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DOJ Issued Seizure Warrant to Starlink Over Satellite Internet Systems Used at Scam Compound
https://www.wired.com/story/doj-issued-seizure-warrants-to-starlink-over-satellite-internet-systems-used-at-scam-compounds/<…

DOJ Issued Seizure Warrant to Starlink Over Satellite Internet Systems Used at Scam Compound
A new US law enforcement initiative is aimed at crypto fraudsters targeting Americans—and now seeks to seize infrastructure it claims is crucial to notorious scam compounds.

Sechs Tage Internet-Blackout im Iran: Starlink jetzt kostenfrei verfügbar
Vorige Woche hat das iranische Regime alle Internetverbindungen im Land gekappt, seitdem dringen nur wenige Informationen nach außen. Starlink soll helfen.

The Plan Is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever.
https://novaramedia.com/2025/12/07/the-plan-is-to-make-the-internet-worse-and-big-tech-rich/
An interesting interview with Cory Doctorow.

Ich auch.
Und auch von Jüngeren.
"Reichinnek kritisiert fehlende Teilhabe Älterer im Internet"
https://www.zdfheute.de/politik/senioren-internet-digitalisierung-100.html

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

A new US law enforcement initiative is aimed at crypto fraudsters targeting Americans
—and now seeks to seize infrastructure it claims is crucial to notorious scam compounds
DOJ Issued Seizure Warrant to Starlink Over Satellite Internet Systems Used at Scam Compound
…

DOJ Issued Seizure Warrant to Starlink Over Satellite Internet Systems Used at Scam Compound
A new US law enforcement initiative is aimed at crypto fraudsters targeting Americans—and now seeks to seize infrastructure it claims is crucial to notorious scam compounds.

Bitchat enables p2p mesh messaging over Bluetooth - working without Internet OR additional LoRa radio dongles (Android and iOS)
https://updates.techforpalestine.org/bitchat-for-gaza-messaging-without-internet/

The Internet, Reviewed.
Critical Reviews of Online Content, with occasional Adventures in Fact Checking Kirsten Drysdale is reviewing the internet...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-internet-reviewed/

Ugandan officials turn off internet on eve of national elections https://therecord.media/uganda-internet-shutdown-elections

Blocking outbound port 25 is fine these days (for dynamically numbered networks, like residential ISPs, etc).
(But port 465 shouldn't be described as "Legacy SMTPS", since 2018 it has been the recommended port for secure email submission - RFC8314 section-3.3.)

Broadband ISP YouFibre UK Set to Block Email Internet Port 25 from Friday
Internet service provider YouFibre, which is one of the main retail outlets for Netomnia's growing national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband network

Telekom verdient nicht genug Geld mit Glasfaser-Internet
Glasfaser-Internet ist inzwischen an zig Millionen Haushalten verfügbar. Das war teuer für die Firmen. Doch die Sache hat einen Haken.
https://www.

media conglomerates are leading the way against open internet law by fining cloudflare:
Italy's "shadowy cabal of European media elites" ... "scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests. No judicial oversight. No due process. No appeal. No transparency. "

Auf Internet-Portalen - So gefährlich ist illegaler Weihnachtskeks-Handel #News #Nachrichten

Holistic Resilience, a US group that helps Iranians secure internet access, says SpaceX has waived Starlink subscription fees amid a days-long internet blackout (Loni Prinsloo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The link leads to a video. Generally speaking I prefer to read rather than watch - but this is an exception
"While the early web promised connection and creativity, today’s internet is increasingly fragmented, paywalled, and dominated by a few powerful platforms.
“The truth is paywalled, and the lies are free”

How Iran is ‘jamming’ Starlink satellites to stop horror of protest crackdown reaching the outside world | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-internet-blackout-protest-starlink-musk-b2900101.html

How right-wing influencers are bending reality in Minneapolis (Christian Paz/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/475361/minneapolis-right-wing-influencers-journalist-ice-reality-immigration-social-media-internet
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p112#a260115p112

«WSIS 20» - UNO-Entscheid ausstehend: Wer bestimmt die Regeln des Internets?
Vor 20 Jahren haben die UNO-Staaten entschieden, das Internet gemeinsam mit Forschung, Firmen und Zivilgesellschaft zu verwalten. Nun ist das Mandat ausgelaufen. Wird es in der aktuellen Form erneuert werden?
🔊

«WSIS+20»: Die UNO bestimmt, wie es mit dem Internet weiter geht.
Seit 20 Jahren wird das Internet von allen Anspruchsgruppen gemeinsam verwaltet. Dieses Modell muss nun erneuert werden.

oh no how could one possibly listen to music without the internet and evil corporations’ streaming services

Describing modem dial-up noises to the 13yo as "two computers screaming at each other"...
"See, nowadays everything is over the internet. You make a phone call, it's routed over the internet. Back then [we wore an onion in our belt as was the style at the time] everything was over voice networks, so when you were on the internet it was translating bits and data into sound.."
I'm not sure at which point he tuned out.

One of the top stories on Hacker News today was a post arguing that Mozilla shouldn't accommodate any usage of AI in Firefox because (understandably) people were mad at Big AI companies for all the horrible things they've done to users and the internet and society. But I think people are ignoring the reality that *hundreds of millions of users* are using LLMs today, and they need to have tools from platforms that will look out for their interests.

I know you don’t want them to want AI, but…
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Shitposters, Assemble!
https://fedidevs.com/s/NjQ5/

Shitposters of the Fediverse - Mastodon Starter Pack
Posters that primarily post jokes, likely with some level of internet-poisoned brain rot. (Some politics and other interests may be included) Many (but not all) are users who were/are on bluesky.

In Jellyfin "Bilder & Metadaten über das Internet herunterladen" für diese Collection angeklickt. Und jetzt weiß ich ja auch nicht.

🚫 Russia – LEADER in INTERNET SHUTDOWNS in 2025 #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/11/russia-leader-in-internet-shutdowns.html

Blip is amazing: it's kinda AirDrop that works over the Internet & locally on iOS, macOS, Windows, and Android – Linux pending. Works with folders and data goes directly, no upload.
I've learned about it from MKBHD and I'm already sad how it'll inevitably go bad.
https://blip.net/

Blip is the fastest way to send files
Send big files with no size limits, at full quality, across platforms, directly to other people and devices

This is a direct mutual aid program organized by parents; there’s no nonprofit or governmental intermediary.
I realize that involves a lot of trust, and again, I’m personally vouching for this fundraiser (for whatever that’s worth, I’m just a foot with an eyeball on top on the internet). The advantage of this kind of mutual aid process is that it will get money to families who need it •fast•.
https://givebutter.com/famshelpingfams

Behind the Blog: Trolling on the Internet https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-trolling-on-the-internet/

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

I love how everything I write now (or edit after reviews) involves extra steps in looking up Internet Archive links for British Library web pages and blog posts so that links in footnotes actually work.
* I lied, I don't love it.

from my link log —
The birth of the internet troll.
https://gizmodo.com/the-first-internet-troll-1652485292
saved 2025-12-08 https://

The Birth of the Internet Troll
Trolls are shitting all over our internet. You can hardly search for something as innocuous as "dog" on Google without coming across inflammatory attacks

We really need a new Internet. How do we help?
https://torrentfreak.com/italy-fines-cloudflare-e14-million-for-refusing-to-filter-pirate-sites-on-public-1-1-1-1-dns/

Bundestag ermöglicht Online-Verfahren an Gerichten
Immer mehr Dienstleistungen der deutschen Verwaltung sind auch im Internet verfügbar. Auch Gerichte machen mit – obwohl die Modernisierung teilweise stockt.
https://www…

Internet goes wild over the dogs of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone turning blue.
But it's absolutely not anything to do with radiation and is probably just them breaking into a portable toilet.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/blue-dogs-chernobyl/

RSL 1.0 statt robots.txt: Neuer Standard für Internet-Inhalte | heise online
https://heise.de/-11111422

RSL 1.0 statt robots.txt: Neuer Standard für Internet-Inhalte
Ein neuer Standard, um Inhalte im Internet zu schützen. RSL wird von Akteuren wie Verlagen und der Werbebranche unterstützt.

"Climate conference's webpages emit 10 times more carbon than average sites, study says"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Climate conference's webpages emit 10 times more carbon than average sites, study says
Websites produced for COP conferences emit up to 10 times more carbon than average internet pages, new research published in the journal PLOS Climate suggests.

It's not that "the Internet" is worse or "enshittified" or whatnot. That's just clinging to the belief that the Internet is special and separate from the "real world".
The world is being made worse by capitalism in a massive way.

It looks like #Bitchat might be gathering some traction in Gaza?
As a reminder, bitchat is a mesh network using your phone's bluetooth. So even without internet, you could have private messages sent from phone to phones.
Gaza having such a high population density and because Israel is known to have penetrated WhatsApp, this might be a good off-the-grid solution

🗾 The second life of Japan's net cafes
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/03/companies/internet-cafe-tokyo-kaiketsu-club/
🆓 …

The second life of Japan's net cafes
Once symbols of urban solitude, these spaces are finding new purpose as coworking hubs for a changing, wired generation.

An interview with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on copyright lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt the nonprofit, fair use, IA's future, AI, and more (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

»RSL 1.0 (Really Simple Licensing) statt robots.txt — Neuer Standard für Internet-Inhalte:
Ein neuer Standard, um Inhalte im Internet zu schützen. RSL wird von Akteuren wie Verlagen und der Werbebranche unterstützt.«
Ich erfahre davon erst jetzt - mal sehen wie weit dies nützlich ist und allgemein Webinhalte schützt oder nur wieder die kommerzielle Daten.
👉

RSL 1.0 statt robots.txt: Neuer Standard für Internet-Inhalte
Ein neuer Standard, um Inhalte im Internet zu schützen. RSL wird von Akteuren wie Verlagen und der Werbebranche unterstützt.

#Däniken war schon auf Verschwörungsseiten als im Deutschunterricht von der Recherche im #Internet noch abgeraten wurde.

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@terminaltilt/115896899179047548
…And to make this even worse, this is an attack against permissionless innovation - a core principle enabling both the Internet itself, and the resulting

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Le Tigre:
🎵 Get Off the Internet
#LeTigre
https://ix03y3.bandcamp.com/track/get-off-the-internet-ix-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/6WAWmmM5uGsCGxVu7Fgtz5

Ihr kennt natürlich alle die Greatful Dead Collection im Internet Archive. Nicht?
Dann nehmt euch ein bisschen Zeit, es gibt da knapp 18000 Aufnahmen von diversen Konzerten.
https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?tab=collection

Cloudflare 2025 report: global internet traffic grew 19% in 2025, ChatGPT was the most popular AI service, global traffic from Starlink grew 2.3x, and more (Cloudflare)
https://radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-review/2025

Ummm.... someone broke time.
https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/internet-time-service/c/Zd7VaR-vqV4?pli=1

Living on a hill without direct fiber or cable sucks sometimes.
At midnight our main ISP crapped out completely and then in the morning I manually switched to our super-slow backup ISP (like 8Mbps down, 1Mbps up) but that one also intermittently craps out.
Main ISP says it should be fixed soon, their "internet chassis" at another location shit the bed and they need to replace multiple pieces of hardware.

AI is NOT "disruptive" technology. At least not when used with "horse and carriage vs the car" and "the printing press" and "the internet" in mind.
In fact, when the car came, it was a democratizing thing, it was disruptive, as in: the old ways where cast aside plus EVERYONE could eventually afford to own such a disruptive device.
The printing press made books available to everyone, not just the insanely wealthy few that could afford it. Th…

Mela, warum röchelt Jellyfin auf dem Heimserver so?
Hm, vielleicht habe ich herausgefunden, dass das Internet Archive ein umfangreiches Repository uralter Filk-Tapes hat.

Wer die Menschen im Iran und auch die in anderen Krisenregionen der Welt aktiv unterstützen will, installiert sich Snowflake für den Browser. Damit kommen Menschen ins Netz, wenn das Internet abgestellt wurde.
Bei mir 21 in den letzten 24 Std.
https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/snowfl

Internetsperre im Iran: So kann man Menschen Netzzugang ermöglichen
Irans Führung blockiert das Internet. Unabhängige Informationen sind unerwünscht. Doch es gibt Maßnahmen gegen Zensur.

November 6:
Bell*> posts $4.5 Billion-with-a-B profit in Q3
November 12:
Bell> Due to uh… infrastructure investments… yeah… we're uh… going to charge you more for your internet service starting in February. Also—remember—there are no comparable internet services, so you can't really leave.
(*yes, /that/ Bell; they're still here in Canada)

heise | 16 Fritzbox-Tipps: So setzen Sie den Router richtig an Mac, iPhone & Co. ein
Die Fritzbox ist der populärste Router in Deutschland. Sie kann viel mehr, als Internet in die Wohnung zu holen. Was können Apple-Nutzer mit dem Gerät anfangen?

Iran’s internet shutdown,
now in place for 36 hours
as the authorities seek to quell escalating anti-government protests,
represents a “new high-water mark” in terms of its sophistication and severity, say experts
– and could last a long time.
As the blackout kicked in, 90% of internet traffic to Iran evaporated.
International calls to the country appeared blocked and domestic mobile phones had no service,
said Amir Rashidi, an Iranian digital right…

The scariest thing about Iran's crackdown (Cameron Peters/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/475084/iran-protests-death-toll-internet-blackout-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p157#a260113p157

Internet monitoring experts say Iran blackout likely to continue https://therecord.media/internet-monitoring-experts-say-iran-blackouts-continue

How smuggled Starlink receivers and customized software let some Iranians evade a near-total internet blackout as the regime brutally cracked down on protesters (Financial Times)

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…

Die Telekom steht vor einem Dilemma: Milliarden werden in den Glasfaser-Ausbau investiert, aber die Kunden zögern beim Abschluss entsprechender Verträge. 🤔
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11077465?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodo…

project idea (possibly using AI): record a take of songs from old sheet music books
Starting with something like the Grange book of sheet music below and record them ... Apparently the music can get to midi via Play Score 2, and other programs can could sing the lyrics.
or better yet, if anyone wants to perform the songs and upload them to the archive, you could link it into a review of the book.

Protip: do not allow people on the Internet to learn your True Name, for they may thereby gain Power over you, and would surely use it to do you harm (as has been recorded in the Legends)

UK satellite company Open Cosmos wins a highly contested Ka-band spectrum license, used for high-speed internet, beating companies backed by Peter Thiel (Josh Gabert-Doyon/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8262dff8-38da-4230-855d-9b7da1bc1c36

How Craigslist has stayed relevant for users as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds or public profiles (Jennifer Swann/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/is-craigslist-the-last-real-place-on-the-internet/…

Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet?
Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects—eschewing other AI- and algorithm-dominated online spaces. “There’s a purity to it.”

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…

Russia expands internet blackouts under pretense of drone threats, but real goal appears to be information control: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/07/russia-expands-internet-blackouts-under.html

Internes Dokument — EU-Staaten fordern ein Jahr Vorratsdatenspeicherung für Internet-Dienste wie #Messenger
Die EU-Staaten fordern ein neues Gesetz zur #Vorratsdatenspeicherung, das weit über die alten Gesetze hinausgeht. Das geht aus einem

Internes Dokument: EU-Staaten fordern ein Jahr Vorratsdatenspeicherung für Internet-Dienste wie Messenger
Die EU-Staaten fordern ein neues Gesetz zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung, das weit über die alten Gesetze hinausgeht. Das geht aus einem EU-Dokument hervor, das wir veröffentlichen. Praktisch alle Internet-Dienste sollen Daten ihrer Nutzer anlasslos speichern, auch Messenger wie WhatsApp und Signal.

Video zeigt Vorfall - „F*** you!“: Trump zeigt Arbeiter den Mittelfinger #News #Nachrichten

Demonstrators have continued to take to the streets of #Iran,
defying an escalating crackdown by authorities against the growing #protest movement.
An #internet

Richard Scarry’s What Do People Do All Day in Fascist Busytown? - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/richard-scarrys-what-do-people-do-all-day-in-fascist-busytown

Bitchat, a P2P messaging app launched by Jack Dorsey, has emerged as a key lifeline for people in Uganda and Iran facing government-imposed internet shutdowns (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telec…

Gotta love the Internet Archive posting AI slop into my timeline

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 23390 nodes and 92190 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

Russia imposes 24-hour mobile internet blackout for travelers returning home https://therecord.media/russia-24-hour-traveler-mobile-internet-blackouts-ukraine-drones

President Trump says "we may speak to Elon" about using Starlink to restore the internet in Iran, after the state imposed an internet blackout amid protests (Rachael Levy/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he…

> rumblings to the East
> rumblings to the West
> the EU mandates businesses to accept cash
> the EU tells citizens to keep enough cash on hand to survive a week without Internet
> the Netherlands mails out prepper kits to every household
I'm starting to wonder if something is happening

AMS-IX kehrt den USA den Rücken
AMS-IX, einer der größten Internet-Knoten, zieht sich aus den USA zurück. Worauf sich der Fokus jetzt verlagert und wie der DE-CIX die Lage in den USA bewertet.
https://www.hei…

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 3271 nodes and 6246 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

Wer sich online auf den Text konzentrieren möchte, denen ist das hier zu empfehlen. Ich hoffe das es allgemein populärer genutzt wird.
»Das Gemini Protokoll:
Gemini bietet eine Alternative zum Anzeigen von Inhalten im Internet. Mit einem eigenen Protokoll, Servern und Webbrowsern eröffnet der Geminispace eine sichere, reduzierte und fokussierte Möglichkeit, das Internet neu zu gestalten«
— von @…

Das Gemini Protokoll
Gemini bietet eine Alternative zum Anzeigen von Inhalten im Internet. Mit einem eigenen Protokoll, Servern und Webbrowsern eröffnet der Geminispace eine sichere, reduzierte und fokussierte Möglichkeit, das Internet neu zu gestalten.

Iran’s foreign minister has claimed the situation in the country has
“come under total control”
as authorities carry out a brutal crackdown against the nationwide protest movement.
Abbas Araghchi made the comments to foreign diplomats in Tehran, without supplying evidence.
The few messages and videos to have emerged from Iran overnight showed that protests were continuing,
but an ongoing internet blackout made it difficult to judge whether the authorities’ use o…

An interview with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on copyright lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt the nonprofit, fair use, IA's future, AI, and more (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

How Benn Jordan Discovered Flock's Cameras Were Left Streaming to the Internet https://www.404media.co/how-benn-jordan-discovered-flocks-cameras-were-left-streaming-to-the-internet/

Totaler Internet-Blackout: Sorge vor staatlicher Gewalt gegen Proteste im Iran
Die iranische Führung in Teheran schneidet die Bevölkerung von der Außenwelt ab und stellt einen harten Kurs gegen die landesweiten Proteste in Aussicht.

Internet im Iran wegen landesweiter Proteste eingeschränkt
Die Unzufriedenheit vieler Iraner entlädt sich in einer neuen Welle regierungskritischer Demonstrationen. Und wieder schränkt Teheran das Internet ein.
…

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

NetBlocks says internet connectivity in Iran has fallen on multiple providers as protests hit 100 cities; Cloudflare says IPv6 traffic has dropped sharply (Cody Combs/The National)
https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2026/01/08/iran-internet-blocked-ip…

Iran in 'digital blackout' as Tehran throttles mobile internet access
Cloudflare Radar says country’s IPv6 traffic has dropped sharply as protests spread across 100 cities

Russian missile barrage disrupts internet, customs databases in Ukraine https://therecord.media/russian-missile-barrage-disrupts-internet-ukraine

93 photos released from the Jeffrey Epstein estate (Dec. 12, 2025)
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Topics
Jeffrey Epstein
Item Size 63.6M
https://archive.org/details/house-oversight-034614
Photos originally hosted here:

93 photos released from the Jeffrey Epstein estate (Dec. 12, 2025) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Photos originally hosted here:...

Russland blockiert SIM-Karten – "zum Schutz vor Drohnen"
In Russland geht das mobile Internet der SIM-Karte Einreisender nicht mehr. Die Regierung erklärt nun, warum die Funktion beim Mobilfunk blockiert wird.

How Craigslist has stayed relevant for users as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds or public profiles (Jennifer Swann/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/is-craigslist-the-last-real-place-on-the-internet/…

Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet?
Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects—eschewing other AI- and algorithm-dominated online spaces. “There’s a purity to it.”

The Internet Archive might sound like a thriving organization,
but it only recently emerged from years of bruising copyright battles that threatened to bankrupt the beloved library project.
In the end, the fight led to more than 500,000 books being removed from the Archive’s “Open Library.”
“We survived,” Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle told Ars.
“But it wiped out the Library.”
An Internet Archive spokesperson confirmed to Ars that the archive currently…

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

RSL 1.0: Standard soll Verwendung von Inhalten regeln
Ein neuer Standard, um Inhalte im Internet zu schützen. RSL wird von Akteuren wie Verlagen und der Werbebranche unterstützt.
https://www.

Survey of 1,458 US teens: 64% use AI chatbots, and 28% use them daily; 59% say they use ChatGPT, 23% Gemini, 20% Meta AI, 14% Copilot, and 9% Character.ai (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/12/09/teens-social-media-and-ai-…

Teens, Social Media and AI Chatbots 2025
Roughly one-in-five U.S. teens say they are on TikTok and YouTube almost constantly. At the same time, 64% of teens say they use chatbots, including about three-in-ten who do so daily.

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Internet im Iran wegen landesweiter Proteste eingeschränkt
htt…

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_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

Stromausfall in Berlin: Wie Mobilfunk und Internet wieder ans Netz gehen
Nach dem Anschlag auf die Stromversorgung in Berlin sind auch Mobilfunkstationen und andere Netzinfrastruktur ohne Strom. Was die Anbieter jetzt unternehmen.

Starlink says it is providing free broadband service to new and existing customers in Venezuela through February 3, 2026 (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/05/elon-musk-spacex-starlink-free-internet-venezuela-us-raid-maduro.h…

Elon Musk's Starlink offers free internet access in Venezuela following U.S. airstrikes and Maduro’s arrest
SpaceX's Starlink is offering free broadband internet service to the people of Venezuela through Feb. 3, amid the fallout of a U.S. military operation in the country.

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…

AT&T launches Connected Life, a smart home security system with hardware from Google and Abode, designed to keep working during power or internet outages (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
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AT&T’s new home security system is powered by Google Home and Abode
AT&T is launching Connected Life, a new smart home security offering built around Google Home that keeps working during power or internet outages.

Samsung bringt seinen Internet-Browser auf Windows-PCs
Samsung bringt seinen mobilen Internet-Browser zunächst als Beta auf Windows-PCs. Im Fokus stehen etwa KI und geräteübergreifende Funktionen.
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Pornografie im Internet: Auch Italien verpflichtet nun zur Altersverifizierung
Den großen Pornografie-Websites in Italien bleiben weniger als zwei Wochen, um Systeme zur Altersverifizierung umzusetzen. Andernfalls drohen Geldstrafen.