Enlarge (credit: Daniel Grizelj | Getty Images) Instagram? Sure! WhatsApp? Go nuts. But don’t mess with GIFs. That’s the strange position taken by Britain’s competition watchdog in choosing to block Meta’s takeover of GIF repository Giphy. Meta, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) ruled, must now sell all the Continue Reading
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What will it take to end deforestation by 2030?
Enlarge / A forest activist inspects land clearing and drainage of a peat natural forest in Riau province, Sumatra, Indonesia in 2014. (credit: Ulet Ifansasti | Getty Images) The world has lost a third of its forest since the last ice age, and an estimated 15 percent of global greenhouse Continue Reading
COVID vaccinations spike in US as delta rages and omicron looms
Enlarge / People line up outside of a free COVID-19 vaccination site that opened today in the Hubbard Place apartment building on December 3, 2021 in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty | Samuel Corum) Amid a raging delta wave and fears of omicron, the United States on Thursday administered 2.2 million Continue Reading
New Peacemaker trailer gives us a redeemable villain we might learn to like
John Cena reprises his role in The Suicide Squad in new HBO Max spinoff series Peacemaker. HBO Max has dropped the official full trailer for Peacemaker, the spinoff series based on John Cena’s murderously entertaining character from The Suicide Squad. As we’ve reported previously, director James Gunn wrote the series last Continue Reading
AT&T failed to fix Ohio man’s broken Internet service for a month
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Ronald Martinez) Ohio resident John Sopko had to go a month without his AT&T fixed wireless Internet service because the company repeatedly failed to diagnose and fix the problem, the Akron Beacon Journal reported today. AT&T finally figured out this week that the antenna on Continue Reading
iPhones of US diplomats hacked using “0-click” exploits from embattled NSO
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The iPhones of nine US State Department officials were infected by powerful and stealthy malware developed by NSO Group, the Israeli exploit seller that has come under increasing scrutiny for selling its wares to journalists, lawyers, activists, and US allies. The US officials, either stationed in Continue Reading
This enthusiast’s keyboard and trackball used to launch nuclear missiles
Enlarge (credit: Pointless Tinkering/YouTube) There’s no telling what you’ll find on eBay—like an old keyboard and trackball originally dedicated to firing off nuclear missiles. As detailed Tuesday by YouTube channel Pointless Tinkering, an enthusiast bought the keyboard off eBay simply because it “looked awesome” and had “some interesting buttons” saying Continue Reading
Emails show what happened before Missouri gov. falsely called journalist a “hacker”
Enlarge / Missouri Gov. Mike Parson speaks during a press conference on May 29, 2019 in Jefferson City, Missouri. (credit: Getty Images | Jacob Moscovitch ) Missouri state government officials planned to publicly thank a journalist who discovered a security flaw until a drastic change in strategy resulted in the Continue Reading
Valve shows off final packaging, carrying case for the Steam Deck
Valve’s Steam Deck hardware might have been recently delayed by a couple of months, but the portable PC gaming device is still barreling toward release. As evidence of this, Valve posted some quick pictures late Thursday evening of the final packaging that will hopefully be reaching preorder customers early next Continue Reading
FTC sues Nvidia to preserve Arm’s status as “Switzerland” of semiconductors
Enlarge (credit: Arm) The Federal Trade Commission has sued to block Nvidia’s acquisition of Arm, the semiconductor design firm, saying that the blockbuster deal would unfairly stifle competition. “The FTC is suing to block the largest semiconductor chip merger in history to prevent a chip conglomerate from stifling the innovation Continue Reading