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I blogged about the history of the public-service broadcasting institution ARD in Germany and how I finally got access to TV program data to answer my reoccuring question of when the news program is on tonight in the spirit of "Public Money, Public Good".
https://johl.io/blog/o-news-program-wh…

Q&A with Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI, the fight for Telegram, leaving his wealth to the 100 children he fathered, and more (Guillaume Grallet/Le Point)
https://www.

EXCLUSIVE. Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI — and the fight for Telegram
INTERVIEW. "Le Point" met with the co-founder and CEO of the secure messaging app Telegram, who was charged in August 2024. A sweeping discussion on politics, power and democracy.

AI bots that scrape the internet for training data are hammering the servers of libraries, archives, museums, and galleries,
and are in some cases knocking their collections offline,
according to a new survey published today.
While the impact of AI bots on open collections has been reported anecdotally,
this survey is the first attempt at measuring the problem,
which in the worst cases can make valuable, public resources unavailable to humans
because the…

AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”

Action Alert from @… : Tell Congress: Don't Outlaw Encrypted Applications
https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-outlaw-encrypted…

Tell Congress: Don't Outlaw Encrypted Applications
It shouldn't be against the law to provide an encrypted app. But if the STOP CSAM Act passes, it would make it a crime to offer encryption, because it could "facilitate" the sharing of illegal child abuse material (CSAM)—even if there's no evidence that a platform or service intended to do so. The law would undermine digital security for all internet users, impacting private messaging and email app providers, social media platforms, cloud storage providers, and many other internet intermediar…

https://futurism.com/elon-musk-cuts-funding-for-internet-archive

SSL/TLS Certificate Lifespans to Shrink to 47 Days by 2029
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/05/ssl-certificate-lifespans-shrink/

caida_as: CAIDA AS graphs (2004-2007)
A sequence of 122 network snapshots denoting Autonomous System (AS) relationships on the Internet, from 2004-2007, inferred using the Serial-1 method from RouteViews BGP table snapshots and a set of heuristics.
This network has 23072 nodes and 78684 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

Fascinating early internet stories
I’m not an Apple fan boy but, in the midst of reading Apple in China, reading the story of this video and watching it is really something. https://open.substack.com/pub/scottknaster/p/how-the-lost-mac-intro-video-was…

How the “lost” Mac intro video was found in my living room
2005

40,000 Cameras, From Bird Feeders to Baby Monitors, Exposed to the Internet https://www.404media.co/cameras-exposed-to-the-internet-report/

"AI bots that scrape the internet for training data are hammering the servers of libraries, archives, museums, and galleries, and are in some cases knocking their collections offline"
#AI is ruining our digital world
(Original title: AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums)

AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”

The Iranian government says it has restricted internet access in response to Israeli cyberattacks; some Western communication apps have reportedly been blocked (Kevin Collier/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/iran-pl…

Iran plunged into an internet near-blackout during deepening conflict
Iran plunged into a near-total internet blackout Tuesday as Israel continued to bombard the country

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Internet:
🎵 Roll (Burbank Funk)
#TheInternet
https://requestedrecords.bandcamp.com/track/kill-the-internet
https://open.spotify.com/track/01bfHCsUTwydXCHP1VoLlI

They (or an intentional DDoS) have been pounding the #SpamAssassin RuleQA site into catatonia. They construct URLs which are legitimate and which each cause the site to go digging for the specific performance of a rule on an arbitrary date in the past. Hundreds of rules tested daily for ~20 years.

AviationLLM: An LLM-based Knowledge System for Aviation Training
Jia'ang Wan, Feng Shen, Fujuan Li, Yanjin Sun, Yan Li, Shiwen Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14336

AviationLLM: An LLM-based Knowledge System for Aviation Training
Aviation training is a core link in ensuring flight safety, improving industry efficiency and promoting sustainable development. It not only involves flight simulation but also requires the learning of a great deal of professional aviation theory knowledge. In the existing training system, the knowledge is mainly imparted by the the instructors. However, the number of instructors is limited and the professional answers obtained from the Internet are not accurate enough, resulting in low trainin…

Interesting study on perceptions about AI in the general US public and among US AI experts (both from academia and companies).
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/04/03/how-the-us-public-and-ai-experts-view-arti…

How the U.S. Public and AI Experts View Artificial Intelligence
These groups are far apart in their enthusiasm and predictions for AI, but both want more personal control and worry about too little regulation.

In other news, today my neighborhood got glass fiber installed across all houses, now we have to wait for Swisscom to send the appropriate modem for it to become useful.
Apparently it's 10x faster than our current internet connection, we'll see.

Does anyone have an IEEE DataPort subscription through your work or institution and would be open to sharing some files?
I'd love to get https://ieee-dataport.org/documents/cloud-telescope-internet-background-radiation-may-2023…

Just don't miss today's Metacurity for a raft of Iran-related cyber developments and the other critical infosec news you should know today, including
--Israel-linked hackers destroyed data at Iran’s state-owned Bank Sepah
--Israel-linked hackers stole $48m in crypto from Iran,
--Iran urges removal of WhatsApp from phones,
--Iran shuts down internet amid Israel strikes,
--US critical infrastructure girds for Iranian cyber threats,
--UK ICO fines 23an…

Israel-linked hackers destroyed data at Iran’s state-owned Bank Sepah
Israel-linked hackers stole $48m in crypto from Iran, Iran urges removal of WhatsApp from phones, Iran shuts down internet amid Israel strikes, US critical infrastructure girds for Iranian cyber threats, UK ICO fines 23andMe $3.1m over 2023 breach, Chinese spies invest heavily in AI, so much more

Infini-gram mini: Exact n-gram Search at the Internet Scale with FM-Index
Hao Xu, Jiacheng Liu, Yejin Choi, Noah A. Smith, Hannaneh Hajishirzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12229

Infini-gram mini: Exact n-gram Search at the Internet Scale with FM-Index
Language models are trained mainly on massive text data from the Internet, and it becomes increasingly important to understand this data source. Exact-match search engines enable searching in large text corpora -- counting string appearances and retrieving the enclosing documents -- yet the high storage overhead hinders their application on Internet-scale data. We present Infini-gram mini, an efficient and scalable system that can make petabyte-level text corpora searchable. Based on the FM-ind…

me, waiting for that rush '81 tape to pop up for the 10,001st time on @… (apparently a busted internet archive upload that keeps automatically trying to fix itself or something & flooding the RSS, sorry heads.)

Gemini, especially with "research" mode has this vibe of 2000 Internet where knowledge was right there, about nearly anything, without SEO bullshit and ads.
This time it's much faster and better, for the most part.
Unpopular: I think this will cause a renaissance of world wide web. All that bullshit SEO driven websites will die, those made by passionate people and specialists will prevail (because we don't care) and we will get even more traffic than now due t…

I don't know how many times I've read, in mainstream media, the words "The Internet exploded with talk of Y" or "Everyone on the Internet is talking about Z", without me ever having heard of Y or Z.

And I spend a great deal of time "on the Internet".

The Internet should be talking about how a certain social media platform ruined the use of X as a placeholder variable.

My #CenturyLink DSL Internet is down... except for one computer where I'd previously configured DNS to use Google's Public DNS. I'm assuming this is somehow key to why it still works. I've tried to reproduce this onto another computer, but no luck so far.

Please help @… if you can. Her and her family are living through hell at the hands of israel.
#israel #genocide

No Good Morning post today because we are a little behind in preparing for the movers imminent arrival, and I'm about to shut off the internet.
#CanadaIsAwesome

Comcast IPv6 decided to bork itself again. Nothing I've tried (restarting DHCPv6 client, power cycling the modem) works.
My router gets a v6 address, can hit the internet without issues.
Router makes a DHCPv6 request, gets a delegated /59 out of my static /56.
But when I try to use an address out of the /59 on the local network (via radvd handing out /64's) it gets nowhere, traceroutes stop at the CPE/CMTS.

The User Perspective on Island-Ready 6G Communication: A Survey of Future Smartphone Usage in Crisis-Struck Areas with Local Cellular Connectivity
Leon Janzen, Florentin Putz, Marc-Andr\'e Kaufhold, Kolja Straub, Matthias Hollick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13466

The User Perspective on Island-Ready 6G Communication: A Survey of Future Smartphone Usage in Crisis-Struck Areas with Local Cellular Connectivity
Using smartphone apps during crises is well-established, proving critical for efficient crisis response. However, such apps become futile without an Internet connection, which is a common issue during crises. The ongoing 6G standardization explores the capability to provide local cellular connectivity for areas cut off from the Internet in crises. This paper introduces to the HCI community the concept of cellular island connectivity in isolated areas, promising a seamless transition from normal…

Toward a Lightweight, Scalable, and Parallel Secure Encryption Engine
Rasha Karakchi, Rye Stahle-Smith, Nishant Chinnasami, Tiffany Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15070

Toward a Lightweight, Scalable, and Parallel Secure Encryption Engine
The exponential growth of Internet of Things (IoT) applications has intensified the demand for efficient, high-throughput, and energy-efficient data processing at the edge. Conventional CPU-centric encryption methods suffer from performance bottlenecks and excessive data movement, especially in latency-sensitive and resource-constrained environments. In this paper, we present SPiME, a lightweight, scalable, and FPGA-compatible Secure Processor-in-Memory Encryption architecture that integrates t…

Great show https://mastodon.social/@adrianhon/114699440908964492

Openreach (who operates a big chunk of internet access in the UK) collects a lot of data about end-user internet use and can generate press releases based on analysis of it.
This is like an advert for VPNs.
https://www.openreach.com/news/how-do-you-

How do you broadband? Openreach reveals UK hotspot map
Whether it’s online shopping, gaming or TV super streaming, your most likely broadband habits depend on where you live in the UK, Openreach reveals today.In the first research of its kind to mark 25 years of home broadband in the UK, Openreach, has combined its own data with extensive consumer research to map the UK cities by their online acti...

OK, Switzerland does NOT get to claim inventing the Internet. Fuck that noise. AN implementation of a hypertext system was invented by a BRITISH guy working at CERN in 1989, which got picked up as the WEB. The ARPA/Internet is an American creation from 1969. IP in 1983. fuck's sake guys

“What I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was Getting Into ARIA”
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/what-i-wish-someone-told-me-aria/
Eric has a much more detailed breakdown of my advice (don’t use it unless you know what the hell you’re …

What I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was Getting Into ARIA — Smashing Magazine
[Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)](https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/aria/) is an inevitability when working on web accessibility. That said, it’s everyone’s first time learning about ARIA at some point.

Mark Zuckerberg has created the saddest place on the internet with Meta AI's public feed https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerber…

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI is one of the most depressing places online
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI app has become the saddest place on the internet with its public feed of personal overshares.

i wonder if brainrot humor worked the same way back before the internet existed. like did victorian era youth make themselves laugh by inserting vulgar slang or opium and alcohol or women dressing like men or charles darwin or edgy jack the ripper references into phrases coined within a children's author / humorist's "nonsense book" or whatever trashy pulp magazines were popular

So what I learned from the recent Google outage, is how much of a cirklejerk "big tech" actually is.
Google did a fucky wucky... Which caused Cloudflare to go belly up, Shopify to go belly up, Spotify to go belly up...
Imagine having given *one* company having so much power that, if they make a mistake somewhere, half the internet is gone.
So if you self-host, make sure to see how your dependency chain is.
How much places can make a mistake that can knock you …

My good, how much I hate the internet and computers. I just wanna scream louder than I ever have at them, my good, I’m angry right now. All my life lost to a dumb-ass screen, brainwashed by the latest tech psyops on YouTube nobody asked for.
It’s like being trapped in a never-ending circus of clicks and scrolls, where the clowns are algorithms and the ringmaster is some faceless corporation laughing at how easy it is to fool us.
Computers and the internet promised freedom but del…

Reinforcement Learning-Based Policy Optimisation For Heterogeneous Radio Access
Anup Mishra, \v{C}edomir Stefanovi\'c, Xiuqiang Xu, Petar Popovski, Israel Leyva-Mayorga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15273

Reinforcement Learning-Based Policy Optimisation For Heterogeneous Radio Access
Flexible and efficient wireless resource sharing across heterogeneous services is a key objective for future wireless networks. In this context, we investigate the performance of a system where latency-constrained internet-of-things (IoT) devices coexist with a broadband user. The base station adopts a grant-free access framework to manage resource allocation, either through orthogonal radio access network (RAN) slicing or by allowing shared access between services. For the IoT users, we propos…

internet_as: Internet AS graph (2006)
A symmetrized snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from BGP tables posted by the University of Oregon Route Views Project. This snapshot was created on 22 July 2006.
This network has 22963 nodes and 48436 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted

The Curse of Dimensionality: De-identification Challenges in the Sharing of Highly Dimensional Datasets
https://fpf.org/blog/the-curse-of-dimensionality-de-identification-challenges-in-the-sharing-of-highl…

Optimizing System Latency for Blockchain-Encrypted Edge Computing in Internet of Vehicles
Cui Zhang, Maoxin Ji, Qiong Wu, Pingyi Fan, Qiang Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14208

Optimizing System Latency for Blockchain-Encrypted Edge Computing in Internet of Vehicles
As Internet of Vehicles (IoV) technology continues to advance, edge computing has become an important tool for assisting vehicles in handling complex tasks. However, the process of offloading tasks to edge servers may expose vehicles to malicious external attacks, resulting in information loss or even tampering, thereby creating serious security vulnerabilities. Blockchain technology can maintain a shared ledger among servers. In the Raft consensus mechanism, as long as more than half of the no…

Libraries, Digital Libraries, and Data: Forty years, Four Challenges
Christine L. Borgman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15055 https://ar…

Libraries, Digital Libraries, and Data: Forty years, Four Challenges
"Digital libraries" is an umbrella term that encompasses the automation of library services, online catalogs, information retrieval systems, multi-media databases, data archives, and other internet-facing collections of digital resources. Clifford Lynch has played pivotal roles in the technical development, institutionalization, policy, practice, and dissemination of digital libraries for more than 40 years. Beginning with his foundational role in building MELVYL for the University of Californi…

So farewell then Pinetime Watch 🪦.
It isn't showing any signs of charging. even after a completely-flat battery reset. Last hope gone.
Now nobody at all is running my custom software I think, and I have no way to fix the bugs.
Could replace it, but I'm not really paying any attention to the things it measures anyway. Heartrate is too unreliable to be useful and steps seems likely to be counting my leg-jiggles since I tend to hit 10,000 most days without trying or leaving the flat.
The software which tracks my time and mood is probably better running on the phone really. Easier to add notes and detail. Can't really input text from a watch. Location data can be added in ways the watch couldn't.
So back to not wearing a watch at all I think. Who needs it now we all carry pocket watches with internet and telephony.
#pineTime #smartWatch

US broadband provider Astound, aka RCN, (#AS6079). I've asked if this FAQ is outdated, it doesn't sound right.
"Disabling IPv6
For CA, OR, TX and WA
[...]
IPv6 is not yet widely adopted; most software, routers, modems, and other network equipment does not support this emerging protocol"

from my link log —
Situated software.
https://web.archive.org/web/20050120085129/http://www.shirky.com/writings/situated_software.html
saved 2025-04-11

At the moment I often have to think of Eley's book, that it was not the bourgeoisie that realized what is currently held up as abstract principles, but a left that had to organize itself against the impositions of capitalist society.
https://archive.org/details/forgingdem…

First Law of the Internet
Every person shall be free to use the Internet in any way that is privately beneficial without being publicly detrimental.
- The burden of demonstrating public detriment shall be on those who wish to prevent the private use.
- Such a demonstration shall require clear and convincing evidence of public detriment.
- The public detriment must be of such degree and extent as to justify the suppression of the private activity.
…

Do you know: if you don't post an image, pixelfed users will not see your post.
Time to bring back the good old transparent 1*1px gif/png
(Gif powered by #pixelfed

GroupNL: Low-Resource and Robust CNN Design over Cloud and Device
Chuntao Ding, Jianhang Xie, Junna Zhang, Salman Raza, Shangguang Wang, Jiannong Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12335

GroupNL: Low-Resource and Robust CNN Design over Cloud and Device
It has become mainstream to deploy Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models on ubiquitous Internet of Things (IoT) devices with the help of the cloud to provide users with a variety of high-quality services. Most existing methods have two limitations: (i) low robustness in handling corrupted image data collected by IoT devices; and (ii) high consumption of computational and transmission resources. To this end, we propose the Grouped NonLinear transformation generation method (GroupNL), which g…

I love it when the world catches up with me XD (OK, in this case it's the UK rather than the world.)
Surely the way to stop kids looking at things that aren't appropriate for children on the internet isn't to take those things off the internet - pretty much a decade-long gov policy under both parties, though the new laws only just came into effect. It's to stop kids having unsupervised access to the open internet. Surely the only sane solution is clear... prosecute pa…

Again, we have arrived to a point in time where I traditionally delete all my social media apps because I don't want any of it to ruin my upcoming vacation. Fuck the news, fuck the internet, lets enjoy the sun. 🌞
See you all soon!

I *loved* this game! And the others from the same developer. Masters of the Elements (1999) is one of the all-time great art games imho.
https://digipres.club/@misty/114496041511519164

Misty (@misty@digipres.club)
Attached: 1 image Fantastic adventures in the world of the internet!

WEBCAST JUN 12 - Atlantic Council - Why the UN’s Internet Governance Forum still matters twenty years on
#IGF2025
https://isoc.live/19443

A Contemporary Survey on Fluid Antenna Systems: Fundamentals and Networking Perspectives
Hanjiang Hong, Kai-Kit Wong, Hao Xu, Xinghao Guo, Farshad Rostami Ghadi, Yu Chen, Yin Xu, Chan-Byoung Chae, Baiyang Liu, Kin-Fai Tong, Yangyang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13317

A Contemporary Survey on Fluid Antenna Systems: Fundamentals and Networking Perspectives
The explosive growth of teletraffic, fueled by the convergence of cyber-physical systems and data-intensive applications, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous systems, and immersive communications, demands a multidisciplinary suite of innovative solutions across the physical and network layers. Fluid antenna systems (FAS) represent a transformative advancement in antenna design, offering enhanced spatial degrees of freedom through dynamic reconfigurability. By exploiting spatial fle…

AI bots that scrape the Internet for training data are stressing out the servers of galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. In some cases they bring #GLAM collections offline.
https://www.

Are AI Bots Knocking Cultural Heritage Offline?

Joint UAV Trajectory Planning and LEO Satellite Selection for Data Offloading in Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks
Boran Wang, Ziye Jia, Can Cui, Qihui Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12750

Joint UAV Trajectory Planning and LEO Satellite Selection for Data Offloading in Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks
With the development of low earth orbit (LEO) satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN) becomes a major trend in the next-generation networks. However, due to the instability of heterogeneous communication and time-varying characteristics of SAGIN, it is challenging to meet the remote Internet of Things (IoT) demands for data collection and offloading. In this paper, we investigate a two-phase hierarchical data uplink model in SAGIN. Specifi…

packet_delays: Internet packet delays (2002)
A network representing the difference in delay observed by packet probes sent from a computer at Rice University to similar machines at different universities, in c.2002. The edge weight denotes the difference in delay of the packet in milliseconds.
This network has 10 nodes and 9567 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Weighted

Systems-Theoretic and Data-Driven Security Analysis in ML-enabled Medical Devices
Gargi Mitra, Mohammadreza Hallajiyan, Inji Kim, Athish Pranav Dharmalingam, Mohammed Elnawawy, Shahrear Iqbal, Karthik Pattabiraman, Homa Alemzadeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15028

Systems-Theoretic and Data-Driven Security Analysis in ML-enabled Medical Devices
The integration of AI/ML into medical devices is rapidly transforming healthcare by enhancing diagnostic and treatment facilities. However, this advancement also introduces serious cybersecurity risks due to the use of complex and often opaque models, extensive interconnectivity, interoperability with third-party peripheral devices, Internet connectivity, and vulnerabilities in the underlying technologies. These factors contribute to a broad attack surface and make threat prevention, detection,…

Browned & tattered, I found my old, fave #scifi graphic novel from the 1970s.
Being one of my only #comics, I read this thing 10x over. Missing the last page, I actually have no idea how the last story ends. 🤷
I should see if it's on the Internet so I can find out what happens... 40…

From HOSTS.TXT to Modern Internet Infrastructure
🌐 #hoststxt

From HOSTS.TXT to Modern Internet Infrastructure | AXON Shield
The development of DNS demonstrates an impressive journey from its initial basic form into a modern distributed system which provides high resilience. The internet initially used a basic centralized text file named HOSTS.TXT for its operations. The rapid internet expansion made the initial text file system unworkable so developers created a new solution which could scale dynamically. The system evolves because organizations need better scalability and absolute reliability along with robust secu…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17707 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csOS_…

vNV-Heap: An Ownership-Based Virtually Non-Volatile Heap for Embedded Systems
The Internet of Batteryless Things might revolutionize our understanding of connected devices by harvesting required operational energy from the environment. These systems come with the system-software challenge that the intermittently powered IoT devices have to checkpoint their state in non-volatile memory to later resume with this state when sufficient energy is available. The scarce energy resources demand that only modified data is persisted before a power failure, which requires precise m…

Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) claims it paralyzed the operations of Orion Telecom, one of the largest internet providers in Russia’s Siberian region, on Russia Day.
https://tvpworld.com/87242100/ukrainian-hackers-cripple-siberia…

Ukrainian cyberattack cripples major internet provider in Siberia on Russia Day
The attack disabled hundreds of servers while also wiping out backup systems.

My opinion in five seconds: I want the old internet back! 😭

TIL - with great surprise - that Cunningham's law - ""The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." - actually predates the invention of the wiki by Ward Cunningham by about a decade.
I always had assumed that the law was expressing the lived experiences running wikis, but it was referring to Usenet posts, predating the Web and wikis.

Ward Cunningham - Wikipedia

🚀 Opening new frontiers with the first major in-the-field demo of practical quantum communications!
Read in the latest issue of the Nature Magazine about the first practical demonstration of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) within commercial telecom networks - a breakthrough in the field, achieved by a team from Toshiba Europe, GÉANT, PSNC, and Anglia Ruskin University.
A major step towards a scalable, secure, and practical quantum internet.
Learn more:

Toshiba Europe, GÉANT, PSNC and Anglia Ruskin University announce the first demonstration of Quantum Key Distribution within commercial telecommunication networks | GÉANT CONNECT Online
As reported in Nature, GÉANT, Toshiba Europe limited, PSNC and Anglia Ruskin University came together to work on the first major in-the-field demonstration of practical quantum communications using telecoms standard equipment and infrastructure. The experiment was conducted in Germany, with access to the network infrastructure provided by GÉANT. Communication was established over a link spanning

> As the Court weighs how to restore competition in the search market, Mozilla is asking it to seriously consider the unintended consequences of some of the proposed remedies, which, if adopted, could harm browser competition, weaken user choice and undermine the open web.
This should be called a Mozilla syndrome!

The future of the web depends on getting this right | The Mozilla Blog
The remedies phase of the U.S. v. Google LLC search case wrapped up last week. As the Court weighs how to restore competition in the search market, Mozilla

"Conspirituality is a kind of crowd-sourced knowledge, where the spread of a belief is taken to be support for its content."
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/wellness-right-wing-conspiracy-conspirituality-b27…

An Efficient Hardware Implementation of Elliptic Curve Point Multiplication over $GF(2^m)$ on FPGA
Ruby Kumari, Tapas Rout, Babul Saini, Jai Gopal Pandey, Abhijit Karmakar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12359

An Efficient Hardware Implementation of Elliptic Curve Point Multiplication over $GF(2^m)$ on FPGA
Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is widely accepted for ensuring secure data exchange between resource-limited IoT devices. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommended implementation, such as B-163, is particularly well-suited for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Here, Elliptic Curve Point Multiplication (ECPM) is the most time-critical and resource-intensive operation due to the finite field multiplier. This paper proposes a new implementation method of finite …

The only thing I appreciate about the Internet is discovering beautiful voices like Юлия Савичева, but then you realize the platform it’s all stuck on is a complete mess.
Her voice is stunning, but the fact that it’s trapped on sites like YouTube just reminds me how messed up the whole system is.
Sometimes I wonder how something so pure ends up on platforms designed to keep us hooked and distracted.
The good thing is that I can use yt-dlp to grab music videos and enjoy them…

The Internet IS a *set* of physical things that can be blown up by bombs.
However, where there used to be about a dozen places where you’d need to plant a substantial bomb to wreck the Internet, while now there are hundreds you’d need to hit simultaneously to affect most users. It isn’t even really feasible to figure out where those places all are, because the live interconnections are so complex and the fallback links are entirely invisible normally.

jwz (@jwz@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image I am really enjoying this series W0rldtr33, which takes the positions that A) the Internet is very literally evil, and B) the Internet is a physical thing that can be blown up with bombs... https://jwz.org/b/ykoy

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today.
There are tiny t-shirts and signs.
AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.
https://bsky.app/profile/tolcser…

Sarah Tolcser (@tolcser.bsky.social)
I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

The Trip to ZigBee Backscatter across a Decade, a Systematic Review
Yang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13822 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

The Trip to ZigBee Backscatter across a Decade, a Systematic Review
The field of backscatter communication has undergone a profound transformation, evolving from a niche technology for radio-frequency identification (RFID) into a sophisticated paradigm poised to enable a truly battery-free Internet of Things (IoT). This evolution is built upon a deepening understanding of the fundamental principles governing these ultra-low-power links. Modern backscatter systems are no longer simple reflectors of continuous waves but are increasingly designed to interact with …

The Browser Company launches Dia, a macOS browser in beta for Arc users based around an AI chat sidebar that can access tabs, history, and logged-in sites (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/web/685232/dia-browser-ai-arc

The Dia browser is a big bet on the web — and an even bigger bet on AI
Dia uses a simple interface and a chatbot that lets you chat with tabs and get more done. It’s a big bet that AI is the future of the internet.

There’s a bit in the “Big Man” iPhone film when a character says “your aura is depleted”, which for me was one of those jarring “people vocally saying internet slang” moments.
https://youtu.be/AUrLMJQf2Bw

Restoring Gaussian Blurred Face Images for Deanonymization Attacks
Haoyu Zhai, Shuo Wang, Pirouz Naghavi, Qingying Hao, Gang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12344

Restoring Gaussian Blurred Face Images for Deanonymization Attacks
Gaussian blur is widely used to blur human faces in sensitive photos before the photos are posted on the Internet. However, it is unclear to what extent the blurred faces can be restored and used to re-identify the person, especially under a high-blurring setting. In this paper, we explore this question by developing a deblurring method called Revelio. The key intuition is to leverage a generative model's memorization effect and approximate the inverse function of Gaussian blur for face restora…

route_views: Route Views AS graphs (1997-1998)
733 daily network snapshots denoting BGP traffic among autonomous systems (ASs) on the Internet, from the Oregon Route Views Project, spanning 8 November 1997 to 2 January 2000. Data collected by NLANR/MOAT.
This network has 5016 nodes and 10542 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

LMAO, Google took down half the internet yesterday, but I didn’t notice anything. Thanks to the Fediverse!
#Google #Internet #Cloudflare

internet_as: Internet AS graph (2006)
A symmetrized snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from BGP tables posted by the University of Oregon Route Views Project. This snapshot was created on 22 July 2006.
This network has 22963 nodes and 48436 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted

White House security staff warned Musk’s Starlink is a security risk
Those who were managing White House communications systems were not informed in advance
when DOGE representatives went to the roof of the adjacent Eisenhower Executive Office Building in February
to install a terminal connecting users in the complex to Starlink satellites,
which are owned by Musk’s private SpaceX rocket company.

The people said those managing the systems weren’t able to monit…

White House security staff warned Musk’s Starlink is a security risk
The U.S. DOGE Service and allies in the Trump administration ignored White House experts worried about potential security breaches when they installed Musk’s Starlink internet service in the complex this year, three people said.

A Survey of Data Compression Algorithms and their Applications
Mohammad Hosseini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10000 https://arxiv.org/p…

A Survey of Data Compression Algorithms and their Applications
Today, with the growing demands of information storage and data transfer, data compression is becoming increasingly important. Data Compression is a technique which is used to decrease the size of data. This is very useful when some huge files have to be transferred over networks or being stored on a data storage device and the size is more than the capacity of the data storage or would consume so much bandwidth for transmission in a network. With the advent of the Internet and mobile devices w…

Exploring the Convergence of HCI and Evolving Technologies in Information Systems
Rajan Das Gupta, Ashikur Rahman, Md Imrul Hasan Showmick, Md. Yeasin Rahat, Md. Jakir Hossen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08549

Exploring the Convergence of HCI and Evolving Technologies in Information Systems
Modern technology driven information systems are part of our daily lives. However, this deep integration poses new challenges to the human computer interaction (HCI) professionals. With the rapid growth of mobile and cloud computing and the Internet of Things (IoT), the demand for HCI specialists to design user-friendly and adaptable interfaces has never been more pressing. Especially for diverse user groups such as children, the elderly and people with disabilities who need interfaces tailored…

When Detection Fails: The Power of Fine-Tuned Models to Generate Human-Like Social Media Text
Hillary Dawkins, Kathleen C. Fraser, Svetlana Kiritchenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09975

When Detection Fails: The Power of Fine-Tuned Models to Generate Human-Like Social Media Text
Detecting AI-generated text is a difficult problem to begin with; detecting AI-generated text on social media is made even more difficult due to the short text length and informal, idiosyncratic language of the internet. It is nonetheless important to tackle this problem, as social media represents a significant attack vector in online influence campaigns, which may be bolstered through the use of mass-produced AI-generated posts supporting (or opposing) particular policies, decisions, or event…

Meta Invents New Way to Humiliate Users With Feed of People's Chats With AI https://www.404media.co/meta-invents-new-way-to-humiliate-users-with-feed-of-peoples-chats-with-ai/

(Trying this again, only this time with the right threat group. It's only Monday 🤪)
I had always assumed Salt Typhoon hit Comcast.
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025…

US agencies assessed Chinese telecom hackers likely hit data center and residential internet providers
Data center giant Digital Realty and mass media titan Comcast were documented as likely victims of the Salt Typhoon cyberespionage group, people familiar say, marking a potentially major expansion of the group’s initial telecom hacking campaign discovered last year.

Building Automotive Security on Internet Standards: An Integration of DNSSEC, DANE, and DANCE to Authenticate and Authorize In-Car Services
Timo Salomon, Mehmet Mueller, Philipp Meyer, Thomas C. Schmidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13261

Building Automotive Security on Internet Standards: An Integration of DNSSEC, DANE, and DANCE to Authenticate and Authorize In-Car Services
The automotive industry is undergoing a software-as-a-service transformation that enables software-defined functions and post-sale updates via cloud and vehicle-to-everything communication. Connectivity in cars introduces significant security challenges, as remote attacks on vehicles have become increasingly prevalent. Current automotive designs call for security solutions that address the entire lifetime of a vehicle. In this paper, we propose to authenticate and authorize in-vehicle services …

topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

China's Hainan province tests letting some corporate users bypass the Great Firewall and access the global internet, as it seeks to become a free-trade port (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy…

China will drop the Great Firewall for some users, but only in southern Hainan
Employees of companies operating in the island province can apply for the ‘Global Connect’ scheme, but some content will remain restricted.

Upgrade or Switch: Do We Need a New Registry Architecture for the Internet of AI Agents?
Ramesh Raskar, Pradyumna Chari, Jared James Grogan, Mahesh Lambe, Robert Lincourt, Raghu Bala, Abhishek Singh, Ayush Chopra, Rajesh Ranjan, Shailja Gupta, Dimitris Stripelis, Maria Gorskikh, Sichao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12003

Upgrade or Switch: Do We Need a New Registry Architecture for the Internet of AI Agents?
The emerging Internet of AI Agents challenges existing web infrastructure designed for human-scale, reactive interactions. Unlike traditional web resources, autonomous AI agents initiate actions, maintain persistent state, spawn sub-agents, and negotiate directly with peers: demanding millisecond-level discovery, instant credential revocation, and cryptographic behavioral proofs that exceed current DNS/PKI capabilities. This paper analyzes whether to upgrade existing infrastructure or implement…

https://www.bitsight.com/blog/bitsight-identifies-thousands-of-compromised-security-cameras
Bitsight Identifies Thousands of Security Cameras Openly Accessible on the Internet

40K Security Cameras Found Compromised Online | Bitsight
Bitsight TRACE has found over 40,000 exposed cameras streaming live on the internet. Learn where these cameras are, the risk, and how to protect yourself.

packet_delays: Internet packet delays (2002)
A network representing the difference in delay observed by packet probes sent from a computer at Rice University to similar machines at different universities, in c.2002. The edge weight denotes the difference in delay of the packet in milliseconds.
This network has 10 nodes and 9567 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Weighted

OpenAI updates its coding agent Codex with internet access, turned off by default, and expands availability to ChatGPT Plus users (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/3/codex-agent-internet-access/

Codex agent internet access
Sam Altman, [just now](https://twitter.com/sama/status/1930006856019390521): > codex gets access to the internet today! it is off by default and there are complex tradeoffs; people should read about the risks carefully and …

Building Automotive Security on Internet Standards: An Integration of DNSSEC, DANE, and DANCE to Authenticate and Authorize In-Car Services
Timo Salomon, Mehmet Mueller, Philipp Meyer, Thomas C. Schmidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13261

Building Automotive Security on Internet Standards: An Integration of DNSSEC, DANE, and DANCE to Authenticate and Authorize In-Car Services
The automotive industry is undergoing a software-as-a-service transformation that enables software-defined functions and post-sale updates via cloud and vehicle-to-everything communication. Connectivity in cars introduces significant security challenges, as remote attacks on vehicles have become increasingly prevalent. Current automotive designs call for security solutions that address the entire lifetime of a vehicle. In this paper, we propose to authenticate and authorize in-vehicle services …

Steps towards an Ecology for the Internet
Anil Madhavapeddy, Sam Reynolds, Alec P. Christie, David A. Coomes, Michael W. Dales, Patrick Ferris, Ryan Gibb, Hamed Haddadi, Sadiq Jaffer, Josh Millar, Cyrus Omar, William J. Sutherland, Jon Crowcroft
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06469

Steps towards an Ecology for the Internet
The Internet has grown from a humble set of protocols for end-to-end connectivity into a critical global system with no builtin "immune system". In the next decade the Internet will likely grow to a trillion nodes and need protection from threats ranging from floods of fake generative data to AI-driven malware. Unfortunately, growing centralisation has lead to the breakdown of mutualism across the network, with surveillance capitalism now the dominant business model. We take lessons from from b…

Every day I use the #Internet it gets more crap. First we had ads popping up everywhere. Then Google came in and crushed all the good stuff. Now we’re stuck with this AI slop no one asked for.
Remember when pages actually loaded fast? Not bloated with trackers and nonsense. When forums were real communities, not spam factories. When you could browse without being followed by cookies.…

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

Sources: before installing Starlink at the White House in February, DOGE ignored security concerns that the service bypasses traditional WH security controls (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

White House security staff warned Musk’s Starlink is a security risk
The U.S. DOGE Service and allies in the Trump administration ignored White House experts worried about potential security breaches when they installed Musk’s Starlink internet service in the complex this year, three people said.

I agree with Luke Smith: we don’t actually need social media, the internet, or even computers to survive. Living below your means and simplifying your life is not only possible but straightforward if you choose to do it.
If you really care about Privacy, don't use the Internet!
https://peertube.wtf/w/wuw…

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

caida_as: CAIDA AS graphs (2004-2007)
A sequence of 122 network snapshots denoting Autonomous System (AS) relationships on the Internet, from 2004-2007, inferred using the Serial-1 method from RouteViews BGP table snapshots and a set of heuristics.
This network has 20344 nodes and 81882 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…