Unicode’s list of “approximately 250” new emoji, which are highlighted in yellow in the new unicode charts released today, include lots of useful (and diverting!) symbols.

New release doesn't do much for diversity, but at least you can flip the bird. Read the whole story ...

Unicode, the company that standardizes text across the software industry, announced more than 2,800 new characters that it's adding in Version 7.0. That includes about 250 new emojis.

New attack scam on GitHub and Co.: character swapping with Unicode in URLs When attackers replace letters in URLs with Unicode characters that look the same, this is difficult to detect.