This is my personal space for writing. Here you'll find my thoughts and discoveries. It's not that I don't already write plenty on the internet. But it makes...
Image: Sarah Louise Bennett / EBU Tomorrow is the grand final of the world's biggest music competition: the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC). Based on last year's numbers, the grand final in Vienna tomorrow is expected to draw around 160 to 170 million viewers across 35 participating countries. The contest long ago outgrew its European roots. This year's lineup includes Australia, and the broadcast…
If you ever wanted to know how browser fingerprinting works: This page will show you. It shows all the information it gathers just from you visiting it — from your location to the fonts installed on your system — and explains how they can be used to identify you. My browser left 32 data points: "It identified your device with enough specificity to distinguish it from most others on the internet."
Image: Alexis Lours, CC There's a sound that means summer has truly arrived in Hannover: a high-pitched, piercing shriek cutting across the rooftops, followed by a dark crescent shape tearing past at improbable speed. The swifts have returned. They came back this morning, wheeling in loops in and above our courtyard. If you don't know how a swift looks: They look somewhat like swallows and are…
As a tech journalist, I regularly switch between Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Arc, Orion, and whatever new browser is making noise that week. The obvious consequence: browser bookmarks are essentially useless to me. Whatever I saved in one browser stays there, siloed, forgotten. So for years I've relied on an online bookmark manager: Raindrop.io . When Raindrop recently introduced an AI assistant…
Last week I wrote about the Ikea meatball lollipop , an April Fool's joke that turned into a real product. Here’s another one: The pleasure set is an add-on for some electronic toothbrushes that turns them into sex toys. Image: happybrush x Amorelie
(And still is) I feel the same way as Rachel . Soon, for sure, I'll write down what once made the web so appealing and why I'm here. Until then, I'm working my way through her collection of articles by other bloggers who have already done so.
Image: Ikea/Chupa Chups/Ingka Group If you've ever felt the urge to eat a meatball lollipop: Ikea has you covered . It was apparently originally an April Fool's joke .
Heute vor 30 Jahren habe ich die erste "echte" News-Meldung für heise online geschrieben . Keine Ahnung, wieviele Meldungen es seither waren. 30 Jahre! Heute wird ein wenig gefeiert .
December 2027. Marine Le Pen withdraws France's nuclear umbrella from all NATO allies. The US is 18 months drained into the Iran war with empty stocks. At 11 AM, Russia launches a devastating attack on the on Lithuanian's government with hypersonic missiles - followed by the launch of +170,000 Shahed drones over the next 60 days that completly flatten Vilnius. The think tank Baltic Defense…
Das Buch "Careless People" der Whistleblowerin Sarah Wynn-Williams liegt jetzt in einer deutschen Übersetzung vor. Lesenswert! Ich habe die englische Version im letzten Jahr besprochen (€). Mein Fazit: "Viel von dem, was Wynn-Williams beschreibt, war vorher bekannt, zum Beispiel aus den Veröffentlichungen der Whistleblowerin Frances Haugen. Es hat allerdings eine eigene Qualität, dass die Autorin…