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Happy 50th birthday, Ethernet
Why has Ethernet endured as a ubiquitous data framing protocol over all these years?
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Reddit CEO Triples Down, Insults Protesters, Whines About Not Making Enough Money From Reddit Users
Steve Huffman, the CEO of Reddit, has decided to just keep on talking. He got free content and free app development work and now he’s going around whining about how “we’re not in the business of giving that away for free.”
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WSJ News Exclusive | Reddit Laying Off About 90 Employees and Slowing Hiring Amid Restructuring
Reddit is making the moves to address priorities, including funding projects and achieving its goal of breaking even next year, Chief Executive Steve Huffman told employees.
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Newly-Developed Optical Fiber Can Carry 1.7 Petabits
All the world’s internet traffic is carried through optical fibers which are each 125 microns thick. These industry standard fibers link continents, data centers, mobile phone towers, satellite ground stations and our homes and businesses.
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‘Instagram killed the graffiti star’ as rich kids take their art online
Graffiti is gradually disappearing from Britain's city streets as young men switch to using the internet to make a name for themselves as sub-cultural artists, new research says. The British Sociological Association's annual conference in Manchester heard today [Wednesday 5 April] that as a result of the move to sharing work on social media, "the rich kids of Instagram have killed the graffiti writer".
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I can't get my Hubski account activated. What's going on?
I've emailed the admin and haven't gotten a response in the last 4 days. I can't post and I can't comment (under comments it says "account not activated", along with "click on email activation link to participate" if I hover my cursor over it) I've also sent them a PM. Should I just wait longer for a response? Am I on some sort of black list? Are the admins being lazy and are not maintaining the site? What's going on? This is on hubski.com.
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What on Earth is the fediverse and why does it matter?
Since its launch in October 2016, microblogging social network Mastodon has been gaining ground, reaching 1 million users as of December 2017. To many it's the anti-Twitter. Though much like it in appearance and feature-set, Mastodon places greater emphasis on safety and privacy.
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Is cybersecurity an unsolvable problem?
Ars chats with law philosopher Scott Shapiro about his new book, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing. Turing himself showed that perfect cybersecurity is impossible through the proof that he gave. It's easy to extend the proof just to see that among the problems that cannot be solved are finding bugs in computer programs.
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Book Publishers Are Trying to Destroy Public E-Book Access in Order to Increase Profits
A recent ruling against the Internet Archive for copyright infringement threatens a treasured and critical public institution: our libraries.
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Cloudburst: Why good clouds go down
Today, business lives and dies by hyperscale cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. | These are the five most common causes of hyperscale cloud downtime.
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TRUSTED FRAUD COMPLAIN CENTER
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47% of all internet traffic came from bots in 2022
A new report reveals that in 2022, 47.4% of all internet traffic came from bots, a 5.1% increase over the previous year.
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The 8 Best Twitter Alternatives in 2023
There are more alternatives to Twitter in 2022 than ever before, including Amino, Post, Plurk, and Mastodon. Share your thoughts and connect with others with these Twitter alternatives.
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Docker and Kubernetes founders talk about the future of cloud
The people who helped build today's open-source, cloud-native computing world talk about where we go from here.
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Modem vs router: What's the difference?
You'll need both for your internet connection, but they do different jobs.
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What is Multicloud? Benefits, Drawbacks, and Strategies
Discover the benefits of proper multicloud strategy, including flexibility, scalability, and improved availability and disaster recovery.
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Supercloud, multi-cloud, bigly cloud?
When we first heard about supercloud, we assumed it was yet another new cloud hype term with no substance – but we were wrong. (Yes, Silverlinings admits when we are wrong.) | No matter what it's called the concept of enabling architects and developers to treat multiple clouds as if it were one cloud is legit.
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The Supreme Court is about to hear 2 major cases that could transform the internet
Next week the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear two major cases involving big technology companies, with key aspects of the internet on the line with its rulings later this year. First up, on Feb. 21, is Gonzalez v. Google. The underlying lawsuit was filed by the family of an American woman, Nohemi Gonzalez, who was killed in a 2015 ISIS attack in Paris. The family alleges that Google, which owns YouTube, is liable because its algorithms promoted extremist content to people likely to be susceptible to it.
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Microsoft reveals Bing's Azure OpenAI future
When Microsoft announced it would be spending $10 billion on the next stage of its OpenAI partnership, | Technical details were lacking, but Microsoft sees OpenAI search running on Azure as transforming not only search, but technology's future.
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The 6 best live TV streaming services of 2023
If you're interested in going cable-free, you may want to switch to a live TV streaming service, which you can cancel at any time. There are even packages out there that let you stream sports and news online. That's great for anyone who wants to keep up with post-season NFL action and catch the Super Bowl without an expensive contract.
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