Aurora launches its commercial driverless trucking service, making deliveries between Dallas and Houston, and plans to expand to El Paso and Phoenix in 2025
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Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the computer bulletin board system (BBS), a foundational technology of the internet age, died at age 78 on October 11
On Friday, Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the computer bulletin board system (BBS), died at age 78 in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. Threads: @blinkenjim . Mastodon: @CyberpunkLibrarian … and @m501@mast...
Elon Musk says his Twitter takeover “cannot move forward” until the CEO proves bots are <5% of users, since his offer was based on “SEC filings being accurate”
Good morning! If Parle gave India Thums Up, Goldspot … Tweets: Elon Musk / @elonmusk : Twitter claims that >95% of daily active users are real, unique humans. Does anyone have that experience? Elon M...
8chan returns as 8kun, claiming that anything considered illegal in the US will be removed; /pol, where mass shooters posted manifestos, is notably absent
and QAnon Is Already Posting Lydia Dishman / Fast Company : From Russia with hate: 8chan is back online Evann Gastaldo / Newser : ‘Cesspool of Hate’ 8chan Is Basically Back Tweets: @nytimes : 8chan, t...
The El Paso and Dayton shootings once again show how disinformation can spread on hard-to-track private messaging apps, oftentimes by bad actors
and how hard it is to stop them. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... pic.twitter.com/dP5pcfgE4G
Epik, which serves sites like Gab.com and Daily Stormer, says it will not provide 8chan with DoS or CDN services through its BitMitigate division
A Seattle-area web-hosting firm has reversed course and decided not to host the 8chan web forum linked to Saturday's mass shooting in El Paso.
8chan struggles to stay up after Cloudflare quit servicing it; 8chan appears to have switched domain registrars to Epik, now hobbled by one of its own vendors
"It's DNS. It's always DNS." Matt Binder / Mashable : Inside the fight to keep 8chan offline Oscar Gonzalez / CNET : 8chan owner says El Paso shooter didn't post manifesto Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :...
El Paso, the third mass shooting announced on 8chan, shows how its /pol/ board deliberately radicalizes users into mass shooters and gamifies massacring people
lone shooter, assault rifle, online manifesto, a link to a live stream—appears to be contagious. https://www.newyorker.com/... Dave Zatz / @davezatz : @Techmeme 'Let's do nothing because it's just not...
If 8chan vanished, its users would likely just flock to a new copycat site, like how 4chan users switched to 8chan amid increased moderation during Gamergate
Less than an hour before killing at least 20 people and injuring some 26 more in an El Paso, Texas, Walmart, the suspected shooter …
Cloudflare says it will stop providing 8chan with DDoS protection services, but 8chan's domain registrar, Tucows, says it has no plans to ban the site
Fredrick Brennan was getting ready for church at his home in the Philippines when the news of a mass shooting in El Paso arrived.