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The Far Right Has Found a Web Host Savior
A web host called Epik has begun hosting the sites that other web hosts won't, which raises questions about how successful deplatforming hateful websites can actually be.
This Quantum Physicist Used Machine Learning to Map Reddit’s Sexual Fetishes
More than one thousand subreddits, plotted in an interactive tree.
This ISP Is Offering a 'Fast Lane' for Gamers...For $15 More Per Month
Priority routing services like Cox Communication's 'Elite Gamer' offer are usually a mixed bag, and in many instances provide no discernible benefit at all.
'768K Day' Is As Overhyped As Y2K, ISP Says
Experts have warned that '768k day' could cause significant headaches next month, but service providers told Motherboard that the threat is overhyped.
'Game of Thrones' Shows Why We Need to Back Up Human Civilization
The newest episode of ‘Game of Thrones’ plays on real world anxieties about data corruption and erasure.
Report: 26 States Now Ban or Restrict Community Broadband
Many of the laws restricting local voters’ rights were directly written by a telecom sector terrified of real broadband competition.
Could We Blow Up the Internet?
Is it possible to take down the internet by physically attacking its infrastructure?