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Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

Twitter has removed the iconic bird logo and adopted ‘X’ as its official logo. Musk tweeted that x.com now also redirects to twitter.com.

Atari Launches Collectible Arcade Circuit Boards Of Retro Classics

These make for a perfect limited edition collector’s item for hardcore arcade fans, and are a 1:1 recreation of the original boards. So they would also work as an actual replacement for a damaged board from an original cabinet.

Google’s “Web Integrity API” sounds like DRM for the web

Google's plan is that, during a webpage transaction, the web server could require you to pass an "environment attestation" test before you get any data. For now this is only a "proposal" API, but in May Google published an "intent to prototype" notice, meaning it's building the feature into Chrome right now for testing. Google's document pinky-promises the company doesn't want to use this for anything evil.

Armored Core VI: Fires Of Rubicon, story trailer

Godzilla Minus One, official teaser

Napoleon, official trailer

New W3C website

“There is more to do, but this deployment concludes the four months the site was available in Beta, which followed a year of internal preparation, and two years of work with UK-based digital agency Studio 24, to whom we awarded the website redesign project in early 2020.”

WorldWideWeb

WorldWideWeb is a simple web server that is free iOS, iPadOS, and macOS app by Iconfactory. Its been popular enough that they're adding a paid pro upgrade to support adding more features, ushc as the just-added auto-refresh.

Lackadaisy pilot episode released

I haven't followed the Lackadaisy webcomic for years now, so I'd missed that there was a Kickstarter on producing an animated version. Or at least a pilot episode. It's pretty great, and now I've got to find time to catch up on the webcomic.

Microsoft Outlook for Mac is now free to use

Microsoft today announced that its Outlook app for Mac is now free to use, with a Microsoft 365 subscription or license no longer necessary. This is brilliant news, as it makes it more convenient for web dev testing and client support.

Rogue Amoeba’s Historic Screenshot Archive

Productivity warning! This will eat up at least an hour of your time if you are at all a fan of UI design, and evolution.

1 dataset. 100 visualizations.

An information design agency working with data visualization every day challenged themselves to accomplish this using insightful and visually appealing visualizations.

W3C launches beta of its new website

The goals of the redesign are to achieve a cleaner and modern look and greater usability, better accessibility, as well as ultimately simplifying how the site is managed. W3C invites your feedback on the beta site, on website or content issues, and are using GitHub to manage comments.

Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”

Apparently, the AI powered Bing has some issues. Most of which make it seem like it learned how to be an AI by reading a lot of evil-AI science fiction. Which, given that's it's just predicting what word should come next based on the ones already provided,  is probably painfully close to the truth. The training data had to come from somewhere.

Cash-strapped Twitter to start charging developers for API access next week

Entrepreneur and developer Tom Coates joined many developers protesting Twitter’s announcement. Coates tweeted that, while “it is not unreasonable to want to find a way to charge those developers who extract more value than they contribute” to Twitter, “one week’s notice and no indication of pricing shows Twitter is chaotic and unreliable. No one’s going to build a business on that.”

Richard Bartle, Top Virtual World Expert, Tries Explaining Core Problems With NFT and Blockchain at a Crypto Conference

It does not go well.

Free Entry to Manitoba Provincial Parks During Entire Month of February 2023

Provincial parks have groomed trails for a variety of activities, including cross-country skiing, snowmobiling, fat biking, snowshoeing and hiking. Paint Lake, Spruce Woods and Turtle Mountain provincial parks also offer outdoor skating areas, hockey rinks and toboggan hills. Trails province-wide are in excellent condition with a good snow base.

W3C re-launched as a public-interest non-profit organization

The new organization also preserves the core process and mission of the Consortium to shepherd the web, by developing open web standards as a single global organization with contributions from W3C Members, staff, and the international community.

The Calculator Drawer

The Internet Archive now houses a collection of old-school calculators that you can boot up and use as if you had a physical version right in front of you.

Tiktok's enshittification

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.