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I always knew this day would come. The day that Facebook decided my name was not real enough and summarily cut me off from my friends, family and peers and left me with the stark choice between using…

Right, so, you’ve probably read a bunch of great stuff from other people on why NFTs are bad, but I also know how reading things on the internet works, maybe you haven’t. So, here’s the really simple…

Just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to die along with the rest of the world.

A gaping flaw in SMS lets hackers take over phone numbers in minutes by simply paying a company to reroute text messages.

There are two huge red flags with Bluesky: 1) They recently raised a venture round – modern venture capitalists invest for one of two reasons: either they want a big return ($15M > $150M considered acceptable, but $1.5B+ is the goal), or they want a place where they can influence/control larger narratives for their personal, political, or financial gain (e.g. Marc Andreessen and a16z investing in Clubhouse and then being featured as "top recommended accounts"). 2) The VCs in Bluesky have ties to far-right authoritarians and cryptocurrency influencers – two of the key investors, Bart and Brad Stephens of Blockchain Capital, co-founded their firm with Brock Pierce, who worked directly with Steve Bannon While Bluesky is built on a better concept – decentralized social media and open protocols – there is little reason to believe them when they say they are focused on how "technology should serve the user, not the reverse."

Developers of Facebook's ReactJS framework, which powers much of the web, have a bro culture that isn't welcoming to traditionally underrepresented groups.

Time Machine backups to NAS SMB shares are broken. The current “fix” is to disable the macOS firewall.

Is it normal for the Little Snitch Network Extension to consume Gigabytes of memory? No it isn’t. Unfortunately that’s another new bug in the Network Extension framework of macOS. It’s a memory leak in Apple’s framework, which developers…

Bad radio propagation means Googlers are making do with Ethernet cables, phone hotspots.

Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi on TurboTax, acquisitions, and what AI can really do.

Every time Matt Mullenweg has lied, misrepresented or behaved in a questionable manner. Please contribute.

Stories you never want to feel on your own skin

TL;DR: iOS Safari is more than an inconvenience for developers, it's the fundamental reason interoperability has been stymied in...

Biz admits turning human women into faceless, sexualized furniture was a 'tone deaf' marketing ploy

Oops, they did it again. Early this morning, McAfee released an update to its antivirus definitions for corporate customers that mistakenly deleted a crucial Windows XP file, sending systems into a reboot loop and requiring tedious manual repairs. It's not the first strike for the company, either. I've got details.

Apple’s game subscription service seems to be on auto-pilot after the tech giant “cancelled a shitload of projects and pissed off a lot of people,” our sources say. And now there are whispers of another reboot.

Estimates suggest that fewer than 3,000 people have paid $49.99 to play Assassin’s Creed Mirage on iPhone. Other console ports like Resident Evil 4 and Death Stranding have flopped too.

You mean it's greed? I'm shocked!

To catch up in AI, Apple has turned to Google for help, tapping the search giant's vast cloud network and special AI chips.

The CEO of Apple was literally speechless when asked about the legacy of the Magic Mouse.

“I could easily get him to pay me $125,000 for a jug of something called Diarrhea Water in the understanding that it would ‘detoxify his beard.'”

Digital bank Chime will pay a penalty of $3.25 million to the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) for failing to issue timely refunds to customers who closed their accounts, and will return at least $1.3 million to customers, the regulator said on Tuesday.

Publishers see Apple cutting off an opportunity for them to forge more direct relationships with Apple News+ subscribers.

On April 9, Twitter/X began automatically modifying links that mention "twitter.com" to redirect to "x.com" instead. But over the past 48 hours, dozens of new domain names have been registered that demonstrate how this change could be used to craft…

San Francisco tech leaders are raging about a proposed California law that would make it illegal for your boss to contact you after work hours.

A new report from Media Matters and GLAAD finds that The New York Times excluded the perspectives of trans people from two-thirds of its stories about anti-trans legislation in the year following public criticism for its handling of the topic. Media Matters previously reported that the Times helped fuel a right-wing anti-trans panic in 2022 by platforming anti-trans extremists, painting rising ...

Issues with Kagi's AI focus, finances and leadership

Harassment is a widespread problem in the comic book industry that often goes unaddressed by publishers.

Two days ago cartoonist and comics professional MariNaomi published a piece on xoJane entitled "It Happened to Me: I Was Sexually Harassed Onstage at a Comic Convention Panel." In it she describes a truly awful experience: accepting an opportunity to speak on a panel about queer comics, and enduring another panelist with a "bigger" career in the industry than her questioning her bisexuality, expressing a distracting sexual attraction to her, and offering a veiled sexual proposition, all during the course of the panel. MariNaomi chose to anonymize the identity of her harasser with the initials DB, but Scott Lobdell, writer of the New 52 titles Red Hood and the Outlaws, Teen Titans, Superboy, and Superman, today stepped forward to identify himself and apologize.

After being accused of sexually harassing female cartoonist Tess Fowler, comics writer Brian Wood has released a statement denying the substance of her claims.

The comics industry is in deep trouble.

On Nathan Edmondson, Marvel, and the Cycle of Harassment (Updated)

For two years, David Fairbanks and I have been investigating predatory figures in comics. We can’t tell you specifically what about. We will probably never be able to tell you anything other …

The Money Thing Part 2: New writer on Red Wolf is perfect storm of all of today's comics issues

Sarah Lacy, editor of tech news site PandoDaily, is beefing up security at her home.

An AOL executive apologizes for the host’s offensive remarks, but what about the rest of the bullshit?

When offered the opportunity to attend a woman-focused panel at a major event, my sanity-defense sensors begin to fly. It’s true that I believe that female CEOs are still rarely given the opportunity to share their perspective onstage — par

What kind of a guy goes on a safari in Zimbabwe to shoot "problem elephants," then makes a graphic video about it, set to a dramatic Animal Planet-style soundtrack? Bob Parsons: former Marine, self-made millionaire, GoDaddy CEO.

This is a super sad story. But on the question of liability and responsibility, I’m wondering for those who assume most/much of it should fall on Airbnb would feel different if the house were rented…

During a news conference held on Wednesday morning, Airbnb revealed its plan to ride the wave of its successful San Francisco campaign.

Internet communities like Reddit have always been toxic environments that survive on the backs of unpaid labor, and attempts to corporatize them because of it.

Women and the Internet: Part One

When I moved to the Bay Area in 2007 to run the Wikimedia Foundation, the first thing that struck me was the eerie absence of women.

Twitter quickly reversed their decision to change the block feature after users protested with #RestoreTheBlock hashtag.

In the wake of #RestoreTheBlock, here's how Twitter's "Report Tweet" button works.

As it considers revising its rules, the company must decide which users it really values.

Democratizing career progression

UN Women appears to back away from Uber's plans to create 1M jobs for women by 2020.