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Worldwide network monitors said Iran was plunged into a nationwide Internet blackout on Thursday, an ominous sign that the panicked regime is preparing to use greater violence to suppress protests that have entered their second week.

The Associated Press (AP) on Wednesday retracted a story that incorrectly quoted a Taliban official denying that Afghanistan’s Internet access has been deliberately shut down.

A massive Internet blackout struck Afghanistan on September 29, evidently imposed by the Taliban regime to “prevent immoral activities.”

Internet monitors said over the weekend that widespread service disruptions in Asia and the Middle East appear to have been caused by damage to undersea cables in the Red Sea, off the coast of Saudi Arabia. It was not immediately clear if the cable damage was caused by deliberate sabotage.

AOL, once a dominant force in the early days of the Internet, has announced the end of its dial-up Internet service, marking the closure of a significant chapter in the history of online connectivity. 

U.S. engineers have discovered mysterious, undocumented communication devices lurking in some Chinese-made solar power inverters and batteries, Reuters reported.

Whether sabotage or accident, suspicion immediately fell on the much-discussed Russian-backed sabotage against European infrastructure.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Kim Dotcom, the internet entrepreneur fighting deportation from New Zealand to the United States on charges relating to his file-sharing website Megaupload, has suffered a “serious stroke”, a post on his X account said Monday.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) stated that passing age verification legislation to protect children online is getting pushback from groups that he believes are funded by Meta that make inaccurate arguments that “if you’re

Donald Trump on Wednesday said that Kamala Harris could not connect one American to the Internet as the “broadband czar.”

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says his government’s crusade against Elon Musk and X should be an example to the world.

The Port of Seattle and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) experienced a “possible cyberattack” on Saturday that caused significant issues for travelers.

Turkey has blocked access to the children’s online video game “Roblox” because it can allegedly lead to the abuse of children.

An Israeli hacker group called “We Red Evils Original” took credit on Thursday for causing widespread wi-fi outages in Iran.

The U.S. cybersecurity company CrowdStrike issued a faulty software update to computers with Microsoft Windows on Friday, grounding flights.

The tiny Caribbean nation of Anguilla has found a lucrative side-gig in the business of letting artificial intelligence (AI) companies use their .ai domain code for their websites.

Update: One of the authors of the original New York Times story upon which this article is based published a new piece insisting that porn addiction is not prevalent in the Amazon tribe he reported on.

The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen may be considering an attack on undersea Internet cables in the Red Sea.

An assessment reportedly found the Chinese spy balloon that traversed the U.S. used an American internet service provider to communicate.

Foreign countries are influencing young Americans via the internet, Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) said Wednesday.

Freedom House marked the 50th anniversary of its “Freedom in the World” report with the 2023 edition, which offered the grim observation that “global freedom declined for the 17th consecutive year,” and warned, “the struggle for democracy may be approaching a turning point.”

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Wednesday that India is the world leader in shutting down Internet access, coming in ahead of heavyweight access-blockers like Iran, Libya, and Sudan with 84 regional shutdowns in 2022.

Helen Marie Plourde, an 86-year-old piano teacher from Saint Paul, Minnesota, was left without home phone or internet service for more than a month by cable provider CenturyLink, shedding light on the inefficiencies in customer service plaguing internet and cable giants throughout the country.

The Senegal government blocked access to the Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok on Wednesday as part of a general crackdown on dissent following the arrest of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday touted his proposal for a “Global Digital Compact,” which would include planet-wide laws against “hate and lies in the digital space.” 

Louisiana passed a bill Tuesday that would ban online platforms from letting minors create accounts without getting their parents’ permission

Two suspects have been charged in connection with alleged vandalism of internet lines in Connecticut that left thousands without service.

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) held a press conference on Tuesday to tout the millions of items of “illegal information” and “illegal accounts” it banned last year, and lay out its plans for an even greater censorship purge in the coming year to “rectify the cyberspace problems which have harmed the experience of Chinese netizens.”

A committee of the U.S. Department of Justice released a statement on Wednesday urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny an application to build an underwater internet communication cable connecting America to Cuba.

China is set to begin cracking down on internet users for “liking” posts deemed “harmful” or “illegal” by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in its updated censorship guidelines as protests against the nation’s draconian “zero Covid” policies have ramped up in recent weeks.

Pope Francis cautioned against the dangers of the internet Wednesday, warning seminarians that “the devil enters” through online pornography.

Two fibre optic cables have been severed in the last week, disrupting phone networks and internet data, fuelling speculation of sabotage.

Joe Biden spoke about the internet and newspapers during a fundraiser in Los Angeles on Thursday, appearing with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to help fund Democrats in the midterm elections.

The Iranian regime on Thursday sent new signals that it is preparing for a bloody crackdown on hijab protesters, as hardline Islamist President Ebrahim Raisi insisted his government respects “freedom of speech” but “acts of chaos are unacceptable.”

A.J. Rice, author of The Woking Dead, said zoomers are having their human authenticity undermined by Me Too, lockdowns, and digital overload.