The Verge

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

to found an internet-based bookstore. In 1998, Amazon bought the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) for approximately $55 million, in the company’s first major acquisition. AWS was a commercial product that would provide the backbone for companies to run their own internet businesses from the cloud. Shaw & Co.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

A little more than a year later, on New Year’s Day 2017, a gunman opened fire inside a nightclub in Istanbul, killing 39 people — including a Jordanian national named Nawras Alassaf who has several American relatives. But Section 230 is also a very old law, written at a time when the internet looked very different than it does today.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

That’s because social media platforms have made it easier than ever for extremists to recruit new adherents and push their fringe beliefs into the mainstream. That public show of force was decades in the making — neo-Nazis have been using the internet since the early ’80s to recruit new followers. Samuel Corum/Getty Images.

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2020

The Internet Archive is alerting users when they’ve clicked on some stories that were debunked or taken down on the live web, following reports that people were spreading false coronavirus information through its Wayback Machine. The Internet Archive provides an invaluable resource for understanding the internet.

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The Verge

JANUARY 11, 2021

The creators of social network Parler have sued Amazon for ending a web hosting agreement after last week’s riot at the US Capitol. Parler’s lawsuit echoes a similar complaint by Gab, another social network favored by far-right figures. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Vox

AUGUST 12, 2020

The 10-image carousel, which Instagram launched in 2017, has been repurposed by activists, independent artists, advocacy groups, and well-meaning individuals as a means to educate and inform the masses, one slide at a time. A post shared by Slow Factory (@theslowfactory) on Jun 19, 2020 at 7:04am PDT. View this post on Instagram.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Getty Images/iStockphoto The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers. Anyone can get scammed online, including the generation of Americans that grew up with the internet. million in 2017. million in 2017. In 2022, they lost $210 million.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Cloud computing allows both small and large companies to share information and access services over the internet. Companies are now getting a constant flow of real-time customer data from websites, social media, and POS terminals that automatically capture clicks, likes, and sales transactions for analysis by business intelligence systems.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

MAY 31, 2023

The metaverse has been described as the next phase of the internet: interconnected and persistent 3D spaces where we will work, play, and, so it seems, purchase virtual real estate. Sales of VR and AR headsets have fallen short of expectations. To read this article in full, please click here

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Vox

JUNE 9, 2021

Fame, it seems, is not a viable currency on the app unless the user is already internet famous. Snap is, in its own words , a camera company sustained on intimacy and existing social networks. But beyond these core social features, Snap has bigger ambitions with augmented and virtual reality. The cultural decline of Snap.

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Galido

MAY 18, 2017

From Python to graphic database to the various other focused changes, let’s have a look through the major features arriving with SQL Server 2017. Reporting Services benefited from a big overhaul in SQL Server 2016, and more improvements are coming in SQL Server 2017. Python power comes to SQL Server 2017.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images In two decades the behemoth social media platform has made a lot of money and brought in a lot of users — and made life worse for a lot of people. It was modeled after Friendster, a now-defunct social networking site that, well, was a lot like Facebook.

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Hacker Earth

MARCH 27, 2018

Not long ago, we were analyzing the trends unfolding in 2017 and in no time, we are talking about projections for the next year. So here’s a closer look at the lessons 2017 taught us and what we can expect from 2018. . The year 2017 saw a rise in the use of Social Media in recruitment. I am not on leave.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and Chief Justice John Roberts on the steps of the Supreme Court on June 15, 2017, in Washington, DC. | Win McNamee/Getty Images The justices look likely to reinstate Texas and Florida laws that seize control of much of the internet — but not for long.

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GeekWire

APRIL 17, 2021

Drew Hansen sponsored Washington’s net neutrality bill in 2017 with support from Gov. Hansen’s bill gives municipalities broad legal authority to become internet service providers while the companion bill, SB5383, appears to give competitive preference to existing internet service providers. Alex Ybarra.

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Vox

JULY 24, 2023

After all, Twitter is “just” a social media platform. Did we really think we weren’t gonna feel absolutely wrecked about the apparent abrupt destruction of a social media platform that has been a digital home to millions of people for more than a decade? We have a hard time grappling with internet spaces as being “real.”

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2020

But the outcome also seems preferable to TikTok disappearing entirely — putting thousands of employees out of work, roiling its nascent community of influencers, and making the world of consumer social apps even less competitive than it already is. Here’s how social media platforms manipulate you into giving away more of your data.

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GeekWire

MAY 29, 2021

billion has all the makings of a great script, combining a Hollywood icon with an Internet powerhouse. Mayer Pictures merged to form MGM Studios, the Hollywood mainstay best known for its roaring lion mascot is set to join a trillion-dollar business empire best known for selling household items over the internet.”

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Rudy Willingham , the Seattle artist known for his colorful, stop-motion photo cutouts on social media, is teaming with rapper/singer Lil Nas X to release TikTok’s first-ever NFT. Willingham, a former GeekWire Geek of the Week , made a name for himself in the city and across the internet with his unique cutouts of pop culture icons.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Voat, an “anti-censorship” alternative social network that’s been described as the “alt-right Reddit,” is scheduled to shut down on December 25th. Voat had a close brush with death in 2017. Other alternative social networks have struggled to gain traction as well. Photo by ROB ENGELAAR/ANP/AFP via Getty Images. I love you all.

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The Investing Edge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In “What Makes and Internet of Things (IoT) Platform Enterprise-Ready? ”, Columbus writes that nearly $300B will be spent on the Internet of Things in 2020. The list represents a broad selection of ideas and technologies, including social entrepreneurship. Some Stuff We Just Liked. You’ll also receive a free copy of her book!

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Vox

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

To commemorate the occasion — not unlike violins on the Titanic — longtime internet culture reporters Katie Notopoulos and Ryan Broderick hosted a massive Twitter space to discuss the demise of the service. We have a hard time grappling with internet spaces as being “real.” Then again, human nature just doesn’t work that way.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2021

Here’s (yet another) argument against using third-party embeds on your respectable website: Porn company 5 Star HD Porn bought the expired domain for video hosting site Vidme, which went out of business in 2017. This means that any websites with Vidme embeds now have porn on them.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 20, 2022

The DOJ says RSOCKS initially targeted Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as industrial control systems, time clocks, routers, audio/video streaming devices, and smart garage door openers, though it expanded to targeting additional types of devices including conventional computers.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2022

Many threats that have until now been theoretical—like creation of a "Ru-net" as an alternative to the Internet—are becoming a reality. Cutting off Internet access to a country the size of Texas is not as simple as cutting a few cables or bombing a few cell towers. There are many tech angles to the war in Ukraine.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2021

Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp is suing India’s government over new internet rules it claims are unconstitutional and will “severely undermine the privacy” of its users, The New York Times reports. According to Reuters , WhatsApp argues that the new rules fail the tests established by a 2017 Supreme Court ruling.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

31, 2023 (see the full suit below), Glowforge accused Jonathan Gleich , a tech enthusiast and self-professed activist, of making false and defamatory allegations about the company and its products on social media. I’m a rando on the internet. The company sued Gleich over his claims on social media. I’m a geek.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 17, 2023

billion, a 436% increase over 2017 levels, according to McKinsey. Challenges for fraud risk management Fraud is a big and a worthwhile business for today’s online criminals, who troll the internet and insert data-stealing malware into vulnerable sites and mobile apps. The stakes for financial organizations are growing as well.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 30, 2017

The gig economy was facilitated by a number of influences—the loss of jobs in the Great Recession of 2008 and the subsequent pivoting of the workforce towards part-time jobs, and more positively, by the Internet. Here are 3 things CTOs should know about Gig Economy in 2017. Power is becoming concentrated in one player per vertical.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 11, 2017

Internet applications: Firefox handles my web browsing, but I also have Google Chrome installed for cross-browser testing. Social media: I use Corebird for Twitter access from Linux when I’m traveling. Social media when I’m in the office (Tweetbot is far more powerful than Corebird). Where I Still Use OS X.

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The Verge

JULY 26, 2021

Reuters reported the news this morning in an interview with Nicholas Rasmussen, executive director of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT). GIFCT — launched in 2017 by Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube — maintains a database of terrorist content that helps member companies find it for review or removal.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Media companies in Australia can be held responsible for defamatory comments left on their social media pages by members of the public, the country’s High Court has ruled. anyone who runs a social media page can theoretically be sued over disparaging comments”. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Vox

AUGUST 19, 2020

Born in 2017 on the internet forum 4Chan, QAnon is a collection of blatantly false conspiracy theories that push the idea that a group of Satan-worshiping pedophiles secretly run the world, including a “deep state” of officials within the US government who are said to be plotting against Trump.

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Hacker Earth

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The year 2018 saw a rise in the use of Social Media in recruitment. Social Recruiting’, a blanket term for finding talent through social media was coined in 2008. Also read – Social HR – New rules of talent acquisition ). 2017 saw many mass layoffs because of technology disruption. I am not on leave.

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Cloud Musings

MAY 31, 2017

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

He threatened to “shut down” social media companies, and then personally targeted a Twitter employee to intimidate and harass him. Then, Trump quickly threatened Twitter with revenge by signing a scorched-earth executive order that would blow up the entire internet. Trump’s Republican lackeys, including Sens.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The service, PlutoSphere , is meant to stream games live over the internet to compatible VR headsets without the need for a local PC as a go-between. It also requires 50 Mbps of bandwidth and a 5 Ghz WiFi 6 internet connection. The official PlutoSphere logo. Pluto VR Image). The Pluto VR founding team. Pluto VR photo).

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