After Havana shut down online access for 72 hours, the battle is on to keep the country connectedCubans used to joke about Napoleon Bonaparte chatting to Mikhail Gorbachev, George W Bush and Fidel Castro in the afterlife. “If I’d have had your prudence…
BT is trying to charge me £348 to leave its broadband service
The company had told me I could leave penalty-free, but it is threatening me with debt collectorsCan you please help me as BT is chasing me for £348 in early termination fees despite previously telling me that it would forgo these charges. The broadban…
The Push For a ‘PBS For the Internet’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Axios: The concept of a new media ecosystem that’s non-profit, publicly funded and tech-infused is drawing interest in policy circles as a way to shift the power dynamics in today’s information wars. Revamping t…
Russia’s ‘Nonsensical, Impossible Quest’ to Create Its Own Domestic Internet
“It was pretty strange when Russia decided to announce last week that it had successfully run tests between June 15 and July 15 to show it could disconnect itself from the internet,” writes an associate professor of cybersecurity policy at Tufts Fletch…
A ‘safe space for racists’: antisemitism report criticises social media giants
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube and TikTok failing to act on most reported anti-Jewish posts, says studyThere has been a serious and systemic failure to tackle antisemitism across the five biggest social media platforms, resulting in a “safe spac…
There are 11,656 athletes at the Olympics. Guy Fraser wanted them all on Wikipedia
Fans across the world enjoy complementing their Olympic viewing with some research. We meet the man who wants everyone’s story toldIn 1992, 11-year-old Guy Fraser spent his summer vacation fiddling with a radio. He was searching, sometimes in vain, for…
In search of the crypto-criminals
Secretive gangs are hacking the computers of governments, firms, even hospitals, and demanding huge sums. But if we pay these ransoms, are we creating a ticking time bomb?They have the sort of names that only teenage boys or aspiring Bond villains wou…
Listen up: why indie podcasts are in peril
As big spenders such as Amazon and Spotify fill our ears with more commercial, celebrity-driven fare, can grassroots, diverse shows survive?Miranda Sawyer picks 20 indie podcast gemsThe British Podcast Awards were different this year. Held in a south L…
SolarWinds: Russian hackers broke into email accounts at US attorney offices
Department of Justice says 27 prosecutors’ offices breachedAll four New York offices may have lost sensitive materialRussian hackers behind the massive SolarWinds cyber-espionage campaign broke into the email accounts of some of the most prominent US f…
Vivaldi 4.1 リリース、タブスタックのアコーディオン表示や一連のコマンドを順に実行する「コマンドチェイン」が利用可能に
Vivaldi Technologies は 7 月 28 日、デスクトップ版 Vivaldi ブラウザーの最新版となる Vivaldi 4.1 をリリースした(Vivaldi の更新内容、 Vivaldi のブログ記事、 変更履歴、 SlashGear の記事)。
本バージョンではグループ化したタブ (タブスタック) の表示方法として「アコーディオン」が選択可能になった。従来から利用できたタブスタックの上部に小さなタブが表示される「コンパクト型」や、スタック内のタブが 2 段目のタブバーに表示さ…