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No One Knows What ‘Terminally Online’ Means Anymore

wired.com Adam Bumas 2025-09-21 18:07:04

In the days following the shooting of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, there’s been a scramble to understand the politics of the situation. The effort to ascribe a specific political affiliation and motive to 22-year-old suspect Tyler Robinson—with President Donald Trump and his followers blaming “the radical left”—has led to serious investigation and scrutiny being applied to all the publicly available details of his life before, during, and after his alleged crime. In particular, there’s bee

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No One Knows What 'Terminally Online' Means Anymore

wired.com Adam Bumas 2025-09-21 23:07:04

In the days following the shooting of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, there’s been a scramble to understand the politics of the situation. The effort to ascribe a specific political affiliation and motive to 22-year-old suspect Tyler Robinson—with President Donald Trump and his followers blaming “the radical left”—has led to serious investigation and scrutiny being applied to all the publicly available details of his life before, during and after his alleged crime. In particular, there’s been

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New Bill Aims to Block Both Online Adult Content and VPNs

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-24 03:21:00

If you live in Michigan, you might not be able to legally use a VPN soon if a new bill is passed into law. On Sept. 11, Michigan Republican representatives proposed far-reaching legislation banning adult internet content. The bill, called the Anticorruption of Public Morals Act and advanced by six Republican representatives, would ban a wide variety of adult content online, ranging from ASMR and adult manga to AI content and any depiction of transgender people. It also seeks to ban all use of V

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Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

news.ycombinator.com Sondos Asem 2025-09-25 17:24:22

The UN’s top investigative body on Palestine and Israel ruled on Tuesday that Israel is guilty of the crime of genocide in Gaza, in the most authoritative pronouncement to date. The 72-page report by the UN commission of inquiry on Palestine and Israel finds Israel has committed four of the five acts prohibited under the 1948 Genocide Convention, and that Israeli leaders had the intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza as a group. The finding echoes reports by Palestinian, Israeli and internatio

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Sony and other music labels settle copyright lawsuit against the Internet Archive

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-27 19:00:23

In 2023, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and a handful of other music labels filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive over the Great 78 Project, which sought to preserve and digitize 78 rpm shellac records. Now, both parties have announced in a filing that they have reached a settlement and that they're filing to dismiss the lawsuit within 45 days. The plaintiffs said in the filing that they were "writ[ing] to advise this court that they have settled this matter." They didn't

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EFF to court: The Supreme Court must rein in secondary copyright liability

news.ycombinator.com Betty Gedlu 2025-09-30 05:59:27

If the Supreme Court doesn’t reverse a lower court’s ruling, internet service providers (ISPs) could be forced to terminate people’s internet access based on nothing more than mere accusations of copyright infringement. This would threaten innocent users who rely on broadband for essential aspects of daily life. EFF—along with the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, and Re:Create—filed an amicus brief urging the Court to reverse the decision. The Stakes: Turning

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Sam Altman Concerned That the Whole Internet Now Feels Fake as AI Takes Over

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-30 05:00:25

Has Sam Altman spent too much time talking with ChatGPT lately, or has he finally taken a break from his delusion-inducing chatbot and smelled the roses? We ask because the man responsible for unleashing the Automated Soulless Text Machine on the world has recently caught on that the internet has started feeling super fake, and he's now pontificating about this novel observation again on X-formerly-Twitter, seemingly mystified at how this all came to pass. Prompting his latest musing was a scr

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After Kirk shooting, Utah governor calls social media a “cancer.” Will we treat it like one?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-01 03:55:49

The conservative broadcaster/provocateur Charlie Kirk—murdered this week during a visit to a Utah college—had tweeted some life advice this summer: "When things are moving very fast and people are losing their minds, it’s important to stay grounded. Turn off your phone, read scripture, spend time with friends, and remember internet fury is not real life. It’s going to be ok." Kirk was not himself always a great role model for staying grounded, thoughtful, or caring to others. He was better know

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California bill lets renters escape exclusive deals between ISPs and landlords

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-01 07:33:47

California's legislature this week approved a bill to let renters opt out of bulk-billing arrangements that force them to pay for Internet service from a specific provider. The bill says that by January 1, a landlord must "allow the tenant to opt out of paying for any subscription from a third-party Internet service provider, such as through a bulk-billing arrangement, to provide service for wired Internet, cellular, or satellite service that is offered in connection with the tenancy." If a lan

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VPNs and Age-Verification Laws: What You Need to Know

wired.com Jacob Roach 2025-10-02 16:30:00

The problem is how the verification happens. You aren’t verifying your age with the government. You’re routing it through an independent third party, and most of the laws on the books are designed specifically in this way. In the UK, for example, Reddit verifies with Persona, and Bluesky uses Kids Web Services (owned by Epic Games). Persona’s privacy policy states that it collects not only biometric information and personal details, like your ID, but also ties that to information gathered from

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The effects of algorithms on the public discourse

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 15:39:47

We traded blogs for black boxes, now we're paying for it 09/09/2025 Come listen to the "old man yelling at clouds" in me for a bit. tl;dr: The internet is changing for the worse (or getting 'enshittified'). In this post, I write about the effects of algorithms on the public discourse to illustrate a greater point on the enshittification of the internet. Then, I offer my personal notes and curated resources to guide you on your personal internet deshittification journey. I miss the old intern

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How to Test Your Home Internet Speed and What to Do With the Results

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-04 10:00:00

Are you getting the internet speed you’re paying for? Should you blame a slow connection on your Wi-Fi router or internet provider? Can your internet handle things like online gaming or livestreaming? The answers to all of these questions can be found by running a simple internet speed test. There are several websites you can use to check your speed for free, and they'll all give you the same key metrics about your home internet connection. I usually say the best internet connection is the one

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Dead Internet Theory Lives: One Out of Three of You Is a Bot

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-06 03:40:32

Alright, pal, you wanna keep reading? Why don’t you tell me which of these pictures does not have a stop sign in it? According to CloudFlare, nearly one-third of all internet traffic is now bots. Most of those bots, you won’t ever directly interact with, as they are crawling the web and indexing websites or performing specific tasks—or, increasingly, collecting data to train AI models. But it’s the bots that you can see that have people like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and others questioning (albeit

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Internet Access in the Middle East Disrupted After Undersea Cables Are Mysteriously Cut

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-10 07:15:14

Over the weekend, crucial undersea cables providing internet access to parts of Asia were mysteriously cut, leading to internet outages in certain parts of the Middle East and Asia. The initial news seems to have originated from a Microsoft announcement published on Sunday. The announcement reads, in part: “Starting at 05:45 UTC on 06 September 2025, network traffic traversing through the Middle East may experience increased latency due to undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea.” Gizmodo reached ou

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Starlink Halves the Cost of Its Dish for New Sign-Ups

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-11 14:00:00

For households in rural areas or regions where traditional ISPs still fall short, Starlink has become a lifeline for fast, reliable internet. The satellite service has opened up access in places that once had few options, and now it's rolling out one of its most affordable offers yet for new customers. Right now, the Starlink standard kit is marked down to $175, which is a 50% cut from its usual $349 price. Unlike past promotions that were limited to certain areas, this discount is available na

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I kissed comment culture goodbye

news.ycombinator.com Sustainable Views 2025-10-12 02:11:39

It started out harmlessly, a comment on hacker news roughly 16 years ago. From there it expanded to reddit, substack, twitter. And it increased in frequency, from every few months to every week, peaking at several times a day. It became an addictive, productive habit—I would scan the headlines for a catchy title, quickly skim the piece, and then race to the comment section and type one out. Sometimes the comments were insightful or funny. At other times, curt or nitpicky. It was an exercise of

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The Day I Kissed Comment Culture Goodbye

news.ycombinator.com Sustainable Views 2025-10-12 07:11:39

It started out harmlessly, a comment on hacker news roughly 16 years ago. From there it expanded to reddit, substack, twitter. And it increased in frequency, from every few months to every week, peaking at several times a day. It became an addictive, productive habit—I would scan the headlines for a catchy title, quickly skim the piece, and then race to the comment section and type one out. Sometimes the comments were insightful or funny. At other times, curt or nitpicky. It was an exercise of

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Eero’s Signal is a cellular safety net for your Wi-Fi network

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-10-13 03:24:09

The new Eero Signal could have saved me a lot of headaches when I was dealing with regular internet outages at my home last year. See, Signal automatically detects when your internet goes down and switches your whole Wi-Fi network over to a cellular connection to minimize disruption. Sure, when I’d suddenly see a “Slack is trying to connect” message, I could pull out my phone and hop on the hotspot, but that only brought my laptop back online. My TVs, the computer in my studio, my kid’s iPad, th

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Sam Altman Says He's Suddenly Worried Dead Internet Theory Is Coming True

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-13 10:00:14

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, creator of the most popular AI chatbot on Earth, says he's starting to worry that "dead internet theory" is coming true. "I never took the dead internet theory that seriously," Altman tweeted in his typical all-lowercase style, "but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now." (LLM meaning large language model, the tech which powers AI chatbots.) He was resoundingly mocked. "You're absolutely right! This observation isn't just smart — it shows

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JetBlue will use Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites for free in-flight internet

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-15 11:05:46

In Brief Many major airlines are beefing up their in-flight internet offerings by tapping SpaceX’s Starlink satellites, but JetBlue is going in a different direction. Amazon and JetBlue announced Thursday a partnership under which the airline will instead use Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites to provide free in-flight connectivity starting in 2027. The Kuiper terminals on JetBlue’s planes will be capable of download speeds of up to 1Gbps from Amazon’s low-Earth orbit satellites. That’s more b

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Amazon launches cellular dongle to provide backup connectivity for eero routers

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-15 23:30:28

Amazon has introduced a new eero product at IFA 2025, which can provide you with connectivity in case your home internet goes out. The new product called eero Signal connects to any USB-C-powered eero device on a network that supports Wi-Fi 6 and up. It's meant to be a cellular backup, available two versions: A 4G LTE one that will cost you $100 and a 5G one that will set you back $200. Signal can detect outages and automatically connect you to a cellular network with its multi-carrier eSIM that

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New Eero Signal promises to keep you connected during internet outages

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-10-17 11:24:04

Eero has announced a new Eero Signal product that it says will let you “say goodbye to internet outages.” “Eero Signal delivers cellular backup whenever your wired internet connection goes down,” the company explains. It’s available in both 4G LTE and 5G RedCap versions. In a press release announcing the news, Eero explained that Eero Signal can be connected to any USB-C Eero on your network to provide backup connectivity during an internet outage. The device has a built-in eSIM and “automatic

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Apple's Assault on Standards

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 21:55:37

Apple's Assault on Standards Will we notice? And what can be done? TL;DR: Market competition underlies the enterprise of standards. It creates the only functional test of designs and functions as a pressure release valve that enables standards-based ecosystems route around single-vendor damage. Without competition, standards bodies have no purpose, and neither they, nor the ecosystems they support, can retain relevance. Apple has poisoned the well through a monopoly on influence which it has pa

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Best Internet Providers in Your Area

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-20 08:00:00

Our picks 90001 Edit ZIP code Why we chose these providers Sort by Combined coverage areas make high availability 10 - 5,000 Mbps $55 - $190 per month Check with Earthlink Internet Provider not available in 90001 Edit ZIP code Or call to learn more: (866) 671-3650 Best 5G home internet coverage 87 - 415 Mbps $50 - $70 per month Check with T-Mobile Or call to learn more: (877) 519-7610 Best fiber coverage in the South, Midwest and CA 300 - 5,000 Mbps $55 - $250 per month Check with AT&T Fiber Pro

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Corruption and Control: Turkmenistan turned internet censorship into a business

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 01:09:20

In July 2021, a sudden drop in Tor usage in Turkmenistan called our attention. Tor would come to understand that this marked the beginning of a new era of censorship and restriction in this post-Soviet country. But let's rewind... The Tor Community has long been defending internet freedom, running relays and providing bridges to combat internet censorship. Over the years, the Tor Project has called for action to run more bridges, Snowflake proxies, while we've investigated and adapted our anti

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Starlink's New Customer Deal: Get Half-Off a Dish and Hundreds in Year-One Savings

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-23 14:30:00

For people living in rural areas or places where traditional internet providers don't reach, Starlink has been a game changer. The satellite-powered service makes reliable connectivity possible in areas that were often left out. Now, the company is making it even more affordable for new customers to sign up with the lowest monthly prices we've seen so far. The Starlink standard kit is currently available for $175 - half off its usual $349 cost. Unlike previous discounts that were restricted to

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Starlink Puts the Last Nail in Burning Man’s Coffin

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-23 22:46:16

Whatever embers may still be left burning from the original spirit of Burning Man are holding on for dear life as Silicon Valley tries to put them out for good. The latest dagger delivered to the Bohemia turned billionaire LARPing event comes from above, as Elon Musk’s Starlink is now providing internet connection to those in attendance, according to the Wall Street Journal. A Burning Man regular named Kevin LeVezu, a photographer, runs a camp at the temporary city called iForgot. This year, he

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Colleges see significant drop in international students as fall semester begins

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-26 05:31:23

NPR > Education Classes began this week for students at the University at Buffalo, a public research university in western New York, but there were about 750 fewer international students on campus than expected. The new students who did make it gathered for a welcome from the school's dean of students. "We know you have had to overcome hurdles to be here – especially this summer, with visas," Tomás Aguirre told the assembled students, representing more than 100 countries. "And I just wanted yo

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Blogging service TypePad is shutting down and taking all blog content with it

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-26 14:46:17

In the olden days, publishing a site on the Internet required that you figure out hosting and have at least some experience with HTML, CSS, and the other languages that make the Internet work. But the emergence of blogging and "Web 2.0" sites in the late '90s and early 2000s gave rise to a constellation of services that would offer to host all of your thoughts without requiring you to build the website part of your website. Many of those services are still around in some form—someone who really

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One-time WordPress competitor TypePad ends its slide into obscurity by shutting down

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-26 19:46:17

In the olden days, publishing a site on the Internet required that you figure out hosting and have at least some experience with HTML, CSS, and the other languages that make the Internet work. But the emergence of blogging and "Web 2.0" sites in the late '90s and early 2000s gave rise to a constellation of services that would offer to host all of your thoughts without requiring you to build the website part of your website. Many of those services are still around in some form—someone who really

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Latest Tech News

No One Knows What ‘Terminally Online’ Means Anymore

No One Knows What 'Terminally Online' Means Anymore

New Bill Aims to Block Both Online Adult Content and VPNs

Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

Sony and other music labels settle copyright lawsuit against the Internet Archive

EFF to court: The Supreme Court must rein in secondary copyright liability

Sam Altman Concerned That the Whole Internet Now Feels Fake as AI Takes Over

After Kirk shooting, Utah governor calls social media a “cancer.” Will we treat it like one?

California bill lets renters escape exclusive deals between ISPs and landlords

VPNs and Age-Verification Laws: What You Need to Know

The effects of algorithms on the public discourse

How to Test Your Home Internet Speed and What to Do With the Results

Dead Internet Theory Lives: One Out of Three of You Is a Bot

Internet Access in the Middle East Disrupted After Undersea Cables Are Mysteriously Cut

Starlink Halves the Cost of Its Dish for New Sign-Ups

I kissed comment culture goodbye

The Day I Kissed Comment Culture Goodbye

Eero’s Signal is a cellular safety net for your Wi-Fi network

Sam Altman Says He's Suddenly Worried Dead Internet Theory Is Coming True

JetBlue will use Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites for free in-flight internet

Amazon launches cellular dongle to provide backup connectivity for eero routers

New Eero Signal promises to keep you connected during internet outages

Apple's Assault on Standards

Best Internet Providers in Your Area

Corruption and Control: Turkmenistan turned internet censorship into a business

Starlink's New Customer Deal: Get Half-Off a Dish and Hundreds in Year-One Savings

Starlink Puts the Last Nail in Burning Man’s Coffin

Colleges see significant drop in international students as fall semester begins

Blogging service TypePad is shutting down and taking all blog content with it

One-time WordPress competitor TypePad ends its slide into obscurity by shutting down

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