Links of the Day

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.

A supply chain attack affects the axios package on npm. This package has 100 million (!) weekly downloads. Attacks of this type on npm are rare, but they do happen frequently.

From rich text to video: RCS Universal Profile 4.0 arrived. In theory, the new version of RCS will enable video calls between Android and iOS phones. It also supports rich text (bold, underline, etc.) and settings for the quality of transferred images and videos. Despite the release, it will be a while before this version reaches our phones. Apple is still testing version 3.0, which was released in March 2025 and features end-to-end encryption…

Proton Meet. Proton, which used to be just an email service, is establishing itself as a “mirror” alternative to Google Workspace. The free version of Meet supports up to 50 participants in sessions lasting up to 1 hour.

Google allows changes to usernames. The “username” is what appears before @gmail.com. For now, only in the US. The name can be changed every 12 months.

Why the metaverse was doomed from the start. Some might say that now that the metaverse has imploded, it’s easy to make this kind of analysis, but this one is worth watching for the wealth of details condensed into a video of just 17 minutes. It has several insights that I missed when I watched the fateful metaverse presentation five years ago.

VitruvianOS. A Linux distro based on the old BeOS in active development.