• We posted part one of a video series about the solution to a 65 year old mathematical puzzle a few months ago.
  
  
  
  At the time, only two numbers remained to be found.  The video was made in 2015, but by coincidence I posted it just before the next number was found.
  
  
  
  And now the final missing number has been found, and it is...
  
  Forty-two.
  
  
  
  
• Samung has an affordable 8K QLED TV.  (AnandTech)
  
  Yeah, I thought it said OLED for a moment too.
  
  It's still 8K so "affordable" means $2500, but for a 55" 8K display that's not so bad.  Would be an interesting choice for a computer monitor since it's the same pixel density as a regular 4K 27" display, though I'd personally rather have something 8K wide but only half the height.
  
  
• COPPA and CDA 230 are colliding and we're getting bombarded with the legislative equivalent of gravity waves.  (TechDirt)
  
  Mike stops inventing rights out of whole cloth for a moment and provides the analysis that makes TechDirt worth reading.
  
  The FTC basically decided that although YouTube as a whole is protected by CDA Section 230, individual channels are in violation of COPPA and thus YouTube as a whole is liable.
  
  Google settled rather than trying for an appeal, probably because this would have been spectacularly bad PR.  But when the "think of the children" line is off the table in some future case I expect this to go to the Supreme Court.
  
  
• Apple is blaming Google for tanking the value of iOS (reads fine print) vulnerabilities.  (WCCFTech)
  
  While Google's Play Store is a complete mess compared to Apple's App Store - mostly because the App Store is nightmarishly restrictive - iOS itself has had quite a few security issues of late.
  
  
• Let's Encrypt is encrypting 30% of web domains.
  
  This is good - Let's Encrypt is free and support is built right into modern proxies and web servers like Caddy.
  
  And it's bad, because a successful stealth attack targeting Let's Encrypt could endanger 30% of web domains in one go.  (You'd also need to fake their DNS, but that's just a question of offering free public WiFi.)
  
  
• PingFS stores your files in (reads fine print) the payloads of in-flight ping packets.
  
  It's mercury delay lines for a new age.
  
  
• Cube World aten't dead.  (One Angry Gamer)
  
  I bought it and spent some time playing it years ago, but it went into hibernation in 2014 and updates have been sparse.  But now:
  
  
  I liked it at the time but it was an early beta release and I ran out of things to do after a while.  I'll be interested to see what's changed since then.
  
  
  

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