YouTube resolves bug that kept asking if you’re human nonstop

YouTube’s CAPTCHA bug wrongly flagged users as bots, breaking video playback across browsers and embeds—but it’s now fixed.

Discord Down as Thousands of Users Report Issues—When App Could Be Back Up

Thousands of users reported issues on Wednesday afternoon as Discord announced it was investigating the issue.
The Conversation

What ‘gooning’ reveals about intimacy in a world cordoned off by screens

Jennifer Pollitt is affiliated with Woodhull Freedom Foundation. Four years ago, I started a class at Temple University titled, “Social Perspectives of Digital Pornography: The Other Sex Ed,” centered ...
The Independent

Tottenham are dreadful and only getting worse after two fatal errors

Igor Tudor confident he can keep Tottenham in Premier League Join the Miguel Delaney: Inside Football newsletter and get behind-the-scenes access and unrivalled insight Join the Miguel Delaney: Inside ...
Wall Street Journal

Khamenei’s Unforced Errors Proved Fatal

WSJ's Elliot Kaufman speaks with Global View columnist Walter Russell Mead about the unfolding situation in Iran. This is the ayatollah’s war. Now as in June, the pileup of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ...
9to5Mac

Reddit and Discord are both in trouble over age verification

Both Reddit and Discord have got themselves into trouble over age verification – Reddit for failing to properly check ages, and Discord for using a controversial third-party service. Reddit has been ...
Android

Reddit & Discord Face Heat Over Age Verification Service

Reddit and Discord are in serious trouble over the use of a controversial third-party age verification service, Persona. Reddit has been fined £14.5 million ($19.5M) by the UK data watchdog. Meanwhile ...
PC Gamer

Panopticon patch Tuesday: Twitch requires Peter Thiel-funded Persona ID verification for some Affiliates to get their first payouts

Security Security researchers claim Persona, the provider behind Discord's UK age verification 'experiment', performs '269 individual verification checks' on user data, including those for terrorism ...
NDTV

Illegal Indian 'Alien' Truck Driver In ICE Custody After Fatal US Crash

A 25-year-old Indian man has been arrested in the United States after his truck caused a three-vehicle collision, killing a 64-year-old man in Indiana. The accused, identified as Sukhdeep Singh, ...
NDTV

NDTV Accesses First Visuals Of Fatal Dwarka Crash That Killed Sahil Dhaneshra

The first video from the night of the fatal Dwarka crash that claimed the life of 23-year-old Sahil Dhaneshra has surfaced, showing the aftermath of the collision and the damaged vehicles. Police say ...
PC Gamer

US Department of Homeland Security has reportedly demanded personal information about ICE's critics from Discord, Reddit, Google, and Meta—and at least 3 of those platforms ...

DHS has issued hundreds of subpoenas to major online platforms to obtain the names, email addresses, and phone numbers of accountholders who criticize ICE. When you purchase through links on our site, ...
Mashable

Homeland security pushes social media giants to dox anonymous accounts critical of ICE

In the latest escalation of their efforts to push back against opposition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Department of Homeland Security is issuing hundreds of subpoenas to the ...