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Deliveroo's robot delivery trials in the United Kingdom are drawing sharp criticism from the GMB Union, which says the program is disappointing and was never negotiated with workers. The union's core argument is a familiar one — that innovation rolled out without consultation puts real livelihoods at risk before anyone's had a seat at the table.
On a very different kind of time crunch, the General Conference on Weights and Measures is preparing to vote on eliminating leap seconds entirely. Since nineteen seventy two, twenty seven of them have been quietly inserted into Coordinated Universal Time to keep our clocks aligned with Earth's wobbly rotation. Ending that practice would simplify timekeeping for engineers, but it reopens a very old tension between human convenience and astronomical reality.
And in a story that's part satire, part serious critique, a piece circulating online imagines a fictional CVE vulnerability report formatted as a newspaper headline — the kind that reads no way to prevent this, say users of only language where this regularly happens. It's a pointed jab at the ongoing memory safety debate in software development, and it's landing with engineers who've lived that frustration firsthand.
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