Month: February 2024
The Vision Pro’s killer app: Cybertruck clout-chasing accessory
The Vision Pro era is only a few days old, and while people continue to debate whether this is the future of entertainment and productivity or something else entirely, one group of people has found a well-defined use case for Apple’s new gear: chasing views. The new genre of “wearing…
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Charming roguelike monster collector Dicefolk releases this month on Steam
Upcoming roguelike strategy game Dicefolk finally has a release date, and it’s surprisingly soon. To be exact, Dicefolk is set to release on PC via Steam on February 27, so there’s not long to wait. The game, which is being developed by LEAP Game Studios and Tiny Ghoul, and published…
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Adam Neumann got kicked out of WeWork — now he wants to buy it
Five years after driving WeWork into the ground, co-founder and ousted CEO Adam Neumann has now hatched a plan to buy it out of bankruptcy. In a letter to WeWork’s advisors obtained by The New York Times, Neumann and his new real estate business Flow Global express interest in buying…
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Mozilla Monitor scrubs your leaked personal information from the web, for a fee
Mozilla is rolling out a tool that can automatically monitor data brokers for your personal information and scrub any of your exposed details from them. Mozilla Monitor Plus expands on the Mozilla Monitor (formerly Firefox Monitor) service, which lets you know when your email address is included in a data…
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Bad news for devs — the one feature that made Linux better than Windows is finally jumping ship
Support for the Linux and MacOS-based ‘sudo’ (superuser do) command has been spotted in a leaked Windows Server preview build, potentially signalling a major change for developers everywhere. The introduction of ‘sudo’, a means of overriding user permission restrictions when your operating system is fighting against you like a petulant…
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Bluesky is ready to open up
The app quickly amassed over two million users while in closed beta and became a hot topic of conversation in newsrooms like The Verge’s. Now, the conversation about what comes after the platform-now-called-X has largely shifted to ActivityPub, the decentralized protocol powering Mastodon, a budding ecosystem of other services, and…
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