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Is the Dictionary Done For? – The New Yorker
A Critic at Large Is the Dictionary Done For? The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a revolution. By Louis Menand, December 22, 2025 Wars over words are inevitably culture wars, and debates over the dictionary have raged for as long as it has…
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Erase yourself from the internet: how to take control with Incogni – Android Authority
General technology Erase yourself from the internet: How to take back what’s yours with Incogni, December 3, 2025 Your name, address, phone number, SSN, family information, and even past employment history could be scattered across hundreds, sometimes thousands, of websites you’ve never even heard of. Data brokers, people-search sites, and shady public databases collect and…
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School bus internet, library Wi-Fi lending could end with FCC vote
Referral Shoutout: Thanks to…Library Link of the Dayhttp://www.tk421.net/librarylink/ (archive, rss, subscribe options) The FCC is expected to end a Biden-era rule change that allowed nearly 200,000 schools and libraries to loan out Wi-Fi hotspot devices. By Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY It could soon be harder for students to access the internet on school buses…
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Helping protect journalists and local news from AI crawlers with Project Galileo – Cloudflare.com
Helping protect journalists and local news from AI crawlers with Project Galileo 2025-09-23, 5 min read By Patrick Day and Jocelyn Woolbright We are excited to announce that Project Galileo will now include access to Cloudflare’s Bot Management and AI Crawl Control services. Participants in the program, which include roughly 750 journalists, independent news organizations,…
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Opinion | A sample of the government webpages Trump doesn’t want you to see – Washington Post
By Catherine Rampell, Amanda Shendruk and Flavio Pessoa Catherine Rampell is a Post Opinions columnist; Amanda Shendruk and Flavio Pessoa are Post Opinions graphics reporters. Not found: That was the resounding message across federal websites this week, as the Trump administration has disappeared thousands of taxpayer-funded websites. Though some pages have been restored, those still…
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AI is weaving itself into the fabric of the internet with generative search | MIT Technology Review
Artificial intelligence AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it. Despite fewer clicks, copyright fights, and sometimes iffy answers, AI could unlock new ways to summon all the world’s knowledge. By Mat Honan, January 6, 2025 Source Link: AI is weaving itself into the fabric of the internet with generative search |…
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T-Mobile and Verizon home internet is a new threat to cable | Fast Company
Cheap home internet from T-Mobile and Verizon is here, and it’s already threatening the cable giants. By Jared Newman, August 30, 2022, 5 minute Read For years, Comcast and other cable companies have leaned on a simple strategy to offset the effects of cord-cutting: Charge a steep price on home internet service, and enjoy soaring…
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What Is Your Earliest Memory of the Internet? | The Signal
July 27, 2022 by Tracee Haupt What is your earliest memory of the internet? The Web Archiving Team and our colleagues in the Digital Content Management Section asked this question during an open house for attendees of the American Library Association’s annual conference, where we had a table set up to share information about our…
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What ‘Cunningham’s Law’ Really Tells Us About How We Interact Online | lifehacker
By Stephen Johnson, 4/01/22 9:00AM I’m sure you’re familiar with the XKCD comic “Duty Calls” in which an internet user is passionately typing away late into the night because “someone is wrong on the internet!” The comic illustrates Cunningham’s Law, the tongue-in-cheek axiom that states “the best way to get the right answer on the…
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‘Remember the Internet’: An Encyclopedia of Online Life – The Atlantic
How do we memorialize life online when it’s constantly disappearing? by Kaitlyn Tiffany, March 22, 2021 For many of us, for better or for worse, the internet is home. Our communities are here, because many of them could not exist any other way. Superfans, shitposters, amateur experts, wiki nerds, grizzled forum moderators, obsessive sneaker enthusiasts,…
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John Stuart Mill’s philosophy shows arguing online is futile — Quartz
https://qz.com/1513176/john-stuart-mills-philosophy-shows-arguing-online-is-futile/
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Google Pay: Here’s how to set it up on your Android phone – CNET
via Google Pay: Here’s how to set it up on your Android phone – CNET Headline: “Google Pay: Here’s how to set it up on your Android phone You can use the Google Pay digital wallet from your Android phone or watch instead of rifling through your wallet for your credit and debit cards.”
