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FCC Investigates ISP Data Caps .. But not for long.
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The Secret System Behind Every Call You Make Is About to Change Hands
Also, did the Chinese government just hack it?
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The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself
The web’s collective memory is stored in the servers of the Internet Archive. Legal battles threaten to wipe it all away.
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GitHub - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist: A huge blocklist of sites that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist.
A huge blocklist of sites that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
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Dead Internet Theory: A.I. Killed the Internet
Generative A.I is the nuclear bomb of the Information Age. If the Internet doesn’t feel as creative or fun or interesting as you remember it, you’re not alone. The so-called ‘Dead Internet Theory’ explains why. The rise of artificially generated content killed the internet. How did this happen? Why? And… Is it still possible to stop it?
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Smartphone flaw allows hackers and governments to map your home
A newly identified smartphone vulnerability can reveal the floor plans of where you are and what you are doing - and it is possible that companies or intelligence agencies are already making use of it
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The Biggest Loser in Google Search Ruling Could Be Mozilla and Firefox
Mozilla generated 86% of its revenue from Google search engine payments.
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Ride a bus, take a package with you – how crowdshipping reduces the impacts of millions of deliveries
The surge in online purchases is increasing parcel delivery traffic and emissions. One solution is to take advantage of the trips people are already making to get parcels to their destinations. How could this possibly go wrong?
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Cloudflare reports almost 7% of internet traffic is malicious
Fortunately, there are things you can do to help protect yourself and your websites.
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We analysed the entire web and found a cybersecurity threat lurking in plain sight
Think you can trust every website? One typo and you could be caught in a phishing trap.
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The MTV News website is gone
Over 20 years of history is gone.
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Why Vivaldi browser won’t follow the current AI trend?
Web browsers are integrating the current AI trend with Large Language Model (LLM) functionality. But there are fundamental issues with it. We address them.
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Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win
Internet Archive fans beg publishers to stop emptying the open library.
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You’ve Read Your Last Free Article, Such Is the Nature of Mortality
"Our headlines just sit there on your browser—open tabs, like tombstones in a haunted cemetery of noncommitment."
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How to save money on internet after the Affordable Connectivity Program sunsets
Millions of poor and rural internet users are facing higher internet bills as of June 1. Here's an updated list of options for how to stay connected for less.
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Block the Bots that Feed “AI” Models by Scraping Your Website
“AI” companies think that we should have to opt-out of data-scraping bots that take our work to train their products. There isn’t even a required no-scraping period between the announcement and when they start. Too late? Tough. Once they have your data, they don’t provide you with a way to have it deleted, even before they’ve processed it for training.
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The rise and fall of robots.txt
As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.
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How Google RUINED the Internet
You may have noticed that Google isn't what it used to be. Search results are buried under ads and sponsored links, and when you do find a result, it's overflowing with SEO garbage. You aren't imagining things: the internet is getting quantifiably worse. In this video, Adam explains how the same Google that once helped make the internet more accessible to countless people has doomed the internet itself for the foreseeable future.
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Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results
Google Search now has an option to search the "web," which is not the default anymore.
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We Need To Rewild The Internet
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
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