Massive Google Cloud outage disrupts popular internet services

Popular online services across the globe were disrupted Thursday due to ongoing issues at Google Cloud.

Tech Xplore

"In their zeal to curb #BigTech, #regulators are crafting legislative reforms that make distinctions between Internet services based on #size. A crucial Internet law, #Section230, is among the targets for such reforms. This essay discusses the nuanced considerations that regulators should address when drafting #sizebased distinctions for #InternetServices. It also raises concerns that such distinctions are not good policy in the context of Section 230."

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3863015

Regulating Internet Services by Size

In their zeal to curb Big Tech, regulators are crafting legislative reforms that make distinctions between Internet services based on size. A crucial Internet l

Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise. More

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Canadian judge rules thumbs-up emoji can represent contract agreement

A Saskatchewan court rules emoji is just as valid as a signature and orders a farmer to pay $61,442 for unfulfilled contract

The Guardian

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What all the stuff in email headers means—and how to sniff out spoofing

Parsing email headers needs care and knowledge—but it requires no special tools.

Ars Technica

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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/08/8chan-is-all-the-way-down-its-dns-its-always-dns/

8chan is all the way down—“It’s DNS. It’s always DNS.”

To find the what, why, and where of a dead site, you start with its DNS.