There is once again international competition for my attention in the anthology release, another New Writings facing off against new fiction from the USSR.

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has released Bluetooth 6.1 as part of its new bi-annual update schedule. The update introduces Randomized...

It actually wasn’t the screaming, it was the choice to do it at 5:30 a.m.

Biking while wearing Ray Ban Meta AI smart glasses is a lot of fun, but it could use a few upgrades before I'd call it a great experience.

In 2005, Apple introduced VoiceOver, a built-in screen reader that revolutionised accessibility for blind and low-vision users. Two decades later, VoiceOver remains a cornerstone of Apple's commitment to inclusive design, empowering millions to navigate technology independently.

Be sure to tune in tonight at 7PM Pacific for a terrific Science Fiction Theater! by Gideon Marcus It shouldn't happen here (or anywhere) It was a scene out of Saigon or Prague.  It shouldn't be happening in Middle America.  On May 4, Ohio National Guardsmen, shot four Kent State students dead, wounding ten more.  … Continue reading [May 8, 1970] Tower of Glass (June 1970 Galaxy) →

On Call: PC repair chap turned pet detective to diagnose the defective

A senior Microsoft engineer has explained how the Windows team has designed the native clipboard such that it does not hog the system.

The Accessibility Task Force of the W3C Publishing Community Group has announced the release of the Accessibility Metadata Display Guide for Digital Publications 2.0. […]

This is a follow-up to my prior post: "AI is the future of accessibility". There are market changes that will be materializing in the coming years that will be hugely impactful for all white collar jobs. Some say that time period is 3-5 years, others say it is more like a decade. Regardless of timeline,

Learn how inaccessibility impacts your bottom line and how data-driven accessibility efforts drive ROI, reduce risk, and unlock growth.

3Play Media, a leader in media accessibility solutions, announced the launch of its global linguist ... Read More

Rogers has apparently begun enforcing stricter identity checks for new mobile activations, according to an internal notice seen by iPhone in Canada. The updated process, which took effect on May 6, is part of the company’s push to strengthen customer security and reduce fraud. Although the system and submission process remain unchanged, Rogers employees are

The latest update for UniGetUI brings another big performance boost thanks to TRIM support. There are many other changes too. Check the full list here.

The weakness creates the possibility of an insider or hacker adding rogue members.

…Unless you want to fail all the WCAGs, create litigation risk, close off opportunities in Europe, engage in reputational harm, and oh yeah, throw up barriers to your customers and users. What am I talking about? Figma announced Figma Sites, letting you publish your Figma designs directly to the web.…

The team at Fordhall Organic Farm, England’s first community-owned farm, in Shropshire are excited to have introduced a ‘Braille Trail’ on-site, providing a tactile experience for visually impaired visitors.

I was in the city a few weeks ago and exclusively used Waymo for the entire trip. My biggest complaint? I needed to walk four minutes to a pick-up spot. Other than that, the car just showed up, traversed San Francisco streets easily, and the cost was reasonable1. Sitting in the back seat watching t

Sunday, the 27th of April 2025 marked a major turning point for Tech-Freedom, one of the blind-specific apps on Android, which includes features like a

Graph databases are on the rise, but amid all the hype it can be hard to understand the differences under the hood. This is the first…

by Brian Collins For those who don’t know, the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) was founded five years ago in what would become the first successful attempt at forming a professional writers’ association for science fiction writers—at least here in the States. With the SFWA came the Nebula, an award made to be on … Continue reading [May 6, 1970] Wondrous and Astounding (The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, Part One) →

Apple has released RC beta versions of upcoming updates including tvOS 18.5, visionOS 2.5, and more.

3DES has been around since 1978, but today, it's considered far less secure than modern standards. Google apps such as Chrome have already dropped support, and now Gmail is following suit.

Comment: Windows 11's hardware requirements: Sales ploy or security play?

: Lead dev likens flood to 'effectively being DDoSed'

– The personal website of Sara Soueidan, inclusive design engineer

The early 1970s were some of the most tumultuous years in Australian politics. The Australian Labor Party, defeated since 1949, finally regained power in 1972. Gough Whitlam took the spot of Prime …

Three maintainers share their tips for gracefully sunsetting open source projects.

NEW YORK – May 6, 2025 – SiriusXM and FOX Nation announced today a new bundle of their streaming services that delivers enhanced consumer…...

Today, our not-for-profit (Framasoft) is proud to present v1 of the PeerTube mobile application, 4 months after its first release! It's the work of a ...

Notes on a revolution in slow motion.

A reflection on control, burnout, and the strange weight of technical fluency.

Kaspersky found 7 percent of data compromised between 2019 and 2024 contained information linked to work email addresses.

We're still misunderstanding AI and how it works.

Who, Me?: Fake it till you make it doesn't cut it for mission-critical workloads

There are so many images of candy-encrusted living rooms.

A deeper dive on our findings, what went wrong, and future changes we’re making.

Today Microsoft shut down Skype, a company that helped revolutionize phone calls online. To commemorate the death of Skype, we’re running a recent “Pessimist’s Archive” arti…

TwinMind, an iPhone app, functions like 'JARVIS in your pocket,' according to founder and artificial intelligence veteran Daniel George.

Why has a link to R v Sweet, a decision by a Queensland district court, been in my bookmarks bar for almost five years, probably? Two-part answer: (1) it’s one of several amusing opinions rej…

If you used specific wallpapers on your Windows 7 PC, the system could take an extra 30 seconds to load.

Exclusive: Too much hot air brings down Manchester Uni based neural network project

Microsoft has confirmed that M365 services have gone down. The company is investigating and has released preliminary details.

After hearing about ChatGPT o3 ability at geo-guessing we decided to run some tests and the tested AIs didn't fail to amaze us

How do we translate web accessibility standards to command line applications? This is GitHub CLI's journey toward making terminal experiences for all developers.

Centuries before audio deepfakes and text-to-speech software, inventors in the eighteenth century constructed androids with swelling lungs, flexible lips, and moving tongues to simulate human speech. Jessica Riskin explores the history of such talking heads, from their origins in musical automata to inventors’ quixotic attempts to make machines pronounce words, converse, and declare their love.

GARY: Hey Cindy, remember the other day when we were talking about optimizations?
CINDY: Yeah, I wanted to circle back on that.
GARY: Me too. You s...

This is a reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber's thoughtful (and widely read) "How decentralized is Bluesky really?" blog post.

I am so happy and grateful that Christine took the time to write up her thoughts and put them out in public. Her writing sheds light on substantive differences between protoco...

There’s a smörgåsbord of IRC happenings in this post, including multiple new desktop clients as well as clients for Sega Megadrive/Genesis and those old Macs that look like birdhouses.
A presentation about IRC modernisation will be given at FOSDEM conference on 1 Feb 2025. A video recording will be made available after the conference.
There’s a new commercial service for bouncer access hosted in France called IRC Today. It is run by delthas, creator of the senpai client and contributor to projects such as soju.

This Gradient Updates issue goes over the major changes that went into DeepSeek’s most recent model.

You may need an upgrade to take full advantage of eARC audio.

Specialized microchips that manage signals at the cutting edge of wireless technology are astounding works of miniaturization and engineering. They're also difficult and expensive to design.

What happens when sprawling online communities fracture into politically homogenous, self-governing communities?

I generally am uninterested in generative AI that's too close to the real thing. But every once in a while there's a modern AI thing that's so glitchy and broken that it's strangely compelling. There's this generative AI knockoff of Minecraft that fails so hard at being Minecraft that it

Disclosure: I’m on the board of Bluesky, so feel free to take as many grains of salt as you want in reading it, even though part of this is cheering on a new entrant looking to build an alternative…

Microsoft product name changes collated at m365maps.com by Aaron Dinnage

Today's the day! After nearly a full year in development, NodeBB v4.0.0 has landed, bringing federation between NodeBB instances (and a connection to the wi...