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Fender has revamped its online shopping experience as more customers move toward higher-end instruments, Forbes reports. The guitar maker is reworking its digital storefront to match buyers who increasingly spend more per purchase and expect a more premium, seamless e-commerce experience.

A motion before the Vaud cantonal parliament, backed by Vincent Keller and other councillors, urges schools in the Swiss canton to adopt free and open source software. Supporters frame it as a matter of digital sovereignty, arguing public education should not depend on proprietary vendors and calling for the change to happen now rather than later.

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce is departing the agency after eight years to take a role at a law school. Peirce, often called a friendly regulator by the crypto industry, led pro-crypto regulatory efforts at the SEC and frequently opposed the agency's stricter enforcement approach. Her departure raises questions about who will champion lighter-touch digital asset oversight at the regulator going forward.

Media fans are explaining why they are going back to physical formats like CDs, DVDs and vinyl, arguing that streaming services leave them without true ownership of music, films and data. Reasons cited include protecting access to purchased content, directly supporting artists, and avoiding recommendation algorithms that shape what people watch and hear. The phrase 'if you can't hold it, you don't own it' captures a growing concern that digital libraries can shrink or disappear when platforms change terms or remove titles.

The internet radio station Radio Digital Malayali is currently airing "Chithramani Kattil," an aesthetic Malayalam lofi and slowed mix released by Def Dream Records under the Spirijuana Lofi label. The station is streaming the track live, with listenership around twenty concurrent listeners, and is promoting it under Indian lofi hashtags.

Farms increasingly depend on connected technology for irrigation, grain handling, livestock monitoring and equipment control, raising the question of how operations would continue during a power or internet outage. Successful Farming highlights the risks of overreliance on digital systems and prompts farmers to plan backup procedures, manual overrides and contingency steps to keep essential work running when connectivity or electricity fails.

India's startup and tech sector is in focus with a bundle of developments: questions over the money trail behind Nvidia's GPU deal with data centre operator Yotta, Snapdeal's renewed plan for a stock market listing, a positive turn for insurar Go Digit, and India's $12 billion startup fund. Together they point to a busy stretch for Indian tech and venture financing.

Law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips is presenting the latest episode of its Digital Law and Technology Policy Forum webinar series, focused on AI safety under the title 'Going off the Rails'. The session examines how artificial intelligence systems can deviate from intended behavior and what policy and legal responses may be needed. It forms part of the firm's ongoing series for clients and policy watchers tracking AI regulation.

Community banks are mounting opposition to regulators in the Trump administration over plans to approve crypto-focused charters, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The banks argue the move would favor digital-asset firms and create uneven competition, adding a new fault line to the ongoing fight in Washington over how far regulators should go in embracing cryptocurrency companies within the traditional banking system.

A new explorer circulating on gadget news outlets details how much information an internet connection exposes about the device using it. Data such as IP address, connection type and network behaviour can indicate the device model, operating system and even approximate location, raising fresh questions about online privacy and how much users unknowingly share simply by going online.