Why Today’s Internet Is So Fragile

For much of the world, there is no longer any such thing as being offline. The internet underpins the global financial and consumer ecosystem, enabling instant communication and transactions. While the system is integral to so much human activity,
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The Global Internet Is Pulling Apart

More and more countries are following China’s lead, limiting digital access and building their own “everything apps.”

Cloudflare Outage Takes Down Huge Chunk of the Internet, Slowly Coming Back Online

The internet is down (again). A wide range of websites (including our very own gizmodo.com) were down on Tuesday morning due to an outage involving internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare.
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Make Your WiFi a Breeze with T-Mobile 5G Home Internet

Get affordable wireless connectivity without the hassle of long-term contracts or hidden fees. Here's a breakdown of the internet provider's latest plans and perks.
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The Day the Internet Died: How an Underwater Cable Cut Plunged a Nation Into Digital Darkness

A single garden hose-sized cable connected Tonga to the world until a natural disaster sent the country back to 1880. And it could happen to anyone.

Former Meta exec Nick Clegg talks about his new book, 'How to Save the Internet'

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Nick Clegg, Meta's former president of global affairs, about his new book, "How to Save the Internet."

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

Mindy Seu's latest work, 'A Sexual History of the Internet,' is a participatory lecture that intersects with a 700-page book revealing the pervasive and often-uncredited sexual roots of technology.

IBM and Cisco have a new partnership as they target a ‘quantum-computing internet’

The fruits of the partnership are admittedly years away as the companies strive for a connected fault-scale network by the “early 2030s.”
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