FDA approves a brand of condoms after being tested specifically for anal sex

Major new studies conclude it started from animals in a Wuhan market

The excellent Helen Rosner interviews the excellent Kenji

Collected comments from a Metafilter user about living through the Siege of Sarajevo

Twitter UI from a third party; privacy focussed, very simple and spare

Details on how Russia has seized control of Internet infrastructure in parts of Ukraine over the past seven years

How to think about HDR display brightness in photographic terms

Photos from some brave Russians standing up against their government's oppression

Port of the O.G. 1989 C++ computer drawing experiment app with the magic of WASM and WebGL

New dangerous escalation in the war on kids with less common gender experiences.

Committed to using login.gov instead of a proprietary private company system

Cory's approach to publishing online; write everything on your own host, then link to it on other places like Twitter, etc

CNN delivers the Olympics news we all need

Tracking down the history of an odd behavior in a programming language runtime

It just gets worse; it's like these legislators want queer kids to die

Self-hosted service monitoring and alerting

Interesting visual effects. Interactive on mouse movement. Warning: lots of high frequency flashing color noise.

Simple site looking for Raspberry Pi hardware in stock (none in the US right now.)

School principal pops rainbow balloons belong to a student

Using bureaucracy to make it hard to vote

Summary of the story from the hit game a few years ago; sequel comes out today

Update on the story; the NFT creators shill bid and purchased their own auction. This is fraud.

A remarkably forthright writeup of a transparent employee salary and ranking system

A lightweight, self-hosted, privacy-friendly system for getting data on what visitors to your website are doing.

A sad little company trying to open a gold mine in Grass Valley, CA. Everyone who lives here is opposed.

AI-aided renderings of cartoon characters as more realistic portraits

Obituary for an early Unix developer

People with bionic eyes may lose vision because the company that implanted the tech has failed

EA internal discussion of a failed game. Smells mostly bullshit, not an honest explanation. The Battlefield franchise has been beleaguered for years.

US government accusation against one of the more awful online only news services

Tool for generative art; take screenshots of a work and it takes a snapshot of your code, too

An improved fan edit

A project to build a hiking trail all the way from Nevada City to Truckee; needs about 30 miles of new trail

A meaningful moment in the criminal investigation; his accountant retracts financial statements

Rumors of a global opt-out from NGP VAN, one of the major legitimate sources of politics spam

Crowdfunding site hacked, 92,000 donors to the seditious uprising in Canada identified

An update: the change in US currency is still happening but it's going to take a very long time

Social engineering and smart contract bait and switch tries to steal a lot of magic beans. It's all scams. All of it.

Ohio mayor has a bizarre sex obsessed theory

First images from the space telescope; now comes the alignment process

Apple sabotages its ex-employees status in verification databases

A summary of 10 years of history of very high severity bugs related to caching

Canterbury Tales read in original language, with modern translation text alongside

Trump regularly circumvented record keeping requirements and used other people's cell phones to hide his phone calls. Including during his Jan 6 coup attempt.

Details of the fantastic production of the TV show

80s Toto song played on in-game instruments in 90s video game. Played very well, I might add.

Someone looks at satellite images of all SF intersection and classifies whether there are crosswalks or not

Shill bidding in the cryptoscam associated with the Trumps

GPT-3 generating 70s pulp scifi covers

Democrats may actually have clawed back some of the structural unfairness. The whole system of gerrymandering is still corrupt

Weird price fluctuations in the network cryptotoken

Interesting article about an African-American woman who worked at a museum for Jefferson Davis' home

An example of cryptocurrency being used for something useful, not speculation and scams. I think a centrally accounted micropayments system would also work for this but it does sound kinda cool

Low power / long range communications for sensors and other data monitoring.

A class in building a house

Tether fights to keep its legally required disclosures of assets secret

A new kind of digital camera; detects changes in pixel brightness instead of measuring absolute brightness. Incredibly fast framerates are possible

Gay photographer of high camp and eroticism

An ARM single board computer suitable for using as a Linux server

A dichotomy in app development that is definitely not part of my world

Hilariously snarky review of bad UI

A newish (2016) congestion control algorithm based on watching latency, not packet loss. Said to work better with Starlink

List of external IP addresses for Starlink and where they geolocate to

Actual text of the RNC embracing of the coup attempt

Republican Party openly embraces the coup attempt as "legitimate political discourse"

Finally, a good article explaining B cells and T cells and antibodies and what's going on with Covid immunity

Somi: a kid's doll, an African American girl who teaches computer science concepts

A guide for doing basic interactive and animated SVG graphics

$430M crowdfunding money grab gives up on even publishing a roadmap of releases. It's, what, eight years late now?

Piggy has California captive, safety certificate renewed for another year of disastrously unsafe operations

A leading play to earn NFT game is collapsing under the inevitable weight of its fundamental valuelessness

Frightening highlight reel of all the times Tesla's self driving software tried to crash the car

Details of how the US Covid stimulus checks benefitted rich people

Individual security researcher claims responsibility for knocking the country offline

A review of various approaches to keeping computer clocks in precise synchronization

The environmentalist argument for nuclear power

Highlighting stories of artists who have found a new market

Details on the old problem of cell phones making audible noise in nearby speakers. Phones used to burst at 4.165ms intervals which induced a 217Hz signal your speakers amplified

Inside the VR headset: basically a phone motherboard and a bunch of I/O devices

Economist takes decentralized finance seriously and reports on some of the product trends

Overwrought title, but nicely articulated explanation of why a lot of people are sad to see Wordle get bought