Multiple viral social media posts (Exhibit A, Exhibit B, Exhibit C) have emerged since late March claiming that a study by the United States Pentagon concluded that the influenza vaccine increases the various risks of Coronavirus by 36%. This study hasn’t been mentioned or confirmed by any government expert, and it’s likely the report [...] Continue reading →

On April 23rd, in a Coronavirus Task Force press briefing, US President Donald Trump speculated on a number of potential COVID-19 treatments. Social media posts began to appear claiming Trump suggest ingesting or injecting disinfectant, and shining an ultraviolet light inside the body. These allegations are true, and can be confirmed in the White [...] Continue reading →

As soon as the United States announced a stimulus plan that included deposits of up to $1,200 for qualifying American citizens, scams posing as the IRS began to appear. Here are some things to keep in mind about your potential stimulus payment: The IRS will never ask for sensitive personal or [...] Continue reading →

Whether your email address is firstname.lastname@ or something more expressive like corgicrazy@, an email address says something about who you are. But from the start, email addresses have always required you to use non-accented Latin characters when signing up. Less than half of the world’s population has a mother tongue that uses the Latin alphabet. [...] Continue reading →

Starting with the version 6.0 The Bat! supports IDN (Internationalized Domain Names) IDN (Internationalized Domain Names) are the domain names that contain national alphabet characters. The names composed from the characters of the non-latin alphabets, such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, etc., as well as the Latin alphabet-based characters with diacritics, such as French, German [...] Continue reading →

The composition of the Internet’s population has seen a dramatic shift over the last two decades. In 1996, the majority of end users were based in the U.S.; according to a 2012 Comscore report, the non-English speaking Internet population has grown to 87 percent, with more than 40 percent based in the Asia-Pacific region. In [...] Continue reading →

In an announcement on 26 February 2013, ICANN published a list of string similarity contention sets wherein two or more applied-for gTLD strings are identical or so nearly resemble one another visually that they are likely to cause confusion. In ICANN’s New gTLD program, string similarity checks on Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) strings go beyond [...] Continue reading →