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Australia has recently implemented a ban on social media for those under 16. The EU and other jurisdictions have implemented restrictions to adult content by using age verification. Similar bans are ...

When I moved to Japan more than five years ago from the United States, where I worked for two design-forward digital media startups, I struggled with the Japanese internet. The first challenge ...

The White House has published a page on its website that lists news outlets it says are misleading and biased. The page, which has the URL, “www.whitehouse.gov ...

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 ...

In case you didn’t hear — on October 22, 2025, the Internet Archive, who host the Wayback Machine at archive.org, celebrated a milestone: one trillion web pages archived, for posterity. Founded in ...

Just blocks from the Presidio of San Francisco, the national park at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, stands a gleaming white building, its façade adorned with eight striking gothic columns. But ...

Sociologists say the Dead Internet Theory now matches how users experience the web. Research shows nearly half of all web traffic now comes from bots as synthetic content spreads. Some researchers say ...

Microsoft has officially deprecated Defender SmartScreen in Internet Explorer (IE) and IE Mode on Windows 11. The company confirmed this in a support document published under KB5071357. The change ...

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Microsoft says that the File Explorer (formerly Windows Explorer) now automatically blocks previews for files downloaded from the Internet to block credential theft attacks via malicious documents.

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