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Arc 1.0 browser now available for macOS and iOS.

The company has been testing the app for more than two years and has, until now, made every interested user sign up for a waitlist. But now, it’s launching for real. Arc’s version number just jumped to 1.0, and anyone who wants to use Arc can go to arc.net and get the browser.

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.