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| location | Whitley Bay-Bay, UK |
The internet has become one of the most important spaces for social interaction we have ever seen, and the debate about its impact on all aspects of society is urgent and pressing.
Our new report - The Social Internet - highlights an emerging crisis for the giant social platforms - toxic and polarised online environments, but enormous potential to transform our world in positive ways. Read and discuss:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2025-06-social-media-change-issues-problems-report
So Scrum has DLC now
The Scrum Guide Expansion Pack is a comprehensive companion to the 2020 Scrum Guide, created to help professionals navigate today’s complex product environments. It deepens understanding of core Scrum principles by offering additional guidance on complexity, product thinking, systems of work, and leadership; while remaining true to Scrum’s ethos of empiricism and self-management. It’s not a rewrite, but a strategic amplification to support long-term, value-driven delivery in modern teams.

Great theme for #TuneTuesday this week, #NotMyCircusNotMyMonkeys
Considered: Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite. Because, it doesn't get much more circus than that.
Selected: The Toy Dolls, Nelly the Elephant. Because, wooooooOOOOOO...
Firefox taking its natural place above Google
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/09/google-foxes-roof-london-kings-cross-office
This is fascinating. The AWS Auth system handles over a billion requests a second - how do you make it run faster, safely make changes and test at scale? With formal proofs.
https://www.amazon.science/publications/formally-verified-cloud-scale-authorization
All critical systems must evolve to meet the needs of a growing and diversifying user base. But supporting that evolution is challenging at increasing scale: Maintainers must find a way to ensure that each change does only what is intended, and will not inadvertently change behavior for existing…