#internet-access — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #internet-access, aggregated by home.social.
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Ars Technica: FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies. “The Federal Communications Commission last week eliminated the gigabit speed goal established during the Biden administration and declared that current levels of broadband deployment in the US are acceptable.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/21/ars-technica-fcc-abolishes-gigabit-speed-goal-suggesting-it-is-unfair-to-slower-technologies/ -
Trump FCC Weakens U.S. Broadband Speed Goals To The Benefit Of Elon Musk And Comcast
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🚀 Deutsche Bank is the FIRST in #Europe to offer yuan clearing, but good luck accessing the details because #Cloudflare has decided YOU shall not pass! 🙅♂️🔒 Apparently, using the internet is now a game of "give us #cookies or you're banned." 🍪🔐
https://tradersunion.com/news/central-banks/show/2973571-deutsche-bank-becomes/ #DeutscheBank #YuanClearing #InternetAccess #HackerNews #ngated -
Central Asia’s internet can change the moment you cross a border, with censorship ranging from selective blocking to a black market for access to the open web https://ow.ly/k6tr50ZyUIf #InternetFreedom #Censorship #DigitalRights #InternetAccess #CentralAsia
Internet Restrictions in Centr... -
We can't even access #Github after sunset.
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MakeUseOf: 4 free tools that find what’s wrong with your internet in minutes. “If your Wi-Fi has been flaky lately — buffering during video calls, lagging in games, or just feeling slower than usual — there are a few settings you should check before blaming your ISP. But changing settings is one thing; knowing what to change them to is another. Slow speeds or an intermittent connection […]
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Trump Admin Hijacked $21 Billion In Taxpayer Money Earmarked For Internet Access And Then Went Mute
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RE: https://mstdn.science/@YvanDutil/117027747097760897
This research is looking at the brightness of #ASTSpaceMobile satellites in #LEO for #InternetAccess …
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#Anthropic discovered three #incidents where #Claude models accessed the internet during #cybersecurityevaluations and gained #unauthorisedaccess to #realsystems. These incidents occurred due to a #misunderstanding with their #evaluationpartner, Irregular, about #internetaccess availability. The models, tasked with capture-the-flag challenges, exploited #vulnerabilities in the real systems, believing them to be part of the #simulation. https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals?eicker.news #tech #news #ainews
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These are some restrictions put on refugees, in Germany.
Replacing your passport with a number printed on a sheet of paper, when you leave the camp
Voucher (Gutschein)
payment card (Bezahlkarte) where money withdrawl is restricted
expensive Wifi where making a Hotspot is forbidden
#freeInternet4All #internetaccess
#NeinZurBezahlkarte
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Trump Just Made It Easier For Your ISP To Rip You Off With Bogus Fees
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🚀 Breaking news: #Starlink decides to charge more for their overpriced sky WiFi, leaving billionaires clutching their pearls and clutching their wallets tighter. 🤯 Meanwhile, Correnti, the voice of reason, labels it “reckless” as corporate jet enthusiasts weep quietly in their golden planes. 😢💸
https://www.corporatejetinvestor.com/news/starlink-price-rise-reckless-says-correnti/ #Price #Hike #CorporateGreed #InternetAccess #WealthInequality #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated -
Musk’s Starlink Socks Customers With $1500 ‘High Demand’ Surcharge
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🎭 It's heartwarming to see elite academics at #Cambridge finally catching up to the fact that terrorists also have internet access. 🤦♂️ Who knew Boko Haram wasn't just sitting in the jungle, waiting for the next postcard on AI trends? 📬
https://casp.ac/reports/ai-enabled-terrorism #eliteacademics #internetaccess #terrorism #awareness #BokoHaram #AItrends #HackerNews #ngated -
France24: Russia faces challenges trying to jam Starlink in Ukraine. “Footage reportedly shows Ukrainian forces destroying a Russian system deployed to jam Starlink. The satellite network, which is notoriously difficult to jam, has become crucial for providing high-speed internet access to Ukraine.”
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Hey Ezra Klein: Why Did You Stop Talking About Broadband And The Infrastructure Bill?
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The Guardian: Four in five under-16s in Australia using social media despite ban, study shows. “More than 80% of under-16s in Australia said they were still using social media three months after legislation banning them from it came into force, research shows. Australia is the first country to ban social media for children.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/26/four-in-five-under-16s-in-australia-using-social-media-despite-ban-study-shows-the-guardian/ -
🚫🔒 Oh joy, another riveting deep dive into internet access #errors, because who doesn't love reading about HTTP status codes? Sounds like the Cold War's top secret was actually a 404 page. 🐋😴
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-cold-wars-accidental-whale-observatory/ #internetaccess #HTTPstatuscodes #ColdWar404 #techhumor #webdevelopment #HackerNews #ngated -
Who pays the most and least for broadband in the EU?
In 2025, 94% of individuals living in the EU used the internet in the last three months, while only 4% went the whole year without using it, according to the latest Eurostat figures.
Furthermore, mobile devices were used to connect to the internet by almost nine out of 10 individuals in the EU last year.
However, the cost of this access varies dramatically.
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There's still no point in gigabit broadband
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/06/theres-still-no-point-in-gigabit-broadband/
#HackerNews #gigabitbroadband #broadbandtechnology #internetaccess #digitalinfrastructure #techdebate
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‘Stay protected’: How to safely use free public Wi-Fi without risking your privacy
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Internet Starts to Return in Iran After 3-Month Blackout
After more than 2,000 hours of government-imposed connectivity blackouts, there were signs on Tuesday that Iran’s internet is…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #Censorship #Internet #Internetaccess #Iran #Israel #MiddleEast #Politics #protests #War
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Internet Starts to Return in Iran After 3-Month Blackout
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Reuters: Iran’s president orders reopening of international internet access, state media reports. “Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has issued an order to reopen international internet access, Iranian state media reported on Monday, citing an official after a near-90-day blackout in the wake of the war against U.S. and Israel.”
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One year ago today, the Coalition on Digital Impact (#CODI ) was launched with a mission of ensuring everyone can navigate the Internet in their own language, using their own scripts. My employer, @internetsociety , was among the founding members. 🎉
I've since joined CODI's Board of Directors as I do see this as critical work to deliver on the Internet Society's vision that the #Internet is for everyone!
Read more about CODI's 1st year: https://www.codi.global/newsroom/building-a-more-multilingual-internet-celebrating-codis-first-year
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ProPublica: We’re Investigating Alaska Internet Companies. We Need Your Help.. “Alaskans pay higher costs for slower internet speeds than most Americans. The government has spent billions of dollars of public money to try to fix the problem, and we want to know how it’s really going in your community. Please fill out this quick survey to share how much it costs you to get online and what […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/20/propublica-were-investigating-alaska-internet-companies-we-need-your-help/