Technology
News sites with no journalists: the count has gone from 2,089 to 3,749
The sites look like news organisations, publish constantly and have no reporters. Bangla is not among the sixteen languages counted, which…
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World
A Suffolk village has been offline for two weeks, and it happened to them once before
Two weeks without a connection, poor mobile signal as the fallback, and a resident who has to stand at a window to reach her 96-year-old…
World
When Lancaster lost power in 2015, two things kept working — and both are being switched off
The UK is planning for the kind of failure that takes out power, water and communications together. The 2015 Lancaster flood is the worked…
World
Ukraine cannot replace Starlink, and Europe will not have an answer until 2029
One company, owned by one man, supplies a capability Ukraine depends on and does not control. The alternatives are slower, bulkier and five…
Bangladesh
His office network is a phone tied to a bamboo pole: how Fazle Elahi freelances from a Kurigram village
A Jahangirnagar postgraduate who ties his phone to a bamboo pole for a hotspot is now a top-rated seller earning $1,500 to $2,000 a month…
Technology
Slovenia registered 44,000 web addresses in September. In August it was under 2,000
Trump wants AI called “super intelligence” — SI — which happens to be Slovenia’s country domain. The national registry calls the resulting…
Technology
Brazil legalised online betting in 2018. Eight years later the president has banned it, calling the industry a cancer
Lula signed a provisional order prohibiting all sports betting and online casinos, days before an election he is nearly tied in. Nearly 60%…
Technology
31 May: the man who made programming teachable was born, and a PhD thesis sketched the mathematics of the internet
John Kemeny, born in Budapest on 31 May 1926, worked on the Manhattan Project, assisted Einstein, and at Dartmouth in 1964 co-wrote BASIC…
World
Bangladesh’s internet freedom hits record low: US think tank
Internet freedom in Bangladesh has reached a record low as the authorities have continued to arrest users under the Digital Security Act…