Itch.io is the latest marketplace to crack down on adult games
Indie video game marketplace Itch.io announced this week that it has "deindexed" adult and not-safe-for-work games, removing them from its browse and search pages.
Read More403: Privacy & Permissions
Chris & Rachel hop on the show to talk about the expanded privacy (access) model in the 2.0 editor (in Private Beta as we speak). Private Pens have always been a big deal, but as private as they are, if someone has the URL, they have the URL, and it
Read MoreDOGE has built an AI tool to slash federal regulations
The Department of Government Efficiency has presented plans to use a new AI tool to eliminate half of the federal government’s regulatory mandates by the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s return to office, according to The Washington Post.
Read MoreMonero’s elliptic curve
Digital signatures often use elliptic curves. For example, Bitcoin and Ethereum use the elliptic curve secp256k1 [1]. This post will discuss the elliptic curve Ed25519 [2] using in Monero and in many other applications. Ed25519 has the equation y² − x² = 1 + d x² y² over the finite field Fq
Read MoreRetrofitting error detection
Bitcoin addresses include a checksum. The Base58Check algorithm uses the first four bytes of a hash function as a checksum before applying Base58 encoding. Ethereum addresses did not include a checksum, but it became apparent later that a checksum was needed. How can you retroactively fit a checksum into an
Read MoreU.K. starts enforcing online age check rules
A U.K. law requiring that pornography websites verify the age of their users took effect Friday.
Read MoreAstronomer winks at viral notoriety with ‘temporary spokesperson’ Gwyneth Paltrow
After spending the past week-plus in the headlines due to a seemingly inescapable social media scandal, data operations startup Astronomer is trying to shift the narrative with a tongue-in-cheek video starring actress and entrepreneur Gwyneth Paltrow.
Read MoreDating safety app Tea breached, exposing 72,000 user images
Tea, an app that allows women to post anonymous comments about men they’ve supposedly dated, announced Friday that it has suffered a data breach, with hackers gaining access to 72,000 images.
Read MoreTesla vet says that ‘reviewing real products’ — not mockups — is the key to staying innovative
“No slides was our first rule,” McNeil told the audience earlier this month at TC All Stage in Boston. “You have to be reviewing real product.”
Read MoreAllianz Life says ‘majority’ of customers’ personal data stolen in cyberattack
Exclusive: Allianz Life said the "majority" of its customers and employees had data stolen in the July cyberattack. The company said it has notified the FBI.
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