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Redwoods are growing almost as fast in the UK as their Californian cousins (arstechnica.com)

Discontinued and unreleased Microsoft peripherals revived by licensing deal (arstechnica.com)

Apple partly halts Beeper’s iMessage app again, suggesting a long fight ahead (arstechnica.com)

No Bing, no Edge, no upselling: De-crufted Windows 11 coming to Europe soon (arstechnica.com)

CEO Bobby Kotick will leave Activision Blizzard on January 1, 2024 (arstechnica.com)

Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, emailed employees after news of Microsoft's successful $69 billion acquisition to say that he was "fully committed to helping with the transition" and that he would stay on as CEO through the end of 2023.

Convicted murderer, filesystem creator writes of regrets to Linux list (arstechnica.com)

This made me so weirdly sad. I remember this guy; he was well known for being technically skilled but a huge pain in the ass for everyone to work with, and it's weird to see how resigned he is now to his prison life....

Study finds no “smoking gun” for mental health issues due to Internet usage (arstechnica.com)

Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, who said their study was the largest of its kind, said they found no evidence to support “popular ideas that certain groups are more at risk” from the technology....

DOS_deck offers free, all-timer DOS games in a browser, with controller support (arstechnica.com)

Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal (arstechnica.com)

Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices (arstechnica.com)

Internet service providers and their lobby groups are fighting a US plan to prohibit discrimination in access to broadband services. In particular, ISPs want the Federal Communications Commission to drop the plan’s proposal to require that prices charged to consumers be non-discriminatory.

Two of the German military’s new spy satellites appear to have failed in orbit (arstechnica.com)

The math on unplayed Steam “shame” is way off—and no cause for guilt (arstechnica.com)

FTC Warns Car Makers Regarding Privacy (arstechnica.com)

It’s not quite enough for me, personally, but this is a small step in the right direction....

Cats suffer H5N1 brain infections, blindness, death after drinking raw milk (arstechnica.com)

Mammal-to-mammal transmission raises new concerns about the virus's ability to spread.

Can an online library of classic video games ever be legal? (arstechnica.com)

Nintendo is going after the developers of the open source switch emulator Yuzu (arstechnica.com)

Seriously what is this? Nintendo argues that by instructing users how to extract the prod.keys from their own switch the yuzu developers are essencially infringing on the DMCA....

Impressions: Starfield’s sheer scale is already giving me vertigo (arstechnica.com)

There's a quote from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. “Space is big,” he writes. “You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to...

From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction (arstechnica.com)

Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose (arstechnica.com)

Pulling this off requires high privileges in the network, so if this is done by intruder you’re probably having a Really Bad Day anyway, but might be good to know if you’re connecting to untrusted networks (public wifi etc). For now, if you need to be sure, either tether to Android - since the Android stack doesn’t...

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