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Molly Holzschlag, an advocate for the open web, has died.

From the Tuscon Sentinel:

Holzschlag, who reported on music for the Tucson Weekly in the 1990s, founded Open Web Camp, a Silicon Valley event that ran from 2009-2013, and was a leader of the Web Standards Project in the years before that. That group successfully pushed browser developers, including Microsoft, Opera and Netscape, to adopt web standards. More than once, she challenged Bill Gates face-to-face to fix problems with Internet Explorer.

She was 60 years old. Some users on Hacker News had some very kind words about her and her contributions to the web.


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Truth Social just got a one-year lifeline.

The embattled Trump-backed social network got an additional twelve months to complete its SPAC merger, extending a deadline that was originally set for Friday. That means the SPAC can hang onto $300 million in investor funds... although with Trump himself back on the platform formerly known as Twitter, its future still seems uncertain.


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Firefox’s email relay service is getting a little easier to use.

Starting today anyone with a Firefox account will have access to Firefox Relay—no second account necessary. The feature is rolling out to existing users over the next few weeks, but you’ll only get 5 email masks for free. If you want unlimited email masks to protect your primary email than you’ll need to spend at least $0.99 a month. Not bad, but Apple provides unlimited email masks through Hide My Email for free.


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The end of the Googleverse

For two decades, Google Search was the invisible force that determined the ebb and flow of online content. Now, for the first time, its cultural relevance is in question.

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PowerPoint was the big tech panic of 2003.

Ah, 2003. We had JNCOs, we were all friends with Tom, and we hated PowerPoint. But some said it was evil. Others, “the end of reason.” The Atlantic recently published a delightful story about the outsized hatred people had for PowerPoint as it reached critical user mass.

It was going to corrode our minds, degrade communication, and waste our time. Its sudden rise and rapid spread through business, government, and education augured nothing less than “the end of reason,” as one famous artist put it, for better or for worse. In the end, it would even get blamed for the live-broadcast deaths of seven Americans on national television.

It’s a good look back at a simpler kind of techno panic, just as social media was prepping to jam worms into all our brains.