Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.

YouTube is now widely rolling out pause ads. These ads will appear when you pause playback, in addition to regular YouTube ads.

A case over the US tech giant's dominance in search allows it to hang on to its Chrome web browser.

Moderators now need Reddit's permission to turn subreddits private, NSFW.

Simply telling someone to RTFM is not an answer when the manual is outdated, unreadable, or nonexistent. We need to improve the quality of our documentation, and the way to do that is simple.

And companies can't make them come into the office. Really.

AlmaLinux wants to be taken seriously by enterprise hardware vendors.

After almost a full year of work,  young Slovakian designer Martin Vargic is introducing the brand new Map of the Internet, up to date for the year 2021. This fun and extensive project aims to concisely, but still comprehensively visualize the current state of the World Wide Web today. 

This mid-year 2024 kernel upgrade brings a host of exciting features and improvements that enhance performance, security, and hardware support across various platforms.

WD has dropped the price of the Elements external hard drive down to its lowest price in over six months. The discount applies on the 16 TB model.

Fortunately, there are things you can do to help protect yourself and your websites.

As many as 240 million Windows 10 PCs can't be upgraded to Windows 11. What's a user to do? You have five viable alternatives to trashing your machine.

DNS poisoning attack worked even when targets used DNS from Google and Cloudflare.

Prime Day returns in just days, but Amazon isn't the only place to save. Some of the best anti-Prime Day deals on home, tech, and lifestyle are already available at steep discounts from retailers such as Best Buy, Walmart, Costco, and more.

The United States remains reluctant to work with open source, but European countries are bolder.

Microsoft is changing the way you interact with your computer. But its efforts face serious competition from some old rivals.

Logz.io's IQ Assistant, which purports to make the most of your software stack's records, actually makes sense.

Here's the tea, for all open sourcers inclined to drink it

Kubernetes is cloud-native computing's backbone, which makes it, in turn, critical for modern computing.