Astronomers may have discovered the first moon, or satellite, outside the solar system, about seventy-three light years from Earth. Plenty of exoplanets, planets orbiting stars other than the Sun, have been found, but this might be the first time a moon accompanying one of these bodies has been located. But there’s...

Natalie Kaufman, writing for the Wall Street Journal, about an apparent trend in early twenty-somethings, to rely on AI agents to supply them with conversation starters, and pickup lines. The article is paywalled, but would you really want to read about this? I think these things are best learned through experience,...

AusAlert is a new, nation wide, emergency warning system being rolled out by the Australian government. Should there be a crisis or disaster of some sort, authorities will be able to send warnings to mobile phones in the vicinity. The alerts, which will be heralded by a short, but loud siren sound, are designed to...

The basic, free, verification badge, differs from the more familiar, paid for, Meta‌ Verified blue badge. To qualify, applicants need to satisfy a number of requirements, including having a Facebook (FB) account that is in “good standing”. They will need to record a short video, which will be compared to selfies...

I like the idea of Webmentions, a protocol informing a blogger, website owner, that another blog/website has linked to them. Similar to pingbacks, Webmentions aren’t just another tech-gimmick though. In 2017 they were adopted as a recommendation by the W3C, the international body publishing standards for the web....

Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie, trailer, is a bat-shit crazy (to say the least) time-travel caper I found while perusing the movie listings on Kanopy last week. It’s a story about two musicians, Matt Johnson, and Jay McCarrol, portraying themselves, who live in Toronto, Canada. Both are in a music act named...

Coleman Spilde, writing for Salon: Since its expansion from movie rentals and streaming into original content, Netflix has made it clear that its sole priority is Netflix, not its customers, and certainly not the art of visual media. Members of Letterboxd, a social network for lovers of film, founded in 2011 by...

Hobart, Tasmania, based Australian software engineer Elia Scotto: First of all, you don’t have to make time to read. What you need to do is read every single time you are not doing something else. In today’s world, most people pick up their phones as soon as they get a moment of inactivity. Serious readers pick up...

I wrote about the Wonders of Web Weaving podcast on Monday, and I’m back. A couple of days ago, an interview with New Zealand/Aotearoa IndieWeb blogger fLaMEd, of fLaMEd Fury, was posted. FlaMEd has been online with a personal website around the same time as I have — the late 1990’s — so the show made for...

Last week the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese unveiled his government’s AI strategy. Part of the proposed framework includes a provision to ensure Australian writers, musicians, artists, and journalists, are paid in the event their work is used in the development of AI agents. This is as it should be....

A new edition of the Internet Phone Book is in the works, and co-publishers Elliot Cost, and Kristoffer Tjalve (also a Tiny Awards organiser), recently spoke about the esteemed directory on the Wonders of Web Weaving podcast. There are a ton of podcasts out there, but I take time out to tune in to Wonders of Web...

Anthony Albanese, the Australian Prime Minister, says he wants to make Australia an “attractive destination” for investment in AI development, during a speech delivered on Wednesday. Albanese also wants to balance the opportunities and risks presented by the technologies, particularly concerns that AI uptake will...