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+12 +1A Conspiracy To Kill IE6
the story of how, ten years ago, a small team of web developers conspired to kill IE6 from inside YouTube and got away with it.
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+1 +112 Ways To Succeed With A Work From Home Job - The Money Mix
If you have the option and privilege to work from home, you know how rewarding it can be. it's also challenging. We'll show you how to succeed in this post.
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+22 +6Teen Fiction Twitter Is Eating Its Young
If you're looking for a case study in toxic internet culture, look no further than the online world of young adult fiction. That might seem surprising: After all, we're talking about boy wizards and sexy vampires and mawkish coming-of-age tales here, right? Here's the short version: In recent years, young adult, or Y.A., fiction has come into its own as a genre, reliably producing a small number of megahits...
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+28 +3In first, Japan to develop computer virus to defend against cyberattacks
Japan will develop its first-ever computer virus by next March as a defense measure against cyberattacks, sources have said. The Defense Ministry is considering malware that can break into a computer system, hoping such a computer virus could work as a deterrent against cyberattacks, the sources said Monday.
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+3 +1Russia's parliament votes to unplug internet from world
The Russian Duma has given its final approval to a bill creating a domestic internet. Lawmakers say it aims to protect Russia from cyber threats — but the law has sparked protest: Critics worry it will allow censorship.
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+14 +5Colorado governor expected to sign net neutrality bill
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) is expected to sign net neutrality legislation that bans internet service providers from getting taxpayer money in Colorado if they slow down internet access or unfairly speed up certain websites. The legislation passed the state's House and Senate chambers along strict party lines according to the Denver Post. The newspaper reported that Polis supports the legislation, which will now head to his desk.
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+11 +4How The Matrix universalized a trans experience — and helped me accept my own
The film, now 20 years old, is probably the most famous art ever made by trans people. But its cultural legacy doesn’t end there.
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+23 +4The Best of Europe’s Web Went Dark Today. We Can’t Let That Be Our Future.
We’re into the final days before members of the European Parliament vote on the Copyright and the Digital Single Market Directive, home of the censoring Article 13, and the anti-news Article 11. Europeans are still urging their MEPs to vote down these articles (if you haven’t already, call now, and stepping up the visibility of their complaints in this final week.
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+34 +7Beto O’Rourke’s secret membership in America’s oldest hacking group
As Beto O'Rourke starts his run for U.S. president, members of a group famous for “hactivism” come forward for the first time to claim him as a former comrade.
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+3 +1Meet the YouTube star who's de-radicalizing young, right-wing men
The far right is the dominant political community on YouTube. It's a flourishing world of men's rights activists, libertarians, anti-feminist atheists, and white nationalists. There are whole channels dedicated to showing "social justice warriors" getting "owned" by various conservative provocateurs. And this has gone largely unanswered by the left.
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+21 +6The Lost Worlds of Telnet
Most people think of Telnet as "that thing I used to use to remotely access servers." But a few hearty souls are still keeping their Telnet services online — and it's a great way to experience some good old-fashioned time-wasting fun!
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+12 +2At age 30, World Wide Web is 'not the web we wanted'
At the ripe old age of 30 and with half the globe using it, the World Wide Web is facing growing pains with issues like hate speech, privacy concerns and state-sponsored hacking, its creator says, trumpeting a call to make it better for humanity. Tim Berners-Lee on Tuesday joined a celebration of the Web and reminisced about his invention at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, starting with a proposal published on March 12, 1989.
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The Morris worm at 30
Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth UK, and Eugene H. Spafford, Purdue University USA, turn the clock back 30 years and show that, though bigger, the internet might not be much safer.
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+10 +1How the Internet Travels Across Oceans
Hundreds of thousands of miles of cable connect continents to support our insatiable demand for communication and entertainment. Companies have typically pooled their resources. Now Google is going its own way.
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+4 +2'We Need to Push Lawmakers Extra Hard': Campaign Aims to Flood Congress With Calls to Support Net Neutrality Bill
Members of Congress will soon have another opportunity to restore net neutrality, and advocates for the open internet are holding their feet to the fire. With House Democrats expected to introduce the "Save the Internet Act" on Wednesday in an effort to restore net neutrality protections, a coalition of grassroots advocacy groups is urging Americans to flood their representatives with calls and emails in support of the legislation.
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+23 +4The Life of a Comment Moderator for a Right-Wing Website
For six years, from 2012 to 2018, my job was to read and delete the most inappropriate comments on a conservative news site. Not all the inappropriate comments. Just the most inappropriate comments. Hundreds of comments an hour. Thousands of comments a day. Tens of thousands of comments a week. More than a million comments a year.
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+31 +3What did turbonerds do before the internet? 41 years ago, a load of BBS
Born in a storm of snow, killed off in a blizzard of TCP/IP: The Bulletin Board System
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+13 +3Remote learning when it is really remote
Internet access is ubiquitous—except where it isn't. However, even in places where electricity or Internet connectivity are spotty, new e-learning innovations can help people get an education.
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+9 +2Why China is obsessed with numbers
The Chinese fascination with numbers – and how much they are part of both online and offline lives – is a societal quirk that baffles long-term tourists and expats alike.
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+2 +1Inspirational Song For Today: Rescuer
As I think of the upcoming Super Bowl and reports of human trafficking victims being rescued this week in Atlanta, I just praise the Lord for saving these young victims and bringing their captors t…
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