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How to Find MAC Address on MacBook
Knowing how to find the MAC address on your MacBook can sometimes be useful, especially when configuring a network router.
Apple Introduces Professional Training to Help Growing IT Workforce
Today Apple has announced new professional training through online courses and certifications to help prepare workers for the IT field.
Longtime Internet Meme The Dancing Baby to Be Minted as NFT
The Dancing Baby, one of the most infamous artifacts from the early days of the internet, is being minted as an NFT.
Computer Scientist David Walden, Responsible For the Development Of The Internet, Dies at 79
David Walden, a computer scientist that helped build the foundations of the internet, has died at the age of 79.
Reddit Brings Back Wonderfully Chaotic r/Place for April Fool's Day
Reddit brings back infamous r/Place for April Fool’s Day, giving Redditors a chance to experience a real time digital canvas.
Celebrating the Lives of Two Tech Pioneers: John Roach and Stephen Wilhite, Innovators of Tech
The internet mourns the loss of two important figures. John Roach and Stephen Wilhite helped shaped the tech we know today.
Living that Cord Cutter Life
Bryan Chaffin and Jeff Gamet dive into their TV viewing lives as cord cutters on this week’s episode of The Context Machine.
These Experts Have a Vision for the Internet in 2035
Have you ever wondered about the internet in 2035? A report from Pew Research Center shares what experts believe.
Report: How Pinterest is Ruining the Internet for Everyone
Chris Stokel-Walker isn’t happy with Pinterest and writes how the company has ruined image search for internet users.
Beloved by moodboard aficionados and wedding planners alike, the platform is hated by rank-and-file web surfers. It’s not that it doesn’t have its purpose; it’s just that it intrudes on the search experience of pretty much everyone who doesn’t want to use it.
I have Pinterest to thank for one thing. My annoyance, and eventual hatred, spurred me to move to a standardized data curation system in which I store files in my own folders and not inside Pinterest’s putrid platform.
The 'Wayforward Machine' Raises Awareness by Simulating Internet Threats
The Internet Archive has created the Wayforward Machine. It transports you to 2046 to simulate potential threats to internet freedom we could face.
And then it becomes clear: the whole purpose of the satirical Wayforward Machine is to raise awareness about the ongoing threats to the Internet and to libraries like the Wayback Machine, which plays a prominent role in preserving historic content and the truth, as it appeared in the past.
It’s a fun, important project. I typed in The Mac Observer and one of the messages says the website has been temporarily suspended pending the outcome of legal proceedings. Likely because we published something that Emperor Zuckerberg II, Glorious Commander of the United States of Facebook, didn’t like.
Cloudflare Supports 'Early Hints' to Speed up Web Browsing
Cloudflare announced it is the first company to add server support for Early Hints. This aims to help speed up websites by as much as 30%.
Akamai DNS Outage Took Out Airbnb, LastPass, Steam, UPS, FedEx, Others
Akamai’s Edge DNS service experienced an issue at around 11AM ET with dozens of websites and apps getting knocked offline. At the time of this writing the outage has been resolved.
Akamai said it was “actively investigating the issue,” but when reached a spokesperson would not say if its outage was the cause of the disruption to other sites and services that are currently offline. Akamai would not say what caused the issue but that it was already in recovery.
ISPs Spent $234 Million in Lobbying Efforts for 2019-2020
On Monday a report from Common Cause said that in 2019 and 2020, ISPs spend a total of US$234.7 million to lobby against legislation.
Multiple Major Websites Start to Return After Outage
A number of major websites went dark Tuesday morning, with an outage affecting the likes of Amazon, Reddit, CNN, and The New York Times.
Google, Facebook Drop Plans to Connect Hong Kong With Pacific Light Cable Network
Facebook and Google are cancelling plans to connect the Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN) to Hong Kong after fears were raised over China.
Upgrades, Slow Internet, Hard Drives, and More – Mac Geek Gab 802
How’s your Catalina installation behaving? Have any Macs left to upgrade? Your two favorite geeks talk through it all. Then it’s time to diagnose the cause of slow internet, always a pesky one to diagnose! Add in some hard drive diagnostics, follow-ups on your subscription tracking, and John and Dave have a show chock-full-of-infotainment goodness to share with you!
Russia Disconnects From Internet in Tests
Russia announced it successfully completed a series of tests that disconnected the whole country from the internet.
iPhone Camera Evolution, The Internet At 50 – TMO Daily Observations 2019-10-30
Charlotte Henry and Andrew Orr join host Kelly Guimont to discuss the latest iPhone camera software and hardware, and the internet at fifty.
We Need a New Internet That Can Withstand Climate Change
The internet infrastructure is vulnerable to climate change. The fiber optic cables that ferry data can handle some water damage, but they weren’t meant to be permanently underwater.
…within the next 15 years, in a scenario that projects about a foot of sea level rise by then, 4,067 miles of fiber conduit cables are likely to be permanently underwater. In New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle, the rising seas could drown roughly 20 percent of all metro fiber conduit. These are the lines that physically ferry our Internet traffic from place to place.
Another 1,101 “nodes”—the buildings or places where cables rise out of the ground, which often house computer servers, routers, and network switches to move our data around—are also expected to be swamped.
The Splinternet is Growing Bigger
The splinternet, also known as cyberbalkanization, refers to how governments split the World Wide Web into national internets.
It’s not just authoritarian countries trying to bend the global web to national values. The same social media companies that gave rise to unrest in the Middle East have come under fire in the West for allowing their services to be used to promote hatred and terrorism. In response, England and Australia have recently passed laws demanding tech firms provide easier access to web users’ communications.
Sometimes I think that in the future there will be no internet. There won’t be a web browser, there will just be apps that are easier to censor and control.
The Internet's 768K Day Approaches. What is THAT?
ZDNet writes:
The term 768k Day comes from the original mother of all internet outages known as 512k Day.
512k Day happened on August 12, 2014, when hundreds of ISPs from all over the world went down, causing billions of dollars in damages due to lost trade and fees, from a lack of internet connectivity or packet loss
This time we’re much better prepared. However,
There will certainly be some network operators and corporate end-user organizations who will be caught unaware and will experience problems…
Up to 40% of the Internet is Fraudulent Traffic
Fake metrics, fake people, fake businesses, fake content, fake politics.
New Mac mini Report, Government Internet Control - TMO Daily Observations 2018-08-21
Bryan Chaffin and John Martellaro join Jeff Gamet to share their thoughts on a report that Apple is releasing a new Mac mini this fall, plus they look at governments wanting to take control of the internet.