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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 …

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?

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.

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…

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.

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/

The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/the-removed-doge-deposition-videos-have-already-been-backed-up-across-the-internet/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p50#a260314p50

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…

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

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.

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.

Wait until they find out that phones, PCs, servers, electrical equipment, and so much more are made in China, too.
The Coalition on Secure Technology, the cross-party campaign raising awareness of technological threats from hostile states, has warned that the components that allow fridges to connect to the internet are often made in China.

News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns | Nieman Journalism Lab https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns/

News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
Outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times are scrutinizing digital archives as potential backdoors for AI crawlers.

The story of what's been happening with an LLM posting attack pieces against an open source maintainer and then a news outlet publishing a piece using LLMs that made up quotes from the maintainer is a disturbing look into what the internet is going to look like in the immediate future
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/

"Internet shutdowns in Africa: A human rights and democratic crisis
Internet shutdowns have become a growing threat to Africa’s democracy. They are an increasingly common part of the authoritarian toolkit used by governments to control information and suppress dissent. Here’s why you should care."

Internet shutdowns in Africa: A human rights and democratic crisis
Internet shutdowns have become a growing threat to Africa’s democracy. They are an increasingly common part of the authoritarian toolkit used by governments to control information and suppress dissent. Here's why you should care.

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

Web archiving is troubled: The Internet Archive is under attack constantly, and archive.is/archive.today seems to be on the way towards turning itself and its users into personae non gratae on the web.
Is it now time to turn web archiving into a distributed affair where obtaining the snapshot happens while browsing, and produces a witness statement a la "at this point in time, I observed these responses to those requests", and storing/accessing those becomes decoupled from ob…

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.

A survey of US teens: ~90% say entertainment is a reason they use TikTok, Instagram, or Snapchat, 57% Snapchat message daily, and 37% say TikTok impacts sleep (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/04/15/teens-exper…

Teens’ Experiences on TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat | Pew Research Center
About this research This study is Pew Research Center’s latest effort to explore the landscape of teens and technology today. It focuses on social media and how the views and…

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…

They are just like us:
“Agents shouldn’t be rawdogging the internet anyways”
(As seen on Reddit)

<broken record>Please post your code and prompts for your vibecoded app for your twitter clone for your 20 friends or whatever you are humble bragging on the internet you and, i say this in the most respectful way, you "c*wards" :-)</broken record>

> Google calls the illicit activity "model extraction" and considers it intellectual property theft, which is a somewhat loaded position, given that Google's LLM was built from materials scraped from the Internet without permission.
https://

Attackers prompted Gemini over 100,000 times while trying to clone it, Google says
Distillation technique lets copycats mimic Gemini at a fraction of the development cost.

I connected my Samsung TV to the internet to try for wireless display and casting from Android working and I regret it instantly.
Worse, there's gamepads ads and Ramsey giving me the middle finger on my home screen. It split my 4 inputs into two different tabs: one's a new games tab to push me into using their cloud gaming apps. No option to move consoles back to the main tab.
Wireless display to play videos from PC is nice, but casting doesn't work. Not worth it and …

Weekend Reads
* Post-quantum RPKI framework
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06968
* DNSSEC negative trust anchors
https://

Valve FM: Internet-Radio im Terminal hören https://blog.oliverswelt.de/blog/back-to-the-roots-warum-ich-radio-jetzt-im-terminal-höre-valve-fm

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

Iran's internet blackout enters a record 45th day, per NetBlocks, amid the war; the country's 90M people now rely on the domestic National Information Network (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9a2e17e9-3d66-407f-81c4-fae8a6ceae10

TODAY The Europeans podcast interviews Eugen Rochko.
Two of my favourite Internet items today: The informal weekly review of the sociopolitical Europe that @… provides , plus the main developer behind the alternative, healthy, human social app that Mastodon is, @…

Sad to hear the news that Dave Farber has died. I’ve been a long time subscriber to his Interesting People list. RIP to “the grandfather of the internet”
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/11/japan/david-harber-obituary-internet/

Pioneering computer scientist and Keio professor dies at 91
David J. Farber was a central figure in the development of early research networks that evolved into today’s internet.

Periodic reminder - I'm maintaining the Internet of Trash list - #homeAssistant #iot

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

Good new article from @… about online dating:
https://ghost.thenewoil.org/email/522da9aa-eef2-4b1d-b4de-25…

Hugo is becoming my favorite static site generator.
It really only took a few minutes to make it generate pages in the Gemini hypertext format (“gemtext”). Now you can read my blog in a wonderfully obscure way on the other, lesser known Internet:
gemini://tilde.pink/~johl/

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.

RE: https://twit.social/@MisuseCase/116213208120901739
Among the many, many, many reasons not to allow voting over the Internet, consider what the Trump regime would do with that kind of centralized power.

Ah... what better way to start a Saturday morning at 5:20am then getting into a discussion of the capitalization of "Internet" on a #Wikipedia Talk page! 🤣
https://en.wik…

The Internet is Broken. Where Do We Go Now.pdf #sxsw2026
https://submissions.sxswlondon.com/hubfs/The Internet is Broken. Where D…

🪧 How the left can win back the internet – and rise again
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interactive/2026/feb/01/digital-politics-progressives-internet-the-left-online-world

How the left can win back the internet – and rise again
In the final part of this series, we look at how infighting has ripped the left apart online while the right has flourished – and how some progressives are turning the tide, says digital media academic Robert Topinka

To Keep Americans Safe, the Press Must Only Publish Hot Photos of Me - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/to-keep-americans-safe-the-press-must-only-publish-hot-photos-of-me

How the Internet Became Hell (with Whitney Phillips) https://www.404media.co/how-the-internet-became-hell-with-whitney-phillips/

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.

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.

@… really appreciate the kind words, Chris. Sometimes I *feel* like a keyboard connected to the internet 😅

I’ve lost the will to argue with people on the internet anymore. I just don't have it in me.

What are Out-of-band Application Security Testing (OAST) domains? Out-of-band application security testing (OAST) is a method for finding exploitable vulnerabilities in a web application by forcing a target to call back to a piece of infrastructure controlled by the tester. OAST domains (sub-domains most often) are often free and hosted by OAST tool providers like interact.sh. What happens when something is free on the Internet? It gets abused.
Let’s make tOAST of the most commonly ab…

GreyNoise Labs Weekly OAST (Well-known Out-of-band Interaction Domains) Report • Week Ending 2026-02-20 – GreyNoise Labs
GreyNoise observed 3,882 sessions from 24 unique IPs across 33 Interactsh OAST campaigns targeting the GreyNoise Global Observation Grid between February 14-20, 2026. Unlike previous weeks where multi-IP campaign clusters dominated, this week’s activity consists entirely of single-IP operations, with every campaign mapping to exactly one source IP. Two Censys-confirmed bulletproof hosting providers (Private Layer, RouterHosting/Cloudzy) anchor the high-priority infrastructure, while a commerc…

Am I hallucinating or was there a time where /dev had your network interfaces? I could *swear* they used to be there (I realized later that they are in /sys/class/net).
This came up b/c my wife and I were setting up her Framework 16 as a dual-boot and Linux initially didn't have internet. I thought something was wrong because I didn't see the wireless device in /dev, but now I also see that's not the case on the desktop.

With all the Government talk around the western world about Internet "safety", and using the tired old lines about "protecting the children" when in reality they just want to lockdown the Internet like they've wanted to from the start. Just remember these words.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." ~ Benjamin Franklin

Happy 32nd birthday to the Philippine Internet! 🎂
https://technology.inquirer.net/145804/how-the-philippines-was-connected-to-the-internet-32-years-ago

How the Philippines was connected to the Internet 32 years ago
Celebrating 32 years of Philippine Internet, and why we must celebrate with Magoo's Pizza Today is the 32nd year since Benjie Tan plugged a cable to connect the Internet to the Philippines. I

Mobile internet blackouts hit Moscow as the Kremlin tightens control; Roskomnadzor data shows daily traffic down ~20% since March 5 vs. the previous month (Anastasia Stognei/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f9584377-f63f-48c1-ac16-f46450d8c783

it kind of saddens me how everyone on the bus is looking at their phone. i know the internet's favorite "gotcha" response to this is to show old-timey photos of everyone on a tram reading the newspaper. but those newspapers were locally produced. on our phones we're all scrolling the same platforms with the same algorithms controlled by multinational companies directing our attention. it's a loss of local character and connections

scene reports from the kaiser, 40 years ago tonight. #deadfreaksunite #gd020986 [4/4]

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-internets-most-powerful-archiving-tool-is-in-mortal-peril/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260413/p131#a260413p131

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

And this is exactly what I was afraid of. Maybe someone at #AMD should take a look at this. If currently they are not too busy sucking up to Microsoft and Sony.

Heute ist #SaferInternetDay und das wäre doch der perfekte Tag für die #DIDay Kampagne, um sich von #Ecosia zu verabschieden.
Eine Suchmaschine, die mit 'grüner KI' wirbt: Ganz schle…

Given the UK just copies Russian internet policies, add this to the list of future events:
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/13/whoops-russias-attempt-to-block-vpns-causes-major-banking-failure/

Whoops: Russia’s Attempt To Block VPNs Causes Major Banking Failure
VPNs (when integrity is maintained and the owners aren’t sleazy scammers) have long been the mortal enemy of shitty, surveillance-happy governments.And when shitty, surveillance-happy governm…

We can save the internet by going back our roots*
*cat memes

Fiber broadband tariffs work as cross-subsidies. Every higher plan helps fund the smaller, more affordable ones. So if you can, just click that upgrade. To my knowledge, not a single end customer provider is currently profitable with fiber. Definitely true for Germany, but probably for other countries as well.
#Internet

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux/116041309989733171
Good thing we're destroying the Internet for entirely performative "for the children" bullshit while there's child rapists in the highest ranks of government and business.
This fucking timeline.

Professor David J. Farber, whose work on academic experimental computer networks helped define the evolution of the early internet, died on February 7 at age 91 (Peter Wayner/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/technol

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

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

from my link log —
A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks.
https://loriemerson.net/2024/08/31/a-brief-history-of-barbed-wire-fence-telephone-networks/
saved 2026-02-12

a brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks
If you look at the table of contents for my book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, you’ll see that entries on networks before/outside the internet are arranged first by underl…

Ahead of trade meetings with China, the US has suspended its bans on China Telecom's US operations, domestic sales of routers made by TP-Link, the US internet business of China Unicom and China Mobile, and the sales of Chinese electric trucks and buses in the US.
https://www.…

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 25158 nodes and 102468 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

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 3630 nodes and 7200 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

RE: https://lingo.lol/@amyfou/116055641451588215
I truly love the randomness of the Internet! 🤣

I am going to single out the best SNL sketches of the week to enforce my sense of humour on the Internet. The cut-for-time are almost always good, so they will be in the honourable mentions category during the week.
Second place from the regular programing:
Lies - SNL (with Martin Herlihy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…

Q&A with Stratechery's Ben Thompson on aggregation theory, AI, TikTok, ByteDance, AI agentic commerce, SaaS stocks, running Stratechery, TSMC, Stripe, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)
https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/ben-thompson-from-stratechery-on…

Ben Thompson from Stratechery on AI ads, the end of SaaS, and the future of media
Ben Thompson, the internet’s premier tech analyst, joins John for a wide-ranging conversation on the mechanics of the internet economy.

The challenges and advantages of covering Iran from abroad amid an internet blockade: being outside allows accountability reporting without fear of retribution (Yeganeh Torbati/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/insider/iran-war-reporting-israel-u…

How a New York Times Journalist Reports on the Iran War Without Being There
Despite heavy restrictions on journalists and an internet blockade, Yeganeh Torbati has been able to reach people during fleeting windows of connectivity.

> Without 230’s protections, smaller platforms—the ones that might actually compete with the giants—get destroyed first. They can’t afford the vexatious lawsuits. They can’t afford buildings full of lawyers. The big players survive, and their market position gets locked in even harder.
h…

Section 230 Turns 30; Both Parties Want It Gone—For Contradictory Reasons
Here’s what’s strange about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the law that made the open internet possible: Both sides of the traditional political spectrum hate it. But fo…

Europol and international partners disrupt ‘SocksEscort’ proxy service
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/europol-and-international-partners-disrupt-socksescort-proxy-service

Europol and international partners disrupt ‘SocksEscort’ proxy service – Joint operation targeted malicious proxy service exploiting residential routers worldwide | Europol
On 11 March 2026, Europol in collaboration with law enforcement agencies from Austria, France, the Netherlands, and the United States, alongside Eurojust, executed Operation Lightning. This coordinated effort targeted the malicious proxy service ‘SocksEscort’, which allegedly compromised over 369 000 routers and Internet of Things devices in 163 countries, and offered ‘SocksEscort’ customers over 35 000 proxies in recent years.

from my link log —
Evaluating TCP BBRv2 on the Dropbox edge network.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07699
saved 2020-08-19 https://dotat.at/:/FHLM3.html

Evaluating BBRv2 on the Dropbox Edge Network
Nowadays, loss-based TCP congestion controls in general and CUBIC specifically became the de facto standard for the Internet. BBR congestion control challenges the loss-based approach by modeling the network based on estimated bandwidth and round-trip time. At Dropbox, we've been using BBRv1 since 2017 and are accustomed to its pros and cons. BBRv2 introduces a set of improvements to network modeling (explicit loss targets and inflight limits) and fairness (differential probing and headroom for…

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

Following an intense backlash this morning,
the White House has now taken down Trump’s Truth Social repost
of a video showing a racist clip
⚠️depicting the Obamas as apes.
The post was up for 12 hours.
As we reported earlier, a few hours ago the White House had initially tried to brush off the outrage,
defending Trump’s repost as “an internet meme video”.
Politicians from both parties have this morning condemned the post
and urged Trump to remov…

It's almost Friday, so kick back and check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Hackers stole millions from Bitcoin Depot wallets,
--OpenAI readies its own vulnerability hunting system,
--Handala breached the devices of former IDF chief,
--Hackers published data from China's supercomputer,
--Hundreds of unprotected and unencrypted Modbus devices are exposed on the internet,
--Hack-for-hir…

Hackers stole millions from Bitcoin Depot wallets
OpenAI readies its own vulnerability hunting system, Handala breached the devices of former IDF chief, Hackers published data from China's supercomputer, Hundreds of unprotected and unencrypted Modbus devices are exposed on the internet, Hack-for-hire attacks are targeting journalists, much more

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.
…

How age-verification laws to enhance online child safety are raising surveillance concerns for adults; ~50% of US states have enacted or are advancing such laws (Barbara Booth/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/08/social-media-child-safety-internet-ai-…

Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled
New age-verification laws and tools are designed for child safety on social media and the internet, but adults are in the crosshairs, say privacy experts.

When Elon Musk’s social media platform X launched a contest to promote its “Articles” feature,
the guidelines were explicit: Submissions “must not contain political, or religious statements.”
But when the company announced the winners on Tuesday, the results appeared to contradict those rules.
While the stated criteria emphasized high-quality writing and nonpolitical content,
more than $2 million in prize money largely flowed to users ranging from popular right-wing …

X awards $1 million prize to creator with history of racist posts
X said it would give $1 million to a user who had previously shared racist posts, including one supporting Hitler.

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.

The US CBP signs a one-year Clearview AI deal, granting access to its facial recognition tool for "tactical targeting" and "strategic counter-network analysis" (Dell Cameron/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-signs-clea

CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for ‘Tactical Targeting’
US Border Patrol intelligence units will gain access to a face recognition tool built on billions of images scraped from 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 4407 nodes and 8932 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

WordPress debuts my.WordPress.net, which lets users run WordPress entirely in the browser to set up a private workspace not accessible from the public internet (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/word

WordPress debuts a private workspace that runs in your browser via a new service, my.WordPress.net | TechCrunch
WordPress’s new browser-based service lets users create private sites without hosting or signup, turning the platform into a personal workspace for writing, research, and AI tools.

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

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

A look at TAT-8, the first transoceanic fiber-optic cable, which went into service in 1988, was retired in 2002, and is now being pulled up for recycling (Jane Ruffino/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/say-goodbye-to-the-undersea-cable-t…

Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible
History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor. Just don’t mention sharks.

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 18 nodes and 17 edges.

The Media Trust report: online ads surpassed email as the primary malware channel in 2025, accounting for 60% of all observed malware and phishing campaigns (Lara O'Reilly/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/programmat

Online ads just became the internet's biggest malware machine, report says
Ads accounted for more than 60% of the malware and phishing campaigns observed by digital safety company The Media Trust in 2025, per a new report.

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

In his annual letter, Andy Jassy says Amazon's space-internet service Leo will "launch in mid-2026", after delays; Amazon has FCC approval for 3,236 satellites (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/909122/amazons-starlink-c…

Amazon’s Starlink competitor Leo gets a new date
Andy Jassy says the company’s space-internet service Leo (formerly known as Project Kuiper) will launch in mid-2026 as a rival to Starlink.

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…

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

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

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…