The Internet Stories for 2021

A Program for Cheaper Internet for Low-Income Americans Launches Today 101
WTF Is .xyz? 65
Nintendo Had Plans To Bring Email, Internet Searching, and Live Streams To the Game Boy Color 17
Big Tech Split Leads To Demise of Internet Association 8
5G Speeds In the US Rank Dead Last Among Early Adopters 77
In 2021, the Internet Went for TikTok, Space and Beyond 32
Is the Cloud Making Internet Services More Fragile? 119
Comcast Will Keep Data Caps Out of the Northeast In 2022 26
Federal Court Blocks Texas' Unconstitutional Social Media Law 292
Silicon Valley's Voice in Washington Dissolves 14
What Is Web3 and Why Should You Care? 113
Birds Aren't Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory 110
Is the Internet Changing the Way We Remember? 54
Boss Says Sorry For 'Blundered' Zoom Firing of 900 Staff 138
Alexa.com Is 'Retiring' 37
An Amazon Server Outage is Causing Problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and Others 99
Verizon Might Be Collecting Your Browsing History 36
2021 'Web Almanac' Research Finds Lots of CSS, JavaScript, jQuery - and Not Much WebAssembly 67
Comcast Reduced 'Working Latency' By 90% with AQM. Is This the Future? 119
Fake Covid-19 Vaccine Certificates Are Being Advertised On the Dark Web 207
A Mysterious Threat Actor Is Running Hundreds of Malicious Tor Relays 44
Debt Collectors Can Now Text, Email and DM You On Social Media 66
More Than a Third of World's Population Have Never Used Internet, Says UN 55
Reddit Introduces New Real-Time Features To Keep Users Engaged 32
Browser Extension Shows How Many Brands On Amazon Are Actually Just Amazon 37
The Virtual Phone Farms Scammers Use To Set Up Fake Accounts 22
Microsoft Adds Buy Now, Pay Later Financing Option To Edge -- And Everyone Hates It 76
Cyber Monday Online Sales Fall For the First Time Ever 95
FBI Document Shows What Data Can Be Obtained From Encrypted Messaging Apps 23
SpaceX's Starlink Is Testing Internet Service for Aircraft 46
'Cyber Grinches' Snatching Toys Should Be Stopped, Lawmakers Say 89
Big Tech Firms Should Pay ISPs To Upgrade Networks, Telcos In Europe Claim 87
Researchers Claim Locally-Testable-Code Breakthrough With Exotic Multi-Dimensional Graph 62
A Third of All Dark Web Domains Are Now V3 Onion Sites 20
Mozilla Is Ending Support For Its Firefox Password Manager Sync App 26
Gizmodo Is Making the Facebook Papers Public 45
Why Colleges are Giving Up on Remote Education 111
Programmer Restores YouTube Dislike Counts With Browser Extension 72
Twitter Rolls Back AMP Support, No Longer Sends Users To AMP Pages 34
YouTube Co-Founder Predicts 'Decline' of the Platform Following Removal of Dislikes 125
Google Chrome 96 Breaks Twitter, Discord, Video Rendering and More 19
Scores of Internet Services Including Google, Instagram, AWS, Twitter, Spotify, Discord, Shopify, TikTok Are Facing Outage, Users Say 65
Internet of Things Projected To Generate Up To $12.6 Trillion By 2030 31
Slashdot Asks: Should YouTube Remove the Dislike Count? 141
Google Wants To Save the Planet With Satellite Images 9
Denuvo-Protected Games Rendered Unplayable After Domain Expires 65
How Pinterest Utterly Ruined Photo Search on the Internet 141
IAB Europe Says It's Expecting To Be Found In Breach of GDPR 29
Amazon's Satellite Launch Schedule Puts It Nearly 4 Years Behind Starlink 69
SpaceX's Starlink Registers in India, Aims To Deploy 200,000 Active Terminals by 2022 25
Cable Broadband Growth Is Sputtering in the US, and No One's Sure Why 160
Mastodon Puts Trump's Social Network On Notice For Improperly Using Its Code 134
Google Rolls Out Tool To Help Minors Delete Photos From Search 11
Gizmodo's Photos from the Massive iPhone 4 Leak Have Disappeared 19
Giant, Free Index To World's Research Papers Released Online 10
Anonymity No More? Age Checks Come To the Web 113
The Startup That Wants To Disrupt Big Internet Providers 55
TikTok Tells US Lawmakers It Does Not Give Info To China 33
'Banning Anonymous Social Media Accounts Would Only Stifle Free Speech and Democracy' 152
ISPs Want More Money Because So Many People Are Streaming Squid Game 127
Internet Service Providers Collect, Sell Horrifying Amount of Sensitive Data, Government Study Concludes 35
With Coercion and Black Boxes, Russia Installs a Digital Iron Curtain 52
Apple's Safari Browser Runs the Risk of Becoming the New Internet Explorer -- Holding the Web Back for everyone 156
Trump's TRUTH Social May Violate Terms of Open-Source Code It's Built On 254
Donald Trump To Launch Social Media Platform Called Truth Social 387
About 26% of All Malicious JavaScript Threats Are Obfuscated 18
Brave Removes Google as its Default Search Engine 25
Doctors Blame TikTok For Surge In Teen Girls Experiencing Tics 60
The Moon Will Soon Have Its Own Internet 59
PowerPC Fork of Firefox Reaches End of the Road 50
Site Allowing You To 'Skip the Interview' Launches, Then Promptly Shuts Down 54
Elon Musk Says Starlink Will Provide Faster Internet Speeds On Airlines 53
The Intercept Reveals Facebook's Secret Blacklist of 'Dangerous Individuals and Organizations' 71
Ex-minister Predicts 'Huge Battleground' Over UK's Plan To Set Internet Content Rules 46
All Linux and Mac Computers Get Their Time Zones From the Same Database 128
Firefox Now Sends Your Address Bar Keystrokes To Mozilla 139
Cloudflare Doesn't Have To Cut Off Copyright-Infringing Websites, Judge Rules 21
Africa Internet Riches Plundered, Contested by China Broker 55
Instagram Ditches the IGTV Brand, Combines Everything But Reels Into An 'Instagram Video' Format 9
Google Is About To Turn On Two-Factor Authentication By Default For Millions of Users 108
Microsoft's .NET Foundation Under Fire As Resigning Board Member Questions Its Role 45
Telegram Founder Says Over 70 Million New Users Joined During Facebook Outage 50
Singapore Passes Foreign Interference Law Allowing Authorities To Block Internet Content 33
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus Have Been Suffering Global Outage For More Than 3 Hours Now [Update] 252
FSF Announces 'JShelter' Browser Privacy Extension to Block Fingerprinting, Tracking, and Malware 40
Cloudflare To Enter Infrastructure Services Market With New R2 Storage Product 19
Facebook's Effort To Attract Preteens Goes Beyond Instagram Kids, Documents Show 36
VoIP.ms Battles Week-Long Sustained DDoS-for-Ransom Attack 37
Facebook Will Open Its Fiber Networks To Expand Broadband Access In Rural Virginia 8
'Facebook Is What's Wrong With America' 208
Discord Starts Testing YouTube Integration 16
TikTokers Are Trading Stocks By Copying What Members of Congress Do 91
Let's Encrypt's Root Certificate is About To Expire, and It Might Break Your Devices 52
The Chinese Version of TikTok Is Limiting Kids To 40 Minutes a Day 91
'Please Stop Closing Forums And Moving People To Discord' 158
China Tells Its Tech Giants To Stop Blocking Rivals' Links 27
China's Biggest Movie Star Was Erased From the Internet, and the Mystery Is Why 234
Alphabet's Project Taara Laser Tech Beamed 700TB of Data Across Nearly 5km 34
Kazakhstan Moves To Restrict Foreign Social Media Usage 23
Congress Will Investigate Claims That Instagram Harms Teens 50
FCC Wants Landlords To Stop Screwing Up Your Internet 90
'Massive' Transatlantic Data Cable Landed On Beach In Bude 106
Twitter Reopens Its Account Verification Process After Another Pause 16
Facebook's Own Research Shows Instagram Is Harmful To Teens, Report Says 19
Kape Technologies Agrees to Buy ExpressVPN for $936 Million 21
Facebook: Some High-Profile Users 'Allowed To Break Platform's Rules' 74
Krebs Also Hit By Massive DDOS, Apparently Caused by Compromised Routers 31
New Texas Law Tries Making it Illegal for Social Media Sites to Ban Users Over Political Viewpoints 469
A Secretive Pentagon Program That Started on Trump's Last Day in Office Just Ended. The Mystery Has Not. 85
UK.gov Is Launching An Anti-Facebook Encryption Push 33
UK's ICO Calls For Browser-Level Controls To Fix 'Cookie Fatigue' 135
Jagex Nixes Community-Built RuneScape HD Client, Massive Backlash Follows 22
The 'Dead Internet' Theory Posits Forums are Now Almost Entirely Overrun By AI 147
Amazon To Remove More Content That Violates Rules From Cloud Service 187
UK ISP Sky Broadband Feeds Realtime Customer Bandwidth Data To Litigious Anti-Piracy Firm 30
Twitter For iOS Beta Lays Groundwork For Bitcoin Tips 29
Twitch Streamers Are Taking September 1st Off In Protest of Bot Attacks 31
Reddit Bans Anti-Vax Subreddit After Site-Wide Protest 218
W3C Publishes First Public Working Draft of CSS Nesting Module 60
Reddit's Teach-the-Controversy Stance On COVID Vaccines Sparks Wider Protest 582
China To Cleanse Online Content That 'Bad-Mouths' Its Economy 79
The Most Popular Posts On Facebook Are Plagiarized 40
Why Are Hyperlinks Blue? 77
Jeremy Keith Resigns from AMP Advisory Committee: 'It Has Become Clear To Me that AMP Remains a Google Product' 34
How Data Brokers Sell Access To the Backbone of the Internet 64
India has Highest Rate for IPv6 Adoption, While US Ranks Sixth 147
2G and 3G Networks Are Shutting Down. Should You Consider 5G For IoT? 74
Facebook Suppressed Report That Made It Look Bad 69
Your Credit Score Should Be Based On Your Web History, IMF Says 220
China Issues Draft Rules To Curb Unfair Competition, Restrict Use of User Data 18
Thousands of Wikipedia Pages Vandalized With Giant Swastikas 73
Google and Facebook's New Cable To Link Japan and Southeast Asia 13
Mozilla Tests If 'Firefox/100.0' User Agent Breaks Websites 44
AT&T Delays 500,000 Fiber-To-The-Home Builds Due To Severe Fiber Shortage 32
Senate Approves Rubio-Scott Amendment To Provide Free Internet To Cuba 144
Netflix Intensifies 'VPN Ban' and Targets Residential IP-Addresses Too 119
Big Telecom Comes Out On Top In $65 Billion Upgrade 101
Twitter Algorithm Prefers Slimmer, Younger, Light-Skinned Faces 45
TikTok Overtakes Facebook As World's Most Downloaded App 15
UK Broadband Rollout Trial To Target Hard-To-Reach Homes Through Water Pipes 78
FCC Unveils New Mobile Service Maps 23
Starlight Could Really Be a Vast Alien Quantum Internet, Physicist Proposes 76
Why the Internet in Cuba Has Become a US Political Hot Potato 48
NYT Crossword Puzzle No Longer Works In Third-Party Apps 39
Firefox Lost Almost 50 Million Users In 3 Years 247
Russia Tells UN It Wants Vast Expansion of Cybercrime Offenses, Plus Network Backdoors, Online Censorship 52
Google Chrome To No Longer Show Secure Website Indicators 68
The Push For a 'PBS For the Internet' 169
Russia's 'Nonsensical, Impossible Quest' to Create Its Own Domestic Internet 61
Amazon's Older Kindles Will Start To Lose Their Internet Access In December 122
Fast Internet Everywhere Could Add $160 Billion To US Economy 83
Instagram Makes Under-16s' Accounts Private By Default 12
Banks, Brokerages, PSN, the Steam Store, and More Are Down in Massive Internet Outage 62
Clubhouse Is Now Out of Beta and Open To Everyone 31
1.4 Million Cubans Bypass Censorship Using US Government-Funded Software Psiphon 50
Virginia Will Use a $700 Million Grant To Roll Out Statewide Broadband 55
Japan Has Shattered the Internet Speed Record at 319 Terabits per Second 32
Chrome Will Soon Let You Turn On An HTTPS-First Mode 64
A Privacy War is Raging Within the World Wide Web Consortium 52
Amazon Has Acquired Facebook's Satellite Internet Team 29
AT&T Will Let Unlimited-Data Customers Pay More To Avoid the Slow Lane 96
As Cubans Protest, Government Cracks Down On Internet Access and Messaging Apps 239
Google Boss Sundar Pichai Warns of Threats To Internet Freedom 63
Biden Executive Order Urges Greater Scrutiny of Big Tech M&A, Restoring Net Neutrality Rules 64
Code In Huge Ransomware Attack Written To Avoid Computers That Use Russian, Says New Report 123
Bumble Is Opening a Restaurant To Help People Date IRL Again 66
Twitter Considers New Features For Tweeting Only To Friends, Under Different Personas and More 11
Norway Law Forces Influencers To Label Retouched Photos On Instagram 69
The Internet Is Rotting 106
Former Trump Aide Jason Miller To Launch New Social App 'Gettr' Backed by Fugitive Chinese Billionaire 170
Russian Hackers Are Abusing VPNs To Hijack Accounts, US and UK Officials Say 39
The Tim Berners-Lee NFT that sold for $5.4M might have an HTML error 41
Google Is Working On an HTTPS-Only Mode For Chrome 65
New UK Internet Law Raises Free Speech Concerns, Say Civil Liberties Campaigners 49
Ohio GOP Ends Attempt To Ban Municipal Broadband After Protest From Residents 207
DoubleVPN Servers, Logs, and Account Info Seized By Law Enforcement 69
Inside Neeva, the Ad-Free, Privacy-First Search Engine From ex-Googlers 70
Musk Says Total Investments in Starlink To Reach $20-$30 Billion 42
Google No Longer Requires AMP, But the Replacement Might Be Worse 50
The Internet Eats Up Less Energy Than You Might Think 53
DuckDuckGo Beats Bing to Become #2 Mobile Search Engine in US, Canada, Australia 91
Windows 11 Requires an Internet Connection and Microsoft Account At Setup 187
Altice Is Reducing Cable-Internet Upload Speeds To Bring Them 'In Line With Other ISPs' 80
Supreme Court Sides With High School Cheerleader Who Cursed Online 157
Google Gets a New Rival as Brave Search Opens To the Public 60
A Real Estate Mogul Will Spend $100 Million to Fix Social Media Using Blockchain 93
White House Debuts New Maps Showing Broadband Vacuum 161
Major Australian Banks, US Airlines Briefly Hit By Widespread Internet Outages 21
Web Inventor Berners-Lee To Auction Original Code as NFT 59
Also Leaving Freenode: FSF, GNU, plus Linux and Python support channels 65
Phishing Sites Reached All-Time High In January 2021 5
Facebook Accounts For Over Half of Sex Trafficing Recruitment 135
Reddit Ends Secret Santa Gift-Giving Platform 28
The Vivaldi Browser Now Has Mail, Calendar, and An RSS Reader Built-In 56
One Fastly Customer Triggered Internet Meltdown 46
A Big Chunk of the Internet Goes Offline Because of a Faulty CDN Provider 157
White House Hires Broadband Expert 100
EFF Argues 'If Not Overturned, a Bad Copyright Decision Will Lead Many Americans to Lose Internet Access' 89
Apple, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft Form Group To Standardize Browser Plug-Ins 57
Facebook Says US Is the Top Target of Disinformation Campaigns 62
eBay Sellers Can No Longer Use PayPal Under New Terms 110
Amazon Devices Will Soon Automatically Share Your Internet With Neighbors 182
One Startup's Quest to Take on Chrome and Reinvent the Web Browser 101
Guess Who Opposes Federal Funding for Broadband Internet Services Run by City Governments? 116
Freenode Apologizes as Prominent Open Source Projects Switch to Libera Chat 122
Twitter Could Be Working On Facebook-Style Reactions 7
Google Nears Settlement of Ad-Tech Antitrust Case in France 2
Charter Charges More Money For Slower Internet On Streets With No Competition 100
Tech Liability Shield Has No Place in Trade Deals, Groups Say 26
Cox Appeals $1 Billion Piracy Liability Verdict To 'Save the Internet' 51
Industry Groups Sue To Stop Florida's New Social Media Law 142
Indonesian Government Blocks Hacking Forum After Data Leak 6
Russia Raises Heat on Twitter, Google and Facebook in Online Crackdown 36
Russia Makes Good On Its Threat To Fine Google Over 'Illegal' Internet Content 110
Will the End of Lockdowns Change Our Relationship with the Internet? 81
Activist Archivists Are Trying to Save the 'Pirate Bay of Science' 56
Verizon Forces Users Onto Pricier Plans To Get $50-Per-Month Government Subsidy 31
Freenode IRC Staff Quit After New Owner 'Seizes' Control of Network 145
Frontier Lied About Internet Speed, FTC Says In Post-Net Neutrality Case 50
Facebook Calls Links To Depression Inconclusive. These Researchers Disagree 100
Chrome Now Uses Duplex To Fix Your Stolen Passwords 14
NBN Replaces 10,000 Modems After Lightning 'Fries' Devices Across Blue Mountains 72
Cloudflare Wants To Kill the CAPTCHA 106
'Scheme Flooding' Technique May Be Used To Deanonymize You 46
Language Models Like GPT-3 Could Herald a New Type of Search Engine 13
SpaceX Partners With Google Cloud On Starlink, Placing Ground Stations At Data Centers 19
A Podcast App is Exposing Subscribers-only Shows 15
Bill To Ban TikTok On US Government Devices Passes Committee 45
eBay Embraces NFTs 22
Facebook Is Testing Pop-Up Messages Telling People To Read a Link Before They Share It 61
Game Developers Break Silence Around Salaries 89
LiveLeak, the Internet's Font of Gore and Violence, Has Shut Down 79
Ajit Pai Promised Cheaper Internet -- Real Prices Rose 19% Instead 132
Starlink Satellite Internet Service Gets 500K Preorders 93
Biden Team May Partner With Private Firms To Monitor Extremist Chatter Online 250
New Emails Show Steve Jobs Referred To Facebook As 'Fecebook' Amid App Store Conflict 59
Frontier Exits Bankruptcy, Claims It Will Double Fiber-To-the-Home Footprint 30
About 1.5 Million People Still Pay for AOL 81
eBay Says It's Open To Accepting Cryptocurrencies In Future, Exploring NFTs 13
Canadian Government Accused of Trying to Introduce Internet Censorship 293
Investigation Finds Links Between Seamy Slander Sites and Reputation-Management Services 51
GitHub Joins Movement Against Google's FLOC 21
How Should We Honor the Legacy of Dan Kaminsky? 27
Opera Integrates Blockchain-Powered Domains, Providing Access to the Decentralized Web 50
Click Studios Asks Customers To Stop Tweeting About Its Passwordstate Data Breach 14
Boris Johnson's Personal Mobile Phone Number Available Online For 15 Years 37
France Planning To Allow Use of Algorithms To Detect Extremism Online 60
Verizon Is Weighing a Sale of Yahoo, AOL 88
Anti-Vaxxer Hijacks QR Codes At COVID-19 Check-In Sites 117
US Government Probes VPN Hack Within Federal Agencies, Races To Find Clues 12

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