Internet Outages Map by mmwelt

Weekly Update Internet Health Trends Each week, ThousandEyes Internet experts analyze the current state of global Internet health, noteworthy outages and more. The following charts are updated weekly to show macro trends for global network connectivity as well as ISP, public cloud and collaboration app network performance. Podcast The Internet Report This is The Internet…

ByHackTechMay 27, 20220Comments

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Frontier lied about Internet speeds and “ripped off customers,” FTC says by PaulHoule

Slower than advertised — Settlement requires accurate speed claims and payment of nearly $9 million. Jon Brodkin – May 5, 2022 8:51 pm UTC The Federal Trade Commission today said it “has moved to stop Internet service provider Frontier Communications from lying to consumers and charging them for high-speed Internet speeds it fails to deliver.”…

ByHackTechMay 6, 20220Comments

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Internet Sabotaged in French Communities by mzs

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ByHackTechApril 28, 20220Comments

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The Law That Shaped the Internet Presents a Question for Elon Musk by pseudolus

“No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”Those are “the 26 words that created the internet,” says Jeff Kosseff, an associate professor of cybersecurity law at the United States Naval Academy, who wrote a book with that…

ByHackTechApril 16, 20220Comments

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Internet disruptions overview for Q1 2022 by jgrahamc

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ByHackTechApril 4, 20220Comments

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Ask HN: Does anyone else lie on the internet? by Mandatum

Over the years I've found writing on HackerNews, Reddit and other online sites has given me an outlet to get creative and engage with folks in a way that will shift discourse towards something I'm more interested in.I regularly lie and pretend I know about topics and areas I have zero experience in. I began…

ByHackTechMarch 29, 20220Comments

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Internet Congestion Collapse in 1986 by henning

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ByHackTechMarch 25, 20220Comments

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Is Anything on the Internet Real? [video] by thunderbong

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ByHackTechMarch 19, 20220Comments

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Internet backbone Cogent cuts Russia connectivity by zinekeller

Cogent Communications will pull the plug on its connectivity to customers in Russia in response to President Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The US-based biz is one of the planet’s largest internet backbones – the freeways of the internet – and says it carries roughly a quarter of global ‘net traffic. Its clients range from small…

ByHackTechMarch 5, 20220Comments

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Ask HN: Do Russians read the open internet? by TekMol

Personally, I get all my news from aggregators like HN and Reddit. If my country would do propaganda, I would barely notice it. Because the amount of local news I read is just a small part of my news consumption.How is the situation for other HN readers? How is it for the people in Russia?…

ByHackTechMarch 5, 20220Comments

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