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Lunar astronauts will need to synchronize their watches on future missions. But on a rock that rotates much slower than Earth, time gets weird fast.

How seriously should we take the ex-president’s dark warnings about the consequences of indicting him?

Publishers Get One Step Closer To Killing Libraries by Mike Masnick

Last Monday was the day of the oral arguments in the Big Publishers’ lawsuit against libraries in the form of the Internet Archive. As we noted mid-week, publishers won’t quit until libraries are dead. And they got one step closer to that goal on Friday, when Judge John Koetl wasted no time in rejecting every […]

Twitter is dying by Natasha Lomas

It’s five months since Elon Musk overpaid for a relatively small microblogging platform called Twitter. The platform had punched above its weight in pure user numbers thanks to an unrivaled ability to both distribute real-time information and make expertise available. Combine these elements with your own critical faculty — to weed out the usual spam […]

There’s a secret mode that comes with almost all large ovens, refrigerators, dishwashers, and other large kitchen appliances…

Nate Hochman’s hiring sends a signal of what the Florida governor wants for his campaign.

It was the currency of secret and illegal schemes to deceive voters.

Jim Jordan Weaponizes The Subcommittee On The Weaponization Of The Gov’t To Intimidate Researchers & Chill Speech by Mike Masnick

As soon as it was announced, we warned that the new “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government,” (which Kevin McCarthy agreed to support to convince some Republicans to support his speakership bid) was going to be not just a clown show, but one that would, itself, be weaponized to suppress speech (the […]

Donald Trump is facing a lot of possible indictments. Let's review.

Today, March 24th 2023, the HTML specification added a new grouping content element. The search element. Please be aware that this element landing in the HTML spec today does not mean it is available in browsers today. Issues have been filed to implement the search element in the major browsers, including the necessary accessibility mappings. Keep this in mind before you get all super excited and willy nilly add this new element to your pages.