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Russia allegedly still using Starlink-guided drones in Ukraine, report claims — Starlink Mini strapped to grounded drone points to ongoing issue, despite U.S. DoD claims threat was blunted
By Mark Tyson published
Russian drones are still flying into Ukrainian airspace to strike their targets with Starlink hardware clearly strapped to them, say Ukrainian media reports.

The industry skipped from IPv4 to IPv6, leaving IPv5 and the Internet Stream Protocol to the annals of history
By Mark Tyson published
The Internet's early twisted shoots of growth sometimes led to a dead end, like IPv5.

Gigantic VHS videotape hoard of thousands of videos stored in McDonald's boxes being given away for free
By Mark Tyson published
If you would like to rehome thousands of old VHS videotapes, there’s an incredible hoard being given away for free on Reddit.

37 years ago this week, the Morris worm infected 10% of the Internet within 24 hours
By Mark Tyson last updated
Cornell graduate student Robert Tappan Morris unleashed his eponymous worm upon the Internet 37 years ago, changing the face of cybersecurity.

New PC gaming cafe photographed in North Korea — rare pictures of 'Pyongyang PC bang' gaming above the 38th parallel
By Mark Tyson published
Images that appear to show a newly opened PC gaming space in North Korea have been published on social media.

The internet was born this week in 1969, and immediately glitched
By Mark Tyson published
The foundations of internet communications were set 56 years ago, when 'LO' was transmitted from UCLA to SRI on the ARPANET.

Creator makes Wi-Fi sound like dial-up Internet
By Jowi Morales published
This Raspberry Pi project captures Wi-Fi data and then blasts it out as sound to make it feel like you're connecting via a dial-up modem.

ISP tricked customers about fiber optics being used in their internet service, German court rules
By Jowi Morales published
German ISP 1&1 advertises its FTTC connections as fiber optic DSL, implying to the customers that they're getting a full fiber internet line despite using copper wiring for last-mile connectivity.
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