On March 20th, 2026 with 160 comments
Longtime Slashdot reader SchroedingersCat writes: Chuck Norris, known for his roles in action films and as Texas Ranger Cordell Walker on the TV show "Walker,...
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On March 18th, 2026 with 46 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Britain plans to consider requiring labels on AI-generated content to protect consumers from disinformation...
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On March 6th, 2026 with 99 comments
darwinmac writes: Mozilla is working on a huge redesign for its Firefox browser, codenamed "Nova," which will bring pastel gradients, a refreshed new tab...
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On February 28th, 2026 with 240 comments
CNN reports that images from Iran's capital "have shown cars jammed along Tehran's street, with heavy traffic on major roads after today's wave of attacks by...
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On January 16th, 2026 with 9 comments
Cloudflare has acquired the core team behind the open source JavaScript framework Astro, bringing its creators in-house while pledging to keep Astro fully open...
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On January 9th, 2026 with 60 comments
Experts interviewed by NBC News warn that the rapid spread of AI-generated images and videos is accelerating an online trust breakdown, especially during...
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On January 8th, 2026 with 51 comments
YouTube is updating search filters so users can explicitly choose between Shorts and long-form videos. The change also replaces view-count sorting with a new...
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On December 14th, 2025 with 168 comments
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said Friday he was moving to file a bipartisan bill to repeal Section 230 of America's Communications Decency Act.
"The law...
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On November 26th, 2025 with 61 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Conversation: The line between human and machine authorship is blurring, particularly as it's become increasingly...
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On October 13th, 2025 with 127 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Britain said on Monday it had issued U.S. internet forum site 4chan with a $26,644 fine for failing to...
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On October 9th, 2025 with 41 comments
Mozilla Firefox's new "Shake to Summarize" feature earned a spot on TIME's Best Inventions of 2025, allowing users to shake their phone to instantly summarize...
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On October 9th, 2025 with 46 comments
After failed negotiations with publishers, Belgium's copyright enforcement agency has ordered the Internet Archive to block access to specific books in its...
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On September 12th, 2025 with 37 comments
California's legislature this week approved a bill to let renters opt out of bulk-billing arrangements that force them to pay for Internet service from a...
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On September 11th, 2025 with 61 comments
"President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act may have quietly changed the economics of the creator economy," reports the Hollywood Reporter. The Treasury...
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On September 5th, 2025 with 40 comments
Mozilla announced today that they will end 32-bit Linux support for Firefox in 2026, with version 144 being the last release and ESR 140 as the fallback...
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On August 27th, 2025 with 37 comments
Wikipedia's volunteer editors have rejected founder Jimmy Wales' proposal to use ChatGPT for article review guidance after the AI tool produced error-filled...
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On August 22nd, 2025 with 95 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: A lawyer representing the online message board 4chan says it won't pay a proposed fine by the UK's media...
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On July 29th, 2025 with 37 comments
YouTube is rolling out age-estimation technology in the U.S. to identify teen users in order to provide a more age-appropriate experience. TechCrunch reports: ...
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On July 17th, 2025 with 81 comments
The Verge's Emma Roth reports: The News/Media Alliance, a trade association behind major news publishers, announced that it has "successfully secured" the...
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On July 9th, 2025 with 28 comments
The UK has transformed its broadband infrastructure in five years -- with full-fiber coverage jumping from 12% of properties in January 2020 to more than 78%...
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On July 7th, 2025 with 33 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: For someone who says she is fighting AI bot scrapers just in her free time, Xe Iaso seems to be putting up...
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On July 6th, 2025 with 34 comments
The Free Software Foundation's services face "ongoing (and increasing) distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks," senior systems administrator Ian Kelling...
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On June 25th, 2025 with 26 comments
Australia's eSafety Commissioner has urged the government to deny YouTube an exemption from upcoming child safety regulations, citing research showing it...
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On May 8th, 2025 with 226 comments
President Trump on Thursday attacked a law signed by President Joe Biden aimed at expanding high-speed internet access, calling the effort "racist" and...
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On April 21st, 2025 with 45 comments
In February tech journalist Nicholas Carr published Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart.
A University of Virginia academic journal says...
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On February 2nd, 2025 with 35 comments
An aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy tested "vastly increased" levels of internet connectivity, reports the defense-news web site TWZ, callling it "a...
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On January 23rd, 2025 with 22 comments
The World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2025 (PDF) highlights misinformation as the top global risk due to generative AI tools and state-sponsored...
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On January 2nd, 2025 with 115 comments
A U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday the Federal Communications Commission did not have legal authority to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules. From a...
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On December 17th, 2024 with 100 comments
Hundreds of websites will be shut down on the day that Britain's Online Safety Act comes into effect, in what are believed to be the first casualties of the...
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On December 17th, 2024 with 76 comments
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) believes that China, Russia, Iran, and Israel are the "primary" countries exploiting security holes in...
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