Slashdot Items Tagged "internet"

Date / Time Story
Thursday April 18, 2024 @07:30PM Reddit Is Taking Over Google
Thursday April 18, 2024 @07:02PM Frontier Communications Shuts Down Systems After Cyberattack
Thursday April 18, 2024 @12:14PM Nigeria To Criminalise Fiber Cable Damage Costing Telecoms Billions
Tuesday April 16, 2024 @05:05PM ISPs Can Charge Extra For Fast Gaming Under FCC's Internet Rules, Critics Say
Tuesday April 16, 2024 @04:12PM New UK Law Targets 'Despicable Individuals' Who Create AI Sex Deepfakes
Sunday April 14, 2024 @12:29PM Stop 'Harmful 5G Fast Lanes', Legal Scholar Warns America's FCC
Friday April 12, 2024 @04:47PM 96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Info With Meta, Google, Data Brokers
Wednesday April 10, 2024 @05:19PM Starting Today, ISPs Must Display Labels With Price, Speeds, and Data Caps
Wednesday April 10, 2024 @03:25PM EU's New Tech Laws Are Working; Small Browsers Gain Market Share
Wednesday April 10, 2024 @10:33AM Consumers Will Finally See FCC-Mandated 'Nutrition Labels' For Most Broadband Plans
Tuesday April 09, 2024 @10:20PM Cox Plans To Take Piracy Liability Battle To the Supreme Court
Tuesday April 09, 2024 @04:39PM A Breakthrough Online Privacy Proposal Hits Congress
Tuesday April 09, 2024 @12:37PM Internet Traffic Dipped as Viewers Took in the Eclipse
Tuesday April 09, 2024 @02:13AM The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island
Friday April 05, 2024 @05:46PM FCC Won't Block California Net Neutrality Law, Says States Can 'Experiment'
Thursday April 04, 2024 @06:27PM Google Rolls Out New 'Jpegli' JPEG Coding Library
Thursday April 04, 2024 @04:34PM A 'Law Firm' of AI Generated Lawyers Is Sending Fake Threats As an SEO Scam
Thursday April 04, 2024 @12:52PM Microsoft Edge Will Let You Control How Much RAM It Uses Soon
Tuesday April 02, 2024 @06:29PM President Biden Is Now Posting Into the Fediverse
Tuesday April 02, 2024 @06:20PM FCC To Vote To Restore Net Neutrality Rules
Tuesday April 02, 2024 @01:25PM White House Makes Last-ditch Push for Internet Subsidy Program
Tuesday April 02, 2024 @11:16AM Shrinking Arctic Ice Redraws the Map For Internet Cable Connections
Monday April 01, 2024 @08:53PM Researchers Unlock Fiber Optic Connection 1.2 Million Times Faster Than Broadband
Monday April 01, 2024 @10:45AM For Data-Guzzling AI Companies, the Internet Is Too Small
Friday March 29, 2024 @06:33PM Playboy Image From 1972 Gets Ban From IEEE Computer Journals
Friday March 29, 2024 @04:46PM 20 Years of Gmail
Saturday March 23, 2024 @12:04PM New Book Remembers LAN Parties and the 1990s 'Multiplayer Revolution'
Friday March 22, 2024 @03:54PM Dutch Court Orders ISP To Block 'Anna's Archive' and 'LibGen'
Friday March 22, 2024 @03:37PM Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits To Running People-Search Networks
Friday March 22, 2024 @03:10PM Cable ISP Fined $10,000 For Lying To FCC About Where It Offers Broadband
Thursday March 21, 2024 @05:24PM Threads Opens Beta To 'Fediverse Sharing'
Wednesday March 20, 2024 @02:15PM US Broadband Providers To Begin Providing New Comparison Labels
Tuesday March 19, 2024 @05:08PM Modern Web Bloat Means Some Pages Load 21MB of Data
Tuesday March 19, 2024 @12:09PM Mozilla Firefox 124 Is Now Available for Download
Monday March 18, 2024 @04:20PM BitTorrent Is No Longer the 'King' of Upstream Internet Traffic
Friday March 15, 2024 @09:35AM FCC Scraps Old Speed Benchmark, Says Broadband Should Be at Least 100Mbps
Thursday March 14, 2024 @12:06PM Undersea Cable Damage Causes Internet Outages Across Africa
Tuesday March 12, 2024 @09:25AM Speedometer 3.0: A Shared Browser Benchmark for Web Application Responsiveness
Tuesday March 12, 2024 @09:13AM World Wide Web Inventor's Top Predictions as It Turns 35
Friday March 08, 2024 @08:13PM Chrome 124 Lets You Turn Any Website Into an App
Thursday March 07, 2024 @05:14PM US Lost Record $12.5 Billion To Online Crime In 2023, Says FBI
Tuesday March 05, 2024 @12:01PM Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Threads Are All Down
Tuesday March 05, 2024 @09:57AM New Proposal Could Ban Landlords From Charging for Cable and Internet in Bulk
Friday March 01, 2024 @06:46PM Rogue Editors Started a Competing Wikipedia That's Only About Roads
Wednesday February 28, 2024 @07:53PM Cloudflare Makes Pingora Rust Framework Open-Source
Tuesday February 27, 2024 @01:09PM Underwater Cables in Red Sea Damaged Months After Houthis Threatened To Do Just That
Saturday February 17, 2024 @04:29PM Can Robots.txt Files Really Stop AI Crawlers?
Wednesday February 14, 2024 @02:01PM DuckDuckGo's Browser Adds Encrypted, Privacy-Minded Syncing and Backup
Monday February 12, 2024 @06:25PM WhatsApp Image Sender Becomes First Convicted Cyber-Flasher
Thursday February 08, 2024 @05:40PM Pakistan Cuts Off Phone and Internet Services On Election Day
Wednesday February 07, 2024 @05:12PM Judge Rules Against Users Suing Google and Apple Over 'Annoying' Search Results
Saturday February 03, 2024 @12:52AM Ask Slashdot: Can You Roll Your Own Home Router?
Wednesday January 31, 2024 @05:01PM Comcast Reluctantly Agrees To Stop Its Misleading '10G Network' Claims
Wednesday January 31, 2024 @02:46AM Starlink's Laser System Is Beaming 42 Million GB of Data Per Day
Tuesday January 30, 2024 @02:44PM Russia Hit With Widespread Internet Outage Across Country
Tuesday January 30, 2024 @12:04PM Apple Says UK Could 'Secretly Veto' Global Privacy Tools
Tuesday January 30, 2024 @07:03AM ICANN Proposes Creating .INTERNAL Domain
Monday January 29, 2024 @07:10PM After 32 Years, One of the Net's Oldest Software Archives Is Shutting Down
Monday January 29, 2024 @06:21PM 'Arc Search' Combines Browser, Search Engine, and AI Into Something New and Different
Monday January 29, 2024 @02:04PM T-Mobile Says It May Slow Home Internet Speeds of Some Users in Times of 'Congestion'
Friday January 19, 2024 @04:35AM 'Where Have All the Websites Gone?'
Thursday January 18, 2024 @06:49PM Bing Gained Less Than 1% Market Share Since Adding Bing Chat, Report Finds
Wednesday January 17, 2024 @07:06AM Brace Yourself, IPv6 is Coming
Tuesday January 16, 2024 @05:37PM Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find
Tuesday January 16, 2024 @05:26PM LG Washing Machine Found Sending 3.7 GB of Data a Day
Tuesday January 16, 2024 @05:11PM Chrome Updates Incognito Warning To Admit Google Tracks Users In 'Private' Mode
Saturday January 13, 2024 @12:24AM Ukrainian Hacker Group Takes Down Moscow ISP As a Revenge For Kyivstar Cyber Attack
Wednesday January 10, 2024 @06:55PM Brave Search Can Now Deliver Results For Programming Queries
Tuesday January 09, 2024 @05:49PM FCC Plans Shutdown of Affordable Connectivity Program As GOP Withholds Funding
Monday January 08, 2024 @02:08AM How AI-Generated Content Could Fuel a Migration From Social Media to Independent 'Authored' Content
Friday January 05, 2024 @08:56AM Mexican Cartel Provided Wi-Fi To Locals - With Threat of Death If They Didn't Use It
Tuesday January 02, 2024 @08:17PM 25 Years Since the First Real 'Slashdot Effect'
Tuesday January 02, 2024 @06:07PM Meet 'Link History,' Facebook's New Way To Track the Websites You Visit
Sunday December 31, 2023 @01:36PM Is the Internet About to Get Weird Again?
Friday December 29, 2023 @05:07PM Social Media Companies Made $11 Billion In US Ad Revenue From Minors, Study Finds
Friday December 22, 2023 @05:39PM Meet Kosmik, a Visual Canvas With Built-In PDF Reader and Web Browser
Wednesday December 20, 2023 @05:47PM The Rise and Fall of Usenet
Wednesday December 20, 2023 @05:16PM US Regulators Propose New Online Privacy Safeguards For Children
Monday December 18, 2023 @07:30PM Internet Archive: Digital Lending Is Fair Use, Not Copyright Infringement
Thursday December 14, 2023 @01:19PM Amazon's Internet Satellites Will Use Space Lasers To Transmit Data
Monday December 11, 2023 @04:50PM The Arc Browser Is Finally Coming To Windows
Monday December 11, 2023 @08:58AM US Debates Data Policy To Avoid a Fragmented Global Internet
Sunday December 10, 2023 @09:58PM New Internet Standard L4S: the Quiet Plan to Make the Internet Feel Faster
Wednesday December 06, 2023 @09:55AM Twitch To Shut Down in Korea Over 'Prohibitively Expensive' Network Fees
Monday December 04, 2023 @09:08PM The UK Tries, Once Again, To Age-Gate Pornography
Monday December 04, 2023 @07:36PM Cicadas Are So Loud, Fiber Optic Cables Can 'Hear' Them
Thursday November 30, 2023 @02:49PM Web Browser Suspended Because It Can Browse the Web is Back on Google Play
Tuesday November 28, 2023 @05:09PM Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers
Tuesday November 28, 2023 @05:00PM The .meme Domain Is Here
Tuesday November 28, 2023 @04:55PM Google Play Keeps Banning the Same Web Browser Due To Vague DMCA Notices
Tuesday November 28, 2023 @09:52AM Internet Use Does Not Appear To Harm Mental Health, Oxford Study Finds
Monday November 27, 2023 @06:42PM Meta Designed Platforms To Get Children Addicted, Court Documents Allege
Monday November 27, 2023 @02:56PM Charter To Reduce Mobile Video Streaming Resolution for Some Customers
Wednesday November 22, 2023 @07:33PM Cloudflare Blocks Abusive Content On Its Ethereum Gateway
Tuesday November 21, 2023 @10:15AM YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users
Wednesday November 15, 2023 @10:56AM China Claims World's Fastest Internet With 1.2 Terabit-Per-Second Network
Saturday November 11, 2023 @01:29AM Is India Setting a 'Global Standard' for Online Censorship of Social Media?
Thursday November 09, 2023 @02:42PM Internet Providers Say the FCC Should Not Investigate Broadband Prices
Sunday November 05, 2023 @07:14PM Elon Musk Says SpaceX's Starlink Achieves Breakeven Cash Flow
Thursday November 02, 2023 @05:45PM Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stream/Capture Video?
Tuesday October 31, 2023 @05:51PM YouTube Is Getting Serious About Blocking Ad Blockers
Tuesday October 31, 2023 @05:24PM Russia Blocks 167 VPNs, Steps Up OpenVPN and WireGuard Disruption
Monday October 30, 2023 @04:38PM Internet Access In Gaza Partially Restored After Blackout
Sunday October 29, 2023 @02:39PM America's Net Neutrality Question: Should the FCC Define the Internet as a 'Common Carrier'?
Sunday October 29, 2023 @12:23AM Comcast and Xfinity Lose Customers - Thanks to Cord-Cutters and Competition from Wireless Internet Carriers
Friday October 27, 2023 @12:26PM Internet Access in Gaza is Collapsing as ISPs Fall Offline
Thursday October 26, 2023 @04:55PM Google Fiber Is Getting Outrageously Fast 20Gbps Service
Tuesday October 24, 2023 @05:50PM ICE Uses Tool To Find 'Derogatory' Speech Online
Monday October 23, 2023 @05:32PM Millions of Smart Meters Will Be Defunct When 2G and 3G Turns Off
Monday October 23, 2023 @05:02PM Cleveland Launches Ambitious Plan To Provide Citywide Dirt Cheap Broadband
Friday October 20, 2023 @06:19PM Supreme Court Blocks Restrictions On Biden Administration Efforts To Get Platforms To Remove Social Media Posts
Tuesday October 17, 2023 @03:18PM Meta Will Now Let You Stop Instagram From Tracking You Across the Web
Monday October 16, 2023 @10:31PM Google Asks Congress To Not Ban Teens From Social Media
Monday October 16, 2023 @04:52PM Comcast Resists Call To Stop Its Misleading '10G Network' Claims
Friday October 13, 2023 @11:54PM Could The Next Big Solar Storm Fry the Grid?
Thursday October 12, 2023 @04:47PM New York Seeks To Limit Social Media's Grip On Children's Attention
Tuesday October 10, 2023 @02:31PM Finnish President Says Undersea Gas and Telecom Cables Damaged By 'External Activity'
Tuesday October 10, 2023 @11:50AM HTTP/2 Zero-Day Exploited To Launch Largest DDoS Attacks In History
Monday October 09, 2023 @04:56PM Chinese Programmer Ordered To Pay 1 Million Yuan For Using VPN
Friday October 06, 2023 @03:20PM Amazon Launches First Satellites for Kuiper Space Internet System
Wednesday October 04, 2023 @04:54PM Gmail Unleashes 'Email Emoji Reactions' Onto an Unsuspecting World
Monday October 02, 2023 @09:50AM European Telecom Groups Ask Brussels To Make Big Tech Pay More For Networks
Friday September 29, 2023 @04:10PM Supreme Court To Decide If State Laws Limiting Social Media Platforms Violate Constitution
Thursday September 28, 2023 @06:27PM Reddit Is Removing Ability To Opt Out of Ad Personalization Based On Your Activity
Wednesday September 27, 2023 @06:33PM Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Lousy Browser Spell-Checkers?
Wednesday September 27, 2023 @05:05PM ChatGPT Can Now Browse the Internet
Tuesday September 26, 2023 @01:33PM Walmart To Roll Out New Prepaid Phone Service From Boost Founder
Monday September 25, 2023 @06:55PM The World's Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old
Tuesday September 19, 2023 @04:51PM UK Parliament Passes Online Safety Bill
Wednesday September 13, 2023 @07:23PM Africa's Internet Registry Placed Under Receivership
Saturday September 09, 2023 @06:18PM US Broadband Buildout Finds Cost to Connect Some Households as High as $53,000
Wednesday September 06, 2023 @04:35PM Internet-Connected Cars Fail Privacy and Security Tests Conducted By Mozilla
Friday September 01, 2023 @08:17PM Pentagon's New UFO Website Lets You Explore Declassified Sightings Info
Friday September 01, 2023 @03:31AM Judge Blocks Arkansas Law Requiring Parental OK For Minors To Create Social Media Accounts
Wednesday August 30, 2023 @07:20PM Australia Will Not Force Adult Websites To Bring In Age Verification Due To Privacy and Security Concerns
Wednesday August 30, 2023 @05:17PM Saudi Man Receives Death Penalty For Posts Online
Tuesday August 29, 2023 @04:55PM Sports Leagues Ask US For 'Instantaneous' DMCA Takedowns and Website Blocking
Monday August 28, 2023 @04:03PM WordPress Now Has a 100-Year Domain Registration Option
Monday August 28, 2023 @03:58PM CenturyLink Left 86-Year-Old Woman With No Internet Service For a Month
Thursday August 24, 2023 @06:33PM Firefox Users May Import Chrome Extensions Now
Thursday August 24, 2023 @12:05PM Repair Ship Bound for Cut Cables Off Africa's West Coast as Internet Interrupted
Wednesday August 23, 2023 @06:50PM The Community Pushing AI-Generated Porn To 'the Edge of Knowledge'
Wednesday August 23, 2023 @06:38PM SpaceX Working With Cloudflare To Speed Up Starlink Service
Tuesday August 22, 2023 @01:11PM ICANN Warns UN May Sideline Tech Community From Future Internet Governance
Monday August 21, 2023 @08:44PM Political Polarization Toned Down Through Anonymous Online Chats
Monday August 21, 2023 @05:50PM Social Media Algorithms Warp How People Learn From Each Other, Research Shows
Monday August 21, 2023 @10:42AM US Announces More New Funding for Rural Broadband Infrastructure
Saturday August 19, 2023 @12:19AM Australia's ISPs Will Stop Offering Free Email Addresses, to the Disgust of Older Customers
Friday August 18, 2023 @10:00PM File-Hosting Icon AnonFiles Throws In the Towel, Domain For Sale
Friday August 18, 2023 @04:56PM Mozilla Foundation Warns France's Proposed Web Blocking Law 'Could Threaten the Free Internet'
Thursday August 17, 2023 @08:18PM Bounties vs. Extreme Internet Harassment
Tuesday August 15, 2023 @06:42PM NYT Prohibits Using Its Content To Train AI Models
Tuesday August 15, 2023 @04:11PM ISPs Complain That Listing Every Fee Is Too Hard, Urge FCC To Scrap New Rule
Friday August 11, 2023 @09:19PM Publishers, Internet Archive Agree To Streamline Digital Book-Lending Case
Friday August 11, 2023 @05:50PM Founder of Russia's Largest Internet Company Slams 'Barbaric' Invasion of Ukraine
Friday August 11, 2023 @04:37PM Illinois Just Made It Possible To Sue People For Doxxing Attacks
Thursday August 10, 2023 @06:32PM China's Internet Giants Order $5 Billion of Nvidia Chips To Power AI Ambitions
Thursday August 10, 2023 @06:25PM CNET Deletes Thousands of Old Articles To Game Google Search
Thursday August 10, 2023 @12:39AM Bots Are Better Than Humans At Cracking 'Are You a Robot?' Captcha Tests, Study Finds
Monday August 07, 2023 @05:46PM Google Search Asked To Remove One Billion 'Pirate' Links In 9 Months
Monday August 07, 2023 @04:48PM Microsoft's AI-Powered Bing Chat Is Coming To Mobile Browsers
Friday August 04, 2023 @03:24PM Z-Library Rolls Out Browser Extensions In Anticipation of Domain Name Troubles
Thursday August 03, 2023 @04:56PM Pornhub Goes Dark In Arkansas After Age Verification Law Kicks In
Thursday August 03, 2023 @04:37PM Brave Cuts Ties With Bing To Offer Its Own Image and Video Search Results
Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:41PM Internet Providers That Won FCC Grants Try To Escape Broadband Commitments
Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:20PM ChromeOS Is Splitting the Browser From the OS, Getting More Like Linux
Wednesday August 02, 2023 @04:37PM Cory Doctorow's New Book On Beating Big Tech At Its Own Game
Monday July 31, 2023 @08:53PM Facebook To Unmask Anonymous Dutch User Accused of Repeated Defamatory Posts
Monday July 31, 2023 @08:29PM Google's Jigsaw Was Fighting Toxic Speech With AI. Then the AI Started Talking
Monday July 31, 2023 @08:13PM AWS To Start Charging For Public IPv4 Addresses
Friday July 28, 2023 @05:19PM 'Tor's Shadowy Reputation Will Only End If We All Use It'
Thursday July 27, 2023 @04:21PM Senate Panel Advances Bill To Childproof the Internet
Wednesday July 26, 2023 @04:55PM Arrival of eSIM is Altering How Consumers Interact With Operators
Tuesday July 25, 2023 @09:55PM FCC Chair: Speed Standard of 25Mbps Down, 3Mbps Up Isn't Good Enough Anymore
Tuesday July 25, 2023 @03:14PM The Arc Browser is Now Available for All iOS and Mac Users
Tuesday July 25, 2023 @10:43AM Google's Nightmare 'Web Integrity API' Wants a DRM Gatekeeper For the Web
Saturday July 22, 2023 @12:24AM Google Urges Gmail Users to Enable 'Enhanced Safe Browsing' for Faster, More Proactive Protection
Friday July 21, 2023 @05:50PM A Promising Internet Satellite Is Rendered Useless By Power Supply Issues
Friday July 21, 2023 @05:25PM No Apologies As Reddit Halfheartedly Tries To Repair Ties With Moderators
Thursday July 20, 2023 @07:20PM AT&T May Have Nearly 200,000 Miles of Lead-Covered Phone Cables Across US
Wednesday July 19, 2023 @01:00PM Google Restricting Internet Access To Some Employees To Reduce Cyberattack Risk
Tuesday July 18, 2023 @04:37PM Virtual Pet Website Neopets Plans $4 Million Comeback
Monday July 17, 2023 @08:18PM Footage From Amazon's In-Van Surveillance Cameras Is Leaking Online
Friday July 14, 2023 @06:19PM Internet Archive Targets Book DRM Removal Tool With DMCA Takedown
Friday July 14, 2023 @04:56PM One of Reddit's Biggest Communities Is Suggesting Users Move To Discord
Friday July 14, 2023 @04:47PM Ancient Lead-Covered Telephone Cables Have US Lawmakers Demanding Action
Friday July 14, 2023 @07:41AM AI Junk Is Starting To Pollute the Internet
Thursday July 13, 2023 @09:24PM Li-Fi, Light-Based Networking Standard Released
Thursday July 13, 2023 @07:55PM SEO Expert Hired and Fired By Ashley Madison Turned on Company, Promising Revenge
Wednesday July 12, 2023 @04:20PM US Ranks 32nd Worldwide On Broadband Affordability, Study Finds
Wednesday July 12, 2023 @06:04AM Why the Early Success of Threads May Crash Into Reality
Monday July 10, 2023 @08:11PM Your Printing Service Might Read Your Documents
Friday July 07, 2023 @05:02PM Bangladesh Government Website Leaks Citizens' Personal Data
Wednesday July 05, 2023 @06:54PM Macron Accused of Authoritarianism After Threat To Cut Off Social Media During Riots
Monday July 03, 2023 @04:32PM Gfycat Is Shutting Down On September 1st
Monday July 03, 2023 @01:21PM Pornhub Blocks Access in Mississippi and Virginia Over Age Verification Laws
Friday June 30, 2023 @09:26PM Could a Solar Superstorm Someday Trigger an 'Internet Apocalypse'?
Friday June 30, 2023 @07:16AM French Govt Wants To Inject Domain Blocking Lists Directly Into Web Browsers
Friday June 30, 2023 @02:15AM Social Media Apps Will Have To Shield Children From Dangerous Stunts
Thursday June 29, 2023 @06:05PM YouTube Could Be Testing a Three-Strikes Policy For Ad Blocking