Internet
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Ask.com Is Dead, and I’m Begging Its Owners Not to Bring AskJeeves Back as a Chatbot
Ask.com, which was called AskJeeves until twenty years ago, is no more. You can tell someone didn’t really use the internet in…
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Amazon Says Its Cloud Facilities Were Disrupted Again Due to War in Iran
Amazon Web Services is experiencing its second service disruption in the Middle East since the start of the Iran war, less than…
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New Website ‘Channel Surfer’ Reinvents the Cable TV Couch Vegetation Experience for 2026
A few weeks ago, we covered a website that presented a constantly shifting selection of MTV videos, chosen without any algorithmic input…
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Amazon Cloud Facilities in Middle East Knocked Out by Apparent Iranian Drone Strikes
According to Amazon, drone strikes in the Middle East have targeted web infrastructure “directly,” resulting in multiple data centers being taken offline. …
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FTC Softens Enforcement of Rule Protecting Children Online, Ostensibly to Protect Children Online
An FTC regulation that makes online age restriction rules tricky in service of the wider goal of keeping companies from gathering any…
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Punch the Baby Monkey’s Ikea Plushie Is Selling for Hundreds on eBay
Punch, the baby macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan, has gone viral in some heart-breaking videos. The little guy was abandoned…
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Jikipedia Makes Falling into an Epstein Rabbit Hole Easier Than Ever
For all the unspeakable horrors they contain, the tranche of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails most recently published by the DOJ has also proven…
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Xikipedia Wants to Take the ‘Doom’ Out of ‘Doomscrolling’
The act of scrolling is generally associated these days with the concept of doomscrolling: the hollow-eyed, passive trawl through a constant barrage…
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Elon Musk Is Really Mad That Ryanair’s CEO Doesn’t Want Starlink on His Planes
You’re not going to believe this, but Elon Musk has called someone else an idiot on the internet. The world’s richest man…
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Google May Finally Let Users Change Embarrassing Old Gmail Addresses
Google is finally introducing a way for users to change their Gmail addresses ending with @gmail.com, just in time for the new…





