Motion Picture Association Chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin has said they're going to "work with Congress to establish and enforce a site-blocking legislation in the United States" - i.e: the same system Village Roadshow and Foxtel use via the Federal Court to get torrent sites and pirate stream services blackholed by Australian ISP DNS servers. Rivkin even mentioned that 60 countries, including "many of America's closest allies" (that's us!) do it. As Mike Masnick at TechDirt explains, it is a violation of the USA's First Amendment (something we don't have) and failed when the MPA tried this 12 years ago.
According to a Russian newspaper, the Kremlin has ordered VK Group (kinda like Russia's Meta & Google?) to "consider the issue of organizing the production of stationary and portable game consoles and game consoles", along with the "creation of an operating system and a cloud system for delivering games and programs to users". Very difficult, but so crazy as a long term goal considering the sanctions placed on Russia that don't allow Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft to sell consoles there. What's wild is that the Kremlin wants this done by June 2024. Sure, good luck with that.
X did a dumb thing again. Someone decided to re-write all the URLs in posts containing twitter.com to be x.com, but did it in such a basic manner that even URLs that simply contained the word twitter.com, but are not twitter.com were renamed. For example, fedetwitter.com was renamed to fedex.com and carfatwitter.com would display as carfax.com, but actually goes to carfatwitter.com when clicked. A bunch of people purchased some common domains for lulz and X changed their mind about renaming the displayed URLs, but it would have been a phisher's paradise for the 2-3 days this worked.
When you think of milestones in computing, Xerox's PARC laboratory and their work on GUIs, Ethernet, laser printing and object orientated programming spring to mind immediately. The other major achiever would be SRI International, most famously known for Siri (which Apple acquired), but they also hosted Douglas Engelbart, who was responsible for some of the foundational aspects of personal computing like a mouse, networked computers, hypertext and more in the Mother of All Demos. The New York Times has a nice overview of these two research giants now that PARC is donating its lab and assets to SRI.
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