The Internet Stories for 2018

Mozilla Says Ad on Firefox's New Tab Page Was Just Another Experiment 256
Lawrence Roberts, Who Helped Design Internet's Precursor, Dies at 81 46
How One Merchandiser Lost $1M Trying to Monetize the 'Hamster Dance' Site 62
Samsung Wants To Bring Web Browsing, Office Work To the TV 54
Users Report of Nationwide CenturyLink Internet Outage 87
A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds 483
Microsoft's Emergency Internet Explorer Patch Renders Some Lenovo Laptops Unbootable 165
Why One Tiny Island is Still a Domain Name Giant 52
Domain Registrar Can be Held Liable for Pirate Site, Court Rules 95
Huawei Had a Deal To Give Washington Redskins Fans Free Wi-Fi, Until the Government Stepped In 113
Can You Really Sue Fortnite For 'Stealing' Your Dance Moves? 141
Microsoft Issues Emergency Fix For Internet Explorer Zero Day 39
Australian Court Orders ISPs To Block 181 'Pirate' Domains, Including Subtitle Sites 95
FBI Shuts Down 15 DDoS-For-Hire Sites 49
Forget Dot Com, 2019 Will Finally be the Year of Weird Domain Names 93
AT&T's Silence on 5G Speeds Screams 'Stay Away For Now' 73
We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites 310
Tumblr Blocked Archivists Just Before Starting the NSFW Content Purge 204
SpaceX Raising $500 Million To Help Build Its 'Starlink' Satellite Broadband Network 116
Twitter Is Relaunching the Reverse-Chronological Feed 35
Google Opens Document Editing To Users Without a Google Account 25
Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS 253
'Google Isn't the Company That We Should Have Handed the Web Over To' 331
Tumblr Porn Vanishes Today 209
Senate Report Shows Russia Used Social Media To Support Trump In 2016 388
Swedish ISP Bahnhof Fights Sci-Hub Blocking Order 53
FCC Forces California To Drop Plan For Government Fees On Text Messages 79
Twitter Warns of Suspicious Traffic Coming From China and Russia 72
CenturyLink Blocked Its Customers' Internet Access in Order To Show an Ad 198
Bing Recommends Piracy Tutorial When Searching For Office 2019 45
50 Years On, We're Living the Reality First Shown At the 'Mother of All Demos' 82
How YouTube's Year-In-Review 'Rewind' Video Set Off a Civil War 337
Instagram Tightens Eating Disorder Filters 94
Facebook Disbands Secretive Research Lab Amid Reorganization 25
Is The World Shifting To 'Ambient Computing'? 147
One Year After Net Neutrality Repeal, America's Democrats Warn 'The Fight Continues' 152
Could You Live Without a Smartphone For a Year? 179
Cloudflare Under Fire For Allegedly Providing DDoS Protection For Terrorist Websites 98
Porn Sites Collect More User Data Than Netflix Or Hulu 70
Facebook Doesn't Care About Fixing Fake News Problem On Its Platform 113
Dozens of Bomb Threats Reported Across America In Apparent Bitcoin Ransom Scam 63
FCC Panel Wants To Tax Internet-Using Businesses, Give the Money To ISPs 243
FCC Gives Carriers the Option To Block Text Messages 107
Mapping Service Blurs Out Military Bases, But Accidentally Locates Secret Ones 129
Net Neutrality Bill 38 Votes Short In Congress, and Time Has Almost Run Out 229
New Firefox Suggests Ways To Get More Out of the Web 199
Facebook Filed a Patent To Calculate Your Future Location 104
More People Get Their News From Social Media Than Newspapers, Study Finds 82
As We Forge the Web of Tomorrow, We Need a Set of Guiding Principles That Can Define the Kind of Web We Want, Says Tim Berners-Lee 145
Linux.org's DNS Got Hijacked 62
FCC To Probe Whether Carriers Gave Inaccurate Broadband Coverage Data 57
Trump's Pick To Be the Next Attorney General Has Opposed Net Neutrality Rules For Years 120
Google, Mozilla, and Opera React To Microsoft's Embrace of Chromium 186
Google Translate Learns To Reduce Gender Bias 150
Opinion: 5G Has an Exciting Future When It Comes To Dedicated Mobile Apps But Will Do Little To Improve Our General Browsing Experiences. 95
Microsoft's New Study Finds 162.8 Million People in the US Do Not Use the Internet at Broadband Speeds, Up From FCC's 24.7 Million Estimate 132
Cuba Offers 3G Mobile Internet Access To Citizens 42
Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Laws [Update] 289
FCC Chairman Admits Russia Meddled In Net Neutrality Debate 171
A Quarter of Tumblr's Users Are There To Consume Porn, Data Scientists Estimate 119
Russian Internet Giant Yandex Launches Its First Smartphone 37
Facebook Ends Platform Policy Banning Apps That Copy Its Features 28
Hulu, AT&T To Test 'Pause Ads' In 2019, Automatically Playing Commercials When You Hit Pause 188
Quora Data Breach Exposes 100 Million Users' Personal Info 40
Will AWS Be Spun Off Into a Separate Company? 84
AT&T Will Keep Your Money If You Cancel TV Or Internet In Middle of Billing Cycle 99
Tumblr Will Ban All Adult Content On December 17th 317
Prison Inmates Catfished $560,000 Out of Military Service Members in Sextortion Scam, NCIS Says 165
Dark Web Dealers Voluntarily Ban Deadly Fentanyl 158
Facebook Discussed Using People's Data As a Bargaining Chip, Emails and Court Filings Suggest 30
Google Shut Out Privacy, Security Teams From Secret China Project 138
Your 4K Netflix Streaming Is On a Collision Course With Your ISP's Data Caps 163
Starbucks Says It Will Start Blocking Porn On Its Stores' Wi-Fi In 2019 218
When the Internet Archive Forgets 71
Amazon Will Be Off All Oracle Databases By End of 2019, Says AWS Chief 61
Dell Says It Detected A Security Breach Earlier This Month, But Financial Data Was Not Exposed 17
The App Destroying Iran's Currency 83
Music Industry Asks US Government To Reconsider Website Blocking 203
Amazon Starts Selling Software To Mine Patient Health Records 84
Urban Massage Data Breach Exposed Sensitive Comments On Its Creepy Clients 38
YouTube To Make New Originals Available For Free, Ad-Supported Viewing 63
Half of all Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock 141
Comcast Raises Cable TV Bills Again -- Even If You're Under Contract 128
Dictionary.com Picks 'Misinformation' As Word of the Year 48
The FBI Created a Fake FedEx Website To Unmask a Cybercriminal 82
Cyber Monday Is Set To Be a $7.8 Billion Day, Breaking Online Records 46
Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Stop Bots From Ruining Holiday Shopping 153
Amazon May Be Hiding Its Plans To Test New Wireless Tech By Masquerading as a Massage Spa 20
In the Age of the Internet, Why Has Interest in Chess Remained So Robust, and Even Risen Sharply? 153
Most Americans Don't Think Social Networks Are Good For the World, Survey Finds 98
'Relatively Few' Twitter Bots Were Needed To Spread Misinformation and Overwhelm Fact Checkers, Study Finds 85
Ajit Pai Isn't Saying Whether ISPs Deliver the Broadband Speeds You Pay For 53
Court Again Rules That Cable Giants Can't Weaponize the First Amendment 152
US Wireless Data Prices Are Among the Most Expensive On Earth 107
Ajit Pai Wants To Raise Rural Broadband Speeds From 10Mbps To 25Mbps 135
Tumblr Removed From Apple's App Store Over Child Porn Issues 73
Canada Has 'No Plan' To Bring Broadband To Rural and Remote Communities, Watchdog Says 182
Instagram Is Cracking Down On Services That Sell Likes, Followers 25
Popular Dark Web Hosting Provider Got Hacked, 6,500 Sites Down 104
Google To Pay JavaScript Frameworks To Implement Performance-First Code 82
Facebook Filed a Patent To Predict Your Household's Demographics Based On Family Photos 98
Apple's Siri May Soon Process Voice Locally On a Device, No Cloud Required 83
Hacker Says They Compromised ProtonMail; ProtonMail Calls BS 55
86 Organizations Demand Zuckerberg To Improve Takedown Appeals 81
'The Internet Needs More Friction' 155
Facebook Claims NYT Expose Has 'A Number of Inaccuracies' 64
SpaceX Wins FCC Approval To Deploy 7,518 Satellites 114
Mark Zuckerberg Reportedly Ordered All Facebook Executives To Use Android Phones After Tim Cook Criticized Facebook 215
Mozilla's 'Privacy Not Included' Gift Report Highlights Security Concerns 45
Safari Tests 'Not Secure' Warning For Unencrypted Websites 66
Many Free Mobile VPN Apps Are Based In China Or Have Chinese Ownership 67
Mark Zuckerberg 'Not Able' To Attend International Disinformation Hearing 80
Couple Who Ran ROM Site To Pay Nintendo $12 Million 160
Facebook Patches Vulnerability That Could Have Exposed User Data 19
Nigerian Firm Takes Blame For Routing Google Traffic Through China 56
Google Suffered a Brief Outage on Monday Which Pushed Some of Its Traffic Through Russia, China and Nigeria; Company Says It Will Do an Investigation 70
Facebook To Let French Regulators Investigate On Moderation Processes 54
Should Comcast Be Investigated For Antitrust Violations? 103
The Next Version of HTTP Won't Be Using TCP 258
The Real Reason Palmer Luckey Was Fired From Facebook 142
Switzerland Remains 'Extremely Attractive' For Pirate Sites, MPAA Says 135
What Your Phone is Telling Wall Street 108
Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 Service Launches on Android and iOS 105
US Military Publicly Dumps Russian Government Malware Online 74
Researchers Defeat Perceptual Ad Blockers, Declare 'New Arms Race' 144
Facebook Follows Google To End Mandatory Arbitration For Sexual-Harassment Claims 72
Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+, Launch Late 2019 182
Vine's Successor Byte Launches Next Spring 31
Microsoft Aims To Bring Internet To Rural Tribal Lands In Washington, Montana 53
Sprint Is Throttling Microsoft's Skype Service, Study Finds 84
Google Chrome Will Soon Warn Users About Web Pages With Unclear Mobile Billing Services 40
A Third of Wikipedia Discussions Are Stuck in Forever Beefs 162
Facebook's Unsend Feature Will Give You 10 Minutes To Delete a Message 65
Georgia's Secretary of State Brian Kemp Doxes Thousands of Absentee Voters 452
Free Music Archive Is Shutting Down 67
Blockchain-Based Elections Would Be a Disaster For Democracy 168
Researchers 'Break' Microsoft's Edge With Zero-Day Remote Code Exploit 50
Tim Berners-Lee Launches Campaign To Save the Web From Abuse 179
Old School 'Sniffing' Attacks Can Still Reveal Your Browsing History 82
Senator Introduces Bill That Would Send CEOs To Jail For Violating Consumer Privacy 104
US Declines in Internet Freedom Rankings 153
Tim Berners-Lee Says Tech Giants May Have To Be Split Up 145
Google Won't Let You Sign In If You Disabled JavaScript In Your Browser 172
Twitter Now Lets You Report Accounts That You Suspect Are Bots 110
Elon Musk Shakes Up SpaceX's Starlink Satellite Division By Firing a Bunch of Managers 136
Facebook Reports Slowing Revenue and User Growth 30
Google Launches reCAPTCHA v3 That Detects Bad Traffic Without User Interaction 108
FCC Falsely Claims Community Broadband an 'Ominous Threat To First Amendment' 313
Tech Groups Step Away From Gab Network After Shooting 631
Microsoft Closes Its $7.5 Billion Purchase of GitHub 87
Facebook Removes 82 Accounts Linked To Iranian Disinformation Campaign 54
California Delays Net Neutrality Law's Enforcement Until After Court Case 76
Creating the First Quantum Internet 52
China Telecom Hijacks US, Canadian Internet Traffic On a Regular Basis, Report Says 64
190 Universities Launch 600 Free Online Courses 82
Facebook Uses Machine Learning To Remove 8.7 Million Child Exploitation Posts 210
Tim Berners-Lee on the Huge Sociotechnical Design Challenge 162
An ISP Left Corporate Passwords, Keys, and All Its Data Exposed On the Internet 53
Firefox 63 Arrives With Enhanced Tracking Protection, Search Shortcuts, and Picture-in-Picture on Android 83
Mozilla Is Reportedly Going To Sell VPN Subscriptions Within Firefox 112
UK ISP Tests SIM Card That Forces All of Your Mobile Data Through Tor 46
Netflix To Raise $2 Billion In Debt To Fund More Original Content 122
YouTubers Will Enter Politics, And If They Do, They're Probably Going To Win 298
Hack On 8 Adult Websites Exposes Oodles of Intimate User Data 68
HealthCare.gov Portal Suffers Data Breach Exposing 75,000 Customers 70
Twitter Publishes Archive of 10 Million Tweets From Russian, Iranian Bots 144
iPhone's New Parental Controls Block Sex Ed, Allow Violence and Racism 185
Internet Provider Groups Sue Vermont Over Net Neutrality Law 101
eBay Files Lawsuit Against Amazon Over 'Seller Recruitment' 38
The Rate at Which the World is Getting Online Has Fallen Sharply Since 2015, New Report Suggests 68
Facebook Lured Advertisers By Inflating Ad-watch Times Up To 900 Percent 83
Apple Launches Portal For US Users To Download Their Data 35
'Do Not Track,' the Privacy Tool Used By Millions of People, Doesn't Do Anything 228
Chrome 70 Arrives With Option To Disable Linked Sign-Ins, PWAs On Windows, and AV1 Decoder 53
Qualcomm's New Wi-Fi Chips Are Meant To Rival 5G Speeds 34
Facebook Could Use Data Collected From Its Portal In-Home Video Device To Target You With Ads 62
Chrome 70 Won't Ship With a Patch For Autoplay-Blocking Web Audio API Which Broke Web Apps and Games Earlier This Year 44
Sony Tries Using Blockchain Tech For Next-Gen DRM 100
Google's CEO Says Tests of Censored Chinese Search Engine Have Been Very Promising 158
Most Americans Can't Tell the Difference Between a Social Media Bot and A Human, Study Finds 140
Facebook To Ban Misinformation On Voting In Upcoming US Elections 245
Fire At AT&T Facility Causes Outage For Over a Million U-Verse Fiber Customers In Texas 54
99.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality, Independent Analysis Finds 137
Microsoft To Disable TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 Support in Edge and Internet Explorer 64
A Future Where Everything Becomes a Computer Is As Creepy As You Feared 144
Tech Suffers From Lack of Humanities, Says Mozilla Head 472
Facebook Is Testing An Unsend Feature For Messenger 24
How To See If Your Personal Data Was Stolen In the Recent Facebook Hack 36
A Mysterious Grey-Hat Is Patching People's Outdated MikroTik Routers 74
Firefox Removes Core Product Support For RSS/Atom Feeds 131
Pro-Privacy Search Engine DuckDuckGo Hits 30 Million Daily Searches, Up 50% In a Year 141
Does Amazon Owe Wikipedia For Taking Advantage of The Free Labor of Their Volunteers? 176
Facebook Removes Hundreds of Accounts Spamming Political Info 171
How Genealogy Websites Make It Easier To Catch Killers 73
CoinMiners Use New Tricks To Impersonate Adobe Flash Installers 47
The Breach That Killed Google+ Wasn't a Breach At All 75
State Attorneys Urge FCC To Combat Neighborhood Spoofing 202
Internet Archive Launches a Commodore 64 Emulator 77
Google To Launch Censored Search In China Despite Denials 116
Chrome 70's Upcoming Security Change Will Break Hundreds of Sites 177
Chinese Police Get Power To Inspect ISPs 50
Snapchat CEO's Leaked Memo On Survival 71
Canadian Music Group Proposes 'Copyright Tax' On Internet Use 265
Democrats Draft an 'Internet Bill of Rights' To Regulate Big Tech 140
Instagram Tests Sharing Your Location History With Facebook 26
Firefox To Support Google's WebP Image Format For a Faster Web 53
Facebook Finds 'No Evidence' Hackers Accessed Connected Apps 20
The Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy 184
Google's First Urban Development Raises Data Concerns 30
'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Negative Buzz Amplified By Russian Trolls, Study Finds 447
This Solar-Powered, 'Low Tech' Website Goes Offline When It's Cloudy 72
Netflix Eats Up 15% of All Internet Downstream Traffic Worldwide, Study Finds 147
Internet Archive Says It Has Restored 9 Million Broken Wikipedia Links By Directing Them To Archived Versions in Wayback Machine 40
Seattle Police Department Is Offering An Anti-Swatting Service 106
Use of Internet, Social Media and Digital Devices Plateaus In US, Pew Research Center Finds 22
GeoCities Japan Is Finally Shutting Down 48
Google Gets Into Game Streaming With Project Stream and Assassin's Creed Odyssey in Chrome 37
Use of the Internet and Smartphones is No Longer on the Rise in America 99
Cloudflare Launches a Low-Cost Domain Registrar, Which Will Also Offer Free Privacy To Customers 122
Tim Berners-Lee Announces Solid, an Open Source Project Which Would Aim To Decentralize the Web 227
Can DuckDuckGo Become the Anti-Google? 163
California Becomes First State With an IoT Cybersecurity Law 55
Facebook Faces Class-Action Lawsuit Over Massive New Hack 24
Green Bay Packers and Microsoft Win Domain Name Fight After Family Sought Cash, Tickets and Tablets 196
Satellite Company Partners With Jeff Bezos' AWS To Bring Internet To 'Whole Planet' 60
Mobile Websites Can Tap Into Your Phone's Sensors Without Asking 48
Cloudflare Partners With Microsoft, Google and Others To Reduce Bandwidth Costs 43
Vivaldi 2.0 Desktop Browser Featuring Expanded Customization, Sync Across Devices and Privacy Tools Released [Q&A With Founder] 67
Google Ends Cryptocurrency Ad Ban For Certain Kinds of Ads 58
Safari's 'Siri Suggested' Search Results Highlighted Conspiracy Theories, Fake News 120
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Is Headed To Washington This Week To Discuss Censorship, China 100
Facebook Is Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma, Lawsuit Claims 210
Over 1,100 New Arcade Games Added To the Internet Archive 46
Researchers Create 'Spray-On' 2D Antennas 42
Judge Orders Cloudflare To Turn Over Identifying Data In Copyright Case 56
Instagram Says It's Not Working On a Regram Feature 12
Streaming Accounts For 75 Percent of Music Industry Revenue In the US 55
Amazon Is Making It Easier To Set Up New IoT Gadgets 48
Google Employees Discussed Tweaking Search Results To Counter Trump's Travel Ban 211
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Predicts the Internet Will Split in Two By 2028 -- and One Part Will Be Led By China 178
Facebook Will Open a 'War Room' Next Week To Monitor Election Interference 218
China Blocks Twitch 72
ICANN Sets Plan To Reinforce Internet DNS Security 106
Facebook Could Face EU Sanctions If It Doesn't Change Its TOS 134
Despite Data Caps and Throttling, Industry Says Mobile Can Replace Home Internet 134
Cloudflare Wants Internet Route Leaks To Be a Thing of the Past 24
Facebook Wanted Banks To Fork Over Customer Data Passing Through Messenger 71
Google is Giving up Some Control of the AMP Format 61
Twitter Is Reviving the Chronological Timeline 35
Ajit Pai Calls California's Net Neutrality Rules 'Illegal' 285

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