Google reportedly blocks 749 million Anna’s Archive URLs

The 749 million confirmed URL removals is actually slightly lower than the 784 million link removal requests that Google ...

After the Internet Archive library was sued, its founder thinks 'the world became stupider'

"We survived… but it wiped out the library," Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle told Ars, also noting, "the world became ...

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost

For Internet Archive fans, a group that includes longtime Internet users, researchers, students, historians, lawyers, and the ...
CNET

SpaceX's New V3 Starlink Satellites Bring Gigabit Internet Speeds for the First Time

Following the splashdown of SpaceX Starship's 11th flight test, SpaceX announced the V3 phase of its Starlink program, now with vastly larger, more powerful satellites. V3 will be offering gigabit ...
Futurism

Over 50 Percent of the Internet Is Now AI Slop, New Data Finds

Rejoice, netizens of flesh and blood, for only a little over half of all new articles on the internet are AI-generated, according to a new report highlighted in Axios. Believe it or not, this is kind ...
Forbes

Ohanian And Altman Warn Of ‘Dead Internet Theory’—What Is It And How Is AI Making It Happen?

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman have warned on social media in recent weeks of the “Dead Internet Theory,” an idea that the internet is dominated by bot activity ...
Engadget

The FCC is trying to make it easier for internet providers to charge hidden fees

The FCC has submitted a proposal that would make it harder for consumers to receive itemized bills with accurate information from their ISPs, as spotted by The Verge. The draft would revise previous ...
ZDNet

This new Google Gemini model scrolls the internet just like you do - how it works

Google's new AI model can interact directly with website UIs. It joins similar tools from OpenAI and Anthropic. The company also admitted its weaknesses, including hallucinations. Google DeepMind has ...
Kotaku

The Internet Reacts To Nintendo’s Mysterious Animated Baby

The ‘Close to You’ short could be a Mario or Pikmin tease, but for now, it’s a joke machine Close to You This morning, Nintendo posted a four-minute animated video of a baby chasing their pacifier ...
BGR

What Does 'Dead Internet Theory' Actually Mean?

If you've spent any amount of time wandering through the stranger corners of the Internet, be it Reddit, 4Chan, or conspiracy-themed YouTube channels, you may have bumped into a phrase that sounds ...
Yahoo

Experts Are Predicting The Internet Will Go Down In A Big Way Soon, And Here's What You Need To Do Before It's Too Late

Do you have a plan for that? Most people don’t. In fact, the Federal Emergency Management Agency surveyed 7,525 Americans for their 2024 report on disaster preparedness and found that 57% of the ...