All Things Internet: The Big Players & The Issues
The world has grown increasingly connected over the past few decades and a huge chunk of our lives are online. We cover the companies you care about: YouTube, Google, Amazon, and the issues you care about: NBN, IoT, social media, privacy and security.
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Iceland’s President Offers Socks to the Disabled Ex-Twitter Employee Mocked by Elon Musk
Haraldur Thorleifsson has had a long week. On Monday, the Icelander tweeted at Elon Musk asking if he still had a job at Twitter, since he had been locked out of his work laptop and hadn’t been able to get in touch with Twitter human resources. On Tuesday, Musk tweeted that no, Thorleifsson did not…
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Uh-Oh: Monkeys Make Stone Flakes That Look a Lot Like Human Tools
Researchers studying macaques in one of Thailand’s national parks made a surprising discovery: While cracking nuts, the monkeys make stone flakes that look an awful lot like the flakes that scientists have attributed to ancient human. The finding means that some of the material held up as the earliest evidence of hominin tool use may…
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U.S. House Republicans Just Passed a Tech Censorship Bill That’s Pure Nonsense
House Republicans this week rammed through an ill-constructed, self-aggrandizing “anti-censorship” bill supposedly aimed at preventing federal agents from pressuring tech companies to stifle conservatives. The bill, inspired in part by Republican outrage over Twitter’s handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story and other so-called Twitter Files revelations, passed 219-206 in a straight party-line vote. The…
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Gundam: The Witch From Mercury First Season 2 Trailer Teases More Mechs, More Problems
The latest entry in the vast Gundam franchise, The Witch From Mercury, was one of our favourite anime of 2022 — and now it’s back and looking better than ever, even as things get much more dangerous for its heroes Suletta and Miorine.