The Internet Stories for 2023

Is the Internet About to Get Weird Again? 83
Social Media Companies Made $11 Billion In US Ad Revenue From Minors, Study Finds 26
Meet Kosmik, a Visual Canvas With Built-In PDF Reader and Web Browser 10
The Rise and Fall of Usenet 130
US Regulators Propose New Online Privacy Safeguards For Children 25
Internet Archive: Digital Lending Is Fair Use, Not Copyright Infringement 50
Amazon's Internet Satellites Will Use Space Lasers To Transmit Data 56
The Arc Browser Is Finally Coming To Windows 53
US Debates Data Policy To Avoid a Fragmented Global Internet 23
New Internet Standard L4S: the Quiet Plan to Make the Internet Feel Faster 79
Twitch To Shut Down in Korea Over 'Prohibitively Expensive' Network Fees 44
The UK Tries, Once Again, To Age-Gate Pornography 95
Cicadas Are So Loud, Fiber Optic Cables Can 'Hear' Them 22
Web Browser Suspended Because It Can Browse the Web is Back on Google Play 35
Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers 45
The .meme Domain Is Here 37
Google Play Keeps Banning the Same Web Browser Due To Vague DMCA Notices 69
Internet Use Does Not Appear To Harm Mental Health, Oxford Study Finds 80
Meta Designed Platforms To Get Children Addicted, Court Documents Allege 64
Charter To Reduce Mobile Video Streaming Resolution for Some Customers 35
Cloudflare Blocks Abusive Content On Its Ethereum Gateway 17
YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users 212
China Claims World's Fastest Internet With 1.2 Terabit-Per-Second Network 45
Is India Setting a 'Global Standard' for Online Censorship of Social Media? 63
Internet Providers Say the FCC Should Not Investigate Broadband Prices 64
Elon Musk Says SpaceX's Starlink Achieves Breakeven Cash Flow 155
YouTube Is Getting Serious About Blocking Ad Blockers 286
Russia Blocks 167 VPNs, Steps Up OpenVPN and WireGuard Disruption 42
Internet Access In Gaza Partially Restored After Blackout 262
America's Net Neutrality Question: Should the FCC Define the Internet as a 'Common Carrier'? 132
Comcast and Xfinity Lose Customers - Thanks to Cord-Cutters and Competition from Wireless Internet Carriers 98
Internet Access in Gaza is Collapsing as ISPs Fall Offline 446
Google Fiber Is Getting Outrageously Fast 20Gbps Service 53
ICE Uses Tool To Find 'Derogatory' Speech Online 63
Millions of Smart Meters Will Be Defunct When 2G and 3G Turns Off 137
Cleveland Launches Ambitious Plan To Provide Citywide Dirt Cheap Broadband 88
Supreme Court Blocks Restrictions On Biden Administration Efforts To Get Platforms To Remove Social Media Posts 148
Meta Will Now Let You Stop Instagram From Tracking You Across the Web 9
Google Asks Congress To Not Ban Teens From Social Media 118
Comcast Resists Call To Stop Its Misleading '10G Network' Claims 39
Could The Next Big Solar Storm Fry the Grid? 44
New York Seeks To Limit Social Media's Grip On Children's Attention 23
Finnish President Says Undersea Gas and Telecom Cables Damaged By 'External Activity' 88
HTTP/2 Zero-Day Exploited To Launch Largest DDoS Attacks In History 25
Chinese Programmer Ordered To Pay 1 Million Yuan For Using VPN 35
Amazon Launches First Satellites for Kuiper Space Internet System 38
Gmail Unleashes 'Email Emoji Reactions' Onto an Unsuspecting World 35
European Telecom Groups Ask Brussels To Make Big Tech Pay More For Networks 60
Supreme Court To Decide If State Laws Limiting Social Media Platforms Violate Constitution 42
Reddit Is Removing Ability To Opt Out of Ad Personalization Based On Your Activity 54
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Lousy Browser Spell-Checkers? 96
ChatGPT Can Now Browse the Internet 63
Walmart To Roll Out New Prepaid Phone Service From Boost Founder 16
The World's Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old 33
UK Parliament Passes Online Safety Bill 75
Africa's Internet Registry Placed Under Receivership 5
US Broadband Buildout Finds Cost to Connect Some Households as High as $53,000 119
Internet-Connected Cars Fail Privacy and Security Tests Conducted By Mozilla 26
Pentagon's New UFO Website Lets You Explore Declassified Sightings Info 54
Judge Blocks Arkansas Law Requiring Parental OK For Minors To Create Social Media Accounts 64
Australia Will Not Force Adult Websites To Bring In Age Verification Due To Privacy and Security Concerns 76
Saudi Man Receives Death Penalty For Posts Online 159
Sports Leagues Ask US For 'Instantaneous' DMCA Takedowns and Website Blocking 63
WordPress Now Has a 100-Year Domain Registration Option 69
CenturyLink Left 86-Year-Old Woman With No Internet Service For a Month 38
Firefox Users May Import Chrome Extensions Now 41
Repair Ship Bound for Cut Cables Off Africa's West Coast as Internet Interrupted 28
The Community Pushing AI-Generated Porn To 'the Edge of Knowledge' 112
SpaceX Working With Cloudflare To Speed Up Starlink Service 60
ICANN Warns UN May Sideline Tech Community From Future Internet Governance 79
Political Polarization Toned Down Through Anonymous Online Chats 293
Social Media Algorithms Warp How People Learn From Each Other, Research Shows 31
US Announces More New Funding for Rural Broadband Infrastructure 66
Australia's ISPs Will Stop Offering Free Email Addresses, to the Disgust of Older Customers 69
File-Hosting Icon AnonFiles Throws In the Towel, Domain For Sale 28
Mozilla Foundation Warns France's Proposed Web Blocking Law 'Could Threaten the Free Internet' 66
NYT Prohibits Using Its Content To Train AI Models 83
ISPs Complain That Listing Every Fee Is Too Hard, Urge FCC To Scrap New Rule 175
Publishers, Internet Archive Agree To Streamline Digital Book-Lending Case 6
Founder of Russia's Largest Internet Company Slams 'Barbaric' Invasion of Ukraine 93
Illinois Just Made It Possible To Sue People For Doxxing Attacks 9
China's Internet Giants Order $5 Billion of Nvidia Chips To Power AI Ambitions 31
Bots Are Better Than Humans At Cracking 'Are You a Robot?' Captcha Tests, Study Finds 78
CNET Deletes Thousands of Old Articles To Game Google Search 48
Google Search Asked To Remove One Billion 'Pirate' Links In 9 Months 22
Microsoft's AI-Powered Bing Chat Is Coming To Mobile Browsers 9
Z-Library Rolls Out Browser Extensions In Anticipation of Domain Name Troubles 15
Pornhub Goes Dark In Arkansas After Age Verification Law Kicks In 69
Brave Cuts Ties With Bing To Offer Its Own Image and Video Search Results 14
Internet Providers That Won FCC Grants Try To Escape Broadband Commitments 75
ChromeOS Is Splitting the Browser From the OS, Getting More Like Linux 19
Cory Doctorow's New Book On Beating Big Tech At Its Own Game 43
Facebook To Unmask Anonymous Dutch User Accused of Repeated Defamatory Posts 71
Google's Jigsaw Was Fighting Toxic Speech With AI. Then the AI Started Talking 74
AWS To Start Charging For Public IPv4 Addresses 140
'Tor's Shadowy Reputation Will Only End If We All Use It' 65
Senate Panel Advances Bill To Childproof the Internet 80
Arrival of eSIM is Altering How Consumers Interact With Operators 106
FCC Chair: Speed Standard of 25Mbps Down, 3Mbps Up Isn't Good Enough Anymore 131
The Arc Browser is Now Available for All iOS and Mac Users 29
Google's Nightmare 'Web Integrity API' Wants a DRM Gatekeeper For the Web 163
Google Urges Gmail Users to Enable 'Enhanced Safe Browsing' for Faster, More Proactive Protection 58
A Promising Internet Satellite Is Rendered Useless By Power Supply Issues 37
No Apologies As Reddit Halfheartedly Tries To Repair Ties With Moderators 72
AT&T May Have Nearly 200,000 Miles of Lead-Covered Phone Cables Across US 103
Google Restricting Internet Access To Some Employees To Reduce Cyberattack Risk 58
Virtual Pet Website Neopets Plans $4 Million Comeback 8
Footage From Amazon's In-Van Surveillance Cameras Is Leaking Online 25
Internet Archive Targets Book DRM Removal Tool With DMCA Takedown 20
One of Reddit's Biggest Communities Is Suggesting Users Move To Discord 59
Ancient Lead-Covered Telephone Cables Have US Lawmakers Demanding Action 65
AI Junk Is Starting To Pollute the Internet 55
Li-Fi, Light-Based Networking Standard Released 87
SEO Expert Hired and Fired By Ashley Madison Turned on Company, Promising Revenge 28
US Ranks 32nd Worldwide On Broadband Affordability, Study Finds 57
Why the Early Success of Threads May Crash Into Reality 175
Your Printing Service Might Read Your Documents 21
Bangladesh Government Website Leaks Citizens' Personal Data 3
Macron Accused of Authoritarianism After Threat To Cut Off Social Media During Riots 76
Pornhub Blocks Access in Mississippi and Virginia Over Age Verification Laws 178
Could a Solar Superstorm Someday Trigger an 'Internet Apocalypse'? 107
French Govt Wants To Inject Domain Blocking Lists Directly Into Web Browsers 82
Social Media Apps Will Have To Shield Children From Dangerous Stunts 62
Why the Internet's Going Wild For a 'Fish Doorbell' 42
Brave Aims To Curb Practice of Websites That Port Scan Visitors 49
YouTube Could Be Testing a Three-Strikes Policy For Ad Blocking 205
Microsoft's GitHub Under Fire For DDoSing Crucial Open Source Project Website 51
ChatGPT App Can Now Search the Web Via Bing 20
Reddit Mods Are Calling For An 'Affordable Return' For Third-Party Apps 64
'AI is Killing the Old Web' 108
Americans Hate ISPs Almost As Much As They Hate Gas Stations, Survey Finds 113
White House Announces $40 Billion in Broadband Funding 125
Apple Vision Pro Will Support WebXR For Fully Immersive Experiences In the Browser 56
'Kissing or Licking' Microphone Is Sexual, Twitch Says 77
Dropbox's AI Tools Can Help You Find Your Stuff -- From Everywhere On the Internet 7
ISPs Say US Should Force Big Tech Firms To Pay For Broadband Construction 144
Indonesia, SpaceX Launch Satellite To Boost Internet Connectivity 8
FCC Chair To Investigate Exactly How Much Everyone Hates Data Caps 67
$930 Million in Grants Announced in Biden's Effort To Expand Internet Access 58
Bay Area Woman Is On a Crusade To Prove Yelp Reviews Can't Be Trusted 59
A San Francisco Library Is Turning Off Wi-Fi At Night To Keep People Without Housing From Using It 251
How the US is Pushing China Out of the Internet's Plumbing 30
Reddit is Crashing Because of the Growing Subreddit Blackout 308
Louisiana Passes Bill Banning Kids From the Internet Without Parental Consent 108
Instagram's Recommendation Algorithms Are Promoting Pedophile Networks 61
Stack Overflow Moderators Stop Work in Protest of Lax AI-Generated Content Guidelines 41
Meta Will Test Blocking News For Some Canadians 30
YouTube Will Stop Removing False Presidential Election Fraud Claims 160
Pentagon Awards SpaceX With Ukraine Contract For Starlink Satellite Internet 40
Brave Releases Its Search API 8
Supreme Court Declines To Hear Bid To Sue Reddit Over Child Porn 99
'The Rotten Tomatoes of YouTube' 37
Phishing Domains Tanked After Meta Sued Freenom 7
Captcha Is Asking Users To Identify Objects That Don't Exist 68
Freenet 2023: a Drop-in Decentralized Replacement for the Web - and More 54
Google Pushes New Domains Onto the Internet, and the Internet Pushes Back 50
Linus Sebastion From Linus Tech Tips Is Stepping Down As CEO 79
FCC Rejects Dish 5G Plan That Could Have Made Starlink Broadband 'Unusable' 29
Supreme Court Rules Against Reexamining Section 230 58
Google Fiber Is Looking For Organizations To Test Its 20-Gig Internet Service 42
Google's New 'Inactive Account' Policy Won't Delete Years of YouTube Videos 32
Telcos Draw Up Proposal To Charge Big Tech for EU 5G Rollout 45
Gambling Firm Allegedly Paid Blogs To Link New Members To Its Online Games 12
Anti-Piracy Outfit Wipes ACE's 'Watch Legally' Page From Google 13
Cloudflare CTO Predicts Coding AIs Will Bring More Productivity, Urges 'Data Fluidity' 40
Three Companies Faked Millions of Comments Supporting 2017 Repeal of 'Net Neutrality' Rules 77
Microsoft Wants Firefox To Make Bing Its Default Search Engine 52
Reddit Will Allow Users To Upload NSFW Images From Desktop 21
EU Plans Black Sea Internet Cable To Reduce Reliance on Russia 71
Google Search Gets AI-Powered 'Snapshots' 14
Major Psychologists' Group Warns of Social Media's Potential Harm To Kids 95
WordPress Plugin Hole Puts '2 Million Websites' At Risk 30
Singapore Eyes Sweeping Powers To Police Online Content, Apps 11
Europe's Major Satellite Players Line Up To Build Starlink Competitor 91
Porn VPN Searches Soar In Utah Amid Age Verification Bill 99
Starlink Nixes Plan To Impose 1TB Data Cap and Per-Gigabyte Overage Fees 45
Anti-Porn Lobbyists Pressure Reddit To Shut Down Its NSFW Communities 187
Colorado Kills Law That Made It Harder For Cities To Offer Internet Service 63
CERN Celebrates 30 Years Since Releasing the Web To the Public Domain 30
The Imgur Apocalypse Is Going To Break Large Parts of the Internet 61
An AI Scraping Tool Is Overwhelming Websites With Traffic 60
EU Names 19 Large Tech Platforms That Must Follow Europe's New Internet Rules 75
The EARN IT Act Will Be Introduced To Congress For the Third Time 107
Man Battling Google Wins $500K For Search Result Links Calling Him a Pedophile 32
ICANN/Verisign Proposal Would Allow Any Government To Seize Domain Names 91
Imgur To Ban Nudity Or Sexually Explicit Content Next Month 60
DuckDuckGo's Building AI-Generated Answers Into Its Search Engine 26
Parler Shuts Down As New Owner Says Conservative Platform Needs Big Revamp 214
ACCC Boss Wants New Powers To Crack Down On Online Businesses That Make It Hard To Cancel Subscriptions 18
Popular Porn Site Must Delete All Amateur Videos Posted Without Consent 55
If We Lose the Internet Archive, We're Screwed 112
The Open Source VPN Out-Maneuvering Russian Censorship 16
Arkansas House Wants You To Show ID To Use Social Media 42
China Plans $500 Million Subsea Internet Cable To Rival US-Backed Project 25
Museum Puts Decades-Old Cobalt RaQ Back On the Internet 33
Chrome 112 Released With WASM Garbage Collection Trial, CSS Nesting 30
Labor To Consider Age-Verification 'Roadmap' For Restricting Online Pornography Access 122
Vandals Cut 2,000 Fiber Optic Cables in Connecticut, Knocking 16,000 Offline 118
UK Sets Up Fake Booter Sites To Muddy DDoS Market 47
The New US-China Proxy War Over Undersea Internet Cables 43
Starlink Rival OneWeb Poised for Global Coverage After Weekend Launch 40
Meta Slams Telco Fee Proposal, Says ISPs Should Pay Their Own Network Costs 37
Taiwan Pursues Internet Satellite Service Ahead of Potential Chinese Invasion 31
Indian Officials Cut Internet For 27 Million People Amid Search For Fugitive 84
Zippyshare Quits After 17 Years, 45 Million Visits Per Month Makes No Money 81
Is Amazon Building a New AI-Powered Web Browser? 31
Brazil Looks To Regulate Monetized Content On Internet 9
Belkin's Smart Home Brand Wemo Is Backing Away From Matter 40
Amazon Reveals Its Project Kuiper Satellite Internet Dishes, Targets 2024 Launch 41
Reddit Has Been Down For More Than An Hour 180
Vivaldi Co-Founder: Advertisers 'Stole the Internet From Us' 56
Canada's Tax Revenue Agency Tries To ToS Itself Out of Hacking Liability 55
Taiwan Suspects Chinese Ships Cut Islands' Internet Cables 39
ADHD Startups Are Exploding, and Now There's Even a Dedicated Browser 98
Sued by Meta, Freenom Halts Domain Registrations 8
Roku Doesn't Support IPv6 and It Might Be a Big Deal 121
TikTok Will Limit Teens To 60 Minutes of Screen Time a Day 46
Zombie Newspaper Sites Rise from the Grave 23
Governments Shut Down the Internet More Often Than Ever, Report Says 27
SpaceX Unveils 'V2 Mini' Starlink Satellites With Quadruple the Capacity 89
Google Is Protesting a Canadian Law By Blocking News In Search Results 107
EU Eyes Big Tech as it Seeks Feedback on Who Should Pay Network Costs 56
Titanic Mass Grave Site To Be Pillaged For NFTs 55
Google Warns Internet Will Be 'A Horror Show' If It Loses Landmark Supreme Court Case 324
Wireless ISP Starry Is Filing For Bankruptcy 8
Judge Signals Jail Time if Bankman-Fried's Internet Access Is Not Curbed 66
Google Fiber Launches 5Gbps Service 54
Larry Magid: Utah Bill Threatens Internet Security For Everyone 89
FCC Approves Amazon's Satellite Broadband Plan Over SpaceX's Objections 44
Comcast Gave False Map Data To FCC 82
Few Americans Understand How Online Tracking Works, Finds Report 83
79-Year-Old Vint Cerf Receives IEEE Medal of Honor 21
Think Twice Before Using Google To Download Software, Researchers Warn 54
Netflix Unveils Plans To Prevent Password Sharing 150
W3C Re-launched as a Public-Interest Non-Profit Organization 10
Frontier's Bringing Its 5-Gig Fiber Network Across the Country 61
Massive Yandex Code Leak Reveals Russian Search Engine's Ranking Factors 24
BuzzFeed Says It Will Use AI To Help Create Content, Stock Jumps 150% 43
Russian, Iranian Hackers Pose as Journalists in Emails, UK Says 15
Microsoft Edge Will Soon Let You Split Two Tabs In a Single Window 45
FCC Nomination Stalled for One Year, Preventing Restoration of US Net Neutrality 85
Supreme Court Allows Reddit Mods To Anonymously Defend Section 230 152
EU's Breton To TikTok CEO: Comply With New Digital Rules Or Face Ban 20
Google Says Supreme Court Ruling Could Potentially Upend the Internet 221
UK Could Jail Social Media Bosses Who Breach Child Safety Rules 55
England Makes Gigabit Internet a Legal Requirement For New Homes 50
Saudi Arabia Jails Two Wikipedia Staff In 'Bid To Control Content' 110
Social Media Use Is Linked To Brain Changes In Teens, Research Finds 31
Internet Providers Warn Against EU Plans To Make Big Tech Cover Telcos Costs 54
Watching Porn Now Requires Age Verification in Louisiana Because of New Law 328

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