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Free Satellite Internet Arrives in Jamaica After Hurricane Melissa
8 In the wake of Hurricane Melissa’s devastating impact, Starlink has activated free satellite internet service across Jamaica to support recovery and communication efforts. The initiative, announced by SpaceX and confirmed by local telecom...
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'Most of it is good': Tim Berners-Lee on the state of the web now
Tim Berners-Lee in a rack of the CERN computer centre Brice, Maximilien/CERN Tim Berners-Lee has a map of everything on the internet. It can fit on a single page and consists of around 100 blocks connected by dozens of arrows. There are blocks for...
Owner: Jonathan Harmsworth
GCash, DICT confirm no data breach after dark web claim
G-Xchange Inc., operator of the mobile wallet GCash, on Wednesday stressed that no customer data or funds have been compromised, reaffirming earlier findings by the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) that debunked an...
Owner: Amado Macasaet
Microsoft down affecting 'half of world internet' including Xbox and Minecraft
Microsoft’s Azure is experiencing an outage, leaving thousands of internet users frustrated according to Downdetector. The widespread internet disruptions began at 11.30ET today (October 29), with major companies like Microsoft 365, Xbox, Outlook,...
Owner: Reach PLC
Global internet monitor NetBlocks reveals that Tanzania has been hit by a nationwide internet outage on election day amid anti-election protests
Millions of Tanzanians are currently cut off from standard internet access. This major communication failure coincides with ongoing protests against President Samia Suluhu. The global connectivity tracker, NetBlocks, has officially verified the...
Owner: Simon Gicharu
Sydney Sweeney's Latest Transformation Has The Internet Calling Her A Fox News Anchor
The domino effect created by that American Eagle ad this summer has certainly had an impact on Sydney Sweeney's reputation. The controversy surrounding the ad and the subsequent discovery that Sweeney is a registered Republican affected her fan...
Owner: Static Media
AWS outage: Thousands report issues on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft platforms
Pro-Government
The National News
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Thousands of users are reporting problems with Amazon Web Services on Wednesday, days after a widespread outage disrupted platforms across the internet. Amazon did not immediately confirm AWS was struggling, but monitoring site Downdetector showed...
Owner: United Arab Emirates Government
AWS Is Down Again: Amazon Failure Renders 'Huge Portion of Internet Unusable'
It's happening again. If you feel like a 'huge portion of the internet is unusable' on Wednesday, you are not alone. Amazon Web Services, the massive cloud computing platform that powers countless major websites, is reportedly suffering another...
Owner: David Jang
White House’s Halloween decorations leave internet divided: ‘Not very Christian’
Amidst the ongoing construction at the White House for President Trump’s ballroom, First Lady Melania Trump still found time to decorate part of their residence for Halloween. On Tuesday, her office shared a photo to social media showcasing the...
Owner: Newhouse Family
Local filmmaker explains millennials in web series
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Let’s face it — people love to bag on millennials. Why? Well, a local millennial filmmaker has some answers and insight in a new web series. Portsmouth resident and filmmaker Shaquille Jordan feels like his generation is...
Owner: The Scripps Family
Russia’s Digital Censorship Intensifies with Selective Internet Blocking in 2025
According to the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, current messages are published through official channels, including on social networks. Along with this stance, new emphasis has also...
Owner: Terentyev Petro Alexandrovich
Gateway Fiber brings high-speed internet to Vadnais Heights
Indeterminate
Vadnais Heights Press - Minnesota
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For those looking for better, more efficient internet speed in Vadnais Heights, they might not have to wait much longer. Gateway Fiber, an internet provider based in Fridley, has unveiled a plan to provide high-speed internet throughout Vadnais...
Owner: Johnson Family (Carter)
“The web grows stronger”: The story behind Kananesgi
Jasmine Smith, an EBCI tribal member, models a Cherokee Tear Dress at the first Kananesgi Fashion Show which was held at Cherokee Central School in Cherokee, N.C. on Aug. 25, 2018. The dress was designed by Kim Smith and Tia Panther and sewn by...
Owner: Tribal Council of the Eastern band of Cherokee Indians, Cherokee, N.C.
Spiders Spin Web Decorations That May Help Detect Prey
Neutral
The Scientist Magazine
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Whether tucked into the corners of a haunted house or shining with drops of morning dew between tree branches, spider webs are homes to the eight-legged critters. Like some species in the animal kingdom, certain spiders like to decorate their...
Owner: Bob Kafato
Dark web post on alleged GCash data leak deleted
Elijah Felice Rosales - The Philippine Star October 30, 2025 | 12:00am MANILA, Philippines — The dark web post claiming it has records of GCash data sets has been taken down following the government’s investigation concluding that the files were...
Owner: Manuel V. Pangilinan
Microsoft outage latest: Services restoring after hours-long IT failures at Azure hit 365, Xbox and more
Inbox: Analyst estimates Microsoft lost $1.2m per hour during Azure outage The Azure outage may have cost Microsoft’s gaming division roughly $1.2 million per hour, according to an analysis from Support My Website, a web support firm. "This $1.2...
Owner: Evgeny Lebedev
Bending Spoons to acquire early internet pioneer AOL
Bending Spoons, the acquisitive Italian software conglomerate, is acquiring AOL, one of the internet’s most well known early companies. Bending Spoons is buying AOL from Yahoo, which is backed by private equity firm Apollo for an undisclosed sum,...
Owner: Arda Kutsal
Quantifying IP Reputation: The Hidden Economics of Web Data Collection
Most scraping teams obsess over parsers and selectors while the real bottleneck sits upstream. Around half of all web traffic is automated, and roughly a third of that automation is malicious by industry measurement. That backdrop means anti-bot...
Owner: Non-transparent
Watch Live: Tech Executives Testify on Biden Administration Internet Censorship
Executives from Google and Meta testify before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on internet censorship under the Biden administration on Wednesday, October 29. “The First Amendment is a powerful weapon that protects...
Owner: Larry Solov, Susie Breitbart and The Mercer Family
Is WhatsApp NOT An ‘End-To-End Encryption’? Internet Loses It Over App’s ‘We See You’ X Post! Viral
WhatsApp’s X post goes viral. Image Source: ASeedOfEl/ X An online messaging platform, that is one of the most popular and trusted across the world- solely over its promise of respecting privacy and being an ‘end-to-end encryption’- found itself...
Owner: Sahu Jain Family