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Law requires 25Mbps home Internet. T-Mobile lowers speed to 600Kbps after 50GB cap.
Online spaces are captured by oligarchs and saturated with slop—and they’re exacerbating humanity’s worst impulses. It’s time to start over.
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Keeping passwords secure and being wary of suspicious emails is more important than ever as hackers use sophisticated tools and AI to find the internet’s weak points.
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Two critical bugs in the PHP web programming language, used by the majority of the internet, threatened to upend the internet — and it's unlikely to be the last major software scare.
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The moment you realize the internet is "held together by glue and dreams."
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For more than 20 years, Ondřej Surý has been quietly helping to keep websites around the world running securely, largely in his spare time.
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OpenAI now trains its top models on a cached web after one reached the internet. Its own agents then tested the new walls and found holes.
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OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.
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OpenAI built an “offline world” for top AI models.
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Decades-old vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language have put the internet on high alert.
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The list of sites that had to go down, at least temporarily, because of the recently disclosed PHP vulnerability keeps growing. Thankfully, the Internet Archive’s ops team quickly got things patched, secured, and back online. Digital librarian Brewster Kahle posted his thanks on Mastodon last night: “Given the severity, there are heroes in many many orgs from last night. Could have been no lights, no traffic signals, real problems.“
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Chinese social media companies and users are locked in a never-ending battle between free speech and censorship.
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For a quarter century, internet cafes connected the world. Now they’re vanishing into history.
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The BBC's technology correspondent Joe Tidy explains how it happened, and what it means for you.
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Soon, hundreds of new top-level domains, including .meow and .fart, could be added to the internet. WIRED goes inside the backroom shenanigans of ICANN, the organization at the helm.
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From Iran’s shutdown to Sudan’s civil war, conflict is making tech ecosystems go into survival mode — and pushing talent into exile.
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Hysteria over the agent's appearance in a 7,500-person group reveals that internet experts have outdated notions of privacy.
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The PHP Foundation has revealed two serious vulnerabilities that could impact millions of websites. Security experts warn that failure to quickly patch the flaws could have dire consequences.