Many of the laws restricting local voters’ rights were directly written by a telecom sector terrified of real broadband competition.Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzmana/report-26-states-now-ban-or-restrict-community-broadband…
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Some Internet Outages Predicted For the Coming Month as ‘768k Day’ Approaches
An internet milestone known as “768k Day” is getting closer and some network administrators are shaking in their boots fearing downtime caused by outdated network equipment. From a report: The fear is justified, and many companies have taken precautions to update old routers, but some cascading failures are still predicted. The term 768k Day comes from the original mother of all…
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Says Tech Companies Can Regulate Themselves
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt in a new interview rejected the notion that Capitol Hill has a role to play in regulating big tech companies, breaking with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent willingness to work with lawmakers. From a report: “The problem is if you write a rule, inevitably, you fix the solution on a specific solution, but the technology moves…
Long Lost ‘Zork’ Source Code Uploaded to GitHub, But Few People Understand It
With access to the source code, a group of dedicated fans is now tinkering with the Zork Implementation Language (ZIL).Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3xdk8/long-lost-zork-source-code-uploaded-to-github-but-few-people-understand-it…
Breakthrough research to revolutionise internet communication
A team of University of Otago/Dodd-Walls Centre scientists have created a novel device that could enable the next generation of faster, more energy efficient internet. Their breakthrough results have been published in the world’s premiere scientific journal Nature this morning. …
Bad Bots Now Make Up 20 Percent of Web Traffic
So-called “bad bots,” tasked with performing denial-of-service (DoS) attacks or other malicious activities like automatically publishing fake content or reviews, are estimated to make up roughly 37.9 percent of all internet traffic. “In 2018, one in five website requests — 20.4 percent — of traffic was generated by bad bots alone,” reports ZDNet, citing Distil Networks’ latest bot report, “Bad Bot…
The Internet Is About to Get Less Horny and That Sucks
The UK government is going to remarkably puritanical lengths to make sure the youth can’t look at online fucking. On July 15, porn companies will be required to have age-verification systems to make sure that anyone consuming their content online is 18 or older. If they don’t implement these checks on their websites,…Read more…Source: https://gizmodo.com/the-internet-is-about-to-get-less-horny-and-that-sucks-1834120403…
Canada Is Getting Sued Over Sidewalk Labs’ ‘Smart City’ In Toronto
The Google affiliate’s Quayside project has been hit by a massive legal challenge from the Canadian Civil Liberties Association targeting all three levels of government. Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gy4bgj/canada-is-getting-sued-over-sidewalk-labs-smart-city-in-toronto…
Cyberspies Hijacked the Internet Domains of Entire Countries
Trailrunner7 shares a report: The discovery of a new, sophisticated team of hackers spying on dozens of government targets is never good news. But one team of cyberspies has pulled off that scale of espionage with a rare and troubling trick, exploiting a weak link in the internet’s cybersecurity that experts have warned about for years: DNS hijacking, a technique…
Online Pornography Age Checks To Be Mandatory in UK From 15 July
The UK’s age verification system for online pornography will become mandatory on 15 July, the government has confirmed. From a report: From that date, commercial providers of online pornography will be required to carry out “robust” age verification checks on users, in order to keep children from accessing adult content. Websites that refuse to implement the checks face being blocked…