Wickr’s consumer messaging app will shut down next year

Wickr’s consumer messaging app will shut down next year

Secure messaging platform Wickr is shutting down its consumer-facing app. In a blog post spotted by The Verge, the Amazon-owned company announced it would stop accepting new Wickr Me registrations by the end of the year before ultimately discounting the service altogether on December 31st, 2023. The shutdown won’t affect the AWS and Enterprise versions … Read more

Governments vote to retire the leap second by 2035

Governments vote to retire the leap second by 2035

The days of the leap second creating headaches for software engineers are coming to an end. On Friday, government representatives at the General Conference on Weights and Measures in Paris, France voted nearly unanimously to retire the practice of occasionally adding one second to official clocks (via The New York Times). Introduced in 1972 as … Read more

Epic lawsuit claims Google paid Activision Blizzard $360 million to prevent Play Store rival

Epic lawsuit claims Google paid Activision Blizzard $360 million to prevent Play Store rival

Google paid Activision Blizzard approximately $360 million to prevent the troubled publisher from competing directly against the Play Store. The deal was one among at least 24 agreements the search giant signed as part of its Project Hug initiative, according to court documents seen by Reuters. The financial details of Project Hug – later known … Read more

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