Kim Dotcom mulls creating his own internet again
If he does not get jailed first
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has weighed in on the controversy surrounding the US government's decision to overturn net neutrality and started pushing the suggestion of creating a new internet.
Techies mock Teresa May’s internet terror policy
It will make it harder to track terrorists
As we expected, Teresa May is attempting to use the latest terrorist attacks in the UK to clamp down on the use of the internet by non-terrorists. The only problem is that security experts are warning that her plans will make it harder to track terror cells.
All the world’s finance traffic routed through Russia
Nothing to worry about
For a brief period, most of the world’s financial traffic was routed through a Russian government-controlled telecom and in the hands of Tsar Putin.
Boffins send lemonade on the internet
When life gives you Apple, make lemonade
A group of researchers at the University of Singapore has worked out a way that it can convince you that you're drinking lemonade and can send it virtually over the internet.
Web inventor highlights three problems facing the world
Free speech, targeted ads, and the quest to unspread misinformation
Sunday marked the 28th anniversary in which Tim Berners-Lee, the English computer scientist accredited with the invention of the World Wide Web concept, submitted his original proposal to CERN that ultimately became the first standard for the internet.
Internet trolls cannot be cured
Researchers find not feeding them does not kill them
A team of brave boffins have been investigating internet trolls and reached the conclusion that there is no cure.
Trump to ban free and open internet
Must be ruled by the US telcos
Shy and retiring US president Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump is almost certain to hand over control of the internet to the US comms companies and abandon the net neutrality which has made the technology great again.
UK government set to define proper sex
Think of the children
The UK government has decided that it will ban all web sites which depict “unconventional sex”.
Half the world will be online by Christmas
Milestone
By the end of the year, the world will have crossed a milestone with more than half its population connected to the world wide web.
China bans population fat shaming North Korea's lone Apple fanboy
Bans the use of the word fat to describe Kim Jong Un
Chinese websites are banned from using the phrase "Kim Fatty the Third" to describe North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.