Texas cannot yet enforce ID checks on porn sites
A Texas judge issued an injunction today to stall the enforcement of an online age verification bill. The Free Speech Coalition, along with adult video sites like Pornhub, led the legal challenge against Texas’ HB 1181, arguing that the bill violates the First Amendment and infringes on rights guaranteed by
Read moreNew York subway system disables feature that could let stalkers track your trips
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge New York’s subway pass system has turned off a feature that could enable others to track your travels if they have access to your bank card number. In a statement to The Verge, Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesperson Eugene Resnick says the agency
Read moreSonnets are square
In his book How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas Foster says that if a poem looks like a square on the printed page, it’s likely a sonnet. The miracle of the sonnet, you see, is that it is fourteen lines long and written almost always in iambic pentameter.
Read moreGrayscale wins lawsuit against SEC, while the agency settles first NFT case and Friend.tech hype crashes
If you’ve been dreaming about bitcoin spot ETFs, it’s time to talk to someone outside of the crypto world. This is coming from someone who literally had a dream about them this week.
Read moreLowering costs nets Salesforce a profitable quarter, but can it keep it up?
Salesforce had a better quarter than expected, but it's reporting and forecasting those results based on prior work, to a real degree.
Read moreYouTube Music gets more social, adds comments to the ‘Now Playing’ screen
YouTube Music redesigned its “Now Playing” screen recently, with the most notable update being a new comments section, which allows users to read and write comments directly from the app. The latest upgrade also includes easily accessible buttons, larger cover art and more. The redesign is rolling out to iOS
Read moreX plans to collect users’ biometric data, along with education and job history
X, formerly known as Twitter, will begin collecting users’ biometric data, according to its new privacy policy that was first spotted by Bloomberg. The policy also says the company wants to collect users’ job and education history. The policy page indicates that the change will go into effect on September
Read moreForever 21 data breach affects half a million people
Clothing giant Forever 21 said a data breach earlier in the year affects more than half a million individuals. A data breach notice filed with Maine’s attorney general said the fashion giant was hacked over a three-month period beginning early January 2023, during which intruders obtained files from its systems.
Read moreLeveling Up Through Side Projects in Software Engineering
As a new software engineer, one of my biggest takeaways is realizing the need to be selective and strategic with in-company side projects…Continue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreFirmware Updates that Don’t Suck
Firmware Updates That Don’t SuckOur Arsenal 2 Firmware Update. Less than 1 minute, 30 seconds “door to door”Since 2017, we’ve shipped over 250,000 Arsenals (an AI photography assistant for DSLR/mirrorless cameras).Being a small company, we didn’t have the customer support resources to walk users through the update process. Updates need to work,
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