The Internet Stories

Manga Site Blocks Adult Content, But Only For US and UK Users 43
Google Delays Third-Party Cookie Demise Yet Again 13
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
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

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