Salon

Congress may be about to create the “bad internet”

After helping elect President Donald Trump, major tech companies could be in for yet another windfall as Congress examines a suite of bills opponents have dubbed the “Bad Internet Bills.” The bills ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2025 Is ‘Slop,’ the A.I.-Generated Junk That Fills Our Social Media Feeds

We saw it on our phones. We ate it in our bowls. This year, “slop” was everywhere. It was so ubiquitous that it’s been named Merriam-Webster’s word of the year. Merriam-Webster, the oldest dictionary ...
Frontiers

Evolution of specialist treatment of gaming disorder and internet addiction in Japan

Treatment of Internet Addiction and Research Department, National Hospital Organization Kurihama Medical and Addiction Center, Yokosuka, Japan Introduction: Despite a relatively short history in the ...
Digital Trends

Tired of AI slop? This tool rewinds the internet to pre-ChatGPT era

Why it matters? Generative AI has created a wave of ‘fast content’ which is often low-effort, repetitive, or even misleading at times. This kind of output can overwhelm search results and social feeds ...
Nature

The Internet is broken and the inventor of the World Wide Web wants to fix it

This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2025) The World Wide Web is one of those rare innovations that truly reshaped the world. It ...
The Atlantic

A Piece of Internet History the Internet Almost Forgot

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. With the introduction of the Netscape browser in late 1994, ordinary ...
Los Angeles Times

She’s the internet’s sexual historian. Her book will give you dinner party fodder for days

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The technologist and professor Mindy Seu was having drinks when her friend casually referred to the phone as a sex ...
MarketWatch

What is Cloudflare, and why did it cause outages across the internet today?

Cloudflare is known for operating behind the scenes, but it amassed some name recognition for the wrong reasons on Tuesday. The company suffered a service issue that ...
The New York Times

Cloudflare Says It Has Resolved Outage That Disrupted Parts of the Internet

Services from Cloudflare, a software company, underpin thousands of websites, including X, Spotify and OpenAI. The company said a crash in a software system was to blame. By Victor Mather Cloudflare, ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Evolution of Sports Practice in Senegal in the Internet Age: A Socio-Historical Analysis of the Impact of Digital Media on Sports Culture and Community Participation ()

1 Laboratory of Science and Technology of Physical and Sports Activities-Youth and Leisure (STAPS-JL, INSEPS, UCAD), Dakar, Senegal. 2 C3S EA 4660 Laboratory, University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté ...
USA Today

Best prepaid home internet plans of 2025: 4 top pay-as-you-go options

Prepaid home internet allows you to pay in advance for flexible, no-contract service that can be started or stopped at any time. Major providers like Xfinity, Cox, and Metro by T-Mobile offer prepaid ...
PC Gamer

'The world became stupider' when Internet Archive's Open Library was hit by a lawsuit: 'We survived, but it wiped out the library'

Internet Archive, a non-profit library dedicated to archived websites, music, books, apps, and all kinds of information on the internet, has been subjected to multiple lawsuits since its foundation in ...