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Microsoft is finally retiring Internet Explorer in 2022. Microsoft is finally retiring Internet Explorer next year, after more than 25 years. The aging web browser has largely been unused by most consumers for years, but Microsoft is putting the final nail in the Internet Explorer coffin on June 15th, 2022, by retiring it in favor of Microsoft Edge. (Tom Warren via The Verge)
Colonial pipeline CEO tells why he paid hackers a $4.4 million ransom. The operator of the Colonial Pipeline learned it was in trouble at daybreak on May 7, when an employee found a ransom note from hackers on a control-room computer. By that night, the company's chief executive came to a difficult conclusion: He had to pay. (Collin Eaton via Wall Street Journal)
Google revives RSS. Chrome, at least in its experimental Canary version on Android (and only for users in the U.S.), is getting an interesting update in the coming weeks that brings back RSS, the once-popular format for getting updates from all the sites you love in Google Reader and similar services. (Frederic Lardinois via TechCrunch)
What Happens When Americans Can Finally Exhale. This time last year, the United States seemed stuck on a COVID-19 plateau. Although 1,300 Americans were dying from the disease every day, states had begun to reopen in a patchwork fashion, and an anxious nation was looking ahead to an uncertain summer. Â (Ed Yong via The Atlantic)
Meet the $ASS Coin Billionaire: Tales from the Fringe of the Crypto Craze. The Bud Light Mango Mai Tais were beginning to take hold when Eric Hackney — 38, unemployed and ticked off by watching other people get rich — figured, What the hell? and laid $500 on some crazy-sounding thing called ASS Coin. (Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou via Bloomberg)
The Full Story of the Stunning RSA Hack Can Finally Be Told. Amid all the sleepless hours that Todd Leetham spent hunting ghosts inside his company's network in early 2011, the experience that sticks with him most vividly all these years later is the moment he caught up with them. Or almost did.(Andy Greenberg via WIRED)
Samsung's Galaxy Buds+ fall to $100 in Amazon's one-day sale. If you're on a budget, it may be tempting to settle for low-cost ear buds, but then you'd be sacrificing sound and build quality. Those patient enough to wait for a discount don't have to make do with cheap duds, however. (Saqib Shah via Engadget)
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