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Elizabeth Warren Calls for Crackdown on Internet ‘Monopoly’ You’ve Never Heard of
22 Nov

Elizabeth Warren Calls for Crackdown on Internet ‘Monopoly’ You’ve Never Heard of

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US senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and congressman Jerry Nadler of New York have called on government bodies to investigate what they allege is the “predatory pricing” of .com web addresses, the Internet’s prime real estate.In a letter delivered today to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), a branch of the Department of Commerce (DOC) that advises the US President, the two Democrats accuse VeriSign, the company that administers the .com top-level domain, of abusing its market dominance to overcharge customers.In 2018, under the Donald Trump administration, the NTIA modified the terms on…
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Two Baltic Sea communications cables have been knocked offline
19 Nov

Two Baltic Sea communications cables have been knocked offline

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Two undersea communications cables in the Baltic Sea have been knocked offline, and at least one appears to have been physically cut. CNN received confirmation from a local telecom company that a cable between Lithuania and Sweden was cut on Sunday morning. A second cable, about 60 to 65 miles from the first, routes communications between Finland and Germany. The cause of that outage has yet to be determined, but officials suspect “intentional damage.”The outages follow a September warning from the US about an increased risk of Russian “sabotage” of undersea cables. That came after a joint investigation from public…
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The voice of AOL’s ‘You’ve got mail!’ has died at 74
08 Nov

The voice of AOL’s ‘You’ve got mail!’ has died at 74

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If you’re at least in your mid-30s (give or take), you know the voice of Elwood Edwards, realize it or not. He recorded the phrase, “You’ve got mail!” and three other lines for Quantum Computer Services in 1989. That company later rebranded to America Online, and the rest is early internet history. Edwards died on Tuesday.WKYC first reported (via Variety) that Edwards passed away one day before what would have been his 75th birthday. He was a longtime off-camera presence at the Cleveland TV station, working as a graphic designer, camera operator and jack-of-all-trades employee.His wife, Karen Edwards, worked at…
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The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself
27 Sep

The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself

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If you step into the headquarters of the Internet Archive on a Friday after lunch, when it offers public tours, chances are you’ll be greeted by its founder and merriest cheerleader, Brewster Kahle.You cannot miss the building; it looks like it was designed for some sort of Grecian-themed Las Vegas attraction and plopped down at random in San Francisco’s foggy, mellow Richmond district. Once you pass the entrance’s white Corinthian columns, Kahle will show you the vintage Prince of Persia arcade game and a gramophone that can play century-old phonograph cylinders on display in the foyer. He’ll lead you into…
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New Cloudflare Tools Let Sites Detect and Block AI Bots for Free
23 Sep

New Cloudflare Tools Let Sites Detect and Block AI Bots for Free

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According to Dark Visitors founder Gavin King, most of the major AI agents still abide by robots.txt. “That’s been pretty consistent,” he says. But not all website owners have the time or knowledge to constantly update their robots.txt files. And even when they do, some bots will skirt the file’s directives: “They try to disguise the traffic.”Prince says Cloudflare’s bot-blocking won’t be a command that this kind of bad actor can ignore. “Robots.txt is like putting up a ‘no trespassing’ sign,” he says. “This is like having a physical wall patrolled by armed guards.” Just as it flags other types…
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YouTube is now showing ads when you pause videos
19 Sep

YouTube is now showing ads when you pause videos

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Google has found another way to turn your eyeballs into money: by turning paused YouTube videos into a new real estate for ads. A YouTube communications manager told they’ve seen “strong advertiser and strong reviewer responses” since they “rolled out Pause ads to all advertisers.”YouTube first started looking at using ads on pause screens in 2023 with select advertisers. Google’s chief business officer announced last April that advertisers loved the new ad concept. YouTube’s viewers aren’t as enthusiastic about the idea.Reddit users posted of the new pause screen ads and to say they with the ads is the understatement of…
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Google searches now link to the Internet Archive
11 Sep

Google searches now link to the Internet Archive

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Earlier this year, Google said goodbye to its feature, saying it’s no longer needed. While many were sad to see it go, we can now rejoice as Google is partnering with the Internet Archive to bring something substantially similar back. Thanks to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, you can now look at easily.Clicking on the three dots beside any search result will let you begin to access cached pages. Next, look for the “About this Result” panel and click “More About This Page.” Doing so will lead you to the Wayback Machine, allowing anyone to see snapshots of webpages from…
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Why It’s So Hard to Fully Block X in Brazil
05 Sep

Why It’s So Hard to Fully Block X in Brazil

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The social network X has been largely inaccessible in Brazil since Saturday, after the country's Supreme Court ordered all mobile and internet service providers to block the platform. The court order followed a months-long dispute between Judge Alexandre de Moraes and X CEO Elon Musk over the company's misinformation, hate speech, and moderation policies.With Brazil's population of 215 million people, its mature democracy, its sprawling land mass, and more than 20,000 internet service providers, blocking a web platform in the South American nation isn't straightforward. And while the biggest ISPs have implemented the ban, many are still scrambling to comply…
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Brazil bans X for refusing to comply with Supreme Court order
31 Aug

Brazil bans X for refusing to comply with Supreme Court order

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Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has ordered the nation’s internet service providers to block the social media platform X. The New York Times reports that the order stems from owner Elon Musk’s refusal to appoint a legal representative for his case and comply with Moraes’ order to shut down X accounts he deemed as harmful to the democratic process. The order has been published online by Brazilian news site Poder 360.The justice issued a deadline to telecom companies and tech giants to remove the X from its app stores and platforms. Apple and Google have five days to…
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The world’s largest TV and movie piracy streaming ring is dead
30 Aug

The world’s largest TV and movie piracy streaming ring is dead

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The highly illegal but very popular media streaming site Fmovies and an affiliated network of pirated movie and TV show websites have been shut down. The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), a global coalition of movie studios and entertainment companies including Disney, NBCUniversal and MGM, announced the dismantling of the illegal streaming site, several of its other websites including bflixz, flixtorz, movies7, myflixer and aniwave and its video hosting provider vidsrc.to, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The Fmovies operation was based in Vietnam. Hanoi police arrested two unidentified men in connection with the pirated media empire who are awaiting charges.Fmovies…
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