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Popular 90s search engine ‘Ask Jeeves’ finally bites the dust
By Jowi Morales published
IAC, the parent company of Ask Jeeves, is finally putting the search engine out to pasture after 30 years.

Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs
By Luke James published
Utah's Online Age Verification Amendments, formally Senate Bill 73, take effect on May 6.

Website backup crippled by 1.6MB Friends GIF that was replicated 246,173 times, breaking Linux's EXT4 filesystem limit
By Mark Tyson published
A single reaction animation, frequently duplicated in chats by community members, added 377GB to a site's backup quota.

Iran's forced nationwide internet blackout becomes second-longest on record as it passes 1,000 hours offline
By Luke James last updated
Iran's nationwide Internet blackout has crossed the 1,000-hour mark and is now the second longest nation-scale shutdown ever measured.

Russian ‘Starlink Rival’ established with 16 satellites launched, aims for 900 by 2035
By Mark Tyson published
Russia has began to deliver on its plans to establish a domestic state-funded rival to Elon Musk’s Starlink, dubbed Rassvet.

Norwegian gov't consumer watchdog calls out ‘enshittification’ of video games, connected devices, and others
By Luke James last updated
“Companies can degrade the functionality of your car or effectively destroy your connected washing machine with a software update,” says the report.

Wikipedia officially blacklists all links to Archive Today over a bizarre DDOS attack and manipulated archives
By Bruno Ferreira published
Wikipedia officially blacklists all links to Archive Today

Inventor of the World Wide Web thinks it can still be saved
By Bruno Ferreira published
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, thinks it can still be saved
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