Almost all of the 49 Starlink satellites that SpaceX launched from Florida’s space coast on February 3 are crashing and burning up, after a geomagnetic storm knocked them from orbit.
Samantha Cole @samleecole
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgw48/spacex-starlink-satellites-destroyed-by-geomagnetic-storm
CEO Ryan Roslansky lays out new features arriving on the professional networking platform, including a no-politics button and live video and audio events
Joanna Stern @JoannaStern
https://www.wsj.com/articles/lets-face-it-linkedin-might-be-the-best-social-network-right-now-11644402715
Google Stadia is being ‘demoted’ to nothing more than a series of partnerships, according to a new report.
Matt Wille @mattdwille
https://www.inputmag.com/gaming/google-is-killing-off-stadia-cloud-gaming-peloton-bungie-capcom
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Law enforcement says it was able to seize the 94,636 Bitcoin left in the wallet because Lichtenstein allegedly uploaded a list to a cloud storage and email provider that contained addresses for the wallet that Binfinex’s funds were dumped into, along with the private keys to access them. The file was encrypted, but after obtaining it through a search warrant, the statement of facts says that law enforcement was able to decrypt it and several other files (though it doesn’t offer any explanation of how).
Mitchell Clark
https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/8/22923772/doj-irs-bitfinex-hack-bitcoin-recovery-encrypted-files-razzlekhan
The media company said it paid a price in the low-seven figures. The game will move from its current website to the New York Times site and apps, but the company declined to say when that would happen.
Joseph Pisani @josephpisani
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-times-acquires-wordle-game-11643666507
Piracy is complicated. It flourishes and declines for many reasons. The COVID-19 pandemic kept people home and out of theaters, but many of the most pirated films were available to watch at home the same day they hit the cinema. There’s so many different streaming services now that it can be hard to keep track and watching a specific film or TV show can entail signing up for a specific service to watch one show. Faced with the prospect of paying another $10 a month to catch up on a TV show or watch the latest Marvel movie, many people chose piracy and decided to watch for free instead.
Matthew Gault @mjgault
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93bd8v/internet-piracy-is-surging-researchers-say
CSS-Tricks started way back in 2007. That’s 15 years! Since then Chris has redesigned the website a bunch of times and with each new version of the site comes a visual refresh, a new trick or two, and the adoption of the latest features of the web platform.
Robin Rendle @robinrendle
https://css-tricks.com/newsletter/287-the-history-of-css-tricks-design/