Deaf and hard-of-hearing clients say they've been left without critical services for more than two months since CHS workers hit the picket line.

Toymaker Mattel worked with Breakthrough T1D to create a Barbie doll who visibly lives with type 1 diabetes and carries an insulin pump.

Revolution, consciousness, and artificial intelligence: Heinlein's libertarian masterpiece predicted both our political and technological future. Examine how 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' anticipated the AI revolution transforming society today.

Who, Me?: Years later, deep into a great tech career, your fellow reader remains inspired by the forgiveness received after the error

SceneScout, combines Apple Maps with a multimodal LLM to provide interactive, AI-generated descriptions of street view images.

Great Odin’s Raven!

On Call: Righteous mockery entranced execs in ways slideware could not

As they approach graduation, most high schoolers are busy learning, training and planning their futures. But disabled students have fewer opportunities. Experts want more programs made available to help them transition into adulthood.

Our company recently announced a fundraise. We were grateful for all
the community support, but the Internet also raised a few of its colle...

Who, Me?: Sensible CEO wouldn’t let our hero take the blame - a shoddy supervisor got the slap

On Tuesday, millions of Canadians will celebrate Canada Day — an event that has taken on greater meaning this year following the surge of national pride in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs and his threat to make Canada the 51st state.

Anthropic's AI assistant Claude ran a vending machine business for a month, selling tungsten cubes at a loss, giving endless discounts, and experiencing an identity crisis where it claimed to wear a blazer.

An “underground network” of unauthorized beaver releasers is at work.

On Call: When police come to investigate tech support, make sure you have your story straight

Detected for the first time, malware attempts AI evasion by injecting a prompt to tell the LLM to label the file as benign

For a project I’m working on, I wanted to generate an endless looping soundtrack that felt like a sea shanty continuing indefinitely without a fixed melody. This proved to be a fun exercise for both musical and technical reasons, so I thought I’d write up some thoughts on how that came together.

Who, Me?: And was saved by an even worse meltdown caused by someone else

Maximum-security Cisco vulnerability was patched Oct. 2023 and exploited Feb. 2025.

When OpenAI released the Meeting Recording feature in the ChatGPT for Mac app, I was excited.

Analysis of a bloated and impossible job advert for accessibility.

Sometimes I read a post and have a need to add some personal views of mine. This time it's a short list that came to my mind about being an accessibility specialist.

On Call: Sometimes the 'R' in RTFM stands for 'Remember'

Not much intelligence was displayed here, artificial or otherwise.

They’re available in the latest beta.

Parliamentary committee accuses government of slow progress and lack of ambition

Even in Kentucky the assault charge isn’t going to stick.

Today, June 12, 2025, Cloudflare suffered a significant service outage that affected a large set of our critical services, including Workers KV, WARP, Access, Gateway, Images, Stream, Workers AI, Turnstile and Challenges, AutoRAG, and parts of the Cloudflare Dashboard.

On Call: Abusive manager had to be told there's no such thing as an atomic laptop

Understanding the parity principle in accessibility, using rick-rolling as an example.

Microsoft announced that a new Edge feature allowing employees to share passwords more securely in enterprise environments has reached general availability.

Our anonymous submitter, whom we'll call Carmen, embarked on her IT career with an up-and-coming firm that developed and managed eCommerce websites for their clients. After her new boss Russell walked her around the small office and introduced her to a handful of coworkers, he led her back to his desk to discuss her first project. Carmen brought her laptop along and sat down across from Russell, poised to take notes.

Russell explained that their newest client, Sharon, taught CPR classes. She wanted her customers to be able to pay and sign up for classes online. She also wanted the ability to charge customers a fee in case they cancelled on her.

Dan Mancina built a fully adaptive skatepark for individuals who are blind or visually impaired, as well as those with physical disabilities.

Welcome to WWDC 2025 As has been the case for many years now, Apple kicked off this year's Worldwide Developers Conference by announcing all the major software changes coming to all your favorite devices later this year. We got a look at everything we can expect in iOS 19, watchOS 12, and... No, wait, that's not right--they changed the name!

The Web Era arrives, the browser wars flare, and a bubble bursts.

Apple has announced updates to the AI models that power its suite of Apple Intelligence features across iOS, macOS, and more. But according to the company's own benchmarks, the models underperform older models from rival tech firms including OpenAI.

One bot even sang to me

An Ottawa-based pest control company called Sucker Free says they’ve had a dramatic rise in calls for mosquito treatment so far in 2025.

DNS4EU, an EU-based DNS resolution service created to strengthen European Union's digital sovereignty, has become reality.

Your clients would also prefer not to be named here.

Who, Me?: If you like it to keep working, don’t put a ring on it

A great start.

Why Accessible Procurement Matters

Customer told Ars that the website wouldn’t offer a full refund.

Kagi Small Web is an initiative by Kagi, a privacy-focused search engine company, designed to surface and promote content from the "small web." The "small

Frederico planned to celebrate the new year with friends at the exotic international tourist haven of Molvania. When visiting the area, one could buy and use a MolvaPass (The Most Passive Way About Town!) for free or discounted access to cultural sites, public transit, and more. MolvaPasses were available for 3, 7, or 365 days, and could be bought in advance and activated later.

It may cover other things too, things that also are not “emergencies.”

: TAG team spotted the V8 bug first, so you can bet nation-states weren’t far behind

Who, Me?: Some people will do anything to avoid an all-nighter

Environment Canada had issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the Ottawa area and said the storm could produce wind gusts of up to 90 km/h.

Recently, while scrolling on Tik Tok, I saw a video from Tab Buddies where they were promoting their product, aptly named the Tab Buddy. It’s a small gadget that helps you open soda cans, and…

On Call: After three service calls, user reflected on their utter stupidity

The Nuance Audio hearing glasses offer a fresh take on over-the-counter hearing aids, offering a stylish and discreet option to assist with your hearing and vision.

by Tonya R. Moore The latest Ace Double features stories by two authors who both write under pseudonyms. John Rackham is the pen name of electrical engineer and author, John Thomas Phillifent, whose works include three novels from the popular American spy fiction universe series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Phillifent was a prolific author, the … Continue reading [May 28, 1970] A pair of Saras: Flower of Doradil and A Promising Planet →

3Play Media releases its 2025 State of ASR Report, testing and comparing the top speech-to-text technologies.