% in 2025, per FEP. Total revenue fell 1.2% in the same year. A growing slice of a shrinking pie, which helps explain the rush from Spotify, Kobo and maybe YouTube. 🎧 #Audiobooks

Spotify is bringing #Audiobooks to Cyprus 🇨🇾 by the end of 2026, one of more than 180 markets. No launch date, price or local catalogue yet. The bigger story is one more rival for Audible and Kobo, inside an app people already open daily. Would you switch? 🎧

Kobo Plus just added audiobooks in France. In the US, Read and Listen is $9.99 a month, against $26.94 for Kindle Unlimited plus Audible Premium Plus. The gap only matters if your next books are in the catalogue. One subscription or two? 🎧 #KoboPlus

AI detectors are being used to accuse authors ⚖️ The Authors Guild now tells publishers never to rely on one alone. In its test, one #AI detector flagged ten human articles from 2020 to 2022 as mostly machine written. Score or evidence, what should decide? 👇

Is YouTube about to challenge Audible? 🎧 The WSJ reports YouTube is in talks with publishers on an #Audiobooks service, as soon as 2027, not yet confirmed. Spotify sells hours, Audible sells credits, YouTube already owns the search habit. Premium perk or pay per book? 👇

iOS 27 gave Safari a quiet feature called Notify Me. Open an ebook store page, tap the menu on the left of the address bar, describe the price you are waiting for, and Safari checks the page for you. No app, no extension. Which book are you waiting on? 📚 #iOS27

NYT, AFP and The Economist joined SPUR, a coalition of more than 80 publishers asking #AI firms to record and report the content they use. The catch: that record only works if AI companies agree to keep it. Would you trust them to report their own usage? 🤔

Owners of the new 2026 Kindle report a glow around the screen edges in dark mode. Amazon first called heavy light bleed a defect, then said it was expected for the color bezel and suggested lower brightness. Trade off or dealbreaker? 🤔 #Kindle

AI made content cheap. It made being believed expensive. Fluency no longer signals expertise. Evidence does: a test you actually ran and a result you will stand behind. Show your method and you keep trust. Show only output and you compete with infinite output.

Amazon now lets #KDP authors create just two new titles per format per week, down from ten. AI is never named, yet the first cap arrived with its AI disclosure rules in 2023. A quality filter, or a penalty on the wrong authors? 🤔

Amazon's new Alexa Tablet has a #Kindle reading mode: no notifications, less blue light, up to 20 hours of battery. That fixes distraction, not the screen. Novels stay on E Ink. Comics, PDFs and textbooks can move. Which books would you move? 📖

Would you pay 10 euros more for a colour ereader? 🎨 PocketBook's new Verta is 169 euros, the Verta Color 179. Text stays at 300 ppi, colour renders at 150. The real question is what you read: covers, comics and charts, or mostly novels?