U.S. — In what has become one of America's most cherished annual traditions, a giddy nation will gather around its televisions this evening to see which young man will have his career killed by the Cleveland Browns.

In 2021, Boris Johnson's government began efforts to ban smoking for future generations. Three prime ministers later, the bill has finally reached its last step, a formality involving the monarch. The historic law will ban anyone born after 2008 from purchasing tobacco or vaping products in the country, for the rest of their lives.

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After building a growing set of GitHub Copilot skills across areas such as Azure API Management, infrastructure as code authoring, and diagram generation with tools like Excalidraw and Draw.io, I have found that the difference between a skill that is genuinely useful and one that quietly disappoints usually comes down to a small number of design choices. Most of those choices are easy to miss…

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If you have been building GitHub Copilot agents and skills for any length of time, you eventually run into the same problem: creating them is the easy part. Sharing them properly is where the real friction starts. At first, the workaround feels reasonable. You build a useful agent for Terraform provider upgrades. You add a skill for architecture reviews. Maybe you create another for diagram…

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Caleb Jacobs (via Hacker News):

While the agricultural manufacturing giant pointed out in a statement that this is no admission of wrongdoing, it agreed to pay $99 million into a fund for farms and individuals who participated in a class action lawsuit. Specifically, that money is available to those involved who paid John Deere’s authorized dealers for large equipment repairs from January 2018. This means that plaintiffs will recover somewhere between 26% and 53% of overcharge damages, according to one of the court documents—far beyond the typical amount, which lands between 5% and 15%.

The settlement also includes an agreement by Deere to provide “the digital tools ​required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair” of tractors, combines, and other machinery for 10 years. That part is crucial, as farmers previously resorted to hacking their own equipment’s software just to get it up and running again.

Previously:

• Right to Repair Legislation in 50 States
• Apple Self Service Repair