Itch.io is the latest marketplace to crack down on adult games

Indie video game marketplace Itch.io announced this week that it has “deindexed” adult and not-safe-for-work games, removing them from its browse and search pages. The move, the company said, was in response to a campaign by Collective Shout (an advocacy group that has previously criticized video games, rap music, and lingerie commercials) targeting both Itch.io … Read more

Women’s World Matchplay: Lisa Ashton stuns Beau Greaves and beats Fallon Sherrock in final-leg thriller to win Blackpool title | Darts News

Lisa Ashton claimed a shock victory the Betfred Women’s World Matchplay after surviving 11 match darts to defeat Fallon Sherrock in a final-leg thriller in Blackpool. The fifth seed saw off Ireland’s Robyn Byrne in her quarter-final and then dumped out back-to-back champion Beau Greaves in the semi-final, before coming through a thrilling contest against … Read more

Astronomer winks at viral notoriety with ‘temporary spokesperson’ Gwyneth Paltrow

After spending the past week-plus in the headlines due to a seemingly inescapable social media scandal, data operations startup Astronomer is trying to shift the narrative with a tongue-in-cheek video starring actress and entrepreneur Gwyneth Paltrow. Paltrow was, of course, previously married to Coldplay singer Chris Martin. And it was at a Coldplay concert in … Read more

U.K. starts enforcing online age check rules

A U.K. law requiring that pornography websites verify the age of their users took effect Friday. The BBC reports that around 6,000 porn sites have said they will start verifying users’ ages to comply with the Online Safety Act, although at least one major site was not requiring age checks as of Friday morning. The … Read more

Dating safety app Tea breached, exposing 72,000 user images

Tea, an app that allows women to post anonymous comments about men they’ve supposedly dated, announced Friday that it has suffered a data breach, with hackers gaining access to 72,000 images. That number includes 13,000 selfies and photo IDs submitted for account verification, as well as 59,000 images from posts, comments, and direct messages, the … Read more

Lewis Hamilton: Ferrari driver apologises to F1 team for ‘unacceptable’ double early Belgian GP qualifying exits | F1 News

​​​​​Lewis Hamilton said he needed to apologise to his Ferrari team after describing his second successive early qualifying elimination at the Belgian Grand Prix as “very poor” and “unacceptable”. ​​​​​Amid a miserable Sprint weekend so far for the seven-time world champion at Spa-Francorchamps, Hamilton has failed to clear the first hurdle in either of the … Read more