Network Shares Leak Sensitive Internal Video.
Also server patches and bad government paperwork.

The Q&A That Was Not Ready for Broadcast

The latest debacle involves an important internal video from the *60 Minutes* team at CBS News that was shelved right before the Monday morning meeting; a decision reportedly made by CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss. Ms. Weiss claimed the segment, an exposé on the Salvadoran prison CECOT, was simply "not ready" and required more context, which is the corporate equivalent of saying the coffee machine is broken and the meeting is canceled. The story, however, had already been promoted for days and cleared by both legal and Standards and Practices teams, according to *60 Minutes* Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who suggested the real issue was a refusal by White House officials to participate in an interview.

Naturally, an unaired version of the internal video was immediately uploaded and shared across various platforms after the Canadian Global News streaming app mistakenly posted the full version on their service. This has caused the predictable Streisand Effect, ensuring the sensitive content is now mandatory viewing for the entire internet and several members of Congress. The whole situation confirms the primary rule of digital archiving: if you do not want it public, do not give anyone outside the building a copy, even if that person is in the Canadian office.

The Server Farm Runs on Video Game Priorities

In a move that perfectly summarizes the industry’s architectural philosophy, Meta is now reportedly deploying a Linux scheduler originally engineered by Valve for its handheld gaming console, the Steam Deck, onto its colossal server fleet. This is not a drill; the backbone of the global social network is now using the same system that manages the frame rate on *Hades*. Engineers detailed the deployment of the SCX-LAVD scheduler at the Linux Plumbers Conference, noting that a scheduler designed to keep games responsive also works out for high-latency data center workloads.

It turns out the default kernel scheduler is "conservative," which is engineer-speak for "too slow for Mark Zuckerberg's digital empire". Rather than developing a bespoke $50 million solution, Meta has opted for the perfectly reasonable option of repurposing a component designed to let gamers keep playing when their kid starts a 4K Netflix stream. It just goes to show that if a handheld console can handle it, your billion-dollar enterprise infrastructure probably can too.

High-Tech Video Streaming Defeated by The 1998 Screensaver Method

A team at HelixML spent three months building a gorgeous, modern, hardware-accelerated H.264 streaming pipeline only to have it wiped out by the single most powerful force in corporate computing: the aggressive enterprise firewall. The complex, low-latency WebCodecs solution failed because the network security team is still blocking anything that is not on port 443, a policy which instantly killed any possibility of using WebRTC or even a simple UDP handshake.

The fix was to scrap all the beautiful new technology and return to the Stone Age of screen sharing, replacing the H.264 video stream with a constant stream of JPEG screenshots. A single JPEG image is self-contained; it either arrives perfectly or it does not, which avoids the problem of corrupted video decoder state and frame-dependency issues that plague modern codecs over sketchy networks. This is basically the digital equivalent of abandoning a brand new fiber-optic line for a series of smoke signals that arrive at a lower frequency but are never blurry.

Briefs

• Micro-Monoliths: Prolific programmer Fabrice Bellard released MicroQuickJS. It is a new, extremely tiny JavaScript engine which will doubtlessly be deployed in a new enterprise dependency chain the size of Montana by next week.
• EU Compliance: Apple will be forced by the Digital Markets Act to bring AirPods-like pairing functionality to third-party accessories in iOS 26.3 within the European Union. The company will likely treat the process like an extremely complicated tax filing.
• The Spying TV: It turns out that that the Live Plus setting on your LG TV is the thing that collects all your viewing habits and sends them to the mothership. The default setting is always "harvest everything." This is why we can't have nice things.