Month: February 2025

Let's Encrypt has been providing free "wildcard" certificates for websites for nearly seven years, enabling HTTPS connections for millions of domains and doing the whole Internet a real solid.

Now the nonprofit is ending a useful service, but in an exceedingly rare happenstance, it's probably a good thing for everyone. Starting June 4, 2025, Let's Encrypt will no longer notify its subscribers that their certification is about to expire and needs renewal. Some hosting providers automatically obtain and manage certificates from Let's Encrypt, so there's not much for them to do. Everyone else will have to do something, and likely it will still be free and automated.

Let's Encrypt is ending automated emails for four stated reasons, and all of them are pretty sensible. For one thing, lots of customers have been able to automate their certificate renewal. For another, providing the expiration notices costs "tens of thousands of dollars per year" and adds complexity to the nonprofit's infrastructure as they are looking to add new and more useful services.

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It's been a confusing 24 hours at the US Postal Service (USPS) after the Trump administration imposed new tariffs on China that eliminated a loophole allowing low-value Chinese packages into the US duty-free.

On Tuesday, the USPS abruptly stopped accepting all inbound packages from Hong Kong and China. This briefly halted personal shipments from China, as well as online deliveries from China-based companies. That included blocking orders from online marketplaces increasingly popular with Americans like Alibaba, Temu, and Shein, as well as China-based retailers selling cheap goods on Amazon.

But by Wednesday morning, the USPS reversed the temporary policy, posting an international service notice clarifying that the USPS and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) "are working closely together to implement an efficient collection mechanism for the new China tariffs to ensure the least disruption to package delivery."

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Capcom hat die Systemanforderungen von Monster Hunter Wilds etwas gesenkt. Alternativ kann man seinen Rechner ab sofort einfach selbst testen. (Monster Hunter, Steam)

Googles Muttergesellschaft Alphabet will 2025 etwa 75 Milliarden US-Dollar investieren - wohl vornehmlich in KI. (Alphabet, Google)

Mithilfe von KI und speziellen 3D-Druckern hat ein Forschungsteam aus Toronto ein Material mit Potenzial für Luft- und Raumfahrt erschaffen. (Innovation & Forschung, KI)

Ein beliebtes Lenovo-Tablet ist bei Amazon aktuell im Angebot. Wer jetzt zuschlägt, sichert es sich günstig wie nie zuvor. Aber wie lange? (Tablet, Lenovo)

Keine neuen Stromkabel für Nvidias Mainstream-Blackwell. Aufrüsten bleibt einfach, nur im High-End ist der 16-Pin-Stecker Pflicht. (Grafikkarten, Nvidia)

Bei Amazon gibt es derzeit einen komplett montierten 3D-Drucker im Angebot. Er ist mit 15 Prozent Rabatt erhältlich. (3D-Drucker, Amazon)

Die EU hat erste Ideen, wie man gegen die Paketflut mit Billigprodukten aus China vorgehen könnte. Der Zollfreibetrag könnte fallen. (Temu, Verbraucherschutz)

The raptors are back with a host of ravenous friends in the official trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth, the fourth installment in the Jurassic World series and seventh film overall in the franchise spawned by 1993's Jurassic Park.

(Some spoilers for Jurassic World Dominion below.)

The franchise has been lumbering along for over 20 years now with mixed success, but Jurassic World Dominion (2022) at least gave Universal a bona fide box office hit to counter all the negative reviews, grossing just over $1 billion worldwide. (It has a mere 29 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.) That film ended with dinosaurs and humans figuring out how to co-exist, the establishment of a dino sanctuary by the United Nations, and the evil corporation BioSyn in disgrace.

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