The Internet Stories for 2020

Basecamp Releases Hotwire for Building Web Applications Using 'HTML Over the Wire' 60
Apple's China App Store Sheds Videogames as Beijing Tightens Internet Control 79
VISA Continues Pornhub Ban, To Allow Card Use On Some of Its Parent's Sites 83
China Wants Hefty Fines For Viral Video Creators Who Binge Food and Drinks 99
Russia Lawmakers Pass Bills That Could Block Social Media Sites 25
After 11 Years, Australia Declares Its National Broadband Network Is 'Built and Fully Operational' 106
Amazon's Answer To SpaceX Starlink Delivers 400Mbps In Prototype Phase 77
Tech Giants Will Block Kazakhstan's Web Surveillance Efforts Again 47
Terence Eden Resigns From Google AMP Advisory Committee, Says AMP is 'Poorly Implemented, and Hostile To the Interests of Both Users and Publishers' 49
A Successful Experiment Gets Us One Step Closer To a Quantum Internet 42
Up To 3 Million Devices Infected By Malware-Laced Chrome and Edge Add-Ons 17
Gmail Is Broken Right Now, One Day After a Massive Outage 73
Twitter Is Shutting Down Its Periscope Apps 6
Senator Tries To Block Frontier's FCC Funding, Citing ISP's Various Failures 34
Microsoft and Industry Partners Seize Key Domain Used In SolarWinds Hack 18
High-Frequency Traders Push Closer To Light Speed With Cutting-Edge Cables 186
Why Apple, Cloudflare, and Fastly Proposed a New Privacy-Focused DNS Standard Called 'Oblivious DoH' 64
'We Need a Broadband Internet Pricing Equivalent of Nutrition Labels' 94
Brave Browser-Maker Launches Privacy-Friendly News Reader 12
MasterCard, VISA To Stop Processing Payments On Pornhub 114
India Cabinet Approves Setting Up a 'Massive Network' of Public Wi-Fi Hotspots 16
Pornhub Ends Unverified Uploads and Bans Downloads 123
Tripadvisor's App, and More Than 100 Others, Have Just Been Blocked in China 71
Cloudflare and Apple Design a New Privacy-Friendly Internet Protocol 90
Pornhub Might Lose Visa and Mastercard After NYT Exposé 157
Kazakhstan's Government Begins Intercepting HTTPS Traffic In Its Capital 126
Google Fiber Rolls Out Insanely Fast 2Gbps Service In Two Lucky US Cities 91
Chrome OS 87 Adds Tab Search and Bluetooth Device Battery Levels 17
US Broadband Speeds Jumped 90% In 2020. But No, It Had Nothing To Do With Net Neutrality. 90
US Used Patriot Act To Gather Logs of Website Visitors 34
Reddit Reveals Daily Active User Count For the First Time: 52 Million 78
Verizon Wiring Up 500K Homes With FiOS To Settle Lawsuit 25
Australia Demands Apology From China After Fake Image of Soldier Posted On Social Media 145
Pirate Bay Founder Warns US Govt Against Mafia-Esque Copyright Lobby 32
hCaptcha Runs On 15% Of the Internet 66
AWS Outage Has Taken Down a Big Chunk of the Internet 90
Twitter Will Warn You If You 'Like' Misleading Tweets 175
OneWeb Emerges From Bankruptcy, Plans Global Satellite Broadband By 2022 80
Comcast To Enforce 1.2TB Data Cap In Entire 39-State Territory In Early 2021 230
Email and Web Traffic Redirected for Multiple Cryptocurrency Sites After GoDaddy Attack 10
Flash Animations Live Forever At the Internet Archive 29
Google, Facebook and Twitter Threaten To Leave Pakistan Over Censorship Law 37
Google Stadia Is Coming To iOS Officially As a Web App 15
Messaging App Go SMS Pro Exposed Millions of Users' Private Photos and Files 17
YouTube Will Run Ads On Smaller Creators' Videos Without Paying Them 136
Facebook Estimates Hate Speech Seen In 1 Out of 1,000 Views On Its Platform 95
'Extremely Aggressive' Internet Censorship Spreads In the World's Democracies 239
Google's Native Version of Chrome For Apple's ARM Macs Is Out Now 47
Facebook Moderators Say Company Is Asking Them To 'Risk Our Lives' 67
The Worst Passwords of 2020 Show We Are Just As Lazy About Security As Ever 128
Twitter Launches Disappearing 'Fleets' Worldwide 52
Google Will Make It Slightly Easier To Turn Off Smart Features 15
Ok Google: Please Publish Your DKIM Secret Keys 108
Broadband Power Users Explode, Making Data Caps More Profitable For ISPs 57
In Rural 'Dead Zones,' School Comes On a Flash Drive 92
Facebook Extends Political Ad Ban In US For At Least a Month 51
DNS Cache Poisoning, the Internet Attack From 2008, Is Back From the Dead 22
Simple Search Is a Browser Extension That Gives You Google Circa 2010 54
Dish To Shut Down Slingbox, Devices Will Become 'Inoperable' In 2022 52
Alphabet Project Uses Light Beams To Bring Broadband To Remote Regions 50
Steve Bannon Caught Running a Network of Misinformation Pages On Facebook 184
Trudeau Promises To Connect 98% of Canadians To High-Speed Internet By 2026 126
Voters Overwhelmingly Back Community Broadband In Chicago and Denver 103
Net Applications Will No Longer Track the Browser Wars 34
Tim Berners Lee's Startup Inrupt Releases Privacy Platform for Enterprises 20
UK Agency Demands Company Stop Using Name Which Includes an HTML Closing Tag 107
Starlink Beta Testers Are Impressed With Its Speed 54
Apple's Internal IP's Leaked By Its Search Bot 48
What Biden's Victory Means For Net Neutrality - and for Ajit Pai 173
Facebook Can't Seem To Do Anything About 'Stop the Steal' Groups 399
Debt Collectors Will Soon Be Allowed To Reach You By Text Or On Facebook 92
Proctoring Software Company Used DMCA To Take Down a Student's Critical Tweets 130
Netflix Targets Critical 'Cuties' Tweets With Copyright Takedown Requests 72
MPA Lawyers Are Trying To Shut Down Pirate Anime Giant Nyaa.si 40
Brave Hits 20 Million Monthly Users a Year After 1.0 Release 37
Sportsbet Says It Will Pay Out Early On Biden As US President 245
Configuration Snafu Exposes Passwords For Two Million Marijuana Growers 29
Baby Shark Becomes YouTube's Most-Watched Video of All Time 61
Linux Mint Introduces Its Own Take On the Chromium Web Browser 33
The Tech Antitrust Problem No One Is Talking About: US Broadband Providers 66
A Nameless Hiker and the Case the Internet Can't Crack 93
Internet Archive Adds Fact Checks To Explain Web Page Takedowns 115
GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned 111
Facebook Is Losing Users In the US and Canada 103
Brave Browser First To Nix CNAME Deception 47
Glenn Greenwald Resigns From The Intercept 374
Loon Sets Stratospheric Sustained Flight Record With 312-Day Balloon Trip 11
SpaceX Starlink Public Beta Begins: It's $99 a Month Plus $500 Up Front 236
Trump's Campaign Website Hacked By Cryptocurrency Scammers 108
German Regulators Look To Block Teens From Porn Sites 103
FCC Votes To Maintain 2017 Repeal of Net Neutrality Rules 84
Study Shows Which Messengers Leak Your Data, Drain Your Battery, and More 28
About 3% of Starlink Satellites Have Failed So Far 165
Chrome OS May Finally Be Getting a Dark Mode 16
Pakistan's PM Asks Facebook To Ban Islamophobic Content 211
Patreon Is Banning QAnon, Joining Facebook, YouTube and Others 172
FCC Defends Helping Trump, Claims Authority Over Social Media Law 116
Microsoft Releases Chromium-Based Edge Preview For Linux 97
QAnon/8Chan Sites Back Online After Being Ousted By DDoS-Protection Vendor 211
Chess's Cheating Crisis: 'Paranoia Has Become the Culture' 101
Microsoft Adds Option To Disable JScript In Internet Explorer 21
Cloudflare Offers 'Isolated' Cloud-Based Browser, Plus a Network-as-a-Service Solution 52
FCC Will Move To Regulate Social Media After Censorship Outcry 325
Twitter, Like Facebook, To Remove Posts Denying the Holocaust 300
Internet Freedom Has Taken a Hit During the Covid-19 Pandemic 75
Contract To Run .eu Domain-name Registry is Up For Grabs as Brussels Tries To Avoid a .Co-style Debacle 5
2.1 Million of the Oldest Internet Posts Are Now Online For Anyone To Read 106
Some Onions Were Too Sexy For Facebook 107
New Chinese Browser Offers a Glimpse Beyond the Great Firewall -- With Caveats 23
Faith in Government Declines When Mobile Internet Arrives 61
Comcast Working Toward 10Gbps To Your Home Using Cable 136
France Passes New Law To Protect Child Influencers 48
Facebook Widens Ban On Political Ads As Alarm Rises Over Election 105
Facebook Bans QAnon Across Its Platforms 302
Amazon Brings Eero Mesh Wi-Fi To ISPs 28
AT&T Finally Stops Selling DSL 148
Are We Headed For 200 Separate Nationally-Controlled Internets? 80
Nikola Issues Copyright Takedowns Against Critics Who Use Rolling-Truck Clip 34
Twitter Is Building 'Birdwatch,' a System To Fight Misinformation By Adding More Context To Tweets 42
The Subtle Effects of Blood Circulation Can Be Used To Detect Deepfakes 45
Google To Pay Publishers $1 Billion Over Three Years For Their News 26
Apple Removes Two RSS Feed Readers From China App Store To Please China's Censors 15
Washington Emergency Responders First To Use SpaceX's Starlink Internet In the Field: 'It's Amazing' 85
Cloudflare's Privacy Crusade Continues With a Challenge To Google Analytics 21
YouTube Celebrates Deaf Awareness Week By Killing Crowd-Sourced Captions 41
In Internet Dead Zones, Rural Schools Struggle With Distanced Learning 110
The Best Chrome Extensions To Prevent Creepy Web Tracking 38
DHS Admits Facial Recognition Photos Were Hacked, Released On Dark Web 22
Louisiana Shuts Down Voter Registration Site For 'Scheduled Maintenance' On National Voter Registration Day 233
Twitter To Start Testing Voice DMs 10
Senators Introduce Bipartisan 'Unplug Internet Kill Switch Act of 2020,' Preventing a President From Denying Access To the Internet 82
Google Is Pulling the Plug On Paid Chrome Extensions Over the Next Year 18
Old TV Caused Village Broadband Outages For 18 Months 200
Russia Wants To Ban the Use of Secure Protocols Such As TLS 1.3, DoH, DoT, ESNI 59
Quibi Reportedly Weighs Selling Itself Less Than 6 Months After Launching 29
Pandemic Accelerated Cord Cutting, Making 2020 the Worst-Ever Year For Pay TV 93
Facebook Will Let People Claim Ownership of Images and Issue Takedown Requests 26
Facebook Issues New Rules On Internal Employee Communication 124
Facebook Will Stop Recommending Health Groups 38
DuckDuckGo Is Growing Fast 65
Cloudflare and the Wayback Machine, Joining Forces For a More Reliable Web 17
Europe's Top Court Says Net Neutrality Rules Bar 'Zero Rating' 81
Francisco-Backed Sandvine Cancels Belarus Deal, Citing Abuses 10
New Google Fiber Plan: $100 For 2Gbps, Plus Wi-Fi 6 Router and Mesh Extender 36
Smaller Internet Providers In Canada Just Got A Big Win In Court 27
Lack of Broadband and Devices Hobbles America's Remote Learning 175
US Company Faces Backlash After Belarus Uses Its Tech To Block Internet 52
Now Is the Time To Bring Back Away Messages 70
Google Blocks Search Suggestions To Stop Election Misinformation 83
Is Virtual Burning Man the Internet's Ultimate Test? 43
Vivaldi Browser Adds a Pause Button For the Internet 34
Qualcomm's Founder On Why the US Doesn't Have Its Own Huawei 89
The Terrorist Group is Defeated and Routed. But Its Backup Plan Survives 27
SpaceX Launches 12th Starlink Mission, Says Users Getting 100Mbps Downloads 91
Trump Administration Forces Facebook and Google To Drop Hong Kong Cable 56
Twelve Years Later, Apple Is Still Trying To Erase Mac.com Email Addresses 36
Facebook and Google Serve As Vectors For Misinformation While Hobbling Local Journalism and Collecting Taxpayer Subsidies, Group Says 43
CenturyLink Outage Led To a 3.5% Drop in Global Web Traffic 27
Major Internet Outage: Dozens of Sites are Down 57
Brave Complains Google's Newly-Proposed 'WebBundles' Standard Would 'Make URLs Meaningless' 169
Apple Showing Signs It May Soon Launch a Search Engine To Compete Against Google Search 109
Kanye West Accused of Plundering Trade-Secret Tech To Fund His Internet Church 152
A Quarter of the Alexa Top 10K Websites Are Using Browser Fingerprinting Scripts 13
Firefox Android Build That Caused Issues Is Working As Intended 88
Chromium's DNS-Hijacking Tests Accused of Causing Half of All Root Queries 84
Engineers Set New World Record for Internet Speed 43
Anti-Piracy Outfit Hires VPN Expert To Help Track Down The Pirate Bay 67
WordPress Founder Claims Apple Cut Off Updates To His Free App Because It Wants 30 Percent 91
Facebook's 'Independent' Fact Checks Face Quiet Political, Financial Pressures 106
Tim Wu: A TikTok Ban Is Overdue 138
The Attack That Broke Twitter Is Hitting Dozens of Companies 32
Google Maps Is Getting a Lot More Detail 65
'Landlord Tech Watch' Site Lets You Report Landlords Using Tech To Screw Over Tenants 114
Cities Sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Claim They Owe Cable 'Franchise Fees' 111
Leaked SpaceX Starlink Speedtests Reveal Download Speeds of 11 to 60Mbps 84
Instagram Wasn't Removing Photos and Direct Messages From Its Servers 34
Facebook Removed Seven Million Posts In Second Quarter For False Coronavirus Info 169
Ask Slashdot: Is it Time To Call Time on Time Zones? 408
Belarus Has Shut Down the Internet Amid a Controversial Election 120
Is the US about to Split the Internet? 165
Facebook Removes QAnon Conspiracy Group With 200,000 Members 188
Google Sets Timeline For Deprecating 'Classic' Google Sites 7
Government's PACER Fees Are Too High, Federal Circuit Says 17
Twitter Says Security Flaw May Have Exposed Android Users' Direct Messages 5
Social Movements Are Pushing Google Sheets To the Breaking Point 31
YouTube Bans Thousands of Chinese Accounts To Combat 'Coordinated Influence Operations' 187
Cluster of 295 Chrome Extensions Caught Hijacking Google and Bing Search Results 28
SpaceX Asks FCC To Allow 5 Times More Internet Terminals for Starlink's Satellites 150
Amazon To Invest $10 Billion In Space-Based Internet System 52
Comcast Lost 477,000 Cable Customers In Q2 2020 63
FCC Approves Amazon's Internet-From-Space Kuiper Constellation of 3,236 Satellites 61
US Adults Who Mostly Rely On Social Media For News Are Less Informed, Exposed To More Conspiracies: Study 193
Hackers Broke Into Real News Sites To Plant Fake Stories 67
Qualcomm Hints That the 5G iPhone Might Not Arrive In September 17
Misleading Virus Video, Pushed By the Trumps, Spreads Online 566
Trump's Plan To Regulate Social Media 292
Alcohol Delivery Service Drizly Confirms Data Breach 15
Decimal Point Error Causes Etsy To Massively Overcharge For Shipping Labels 43
Google Plans To Build a New Undersea Network Cable Connecting the US, UK and Spain 22
Trump Blasts 'Trending' Section On Twitter: 'Really Ridiculous, Illegal, and, of Course, Very Unfair!' 354
Cloudflare Launches Workers Unbound, the Next Evolution of Its Serverless Platform 32
ICE Bars New Foreign Students From US If Classes Are Fully Online 150
Facebook Ignored Racial Bias Research, Employees Say 105
AI System Detects Posts By Foreign 'Trolls' On Facebook and Twitter 62
Gmail Is About To Start Testing Verification-Like Logos For Email 44
Facebook Overrides Fact-Checks When Climate Science Is 'Opinion' 225
Most Dedicated VPN IP-Addresses Are Not Anonymous 27
Cloudflare's 23-Minute Outage Today Also Took Down Major Web Sites 57
Chrome 84 Arrives With SameSite Cookie Changes, Web OTP API and Web Animations API 14
Google To Invest $10B in India 62
US Secret Service Creates New Cyber Fraud Task Force 28
Google Bans Stalkerware Ads 16
France To Introduce Controversial Age Verification System For Adult Websites 101
Police Are Buying Access To Hacked Website Data 41
Over 100 Wi-Fi Routers Fail Major Security Test -- Protect Yourself Now 102
China's Great Firewall Descends On Hong Kong Internet Users 161
City Builds Open-Access Broadband Network With Google Fiber As Its First ISP 39
Cops Seize Server That Hosted BlueLeaks, DDoSecrets Says 15
Only 9% of Visitors Give GDPR Consent To Be Tracked 33
Microsoft Seizes Six Domains Used in COVID-19 Phishing Operations 26
Alphabet's Loon Launches Its Balloon-Powered Kenyan Internet Service 32
US Online Grocery Sales Hit Record $7.2 Billion In June 36
Hackers Are Exploiting a 5-Alarm Bug In Networking Equipment 32
How Google Docs Became the Social Media of the Resistance 129
Foreign Students Must Leave the US If Their Universities Transition To Online-Only Learning 169
Broadband's Underused Lifeline For Low-income Users 55
How Crowdfunding Transformed Tabletop Board Games 24
Is Our Technology Literally Changing Our Brains? 28
Fresh Calls For Guarantees on Digital Taxation in Future UK-US Trade Deal 32
JPMorgan Drops Terms 'Master,' 'Slave' From Internal Tech Code and Materials 285
MIT Removes Huge Dataset That Teaches AI Systems To Use Racist, Misogynistic Slurs 62
Firefox 78: Protections Dashboard, New Developer Features, and the End of the Line For Older MacOS Versions 51
Multiple Service Providers Are Blocking DuckDuckGo In India 21
Kongregate No Longer Accepting New Games, Shutting Down Forums and Chat 17
Supreme Court Says Generic Domains Like Booking.com Can Be Trademarked 83
Data Caps On AT&T, Comcast, T-Mobile Will Return June 30 43
The New York Times Removes Its Articles From Apple News 62
Reddit Finally Bans Hate Speech, Removes 2,000 Racist and Violent Forums 334
Journalist's Phone Hacked: All He Had To Do Was Visit a Website. Any Website. 123
Bots Still Trying To Reach Cyberbunker 2.0 Addresses 9 Months After Raid 13
Charter Seeks FCC Permission to Impose Data Caps and Charge Fees to Video Services 102
Military Stands Firm In Defense Of Western Myanmar's Internet Blackout 27
Comcast Becomes the First ISP To Join Mozilla's TRR Program 85
Democrats Pitch $100 Billion Broadband Plan, Repeal of State Limits On Muni Networks 213
The US-China Battle Over the Internet Goes Under the Sea 72
Amazon Launches Counterfeit Crimes Unit To Fight Knockoffs On Its Store 75
Google Says It Will Keep Less Browser History and Location Data By Default 36
Twitter Flags Trump Tweet of Protesters For Including 'Threat of Harm' 382
K-Pop Stans' Trump Prank Ratchets Up the Internet Wars 346
Crooks Abuse Google Analytics To Conceal Theft of Payment Card Data 10

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