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FBI subpoenas the web registrar behind Archive.is

The FBI is attempting to track down the identity of the owner of Archive.today and its numerous mirrors, like Archive.is and Archive.ph. As reported by 404 Media, the FBI subpoena, which was posted on the official Archive.today X account, was sent to web domain registrar Tucows on October 30th demanding the “customer or subscriber name,…

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WEB WAR III | The Verge

OpenAI didn’t plan to make a browser. Not at first, anyway. But ever since the company launched ChatGPT, it started to see lots of users do the same thing. “You’d have this tab open on chatgpt.com, and you’d be working on something else somewhere in your browser,” says Adam Fry, a product lead on the…

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Bending Spoons is buying AOL for some reason

Bending Spoons has made a flurry of acquisitions in recent years, a few of which were followed by layoffs and, in some cases, higher prices for customers. The company expects its acquisition of AOL to close by the end of this year, with CEO Luca Ferrari saying that Bending Spoons will “invest significantly to help…

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ZEE5 announces Kannada web series ‘Maarigallu’

New Kannada web series ‘Maarigallu’ to stream on ZEE5. ZEE5, in collaboration with PRK Productions, has announced Kannada original series titled Maarigallu. The makers said in a release that, “at its core, Maarigallu is a divine folklore thriller set in the 1990s, inspired by the enduring legend of a long-lost Kadamba dynasty treasure. The story…

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Composers Varkey and Sooraj Santhosh break down their process in the Malayalam web series ‘The Chronicles of the 4.5 Gang’

Krishand’s web series The Chronicles of the 4.5 Gang (Sambhavavivaranam Nalara Sangham) is an out-of-the-box, quirky gangster drama. Adding to the madness of the narrative is the music, scored by Varkey and Sooraj Santhosh — 25 tracks in addition to scores of short pieces, which make it a musical. The six-episode series is a comic…

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The UK is slogging through an online age-gate apocalypse

People across the United Kingdom have been faced with a censored and partially inaccessible online landscape since the country introduced its latest digital safety rules on Friday. The Online Safety Act mandates that web service operators must use “highly effective” age verification measures to stop kids from accessing a wide range of material, on penalty…

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