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A London-based counterfeiting operation has exposed what investigators are calling industrial-scale vinyl record fraud. Collectors and labels alike are grappling with sophisticated fakes flooding the market, raising hard questions about authentication in physical media at a moment when vinyl sales have been climbing steadily for over a decade.
On the infrastructure side of software, a project called Casita is making the case for content-addressed storage of source code and build artifacts. The idea is straightforward but consequential — rather than tracking files by name or path, you track them by what they actually contain, which makes builds more reproducible and dependencies harder to quietly tamper with.
And out of Sydney, a retiree is attempting something no one has done before — circumnavigating the entirety of Australia on an electric motorcycle. The journey puts real-world range anxiety to the test across some of the most remote terrain on the planet, and the outcome will tell us something honest about where electric two-wheelers actually stand today.
Keep riding. Tech Beat out.
