Gimlet’s smash hit podcast returns from an enforced hiatus this week … minus one of its hosts. But its future, and that of other shows blighted by controversy, is now precarious Last summer, Reply All’s reputation was at an all-time high. The long-running internet-themed podcast had recently released an episode about a man with a …
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We asked professional funny people what makes them laugh, and where we can find it online. Here are Rose Callaghan’s tips Hello, I’m comedian and internet aficionado Rose Callaghan. I have ADHD and am what many would consider “underemployed” so obviously spend most of my time on the internet arguing with people on Twitter and …
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President also orders new commerce department review of security concerns posed by those apps Joe Biden is withdrawing a series of executive orders that sought to ban new downloads of WeChat and TikTok and ordering a new commerce department review of security concerns posed by those apps, the White House said on Wednesday. The administration …
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Lawmakers voted in favor of President Nayib Bukele’s proposal despite concern about potential impact on program with the IMF El Salvador has become the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender after congress approved President Nayib Bukele’s proposal to embrace the cryptocurrency. Related: Salvadoran woman freed from prison nearly 10 years …
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Bug was introduced in May and lay dormant until a customer updated their settings, firm says An internet blackout that knocked out some of the world’s biggest websites on Tuesday was ultimately caused by a single customer updating their settings, the infrastructure provider Fastly has revealed. A bug in Fastly’s code introduced in mid-May had …
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iOS, PC, Switch; InkleYou are the murderous starlet forced to concoct your alibi in Inkle’s fresh and beautifully detailed paperback crime novel of a game Aboard an ocean liner travelling from Britain to New York in the late 1930s, a famous actor murders her husband by throwing him from the upper deck into the raging …
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A new French project ‘inspired’ by the Hitchcock classic could point the way to video games that riff off a film-maker’s wider aesthetic As someone who has just suffered through the living joyless hell of the Lego Incredibles game at a six-year-old’s insistence, I am the last person who needs to be reminded that video …
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Could using digital tags to track fish reduce seafood fraud, help conservation and hold everyone in the supply chain to account? In recent weeks, a new $50m (£35m) hybrid vessel set sail from Mauritius and headed out into the Southern Ocean where the crew will spend three months longline fishing for the Patagonian toothfish. By …
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Experts say outage shows internet services too centralised and lack resilience One of the world’s biggest web outages should act as a “wakeup call” that internet infrastructure has become dangerously over-centralised and lacks resilience, security experts have warned. An unexplained configuration error at a single infrastructure provider, Fastly, which handles 10% of the world’s internet …
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From retailers such as Amazon to government information portals, the service interruption took its tool The internet outage caused by a fault with cloud computing service Fastly took down thousands of websites in multiple countries, affecting governments and businesses in sectors ranging from media to online retail and telecoms. The interruption was relatively brief, lasting …
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