Pornhub cuts off more US users in ongoing protest over age-verification laws (arstechnica.com)
Pornhub now blocks access to users in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Texas, Utah, and Virginia.
Pornhub now blocks access to users in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Texas, Utah, and Virginia.
After nearly three decades, the Ariane 5 rocket reaches the end of the line.
… On Saturday, the r/IAmA moderators announced that they will no longer perform these duties:...
SpaceX is filling in for ESA as European rockets face delays.
Webb turned its gold-coated mirror toward Saturn this week.
Last month, Microsoft announced that it would continue its put-ChatGPT-in-everything adventure with a new Windows 11 feature called Copilot. The company added generative AI to Edge and to the Bing-powered taskbar Search field months ago, but Copilot promises to be the most visible and hard-to-ignore version of Microsoft’s big...
Things to think about and lessons to learn.
Don't like this article 😠 posting it in search of rebuttals. The word "moderation" is not to be found anywhere in it.
I've been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey—I'm just going to use "Mastodon" as shorthand here; purists can bite me) for over a year now and have been doing so full time for about six months, following Elon Musk buying Twitter (since on principle, I decline to give Elon Musk money or attention). This...
Amazon to be accused of punishing sellers who don't use its fulfillment services.
Project Iris said to be scrapped as Google focuses on AR software.
“The former NBCUniversal advertising head, who started as chief executive on June 5, is seeking to launch full-screen, sound-on video ads that would be shown to users scrolling through Twitter’s new short-video feed, according to three people familiar with the situation.”...
The flight from Musk's Twitter to the "free" fediverse never really took off.
Valve cites unclear legal status, copyrighted training data in rejection message.
Apple has joined the growing number of organizations opposed to the UK's pending Online Safety Bill, saying the proposed law threatens the end-to-end encryption that protects private messages....
Starting in version 1.54, [the browser] Brave will automatically block website port scanning, a practice that a surprisingly large number of sites were found engaging in a few years ago. According to this list compiled in 2021 by a researcher who goes by the handle G666g1e, 744 websites scanned visitors’ ports, most or all...
Why is a planet orbiting a star that should have gone through a giant phase?