Tootfinder

"But the headline (“Inside the Trump administration’s campaign to expand ‘free speech’ in Europe”) and subhed (“The United States has banned some European researchers from entering the country and dismantled federal programs intended to fight foreign disinformation campaigns”) describe the administration’s actions without conveying the most explosive finding of the piece: that the evidentiary foundation for all of these actions does not exist."

How AI Reverses the Political Logic of the Internet | TechPolicy.Press https://techpolicy.press/how-ai-reverses-the-political-logic-of-the-internet

How AI Reverses the Political Logic of the Internet
AI governance is ultimately a question of democracy itself, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.

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 61 nodes and 89 edges.

Moscow is in the throes of a major mobile internet blackout
as the Russian government tightens restrictions it has touted as
necessary to ensure the “security” of its citizens.
The Russian capital has been more or less spared from a wave of systematic mobile internet outages that have hit the country since May,
-- which authorities have said are necessary to counter the threat of Ukrainian drones.
But since the first week of March, Muscovites have also found t…

Internet blackouts hit Moscow as the Kremlin tightens restrictions
Moscow has been hit by a major mobile internet blackout as the Russian government tightens restrictions it has touted as necessary to ensure the “security” of its citizens.

“Direct-to-cell satellite internet can bypass censorship and internet shutdowns, connecting ordinary smartphones directly to satellites—no special equipment needed. This technology could save lives in Iran and beyond.”
#d2c #iran

from my link log —
Dorking: how to find anything on the web.
https://www.alec.fyi/dorking-how-to-find-anything-on-the-internet.html
saved 2020-08-11

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

Das wäre in umgekehter Richtung sicher ebenfalls gut. Bei (professionellen) Routern wissen wir bereits dass die Amis Malware vor der Auslieferung aufspielen (teilweise über Hardwaremodifikation) oder intern bekannte Backdoors/0days nutzen.
> The FCC says it has decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are henceforth prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the United States.

Beyond stoked. I knew the snowblower didn't start the last time it snowed and suspected I'd forgotten to use fuel stabilizer. That old gas must have gummed up the carburetor, I figured, even though I wasn't sure what a carburetor looked like.
So, thanks to the internet, I learned how to find and clean it out. Success!
Then I thought I'd better try the generator, given that this storm is supposed to be a doozy. Also failed to start. So I set to cleaning it out next…

The GÉANT #SecurityDays 2026 programme is live and we're highlighting the keynotes you won't want to miss.
First up is Frank Rieger!
Hacker, author and internet activist — on how agentic LLMs are changing the IT security landscape, and why mastering the fundamentals of network control matters more than ever.
Learn more & secure your place 👉

“The "asdfmovie" series has been an Internet institution for nearly two decades now, informing the humor of millions of people, […] occasionally for the worse.”
I’ve never seen it. This is the 16th. Some people have way too much time on their hands. I, apparently, am one of them. Enjoy.
https://youtu.be/qcwqUf_B5mM

EFF Tells Publishers: Blocking the Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, But It Will Erase The Historical Record - Slashdot
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/03/21/0649247/eff-tells-publishers-blocking-the-internet-archive-wont-stop-ai-but-it-will-erase-the-historical-record

As we celebrate Earth Day 2026, what is the technical community—the people who actually build and operate the Internet—doing about climate concerns and environmental sustainability?
Today I wrote on the @… blog about two groups working within the Internet Engineering Task Force (

Climate and Environmental Sustainability Within the IETF and IRTF - Internet Society
As we celebrate Earth Day 2026, what is the technical community doing about climate and environmental sustainability?

The Internet Watch Foundation says it identified 8,029 AI-generated images and videos of realistic child sexual abuse in 2025, up 14% from the previous year (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

Through the miracle of the internet, I can sit here in Savannah watching on my TV WCCO in Minneapolis enjoying videos of how bad the snow storm is in New York. Shadenfreude!

It used to be that to use any kind of software you would have a paper manual explaining how to do everything in detail.
Then it moved on to the manual being on the computer, why not, it had the added benefit of being searchable.
Then it moved on to being fully online, slightly annoying since you can't figure stuff out without internet, but OK.
Now.. You get weird "get help" interfaces for which you still need to get online but do not actually provide any useful info. I can't reme…

My Nakamichi tape deck died, and so I got a replacement belt and idler wheel tire for it. That didn't fix it. Internet searches suggested that corrosion in the cam motor was the most likely culprit.
Today I took it apart, opened up the cam motor, used a wire brush Dremel attachment and some Deoxit, and got it cleaned up. Put it all back together and it actually works! It was a frustrating process, with lots of tiny little parts, but gosh it's nice to have a functioning ta…

Quote form the Internet:
The WACK Audition 2026 appears to have descended into a farce
Well, what were you expecting?

Sorry internet but this photo rocks and it's from linkedin so deal with it.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yuanamychen_philly-a…

If you’re looking for an ngrok alternative for tunnelling that is affordable and just works (e.g., with Kitten¹), I can highly recommend LocalXpose (https://localxpose.io/).
(Not affiliated with them in any way; just use their tunnels for testing with Kitten on a daily basis.)
PS. If you have a static IPv4 …

LocalXpose: Secure Tunneling & Localhost Tunnel Software
Discover LocalXpose, the trusted tunneling software to expose localhost to internet. Secure tunnels, fast local proxy for safe remote access to servers and IoT.

New Virus
There is a new virus going around called WORK. If you receive any sort
of WORK, whether via e-mail, Internet, or simply handed to you by a
colleague, do not open it. Those who have opened WORK have found that
their social life is deleted and their brain ceases to function
properly.
If you do encounter WORK via e-mail or are faced with any WORK at all,
purge the virus by sending an e-mail to your boss with the words 'This
is too much for…

Red Lines under the EU AI Act: Understanding the ban of the untargeted scraping of facial images and facial recognition databases 
https://fpf.org/blog/red-lines-under-the-eu-ai-act-understa…

I'm not a huge fan or anything, but I do have some amount of regret for missing the NiN show here in #Montreal last week.
Alas, The Internet provides.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aouVWNrQ_Ds

Does anyone still use MP3 players? Can you recommend a small audio player that will work with Linux? I can blindly buy one off amazon but hoping someone had a suggestion. I had one about the size of a matchbook, had 64G of music and I wore it cutting the lawn. I forget the brand but It broke last year and I didn't replace it yet. I like a portable player that doesn't rely on my phone, a subscription, or cellular/internet for streaming.

It's Saturday morning, and time for Metacurity's weekly round-up of the best infosec-related long reads we couldn't get to during the daily crush of news.
This week's selection covers
--Industrialized scam compounds pull out all the stops to impersonate police,
--How Switzerland's SCION aims to replace BGP,
--Grassroots local resistance to Flock surveillance is growing,
--Existing law is inadequate to govern commercial spyware,
--Russia…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 3/14/26
Industrialized scam compounds pull out all the stops to impersonate police, How Switzerland's SCION aims to replace BGP, Grassroots local resistance to Flock surveillance is growing, Existing law is inadequate to govern commercial spyware, Russia's sovereign internet is backfiring

And here's the tech industry's greatest revolutionary inventions
1980s: personal computers
1990s: the Internet
2000s: supercomputers in your pocket
2010s: fake money
2020s: vibe palaver

Another keynote not to miss at the GÉANT #SecurityDays 2026 this April.
Valerie Aurora, open-source software engineer and co-founder of the Amsterdam Internet Resiliency Club — on why internet connectivity in Europe is more fragile than we think, and how communities can prepare together.
Secure your place 👉

I remember hearing someone on an internet stream last year that the US would *never* directly engage Iran because of the threat they would damage energy production in the region, which would end up harming the US economy.
Just shows you what these naïve armchair strategists know!

A friend's OneDrive access was botched up by Security Update KB5079473 (had to be uninstalled, and I also paused the Windows updates for a few weeks). His laptop was connected to the internet, but OneDrive stated he should connect to the internet first. Insanity.
While I was investigating the problem remotely, he was complaining about EACH of the usual suspects on which his business depends--Microsoft, Meta, Google. It's as if these corpos deliberately want to ruin the world.…

A hilarious, depressing, and educational look at how the Internet actually works at a network level, and why it's a total train wreck.
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810

A woman calling out the patriarchal system and rape culture... in 1771 London.
This was a great episode of #WhatsHerName podcast, and Catherine Jemmat's memoir is so old that you can read the full scanned version on the Internet Archive from the New York Library.

THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE Catherine Jemmat — What'shername
After a lifetime of betrayal and abuse as an 18th century sex worker, Catherine Jemmat broke the ultimate social taboo: she wrote the truth about her life. Her “scandalous memoir” helped change the way readers thought about women’s lives, and her second book introduced a radical new idea into English society – that the true ‘perpetrator’ driving women into lives of so-called sin and degradation was, in fact, society itself. Returning guest Miranda Garno Rossa …

I just published The Open Contributions Descriptor format as an IETF Internet-Draft.
#opensource #opendata #openstandard

about the war against the Internet Archive :
🔁 https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/news-publishers-are-now-blocking-the-internet-archive-and-we-may-all-regret-it/

News Publishers Are Now Blocking The Internet Archive, And We May All Regret It
Last fall, I wrote about how the fear of AI was leading us to wall off the open internet in ways that would hurt everyone. At the time, I was worried about how companies were conflating legitimate …

The #internet of the #future is already here https://vale.rocks/posts/chinas-web

China’s Parallel Web Behind the Wall
So much for the 'World Wide' Web.

from my link log —
ACME, a brief history of a protocol which has changed Internet security.
https://blog.brocas.org/2025/12/01/ACME-a-brief-history-of-one-of-the-protocols-which-has-changed-the-Internet-Security/

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

Internet service outage at my home since yesterday and all the smart home functions still work just fine thanks to @… and @….
Except for the Google Home mini speakers, which can't even set a timer without internet co…

Putin signs law allowing FSB to cut off internet and phone service on demand: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/22/putin-signs-law-allowing-fsb.html

Q&A: Louis Theroux, director of Netflix documentary Inside the Manosphere, on interviewing those on the extreme edges of the media as they film you, and more (David Gilbert/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/louis-theroux-on…

Louis Theroux on the Manosphere: ‘It’s Highly Profitable to Be a Dick on the Internet’
With the release of his Netflix documentary "Inside the Manosphere," the director talked to WIRED about why so many young men are drawn to toxic influencers.

Jaw-Dropping iPhone Video of Earth Setting Behind the Moon Is Rightfully Breaking the Internet
https://gizmodo.com/jaw-dropping-iphone-video-of-earth-setting-behind-the-moon-is-rightfully-breaking-the-internet-2000748443

Sources and docs: the US "effectively gutted" the Internet Freedom program that dispensed $500M since 2016 to help build tech to evade state internet controls (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb

gentlemen of a certain age will perhaps appreciate the first issue of dirt, launched in 1992 as sassy magazine's teen boy-aimed spinoff. you know, with crispin glover on the cover. https://archive.org/details/dirt-issue-1-spring-1992/

Dirt Issue 1 ( Spring 1992) : dirt magazine : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
dirtt magazine volume issue 01 spring 19

Via: L'avventura: Pet Detective @amcnal.bsky.social
“over on x the everything app some Chicago high school kid named Danny Spud tried to disrupt his school's anti-ICE protest by yelling about how much he loves ICE and then filmed himself getting walloped by a fellow student lmao
the quote tweet making fun of him has 3x the likes”
I’ll post the video next.
i’m not totally 💯 it’s not staged, but either way, remeber;
violence isn’t THE answer
But it su…

How difficult would it be for Elon Musk to liquidate all of his hundreds of billions of $? Or for someone who had almost magic-like access to his assets and could do whatever it took to accomplish that, as quickly as possible. And reinvest it in crypto. And then anybody with an SSN and access to the internet can sign up for an MBI card and get a monthly stipend, amount to be determined later. How long would it last?

A voyage towards the South Pole performed in the years 1822–24. Containing an examination of the Antarctic Sea, to the seventy-fourth degree of latitude; and a visit to Tierra del Fuego, with a particular account of the inhabitants. To which is added, much useful information on the coasting navigation of Cape Horn, and the adjacent lands.
htt…

A voyage towards the South Pole, performed in the years 1822-24: containing an examination of the Antarctic Sea to the seventy-fourth degree of latitude, and a visit to Tierra del Fuego, with a particular account of the inhabitants : Weddell, James : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
iv, 276 p., [4] leaves of plates: ill. (some folded, 1 col.), maps (some folded); 22 cm. Subtitle: To which is added much useful information on the coasting...

The Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive is in peril
#WaybackMachine

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

Assuming power and internet holds up, the programme will be live tomorrow (Monday) night at 8pm ET over at UncertainFM

Protectionism in the US heading in an interesting direction as #routers #law #protectionism

The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet https://www.404media.co/the-removed-doge-deposition-videos-have-already-been-backed-up-across-the-internet/

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 4897 nodes and 10307 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

Got a spam text? Copy spam text (careful not to click on links in it), forward contents of spam text to 7726 (SPAM), and it should walk you through the spam report for your carrier.
Use https://www.carrierlookup.com/ to see what company is carrier for sender/spammer, then internet search "[company n…

Nice day today at #FediMTL. Good talks and good people. Met some folks I only knew from the Internet. Hope I can go again next year.

Why don't all militaries everywhere just ban fitness apps that connect to the internet?
Strava Data Leak: How a French Navy Officer’s Workout on the Strava App Exposed Aircraft Carrier Location Amid Iran War Tensions

Strava Data Leak: How a French Navy Officer’s Workout on the Strava App Exposed Aircraft Carrier Location Amid Iran War Tensions
French Navy faces security scare after Strava workout data exposed aircraft carrier location during Iran war tensions in Mediterranean Sea.

@… @… In part the problem is that internet infrastructure has been invested in and managed in a centralized way for so long that it takes significant investment of resources and time to develop any reasonable a…

Imagine:
You are these parent of an adorable 4-year-old kid. They have made a toy airplane out of spare cardboard. Sadly, during play the wing has fallen off. You, a wise parent, produce a piece of duct tape and tape it back on. Your kid asks: "but what if the tape breaks, or the other wing falls off?" Dutifully, and with a completely serious manner, you duct tape the other wing, and then with a sharpie you write "Please DO NOT fall off!" on each wing. "There," you say, now the wings will not fall off. "
Your child happily returns to their play.
Imagine:
You are boarding a Boeing airplane for an intercontinental flight. Just the other day you were reading news about the emergency exit door falling off a Boeing airplane during flight. Thankfully nobody was injured in that incident, but a passenger could have been sucked out the gap and killed. As you walk down the aisle towards your seat at the back, you notice that around the emergency exit door of this plane, there are some scratch marks. It looks like it might not be 100% seated in place. You see several rolls worth of duct tape slapped onto the gaps between the door and the frame. In sharpie, someone has written "Please DO NOT fall off!" on the duct tape.
This is a post about #Agentic #AI.
To clarify: there are a host of reasons why using Claude Code is unethical in the first place, besides the fact that its a danger to its users. These make it unethical to use it even for a child's-toy-like application. But the source code we've just witnessed in the recent leak is *exactly* this level of "engineering." If you see an app that claims to be "programmed with AI" and it has any possibility of failing in a way that could harm you (for example, if it connects to the internet, meaning that poor programming could allow hackers to take over the device you run it on), my advice is: "Do not use it and warn your friends and family."
P.S. yes, this advice does apply to Microsoft Widows at this point, although that can be a tougher bullet to bite.

For 30 years, we were fine with an unencumbered internet. For 20ish years, we've had social media, and blogs before that. An entire generation was raised on the internet (I'd argue for the better).
And now, all of the sudden in the year 2026, every government on the planet is mysteriously deciding that we urgently need to do age verification.

Growing up in the 80s, my mom was a board member of a 2nd-wave feminist bookshop in Atlanta, so I thought all bookstores were queer-friendly, feminist spaces
As the funny fad of the Internet started to take off, I naturally assumed — for literally months, in the early 90s — that "Amazon" was an online lesbian separatist bookstore in the vein of the Whole Earth Catalog.
In retrospect, my imagined reality was SO MUCH BETTER than what we wound up with

PSA because I saw another thread about social media data harvesting:
Anything you put on the Internet is public, forever.
No ifs or buts.

One thing that's frustrating reading about the shutdown of the UK PSTN phone system (which was supposed to be 3 months ago, but is now in 10 months) is there's no communication of progress statistically. Apparently 2.8 million still need to switch before Feb 2027?
(This isn't the switch to fibre - that has no deadline - it's the switch to providing voice lines over internet connections.)

BT Switch 3 Million UK Homes to Digital Voice Ahead of Legacy Phone Switch Off
Broadband and phone provider BT (EE) has today revealed that the majority of its landline phone using customers, over 3 million UK households, have now successf

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

Originality AI: 23 major news websites and Reddit currently block the Internet Archive's crawler; journalists and advocacy groups sign a letter backing the IA (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-internets-most-powerful-archiving-…

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

Thousands of boxes sent to service members in Middle East are stuck in limbo.
The Postal Service has indefinitely suspended delivery amid Iran war.
Dan F.'s daughter told him in sporadic messages
– when the USS Tripoli reached a pocket of internet service
– that members were rationing their food supplies on the ship.
Fresh produce was nowhere to be found, she told him.
After his daughter told him the coffee machine on board had broken down,
Dan …

Cookies, deodorant, socks. Iran war puts military packages in limbo
Thousands of boxes sent to service members in Middle East are stuck in limbo. The Postal Service has indefinitely suspended delivery amid Iran war.

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

Ending the Tuesday of IETF 125 with the SPACE Research Group… looking at all things related to the #Internet in #space !
#IETF

AI Job Loss Research Ignores How AI Is Utterly Destroying the Internet https://www.404media.co/ai-job-loss-research-ignores-how-ai-is-utterly-destroying-the-internet/

This is what social media (and the internet) exists for.
(Also glad that Rami has bridging turned on, so I can repost it here easily! 😁) https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jye22xkea3jqsabskhfec347/post/3mf3ngx67rs2k

Rami Ismail (رامي) (@ramiismail.com)
It's almost time for Ramadan, as Muslims tonight peered to the crescent moon to see if the month of Ramadan starts tonight or the day after. As with every year, I'm starting this thread so that people can ask questions, and learn about Ramadan from one person's perspective of it.

Originality AI: 23 major news websites and Reddit block the Internet Archive's crawler; journalists and advocacy groups sign a letter supporting the Archive (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-internets-most-powerful-archiving-to…

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

Putin tightens surveillance screws with new Russian internet law: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/21/putin-tightens-surveillance-screws-with.html

The iMac Pro wouldn’t boot anything including recovery/internet recovery even after a T2 restore.
Hardware test claimed everything is fine. Because hardware test ran fine but it can’t boot and won’t see SSDs even in target disk mode, I’m suspecting one of the SSDs (the iMac Pro has two in a RAID) to be defective (hardware test doesn’t really look into those).
I’m replacing the SSDs and blowing the air ducts out and redo the thermal paste just in case.
Fingers crossed that that will fix it. 🫣
#Marchintosh

As so often, the Internet Archive has come to save the day.
At its newly opened Aadam Jacobs Archive, you can now listen to nearly 2,500 of the concert recordings that volunteers have digitized and uploaded so far.
In that more than a terabyte of files, you’ll find concerts by Nirvana, Phish, Tracy Chapman, Depeche Mode, Flaming Lips, Stereolab, Liz Phair, Sonic Youth, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Björk, They Might Be Giants (recorded four times in 1988 alone), and the Mekons, a…

10,000 Chicago Concert Recordings Are Being Uploaded to the Internet Archive: Nirvana, Phish, Sonic Youth, They Might Be Giants & More
Perhaps you've had the experience of moving to a new city and immediately being told that you've missed its golden age of live music. To an extent, this has happened in more or less every period of the past fifty or sixty years.

from my link log —
Starlink's high-speed satellite Internet: What's the catch?
https://blog.apnic.net/2021/04/22/starlinks-high-speed-satellite-internet-whats-the-catch/
saved 2021-04-22

Starlink's high-speed satellite Internet: What's the catch? | APNIC Blog
Low earth orbit satellite-powered Internet could be a game-changer for remote areas, but what happens when people in more populated areas want it?

A look at the Aadam Jacobs Collection, which is adding its 10,000 concert recordings to the Internet Archive; only one or two artists have requested takedowns (Christopher Weber/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/aadam-jacob

Inside a rare collection of 10,000 concerts, from Nirvana to Björk
In 1989, an up-and-coming rock band from Washington called Nirvana played in Chicago for the first time at a club called Dreamerz. In the crowd, with a compact cassette recorder in his pocket, was a music fan named Aadam Jacobs. He surreptitiously recorded the performance, documenting the fledgling band two years before their global breakthrough. That nascent Nirvana recording, with the audio cleaned up, is available for streaming at the online repository Internet Archive. It’s one of over 10…

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 22 nodes and 24 edges.

An Architecture for IP in Deep Space - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-many-tiptop-ip-architecture/
----
The IP protocol stacks used on Earth's Internet are typically configured based on assumptions of short delays and mostly uninterrupted comm…

If you need a cathartic release from the news that
Amazon laid off 16,000 workers,
Block chopped nearly half its workforce,
Atlassian pared back 10% of staffers,
and Meta is reportedly considering another massive round of layoffs
-- all in the name of AI,
then we invite you to browse the responses to a recent
Sam Altman post on X.
Altman, the CEO of OpenAI,
shared this on Tuesday:
“I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extrem…

Sam Altman's thank-you to coders draws the memes | TechCrunch
Altman expresses gratitude for people who knew how to write their code from scratch. The internet replies with salty jokes.

Russia Further Restricts Telegram, Escalating Internet Clampdown
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/world/europe/telegram-throttled-internet-russia.html

Russia Further Restricts Telegram, Escalating Internet Clampdown
The throttling of the communication app, used by more than 100 million Russians, endangers what remains of the country’s free internet.

We have the 5G version as Internet backup for home and for when we use our travel trailer.

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 3670 nodes and 7251 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

Gig AI trainers
– who upload everything from scenes around them to photos, videos and audio of themselves
– are at the frontlines of a new global data gold rush.
As Silicon Valley’s hunger for high-quality, human-grade data outpaces what can be scraped from the open internet,
a thriving industry of data marketplaces has emerged to bridge the gap.
From Cape Town to Chicago, thousands of people are now
micro-licensing their biometric identities and intima…

I love that there are sites like this out on the Internet:
https://www.power-plugs-sockets.com/
(Explaining electrical plugs and sockets from all over the world.)

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…

On TikTok and Instagram, young people are diving into the joys of Chinese culture – from drinking hot water to playing mahjong – all under the banner of “Chinamaxxing”.
On the Chinese internet, however, the US is losing its decades-long grip on soft power, and is instead being replaced by a darker trend: "the kill line".
The kill line is a dangerous place to be.
In gaming, the term refers to the point at which a player’s strength is so depleted that one more blo…

Cloudflare says it has appealed the €14.2M fine issued by Italy for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service, calling the amount "staggering" (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Cloudflare appeals Piracy Shield fine, hopes to kill Italy's site-blocking law
Firm says requiring site blocks within 30 minutes breaks core Internet architecture.

Periodic reminder, in the US you can get flat-rate unlimited unthrottled mobile 4G/5G internet for $400/$500 a year from https://calyxinstitute.org, and they now have a bring-your-own-device option

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

Curious, it’s much more likely that children get hurt, abused or indoctrinated at home or commuting to school or in school than on the Internet, yet no one is banning homes, commutes or schools.
But everyone is eager to cut off children’s access to the Internet.

“Optimization of #QUIC for Deep Space Transmission” - again, very cool to see what people are working on with regard to bringing the #Internet out into space!
#IETF

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 50 nodes and 73 edges.

Jeffrey Epstein,
at the very least, believed that he was orchestrating the downfall of the global order in the 2010s.
In June 2016, he emailed venture capitalist, early Facebook investor, and Palantir founder Peter Thiel,
writing, “Brexit, just the beginning.”
He then laid out the most succinct mission statement we currently have for what Epstein was trying to accomplish.
“Return to tribalism,” he wrote.
“Counter to globalization.
Amazing new all…

Here's how Epstein broke the internet
His meeting with the founder of 4chan and his quest to profit off the end of democracy

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

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

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 16 nodes and 18 edges.

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 9 nodes and 20 edges.
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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 25 nodes and 26 edges.

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

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 88 nodes and 92 edges.