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Dozens of popular websites crashed on Monday, leaving millions without access. Issues began at 8.35am ET on Monday, affecting a range of services including X, Zoom, Google and Microsoft. Cloudflare, which provides web security, speed, and routing services for millions of sites, said it is investigating a fiber cut in Eastern North America and believes …
Ofcom is UK regulator for internet under Online Safety Act. They investigate 4chan because site has many UK users. Ofcom send legal notices asking 4chan to do risk assessment for illegal content and add age checks to block kids from porn. 4chan refuse because it is US company and say UK law not apply to …
Cloudflare CEO drops the hammer AI agents crushing real humans for the first time Whole internet drowning in fake noise Link: https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic#bot-vs-human Dead Internet Theory claims that most online activity is no longer generated by real humans but by bots, AI, and automated systems. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince just confirmed this is now reality, with …
LEAK: MARCO RUBIO QUIETLY TOOK OVER IRAN NEGOTIATIONS FROM VANCE OVER A WEEK AGO VANCE DEMONSTRATED LITTLE PROGRESS, WHILE RUBIO HAS SHOWN QUICK PROGRESS RUBIO MOVED NEGOTIATIONS FROM PAKISTAN TO QATAR TO STOP LEAKS ON PROGRESS — Merlin Capital 🧙♂️ (@merlinscapital) May 27, 2026
WATCH: Sam Altman describing AI intelligence as a metered utility like electricity, scraping the internet for free and selling it back to us https://t.co/zZEplXzIy7 “WE SEE A FUTURE WHERE INTELLIGENCE IS A UTILITY, LIKE ELECTRICITY OR WATER, AND PEOPLE BUY IT FROM US ON A METER.” pic.twitter.com/pU6yZ4PfzP — THEWATCHTOWERS (@THEWATCHTOWERS) May 27, 2026 “Let me …
The official White House X account posted an aggressively edited graphic of the rapper Drake’s new Iceman album cover, lazily photoshopping a massive golden MAGA chain around his neck. The administration tried to lean into current hip-hop meme culture for a cheap political win, but the bizarre crossover has left both political commentators and music …
Every man that sends money to an internet girl is a complete fool and a confirmed idiot. — Bravo Sierra (@BravoSierraM4) May 11, 2026 Filters built the audience, reality cleared it out just as fast. pic.twitter.com/jwsDJifA8n — Tara Rei (@Divine_Sass) May 11, 2026
This takes me back to 1998 COPPA when the government first stepped into how kids use the internet. The New York Childrens Online Safety Act will ban anyone under 18 from chatting online. “All social media platforms under NYCOSA would be required to turn off open chat functions, which allow adults to instantly and privately …
Nobody is telling you how FUCKED the internet situation actually is right now. Iran just published a map of every undersea internet cable running through the Strait of Hormuz. 97 percent of global internet traffic rides on undersea cables. Now watch the domino effect: → One… pic.twitter.com/FW8QQfwGfy — 🇺🇸 Ronald Carter (@USronaldcarter) April 23, 2026
Here's a random excerpt from 1984 btw pic.twitter.com/zlFJ1XwGQA — Taki (@TakiVan1) April 14, 2026
https://waysandmeans.house.gov/2025/07/29/seven-key-moments-las-vegas-field-hearing-on-pro-worker-pro-family-tax-relief-in-the-one-big-beautiful-bill/ Sharon Simmons, Nevada DoorDash driver “That’s why I’m very excited that Congress took action to include Dashers and other independent contractors in the no tax on tips. For someone like me, that means hundreds or potentially thousands of dollars that stay in my pocket every year. I plan to use these tax savings to cover …
Imagine being an Iranian general watching this clip with all your senior officers in a military briefing pic.twitter.com/qs2t5J0AWW — William Wolfe 🇺🇸 (@WilliamWolfe) April 7, 2026 h/t Dodger007
Key takeaways Quantum Threat: Google warns that quantum computers could soon break current encryption, putting private and classified information at risk. Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC): Experts are developing PQC to secure data against future quantum attacks, including store-now-decrypt-later threats. Timeline & Urgency: Google aims to migrate to PQC by 2029, emphasizing the need for the tech …
BREAKING: Someone just open-sourced a full offline survival computer with AI, Wikipedia, and maps built in. Project N.O.M.A.D. is an open-source offline survival computer. Self-contained. Zero internet required after install. Zero telemetry. Everything runs locally on your hardware. What it includes: → Full Wikipedia archives via Kiwix → Offline maps via OpenStreetMap → Local AI …
95 TO 99% OF ALL GLOBAL INTERNET TRAFFIC FLOWS THROUGH UNDERSEA CABLES AND IRAN JUST THREATENED TO CUT THEM Read that again. Not satellites. Physical glass fiber cables sitting on the ocean floor at 200 feet depth. ZERO protection. 30% of the world’s internet passes through ONE chokepoint: the Strait of Hormuz. 20+ cables run …
Mobile internet access has been disabled in Moscow in recent days after similar outages in dozens of regions Russia is stepping up its tests of systems designed to keep millions of people from accessing information online in times of political unrest, shutting off mobile internet access in the capital in recent days. People in Moscow, …
Steve Jobs literally predicted the iPhone, the Internet, AI and the next 50 years of technology in a single speech from 1983: pic.twitter.com/DtwrMJBx1x — Jaynit (@jaynitx) March 13, 2026
SungHoon Lee, IQ 276 @sungleeiq Nobody is telling you how FUCKED the internet situation actually is right now. IRAN just got BOMBED. AGAIN. They are going to hit back. And the most devastating thing they can hit is NOT a military base. It is 5 FIBER OPTIC CABLES sitting on the ocean floor. Those cables …
FTC issues COPPA policy statement to incentivize the use of age verification technologies to protect children online: https://t.co/dHEycROeEK /1 — FTC (@FTC) February 25, 2026 The Federal Trade Commission issued a policy statement today announcing that the Commission will not bring an enforcement action under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA Rule) against certain …
You really shouldn’t give AI free rein to do anything it wants on your system. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has reportedly suffered from a couple of outages due to misbehaving AI agents. According to the Financial Times, the most recent interruption happened in December last year, when its Koiro AI coding tool decided to erase …
Iranian authorities have implemented a near-total shutdown of the internet in a crackdown on widespread anti-government protests, but a sliver of the population is keeping in touch with the outside world by satellite. Starlink, a division of Elon Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, is playing an outsize — and in the eyes of overseas activists, crucial …
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by Michael Global events are moving very rapidly now. If I keep adding more stuff to this article, I will never get it out on time. You are going to be shocked by some of the things that have just happened. It appears that the showdown in Iran between the protesters and the government is …
The DOJ on Monday released shocking footage that appeared to be a recreation of Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide in his Manhattan jail cell — and it briefly set the internet on fire until it was revealed to be fake. The video was posted without explanation to the Justice Department’s website as part of its Epstein file dump — …
A few days ago multiple big accounts on X got exposed for living in other countries and it was mostly Nigeria and India. These accounts were pushing racism and division. So what’s going on here? Now there’s evidence that Nick Fuentes fans or “groypers” are mostly foreign agents especially online. Very weird and I don’t …
I tried to ask grok this crazy a** question. But how is A.I. going to make any of our lives easier or more affordable? No, AI is unlikely to make the internet free, and in some ways, it may make access more costly and controlled. Could lead to paywalls or new fees for internet service. …
What the EU Is Doing Digital Services Act (DSA): Enacted to combat illegal content, disinformation, and algorithmic manipulation. It requires platforms to remove flagged content quickly, share data with regulators, and disclose moderation practices. Chat Control Proposal: A controversial plan to scan private messages for child abuse material, which critics say could undermine end-to-end encryption …
This is the reason why everyone is so confused all of the time. For years we’ve been getting clickbait garbage to try to get our money, while politicians flood the zone with info, and now with the wider adoption of AI, most people will stop at the AI overview which will mostly give affirmative responses …
Kash Patel @Kash_Patel I am proud of the work of this FBI. We’re taking violent criminals off the streets in record numbers, crushing the fentanyl crisis, dismantling cartels, saving children, hunting down terrorists — and so much more. Let me be clear: we will not be distracted by baseless rumors or the noise from uninformed …
https://downdetector.com/ ZDNET’s key takeaways Microsoft Azure went down globally today. Microsoft customer-facing services such as Microsoft 365 and Outlook were affected. We don’t know why it happened or when it will be fixed. Last week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) went down, and many of us were miserable. This week, it’s Microsoft Azure’s turn to fall …