Day: July 30, 2025

Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by censorship gamer fury

Posted on by Robin Edgar

In the wake of storefronts like Steam and itch.io curbing the sale of adult games, irate fans have started an organized campaign against the payment processors that they believe are responsible for the crackdown. While the movement is still in its early stages, people are mobilizing with an eye toward overwhelming communication lines at companies Read more about Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by censorship gamer fury[…]

Automata Dev Warns That Letting Credit Card Companies Censor Internet is an attack on Democracy

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As a fight with credit card companies over adult games leads to renewed concerns about censorship on Steam and even on indie platforms like itch.io, a recent warning by Nier: Automata director Yoko Taro calling censorship a “security hole that endangers democracy itself” has become relevant again. The comments came last November when the Manga Read more about Automata Dev Warns That Letting Credit Card Companies Censor Internet is an attack on Democracy[…]

UK’s Stupid and Dangerous New Age Verification Requirement Thwarted in the Simplest Ways Imaginable

Posted on by Robin Edgar

TL;DR – use a VPN or take a picture of yourself in Death Stranding Earlier this week, the United Kingdom’s age assurance requirement for sites that publish pornographic material went into effect, which has resulted in everything from Pornhub to Reddit and Discord displaying an age verification panel when users attempt to visit. There’s just Read more about UK’s Stupid and Dangerous New Age Verification Requirement Thwarted in the Simplest Ways Imaginable[…]

The Viral ‘Tea’ App Just Had a Second Data Breach, and It’s Even Worse

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Last week, the two-year-old social media app Tea, which functions as a Yelp-style platform where women can anonymously rate and review real men who cannot access the app nor respond, experienced an intense moment of virality that rocketed it to the top of the most-downloaded list on Apple’s App Store. But within days, it faced Read more about The Viral ‘Tea’ App Just Had a Second Data Breach, and It’s Even Worse[…]

Cyberattack on Russian airline Aeroflot causes the cancellation of more than 100 flights

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A cyberattack on Russian state-owned flagship carrier Aeroflot caused a mass outage to the company’s computer systems on Monday, Russia’s prosecutor’s office said, forcing the airline to cancel more than 100 flights and delay others. Ukrainian hacker group Silent Crow and Belarusian hacker activist group the Belarus Cyber-Partisans, which opposes the rule of Belarusian President Read more about Cyberattack on Russian airline Aeroflot causes the cancellation of more than 100 flights[…]

Samsung adds to digital waste problem as it disables custom ROM (OS) support in One UI 8

Posted on by Robin Edgar

While the vast majority of Samsung Galaxy device owners don’t tinker with the software on their phones, there’s a community of Android enthusiasts that love rooting devices, unlocking the bootloader to run custom ROMs and kernels. That has so far been possible on Samsung devices outside the United States. However, new evidence has surfaced that Read more about Samsung adds to digital waste problem as it disables custom ROM (OS) support in One UI 8[…]

‘Boiling frog’ effect makes people oblivious to threat of climate crisis, shows study

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Surveys show that the increasing number of extreme climate events, including floods, wildfires and hurricanes, has not raised awareness of the threats posed by climate change. Instead, people change their idea of what they see as normal. This so-called “boiling frog effect” makes gradual change difficult to spot. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania Read more about ‘Boiling frog’ effect makes people oblivious to threat of climate crisis, shows study[…]