Elon Musk has offered $1 billion to Wikipedia to change its name to “Dickipedia.” The billionaire entrepreneur made the offer in a tweet on Tuesday, saying that he would donate the money to the online encyclopedia if it agreed to change its name. The tweet has since been deleted, but not before it was widely…
Google Chrome has been the most popular web browser for years, but with Google’s recent decision to end ad-blocking in Chrome, users are looking for alternatives that allow them to use ad-blockers when watching YouTube. Two popular options are Brave and DuckDuckGo. Brave is built on Chromium, the same open-source project that Google Chrome uses,…
Elon Musk, the owner of social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, is considering removing the service from Europe in response to the Digital Services Act (DSA), a new internet platform regulation in the region. The DSA sets forth rules for preventing the spread of harmful content, banning or limiting certain user-targeting practices, and…
FileList, a prominent private torrent tracker and one of Romania’s largest, has decided to close its doors after a successful 16-year run. Private torrent trackers are renowned for their strong community focus, and FileList was no exception to this trend. Despite facing adversity a few years ago when Romanian authorities seized its domain name, the…
Google is testing a homepage design similar to Bing and Yahoo, resembling its mobile app’s “Google Discover” newsfeed. The new design features news articles selected by Google’s algorithms, with quality variations over time. The outcome of this experiment is uncertain, and it may remain optional, aligning the desktop site with the mobile app. Google is…
