April 17, 2023 FSF: Chrome’s JPEG XL killing shows how the web works under browser hegemony Enlarge / When Google, whose Chromium/Chrome-related browsers make up 80% of browser share, says that something has “not enough interest from the entire ecosystem,”…
April 17, 2023 Chinese Surveillance Giant Knew Its Cameras Spied on Uyghurs, War Crimes Investigator Says Hikvision, a Chinese surveillance camera company restricted in parts of the US and the UK, knew its tech was used to monitor the country’s…
April 17, 2023 The Boogeyman Trailer Reminds Us to Leave the Lights On There’s something under the bed… and in the dark, it comes out to play. Read more…
April 17, 2023 NASA’s Enigmatic Green Lasers Spotted by Japanese Astronomer Japanese museum curator and astronomer Daichi Fujii spotted something irregular last September in several motion-sensing cameras he had set up: three brilliant green lights…
April 17, 2023 Twitter will label tweets limited due to hate policy violations Twitter may have a looser stance on bans under Elon Musk, but it’s still willing to flag content that runs afoul of its rules….
April 17, 2023 SEC charges crypto exchange Bittrex for violating US securities laws The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Bittrex and former CEO William Shihara with operating an unregistered securities exchange. In a complaint filed on…
April 17, 2023 The National Guard Plans to Geofence High Schools and Target Kids’ Phones With Recruitment Ads Teens love their screens, and the Department of Defense is prepared to take advantage of that. The Georgia Army National Guard has big plans…
April 17, 2023 The Witch From Mercury Did the Gundam Thing Remember when the first season of the excellent new Gundam show, The Witch From Mercury, ended and shocked everyone with a reminder that it…
April 17, 2023 This Week in Spaceflight: An ISS Spacewalk and SpaceX’s Second Starship Launch Attempt Elon’s gigantic Starship rocket is expected to dominate the news this week, but there will be other spaceflight happenings vying for our attention. Read…
April 17, 2023 Spotify is dropping the paywall for some Gimlet podcasts Spotify started pouring a whole lot of money into the podcasting space in 2019, making headlines by purchasing entire production studios and signing lucrative…