The Internet Stories for 2022

Twitter Rival Mastodon Rejects Funding To Preserve Nonprofit Status 56
Even the FBI Says You Should Use An Ad Blocker 87
DuckDuckGo Will Block Google's 'Invasive, Annoying' Sign-In Popups 39
Spam Texts Are Out of Control, Say All 51 Attorneys General 37
Intimate Photos By Roomba Vacuums Leaked Online 52
Comcast Agents Mistakenly Reject Some Poor People Who Qualify for Free Internet 42
Google, Apple and Mozilla Team Up To Build a Better Browser Benchmark 26
US Is Seizing 48 Websites In Sting of Cyberattack-For-Hire Services 13
Microsoft Targets Internet Expansion in Africa, Longer-Term Cloud Adoption 8
Ask Slashdot: What Should Mozilla Do To Boost Firefox's Market Share? 407
Google Delays Start of Manifest V2 Chrome Extension Deprecation 9
Meta Kills Facebook Connectivity After Nearly a Decade 10
Microsoft Acquires Startup Developing High-Speed Cables for Transmitting Data 24
Vivaldi Integrates Mastodon In Its Desktop Browser 23
Pacific Island Nation of Vanuatu Has Been Knocked Offline For More Than a Month 27
Telegram Premium Tops 1 Million Subscribers 16
How 'Goblin Mode' Became Oxford's Word of the Year 59
Risky Online Behaviour Such as Piracy 'Almost Normalized' Among Young People, Says Study 156
Kanye West Is No Longer Buying Parler 94
Web Browsers Drop Mysterious Company With Ties To US Military Contractor 57
UK Internet Watchdog Increasingly Led by Ex-Big Tech Executives 18
UK Waters Down Internet Rules Plan After Free Speech Outcry 36
'Gaslighting' Is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year For 2022 76
Neighbors Build Their Own Lightning-fast Fiber-optic Network 65
Google: 60% Of The Internet Is Duplicate 79
Pale Moon Becomes First Browser To Support JPEG-XL Image Format 96
Z-Library Responds to US Crackdown, Asks Authors for Forgiveness 24
Nationwide Study of US ISPs Finds Slower-than-Advertised Downloads and Inconsistent Pricing 42
Nutrition Labels For Broadband Internet Are Finally Nearly Here 23
Kaspersky To Kill Its VPN Service In Russia Next Week 53
Starlink Is Getting Daytime Data Caps 198
Russia Reactivates Its Trolls and Bots Ahead of Tuesday's Midterms 289
Domains for Z-Library eBook Site Apparently Seized By US Department of Justice 63
British Government Is Scanning All Internet Devices Hosted In UK 34
Tim Berners-Lee Wants Us To 'Ignore' Web3, It's 'Not the Web at All' 90
'The Babylon Bee' Joins 'The Onion' In Decrying Law That Makes Parody a Felony 198
Why Egypt Became One of the Biggest Chokepoints for Internet Cables 25
New Hot Job: State High-Speed Internet Network Director 7
The Browser Company's Darin Fisher Thinks It's Time To Reinvent the Browser 128
Charter Raises Base Internet To $80 a Month; Price Hikes To Hit 9.5M Users 84
Europe's Telecoms Want High-Traffic Companies Like Netflix to Fund Infrastructure Upgrades 139
Rural Areas To Get $759 Million in Grants for High-Speed Internet 72
Twitter Will Allow Users To Buy and Sell NFTs Through Tweets 30
Did PayPal Just Reintroduce Its $2,500 'Misinformation' Fine, Hoping We Wouldn't Notice? 100
Google Can Now Remove Your Identifying Search Results, If They're the Right Kind 14
Comcast's New Higher Upload Speeds Require $25-Per-Month xFi Complete Add-On 38
Chip Can Transmit All of the Internet's Traffic Every Second 53
French Police Probe Multiple Cuts of Major Internet Cables 44
Damaged Cable Leaves Shetland Cut Off From Mainland 30
UK Regulator Proposes Easing Net Neutrality Rules Following Brexit 54
Anti-Vaccine Groups Avoid Facebook Bans By Using Emojis 371
US To Launch 'Labeling' Rating Program For Internet-Connected Devices In 2023 36
Parler Accidentally Doxed Elite Members When Announcing Kanye West Takeover 71
Starry Internet Cuts 500 Jobs, Half Its Workforce, and Cancels Big Expansion 12
SpaceX Launches 54 Starlink More Satellites, Lands Rocket in 100th Mission From Florida Pad 59
Firefox 106 Is Now Available With PDF Annotation, Firefox View 35
Lost Something? Search Through 91.7 Million Files From the 80s, 90s, and 2000s 57
iOS 16 VPN Tunnels Leak Data, Even When Lockdown Mode Is Enabled 35
Biden's Internet Promises in Limbo Amid Long Battle Over FCC Nominee 27
Amazon's Set To Launch Its Prototype Internet Satellites Early Next Year 22
Brooklyn Quantum Network May Hold Key To an Untappable Internet 47
Android Leaks Some Traffic Even When 'Always-On VPN' Is Enabled 30
Amazon To Launch First of Its Kuiper Internet Satellites on ULA Rocket 22
YouTube Is Introducing Handles, With Unique Human-Readable URLs For Every Channel 17
Why Hurricane Ian Killed So Many People 174
Biden Order Brings New Transatlantic Data Pact Ever Closer 22
China Upgrades Great Firewall To Defeat Censor-Beating TLS Tools 20
Court Blocks 13,445 'Pirate' Sites Proactively To Protect One Movie 30
Popular Censorship Circumvention Tools Face Fresh Blockade By China 9
The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet's Time 95
The Internet Archive Is Building a Digital Library of Amateur Radio Broadcasts 28
Rightsholders Asked Google To Remove Six Billion 'Pirate' Links 48
The Ever-Expanding Job of Preserving the Internet's Backpages 22
Fandom Buys TV Guide, Metacritic, GameSpot and Other Brands For About $50 Million In Cash 22
TikTok Tracks You Across the Web, Even If You Don't Use the App 44
Covert CIA Websites Could Have Been Found By an 'Amateur,' Research Finds 22
Danish Pirate Site Blocking Updated, Telecoms Group Publishes All Domains 30
Fake CISO Profiles On LinkedIn Target Fortune 500s 15
Two-Year Internet Outage In Ethiopia Continues 18
Neil Gaiman, Cory Doctorow And Other Authors Publish Open Letter Protesting Publishers' Lawsuit Against Internet Archive Library 29
MGM Paid Problem Gambler To Not Report Online Glitches 30
UN Elects First Female Tech Agency Secretary-General 32
Google Is Making It Easier To Find Search Results From Reddit and Other Forums 41
Google Fiber Touts 20Gbps Download Speed In Test, Promises Eventual 100Gbps 56
Hackathon Finds Dozens of Ukrainian Refugees Trafficked Online 50
Neal Stephenson's Lamina1 Drops White Paper On Building the Open Metaverse 49
Inside Russia's Vast Surveillance State 67
Revealed: US Military Bought Mass Monitoring Tool That Includes Internet Browsing, Email Data 37
Microsoft Won't Label Fake News As False In An Attempt To Avoid 'Censorship' Cries 164
Site Tells You If Photos of You Were Used To Train AI 28
Comcast Promises Huge Boost To Cable Upload Speeds By End of 2023 80
NYC to Offer Free Broadband to 300,000 Public Housing Residents 74
Why Craigslist Still Looks the Same After 25+ Years 95
SpaceX's Starlink Arrives In Antarctica, Now Available On All 7 Continents 63
YouTuber Trains AI On 4Chan's Most Hateful Board 94
Extreme California Heat Knocks Key Twitter Data Center Offline 62
Where Did the Internet Really Come From? 150
Comcast Starts Rolling Out 2-Gigabit Download Speeds to Millions of US Homes 102
Filmmakers Sue AT&T To Block Pirate Sites, Disconnect Repeat Infringers 74
ISPs Drop Challenge of Maine's Privacy Law 6
FCC Has Obtained Detailed Broadband Maps From ISPs for the First Time Ever 18
Cloudflare Blocks Site Linked To Hate After Weeks of Pressure 373
IRS Says It Exposed Some Confidential Taxpayer Data On Website 12
Royal Caribbean Will Equip All Its Cruise Ships With Starlink Internet 47
Why a Pixar-Invented Protocol Is the 'HTML of the Metaverse' 63
Eight-Year Study Finds 24,931 WordPress Sites Using Malicious Plugins 25
Google Tracks 39 Types of Personal Data, Apple Tracks 12 68
Chattanooga, Tennessee offers America's First Community-Wide 25 Gig Internet Service 28
New Breed of Video Sites Thrives on Misinformation and Hate 423
Network 'Jitters' Confuse Packet-Routing Algorithms, Make Unfair Congestion Inevitable 51
Free, Secure, and Open-Source: How FileZilla is Making an Old School Protocol Cool Again 41
A Tool That Monitors How Long Kids Are In the Bathroom Is Now In 1,000 American Schools 90
Google Will Roll Out New Updates To Reduce Low-Quality, Unoriginal Content In Search Results 51
Burnout Turned Twitch Streamers' Dreams of Playing Games Into Nightmares 85
Faster Internet Is Coming To America - as Soon as the Government Knows Where To Build It 48
The Hacking of Starlink Terminals Has Begun 48
Meta Injecting Code Into Websites Visited By Its Users To Track Them, Research Says 49
FCC Cancels $886 Million In Funding For SpaceX's Starlink 172
Google Fiber Plans 5-State Growth Spurt, Biggest Since 2015 36
Man Who Built ISP Instead of Paying Comcast $50K Expands To Hundreds of Homes 108
Burger King Blank Email Orders Confuse Thousands of Customers 38
How Russia Took Over Ukraine's Internet in Occupied Territories 54
The Case of Fake IMDb Credits 30
Twilio Hacked by Phishing Campaign Targeting Internet Companies 10
Meta Puts Its Latest AI Chatbot On the Web 33
Record Labels' War On ISPs and Piracy Nets Multiple Settlements With Charter 29
Tutanota Cries Antitrust Foul Over Microsoft Teams Blocking Sign-Ups For Its Email Users 42
The Founder of GeoCities On What Killed the 'Old Internet' 55
SpaceX and Viasat Fight Over Whether Starlink Can Meet FCC Speed Obligations 94
Broadband Subscriber Growth Slows To Pre-Pandemic Levels 14
Research Shows Why Many Anti-Piracy Messages Fail 257
Nokia, AST SpaceMobile Join Forces For Broadband From Space 29
Two of Europe's Biggest Internet Satellite Companies Are Merging To Take On Starlink 42
Uzbekistan Blacks Out Internet To Quell Dissent 55
The Unsolved Mystery Attack on Internet Cables in Paris 47
Global Shortage of Fibre Optic Cable Threatens Digital Growth 22
Two Senators Propose Ban On Data Caps, Blasting ISPs For 'Predatory' Limits 80
OpenAI Expands Access To DALL-E 2 9
Court Orders Cloudflare's DNS Resolver 1.1.1.1 To Block Pirate Sites In Italy 36
Google, Meta Bow To Sweeping Taxes, Content Curbs in Indonesia 13
Democrats Prepare Bill That Would Codify Net Neutrality 226
A New Attack Can Unmask Anonymous Users On Any Major Browser 58
Tor Browser Now Bypasses Internet Censorship Automatically 18
FCC Chair Proposes Raising Broadband Standard To 100Mbps 76
UK's Online Safety Bill On Pause Pending New PM 24
EU Lawmakers Slam 'Radical Proposal' To Let ISPs Demand New Fees From Websites 42
Twitter Outage Hits Thousands, Downdetector Reports 46
A Copyright Lawsuit Threatens To Kill Free Access To Internet Archive's Library of Books 50
A Bored Chinese Housewife Spent Years Falsifying Russian History On Wikipedia 106
For Blind Internet Users, the Fix Can Be Worse Than the Flaws 31
Google Exec Suggests Instagram and TikTok Are Eating Into Google's Core Products, Search and Maps 70
Man Set Up Fake ISP To Scam Low-Income People Seeking Gov't Discounts, FCC Says 24
Most Government Websites Serve Tracking Cookies Without Consent, Report Finds 27
A Major Rogers Outage Has Cut Off 25 Percent of Canada's Internet Traffic 89
FCC Gets 90K+ Comments From Starlink Users Protesting Dish Mobile Service 47
Ubisoft To Shut Down Multiplayer For Older Games 62
FCC Authorizes SpaceX To Provide Starlink Internet Service To Vehicles In Motion 26
Couple Bought Home in Seattle, Then Learned Comcast Internet Would Cost $27,000 344
California's Attempt To Protect Kids Online Could End Adults' Internet Anonymity 88
Tim Berners-Lee Skeptical of Web3, Touts Decentralized Internet Without Blockchain 62
As China Shuts Out the World, Internet Access From Abroad Gets Harder Too 9
SpaceX Asserts 5G Would 'Blow Out' Satellite Users In 12 GHz Band 53
There Are 24.6 Billion Pairs of Credentials For Sale On Dark Web 57
China Wants All Social Media Comments To Be Pre-reviewed Before Publishing 58
A Linux Botnet That Spreads Using Stolen SSH Keys 40
Brave Roasts DuckDuckGo Over Bing Privacy Exception 23
Internet Explorer Gravestone Goes Viral in South Korea 36
Why Rural Americans Keep Waiting for Fast Internet, Despite Billions Spent 169
Europe Cracks Down on Data Cap Exemptions in Update To Net Neutrality Rules 32
Japan Makes 'Online Insults' Punishable By One Year 302
SEO Tool Ahrefs Built a $60M, Creator-Friendly Search Engine Named Yep 28
China Rebrands Proposal on Internet Governance, Targeting Developing Countries 41
Ask Slashdot: Why Haven't They Increased Size Limits for Email Attachments? 260
Someone Leaked Classified Chinese Tank Schematics To Win an Online Argument 85
Engineer Sues Amazon For Not Covering Work-From-Home Internet, Electricity Bills 153
Rejecting Data Demands, ExpressVPN Removes VPN Servers In India 29
Connecticut Will Pay a Security Analyst 150K To Monitor Election Memes 140
New Data Shows Only Two Browsers With More Than 1 Billion Users 111
Freeing Up of Hundreds of Millions of IPv4 Addresses Mooted 250
Elon Musk Reveals Details of Next-Generation Starlink Satellites 126
Greece, Saudi Arabia Eye Fibre Optic Data Cable To Link Europe With Asia 15
25 Gigabit Per Second Fiber Retail Broadband Service Demoed in New Zealand 69
Microsoft Brings 'Windows Subsystem for Linux 2' to Window Server 2022 23
Starlink Gets Nod To Provide Internet in Philippines 9
Internet Drama in Canada 88
NCTC Could Drop 'Cable' As Industry Group Eyes Name Change 16
Corey B. Marion, Co-Founder of The Iconfactory, Dies Age 54 8
California Parents Could Soon Sue For Social Media Addiction 155
'Quantum Internet' Inches Closer With Advance in Data Teleportation 78
Bing Contract Prohibits DuckDuckGo From Completely Blocking Microsoft Tracking 70
The Online Spider Market Is Massive -- and Crawling With Issues 16
Google 'Private Browsing' Mode Not Really Private, Texas Lawsuit Says 99
ACM Digital Library Archive Is Open Access With 50 Years of Published Records 14
Twitter Will Hide Tweets That Share False Info During a Crisis 160
Russia Says It's Not Planning To Block YouTube or Cut Itself Off From Internet 72
Ad-Tech Firms Grab Email Addresses From Forms Before They're Even Submitted 46
Hackers Are Using SEO To Rank Malicious PDFs On Search Engines, Research Finds 13
Apple iPod Creator Warns the Metaverse Will Encourage Trolls, Damage Human Interaction 65
Google Explains Why It's All In On Matter, the First True Smart Home Standard 66
US Copyright Office Seeks Input On Mandatory DMCA 'Upload Filters' 83
Pirate Site Blocking Is Making Its Way Into Free Trade Agreements 39
Low-Wage Earners To Get High-Speed Internet For $30 in Biden Program 226
Millions of Russians are 'Tearing Holes in the Digital Iron Curtain' Using VPNs 96
Cable Giants, ISPs, Telcos End Legal Fight Against California's Net Neutrality Law 14
TikTok Plans To Share Ad Revenue With Creators For the First Time 10
Microsoft Edge Overtakes Safari As World's Second Most Popular Desktop Browser 100
How The Internet Saved the Home of Blogging Pioneer Noah Grey 42
Microsoft Edge Is Getting a Built-In VPN Powered By Cloudflare 34
Most People Now Prefer Shopping Online For Cars Than Shopping In-Person 130
US, Over 55 Other Countries Commit To Democratic Internet Governance 72
Ordinary Copper Telephone Wire Could Carry Gigabit Broadband Speeds 129
Facebook Doesn't Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes 59
Apple's Grip On iOS Browser Engines Disallowed Under Latest Draft EU Rules 74
Are You the Asshole? New AI Mimics Infamous Advice Subreddit 45
Starlink is Coming To Hawaiian Airlines 23
Brave Is Bypassing Google AMP Pages Because They're 'Harmful To Users' 75
Facebook's Fibre Optics in Nigerian State Put Africa Pivot in Focus 13
DuckDuckGo Insists It Didn't 'Purge' Piracy Sites From Search Results 33
Ukraine War Stokes Concerns in Taiwan Over Its Fragile Internet Links 48
DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL From Its Search Results 77
Reddit Adds Comment Searching To Help Improve Search Results 11
ACE Shuts Down Massive Pirate Site After Locating Owner In Remote Peru 19
Meet the 1,300 Librarians Racing To Back Up Ukraine's Digital Archives 39
Black Market SIM Cards Turned a Zimbabwean Border Town Into a Remote Work Hub 11
Amazon Signs Multibillion-dollar Project Kuiper Launch Contracts 54
Canada Considers Law Requiring Online Giants To Compensate News Outlets 71
OpenSea 'Sitting On Ticking Bomb' As Lawsuits Pile Up Over Stolen Apes 81
Trump's Truth Social App Branded a Disaster 305
Comcast Wanted Man To Pay $19,000 After Falsely Advertising Service On His Street 125
A Professor Warns the Internet 'is Not What You Think It Is' 88
Jack Dorsey Regrets His Role in Corporations Centralizing Discovery and Identity 72
Online Activists are Cold Calling Russians - and Messaging Them on Tinder 47
'Infinite Mac' Project Lets You Boot Up Mac OS In Your Browser 10
5G Skeptic 97
Russia's Site-Blocking System Isn't Performing and Could Even Collapse 27
Some Twitter Traffic Briefly Funneled Through Russian ISP, Thanks To BGP Mishap 14
Ukrainian Telecom Company's Internet Service Disrupted By 'Powerful' Cyberattack 6
'The Plain-Text Internet is Coming' 180
Google Fiber Workers Successfully Unionize In Kansas City 37
Meet the Secretive US Company Building an 'Unbreakable' Internet Inside Russia 100
Startup Says Its Tech Can Inflict Actual Pain in the Metaverse 81
Stephen Wilhite, Creator of the GIF, Has Died 128
What Happened After Starlink's Satellite Internet Service Arrived in Ukraine? 145
Google Internet Cable Lands in Africa, Promising Fast Connection 17
Russian Search Giant Yandex Tells Investors It's Looking For a Media Exit 25
Hundreds of GoDaddy-Hosted Sites Backdoored In a Single Day 19
NYT Takes Down Third-Party Wordle Archive 33
You Can Now Draft An Email In Google Docs and Send It To Gmail 25
Google's Domain Name Registrar is Out of Beta After Seven Years 36
Twitter Rolls Back Its Decision To Force You Into the Out-of-Order Timeline 28

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