The Internet Stories for 2024

Court Upholds New York Law That Says ISPs Must Offer $15 Broadband 44
FCC Votes To Restore Net Neutrality Rules 54
Manga Site Blocks Adult Content, But Only For US and UK Users 111
Google Delays Third-Party Cookie Demise Yet Again 22
EU Opens Probe of TikTok Lite, Citing Concerns About Addictive Design 25
Two Major ISPs Threaten They'll Stop Complying With US FISA Orders 34
Reddit Is Taking Over Google 86
Frontier Communications Shuts Down Systems After Cyberattack 6
Nigeria To Criminalise Fiber Cable Damage Costing Telecoms Billions 19
ISPs Can Charge Extra For Fast Gaming Under FCC's Internet Rules, Critics Say 29
Stop 'Harmful 5G Fast Lanes', Legal Scholar Warns America's FCC 41
96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Info With Meta, Google, Data Brokers 21
Starting Today, ISPs Must Display Labels With Price, Speeds, and Data Caps 15
EU's New Tech Laws Are Working; Small Browsers Gain Market Share 36
Consumers Will Finally See FCC-Mandated 'Nutrition Labels' For Most Broadband Plans 56
Cox Plans To Take Piracy Liability Battle To the Supreme Court 70
A Breakthrough Online Privacy Proposal Hits Congress 27
Internet Traffic Dipped as Viewers Took in the Eclipse 18
The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island 19
FCC Won't Block California Net Neutrality Law, Says States Can 'Experiment' 25
Google Rolls Out New 'Jpegli' JPEG Coding Library 81
A 'Law Firm' of AI Generated Lawyers Is Sending Fake Threats As an SEO Scam 12
Microsoft Edge Will Let You Control How Much RAM It Uses Soon 62
President Biden Is Now Posting Into the Fediverse 75
FCC To Vote To Restore Net Neutrality Rules 60
White House Makes Last-ditch Push for Internet Subsidy Program 82
Shrinking Arctic Ice Redraws the Map For Internet Cable Connections 14
Researchers Unlock Fiber Optic Connection 1.2 Million Times Faster Than Broadband 49
For Data-Guzzling AI Companies, the Internet Is Too Small 60
Playboy Image From 1972 Gets Ban From IEEE Computer Journals 395
20 Years of Gmail 86
New Book Remembers LAN Parties and the 1990s 'Multiplayer Revolution' 74
Dutch Court Orders ISP To Block 'Anna's Archive' and 'LibGen' 26
Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits To Running People-Search Networks 9
Cable ISP Fined $10,000 For Lying To FCC About Where It Offers Broadband 42
Threads Opens Beta To 'Fediverse Sharing' 20
US Broadband Providers To Begin Providing New Comparison Labels 19
Modern Web Bloat Means Some Pages Load 21MB of Data 110
Mozilla Firefox 124 Is Now Available for Download 27
BitTorrent Is No Longer the 'King' of Upstream Internet Traffic 37
FCC Scraps Old Speed Benchmark, Says Broadband Should Be at Least 100Mbps 103
Undersea Cable Damage Causes Internet Outages Across Africa 28
Speedometer 3.0: A Shared Browser Benchmark for Web Application Responsiveness 15
World Wide Web Inventor's Top Predictions as It Turns 35 23
Chrome 124 Lets You Turn Any Website Into an App 113
US Lost Record $12.5 Billion To Online Crime In 2023, Says FBI 33
Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Threads Are All Down 97
New Proposal Could Ban Landlords From Charging for Cable and Internet in Bulk 64
Rogue Editors Started a Competing Wikipedia That's Only About Roads 57
Cloudflare Makes Pingora Rust Framework Open-Source 5
Underwater Cables in Red Sea Damaged Months After Houthis Threatened To Do Just That 131
Can Robots.txt Files Really Stop AI Crawlers? 97
DuckDuckGo's Browser Adds Encrypted, Privacy-Minded Syncing and Backup 12
WhatsApp Image Sender Becomes First Convicted Cyber-Flasher 24
Pakistan Cuts Off Phone and Internet Services On Election Day 36
Judge Rules Against Users Suing Google and Apple Over 'Annoying' Search Results 22
Ask Slashdot: Can You Roll Your Own Home Router? 150
Comcast Reluctantly Agrees To Stop Its Misleading '10G Network' Claims 67
Starlink's Laser System Is Beaming 42 Million GB of Data Per Day 97
Russia Hit With Widespread Internet Outage Across Country 76
Apple Says UK Could 'Secretly Veto' Global Privacy Tools 90
ICANN Proposes Creating .INTERNAL Domain 76
After 32 Years, One of the Net's Oldest Software Archives Is Shutting Down 42
'Arc Search' Combines Browser, Search Engine, and AI Into Something New and Different 24
T-Mobile Says It May Slow Home Internet Speeds of Some Users in Times of 'Congestion' 72
'Where Have All the Websites Gone?' 171
Bing Gained Less Than 1% Market Share Since Adding Bing Chat, Report Finds 31
Brace Yourself, IPv6 is Coming 320
LG Washing Machine Found Sending 3.7 GB of Data a Day 130
Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find 58
Chrome Updates Incognito Warning To Admit Google Tracks Users In 'Private' Mode 40
Ukrainian Hacker Group Takes Down Moscow ISP As a Revenge For Kyivstar Cyber Attack 85
Brave Search Can Now Deliver Results For Programming Queries 4
FCC Plans Shutdown of Affordable Connectivity Program As GOP Withholds Funding 134
How AI-Generated Content Could Fuel a Migration From Social Media to Independent 'Authored' Content 68
Mexican Cartel Provided Wi-Fi To Locals - With Threat of Death If They Didn't Use It 97
25 Years Since the First Real 'Slashdot Effect' 31
Meet 'Link History,' Facebook's New Way To Track the Websites You Visit 17