Gizmodo

JANUARY 6, 2022

As protests erupted across the massive Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan on Wednesday, the government resorted to extreme measures, enforcing a wide-scale internet blackout lasting at least eight hours, blocking news and social media access in the former Soviet state. Eventually, scenes of chaos and burnt vehicles… Read more.

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IT Toolbox

JUNE 20, 2017

It was discovered that teens spend up to nine hours a day on social media websites and 60% of this time is spent using mobile devices with access to the internet. So, the younger generation literally has the internet at their fingertips.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

While you may mostly think of Facebook as a social network, the company started launching infrastructure projects for connecting bringing more people online (and onto its network) many years ago. Like every year, Facebook is using MWC Barcelona to focus on its infrastructure projects.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Not long after it blocked Facebook , Myanmar has now ordered mobile networks and internet service providers to block Twitter and Instagram in the country as well. Some media and public are spreading rumors on social media conducting gatherings to incite rowdiness and issuing statements which can cause unrest.

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2022

Cogent Communications, an internet backbone provider that routes data across intercontinental connections, has cut ties with Russian customers over its invasion of Ukraine, as first reported by The Washington Post. There isn’t any indication as to whether other internet backbone providers will also suspend services in Russia.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Look I know this pandemic has been a long, depressing slog, and even if you’ve masked up, done the social distancing, and have managed to stay virus-free, we’re all good and frazzled at this point. You’re posting a photo of your vaccination card on social media. Please — don’t do that! You could be inviting identity theft.”.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 7, 2018

People-Centered Internet works to ensure that the Internet delivers economic, social and political empowerment for all.

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Forrester IT

JULY 13, 2023

Great Leaders Know When And How To Deploy The Next Technology Unless you’ve been on a social media/internet detox for the last six months, you’ve no doubt noticed this thing called generative AI. It has triggered a hype cycle the likes of which have not been seen since the launch of the McRib. Every article […]

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Dataconomy

JULY 17, 2023

July 21, 2023, marked one such milestone, with the emergence of an Internet phenomenon known as “Barbenheimer.” As the amalgamation of these titles suggests, the trend captured the attention of millions, showcasing the powerful impact of social media on shaping the film industry’s future.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

As Russian media attempts to cast the invasion as a response to Ukrainian aggression , on-the-ground reporting has played a crucial role in countering the propaganda, with footage coming from both professional journalists and amateurs on social media. The invasion has already reduced internet connectivity in some parts of the country.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 27, 2014

Hope has been placed on the Internet (particularly on social media) to expose users to more sources of information and diverse points of view. Put another way, most people are unwilling to “stick their neck out” in social situations. By Shannon Perry.

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Vox

MAY 18, 2023

The Supreme Court handed down two high-stakes tech decisions on Thursday — cases that, if handled ineptly, could have destroyed much of the internet and subjected social media companies to devastating liability. . | Drew Angerer/Getty Images Clarence Thomas did something right, for a change. The cases involve similar facts.

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Computer Weekly

MAY 24, 2016

Allegedly tech-savvy millennials are letting social media stand in the way of job prospects as potential employers turn to the internet for background information

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CTOvision

JUNE 28, 2016

Social engineering is one of the most problematic attack techniques to combat. User education is most effective at stopping a social engineer. Users who are aware of the potential for social engineering attacks and learn to recognize them can use simple methods to thwart these attacks successfully. Stu Sjouwerman.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in a case that could potentially break much of the internet — and seemed to realize the risks of heading down that path. As Justice Elena Kagan warned at one point during the Gonzalez argument, the justices are “not the nine greatest experts on the internet.” Gonzalez v.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Facebook “will effectively transition from … being a social media company to being a metaverse company.” Facebook plans to create “an embodied internet” — powered by its […].

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Research company Nielsen has just released detailed statistics on online activity , focusing on social networks and blogging, which at 22.5% of time spent online dominate Internet usage, with more than twice the next category games, at 9.8% The proportion of social networking done on mobile devices will undoubtedly continue to rise.

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GeekWire

MAY 12, 2023

(Twitter Images via @Seahawks) NFL teams have been having a ball the past couple days with social media posts tied to the release of their upcoming season schedules. But this is 2023, and the internet demands more than that. It’s powered by Amazon Web Services , which says it crunches 1 quadrillion total schedule possibilities.

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Tech Republic Cloud

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Learn how to edit text, draw, chat, transfer files, and share social posts with apps that support local and peer-to-peer network connections.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The number of government-led internet shutdowns has exploded over the last decade as states seek to stifle dissent and protest by limiting citizens’ access to the web. The first significant internet shutdown took place in Egypt in 2011, as a response to protests against then-president Hosni Mubarak. Photo by James Bareham / The Verge.

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CIO Musings

MAY 26, 2013

Social Media and Public Employees - Part 2. Internet Availability. Growth in the use of the internet is an international trend. In the United States digital cellular technology is a primary access method for the internet. Adoption of Social Media. Sunday, May 26, 2013. Barry Condrey. No comments: Post a Comment.

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It’s nothing new that social media is a hotbed of hot takes. Even the most innocuous posts somehow manage to offend or anger someone out there on the internet. But that doesn’t mean that it should all be dismissed as nonsense, especially when it comes to information security.

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The Verge

MARCH 20, 2021

Twitter is planning to establish a legal entity in Turkey to continue operating there under the country’s controversial internet law that took effect last year , the company announced late Friday. Under the law, social media companies that have more than 1 million users must store Turkish users’ data in the country.

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IT Toolbox

AUGUST 16, 2017

Besides the internet, the number one technological advancement that has been the cornerstone of our social progress is the Internet of Things (IoT). There is a reason why tech giants like Amazon and Dish Network are going all in when it comes to investment into IoT. This is how.

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Vox

MAY 17, 2022

Saturday’s racially motivated made-for-the-internet mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, went differently. It’s a tragedy because you only need one copy of the video for this thing to live forever online and endlessly multiply,” said Emerson Brooking, a resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank who studies social media.

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IT Toolbox

AUGUST 9, 2016

Word-of-mouth recommendations used to rule the sales world before the internet. Now social influencers step into this role for hundreds, thousands or millions of followers. A social customer relationship management solution goes beyond typical CRM functionality to add in social network streams, messages

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The Verge

APRIL 18, 2022

Today I learned (TIL) there’s an 83-page FBI “guide” to internet slang filled with abbreviations entered either by a complete troll or someone totally clueless, as recently reported by Input. With the advent of Twitter and other social media venues on the Internet, the use of shorthand and acronyms has exploded,” the guide explains.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Bluesky, Twitter’s decentralized social networking effort, has announced its first major update since 2019. The review follows Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey discussing Bluesky earlier this month, when he called it a “standard for the public conversation layer of the internet.”. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The advice many survivors like Lorraine receive when they look for help is to leave their online life behind and delete themselves from the internet entirely. For Lorraine, deleting herself from the internet didn’t feel like a solution. “It We can develop intentional boundaries on the internet, it doesn’t have to be all or nothing. “We

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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 13, 2020

We are now entering a new phase in the mobile gaming era where games are increasingly becoming social networks. Read More.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Microsoft is removing all social hubs hosted in AltspaceVR and requiring users to log into the virtual reality app using a Microsoft account. The social hubs in AltspaceVR were designed “to help foster new friendships” and act as an entry point to get familiar with AltspaceVR itself. Microsoft acquired AltspaceVR in 2017.

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The Verge

AUGUST 11, 2021

Twitter is now complying with the Indian government’s new internet rules, a lawyer representing the federal government has told a court in Delhi, Bloomberg reports. In May, police in India raided the social media company’s offices after it labelled a tweet from a government official as “ manipulated media.

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Gizmodo

MARCH 22, 2021

The FCC announced today that it’s started soliciting first-hand accounts from people who are forced to rely on crappy internet. This new initiative is part of the FCC’s Broadband Data Collection program, and the agency hopes that by collecting information directly from consumers, it will be better equipped to “enhance… Read more.

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Phil Windley

JUNE 14, 2021

I spoke on DIDComm and the Self-Sovereign Internet. The foundation of the self-sovereign internet is built on autonomic identifiers. DIDComm messaging has several important properties that, taken together, provide a generative, secure network overlay for the Internet. Autonomic Identifiers. Private - messages can be encrypted.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

More than two years and a company rebrand later, Meta is finally opening up access to its VR social platform Horizon Worlds. First announced in September 2019 as a private beta, Horizon Worlds has evolved from primarily being a Minecraft -like environment for building games to more of a social platform.

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Vox

MAY 24, 2022

The internet is full of terrible corners, but none are as skin-crawling as what you see when you open a new account on TikTok. Internet posts are, for the most part, not copyrightable intellectual property. Internet posts are, for the most part, not copyrightable intellectual property. Getty Images.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Amazon and UCLA are launching a research hub that will draw upon industry and academic research to address the social issues raised by the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. UCLA organized an “Amazon Science Day” event today to celebrate the unveiling of the hub as well as the 52nd anniversary of the birth of the internet.

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