All Things Internet: The Big Players & The Issues
The world has grown increasingly connected over the past few decades and a huge chunk of our lives are online. We cover the companies you care about: YouTube, Google, Amazon, and the issues you care about: NBN, IoT, social media, privacy and security.
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Stop Sharing Your Netflix Password, or We’ll Get Ads
Are you watching anything on Netflix these days? The streaming giant’s numbers haven’t been looking so good in recent weeks, and they’re bad enough that Netflix has sent out a letter to shareholders with a warning to expect the worse.
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Russian Embassy Accounts Are Skirting Twitter’s Disinformation Policies
Russian diplomats on social media, Twitter in particular, are routinely spreading disinformation about the war in Ukraine, opening up another can of worms for social media companies that already struggle to curb the politically disingenuous and outright harmful activities of government officials.
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On Star Trek: Picard, Everyone’s Really Bad at Their Jobs in the Best Possible Way
There’s certain rules about time travel that Star Trek’s heroes try to follow, either to avoid completely imploding the timeline or because, well, someone above them in the Federation will get very huffy about it. This week, Picard’s heroes realise that in order to save the day, they’re going to have to do what they…
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Spelljammer and Dragonlance Return in Dungeons & Dragons’ Next Adventures
At the first D&D Direct livestream, Wizards of the Coast revealed what’s in store for Dungeons & Dragons with a series of new reveals — including major new additions to Fifth Edition in the form of the return of not one, but two classic campaign settings in all new releases: Starjammer and Dragonlance.