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• 199 Scabs (Written in 2019 on what people are feeling every year the 9/11 anniversary comes upa nd it still resonates today)
• 198 Microsoft officially retires the Internet Explorer browser after 27 years of existence.
• 197 Jason Kottke is taking a sabbatical from his blog https://kottke.org.
• 196 The 3G shutdown will affect everyday devices you probably own
• 195 Senator Blumenthal, After Years Of Denial, Admits He's Targeting Encryption With EARN IT
• 194 T-Mobile starts blocking iPhone users in the US who use the iCloud Private Relay feature just to please their parent company Deutsche Telekom (which is among other European carriers already blocking it):
• 193 Today is ultimate doomsday for BlackBerry legacy devices.
• 192 The Log4Shell 0day is still ongoing.
• 191 Nextcloud Hub II released today
• 190 Winamp prepares a relaunch, new beta version almost ready
• 189 Apple to begin do-it-yourself repair program for iPhones, Macs next year
• 188 Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W on sale now at $15 USD
• 187 Amazon Astro: privacy nightmare
• 186 Framework laptop: Cory Doctorow's thoughts
• 185 The Linux Foundation and other companies are putting in millions to help secure open-source software we all rely on
• 184 The SLS rocket won't fly until 2022 at the earliest
• 183 Samsung kills the cameras on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 if you unlock the bootloader
• 182 OnlyFans will ban adult content in October
• 181 Mastercard becomes the first payment company to completely phase out magnetic stripes as they'll do so by 2033 although the transition will happen by 2024 in the EU and in 2027 in the US
• 180 Top US Catholic Church official resigns after a Catholic media site obtained his alleged Grindr app and phone location data from an undisclosed data broker
• 179 Valve announces the Steam Deck, it's Nintendo Switch competitor
• 178 IBM's company-wide email migration, 18 months in the making, has left many employees unable to use email or schedule calendar events for several days
• 177 'Most homes' in Lytton, B.C., destroyed by catastrophic fire, B.C. minister says
• 176 Hackers exploited 0-day, not 2018 bug, to mass-wipe My Book Live devices
• 175 Windows 11 is officially here.
• 174 Windows 11 has been leaked
• 173 New York State Senate has become the first legislative body in the US to pass a Right to Repair law.
• 172 A Japanese bookstore simulator is collaboratively translated into English after 24 years
• 171 Stack Overflow acquired by Prosus for $1.8 billion
• 170 The freenode exodus has begun
• 169 There’s no place for expensive laptops with 8GB of RAM anymore
• 168 Epic versus Apple starts today: here's a summary on the now ongoing case.
• 167 Gutted to hear the news over the weekend that Dan Kaminsky has suddenly died at 42
• 166 Do We Need To Lose The Open Podcast Ecosystem To Make Podcasting Better?
• 165 Scams on app stores, especially on iOS
• 164 Statement of FSF board on election of [RMS]
• 163 Signal testing in-app payments in the UK using blockchain and cryptocurrency
• 162 SCOTUS sides with Google, ruling that copying APIs are fair use
• 161 Unsplash getting brought by the devil itself in Getty Images
• 160 TenFourFox's eventual end
• 159 Free Software Foundation urged to free itself of Richard Stallman by hundreds of developers and techies
• 158 AdGuard names over 6,000 web trackers that use CNAME chicanery which is a way to bypass many ad-blocking and anti-tracking protections.
• 157 Alamo Drafthouse as we know it is sadly dead.
• 156 Sony will exit the PlayStation video buying and renting business in August
• 155 SFGate's Grant Marek found the exact Bay Area hill that was Windows XP's default wallpaper plus talked to the man who took the photo to boot.
• 154 Daft Punk has broken up
• 153 For those who use the free version of LastPass, they’re going to limit your to just ONE device type starting in March.
• 152 Disney's 20th/21st Century Fox acquisition claims another victim in Blue Sky Studios (and hundreds of jobs).
• 151 Now it's the Dems' turn in attempting to kill a open internet by proposing a Section 230-gutting bill in the US Senate
• 150 Evan Rachel Wood finally names Marilyn Manson as her abuser
• 149 This is a very good explainer on GameStop’s stock roller coaster this week
• 148 What’s The Deal With Chromium On Linux? Google At Odds With Package Maintainers
• 147 Raspberry Pi Pico
• 146 TSMC To Produce Intel Core i3 CPUs on 5nm Process Node in 2H 2021, 3nm Mainstream & High-End CPUs Enter Mass Production in 2H 2022
• 145 Rebekah Jones faces cyber-crime charge, accused of illegally accessing state database
• 144 Hundreds of non-commercial Nintendo fangames have been removed from the popular game publishing community Game Jolt after the platform complied with several DMCA takedown requests.
• 143 Dropbox will be laying off 315 people including their COO.
• 142 Great story from Ernie Smith about the router everyone in America owned in 2004: The Linksys WRT54G that eventually went open source by accident.
• 141 Jared Mauch didn’t have good broadband—so he built his own fiber ISP
• 140 A small Idaho ISP has decided to ban Twitter and Facebook after bogus claims of censorship
• 139 Riot in the Capitol is a nightmare scenario for cybersecurity professionals
• 138 Sunday's 60 Minutes report on Section 230 is misleading and propaganda-like. Mike Masnick breaks it down so you don't have to.
• 137 How to play Flash content in your browser in 2021
• 136 Brexit deal mentions Netscape Communicator 4.0 and Mozilla Mail
• 135 What’s The Best Non-Smart TV Sold Today?
• 134 Proposed draft DMCA rewrite could kill the internet
• 133 Heads up US folks: The CASE act and the felony streaming bill is in the must pass spending bill and its all but certain to pass today.
• 132 Global chip shortage threatens production of laptops, smartphones and more
• 131 Texas Wedding Photographers Have Seen Some $#!+
• 130 This is a great thread on modern websites and the things that people get annoyed about.
• 129 Endangered Firefox: The state of Mozilla
• 128 Working from home at 25MHz: You could do worse than a Quadra 700 (even in 2020)
• 127 Cyberpunk 2077 Epileptic PSA
• 126 Florida State Police Raid Home Of COVID Whistleblower, Point Guns At Her & Her Family, Seize All Her Computer Equipment
• 125 Salesforce buys Slack in a $27.7 billion megadeal
• 124 ViacomCBS to sell publisher Simon & Schuster to Bertelsmann, owner of Penguin Random House, for $2.175B in cash
• 123 Researchers find actively-exploited backdoors in low-cost Jetstream and Wavlink routers sold at Walmart, Amazon, and eBay
• 122 Starting January 4 Google will block sign-ins from embedded browser frameworks
• 121 Comcast implementing data caps on their remaining areas where they hadn't yet implemented arbitrary, bullshit usage caps and overage fees
• 120 Famed Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dismantled
• 119 Google Pay relaunches as a full fledged banking experience with an assist from India
• 118 Amazon has officially entered the pharmacy business
• 117 Update after Apple's response
• 116 Yesterday's OCSP service-related issues highlighted the fact that macOS sends a hash of every app that users run along with the users' IP, unencrypted, to Apple
• 115 Python creator Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
• 114 Google will end its free unlimited Photos storage on June 1, 2021, imposing a 15GB cap, but photos and documents uploaded before then will not count against cap
• 113 Ink-Stained Wretches: The Battle for the Soul of Digital Freedom Taking Place Inside Your Printer
• 112 Sony confirms PS5 won't support SSD storage expansion at launch, despite the presence of a dedicated internal slot, says it “is reserved for a future update”
• 111 Movie industry trying to blame VPNs, Tor, and piracy for the direct threat to legitimate streaming services
• 110 The Raspberry Pi 400, a compact keyboard with a built-in ARM-based computer
• 109 Sony is on the verge of buying Crunchyroll for nearly $1 billion
• 108 Spanish publication El Pais shows how COVID-19 spreads though the air
• 107 Researchers detail how link previews in messengers can leak sensitive data, drain batteries, and much more
• 106 Water exists on the Moon
• 105 On Election Day, voters across the US will have nearly 21,000 or 20% fewer polling places than 2016.
• 104 Animaniacs reboot trailer
• 103 How to block the Windows 10 October 2020 Update, version 20H2, from installing
• 102 I just heard that @mps, one of the great ADN people and all around great woman, has left this Earth. She passed on on October 14th.
• 101 Microsoft will adopt Chromium's Manifest V3 on Edge, likely killing ad blockers
• 100 Apple's misleading pricing on the iPhone 12 and 12 mini
• 99 Five Eyes governments as well as India and Japan make a new call for backdoors into products that are end-to-end encrypted
• 98 Hootsuite has sacked Sam Anderson after she spoken out on the company's hookup with ICE
• 97 Justices wary of upending tech industry in Google v. Oracle Supreme Court fight
• 96 PS5 X Button Confirm Change Sparks Worries From Asia, Japan Players
• 95 Palantir and the LAPD: secret partners.
• 94 The EARN IT Act, which would be a huge blow to our privacy, security, and online freedom of expression if it becomes law has also been introduced in the House.
• 93 YouTube celebrates Deaf Awareness Week by killing crowd-sourced captions
• 92 Microsoft plans to buy Zenimax Media, Bethesda's parent company for $7.5 billion
• 91 Nintendo 3DS production officially ends
• 90 New Ham Radio Onboard The ISS Is On The Air
• 89 US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission finds that IBM discriminated against older workers when making thousands of layoffs between 2013 and 2018
• 88 NIVIDIA has agreed to buy ARM for $40 billion in cash/stock
• 87 Cathleen Ritteriser on the observance of 2751 Moments of Silence.
• 86 Jim Wright with a must-read on what a lot of people are feeling in the nearly two decades since 9/11
• 85 The Apocalyptic Red Western Skies Caused by Climate Change-Fueled Wildfires
• 84 Karl Bode with a great piece on why the US will never going to fix their broken broadband sector until they recognize state and federal corruption is at the heart of the problem.
• 83 Google's proposed Web Bundles could threaten the Web as we know it
• 82 A federal appeals court has ruled the NSA phone metadata program was illegal & maybe unconstitutional to boot.
• 81 What Windows 95 Changed
• 80 Chromium's impact on root DNS traffic
• 79 This is a great read on the history of computer user groups and it's golden age, which those who remember was fun places to be back in the day.
• 78 Latest update to Lightroom for iOS inadvertently wiped users' photos and presets not synced to the cloud; Adobe says there is no way to get them back
• 77 Some interesting stuff from former Apple engineer David Shayer on the company's 2005 plans to build a top secret iPod in collaboration with the US Department of Energy, likely to create a stealth Geiger counter.
• 76 Melody Horn on what a post open source world would look like
• 75 Mozilla is on life support as they laying off an additional 250 people AND gutted their whole MDN team
• 74 Toshiba, which started making laptops in 1985, has formally exited the laptop business, after Sharp acquired Toshiba's final shares in Dynabook
• 73 State Department Announces That Great Firewall For The US; Blocks Chinese Apps & Equipment
• 72 IBM is Already Gutting Red Hat and Firing Employees Without Warning
• 71 NVIDIA is in talks to buy ARM for $32 billion
• 70 More on the USPS' road to privatization
• 69 Publisher Decries Damn Libraries Entertaining The Masses Stuck At Home For Free
• 68 Pre-orders for the Analogue Pocket retro portable game console start August 3, ships May 2021
• 67 VICE's sources share screenshots of an internal control panel they say birdsite workers use to interact with user accounts, which may have enabled today's account takeovers
• 66 How COVID-19 affects our sleeping patterns
• 65 Microsoft issues patch for wormable Windows DNS Server flaw after 17 years
• 64 Lucasfilm and MythBusters roboticist Grant Imahara has passed away
• 63 Matthew Green with a brilliant write up on Signal’s “Secure Value Recovery” backup system (and decision to force users to choose PIN codes)
• 62 The big Facebook crash of 2020 and the problem of third-party SDK creep
• 61 For those who haven't subscribed to the XMPP newsletter yet, you should.
• 60 James Beckwith made a time lapse map of each Covid-19 death.
• 59 Your next BMW might only have heated seats for 3 months
• 58 Kongregate is no longer accepting new games and their forums will shut down.
• 57 A new strain of flu that has the potential to become a pandemic has been identified in China by scientists.
• 56 What happens when you update your DNS?
• 55 It's official: the EU will ban US travelers when their borders open July 1 due to their catastrophic failures to curb COVID-19.
• 54 Leaked Microsoft document hints at a cheaper and less powerful Xbox console, designed to provide key improvements in Xbox Series X at a lower price point
• 53 The EU is expected to ban US travelers when their borders open July 1, citing failures to control COVID-19.
• 52 Apple sends a letter to Hey: Change your app or get out of the App Store
• 51 Video Game Hall of Fame's 2020 class: Bejeweled, Centipede, King's Quest, and Minecraft
• 50 Apple Is Trying To Shut Down HEY
• 49 Hey email app rejected by Apple for not taking part in App Store's 30% cut
• 48 Remembering Windows 2000, Microsoft's Forgotten Masterpiece
• 47 Supreme Court says LGBTQ people are protected from discrimination in the workplace
• 46 Activists rally to save Internet Archive as a lawsuit from publishers threaten to shut it down
• 45 Zoom says China asked it to censor pro-democracy activists in US and it obeyed
• 44 New Intel chip flaws disclosed: one can leak secure enclave data and another allows cross core info leakage; both have patches that partially fix the issues
• 43 An update on Maxis' incomplete game called SimRefinery
• 42 How Apple Decides Which Products Are ‘Vintage’ and ‘Obsolete’
• 41 LEGO giving away $4 million to black communities
• 40 Internet Users of All Kinds Should Be Concerned by a New Copyright Office Report
• 39 HBO Max won't hit AT&T data caps, but Netflix and Disney Plus will
• 38 Publishers/authors are trying to officially kill the Internet Archive
• 37 Police Erupt in Violence Nationwide
• 36 Mike Masnick's post on the President's executive order today.
• 35 GE switches off light bulb business after almost 130 years
• 34 Basecamp (DHH and Jason Fried's company) is launching HEY soon
• 33 Cory Doctorow's thoughts on Spotify (and repordely Apple's) plan to kill podcasting
• 32 Xbox and Windows NT 3.5 source code leaks online
• 31 House Democrats Have The Power To Protect Our Web Surfing From Warrantless FBI Searching; Instead, They're Pointing Fingers
• 30 Karl Bode goes all out at the NARB after AT&T announced it won't remove their misleading 5G E label
• 29 NYU Game Center Showcase 2020
• 28 Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10
• 27 The effects on cognition of sleeping 4 hours per night for 12-14 days
• 26 Podcast Addict pulled from the Play Store for allegedly violating COVID-19 policy
• 25 Space Force unveils its service flag at White House ceremony
• 24 Download your App.net Post History
• 23 There's a good chance that the US Congress will allow the FBI to secretly eavesdrop on our browsing data and break encryption
• 22 Profile and behind-the-scenes story of Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins, who helped stop the WannaCry attack and pled guilty to selling the Kronos banking malware
• 21 According to Dutch researchers, computers with Thunderbolt ports made before 2019 have an unpatchable flaw letting hackers with physical access circumvent data safeguards.
• 20 The plan is to have no plan
• 19 Defcon 28 will be online-only this year
• 18 Zoom buys Keybase
• 17 GitHub announces new features, including Codespaces, a free cloud-based developer environment now in beta that's based on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor
• 16 Nintendo has reportedly suffered a significant legacy console leak
• 15 ICANN finally halts $1.1bn sale of .org registry, says it's 'the right thing to do' after months of controversy
• 14 Nintendo says up to 160,000 Nintendo Accounts may have been accessed by hacks
• 13 Wi-Fi 6GHz: explanation of what it brings to the table
• 12 New York's Governor Hands Down A Mask Mandate While The State's Anti-Mask Law Remains On The Books
• 11 Social distancing is good news for the drive-in theater
• 10 Several large restaurant groups led by multi-millionaire CEOs had successfully obtained loans meant to aid small businesses amid the coronavirus pandemic
• 9 ICANN delays .org sell off after California's attorney general intervenes at last minute, tears non-profit a new one over sale
• 8 San Diego Comic-Con 2020 Is Canceled
• 7 Regulators have given banks the green light to use COVID-19 stimulus funds to pay off debts that individuals owe them.
• 6 White House rejects bailout for U.S. Postal Service battered by coronavirus
• 5 Not actually Linux distro review deux: GhostBSD
• 4 Apple and Google announce a joint effort to introduce iOS and Android APIs in mid-May for opt-in Bluetooth-based COVID-19 contact tracing
• 3 Webcams have become impossible to find, and prices are skyrocketing
• 2 230, or not 230? That is the EARN IT question.
• 1 Several tech companies are still allowing SIM swappers hijack accounts