Site announced last week it was suspending adult content, only to quickly change its mindFor five days, it looked as if one of Britain’s most successful tech startups was on the verge of a make-or-break gamble, one that would either see it burst on to …
The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks | Jillian York
The service has reversed its ban on sexual content, but valid – and legal – forms of expression for sex workers are still under threatOver the past year, the content subscription service OnlyFans exploded in popularity, as people in numerous countries …
Elizabeth Holmes stands trial – podcasts of the week
The acclaimed Dropout podcast returns to chronicle legal proceedings against the Theranos founder. Plus: good cops go bad in a new series with shades of The WireThe Dropout (available from 31 August)The polo neck wearing, deep voice-imitating, Stanford…
Teenagers have taken up smoking in droves – and forgotten the lessons of the past | Zoe Williams
Young people don’t remember the 1980s at all, and the hard-won knowledge we gained from our nicotine habits. Primarily, that it really doesn’t help beat stressWe are as far away from 1980 now as we were then from 1939. I know that because I read it on …
A history of Google messaging apps
Ron Amadeo of Ars Technica walks down memory lane and covers Google’s various messaging app offerings over the past decade and a half. It’s even more of a mess than you think.
How Data Brokers Sell Access To the Backbone of the Internet
An anonymous reader writes: ISPs are quietly distributing “netflow” data that can, among other things, trace traffic through VPNs. There’s something of an open secret in the cybersecurity world: internet service providers quietly give away detailed inf…
OnlyFans scraps plans to ban sexually explicit material
U-turn comes after resolution of issues with payment processors, says chief executive of user-generated adult content siteOnlyFans, the user-generated adult content site, is reversing course on plans to ban “sexually explicit” content after securing ag…
ブラッシングか？Amazonから金銭被害なく注文していない商品が次々と届く
ネットではAmazonから注文もしていないモノが勝手に届く現象がいくつか報告されている。xckbさんもその一人だそうで、別に欲しいものリストを公開していないにもかかわらず、謎の商品が送られてくる現象に悩まされていたそうだ。送られてくるものについては、意味不明なモノから微妙に使用できるものまで様々だという。xckb氏のブログ記事では、その現象についての検証を行っている（xckb的雑記帳）。
代引きによる送り付け詐欺や転売屋の在庫処分、ソーシャルハッキングなどさまざまな説を検討した結果、いずれでもな…
India has Highest Rate for IPv6 Adoption, While US Ranks Sixth
Nearly half of the U.S. (47.5%) has migrated to IPv6, ranking the U.S. sixth in percentage of users who have migrated to the latest version of the Internet Protocol. That estimate is based on an analysis of data about Google users — which also fi…
Windows 11、既定のWebブラウザーを変更しにくくしていると批判される
Windows 11 で既定のアプリの変更が無意味に手間がかかるようになっていることについて、特にライバルの Web ブラウザーから批判が出ているようだ(The Verge の記事、 Neowin の記事、 Ars Technica の記事、 BetaNews の記事)。
現在の Windows 11 Insider Preview では既定のアプリの設定で「Web ブラウザー」「音楽プレイヤー」といったアプリの種類別に既定値を一括して設定するオプションがなく、ファイルの種類やプロトコルごとに設定…