The Battle Over Africa's Great Untapped Resource: IP Addresses

EditorDavid / slashdot - In his mid-20s, Lu Heng "got an idea that has made him a lot richer," writes the Wall Street Journal. He scooped up 10 million unused IP addresses, mostly form Africa, and then leases them to companies, mostly outside Africa, "that need them badly."[A]rou…

Amanda Silberling / techcrunch - OpenAI claims that the 16-year-old violated ChatGPT's terms of use.

#digitalhealth #openai #aiethics #chatgpt #internet #mentalhealth #law #contentmoderation #litigation #safety

OpenAI Says Dead Teen Violated TOS When He Used ChatGPT To Plan Suicide https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/11/26/2012215/openai-says-dead-teen-violated-tos-when-he-used-chatgpt-to-plan-suicide?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

3 months / bsky / @slashdot.org / slashdot.org

OpenAI denies liability in teen suicide lawsuit, cites ‘misuse’ of ChatGPT

3 months / theverge / Richard Lawler

OpenAI Says Dead Teen Violated TOS When He Used ChatGPT To Plan Suicide

3 months / slashdot / BeauHD

What the fuck, man

3 months / bsky / @stealthbadger.net / stealthbadger.net

Segundo a OpenAI, o adolescente que usou gerador de lero-lero para planejar seu suicídio violou os termos de serviço da plataforma. Deve achar justo simplemente cancelar a conta do garoto morto para que ele nunca mais repita isso.

3 months / bsky / @msoares.bsky.social / msoares.bsky.social

OpenAI claims teen circumvented safety features before suicide that ChatGPT helped plan

3 months / techcrunch / Amanda Silberling

OpenAI denies allegations in teen death lawsuit

3 months / mashable

OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide

3 months / arstechnica / Ashley Belanger

Amazon’s Leo Satellite Internet Introduces 1 Gbps ‘Ultra’ Antenna

Usman Qureshi / iphoneincanada - Amazon is moving forward with its satellite broadband ambitions by debuting a high-powered antenna under its newly named Amazon Leo brand.The post Amazon’s Leo Satellite Internet Introduces 1 Gbps ‘Ultra’ Antenna first appeared on iPhone in Canada.

#networking #amazon #space #business #broadband #internet #technology #telecommunications #satellite #starlink

You could soon get 1 Gbps internet from space thanks to Amazon Leo

3 months / digitaltrends

Amazon Leo is ready for testing and aimed squarely at Starlink’s dominance

3 months / fastcompany / Anna-Louise Jackson

Amazon’s Leo Satellite Internet Introduces 1 Gbps ‘Ultra’ Antenna

3 months / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

Amazon’s Starlink competitor is launching with ‘world’s fastest satellite internet antenna’

3 months / theverge / Stevie Bonifield

Amazon starts letting businesses test rebranded Leo satellite service as it plays catchup to Musk's Starlink

3 months / cnbc

CNN's Apple News feed goes dark while contract talks continue

appleinsider - CNN quietly pulled its feed from Apple News, a temporary move allegedly tied to ongoing contract talks.Apple NewsIf you woke up expecting to read your CNN feed from the Apple News app, you were probably a bit confused this morning. That's because CNN has …

#techpolicy #apple #streaming #business #internet #distributions #law #media #technology #contentmoderation

Apple News Loses CNN

3 months / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

Welp there goes CNN

3 months / bsky / @madebydanny.uk / madebydanny.uk

Apple News Loses CNN

3 months / macrumors / Hartley Charlton

CNN's Apple News feed goes dark while contract talks continue

3 months / appleinsider

Malaysia may ban users under 16 from social media starting next year

Ram Iyer / techcrunch - The country's communications minister Fahmi Fadzil said the administration is considering systems for implementing age restrictions on social media sites.

#techpolicy #government #internet #asia #privacy #law #censorship #contentmoderation #digitalid #digitalprivacy

Age Verification, Estimation, Assurance, Oh My! A Guide To The Terminology

3 months / techdirt / Rindala Alajaji

Malaysia takes steps to ban social media for children under 16

3 months / engadget / Sarah Fielding

Malaysia may ban users under 16 from social media starting next year

3 months / techcrunch / Ram Iyer

Malaysia to ban social media for children under 16 next year

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X’s new About This Account feature is going great

Anthony Ha / techcrunch - A new feature seemingly revealed many right-wing “America First” accounts are actually based outside the United States. But the data seems questionable.

#politics #trump #internet #technology #contentmoderation #digitalprivacy

X Displays Users’ Locations, Fueling Scrutiny Over Political Accounts

3 months / nytimes / Yan Zhuang

A new feature seemingly revealed many right-wing “America First” accounts are actually based outside the United States. But the data seems questionable.

3 months / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run

3 months / hindustantimes

This Chrome extension makes it easier to trust your X feed

3 months / digitaltrends

About This Account reveals the scale of X’s foreign troll problem

3 months / theverge / Terrence O’Brien

This Chrome extension shows X profile locations right in your feed

3 months / digitaltrends

X’s new About This Account feature is going great

3 months / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

X’s messy About This Account rollout has caused utter chaos

3 months / theverge / Terrence O’Brien

New X Feature Reveals Many MAGA Patriots on X Are Not Even Based in The U.S.

3 months / gizmodo / Ece Yildirim

Read Epsteins emails as if you hacked into his Gmail account

mashable - Jmail is the best way to read and search through Jeffrey Epstein's emails.

#cybersecurity #software #browsers #internet #cybercrime #privacy #hack #technology #digitalprivacy

Read Epsteins emails as if you hacked into his Gmail account

3 months / mashable

‘Jmail’ is like any other inbox, except this one has Jeffrey Epstein’s emails

3 months / theverge / Richard Lawler

Jmail

3 months / jmail / John Gruber

Pranksters Recreated a Working Version of Jeffrey Epstein’s Gmail Inbox

3 months / wired / Boone Ashworth

Cloudflare outage exposes reliance on a handful of Internet companies

Jason Fuller / npr - NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Betsy Cooper, a cybersecurity expert at the Aspen Institute, about this week's major Internet outage and the world's reliance on a handful of web services companies.

#cybersecurity #cloud #software #networking #infosec #internet #technology #bugs #cloudflare

And so this is how a tiny Cloudflare update broke huge chunks of the internet

3 months / techspot

Is Cloudflare still acting up? Outage detailed in blog post

3 months / theshortcut / Max Buondonno

Cloudflare outage exposes reliance on a handful of Internet companies

3 months / npr / Jason Fuller

Cloudflare broke much of the Internet with a corrupted bot management file

3 months / arstechnica / Jon Brodkin

Meta Initiates Mass Account Deactivations for Australian Teens as Social Media Ban Looms

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Meta has initiated a 14-day warning period for Australian under-16s, setting a December 10 deadline to deactivate accounts under new federal laws.The post Meta Initiates Mass Account Deactivations for Australian Teens as Social Media Ban Looms appeared fi…

#techpolicy #meta #internet #privacy #australia #law #contentmoderation #digitalprivacy #regulation

Meta gives kids a 14-day countdown ahead of the social media ban

3 months / mumbrella / Nathan Jolly

When the ban goes into effect on December 10, Meta will revoke account access for users under the age of 16 in Australia.

3 months / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Instagram owner Meta tells Australian teens accounts will close

3 months / bbc

With upcoming ban, Meta begins to notify Australian teens that their accounts will be shut down

3 months / techcrunch / Amanda Silberling

Meta Initiates Mass Account Deactivations for Australian Teens as Social Media Ban Looms

3 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Cloudflare CEO explains exactly what caused global outage

mashable - Cloudflare has explained what caused its outage on Nov. 18, which prevented access to sites and services like X and ChatGPT.

#cybersecurity #cloud #networking #saas #infosec #datacenter #internet #technology #cloudflare

CEO explanation and public apology (1)
Miscellaneous inquiries not in main themes (1)
Service impact, recovery, and market reliability (2)
Technical breakdown: file issues, database errors (9)
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3 months / techxplore

Technical breakdown: file issues, database errors

What went wrong at Cloudflare?

3 months / betanews / Ian Barker

What caused the global Cloudflare outage?

3 months / siliconrepublic / Colin Ryan

Cloudflare Explains Its Worst Outage Since 2019

3 months / slashdot / msmash

Yesterday's global internet outage caused by single file on Cloudflare servers — unexpected file size caused catastrophic error, knocking out several major websites

3 months / tomshardware

Cloudflare blames this week's massive outage on database issues

3 months / bleepingcomputer / Sergiu Gatlan

Cloudflare admits a bot filter bug caused its worst outage since 2019

3 months / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Quoting Matthew Prince

3 months / simonwillison / Simon Willison

Cloudflare CEO explains exactly what caused global outage

3 months / mashable

Cloudflare outage was not caused by a cyber attack

3 months / engadget

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Cloudflare Explains Its Worst Outage Since 2019 https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/19/1447256/cloudflare-explains-its-worst-outage-since-2019?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

3 months / bsky / @slashdot.org / slashdot.org

Snapchat Launches Topic Chats for Public Discussions

Usman Qureshi / iphoneincanada - Snapchat is rolling out public Topic Chats so users can join open group discussions around trending events, interests and shared moments.The post Snapchat Launches Topic Chats for Public Discussions first appeared on iPhone in Canada.

#mobile #digitalmarketing #snapchat #internet #apps #ux #community #technology

Snapchat now lets you talk to strangers without exposing your real profile

3 months / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Snapchat adds topic chats so everyone can yell about random stuff in one place

3 months / digitaltrends

Snapchat Launches Topic Chats for Public Discussions

3 months / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

Snapchat’s new ‘Topic Chats’ feature makes it easier to comment publicly on things you’re interested in

3 months / engadget / Matt Tate

Snapchat rolls out ‘Topic Chats’ for public conversations

3 months / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Major web outage live: Cloudflare says ‘incident is now resolved’

digitaltrends - An issue with service provider Cloudflare saw several high-profile sites experience issues, but the problem is now fixed.

#cybersecurity #cloud #software #networking #infosec #internet #technology #telecommunications #cloudflare

Digital Ecosystem Vulnerabilities (2)
Outage Impact & Recovery (6)
Technical Breakdown & Post Mortem (5)
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Digital Ecosystem Vulnerabilities

Why does the internet keep crashing so often? First Google Cloud, then AWS, now Cloudflare.

3 months / mashable

Cloudflare Outage Impact On Google, Bing & Other Search Bots - Your Site Will Be Fine

3 months / seroundtable / barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Outage Impact & Recovery

Major web outage: Cloudflare confirms ‘services are currently operating normally’

3 months / digitaltrends

Cloudflare Outage Hits Hard Across the Web, but Recovery Is in Progress

3 months / cnet / Katie Collins

Cloudflare Suffered Hours Long Outage (Which Brought Down Daring Fireball, Among Thousands of Other Sites)

3 months / theguardian / John Gruber

Major web outage live: Cloudflare says ‘incident is now resolved’

3 months / digitaltrends

Cloudflare Outage Takes Down Huge Chunk of the Internet, Slowly Coming Back Online

3 months / gizmodo / Ece Yildirim

Major Cloudflare outage is affecting Substack, X, ChatGPT, and more

3 months / theshortcut / Max Buondonno

Technical Breakdown & Post Mortem

Cloudflare explains Tuesday’s outage that temporarily took down ChatGPT

3 months / theverge / Richard Lawler

Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query

3 months / theregister / Simon Sharwood

Cloudflare 18 November 2025 Outage Post Mortem

3 months / cloudflare

Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike

3 months / arstechnica / Ashley Belanger

Cloudflare outage cause revealed: This is what happened.

3 months / mashable

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"Mysterious Traffic Spike" eh? The conspiracist part of my brain has been feeling for a while like all the major cloud providers have been being systematically probed ever since Lord Orange returned to power.

3 months / bsky / @p3.paisleypeinforte.co.uk / p3.paisleypeinforte.co.uk

Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

3 months / bsky / @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social / jenlucpiquant.bsky.social

Cloudflare Outage Takes Down Huge Chunk of the Internet, Slowly Coming Back Online

3 months / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

Cloudflare outage disrupts X, OpenAI and more

Colin Ryan / siliconrepublic - The ongoing outage is the third major disruption to hit a popular internet service provider since mid-October, after Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.Read more: Cloudflare outage disrupts X, OpenAI and more

#cloud #software #infosec #aiethics #chatgpt #internet #technology #cloudflare

Cloudflare outages aren’t a matter of if — but when

3 months / theverge / Emma Roth

Cloudflare outage briefly takes ChatGPT, Claude and other services offline

3 months / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

An outage at internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare took down several big websites and services, including ChatGPT, Claude, Spotify, and X.

3 months / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on ‘latent bug’ On Tuesday morning, a big chunk of the internet went down or was not working properly, including ChatGPT, Claude, Spotify, X, and more… #tech techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/c...

3 months / bsky / @opheliapg.bsky.social / opheliapg.bsky.social

“We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic. We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors.” The company is also planning to investigate the cause of the unusual spike in traffic.

3 months / bsky / @tiagodf.bsky.social / tiagodf.bsky.social

Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on ‘latent bug’

3 months / techcrunch / Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

Is ChatGPT down? Yes, but theres still a way to connect.

3 months / mashable

It's not just you, Cloudflare is down and causing widespread internet outages

3 months / pocket-lint / Craig Donaldson

Cloudflare outage disrupts ChatGPT, X, other internet services

3 months / techxplore

Cloudflare outage disrupts X, OpenAI and more

3 months / siliconrepublic / Colin Ryan

Cloudflare Outage Disrupts Service for X, ChatGPT, and Other Sites

3 months / wsj / Gareth Vipers

A massive Cloudflare outage is affecting X, ChatGPT, and even Downdetector

3 months / theverge / Emma Roth

Major web outage live: numerous big-name sites are down

digitaltrends - An issue with service provider Cloudfare has taken several high-profile sites offline

#cybersecurity #cloud #networking #infosec #business #internet #technology #cloudflare

Cloudflare response efforts (3)
Live outage updates (22)
Rare earth supply tensions (1)
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Cloudflare response efforts

Cloudflare CTO apologizes to the internet as a whole after global outage

3 months / mashable

Cloudflare's CTO apologizes after error takes huge chunk of the internet offline — 'we failed our customers and the broader internet'

3 months / tomshardware

European startups helping reduce the risk of outages like today’s Cloudflare disruption

3 months / eu-startups / David Cendon Garcia

Live outage updates

Cloudflare Outage Darkens Vast Portions of the Web

3 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

Apple Podcasts having issues as internet outage continues

3 months / mashable

Cloudflare outage takes down X one month after Musk mocked AWS customers

3 months / techcrunch / Amanda Silberling

Cloudflare down: Company blames 'unusual' spike in traffic before outage errors

3 months / cnbc

Major web outage live: numerous big-name sites experiencing issues

3 months / digitaltrends

Cloudflare coughs, half the internet catches a cold

3 months / theregister / Richard Speed

X is down, along with a chunk of the internet

3 months / mashable

Cloudflare outage list: X, OpenAI, Canva, Spotify, more possibly impacted

3 months / mashable

Cloudflare hit by outage causing 'widespread' errors

3 months / engadget / Steve Dent

Major web outage live: numerous big-name sites experiencing issues

3 months / digitaltrends

Cloudfare Outage Currently Affecting X, OpenAI, Letterboxd and More

3 months / iphoneincanada / Steve Vegvari

Cloudflare Outage: Why X, ChatGPT and Others Are Offline

3 months / cnet / Katie Collins

Cloudflare hit by outage affecting global network services

3 months / bleepingcomputer / Sergiu Gatlan

Is X (Twitter) down? Why your timeline isn’t loading

3 months / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Cloudflare is down worldwide: Internal server error explained

3 months / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Major web outage live: numerous big-name sites are down

3 months / digitaltrends

Internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare hit by outage

3 months / bbc

Cloudflare down: What we know about the outage so far

3 months / mashable

Cloudflare outage under investigation as Twitter, Downdetector go down — company confirms Global Network issue

3 months / tomshardware

Cloudflare Outage Knocks Many Popular Websites Offline

3 months / slashdot / msmash

Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

3 months / cloudflarestatus

Cloudflare, X, More are down

3 months / cloudflarestatus

Rare earth supply tensions

The world is running out of yttrium: a little-known rare earth is becoming the newest flashpoint in global tech

3 months / techspot

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Cloudflare is investigating an outage affecting its global network services, with users encountering "internal server error" messages when attempting to access affected websites and online platforms.

3 months / bsky / @bleepingcomputer.com / bleepingcomputer.com

Cloudflare hit by outage affecting global network services

3 months / bsky / @infosec.skyfleet.blue / infosec.skyfleet.blue

Cloudflare Outage Knocks Many Popular Websites Offline https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/18/120222/cloudflare-outage-knocks-many-popular-websites-offline?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

3 months / bsky / @slashdot.org / slashdot.org

tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/... told ya

3 months / bsky / @chronosschiron.bsky.social / chronosschiron.bsky.social

Rate Your Music is currently down because all sites that use Cloudflare are down. You can check this page for updates: www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8g...

3 months / bsky / @sonemic.com / sonemic.com

Lichess should be back online. According to Cloudflare, "a fix has been implemented" and they "believe the incident is now resolved". We will continue to monitor the situation: www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8g... We apologize ag

3 months / bsky / @lichess.org / lichess.org

Roblox begins asking tens of millions of children to verify their age with a selfie

engadget - Roblox is starting to roll out the mandatory age checks that will require all of its users to submit an ID or scan their face in order to access the platform's chat features. The updated policy, which the company announced earlier this year, will be enfor…

#internet #community #technology #safety #digitalprivacy

Roblox is updating chat rules with a simple age check keeps you playing

3 months / digitaltrends

Roblox blocks children from chatting to adult strangers

3 months / bbc

Starting Tuesday, users can voluntarily undergo the age-check process to secure access to communication features.

3 months / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Roblox steps up age checks and groups younger users into age-based chats

3 months / go

Want to chat on Roblox? Youll need to verify your age.

3 months / mashable

Roblox begins asking tens of millions of children to verify their age with a selfie

3 months / engadget

Roblox will require age estimation to chat starting next year

3 months / theverge / Jay Peters

Roblox will require all users to perform age-checks to access chat from January

3 months / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Denmark passes social media ban for users under 15

mashable - Denmark passes social media ban for users under 15

#techpolicy #government #internet #europe #law #safety #digitalprivacy #regulation

Feed: "Mashable" Published on Saturday, November 8, 2025

3 months / bsky / @longtail.news / longtail.news

Denmark passes social media ban for users under 15

3 months / mashable

Denmark Says It Will Ban Social Media for Users Under 15

3 months / gizmodo / Lucas Ropek

Texas Sues Online Gaming Platform Roblox, Alleging It Prioritizes Profits Over Child Safety

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued Roblox, accusing the gaming giant of creating a 'breeding ground for predators' and deceiving parents about platform safety.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued Roblox, accusing the gaming giant of creating…

#internet #technology #litigation #safety #regulation

Texas Sues Roblox For Allegedly Failing To Protect Children On Its Platform

3 months / slashdot / BeauHD

Texas sues Roblox for allegedly failing to protect children on its platform

3 months / theverge / Stevie Bonifield

Texas AG sues Roblox for putting pixel pedophiles and profits over safety

3 months / mashable

Texas AG sues Roblox, accusing it of prioritizing ‘pixel pedophiles’ over child safety

3 months / techcrunch / Ram Iyer

Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Roblox over alleged child safety lapses

3 months / engadget

Texas Sues Online Gaming Platform Roblox, Alleging It Prioritizes Profits Over Child Safety

3 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

SpaceX’s Starlink secures more spectrum and airlines as it passes 8 million customers

Sean O'Kane / techcrunch - The internet provider has bought more 'direct to cell' spectrum licenses from EchoStar and struck a deal with the owner of British Airways.

#space #business #broadband #internet #technology #telecommunications #elonmusk #satellite #starlink

T-Mobile launches satellite based text-to-911 service for remote areas

4 months / digitaltrends

SpaceX’s Starlink secures more spectrum and airlines as it passes 8 million customers

4 months / techcrunch / Sean O'Kane

Starlink Reaches 8 Million Active Users in Over 150 Countries

4 months / iphoneincanada / John Quintet

SpaceX acquires $2.6 billion more in spectrum licenses from EchoStar

4 months / engadget / Andre Revilla

FBI subpoenas the web registrar behind Archive.is

Stevie Bonifield / theverge - The FBI is attempting to track down the identity of the owner of Archive.today and its numerous mirrors, like Archive.is and Archive.ph. As reported by 404 Media, the FBI subpoena, which was posted on the official Archive.today X account, was sent to web …

#cybersecurity #techpolicy #government #doj #internet #law #litigation #digitalprivacy #regulation

Web Archive Archive.today: FBI Subpoenas Web Registrar Tucows to Unmask Operators

4 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

FBI Subpoenas Registrar for Details on Anonymous Archiving Site Owner

4 months / slashdot / msmash

FBI subpoenas the web registrar behind Archive.is

4 months / theverge / Stevie Bonifield

FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site

4 months / heise

FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site

4 months / 404media / Jason Koebler

Discord now lets parents control who contacts their teens, but messages stay private

Stevie Bonifield / theverge - Discord is expanding the safety controls parents and guardians have access to in its Family Center, including increased visibility of their teens’ activity, allowing guardians to control sensitive content filtering and data privacy settings, and giving th…

#dataprivacy #techpolicy #internet #apps #community #law #contentmoderation #safety #digitalprivacy

Discord’s Family Center update now lets parents monitor weekly purchases

4 months / techcrunch / Ivan Mehta

Discord now lets parents control who contacts their teens, but messages stay private

4 months / theverge / Stevie Bonifield

Discord launches new safety features following lawsuits

4 months / mashable

Discord gives parents more insight into their teens' activity through Family Center

4 months / engadget

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