Forschung & TP-Blog: Rückblicke und Ausblicke

Am Beginn meiner Autorenschaft im TP-Blog stand eine Idee: Von den vielen an österreichischen Studiengängen mit touristischem Schwerpunkt erarbeiteten Erkenntnissen sollte – maßgeblich durch Gastbeiträge von Forscher/-innen sowie Student/-innen getragen – etwas an die interessier … | Continue reading


@tp-blog.at | 3 hours ago

Amazon Kindle Colorsoft screen issues have been fixed

When it was first released, the Amazon Kindle Colorsoft had significant issues. There were persistent yellow bars or bands at the bottom of the screen. This was even more noticeable when the front-lit display was turned on, as the screen’s brightness made the issue even more pron … | Continue reading


@goodereader.com | 10 hours ago

Enlightenment 0.27 Released with Bug Fixes, New Modules

Enlightenment 0.27, released this week, brings a wealth of incremental improvements to users of this unique desktop environment. Though not as well known or widely used as GNOME, Xfce, KDE Plasma, et al, Enlightenment (often abbreviated as just ‘E’) differentiates itself through … | Continue reading


@omgubuntu.co.uk | 10 hours ago

[Sponsor] Protect Your App With WorkOS Radar

Does your app get fake signups, throwaway emails, or users abusing your free tier? Or worse, bots attacks and brute force attempts? WorkOS Radar can block all this and more. A simple API gives you advanced device fingerprinting that can detect bad actors, bots, and suspicious beh … | Continue reading


@workos.com | 10 hours ago

Apple’s latest iPad Mini is down to its lowest price to date

The seventh-gen iPad is the cheapest tablet in Apple’s current lineup to support Apple Intelligence. | Photo: David Pierce / The Verge If you’re in the market for a highly portable tablet, Apple’s smallest tablet has fallen to its lowest price to date at multiple retailers. Right … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 11 hours ago

Trump’s Offshore Wind Ban Is Coming, Congressman Says

President-elect Donald Trump’s team is drafting an executive order to “halt offshore wind turbine activities” along the East Coast, working with the office of Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, the congressman said in a press release from his office Monday afternoon. “T … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 12 hours ago

Google Messages brings back customizable contacts

Illustration: The Verge Google is adjusting the “profile sharing” feature in its Google Messages app to allow users to set custom contact names and photos on their own devices for their stored contacts and others they send text messages. As reported by 9to5Google, a change rolled … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 12 hours ago

Biofilms, unwashed hands: FDA found violations at McDonald’s ex-onion supplier

The outbreak sickened at least 104 across 14 states, killing one and hospitalizing 34. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 12 hours ago

Sonos Canned CEO Patrick Spence, Who Spearheaded Disastrous App Launch

Chris Welch, The Verge: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence is resigning from the job today, effective immediately, with board member Tom Conrad filling the role of interim CEO. It’s the most dramatic development yet in an eight-month saga that has proven to be the most challenging time in … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 12 hours ago

‘Goodbye to my Chinese spy’ might be the last great TikTok trend

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images TikTokers are coping with the app’s potential ban with an unusual trend: by bidding farewell to their “personal Chinese spy.” The trend, which pokes fun at security concerns surrounding the app, has users thanking their “spy” for sur … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 13 hours ago

An Unexpected Obstacle to Putting Out the L.A. Fires

Imagine for a moment that you’re an aerial firefighter pilot. You have one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, and now you’ve been called in to fight the devastating fires burning in Los Angeles County’s famously tricky, hilly terrain. You’re working long hours — not as lo … | Continue reading


@heatmap.news | 13 hours ago

‘Free Our Feeds’

Free Our Feeds: With Zuckerberg going full Musk last week, we can no longer let billionaires control our digital public square. Bluesky is an opportunity to shake up the status quo. They have built scaffolding for a new kind of social web. One where we all have more say, choice a … | Continue reading


@freeourfeeds.com | 13 hours ago

How to Tell a Leopard from Its Roar

Making a Shazam for conservationists The post How to Tell a Leopard from Its Roar appeared first on Nautilus. | Continue reading


@nautil.us | 13 hours ago

★ One Bit of Anecdata That the Web Is Languishing Vis-à-Vis Native Mobile Apps

Just after New Year’s some sort of underground cable screw-up resulted in our home, along with an irregular swath of our neighborhood, losing electricity for 26 hours. We don’t lose power often, and when we do, the outages are usually brief, but 26 hours felt pretty long — especi … | Continue reading


@daringfireball.net | 13 hours ago

Find the cat

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@veselin.blog | 14 hours ago

Justices appear supportive of retired firefighter’s discrimination suit

The Supreme Court on Monday appeared sympathetic to a retired Florida firefighter who is seeking to sue her former employer under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Karyn Stanley, who worked for the fire department in Sanford, Fla., for two decades before Parkinson’s disease fo … | Continue reading


@scotusblog.com | 14 hours ago

Meta is already working on Community Notes for Threads

Illustration: The Verge Meta announced last week that it would be ditching fact-checkers in favor of X-like Community Notes, and self-described “leaker” Alessandro Paluzzi shared screenshots on Monday showing what the feature might look like in Threads. Based on the screenshots, … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 14 hours ago

AGDQ 2025 earns $2.5 million for charity with its best event yet

Image: Games Done Quick Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 has concluded, raising just over $2.5 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Every Games Done Quick event is worth tuning in to either live or later via VODs, but this AGDQ was uniquely fantastic, filled with runs that’ll … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 14 hours ago

Chinese social media app RedNote tops App Store chart ahead of TikTok ban

Photo Illustration by Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images RedNote, the Chinese social media app also known as Xiaohongshu, rose to the number one spot on the Apple App Store as a US ban closes in on TikTok. The app offers a mix of pictures, short-form videos, … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 14 hours ago

What Happens When You Get Used to Evil Companies

It's only human to become used to even the worst of news. When you hear the same types of events reported for the hundredth time though, it's hard to attach any emotion to it. Most people who use social media are at least peripherally aware that the big companies that own Faceboo … | Continue reading


@amerpie.lol | 15 hours ago

Five Things to Know about the Supreme Court Case on Texas’ Age Verification Law, Free Speech Coalition v Paxton

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday in a case that will determine whether states can violate adults’ First Amendment rights to access sexual content online by requiring them to verify their age. The case, Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, could have far-reaching eff … | Continue reading


@eff.org | 15 hours ago

Nintendo’s Alarmo will be available for everyone starting in March

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Another day, another announcement from Nintendo that isn’t the next Switch. Today the company revealed that its alarm clock, Alarmo, will be available at select retailers starting this March. The announcement includes the US, UK, and Europe. The $ … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 15 hours ago

Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg

Mastodon shifts to nonprofit ownership, calls for $5M in donations to expand. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 15 hours ago

Free Our Feeds looks like a sincere effort but it’s a little vague. $30 million is a lot of money to raise via donations. I’d love to see this team communicate in more detail what they want to do. | Continue reading


@manton.org | 16 hours ago

AGI versus “broad, shallow intelligence”

The BSI we have now, versus the AGI we want | Continue reading


@garymarcus.substack.com | 16 hours ago

Challenge to Texas age-verification on porn sites comes to Supreme Court

A trade group for the adult entertainment industry will appear at the Supreme Court on Wednesday in its challenge to a Texas law that requires pornography sites to verify the age of their users before providing access – for example, by requiring a government-issued identification … | Continue reading


@scotusblog.com | 16 hours ago

All the New Fantasy Books Arriving in January 2025

January brings new releases in long-running series such as Wayward Children and the Laundry Files… and much, much more. The post All the New Fantasy Books Arriving in January 2025 appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading


@reactormag.com | 16 hours ago

eBay’s new acquisition could make it easy to buy a car from anywhere

The Verge eBay has “signed a definitive agreement” to buy online automotive transaction platform provider Caramel to help make buying and selling vehicles on the auction site “more simple than ever.” Caramel has a site and app that helps private parties and independent dealers se … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 16 hours ago

2002’s Neverwinter Nights gets a patch in 2025 from “unpaid software engineers”

Bioware's beloved Dungeons & Dragons CRPG remains a rich space for storytelling. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 16 hours ago

How GM’s Super Cruise went from limo driving to lane changes and towing

A self-learning algorithm runs on each car to understand the driving conditions. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 16 hours ago

New York starts enforcing $15 broadband law that ISPs tried to kill

Fresh off court victory, NY says low-income plans must be available Wednesday. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 16 hours ago

Skull long thought to be Cleopatra’s sister’s was actually a young boy

Skull found in ruins of Ephesos in 1929 thought to be Arsinoë IV is actually skull of 11-14-year-old boy. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 16 hours ago

Presence Trailer: A Supernatural Force Trying to Figure Out the Living Is, Frankly, Terrifying

With the premiere only weeks away, the final trailer has arrived. The post Presence Trailer: A Supernatural Force Trying to Figure Out the Living Is, Frankly, Terrifying appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading


@reactormag.com | 17 hours ago

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: December 2024

December's best fiction includes monsters, murder, and queer angst. The post Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: December 2024 appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading


@reactormag.com | 17 hours ago

Using Locally-Installed CLI Tools In Node Projects

You have a dependency that provides a CLI tool, how do you use it? Even though you did npm i from your project root, if you run it won’t work because that tool is not in your global path. You could install globally, but then if you have in multiple projects and you run in a … | Continue reading


@blog.jim-nielsen.com | 17 hours ago

Free Our Feeds wants to build a social media ecosystem ‘resistant to billionaire influence’

Image: Free Our Feeds Technology advocates and celebrities are backing the launch of Free Our Feeds, a campaign designed to “save social media from billionaire capture.” The project aims to raise $30 million over three years to support the development of a social media ecosystem … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 17 hours ago

Here Are the Nominees for the 2025 Philip K. Dick Award

Congratulations to the nominees! The post Here Are the Nominees for the 2025 Philip K. Dick Award appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading


@reactormag.com | 17 hours ago

Report: After many leaks, Switch 2 announcement could come “this week”

Reveal will reportedly focus on hardware, with game announcements to come later. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 17 hours ago

L.A. Blowin’ In The Wind

The post L.A. Blowin’ In The Wind appeared first on NOEMA. | Continue reading


@noemamag.com | 17 hours ago

Samsung is adding two new Galaxy Ring sizes

Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge Samsung is making the Galaxy Ring available to more people by adding size 14 and 15 rings to its options starting on January 22nd. With the expansion, which was rumored last month, the company says its ring sizes now run from five to 15, though … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 18 hours ago

FSNotes - A Free and Open-Source Successor to NValt

FSNotes Interface FSNotes is a plain text note editor with a two-pane interface of Brett Terpstra's classic Nvalt, which ceased development in 2017. FSNotes has an extensive feature set for run-of-the-mill notes and for developers. If you have an existing folder of plain text or … | Continue reading


@amerpie.lol | 18 hours ago

Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed

Jason Koebler, 404 Media: Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized Instagram competitor. On Facebook, the company is labeling links to Pixelfed.social as “spam” and deleting them immediately. Pixelfed is an open-source, community-funded and decentralized image sharing … | Continue reading


@404media.co | 18 hours ago

Babylon 5 Rewatch: “And Now for a Word”

An ISN reporter spends 36 hours aboard Babylon 5... The post Babylon 5 Rewatch: “And Now for a Word” appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading


@reactormag.com | 18 hours ago

It couldn't hurt to have a better lifeboat

I posted this to both Bluesky and Mastodon just now. I see people betting on the idea of federation in Bluesky. At the same time, we should bet on simplifying Mastodon at scale. Approach the problem from both directions. We may need and not have federation in Bluesky at some poin … | Continue reading


@scripting.com | 18 hours ago

Sonos CEO behind disastrous app exits with $1.9 million severance

Frustrated users think Spence's removal is "well deserved." | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 18 hours ago

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Star

Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: At zero stars, you just get flooded. Today's News: | Continue reading


@smbc-comics.com | 19 hours ago

Los Angeles Fires: How to Help

LA resident Matthew Butterick, in his MB XS newsletter: Easy answer — donate money! A good friend of mine works in California disaster relief. He recommends these nonprofits because they have a strong local impact: The California Community Foundation is seeking donations for its … | Continue reading


@calfund.org | 19 hours ago

Five SFF Stories About Fighting Fate

Attempts at changing one's destiny, escaping prophecy, or rewriting the future... The post Five SFF Stories About Fighting Fate appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading


@reactormag.com | 19 hours ago