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WhatsApp finally has a drafts feature

WhatsApp, the most popular messaging platform on the planet, finally has a drafts feature. Why did it take until the tail-end of 2024 to institute a seemingly simple tool that has been available for rival platforms for years? Who knows, but it’s here now. The appropriately-named Message Drafts offers “a new and easy way to […]

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Two early Unreal games are now permanently free via the Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is one of the very best things on the web, so it’s great that the repository is up and running again after recent DDoS attacks. It hosts more than old versions of web pages, though. It hosts a trove of video (I’m forever thankful to whoever uploaded the wonderful Lucha Underground in […]

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X sues California over deceptive AI-made election content ban

Elon Musk’s X is taking the state of California to court over a new law that prevents the spread of AI-generated election misinformation. Bloomberg reports that X filed a lawsuit against AB 2655, also known as the Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act of 2024, in a Sacramento federal court. California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed […]

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In an outcome beyond parody, a bankruptcy judge puts The Onion’s Infowars purchase on hold

When reality becomes stranger than satire, maybe the satirists can teach us something. Or, maybe the last laugh will be on them after all. The Onion said on Thursday that its parent company bought Infowars, the disgraced purveyor of Sandy Hook misinformation and vendor of pseudoscience supplements. The Onion posted on Bluesky that it plans […]

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Consensys decentralized Infura launches as EigenLayer AVS

The decentralized Web3 marketplace will leverage EigenLayer’s infrastructure to improve accessibility and reduce development costs.  Source: https://cointelegraph.com/rss Consensys decentralized Infura launches as EigenLayer AVS