We got the rights to one of the first game magazines.
The Video Game History Foundation has acquired the rights to Computer Entertainer, one of the first American video game magazines. We’ve digitized the entire run of Computer Entertainer for the…
YouTube backlash begins: “Why is AI combing through every single video I watch?”
Tens of thousands of YouTubers are raging against YouTube's plan to use AI to detect underage users in the US. On Tuesday, a Change.org petition rapidly neared its 50,000-signature goal,…
Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs
Wikipedia's parent organization lost a challenge to the UK Online Safety Act but can bring another case if the government tries to force it to verify the identity of Wikipedia…
Kara Walker: Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)
Experience Kara Walker’s new commission, Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine), which considers the memorialization of trauma, the objectives of technology, and the possibilities of transforming the negative energies that…
Age Verification Laws Send VPN Use Soaring—and Threaten the Open Internet
A law requiring UK internet users to verify their age to access adult content has led to a huge surge in VPN downloads—and has experts worried about the future of…
Microsoft plans to bring Xbox age verification to countries outside of the UK
Microsoft is implementing an age verification system on Xbox accounts to comply with the UK's Online Safety Act, and in a new blog post announcing the move, the company suggests…
Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content
Spotify is requiring users in the UK to verify they’re over 18 to view "certain age restricted content," and users are reporting seeing a popup on Spotify to verify their…
Just Forget It
John Kelsey’s injured romanticism
Neil Young’s iPod Killer
A rock icon sets out to save music with a strange yellow gadget that almost no one understood.
Google, labor rights, monopoly,
and the justice department