Tech & Policy

The Hidden Price Tag on 'Please Credit the Creator'

Platforms are spending serious money to avoid giving creators credit — and they don't want you to know about it. Behind closed doors, lobbyists and engineers are quietly working to water down attribution requirements in open licensing frameworks, treating basic creator credit as a line-item liability.

Jul 25, 2026

Open Source Runs the Internet. So Why Are the People Who Built It Broke?

Open-source software quietly powers everything from your bank's app to NASA's satellites, generating trillions in corporate value. But the developers maintaining that critical infrastructure are largely unpaid volunteers burning out in real time. This is the funding paradox nobody in the industry wants to talk about—and it's getting worse.

Jul 21, 2026