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Ingenious indie hacker funds $3,000 MacBook purchase by selling advertising space on the lid
An enterprising individual has successfully pre-sold enough advertisement sticker space on their dream MacBook’s lid to raise 111% of the laptop’s retail price.
The world's first webcam was switched off 25 years ago today
Coffee pot watching was an important time saver for the 15-strong academic team who worked across several floors.
Chinese ship spotted lurking over Taiwan-US undersea cables
A new video shows Taiwan’s Coast Guard warning a 200-ft long Chinese-flagged research vessel, spotted loitering over a fiber internet cable, to change course.
Fire hydrant signs with Starlink antennas tested for emergency Wi-Fi in disaster-prone Japan
Japan’s Fire Hydrant Sign Co., Ltd. has demonstrated an expansive Wi-Fi network that melds its established infrastructure of street signs with Starlink satellite broadband antennas.
Popular 90s search engine ‘Ask Jeeves’ finally bites the dust
IAC, the parent company of Ask Jeeves, is finally putting the search engine out to pasture after 30 years.
Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs
Utah's Online Age Verification Amendments, formally Senate Bill 73, take effect on May 6.
Website backup crippled by 1.6MB Friends GIF that was replicated 246,173 times, breaking Linux's EXT4 filesystem limit
A single reaction animation, frequently duplicated in chats by community members, added 377GB to a site's backup quota.
Iran's forced nationwide internet blackout becomes second-longest on record as it passes 1,000 hours offline
Iran's nationwide Internet blackout has crossed the 1,000-hour mark and is now the second longest nation-scale shutdown ever measured.
