Undersea cables are the unseen backbone of the global internet
The 485 multiterabit-per-second undersea data cables that span the world’s oceans link the globe and maintain the digital realm.
April 1, 2024 • ~6 min
The 485 multiterabit-per-second undersea data cables that span the world’s oceans link the globe and maintain the digital realm.
Your data privacy is under threat from hackers, data brokers and big tech. Here’s what you can do about it. Step 1 is to get your colleagues, friends and family on board.
New research reveals the digital divide that was exposed by the COVID pandemic.
The padlock symbol simply means that the data being sent between the web server and the user’s computer is encrypted and cannot be read by others. But many people don’t know that.
Every state is poised to receive a large amount of federal money to expand broadband access, but they have a lot of work to do to meet the government’s requirements for distributing it.
In the days of online bulletin board systems, community members decided what was acceptable. Reviving that approach to content moderation offers Big Tech a path to legitimacy as public spaces.
Searching the web with ChatGPT is like talking to an expert – if you’re OK getting a mix of fact and fiction. But even if it were error-free, searching this way comes with hidden costs.
Hoax websites are becoming more popular with fraudsters. So it’s more important than ever to protect yourself.
Justices are weighing the arguments in two cases that have the potential of changing the way social media platforms operate.
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