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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is seemingly just noticing that the internet feels fake and is being overrun with bots and AI.

Sam Altman Concerned That the Whole Internet Now Feels Fake as AI Takes Over

By Frank Landymore

The Senate voted to shutter a program that provides free internet for low-income kids that don't have access at home.

Lawmakers Want to Cut Low-Income Schoolchildren Off from the Internet

By Noor Al-Sibai

Prominent right wing accounts on X, formerly Twitter, suddenly saw their popularity fall off a cliff after criticizing Elon Musk.

Twitter Appears to Be Shadow Banning Accounts That Criticize Elon Musk

By Frank Landymore

Researchers blocked the internet access of participants' phones for two weeks, producing an astounding boost to their mental health.

Blocking the Internet on People’s Phones for Two Weeks Led to Profound Changes in Mental Health and Attention Span

By Frank Landymore

Google's controversial search AI was caught recommending that parents use a popular vibrator on children as a method of behavioral therapy.

Google’s AI Caught Recommending Use of Sex Toys on Children

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Starlink allows the Marubo people, an Amazon tribe, to have internet even in the heart of the rainforest — but it comes at a cost.

Remote Amazon Tribe Finally Gets Internet, Gets Hooked on Porn and Social Media

By Frank Landymore

We Regret to Inform You That The Spinning “Loading” Icon Is Actually Called a “Throbber”

By Noor Al-Sibai

If you searched Craigslist using Google recently, you may have gotten totally meaningless junk pages stuffed solely with links and keywords.

Google Search Losing Battle Against Barrage of SEO Spam

By Frank Landymore

A powerful solar flare could trigger what Peter Becker, professor of physics at George Mason University, is calling an "internet apocalypse."

Science & Energy

Professor Warns That the Sun Is Angry and It Could Knock Out the Internet

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have looked into internet use to see if it's at all linked with the likelihood of developing dementia.

Scientists Discover Strange Link Between Internet Use and Dementia

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft's Bing Chat just cited misinformation generated by Google's Bard chatbot, just one day after Bard was released. Oof.

Google’s Bard and Bing AI Already Citing Each Other in Neural Hall of Mirrors

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

At a certain point, everyone's gonna get tired of the internet — or so goes the argument of one of the people who pioneered the web.

Professor Predicts That This Whole Internet Thing Will Soon Blow Over

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have destroyed the previous data transmission record by achieving a speed of 1.84 petabits per second using only a single light source.

Science & Energy

Scientists Managed to Transmit as Much Data as the Entire Internet’s Bandwidth

By Frank Landymore

A mysterious Chinese Wikipedia contributor who goes by the alias "Zhemao" spent ten years making up fictional accounts of Russian history.

Someone Slipped Hundreds of Fake Articles About Things That Never Happened Onto Wikipedia

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at Lancaster University have created a new cursed type of WiFi that transmits data wirelessly using nuclear radiation.

Science & Energy

Scientists Create Cursed WiFi That Transmits Using Nuclear Radiation

By Tony Ho Tran

Facebook's internal communications tools were knocked out, leaving employees scrambling. Worse yet, some employees couldn't even physically get to work.

Facebook Employees Have Reportedly Been Locked Out of Company Offices

By Victor Tangermann