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09/25/2024

Pending their legal claims and litigation against WordPress.org, WP Engine no longer has free access to WordPress.org’s resources.

08/28/2024

Tumblr is making the move to WordPress. After its 2019 acquisition by WordPress.com parent company Automattic in a $3 million fire sale, the new owner has focused on improving Tumblr's platform and growing its revenue. Now Automattic will shift Tumblr's back end over to WordPress, Automattic said in...

03/18/2023

09/15/2020

My concern is the increase in costs in developing this processor if this sale continues... and it's impact on small single board computers like the Raspberry Pi.

As one of the founders of Arm I am extremely concerned about the proposed sale of Arm to Nvidia. This concern is shared by many of my colleagues in Cambridge, the UK financial and electronics industry who are all co-signing this letter.

07/16/2020

An unprecedented “security incident” has rocked Twitter—and scammers are making off with huge amounts of bitcoin.

06/11/2020

The Internet Archive is a massive endeavor -- it's an online library aiming to "provide Universal Access to All Knowledge." It has digitized millions of web pages, movies, photos, recordings, software programs, and books that might otherwise be lost to history. But it's neither un-censorable nor out...

06/03/2020

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNET: A group of U.S. senators on Monday introduced a bill to regulate contact-tracing apps, aiming to protect user privacy as technology is used to track the spread of the novel coronavirus. The proposal is called the Exposure Notification Privacy Act and se...

05/25/2020

While reinstating the PATRIOT Act, the U.S. Senate blocked an amendment which would've shielded Americans' browsing and search histories from warrantless searches. But that fight may not be over, reports TechSpot: [S]everal tech companies including Mozilla, Reddit, Twitter, and Patreon have co...

05/19/2020

Customers trying to avoid online delivery platforms like Grubhub by calling restaurants directly might be dialing phone numbers generated and advertised by those very platforms -- for which restaurants are charged fees that can sometimes exceed the income the order generates. BuzzFeed News reports:....

05/13/2020

Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago officials announced on Tuesday new rules for third-party food delivery apps, requiring them to disclose to customers an itemized cost breakdown of each transaction.

03/19/2020

In this article, we are going to take a look at what things would most probably be changing in HTML6 and what’s new in HTML6 and HTML6 release date? HTML6 is Coming – What’s new in HTML6: HTML 6 Dedicated Libraries, HTML6 Integrated Camera, Customized Menus in HTML6, ...

03/15/2020

In many authoritarian countries where news sources and books are censored, the video game "Minecraft" is not.