To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the original Playstation's release, Sony has just announced the Playstation Classic, a $100 mini version of the original Playstation console that comes preloaded with twenty games.
In a lengthy email posted to the LKML on Sunday night, Torvalds expressed a change of heart. Taken to task over attacks that he recognizes were "unprofessional and uncalled for," he says he now recognizes that his behavior was "not OK" and he is "truly sorry."
Google says that it "learned a lot about how to make email better" from Inbox, and now with the "popular Inbox experiences" ported over to Gmail, the company wants to "focus solely on Gmail."
The initial emphasis on last week’s Supreme Court of Canada’s copyright notice decision has focused on how Internet providers can pass along the specific costs associated with subscriber disclosures beyond those required for the notice-and-notice system to rights holders. The ruling rightly restores the notice system back to its intended approach, but it is not the only takeaway with implications for the recent flurry of file sharing lawsuits.
Google rolled out Chrome 69 this week including an updated UI. One immediately noticeable change is that the address bar will now hide the "www" prefix of URLs by default, though clicking into the address bar will still show the full URL with www included.
If you're not a fan of this change, www can be restored by going to chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains in your address bar and setting Omnibox UI Hide Steady-State URL Scheme and Trivial Subdomains to disabled.
Mozilla’s going to study the effects of blocking trackers that slow page times starting next month, and it will make that feature on by default in Firefox 63 if it proves successful in improving performance. Mozilla’s will also “strip cookies and block storage access from third-party tracking content,” a move it will also test in September with beta users before implementing in Firefox 65, which is due out sometime in the next few months.
The defect was published last week by researchers from Qualys, who were releasing a patch that corrected it (the patch was intended to fix a different problem, and Qualys's researchers inadvertently and simultaneously discovered and fixed this very old bug).
Le Burger Week Winnipeg is back! From September 1 to 7, 2018, various Winnipeg restaurants will create original and unique burgers for you to enjoy. You’ll see a wide variety of burgers from the classic patty and cheese, to things like a donut burger!
Purchase, New York-based PepsiCo agreed to pay $144 per share in cash for SodaStream's outstanding stock, a 32 percent premium to its 30-day volume weighted average price.
Professional placeholder logos for your designs projects. Acme logos are for the times you need a professional logo to work with but don't have the real thing yet.
The 2018 Hugo Awards were held last night at the World Science Fiction Convention in San Jose, California. The Hugo award, voted on by members of the fan community, is considered the highest honor for science fiction and fantasy literature.
You can no longer automatically cross-post your tweets to Facebook . Twitter announced today that functionality is now coming to an end, and users will instead have to copy a tweet’s URL if they want to share a tweet to Facebook going forward. In a statement, the company attributed the change to a recent Facebook update.
Let's Encrypt announced yesterday that they are now directly trusted by all major root certificates including those from Microsoft, Google, Apple, Mozilla, Oracle, and Blackberry. With this announcement, Let's Encrypt is now directly trusted by all major browsers and operating systems.