The Internet Stories for 2019

Tuvalu is a Tiny Island Nation of 11,000 People. Licensing of Its .tv Domain Contributes 1/12th To Its Annual Gross National Income 45
Are Government Shutdowns of the Internet Becoming The World's New Normal? 111
Apple News No Longer Supports RSS 49
Ask Slashdot: What Will the 2020s Bring Us? 207
Iran Curbs Internet Before Possible New Protests 21
Russia 'Successfully Tests' Its Unplugged Internet 41
Google Chrome Impacted By New Magellan 2.0 Vulnerabilities 25
New York Governor Promises Net Neutrality Legislation In 2020 21
A Twitter App Bug Was Used To Match 17 Million Phone Numbers To User Accounts 5
Why the Wikimedia Foundation Has Not Signed on To the Contract for the Web 19
Twitter Bans Animated PNG Files After Online Attackers Targeted Users With Epilepsy 78
Russia Plans To Cut Off Some Internet Access Today 48
DNS Over HTTPS: Not As Private As Some Think? 83
Twitter Removes Nearly 6,000 Saudi-Backed Accounts For Platform Manipulation 28
Facebook, Twitter Shutter Pro-Trump Network That Used AI To Create Fake People and Push Conspiracies 136
Severed Fiber Optic Cables Disrupted Internet Access In Parts of Eastern Europe, Iran and Turkey 44
Vivaldi To Change User-Agent String To Chrome Due To Unfair Blocking 88
Africa's Internet Management Body Mired Again by Corruption Allegations 25
House Calls 'Save the Internet Act' One of Its Biggest 2019 Accomplishments 49
Instagram, Facebook Bans Influencers From Getting Paid To Promote Vaping, Tobacco, and Weapons 32
Over 100 PBS Local Stations Start Streaming Today On YouTube TV 35
FCC Funds 25Mbps, Data-Capped Satellite In Rural Areas 53
Microsoft Details Its Migration Plans for the New Microsoft Edge 57
Controversial Sale of .Org Domain Manager Faces Review At ICANN 13
ICANN Delays .Org Sale Approval, Calls For More Transparency 21
Reputation Management Firms Bury Google Results By Placing Flattering Content 53
Billboard Is Changing Its Albums Chart To Count Video Plays From YouTube 16
India Shuts Down Internet Once Again, This Time In Assam and Meghalaya 66
AT&T Drops Out of FCC Speed-Test Program So It Can Hide Bad Results 53
Lawsuit Forces CenturyLink To Stop Charging 'Internet Cost Recovery Fee' 43
Cisco Outlines Silicon, Software Roadmap For Next Generation Internet 21
'Link in Bio' is a Slow Knife 63
The Pirate Bay Is Trialing High-Quality Video Streaming Links 35
Researchers Report Breakthrough In 'Distributed Deep Learning' 16
Chrome Now Warns You When Your Password Has Been Stolen 49
Facebook Fired a Contractor Who Was Paid Thousands In Bribes To Reactivate Banned Ad Accounts 21
Iran's Internet Freedom is On Life Support 60
Apple's Ad-Targeting Crackdown Shakes Up Ad Market 105
20 Low-End VPS Providers Suddenly Shutting Down In a 'Deadpooling' Scam 41
Why Is Russia's Suspected Internet Cable Spy Ship In the Mid-Atlantic? 107
Deepfake Porn Is Evolving To Give People Total Control Over Women's Bodies 301
Social Media Platforms Leave 95 Percent of Reported Fake Accounts Up, Study Finds 32
W3C Recommends WebAssembly To Push the Limits For Speed, Efficiency and Responsiveness 128
Bernie Sanders Unveils $150 Billion Plan To Expand High-Speed Internet Access 275
Filmmakers Sue State Department Over Social Media Surveillance Rules 20
China Resurrects Great Cannon For DDoS Attacks On Hong Kong Forum 15
The One-Traffic-Light Town With Some of the Fastest Internet in the US 95
Google Fiber Eliminates 100Mbps Plan For New Customers 52
A Bug In Microsoft's Login System Put Users At Risk of Account Hijacks 20
Amazon Introduces Fraud Detector and CodeGuru 19
Mozilla Removes Avast and AVG Extensions From Add-on Portal Over Snooping Claims 26
Firefox 71 Arrives With Better Lockwise and Tracker Blocking, Picture-in-Picture on Windows 53
10 Years In, WhatsApp Still Needs True Multi-Device Support 22
The Great .ORG Heist 80
'Why I Voted To Sell .ORG' 70
Cable Execs Now Falsely Claiming Cord Cutting Is Slowing Down 59
Democrats Propose Sweeping Online Privacy Laws 118
It's Way Too Easy To Get a .gov Domain Name 42
Facebook Was Mystery Firm Bidding Against Google To Buy Fitbit, Report Says 27
Some Fortinet Products Shipped With Hardcoded Encryption Keys 21
The RIPE NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses 172
Slack's New Rich Text Editor Shows That Markdown Still Scares People 45
Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee Launches Plan To 'Fix' the Internet 109
Japanese Hotel Room Costs $1 a Night -- If You'll Livestream Yourself 46
Alphabet's Loon Balloons Will Provide Internet To Remote Parts of the Amazon Next Year 20
Anonymous Hacker Gets Six Years In Prison For DDoS Attacks 76
Federal Court Approves First 'Pirate' Site Blockade In Canada 24
1.2 Billion Records Found Exposed Online in a Single Server 17
Apple Pulls All Customer Reviews From Online Apple Store 25
Google To Limit Targeting of Political Ads 76
Password Data For About 2.2 Million Users of Currency, Gaming Sites Dumped Online 25
Disney+ Fans Without Answers After Thousands Hacked 46
Microsoft Announces Plan To Support DoH In Windows 97
Iran Shuts Down Country's Internet In the Wake of Fuel Protests 46
UK's Labor Party Promises Free Fiber Broadband For All, Paid For By Taxing Tech Companies 139
Most Americans Think They're Being Constantly Tracked, Study Finds 73
The Org That Doles Out .Org Websites Just Sold Itself To a For-Profit Company 36
A Jury of Random People Can Do Wonders For Facebook 90
Andrew Yang Wants To Tax Digital Ads, Launch a New Algorithm Regulator 126
Wikipedia's Co-Founder Takes On Facebook With Ad-Free Social Network 79
Public Cloud Providers' Network Performance Wildly Varies 14
YouTube's New Kids' Content System Has Creators Scrambling 97
As 5G Rolls Out, Troubling New Security Flaws Emerge 19
Facebook Bug Has Camera Activated While People Are Using the App 92
SpaceX Launches Another 60 Starlink Satellites, Sets Two Rocket Reuse Records 73
Study of Over 11,000 Online Stores Finds 'Dark Patterns' on 1,254 sites 42
Google Chrome To Identify and Label Slow Websites 53
Tech Sites Including Microsoft's Bing Criticized Over Child Pornography Policies 73
6 In 10 Websites May Be Impacted by jQuery XSS Vulnerabilities 25
Boeing's Poor Information Security Threatens Passenger Safety, National Security, Says Researcher 21
GIF Site Gfycat Announces Mass Deletions, Threatens Archive Team With Lawsuit 21
Mozilla Hits Google, Facebook For 'Microtargeting' Political Ads 31
GitLab Director Resigns, Says It's Engaging In 'Retaliatory Behavior' 44
Firefox Turns 15 50
Kepler Achieves a World-First For Satellite Broadband With 100Mbps Connection To the Arctic 33
Mysterious Hacker Dumps Database of Infamous IronMarch Neo-Nazi Forum 186
The July Galileo Outage: What Happened and Why 49
Digital Authoritarianism Is On the Rise Around the World, Report Warns 41
Adobe and Twitter Are Designing a System For Permanently Attaching Artists' Names To Pictures 62
Undercover Reporter Reveals Life In a Polish Troll Farm 101
ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says 70
Microsoft Launches Chromium Edge Release Candidate, Brings Intranet Search To Phones 17
Data Breaches Reported at NetworkSolutions, Register.com, and Web.com 17
New Russian 'Sovereign Internet' Law Gives Government Sweeping Power Over Internet 77
Iceland Livestreams 10-Year-Old McDonald's Cheeseburger That Won't Decompose 200
Amazon Is Poorly Vetting Alexa's User-Submitted Answers 11
DNA Databases Are a National Security Leak Waiting To Happen 35
Facebook, Mozilla, and Cloudflare Announce New TLS Delegated Credentials Standard 25
Mozilla To Stop Supporting Sideloaded Extensions In Firefox 34
Helvetica's Evil Twin, Hellvetica, Will Haunt Your Nightmares 47
Google's Network Congestion Algorithm Isn't Fair, Researchers Say 20
'OK Boomer' Is the New Retort To Older Generations 472
Twitter Is Banning Political Ads 100
Country of Georgia Hit By Massive Cyberattack 22
US Court Shields Internet Subscribers From Futile Piracy Complaints 48
Google Brings Its '.new' Domains To the Rest of the Web 39
Google Search To Stop Indexing Flash Content in Late 2019 46
50 Years Ago, the Internet Was Born In Room 3420 43
The FTC Fosters Fake Reviews, Its Own Commissioners Say 17
Comcast Argues 'We've Never Sold Customers' Data' 56
RIPE NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses' 283
America's Trade Commission Accused of 'Rewarding Bad Actors' Posting Fake Online Reviews 18
Security Researcher Gets Access To Thousands of Automatic Pet Feeders By Xiaomi 35
Algorithms Will Be 'Driving the Majority of Facebook News,' Says Facebook 11
'Pwnagotchi' Is the Open Source Handheld That Eats Wi-Fi Handshakes 29
Mozilla: Cloudflare Doesn't Pay Us For Any DoH Traffic 93
Facebook Is Launching a News Section -- and Will Pay Some Publishers Millions 28
BBC News Launches 'Dark Web' Tor Mirror 41
Why Aren't We Curious About the Things We Want To Be Curious About? 90
Last Week's Fortnite Update Helped Akamai Set a New CDN Traffic Record 11
Comcast Is Lobbying Against Encryption That Could Prevent it From Learning Your Browsing History 79
SpaceX Plans To Start Offering Starlink Broadband Services In 2020 125
Facebook To Face $35 Billion Class-Action Lawsuit Over Misuse of Facial Recognition Data 23
Chrome 78 Arrives With New APIs, Dark Mode Improvements On Android and iOS 45
Verizon's 5G Network Can Only Cover 'Certain Seating Areas' In a Basketball Stadium 66
Study Casts Doubt On Value of WHO's 'Gaming Disorder' Diagnoses 46
Firefox To Get Page Translation Feature, Like Chrome 50
Firefox 70 Arrives With Social Tracking Blocked By Default 40
Facebook Shuts Down New Accounts From Iran and Russia Spreading Disinformation 113
The Chinese Threat To American Speech 233
Equifax Used 'admin' as Username and Password for Sensitive Data: Lawsuit 59
8chan's Original Founder Is Now Urging ISPs To Keep The Site Offline 261
Imgur Won't Support Reddit's NSFW Communities Anymore Because They Put Its 'Business At Risk' 91
Banning Out-of-Hours Email 'Could Harm Employee Wellbeing' 118
New Bill Promises an End To Our Privacy Nightmare, Jail Time To CEOs Who Lie 166
Germany's Cybersecurity Agency Recommends Firefox As Most Secure Browser 52
Machine Learning Can't Flag False News, New Studies Show 42
Hot Online Bank Startup Leaves Customers Without Access to Their Cash 53
SpaceX Says 12,000 Satellites Isn't Enough, So It Might Launch Another 30,000 142
Yahoo Groups Is Winding Down and All Content Will Be Permanently Removed 82
UK Drops Plans For Online Pornography Age Verification System 99
Twitter Says It Will Restrict Users From Retweeting World Leaders Who Break Its Rules 76
Google's Auto-Delete Tools Are Practically Worthless For Privacy 39
Internet Archive Releases 2,500 MS-DOS Games 58
Google Takes AMP to the OpenJS Foundation 17
AT&T Raises Prices 7% By Making Its Customers Pay AT&T's Property Taxes 69
China's Global Reach: Surveillance and Censorship Beyond the Great Firewall 68
Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower: US Heading In 'Same Direction As China' With Online Privacy 44
Opera's Desktop Browser Gets Built-In Tracking Protection 30
Comcast Incorrectly Charged 2,000 Customers For Exceeding Data Cap 49
Tor Project Removes 13.5% of Current Servers For Running EOL Versions 9
Google Makes It Easier To Move Music and Video Streams Between Devices 15
Microsoft Plans To Bring Internet Access To 40 Million People By 2022 32
US Using Trade Deals To Shield Tech Giants From Foreign Regulators 80
Instagram's Following Activity Tab Is Going Away 15
Supreme Court Allows Blind People To Sue Retailers If Their Websites Are Not Accessible 196
Big ISPs Worry DNS-Over-HTTPS Could Stop Monitoring and Modifying of DNS Queries 156
Libertarian Accused of Faking 1.5M Net Neutrality Comments Using Data-Breached Addresses 60
Chrome Promises 'No More Mixed Messages About HTTPS ' 46
Facebook Removes Hundreds of Propaganda Accounts Targeting Iran and Qatar 18
macOS Systems Can Be Abused In DDoS Attacks 18
US, UK Sign Pact To Share Electronic Evidence in Criminal Cases 73
EU Court: Facebook Can Be Forced To Remove Content Worldwide 173
Iraq Shuts Down Internet Access As Mass Protests Turn Violent 55
Twitter Outage Takes Down TweetDeck, Affects Images and DMs 36
Sony Cuts PS Now Subscription Price For PS4 Worldwide 9
Ask Slashdot: Will P2P Video Sites Someday Replace YouTube? 68
YouTube is Experimenting With Ways To Make Its Algorithm Even More Addictive 71
US Treasury Goes After the Planes and Yacht of Russia's Troll Farm Founder 59
Germany Shuts Down Illegal Data Center In Former NATO Bunker 17
Study Proves the FCC's Core Justification For Killing Net Neutrality Was False 95
Facebook Will Test Hiding 'Likes' On Its Own Site 26
Internet Sector Contributes $2.1 Trillion To US Economy, Industry Group Says 14
Cloudflare, Google Chrome, and Firefox Add HTTP/3 Support 48
Trolls Are Swarming Young Climate Activists Online 626
How TikTok Censors Videos That Do Not Please Beijing 23
Ask Slashdot: Why Doesn't the Internet In 2019 Use More Interactive 3D? 153
Apple Neutered Ad Blockers In Safari, But Unlike Chrome, Users Didn't Say a Thing 94
Ubisoft To Send Cease & Desist Requests To DDoS Services Attacking 'Rainbox Six Siege' Players 32
In Hong Kong, Protesters and Police Are Now Doxxing Each Other 46
VPN Apps With 500M+ Installs Caught Serving Disruptive Ads To Android Users 14
Authorities Consider Taking Legal Action Against Facebook Over Storm Area 51 Event 87
YouTube Creators May Lose Verified Badges As Verification Process Becomes Stricter 45
How the Internet Archive is Waging War on Misinformation 73
Facebook Plans Launch of Its Own 'Supreme Court' For Handling Takedown Appeals 27
Facebook Contractors Have Been Listening To 'Hey Portal' Clips 13
Facebook Expands Definition of Terrorist Organizations To Limit Extremism 145
AT&T Sued For Allegedly Inflating DirecTV Now Subscriber Numbers 19
Millions of Americans' Medical Images and Data Are Available On the Internet 22
Firefox Moving To a Faster 4-Week Release Cycle 50
The Internet Relies on People Working for Free 89
Mozilla and Creative Commons Want To Reimagine the Internet Without Ads, and They Have $100M To Do It 146
France Took One Look At Facebook's Cryptocurrency and Said, 'Hell, Non' 94
T-Mobile Has a Secret Setting To Protect Your Account From Hackers That it Refuses To Talk About 34
Mozilla Launches Paid Premium Support for Enterprise Customers 19
SpaceX Says It Will Deploy Satellite Broadband Across US Faster Than Expected 60
Google One Now Backs Up Texts, 'Original Quality' Photos, and Videos on Android 28
Australian House Committee To Look Into Age Verification For Porn 62
281 Alleged Email Scammers Arrested In Massive Global Sweep 57
Jack Ma Steps Down On 20th Birthday of Alibaba 35
'Ban All Watches From Exams To Stop Cheating' 136
YouTube Creators Are Turning the Site Into a Podcast Network 25
Web Scraping Doesn't Violate Anti-Hacking Law, Appeal Court Rules 32
The Feature-rich Vivaldi Browser Arrives on Android 33
Ask Slashdot: How Will The Internet Affect The Next Generation? 190
South Africa, UK Acknowledge Mass Surveillance By Tapping Undersea Internet Cables 56
Parts of Wikipedia Went Offline After 'Malicious' DDoS Attack 47
Apple Releases Public Beta of Apple Music For Web 13
Sally Floyd, Who Helped Things Run Smoothly Online, Dies At 69 17
Australian Federal Government Adopts 'Nuanced' Position On Data-Sharing Consent 29
Mozilla Outlines Plan For Manifest V3 Extensions API 13
YouTube Removes 17,000 Channels For Hate Speech 409
Firefox 69 Ratchets Up Tracking Protection, Switching it On by Default 31
Ask Slashdot: What Lightweight Alternative To Chrome or Firefox Do You Use? 158
'Why PHP Still Beats Your Next Favourite Alternative' 85
The Internet Is Coming To the Rest of the Animal Kingdom 42
Comcast, Beware: New City-Run Broadband Offers 1Gbps For $60 a Month 110
Social Media Stress Can Lead To Social Media Addiction, Study Finds 17
Microsoft Is Killing EPUB Support In Edge Classic 68
Top MPAA Lawyer, Mastermind Behind Its Plan To Attack the Internet, Arrested On Blackmail and Sexual Assault Charges 67
YouTube's CEO Explains Why It Leaves Up 'Controversial or Even Offensive' Videos 134
National-Security Concerns Threaten Undersea Data Link Backed by Google, Facebook 45
Wi-Fi 6 Will Upgrade Your Workhorse Wireless Network 66
Verizon's Anti-Robocall Service Will be Automatically Enabled on Android Phones 33
Australia Plans To Block Domains That Host Terrorist Material During Crisis Situations 96
Musk and Bezos' Satellite Internet Could Save Consumers Billions of Dollars 96
Three Smart Ovens Turned On Overnight, Then Preheated To 400 Degrees 182
Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV 140
YouTube Pressured To Ban Chinese State Media Ads That Spread Misinformation About Protesters 29
The FCC Has No Idea How Many People Don't Have Broadband Access 72
The Planet Needs a New Internet 201
Google Chrome Proposes 'Privacy Sandbox' To Reform Advertising Evils 56
Man Sued For Using Bogus YouTube Takedowns To Get Address For Swatting 78
WebKit Introduces New Tracking Prevention Policy 35
The Truth About Faster Internet: It's Not Worth It 253
Twitter Blocks State-Controlled Media Outlets From Advertising On Its Social Network 100
PayPal Builds 'Zoid' JavaScript Library To 'Make IFrames Cool Again' 85
Amazon Offered Vendors 'Amazon's Choice' Labels In Return For Ad Spending 49
Disney Fights Streaming Account Sharing With Help From Cable Industry 46
LGBT Video-Makers Sue YouTube Claiming Discrimination 176

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