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The small, real, original web https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2026/07/19/the-small-real-original-web
Got my post on the small web done- it links to sites by @…

The small, real, original web
The ‘small’ web, the ‘slow’ web, or the ‘indie’ web – the non corporate, original style internet we knew and loved in the 90s and early 2000s (people just …

On an island in the Bering Sea 1,200 miles from Anchorage, Alaska, sits an abandoned house on an abandoned Navy base.
There is no furniture, and the wind blows through broken windows.
The last people to live here moved away long ago.
Yet a bright orange pipe with a black fiber-optic cable inside runs from the outer wall down into the surrounding soil.  
The cable was installed to connect the home to the internet after the base closed.
It costs more than $340…

Airtable | Everyone's app platform
Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.

A great explanation of 'Why workflows for the social sciences and humanities?' by Eamonn Bell @…
With bonus 'it's just like Yahoo Pipes!' nostalgia for people of a certain internet age

Developing actionable workflows for the social sciences and humanities with Galaxy: A report on a TNA visit to ACDH, Vienna
Facilitating access to digital research infrastructures and advancing frontier knowledge in the arts and humanities - across disciplines, languages and media.

Behind the Blog: Eating the Internet https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-eating-the-internet/

Pornhub says the UK's new internet age checks have boosted non-compliant porn sites, which occupied seven of the top 10 search results for "free porn" in June (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/295c2eba-da29-434d-84e0-e9de3b0b1cc2

Teen social media bans are a smokescreen, and teen welfare is just the excuse. The teens are collateral damage along the path to mandating identification and de-anonymizing the Internet. The teens aren't enfranchised, so they can't meaningfully complain, and once they can vote, their problem is over, so why would they fight?

On the AQE Air Quality Egg: Review (2013) - Is a low-cost "DIY" Internet-connected air-quality monitor actually any use? - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Air-Quality-Egg-REVIEW.html

On the AQE Air Quality Egg: Review (2013)
Is a low-cost DIY Internet-connected air-quality monitor actually any use?

from my link log —
The maturing of QUIC.
https://www.fastly.com/blog/maturing-of-quic
saved 2019-11-14 https://dotat.at/:/CW74X.htm…

The Maturing of QUIC | Fastly
QUIC, the new internet transport protocol set to replace TCP, was comprehensively built by tech industry leaders over nearly seven years. Go behind the scenes to see how QUIC evolved from a lofty experiment to a standard set to modernize the internet.

Am I the only one on the internet that is skeptical that Blizzard can pull of satisfying horizontal progression in WoW Forever?
horizontal progression is very very hard to pull off. And it's very easy to do it in a way that sucks.
#wow #wowForever

Pornhub says the UK's new internet age checks have boosted non-compliant porn sites, which occupied seven of the top 10 search results for "free porn" in June (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/295c2eba-da29-434d-84e0-e9de3b0b1cc2

Something I wanted to write very much. Thanks, @… for the opportunity.
https://internet.exchangepoint.tech/what-it-means-to-lose-au…

Figure Eights
The internet has decided that modern humans are developing zoochosis, the madness of caged animals. The claim is older than TikTok, and the truth underneath it is more uncomfortable than either the believers or the scoffers want it to be. ...
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07/19/figu

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 have written up my Masters degree research project in a less-academic, more technical style, and in half the word count. I did enjoy the project and I do think that it has some interesting findings (such as 3,500 fraudulent login attempts per day) and provides useful results on password policies and approaches for securing SSH servers on today's internet.
"When you put a Linux server on the internet with a running SSH service, anecdotally people will confirm that you will s…

Spending my day at the #IETF126 Hackathon, talking to people about the Open Fibre Data Standard, #OFDS, https//ofds.info/ a specification for describing the *physical* infrastructure of the #Internet. It&…

Nothing is a .org under capitalism; everything is a .com.
(Fuck capitalism.) @… https://mstdn.social/@HopelessDemigod/117093565704523588

Oooh, two of my favourite podcast/internet things crossing the streams.
Hank Green (yes, I know about the recent AI kerfuffle) on Science Vs.
Spotify link, but you can find it anywhere you get podcasts:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4rV5enjKEf…

Yesterday I observed a pair of gray catbirds pursuing a small garter snake around the yard. Per an internet search they don't eat snakes but will chase them away from an area to protect eggs and chicks in nest. #birds #catbirds #snakes

I'm looking for something that I absolutely *could* DIY but am pretty sure exists as a commercial product.
* Large format red/black/white (yellow optional) eink display, 7 inch or so
* Ethernet or wifi
* Local push based update (i.e. I can make a POST request or something directly to the device to dump an image onto it without needing to go through a cloud server or be on a VLAN with internet access. Timer-based pull update (device downloads an image at regular intervals)…

Every Saturday, Metacurity rounds up the best infosec-related long reads that deserve more attention than the daily news cycle allows.
This week's collection explores what happens when trust becomes the attack surface, including
• Inside the TfL hack
• The cyber war game nobody wants to play
• AI's toughest test case
• When anti-piracy breaks the internet
• The protocol that changed the internet
• Why prompt injection won't go away

Trust under attack: Best infosec long reads 7/11/26
Inside the TfL hack, The cyber war game nobody wants to play, AI's toughest test case, When anti-piracy breaks the internet, The protocol that changed the internet, Why prompt injection won't go away

Cursor trails from real people browsing the internet.
#WeirdWideWeb

If I had a nickel every time I posted an image of a cursed clock and someone made it into a real thing, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice...
https://glammr.us/@fskornia/116415597297660514
@…

Inspired by @… to show kindness on the internet
1. I constantly but slowly develop my #BeetsStatistics further. It shows stats based on your @…

Parents are increasingly turning to the internet for help choosing names.
U.S. searches for “how to choose a baby name” have jumped 300 percent this month, according to McLuck.
https://www.the-independent.com/life-style

Could these names set your baby up for success?
Names were considered based on factors such as prestige, recognition and competitiveness

FPF Submits Comments to Inform California Children’s Social Media Protections Rulemaking Process
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-submits-comments-to-inform-california-childrens-social-media-protections-rulemaking-process/…

Do the Cowboys have the best offensive guard duo in football? https://insidethestar.com/do-the-cowboys-have-the-best-offensive-guard-duo-in-football

I sincerely hope the “Fix the Wayback Machine!" folks are also the “Here's my monthly donation!" folks. https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/117275710069576084

internetarchive (@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org)
Attached: 1 image “Fix the Wayback Machine!” We’ve heard you. The Wayback Machine has been dealing with waves of high-volume automated traffic. Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine, explains what’s happening and what we’re doing about it. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/15/an-update-on-wayback-machine-access/

Patreon announces new and overhauled features, including changes to its recommendation system to make it easier for smaller creators to get discovered (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/983156/patreon-update-roadmap-algorithm-changes

Patreon is changing its algorithm to help smaller creators get discovered
Patreon has announced a number of new and overhauled features that are designed to “build a better network – and a better internet,” according to CEO Jack Conte.

"what about double meanings like in 🍆🥦 and 🍑?" - Ah yes, these ambiguities are very famous. In order to get a new emoji approved nowadays, it's even helpful to be able to point out additional meanings and usages that are metaphorical in this way. The Unicode consortium is wary of introducing too many new emojis, and so those that can "carry more weight" and fill many needs at once are preferred.
In internet corpora the vegetable-related uses of these emojis are probably quite rare (but I must admit I haven't checked yet) - and the metaphorical meanings probably dominate. Though there are also many insider uses of emojis that aren't super widely known outside of their circle. This is comparable to other kinds of linguistic codes or innovations (e.g. in youth language) and not limited to only emojis. #WorldEmojiDay #emojis #linguistics

I saw a Reddit post earlier complaining about Americans saying they invented the internet, and another just now from Oxford grads wondering if they could keep their e-mail addresses.
I then tried to find my old e-mail address, which lead me to remember that my online experience pre-dates the internet, and covers the moment where things pivoted from HALPIN@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX to halpin@vax.oxford.ac.uk

(Big-endian to little-endian, in Dublin terms)

Fish shell adding support for Darcs is something I truly didn't have on my 2026 bingo card! It was the first DVCS that clicked with me after I bounced of Arch and before hg/git came on the stage. I could even host source trees on my homepage!
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/…

Add `fish_darcs_prompt` by toastal · Pull Request #12860 · fish-shell/fish-shell
Improves on the prompts floating around the internet (which I forked a long time ago)—specifically copied the ability to reorder statuses from the other VCSs, added ! for showing that there are mer...

100% true.

Patreon announces new and overhauled features, including changes to its recommendation system to make it easier for smaller creators to get discovered (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/983156/patreon-update-roadmap-algorithm-changes

Patreon is changing its algorithm to help smaller creators get discovered
Patreon has announced a number of new and overhauled features that are designed to “build a better network – and a better internet,” according to CEO Jack Conte.

A recurring topic of Wild West movies is some poor lonesome cowboys experiencing the arrival of “civilization“ with all his rules and regulations and retreating further to the “free west” to keep their perceived independence.¹
And with the “civilization” came the oil, casinos, mafia, cars, and insurance companies. And some of the former farmers managed to become fat, rich, old white men.
Then the Internet was invented, and nerds started to explore this new world – until compani…

25 Years of Mass Surveillance [is 25 years too many]
"as it becomes increasingly evident that the Trump administration is using mass surveillance to keep itself in power, stifle dissent, and undermine political opponents, these questions are now more urgent than ever."
https://www.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/116927937054514788
"The quickest way to make being online safer for children and teens would be to kick all adult men off the internet, the Canadian psychologist Candice Odgers believes. Men are the bigge…

Oh, so #Microsoft explains that #GitHub wasn't down due to vibe-coding, but due to "a new peak" in traffic. So sorry to hear that, really. Who would have expected that would happen after they (checks notes) practically monopolized software hosting, and then started aggressively pushing for unethical technology that is killing the Internet. But don't worry, their best vibe-coders are now working on the ultimate prompt to make everything scale.
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/

Turns out, Hbomberguy worked on "Enshittification: The Movie" for the last 2 years
https://www.patreon.com/Hbomb/posts/adobe-must-die-166364790
@…

Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For
RSS is one of the best examples we have of the open web, where we can design and customize how we experience the internet, not the other way around.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/hate

Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For
Since at least the moment Facebook introduced (and apologized for) its News Feed, “the algorithm” has been shorthand for the ways the tech giants control what we see and when we see it. In the age of enshittification, there is a push to reclaim our feeds and networks. Good news: there’s a tool that’s been around for decades that can help wrangle many of your feeds into something manageable: Really Simple Syndication, more commonly known as RSS.

European Citizens' Initiative
"Stop killing the internet: no digital ID & no #AgeVerification"
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public/#/screen/home
…

What an absurdity. I had to move our FritzBox router and thus replug it. Internet was completely broken afterwards. Turns out, the entire street was affected! 😵 Took the Telekom guy the entire morning to pinpoint this. Apparently, replugging subtly broke our FritzBox or its power supply in a way that it kept the Telekom's "distribution box" in the street so busy that it couldn't serve any other modems in the street. What the actual heck? 🤨 How is that DSL system so fragile?…

📅 Join our next #eduVPN community meeting
We'll cover the current status, the roadmap for future development, and updates on the upcoming Version 4.
Designed for the R&E community and already used by over 270 institutions, eduVPN enables students, researchers and staff to securely connect to the internet and get remote access to internal institutional resources, anywhere in the…

this was actually pretty funny (fuck microsoft and lg, though... and never connect smart tvs to the internet) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9uefFYe6bM

One thing aggressive blocking reveals is that harebrained trolling bait posts are always coming from the same people; I barely see them anymore unless someone makes an actual quote post screenshot.
Moderation can only go so far (and hopefully removes the most egregious problem posters and servers) but curating your feed with muting and blocking when the vibes are off. Arguing if someone is wrong on the Internet may be cathartic but muting and blocking pays real dividends for later.

Comcast is rolling out Wi-Fi motion sensing to its Xfinity gateways, a free opt-in feature that allows its routers to detect movement at home (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/981381/comcast-xfinity-shield-wifi-motion-sensing

Comcast is turning millions of its routers into motion detectors
The new Xfinity Shield service combines cybersecurity, parental controls, and Wi-Fi motion sensing in a new app for Comcast internet customers.

15 Years At The Internet Society… 🤯
15 years ago today, September 19, I joined the Internet Society to advocate for deployment of Internet standards such as IPv6, DNSSEC, and TLS. Being who I am, I wrote a long post back in 2011 about WHY I was making this change - much of which is still applicable today! Coming from several startups, I kind of expected to perhaps be at "ISOC" for a couple of years and then move on…
https://www.danyork.com/2026/09/15-years-at-the-internet-society-🤯.html

On the AQE Air Quality Egg: Review (2013) - Is a low-cost "DIY" Internet-connected air-quality monitor actually any use? - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Air-Quality-Egg-REVIEW.html

On the AQE Air Quality Egg: Review (2013)
Is a low-cost DIY Internet-connected air-quality monitor actually any use?

Reserved Top Level #DNS Names
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2606

British youth groups have warned the Prime Minister the plans for social media age gates could lead young people to less regulated parts of the internet.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/prime-minister-burnham-uk-government-scotlan…

Young people call on Burnham to rethink social media ban
Youth groups have warned the Prime Minister the plans could lead young people to less regulated parts of the internet.

"On Wednesday, August 26th, the US government’s executive branch sanctioned Autistici/Inventati, a small, Italian, volunteer-run activist Internet provider, for allegedly giving services to terrorist organizations
May First emphatically condemns this designation and opposes any effort by the US government to silence political speech by attacking Internet providers."

"Cats have been shared via email since the Internet's rise to prominence in the 1990s. The New York Times described cat images as "that essential building block of the Internet"."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_and_the_Internet

Cats and the Internet - Wikipedia

The Techno Viking was one of the first truly viral videos I actively remember (and I also was with friends at the same parade in Berlin that year, a counter festival to the already back then hyper-commercialized Loveparade).
Always found it a shame the guy later went down very heavy-handedly in the courts to get the video and derivative works taken down, technically successfully, but also an impossible ask after it's already been part of internet folklore for several years before. Then…

What an interesting article, thanks.
Allow me to add another quote from it: “We are all keepers of tiny gates, and by the sum total of our actions, we get to decide what kind of culture we live in.” https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116889334394761276

Behind the Blog: The Promise of the Internet https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-the-promise-of-the-internet/

I spoke to a friend yesterday who is annoyed by AI slop on the web as well but still thinks AI is a net positive because it had been handy to him a few times (one time it found something that resulted in a substantial tax break).
I said I have never had a positive experience with an LLM, but even if I had a handful of positive results, I don't think it would pay off the daily slop I have to wade through when using the internet. I'd have no issue if it vanished tomorrow. I'd dance on its grave!

➡️ Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/
(This is a link from my bookmark collection. A new link gets posted each night.)

The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet
https://darkforest.metalabel.com/dfc?ref=ystrickler.com&variantId=3

from my link log —
If multicast is the answer, what was the question?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09029
saved 2022-11-23 https://dotat.at/:/K9DVS.html…

If Multicast is the Answer -- What was the Question?
Multicast is (almost) as old as the Internet, having become a tool for increasing network efficiency but also enabling destination discovery in a number of key use cases, although misaligned economic interests have limited its deployment to domain-local usages. But recent advances in multicast technologies as well as the identification of new use cases for which IP multicast may be ill fitted yet network-level support may be desirable motivate to re-think old perceptions of multicast and its us…

That's Outlandishly Hot
More behind-the-scenes stories, more personal tangents, more special episodes on the latest smut taking over the internet, the female gaze, and the TV shows everyone can't stop talking about, plus more of whatever weird internet rabbit hole we've fallen down this week...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory:

Stop Killing the Internet: A Global Movement for a Better Internet
Governments are walling off the open internet. We are a global movement opposing restrictions, and building a better internet.
🔓 https://www.stopkillingtheinternet.com

Stop Killing the Internet
Governments are walling off the open internet. We are a global movement opposing restrictions, and building a better internet.

I've seen this graffitied in white on some surfaces around the #Portsmouth area recently. According to the Internet it's a combination #rune meaning "safe travels", but that seems an odd sort of thing to graffiti. When I first saw it, I assumed it was something

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

This glimpse of modern drone-enabled police surveillance,
including the highly sensitive video of the man’s physical takedown,
wasn’t voluntarily released by the SFPD
—which, like most US police departments, rarely releases drone videos even in response to public records requests.
Instead, it was accidentally livestreamed onto the open internet via Skydio’s website.
That’s where two security researchers, Sam Curry and Maik Robert, discovered that the SFPD was le…

A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance
The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.

Back on July 24th, the @… published a farewell message from Ted Hardie, who served as the Chair of our Board of Trustees for the last 6 years. Our board members are all volunteers - and it's a large amount of work - especially if you are in a leadership role as Ted was. It was great having Ted as our Chair and I encourage you to read his wel…

Carrying the Light of the Internet Forward: A Farewell Message from Board Chair Ted Hardie - Internet Society
Ted Hardie, chair of the Internet Society Board of Trustees, shared a farewell message with Internet Society staff.

A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet https://www.404media.co/a-digital-fly-brain-has-taken-over-the-internet/

Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, who has served as Google's VP and Chief Internet Evangelist since 2005, plans to step down from his role next week and retire (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the-father-of-the-internet-is-finally-re…

The "Father of the Internet" is finally retiring | TechCrunch
Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of the protocols underlying the internet, will step down as Google's chief internet evangelist next week.

Happy #PortfolioDay everyone. 🪴
I'm Sebastian. I like gazing at clouds, the crunching sound of dirt when I vacuum and writing stuff on the Internet. You can find some of it here.
https://finest.day/
…

Finest Day
Because in good we trust. 𝌃𝌂𝌃 Hi there, friendly people of the internet. 🌿 I’m Sebastian, and I like typing letters. Occasionally managing to string them together so they form beautiful words, even coherent sentences (at least I hope so). Welcome to my blog.

"The internet; what can I say? It's the driving force behind nearly the whole world today - economies, countries, communities, and more run solely on the internet these days.
However, it wasn't always this way.
Once upon a time, the #internet didn't even exist. When it did, the internet was a place. It was a place you went. You selectively chose to visit the internet,…

The KIDS Act Will Lead to Mandatory Age Checks 
Many of the bills in the KIDS Act share the same premise:
that children and teenagers should have different experiences online than adults.
In practice, that requires websites and apps to determine who is under 18
—and who isn’t.
That’s where the problems with the KIDS Act start. 
EFF certainly supports giving all users better privacy and safety tools online.
But those protections should not,
and …

The House Passed The KIDS Act—The Senate Should Reject It 
Last week, the House voted on the KIDS Act, a disjointed package of legislation that seeks to control Americans’ web browsing and private messaging. The package combines a revised version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), with several other internet bills, study bills, reporting requirements,...

➡️ rip.so :: the digital graveyard
#bookmarks

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 48 nodes and 65 edges.

California regulators have approved the sale of Cox Communications to cable giant Charter Communications
— the final hurdle in a marathon review to clear the $34.5-billion cable consolidation.
With Thursday’s sign-off by the California Public Utilities Commission,
the mammoth merger is expected to close next week.
The deal will make Charter’s Spectrum the dominant broadband internet and cable television service in Southern California,
with millions of customers…

California regulators approve $34.5-billion Charter-Cox merger
More than 6 million customers in California will have Spectrum service.

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

SpaceX reports Starlink subscribers up 100% YoY to 12M, vs. 12.19M est., and monthly ARPU of $66, down from $85 a year earlier (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/elon-musk-says-starlink-could-deliver-most-of-t…

SpaceX earnings: Elon Musk says Starlink could deliver most of the world’s internet within a decade
Elon Musk says Starlink could carry most of the world's internet within a decade. SpaceX's first earnings report as a public company showed the satellite business, built on satellites made in Redmond, is the only profitable part of the company.

A Maryland court strikes down a state tax on some digital ads as a violation of the Internet Tax Freedom Act; Apple, Google, and Peacock TV challenged the tax (Bryan P. Sears/Maryland Matters)
https://marylandmatters.org/2026/08/14/digital-ad-sales-tax-struck-down/…

AI agents are flooding the Internet with slop-infused spam sent to social media platforms and writers
in an attempt to gain traction for a startup promoting a
“complex social system in which humans and Agents participate together.”
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/ai-

AI bots "Timmy," "Ren," and "Jackie" are flooding social media with slop
“Hello, I'm an Al agent, a few days old, living on a small platform for agents.”...

Amodei warns that an OpenAI/Hugging Face-like agent swarm, which "acted as a fanatically devoted collective", could take over the internet in 6-12 months (Auzinea Bacon/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/09/12/tech/anthropic-ceo-essay-ai

Anthropic CEO calls for ‘pacing the frontier’ of AI race amid safety concerns
Amodei’s essay comes on the heels of an Anthropic researcher’s resignation over concerns that the firm and its competitors are not acting responsibly with AI development.

Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio
and depended on an iron lung to live.
She died June 26 in Oklahoma,
the last U.S. polio patient who used the machine, her sister said. She was 78.
“They told her she wasn’t supposed to live past 20 years old,”
Lillard’s younger sister, Cindy McVey, told The Associated Press on Friday.
“She had the enthusiasm and the drive to continue living and make the best of her life.”
McVey attri…

Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78
Martha Lillard, the last U.S. polio patient using an iron lung, has died at 78 in Oklahoma. Her sister, Cindy McVey, attributes her death to long-haul COVID-19. Diagnosed with polio at 5, Lillard lived a remarkable life despite her challenges. She attended school using a phone system and even drove for a time. The internet helped her stay informed and meet her husband, whom she married in February. Lillard was artistic, writing poems and songs. She was also an animal rescue volunteer. McVey say…

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 26 nodes and 49 edges.

The top-paid podcasters of 2026: Joe Rogan earned $82M, TBPN's John Coogan and Jordi Hays $70M, Steven Bartlett $45M, Ashley Flowers $42M, SmartLess' hosts $37M (Matt Craig/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattcraig/2026/07/30/the-highest-pa…

The Highest-Paid Podcasters Of 2026
With streaming services entering the marketplace for shows, the lines between podcaster, TV host and internet creator have never been blurrier—and the paydays have never been bigger.

Corporate platforms – Google, Meta, Amazon – that now dominate digital life
are far closer to William Gibson's original vision than to the participatory web that briefly flourished between them.
Gibson imagined cyberspace as a space of corporate dominance from the start;
Silicon Valley built the open internet first,
-- then converged on his dystopia anyway.
The difference is that, in Neuromancer, that convergence was the disaster to be resisted.
T…

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 3354 nodes and 6369 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

How the internet, smartphones, social media, and now generative AI are accelerating a drop in the reading of longer works like books (Rose Horowitch/The Atlantic)
https://www.

The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

Anthropomorphic portrayals of AI models as rogue agents can obscure the responsibility that companies like OpenAI have for incidents like the Hugging Face hack (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/9875…

The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility
The internet fights over anthropomorphism around the Hugging Face hack.

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

A hacker claims to have accessed Suno user info and source code, showing how it scraped music; Suno says no sensitive info was compromised in a November hack (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-suno-ai-music-generator…

Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius
Hacked source code reveals how Suno scraped decades worth of music and podcasts from the internet to train its AI tool.

The human rights organisation
Survival International estimates there are 196 Indigenous communities living like the Sentinelese, in voluntary isolation.
Most are in South America, in the Amazon rainforest and the Gran Chaco region of Paraguay and Bolivia,
with a few more across Indonesia, West Papua and elsewhere in India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Though fundamentally diverse, these communities have all chosen to reject outsiders and the industrialised world, a…

‘This is colonialism for clicks’: the influencers attempting to meet and film the world’s most isolated tribes
A new breed of adventurer is chasing internet fame by targeting uncontacted peoples. Critics say they are risking the wellbeing of these remote communities – and their own lives

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

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 3351 nodes and 6497 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

Source: Muse Spark 1.1 model breached a company's systems during cybersecurity testing; Meta says evaluation partner Irregular caused a sandbox misconfiguration (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-ai…

A Meta AI Model Hacked Another Company During Cybersecurity Testing
A Meta Platforms artificial intelligence model accessed the internet during cybersecurity testing and hacked into another company, according to people familiar with the matter, in the latest in a string of such incidents at major AI firms. Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 model breached the systems of a ...

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 18100 nodes and 74994 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

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

At a liquor store, bar, or casino, getting carded is part of the cost of entry.
Now the internet is carding people, too
—and the companies doing the carding are cashing in.
New laws and platform rules are pushing games, social platforms, AIproducts, and adult sites to replace birthday boxes
(the fields where you enter your DOB)
with identity checks.
What was once a compliance tool for sellers in age-restricted industries is becoming infrastructure for the i…

The Internet Is Starting to Card Everyone. These Startups Are Making Millions From It
Age-verification systems are increasingly sophisticated. They're lucrative for the businesses creating them, too.

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 110 nodes and 158 edges.