UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole
Bruce Gil / gizmodo - The call comes as governments go to war with the anonymous web.
Back to Top / Tuesday, August 19, 2025, 12:21 pm / permalink 12626 / 6 stories in 6 months
Linktree goes dark in India — and the company isn’t sure why
Jagmeet Singh / techcrunch - Linktree is "investigating" an issue that has made its link-in-bio platform inaccessible in India for several days.
Back to Top / Monday, August 18, 2025, 10:20 am / permalink 12519 / 3 stories in 6 months
Google Will Let You Pick Your Own News Sources For Searches
Omar Gallaga / cnet - As users face diminishing returns and AI summaries on news-related searches, Google offers a way to narrow sources. Here's how to put CNET as one of your top picks.
Back to Top / Wednesday, August 13, 2025, 12:21 pm / permalink 12230 / 5 stories in 6 months
AOL Will Shut Down Dial-Up Internet Access in September
Benj Edwards, Ars Technica / wired - The move will pinch users in rural or remote areas not yet served by broadband infrastructure or satellite internet. Around 175,000 households still use dial-up internet in the US.
Back to Top / Tuesday, August 12, 2025, 7:20 pm / permalink 12193 / 3 stories in 6 months
Bell deploys subsea fibre optic cable to Newfoundland islands
Bradly Shankar / mobilesyrup - Bell has completed deployment of a subsea fibre optic cable to the Fogo Island and Change Islands in Newfoundland. With this 16-plus km network, the two outport communities will benefit from high-speed broadband. The project was funded in partnership with…
Back to Top / Tuesday, August 12, 2025, 2:20 pm / permalink 12168 / 2 stories in 6 months
Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Jay Peters / theverge - Reddit says that it has caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to start blocking the Internet Archive from indexing the vast majority of Reddit. The Wayback Machine will no longer be able to crawl …
Back to Top / Monday, August 11, 2025, 1:20 pm / permalink 12074 / 10 stories in 6 months
AOL Dial-Up Internet Service to End After 34 Years
Tim Hardwick / macrumors - AOL will officially discontinue its dial-up internet service on September 30, pulling the plug on an era that defined early internet access for millions of Americans.Image credit: RetroheadThe Yahoo-owned company announced the shutdown on its support webs…
Back to Top / Monday, August 11, 2025, 6:20 am / permalink 12032 / 10 stories in 6 months
AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day
tomshardware - But there remain a few options to plug in your 56K (or slower) screeching modem into.
Back to Top / Saturday, August 9, 2025, 2:20 pm / permalink 11996 / 2 stories in 6 months
Library of Congress explains how parts of US Constitution vanished from its website
Dominic-Madori Davis, Zack Whittaker / techcrunch - The U.S. congressional agency confirmed to TechCrunch that the removal of key sections of the Constitution from its website were removed in error. The full text has now been reinstated.
Back to Top / Thursday, August 7, 2025, 12:21 pm / permalink 11847 / 2 stories in 6 months
Telus Applauds Ottawa’s Internet Ruling as “Landmark” for Canada
Austin Blake / iphoneincanada - While Rogers and Cogeco have criticized the federal government for refusing to overturn the CRTC’s wholesale internet policy, Telus is backing Ottawa’s decision to maintain the current fibre framework, calling it a “landmark ruling” that promotes long-ter…
Back to Top / Thursday, August 7, 2025, 12:21 pm / permalink 11843 / 6 stories in 6 months
Truth Social Launches Perplexity-Powered AI Search, Sparking Bias Concerns
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Trump Media's Truth Social has launched 'Truth Search AI' with partner Perplexity, but faces criticism over potential bias and Perplexity's data scraping methods.The post Truth Social Launches Perplexity-Powered AI Search, Sparking Bias Concerns appeared …
Back to Top / Thursday, August 7, 2025, 10:21 am / permalink 11836 / 6 stories in 6 months
Google's search chief says AI-generated answers are not causing a decline in website traffic
Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - Google search chief Liz Reid says AI-generated answers are not reducing web traffic. In a blog post, she writes that organic click volume has stayed “relatively stable” over the past year.The article Google's search chief says AI-generated answers are not…
Back to Top / Wednesday, August 6, 2025, 3:20 pm / permalink 11776 / 8 stories in 7 months
Cloudflare accuses Perplexity of secretly crawling sites despite explicit blocks
Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - Cloudflare is accusing the AI search engine Perplexity of covertly crawling websites, even when site owners have explicitly forbidden access through robots.txt files or firewall rules. According to the company, Perplexity disguises its identity to sideste…
Back to Top / Wednesday, August 6, 2025, 12:20 pm / permalink 11751 / 2 stories in 7 months
WhatsApp Bans 6.8 Million Scam Accounts in Global Crackdown
John Quintet / iphoneincanada - WhatsApp says it blocked more than 6.8 million accounts linked to global scam operations in the first half of this year, part of a growing crackdown on criminal networks that often rely on forced labour and organized crime in Southeast Asia. ers. Tech sca…
Back to Top / Tuesday, August 5, 2025, 12:21 pm / permalink 11647 / 5 stories in 7 months
Cloudflare Blocks Perplexity for Skirting Web Scraping Rules: What’s at Stake?
Azdhan / medianama - Cloudflare blocks Perplexity AI bots for violating anti-scraping rules and masking crawler identity.The post Cloudflare Blocks Perplexity for Skirting Web Scraping Rules: What’s at Stake? appeared first on MEDIANAMA.
Back to Top / Tuesday, August 5, 2025, 8:21 am / permalink 11617 / 7 stories in 7 months
Reddit Shifting Towards Search as Company Wants to Become a Search Engine
Alex Valdes / cnet - Reddit CEO Steve Huffman wants to expand Reddit Answers to capitalize on increasing demand for Reddit results.
Back to Top / Friday, August 1, 2025, 3:20 pm / permalink 11469 / 2 stories in 7 months
Google backtracks on plans to deactivate shortened goo.gl links
Jay Peters / theverge - Google is largely reversing course on its plans to discontinue support for all shortened goo.gl URLs on August 25th. Goo.gl URLS that already show a message saying that they will be deactivated in August will still stop working — the company started showi…
Back to Top / Friday, August 1, 2025, 2:20 pm / permalink 11458 / 3 stories in 7 months
Itch.io starts reindexing free NSFW content
Matt Tate / engadget - Digital storefront Itch.io is reindexing its free adult games, and is talking to its partnered payment processors about plans to gradually reintroduce paid NSFW content. In a new Developer Update, the company said the decision will ensure it can "confiden…
Back to Top / Friday, August 1, 2025, 11:20 am / permalink 11440 / 6 stories in 7 months
Reddit should be a 'go-to search engine,' Steve Huffman says
Karissa Bell / engadget - Reddit is going to be leaning even harder into search in the coming months. The company has already been working on a plan to integrate its LLM-powered search into its main search feature, but CEO Steve Huffman said he wants users to think of the site as …
Back to Top / Thursday, July 31, 2025, 7:20 pm / permalink 11405 / 2 stories in 7 months
Substack Sends Push Alert for Nazi Newsletter
Lucas Ropek / gizmodo - The site says it was an accident.
Back to Top / Wednesday, July 30, 2025, 3:21 pm / permalink 11273 / 4 stories in 7 months