Whenever high-profile non-binary activist Siufung Law did media interviews, journalists always asked: what pronoun would they like to use? For a long time, the Hong Kong native, who uses they/them ...

Unicode, the standard for character encoding, contains a wide variety of characters used around the world, including many ' invisible Unicode characters, ' some of which are invisible 'zero-width ...

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The start-up, which creates A.I. companions, faces lawsuits from families who have accused Character.AI’s chatbots of leading teenagers to kill themselves. By Natallie Rocha and Kashmir Hill Natallie ...

Main character syndrome and main character energy originated on social media to refer to a person who behaves as though the protagonist in the story of their life. Main character energy and main ...

Using unicode infinity symbols on signs in Minecraft can break the game! See how this is done and how players decorate their paintings using this method. Trump signals willingness to defend Diego ...

A new bug in the XenForo or Ars Civis? Subscript and Superscript used to work just fine previously. Steps to repro: Write any chemical formula in plaintext, e.g. O2F2 for FOOF (full disclaimer – no ...

The Unicode Consortium has announced that it's adding what's essentially a Bigfoot emoji to the open Unicode standard this fall. The famous cryptid will appear as "Hairy Creature" alongside a ...

A malicious package in the Node Package Manager index uses invisible Unicode characters to hide malicious code and Google Calendar links to host the URL for the command-and-control location. The ...

A new JavaScript obfuscation method utilizing invisible Unicode characters to represent binary values is being actively abused in phishing attacks targeting affiliates of an American political action ...