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Navy SEALs Call Bullshit On Fox News Report That They Couldn’t Get Through Trump’s Border Wall
This week, a Fox News contributor claimed that the US Navy SEALs had tested the border wall prototypes near San Diego and couldn’t breach them. It sounded too incredible to be true. And that’s because it wasn’t true.
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Unwanted Simulated ‘Hugs’ And ‘Back Rubs’ May Now Qualify As Harassment By FreeBSD
Last week, open-source software developer FreeBSD Project updated its code of conduct to address non-consensual “simulated physical contact” as a form of harassment. That means that sending someone descriptions of physical contact like a “hug” or a “backrub” without their consent, or after they have asked you to stop, are violations of the guidelines governing…
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A Cryptocurrency Token Called ‘The Forever Rose’ Just Sold For $US1 Million
The concept and technology of cryptocurrency can be difficult to explain at the best of times, so when you find out someone sold a photo of a rose as an Ethereum (ERC20) token for $US1 million… it’s hard to know where to start. Other than to say: yes, this is a thing that happened.
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Danish Man Convicted Of Telling Web Users Where To Download Popcorn Time
A Danish man has been handed down a six-month conditional sentence for merely sharing information about Popcorn Time, the once-popular torrent-based streaming client that was targeted for extermination by copyright lawsuits.