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How Turkmenistan turned censorship into a lucrative extortion scheme by intentionally restricting internet access in order to sell its own VPNs to citizens (Tor Blog)
https://blog.torproject.org/Corruption-Control-Turkmenistan-internet-censorship-bus…

Corruption and Control: How Turkmenistan turned internet censorship into a business | Tor Project
In Turkmenistan, one of the most isolated regimes in the world, internet censorship has evolved beyond surveillance and control. In an Orwellian twist, the people blocking access to the internet are the same ones secretly selling it back, at a price most Turkmens can't afford.

from my link log —
The database row that did and didn't exist according to Django.
http://mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2025/05/13/the-database-row-that-did-and-didnt-exist
saved 2025-05-14

internet_top_pop: Internet topology (PoP level) (1969-2012)
Assorted snapshots of internet graph at the Point of Presence (PoP) level (which lies between the IP and AS levels), collected from around the world and at various times. The earliest snapshots are for ARPANET (1969-1972), with a few more from pre-2000. Most are from 2006 onward. Metadata include link type or speed, longitudes, and latitudes of nodes, URL, and date of record.
This network has 19 nodes and 24 edges.

"The Hague Declaration on Knowledge Discovery in the Digital Age" was published around 10 years ago. Very interesting, how things have changed since then. TDM for research is still in its infancy, and reuse in the context of #ai has caused a backlash against most of the 6 principles of the Declaration. Tellingly, the Declaration is only accessible via the internet archive:

I have not (re-)posted this in far too long
The 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 justi…

I think one main issue I have with the whole "EURO Stack" stuff is that it is not looking for an alternative. It's "we want what we got just with EU companies". But the fact that the Internet and its services have been turned into a mall is the big fucking problem. I don't want a "European Facebook" built on the same logic of exploitation.

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-em-dash-responds-to-the-ai-allegations

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

Starting with August 25th 2025, #Google shuts down yet another very popular service: #URLshortener goo.gl
Billions of links will go dead.
Background:

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

Techies are always chasing the mythical tool that will let them "focus on the work" and avoid tedious distractions like "talking to people." AI tools are only the latest to promise this impossible dream.
But talking to people IS the work. You can complain about it on the internet, or take responsibility and make your life a lot easier.
#LLM

Can Designers Avoid Meetings?
LLMs are not the first tool to promise that they can free us from having to talk to people so we can "focus on the work." But talking to people IS the work.

Securing the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT): Real-World Attack Taxonomy and Practical Security Measures
Suman Deb, Emil Lupu, Emm Mic Drakakis, Anil Anthony Bharath, Zhen Kit Leung, Guang Rui Ma, Anupam Chattopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19609

Securing the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT): Real-World Attack Taxonomy and Practical Security Measures
The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has the potential to radically improve healthcare by enabling real-time monitoring, remote diagnostics, and AI-driven decision making. However, the connectivity, embedded intelligence, and inclusion of a wide variety of novel sensors expose medical devices to severe cybersecurity threats, compromising patient safety and data privacy. In addition, many devices also have direct capacity - individually or in conjunction with other IoMT devices - to perform act…

1996 onion article old enough to look at porn on the internet.
https://theonion.com/earth-to-be-made-child-safe-1819564004/

Earth To Be Made Child-Safe
NEW YORK—Under heavy pressure from safety-conscious parents groups around the world, the U.N. General Assembly approved a plan yesterday to make the earth child-safe by the year 2000.

The Internet has ruined headlines.
It used to be that headlines had names. Now they carefully DO NOT on purpose, because using a generic role description is more likely to get a click-through to see who it is. The problem has bled into ledes as well, which are no longer synopses of stories but rather secondary teasers. You may be a few paragraphs into a story before you can get the information that every Journo 101 teacher would have demanded be in the first 3 lines.

I’m always consumed by the same question:
How will this endless, brutal spectacle of killing finally end?
Will it be like a movie
— justice prevailing, liberation won, goodness triumphing over evil?
Will the ending even be worthy of the horrors we’ve endured?
Or will it all fade away in an open-ended scene, full of unknowns, unanswered questions, and the absence of closure?
Will I make it to the final scene?
AOr will my story be abruptly cut short,…

Internet Access Is a Lifeline for Us in Gaza — So Israel Attacked It
Communications blackouts aren’t accidental. They’re strategy. They’re the tool Israel uses to try to erase us quietly.

How Joe Flacco, 40 and unbothered, became the internet's favorite QB -- and maybe the Browns' best hope

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/how-joe

ive begun putting all same formula shitposts in threads rather than letting them be their own thing. i hope you people expand upon encountering, see the great wall of slop, the factory line of wordcel solitaire, and feel a strange pang of existential despair in your chest, accelerating the cultural death of whatever internet cliche annoyed me that day :brain3:

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

Practical Physical Layer Authentication for Mobile Scenarios Using a Synthetic Dataset Enhanced Deep Learning Approach
Yijia Guo, Junqing Zhang, Y. -W. Peter Hong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20861

Practical Physical Layer Authentication for Mobile Scenarios Using a Synthetic Dataset Enhanced Deep Learning Approach
The Internet of Things (IoT) is ubiquitous thanks to the rapid development of wireless technologies. However, the broadcast nature of wireless transmissions results in great vulnerability to device authentication. Physical layer authentication emerges as a promising approach by exploiting the unique channel characteristics. However, a practical scheme applicable to dynamic channel variations is still missing. In this paper, we proposed a deep learning-based physical layer channel state informat…

The best guide the UK government's internet policy is to look at what the Russian government's internet policy is, and do that (several years later, but also call it "World Leading").
This has been pretty consistent for at least 15 years.

Arguing on the Internet be like...
(No, seriously, I am having this debate with a moderator on a Discord group right now.)

Enjoy. #AI #CEO.
Source: "Internet" 🫣
Edit: Apparently, the original images are due to Allie Brosh at https://hype…

I can disappear off the internet for days, weeks, even months, slipping into fractured abysses and tangled shadows, where thoughts unravel like twisted threads, laughing as the silence pulls me farther from what some call sane, caught in a slow, relentless surrender, because I believe what doesn’t kill you simply makes you… stranger.

Right now, downloading the Bazzite iso is faster on my phone over Tor⁠:tor:⁠ than it is on my home internet. 🤷‍♀️

Distributed Iterative ML and Message Passing for Grant-Free Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems
Zilu Zhao, Christian Forsch, Laura Cottatellucci, Dirk Slock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21363

Distributed Iterative ML and Message Passing for Grant-Free Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems
Cell-Free (CF) Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MaMIMO) is considered one of the leading candidates for enabling next-generation wireless communication. With the growing interest in the Internet of Things (IoT), the Grant-Free (GF) access scheme has emerged as a promising solution to support massive device connectivity. The integration of GF and CF-MaMIMO introduces significant challenges, particularly in designing distributed algorithms for activity detection and pilot contamination mit…

Collusion Resistant DNS With Private Information Retrieval
Yunming Xiao, Peizhi Liu, Ruijie Yu, Chenkai Weng, Matteo Varvello, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20806

Collusion Resistant DNS With Private Information Retrieval
There has been a growing interest in Internet user privacy, demonstrated by the popularity of privacy-preserving products such as Telegram and Brave, and the widespread adoption of HTTPS. The Domain Name System (DNS) is a key component of Internet-based communication and its privacy has been neglected for years. Recently, DNS over HTTPS (DoH) has improved the situation by fixing the issue of in-path middleboxes. Further progress has been made with proxy-based solutions such as Oblivious DoH (OD…

My latest for The Register, on the multi-decade challenge of improving security in the core of the Internet https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/27/systems_approach_securing_internet_infrastructure/?td=rt-3a

BGP’s security problems are notorious. Attempts to fix that are a work in progress
Systems Approach: Securing internet infrastructure remains a challenging endeavour

‘He Put On Like 100lbs’: Kyle Rittenhouse Deletes Social Media Accounts and Immediately Becomes Laughingstock of the Internet After 'Finally' Disappearing from Public Spotlight
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/06/28/kyle-rittenhouse-deletes-social-media-accounts-and-immediately-becomes-laughingstock-of-the-internet-after-finally-disappearing-from-public-spotlight/

In 2011, I posted to our forums to explain "Why not Windows?" Our goal is not to make the most money; it's to make the best software that we can make. There are other successful platforms, but I don' t think our software would be better on any of them.
Since 2011 we've moved to different forums and the hardware hosting our archived forums died. Maybe someday I'll revive it from backups, but in the meantime it's nice that the Internet Archive still has a co…

Movable Antennas-aided Wireless Energy Transfer for the Internet of Things
Osmel Mart\'inez Rosabal, Onel Alcaraz L\'opez, Marco Di Renzo, Richard Demo Souza, Hirley Alves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21966

Movable Antennas-aided Wireless Energy Transfer for the Internet of Things
Recent advancements in movable antennas (MAs) technology create new opportunities for 6G and beyond wireless systems. MAs are promising for radio frequency wireless energy transfer because they can dynamically adjust antenna positions, improving energy efficiency and scalability. This work aims to minimize the power consumed by an analog beamforming power beacon equipped with independently-controlled MAs (IMAs) for charging multiple single-antenna devices. To this end, we enforce a minimum sepa…

Here folks, we have the AI Ouroboros, nourished only on the Dead Internet Theory. A true Simulacra Net in the wild, pure Ghost Web creation, never intended for human eyes.
Yet here, you may behold the horror yourself.
Article literally had zero alternatives and spoke eloquently(?) on them. 😳😆
#DeadInternet

Our company sells products to test internet protocol implementations under unusual, but possible, situations. (Many fail.)
We sell worldwide, so we have to attach various code numbers to identify the type of product to the import/export (tariff/duty) government agents who make sure that things coming into their countries pay the proper fees.
Well, that list of code numbers appears to have been created in the 1970s and not updated since. So if you are selling a VHS VCR or a Fax m…

Stupid internet bullshit update #youtube #video

Time for another "review". This one's hard. While the book was quite interesting, it required me to be quite open-minded. Still, I think it's worth mentioning:
Robert Wright — Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
The book basically focused on a thesis that both biological evolution and cultural evolution are a thing, they are directional and this directionality can be explained together using game theory — as eventually leading to more non-zero sum games.
It consists of three chapters. The first one is is focused on the history of civilization. It features many examples from different parts of the world, which makes it quite interesting. The author argues that the culture inevitably is evolving as information processing techniques improve — from writing to the Internet.
The second chapter is focused on biological evolution. Now, the argument is that it's not quite random, but actually directed towards greater complexity — eventually leading to the development of highly intelligent species, and a civilization.
The third chapter is quite speculative and metaphysical, and I'm just going to skip it.
The book is full of optimism. Capitalism creates freedom — because people are more productive when they're working for their own gain, so the free market eliminates slavery. Globalisation creates networks of interdependence that make wars uneconomic. Increased contacts between different cultures makes people more tolerant. And eventually, the humanity may be able to unite facing a common "external" enemy — the climate change.
What can I say? The examples are quite interesting, the whole theory seems self-consistent. Still, I repeatedly looked at the publication date (it's 1999), and wondered if author would write the same thing today (yes, I know I can search for his current opinions).
#books #bookstodon @…

Reminder: fuck reddit.
Remember when they fucked all of the moderators over? No one remembers?
They are still the same company. Nothing changed. Internet forgets so fast.

Information availability in different languages and various technological constraints related to multilinguism on the Internet
Sonal Khosla, Haridasa Acharya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17918

Information availability in different languages and various technological constraints related to multilinguism on the Internet
The usage of Internet has grown exponentially over the last two decades. The number of Internet users has grown from 16 Million to 1650 Million from 1995 to 2010. It has become a major repository of information catering almost every area. Since the Internet has its origin in USA which is English speaking country there is huge dominance of English on the World Wide Web. Although English is a globally acceptable language, still there is a huge population in the world which is not able to access t…

"We shouldn’t be surprised, because capturing communities with false promises only to sell us out is business as usual in the corporate internet. The founders handled the transition horribly, even by tech industry standards, and the pain and disruption it creates in our lives is real. Yet capital is constantly pulling the rug on online communities... For corporations, it’s always profits over people"

When We Get Komooted
Following the sale of Komoot to private equity, Josh Meissner explores the broken relationship between corporate capital and our communities...

On the Feasibility of Poisoning Text-to-Image AI Models via Adversarial Mislabeling
Stanley Wu, Ronik Bhaskar, Anna Yoo Jeong Ha, Shawn Shan, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21874

On the Feasibility of Poisoning Text-to-Image AI Models via Adversarial Mislabeling
Today's text-to-image generative models are trained on millions of images sourced from the Internet, each paired with a detailed caption produced by Vision-Language Models (VLMs). This part of the training pipeline is critical for supplying the models with large volumes of high-quality image-caption pairs during training. However, recent work suggests that VLMs are vulnerable to stealthy adversarial attacks, where adversarial perturbations are added to images to mislead the VLMs into producing …

I have given The Train Noise corporeal form and released it onto the internet. I am sorry. https://youtu.be/5PfCp1AVH_o

I have given The Train Noise corporeal form and released it onto the internet. I am sorry. https://youtu.be/5PfCp1AVH_o

What is your favourite physical book that you want to be seen reading in public? Wrong answers only.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jun/30/performative-reading-public-tiktok?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other…

This is how the Internet dies. #donoevil #haha

https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-one-person/
Great article.

We (@…) are preparing to again publish Weekend Reads and The Internet Last Week series of posts.
We may be making some changes to our Mastodon account and blog, but otherwise it should largely resemble what we were doing before.
I know many appreciated seeing them and we missed doing them. They take us a fair bit of time and effort to compile, whic…

I've got thirteen thousand channels of shit
on the internet
to choose from.

Baidu plans to open-source its Ernie LLM on June 30; some say this could cement China's AI leadership, while others doubt it will be a "DeepSeek moment" (Kevin Williams/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/29/china-bigg

China's biggest public AI drop since DeepSeek, Baidu's open source Ernie, is about to hit the market
Chinese internet search giant Baidu will open source its Ernie gen AI large language model as soon as this week, with uncertain consequences for the market.

Taking Language Embedded 3D Gaussian Splatting into the Wild
Yuze Wang, Yue Qi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19830 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19830

Taking Language Embedded 3D Gaussian Splatting into the Wild
Recent advances in leveraging large-scale Internet photo collections for 3D reconstruction have enabled immersive virtual exploration of landmarks and historic sites worldwide. However, little attention has been given to the immersive understanding of architectural styles and structural knowledge, which remains largely confined to browsing static text-image pairs. Therefore, can we draw inspiration from 3D in-the-wild reconstruction techniques and use unconstrained photo collections to create a…

Russian Internet is COOKED. The Iron Curtain is back - NFKRZ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoqNwa6so8I

I find this map especially amusing in that in 1893, 238 colonists departed Australia (purportedly nonexistent) to found the New Australia colony in Paraguay (ditto).
Of course, Australia didn’t federate till 1901, so it could be argued that Australia didn’t *actually* exist at the time. And given Paraguay’s tremendous (but still hotly contested) losses in the 1864-70 Paraguayan War, the latter country was itself hanging on by a thread.

Enhancing IoT Intrusion Detection Systems through Adversarial Training
Karma Gurung, Ashutosh Ghimire, Fathi Amsaad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19739 https://

Enhancing IoT Intrusion Detection Systems through Adversarial Training
The augmentation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices transformed both automation and connectivity but revealed major security vulnerabilities in networks. We address these challenges by designing a robust intrusion detection system (IDS) to detect complex attacks by learning patterns from the NF-ToN-IoT v2 dataset. Intrusion detection has a realistic testbed through the dataset's rich and high-dimensional features. We combine distributed preprocessing to manage the dataset size with Fast Gradie…

Sen. Alex Padilla grants the Internet Archive federal depository status, making it a part of a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents (Morgan Sung/KQED)
https://www.kqed.org/news/12049420/sf-based…

SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?
The Internet Archive, thanks to its designation by California Sen. Alex Padilla, joins a network of over 1,100 libraries that make government documents accessible to the public.

🇪🇺 🌐 With its new International Digital Strategy for the #EuropeanUnion, the EU aims to expand international partnerships, deploy an EU Tech Business Offer to partner countries, strengthen security and global digital governance.
GÉANT is proud to support several of the strategy's key areas, outlined today by Commissioner Henna Virkkunen at the

High Level Session 2: Digital Public Goods and Global Digital Cooperation, IGF 2025
The 20th annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum is hosted by the Government of the Norway in Lillestrøm from 23 to 27 June 2025. The Forum's overarching theme is: Building Digital Governance Together.

Great closing keynote on 'rewilding' the internet by @… at the 2025 PublicSpaces conference. She talks about how a few fucked up right wing men think they own the internet, why they DON'T, and why the web is still ours and just needs (more) rewilding.

Should I be surprised? We just replaced an aging HP ink jet printer with a newer version, also from HP.
About the first thing it did when powered on was to scream about how HP brand ink cartridges must be used, how other cartridges may not work and and that firmware updates may invalidate them in the future.
And that a nearly continuous internet connection is required to use the cartridges that are in the machine, else printing would cease.
This seems to me to be a clear ca…

The growing impact of unintended #Starlink broadband emission on radio astronomy in the #SKA-Low frequency range: #Interference to astronomy the unintended consequence of faster internet: https://www.curtin.edu.au/news/media-release/interference-to-astronomy-the-unintended-consequence-of-faster-internet/

Can’t find a single working Photoshop 7.0 for Mac serial number. The Internet truly is but a shadow of its former self.

Russia blocks popular US-made internet speed test tool over national security concerns https://therecord.media/russia-bans-speedtest-ookla

If you don't already own a non-Internet-based mesh communications node, get out your least-favourite €15 and buy one now, because they're currently speedrunning building the ultimate panopticon and destroying the Internet as we know it

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…

"Nobody should control the end user": Exploring Privacy Perspectives of Indian Internet Users in Light of DPDPA
Sana Athar, Devashish Gosain, Anja Feldmann, Mannat Kaur, Ha Dao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17962

"Nobody should control the end user": Exploring Privacy Perspectives of Indian Internet Users in Light of DPDPA
With the rapid increase in online interactions, concerns over data privacy and transparency of data processing practices have become more pronounced. While regulations like the GDPR have driven the widespread adoption of cookie banners in the EU, India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA) promises similar changes domestically, aiming to introduce a framework for data protection. However, certain clauses within the DPDPA raise concerns about potential infringements on user privacy, giv…

"The tragedy of digital media isn’t that it’s run by ruthless, profiteering guys in ill-fitting suits,”
Megan Greenwell wrote in an eviscerating blog postannouncing her departure.
“It’s that the people posing as experts know less about how to make money than their employees, to whom they won’t listen.”
Greenwell’s entire staff followed her lead shortly after, mass quitting largely in protest of a mandate to abandon higher-traffic stories about politics and internet od…

Inside the Private Equity Scam—and the Livelihoods It Has Destroyed
Financiers have bamboozled the public for years about their expertise in “fixing” companies. Yet they often—and sometimes deliberately—run them into the ground.

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…

What total garbage... But of course simply putting "Microsoft" and "Mail" together always means garbage is involved.
One of the huge mistakes in the evolution of the Internet was the conflation of identities that serve distinct functions. E.g. there's no reason for the string that one uses for logging into an email account to have even the form of an email address.
The conflation of identities is why & how we have phishing.

Another day, another instance of trying to use some #golang code I found on the Internet throwing a nil pointer dereference panic, another moment spent wondering why you would design a language where that is possible in the 21st century

Development and analysis of a secured VoIP system for surveillance activities
M. Matsive Ali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21038 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21…

Development and analysis of a secured VoIP system for surveillance activities
Since the 1990s, the telephone has been the primary mode of communication. However, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), which is a highly straightforward and affordable form of data transfer, is now becoming an important part of daily communication. VoIP is the technology that makes it possible to send speech and multimedia data packets across either a public or private IP network. However, a cyberattack known as a man-in-the-middle attack poses a serious concern in transferring data through a…

"What you have is, in essence, a very grassroots and cheap approach to launder misinformation to the public.”
From @… - Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.
https://www.404media.co/googles-ai-is-destroying-search-the-internet-and-your-brain/

Google's "AI Overviews" are garbage. Sadly they are now becoming the main way people interact with the web.
(Original title: Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain)
https://www.404media.co/googles-ai-is-destro…

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

Asked 5 different local AIs (not internet based nor connecting to the internet):
What is the average airspeed of a fully laden swallow?
And they attributed it to 3 novels: Alan Sillitoe's "The Lonely Voice"(which does not exist), Douglas Adams's "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," George Orwell's "Animal Farm" and also the correct answer, the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
So as long as we're good with AI being 75%…

if hell is real it'll just be watching this clip over and over fuck you mean "israeli grade ontology" 😭

Democracy for DAOs: An Empirical Study of Decentralized Governance and Dynamic (Case Study Internet Computer SNS Ecosystem)
Burak Arda Okutan, Stefan Schmid, Yvonne-Anne Pignolet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20234

Democracy for DAOs: An Empirical Study of Decentralized Governance and Dynamic (Case Study Internet Computer SNS Ecosystem)
Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) rely on governance mechanism without centralized leadership. This paper presents an empirical study of user behavior in governance for a variety of DAOs, ranging from DeFi to gaming, using the Internet Computer Protocol DAO framework called SNS (Service Nervous System). To analyse user engagement, we measure participation rates and frequency of proposals submission and voter approval rates. We evaluate decision duration times to determine DAO agilit…

Recall what I posted before about a distributed PBS style #Fediverse fundraising event? I maybe spoke too soon:
Introducing IA-Hosted P2P Fundraising
https://donate.archive.org/campaign/internet-archive-social-fundraising/c710848?c_src=gofundmeproemail-p2pcmpgn1
Originally explained better in their mailing list but I'm not sure the link works
https://mailchi.mp/archive.org/email-20250326newsletter-17005440?e=64cff1a7c7

The UK starts enforcing new online child safety laws, requiring websites that host porn, self-harm, suicide, and eating disorder content to verify users' age (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-age-checked-internet-has-arrived/

The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived
Starting today, UK adults will have to prove their age to access porn online. Experts warn that a global wave of age-check laws threatens to chill speech and ultimately harm children and adults alike.

Am I the only one who is often surprised to know that some things ever existed when their users come to the internet to mourn about them shutting down?
It's a weird feeling. I know we all move around on different (sometimes wildly) software foundations, but that actually underlines it for me in that way that is slightly unsettling.

Communicating Smartly in Molecular Communication Environments: Neural Networks in the Internet of Bio-Nano Things
Jorge Torres G\'omez, Pit Hofmann, Lisa Y. Debus, Osman Tugay Ba\c{s}aran, Sebastian Lotter, Roya Khanzadeh, Stefan Angerbauer, Bige Deniz Unluturk, Sergi Abadal, Werner Haselmayr, Frank H. P. Fitzek, Robert Schober, Falko Dressler
ht…

Communicating Smartly in Molecular Communication Environments: Neural Networks in the Internet of Bio-Nano Things
Recent developments in the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT) are laying the groundwork for innovative applications across the healthcare sector. Nanodevices designed to operate within the body, managed remotely via the internet, are envisioned to promptly detect and actuate on potential diseases. In this vision, an inherent challenge arises due to the limited capabilities of individual nanosensors; specifically, nanosensors must communicate with one another to collaborate as a cluster. Aiming…

My internet is just being shit right now. Somehow, ny thumbnail didn’t upload with the video, and Youtube is straight up freezing when I try to fix it.

from my link log —
ECFiber: building a fibre-to-the-premises network in rural Vermont.
https://blog.apnic.net/2021/02/18/building-your-own-fibre-to-premises-network/
saved 2021-02-18

Building your own Fibre-to-Premises Network: The ECFiber Story | APNIC Blog
How to build and operate a FTTH network when existing infrastructure, topography, and low population all work against the need for fast Internet

Is Crunching Public Data the Right Approach to Detect BGP Hijacks?
Alessandro Giaconia, Muoi Tran, Laurent Vanbever, Stefano Vissicchio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20434 https://…

Is Crunching Public Data the Right Approach to Detect BGP Hijacks?
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) remains a fragile pillar of Internet routing. BGP hijacks still occurr daily. While full deployment of Route Origin Validation (ROV) is ongoing, attackers have already adapted, launching post-ROV attacks such as forged-origin hijacks. To detect these, recent approaches like DFOH [Holterbach et al., USENIX NSDI '24] and BEAM [Chen et al., USENIX Security '24] apply machine learning (ML) to analyze data from globally distributed BGP monitors, assuming anomalies w…

Parks Associates: 33% of US internet households subscribe to a DTC sports-specific streamer and 40% of sports viewers exclusively watch sports via streamers (George Winslow/TV Tech)
https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/study-33

Study: 33% of US Internet Households Subscribe to a Direct-to-Consumer Sports Streaming Service
D2C sports service viewers are the heaviest spenders on streaming video services shelling out an average of $111 per month on all streaming subscriptions according to Parks Associates

The internet is full of scams.
Our company receives many fake invoices for this or that.
One that really annoys me is from a company called Domain Jamboree LLC. that appears to operate out of a UPS mailbox storefront in a shopping mall in Buffalo NY. They also call themselves "Domain Name Services".
They send a form that looks a lot like an invoice, although it contains weasel words that tries to wiggle and present itself, as a mere solicitation.
They want …

Sen. Alex Padilla grants the Internet Archive federal depository status, making it a part of a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents (Morgan Sung/KQED)
https://www.kqed.org/news/12049420/sf-based…

SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?
The Internet Archive, thanks to its designation by California Sen. Alex Padilla, joins a network of over 1,100 libraries that make government documents accessible to the public.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.NI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.NI/new
[1/1]:
- Wall-Proximity Matters: Understanding the Effect of Device Placement with Respect to the Wall for...
He Wang, Yunpeng Ge, Ivan Wang-Hei Ho

Optimizing Indoor RIS-Aided Physical-Layer Security: A Codebook-Generation Methodology and Measurement-Based Analysis
Dimitris Kompostiotis, Dimitris Vordonis, Vassilis Paliouras, George C. Alexandropoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22082

Optimizing Indoor RIS-Aided Physical-Layer Security: A Codebook-Generation Methodology and Measurement-Based Analysis
Sixth-Generation (6G) wireless networks aim to support innovative Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications that demand faster and more secure data transmission. While higher Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) layers employ measures like encryption and secure protocols to address data security, Physical-Layer Security (PLS) focuses on preventing information leakage to EavesDroppers (EDs) and mitigating the effects of jammers and spoofing attacks. In this context, the emerging technology of Reconfig…

Google's AI Overviews, which a recent Pew study shows reduce clickthrough rates, are further eroding traffic to original publishers by linking to aggregators (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/googles-ai-is-destroying-search-the-inter…

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

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…

Enhancing Resilience for IoE: A Perspective of Networking-Level Safeguard
Guan-Yan Yang, Jui-Ning Chen, Farn Wang, Kuo-Hui Yeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20504 https://

Enhancing Resilience for IoE: A Perspective of Networking-Level Safeguard
The Internet of Energy (IoE) integrates IoT-driven digital communication with power grids to enable efficient and sustainable energy systems. Still, its interconnectivity exposes critical infrastructure to sophisticated cyber threats, including adversarial attacks designed to bypass traditional safeguards. Unlike general IoT risks, IoE threats have heightened public safety consequences, demanding resilient solutions. From the networking-level safeguard perspective, we propose a Graph Structure …

Third-Party Assessment of Mobile Performance in the 5G Era
ASM Rizvi, John Heidemann, David Plonka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18834 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Third-Party Assessment of Mobile Performance in the 5G Era
The web experience using mobile devices is important since a significant portion of the Internet traffic is initiated from mobile devices. In the era of 5G, users expect a high-performance data network to stream media content and for other latency-sensitive applications. In this paper, we characterize mobile experience in terms of latency, throughput, and stability measured from a commercial, globally-distributed CDN. Unlike prior work, CDN data provides a relatively neutral, carrier-agnostic p…

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.

Co-Design of Sensing, Communications, and Control for Low-Altitude Wireless Networks
Haijia Jin, Jun Wu, Weijie Yuan, Fan Liu, Yuanhao Cui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20970

Co-Design of Sensing, Communications, and Control for Low-Altitude Wireless Networks
The rapid advancement of Internet of Things (IoT) services and the evolution toward the sixth generation (6G) have positioned unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as critical enablers of low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs). This work investigates the co-design of integrated sensing, communication, and control ($\mathbf{SC^{2}}$) for multi-UAV cooperative systems with finite blocklength (FBL) transmission. In particular, the UAVs continuously monitor the state of the field robots and transmit thei…

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

An Efficient Lightweight Blockchain for Decentralized IoT
Faezeh Dehghan Tarzjani, Mostafa Salehi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19219 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

An Efficient Lightweight Blockchain for Decentralized IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) is applied in various fields, and the number of physical devices connected to the IoT is increasingly growing. There are significant challenges to the IoT's growth and development, mainly due to the centralized nature and large-scale IoT networks. The emphasis on the decentralization of IoT's architecture can overcome challenges to IoT's capabilities. A promising decentralized platform for IoT is blockchain. Owing to IoT devices' limited resources, traditional conse…

Google's AI Overviews, which a recent Pew study shows reduce clickthrough rates, are further eroding traffic to original publishers by linking to aggregators (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/googles-ai-is-destroying-search-the-inter…

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

internet_top_pop: Internet topology (PoP level) (1969-2012)
Assorted snapshots of internet graph at the Point of Presence (PoP) level (which lies between the IP and AS levels), collected from around the world and at various times. The earliest snapshots are for ARPANET (1969-1972), with a few more from pre-2000. Most are from 2006 onward. Metadata include link type or speed, longitudes, and latitudes of nodes, URL, and date of record.
This network has 56 nodes and 75 edges.

A Hybrid Intrusion Detection System with a New Approach to Protect the Cybersecurity of Cloud Computing
Maryam Mahdi Al-Husseini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19934

A Hybrid Intrusion Detection System with a New Approach to Protect the Cybersecurity of Cloud Computing
Cybersecurity is one of the foremost challenges facing the world of cloud computing. Recently, the widespread adoption of smart devices in cloud computing environments that provide Internet-based services has become prevalent. Therefore, it is essential to consider the security threats in these environments. The use of intrusion detection systems can mitigate the vulnerabilities of these systems. Furthermore, hybrid intrusion detection systems can provide better protection compared to conventio…

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

T-Mobile plans to expand support for the L4S network standard in the coming weeks, helping high-priority internet packets move fast, a first for a US network (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/710312/t-mobile-low-latency-l4s-5g

T-Mobile is bringing low-latency tech to 5G for the first time
T-Mobile is expanding its 5G network’s support for L4S, which should help make the internet feel faster and improve the experience for apps like video calling and cloud gaming.

Network-Level Prompt and Trait Leakage in Local Research Agents
Hyejun Jeong, Mohammadreze Teymoorianfard, Abhinav Kumar, Amir Houmansadr, Eugene Badasarian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20282

Network-Level Prompt and Trait Leakage in Local Research Agents
We show that Web and Research Agents (WRAs) -- language model-based systems that investigate complex topics on the Internet -- are vulnerable to inference attacks by passive network adversaries such as ISPs. These agents could be deployed \emph{locally} by organizations and individuals for privacy, legal, or financial purposes. Unlike sporadic web browsing by humans, WRAs visit $70{-}140$ domains with distinguishable timing correlations, enabling unique fingerprinting attacks. Specifically, w…

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 19267 nodes and 77860 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

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 19489 nodes and 79718 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

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