A YouTuber finds wholesome, heartbreaking stories behind silly VRChat avatars ~games Article 1542 words 7 votes
Google is rolling out AMP for Gmail to let you shop and fill out forms without leaving your inbox ~tech google internet Article 323 words 22 votes
Europe’s controversial overhaul of online copyright receives final approval ~tech internet Article 373 words 48 votes
Intransigence: A social history of the internet ~tech social media internet Article 4598 words, published Oct 22 2018 5 votes
YouTube face-off: Berlin police break up mass brawl ~news germany.berlin crime Article 241 words 5 votes
Microsoft says the Federal Communications Commission 'overstates' broadband availability in the US ~tech internet microsoft Article 907 words 16 votes
Fifty years of the internet -- What we learned, and where will we go next? ~tech internet Article 1131 words 4 votes
A Russian 'troll slayer' went undercover at a troll factory and found that hundreds of Russians were working as paid trolls in rotating shifts ~tech social media internet Article 1191 words 20 votes
The internet is not your friend: MySpace and the loss of memories ~tech social media internet Article 6 votes
Inside the 'shitposting' subculture the alleged Christchurch shooter belonged to ~tech social media internet Article 343 words 18 votes
Reddit has become a battleground of alleged Chinese trolls ~tech social media Article 1780 words 18 votes
Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Millions of online photos scraped without consent ~tech privacy internet Article 2993 words 8 votes
Algorithms Allowed: a project that tracks usage of Google and Facebook assets in countries under US sanctions ~comp Link 6 votes
Tim Berners-Lee: 'Stop web's downward plunge to dysfunctional future' ~tech internet Article 643 words 8 votes
Taxed, throttled or thrown in jail: Africa's new internet paradigm ~tech internet Article 1013 words 7 votes
An email marketing company left 809 million records exposed online ~tech privacy internet Article 1375 words 8 votes
Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a remarkably common password ~tech internet security Article 649 words 57 votes
Mountain of tongues: Can a nationalist movement from the internet save the world's most scattered people? ~life Article 8494 words 5 votes
I have forgotten how to read: For a long time Michael Harris convinced himself that a childhood spent immersed in old-fashioned books would insulate him from our new media climate. He was wrong. ~tech internet Article 1668 words, published Feb 9 2018 19 votes
OneWeb set to launch first satellites in quest to provide global internet coverage from space ~space rocketry satellites Article 1038 words 10 votes
What happened to broadband in Australia? NBN Co’s former CEO on how the Coalition broke the internet. ~tech internet Article 5555 words 6 votes
Wikipedia editors have been fighting over corn for at least a decade ~humanities language Article 1068 words, published Dec 19 2017 20 votes
Altavista: The Rise & Fall of the Biggest Pre-Google Search Engine ~tech internet Article 1609 words 12 votes
Flickr will soon start deleting photos — and massive chunks of internet history ~tech social media internet google facebook Article 1626 words, published Feb 6 2019 27 votes
The internet was built on the free labor of open source developers. Is that sustainable? ~tech internet Article 5933 words 14 votes
Russia to disconnect from the internet as part of a planned cyberwar test ~tech security.cyber Article 514 words 33 votes
Online grocery shopping has been slow to catch on - We shop online for almost everything. Why not food? ~food Article 2753 words 11 votes
The Google Chrome team is developing tools, heuristics and warnings to help protect against deceptive URLs ~tech google browsers security internet Article 994 words 11 votes
I was wrong about Google and Facebook: There’s nothing wrong with them (so say we all) ~tech internet social media google facebook Article 1497 words, published Jan 11 2019 23 votes
Is Huawei a friend or foe in the battle for 5G dominance? ~tech internet security Article 2517 words 4 votes
The island nation of Tonga is facing a near-total internet blackout. The country’s only undersea cable was damaged during a storm. ~tech Article 488 words 12 votes
“The Linux of social media” - How LiveJournal pioneered (then lost) blogging ~tech internet Article 3390 words 8 votes
These are all the federal HTTPS websites that’ll expire soon because of the US government shutdown ~tech security internet Article 580 words 8 votes
The internet, but not as we know it: Life online in China, Cuba, India and Russia ~tech internet Article 13 votes
Who owns the internet? (What Big Tech’s monopoly powers mean for our culture.) ~tech internet Article 3518 words 11 votes
Over a million IP addresses geolocate to a house in Pretoria, South Africa, causing people (and police) to show up regularly in search of criminals, stolen phones, and more ~tech internet Article 5226 words 9 votes
Life lessons from a lifestyle business - An interview with Matt Haughey, founder of MetaFilter ~tech social media internet Article 2944 words, published May 3 2016 8 votes