Spotify is often credited as the music service most in tune with the 'pirate' mentality, having converted millions of former file-sharers in recent years. Interestingly, according to writer and researcher Rasmus Fleischer, a decade ago the site actually populated…

Big Tech companies - Apple, Google, and Meta - have built a mass surveillance machine that the government can easily tap into.

Microsoft is now in the process of turning off Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge, such as uBlock Origin. However, not everything is lost at this point.

The European Union's Digital Markets Act obligates Apple to provide certain features to iOS users in the EU, such as third party app stores. I live in the US and was able to develop a relatively-straightforward method to spoof your location on iOS and access…

Skype's days are numbered, as the Skype apps are now warning users that the service will be going away on May 5, and that existing users should migrate to Teams.

For the first time, we’re introducing a Terms of Use for Firefox, alongside an updated Privacy Notice. Earlier today, we published a blog post explaining why we’re making this change and what it means for you. Now, we want to hear from you. We’re committed…

Lawsuit: WordPress trademark fight put website owners in an “impossible situation.”…

Mozilla has just deleted the following:

“Does Firefox sell your personal data?”

“Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise. "

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How I found 1000+ malicious repositories spread on Github

I find myself telling people that they will have to pry org-mode from my cold dead hands. Which befuddles me. Why, as an ingrate software nerd who has soured on software technology — talk about biting the hand that feeds — do I evince such strong sentiment…

Boris Spassky, the tenth World Chess Champion, was a chess prodigy who became a grandmaster at the young age of 18. He won the World Chess Championship in 1969, and held the noscript until 1972, when he lost to Bobby Fischer in the famous "Match of the Century".…

I recently took some time to try Gleam, the type-safe language that runs on the Erlang virtual machine. For a couple of weeks, I used it to build a little feed aggregator. These are my notes.

Users of Reels report feeds dominated by violent and graphic footage after apparent algorithm malfunction

The agency said the novelty digital assets were not securities, a month after President Trump issued his own memecoin.

Essentially ALL TB programs funded by the U.S. Government were officially terminated last night. Horrifyingly, that includes the Global Drug Facility that coordinates the vast majority of TB treatment and tests purchased globally. Shuttering the GDF will…

Notes on installing and netbooting Windows 11 over iSCSI