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CNN delves into the February 28th call to boycott Amazon, Walmart, and other companies — as an act of resistance in a time of political turmoil, but also an influencer-sparked, celebrity-supported viral phenomenon that’s taken on a life of its own:

Ahh MySpace. A website from simpler times when the worst you had to worry about from social media was falling out with the friend that didn’t make your Top 8. It has since puttered along morphing into something completely unrecognizable...until now. Game designer Ste Curran has created SkySpace, a website that’ll take your Bluesky profile and make it into a MySpace page complete with a customizable background, a Top 8 you can set, and even a music plugin.

The three apps join others available in the Opera One browser’s sidebar, like WhatsApp, Instagram, and Telegram — using them there keeps them from taking up precious browser tab real estate. Users can enable or disable these to keep the sidebar from being junked up with services you never use.

Following the Gulf’s name change in Google Maps last week, Developer Bryce Bostwick created the Restore the Gulf of Mexico extension to revert it back, which he says in a YouTube video is “the world’s smallest form of protest.”

I’m not talking about using something like Kagi, although that’s one way to do it. Last year, I directed Verge readers to a Tedium blog post explaining how to add “udm=14” to your browser’s default search URL to get rid of Google Search AI Overviews.

The Wikimedia Foundation will likely soon have to contend with “the rising noise of criticism from Elon Musk and others,” as founder Jimmy Wales recently put it. It’s already taking measures to safeguard the identity of those who edit pages on Wikipedia. One of those is a temporary accounts program that, as 404 Media describes it, will “give editors who are not logged in a temporary username rather than showing an IP address.”

A spokesperson told TechCrunch that Tumblr will join the open social web once it finishes its move to WordPress.

A developer named Isaac Gemal spent a few hours coding using Anthropic’s Claude last week to make WikiTok, a site with a TikTok-like presentation, but instead of vertical videos, you swipe through random Wikipedia article previews you can tap to read, ArsTechnica reports.

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You know the phrase “a scrambled egg makes all happy”? No? Neither did game maker Neven Mrgan when Apple’s search bar suggested it, maybe because it doesn’t exist. A couple of followup posts get to the bottom of this little data artifact mystery — or you can skip to the answer right away.

In an X post announcing the change yesterday, the company also said that Canvas, its ChatGPT coding helper feature, now has the ability to render HTML and React code.

The platform announced the wider rollout today, months after opening livestreaming to its most-subscribed publishers in September.

The version of AOL that still exists after two decades of media mergers offers a Chromium-based $6.99-per-month browser called AOL Desktop Gold.

From Sebastian Staacks of the There Oughta Be YouTube channel, Game Boy Slideshow Generator converts images into grayscale and color slideshows for the Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, or anything else that can play a Game Boy ROM.

Mullenweg wrote in a blog post today that he had deactivated the WordPress.org accounts of several contributors, including two — Joost de Valk and Karim Marucchi — who have plans for a new WordPress fork, reports TechCrunch.

Here’s a version of Doom, downloadable for Windows or playable in a web browser, where you run around an art gallery, sipping and collecting wine, cash, and hors d’oeuvres. Is it still hell? I don’t know, but the music is nice.