Internet services disrupted amid Red Sea cable cuts

Internet connectivity in parts of the Middle East and Asia has been affected by subsea cable outages in the Red Sea, according to internet monitoring group Netblocks. One of the world’s biggest computing platforms, Microsoft Azure, has also been...

Internet wires under the sea

Did your internet feel slow last Saturday? Videos loading forever, messages not going through? That’s because some undersea internet cables near Saudi Arabia got damaged. Some say it might have been sabotage, but no one is sure. Luckily, things...

Internet misidentifies woman in Philadelphia Phillies hoodie who took ball from dad, son in viral moment

Ever since the clip hit the internet, people have been trying to identify the woman in the Phillies hoodie. People have come to count on internet detectives to expose people in situations like this, but so far, the social media sleuths are getting...

Internet sensation, EKY native dies

Red Sea Cable Damage Disrupts Internet Access for Asia and Middle East

Internet monitors said over the weekend that widespread service disruptions in Asia and the Middle East appear to have been caused by damage to undersea cables in the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia. It was not immediately clear if the cable...

Breaking: Wi-Fi comes back on at UC after weekend without internet

Internet service at the University Center was restored Monday afternoon, Sept. 8, after a weekend-long outage that disrupted homework and visitor access in Columbia’s largest residence hall. The outage, traced to an equipment failure at AT&T’s...

We’re Walling Off The Open Internet To Stop AI—And It May End Up Breaking Everything Else

from the how-open-is-it? dept A longtime open internet activist recently asked me whether I’d reversed my position on internet openness and copyright because of AI. The question caught me off guard—until I realized what he was seeing. Across the...

The Dying Dream of a Decentralized Web

The term Web3 was originally coined by Etherium cofounder Gavin Wood as a secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer version of the Internet. The idea was to build an Internet based on blockchain technology and a peer-to-peer network, without the need...

Google says ‘the open web is in rapid decline’ weeks after arguing in favor of AI

It’s been clear for some time that the “open web” as we’ve known it for years is in a tough spot, but Google has argued the opposite. In a court statement, though, Google’s own case argues that the open web is “in rapid decline.” Barely a month...

High-speed internet coming to the North Island's rural and remote communities

CityWest and the provincial government is teaming up to connect communities such as the Oclucje of Nuchatlaht First Nation to high speed internet More than 400 rural and remote households will have access to high-speed internet, including...

This $45 gadget fixed my smart TV's awful internet

My smart TV's internet connection was awful. Every few minutes, videos paused to buffer. The apps crashed when I tried to open them. Loading screens went on forever. Movie night became an endurance test. My internet plan was fine: 1,200 Mbps down....

SCOTUS Told Fourth Circuit Ruling Could Cut Off Families From Internet

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8, 2025 – The U.S. Solicitor General joined consumer advocates, tech firms, and broadband providers Friday in warning the Supreme Court that a Fourth Circuit ruling against Cox Communications risks cutting households offline and...

Proximus launches enhanced web platform with 3SS’ 3Ready

3 Screen Solutions (3SS) has announced that Belgium’s largest telecommunications operator, Proximus, has introduced a new web application to increase choice, convenience, and reach for subscribers to its integrated TV service, Pickx. From this...

Lorde: The internet can be poison

9 September 2025 Lorde thinks the internet can be a poisonous place. Lorde has opened up about her relationship with the internet The 28-year-old singer made a conscious decision to distance herself from the online discourse around 2021, when she...

Cellphones out, Chromebooks in: NYC to give 350,000 students new laptops with free internet

Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox. New York City students may no longer access their cellphones during the school day, but many will soon have new...

Our Researcher agent in M365 Copilot never ceases to amaze me. It can reason over all your work data, like chats, meetings, files and emails, plus web data, to generate a comprehensive research report that helps you prep for a meeting, analyze trends…

Our Researcher agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot never ceases to amaze me. It can reason over all your work data, like chats, meetings, files and emails, plus web data, to generate a comprehensive research report that helps you prep for a meeting,...

Trump Pictured Popping a Blue Tablet at the US Open — and the Internet Has Some Thoughts

(Frank Franklin/AP photo/X screenshot) It’s a view to a pill. President Donald Trump was spotted popping some sort of tablet while attending the U.S. Open on Sunday, leaving the internet starved for answers. The image, taken by New York-based...

In The Groove: New music from Georgie Sweet, El Michels Affair, Rosa Brunello & Girls of the Internet

New music discovery from El Michels Affair & Rogê, Women In Jazz & Rosa Brunello, Girls of the Internet, Blood Orange, Dijon, Georgie Sweet and more. Check the playlist below and listen to the episode for two weeks after it airs using the player...

'Ew!' Internet aghast at 'disgusting' photo of Epstein's 'inside joke' with Trump

The internet erupted on Monday after a photo was published showing disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein jokingly selling a "fully depreciated" woman to Donald Trump for $22,500. The Wall Street Journal published the photo, which was taken at...

Is Google set to make AI Mode the default search experience? If it does, the internet may never be the same.

Move over, Google Search. AI Mode is here, and it isn't going anywhere. Rumors are currently swirling around when exactly Google's AI Mode will become the default search tool on Google's homepage, replacing the classic Google Search. As we move...