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Techdirt
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Aug 6, 2026
Trump Admin Hijacked $21 Billion In Taxpayer Money Earmarked For Internet Access And Then Went Mute
I've written a few times now about how the Trump administration hijacked a $42.5 billion broadband investment fund included in the 2021 infrastructure bill, stripped away requirements that the resulting broadband be fairly deployed and affordable, and instead redirected billions of dollars to Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos in exchange for slower, more expensive satellite...
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Techdirt
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Aug 6, 2026
Trump Admin Hijacked $21 Billion In Taxpayer Money Earmarked For Internet Access And Then Went Mute
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bead
Techdirt
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Jul 17, 2026
Trump Just Made It Easier For Your ISP To Rip You Off With Bogus Fees
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brendan carr
Techdirt
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Jul 13, 2026
Musk’s Starlink Socks Customers With $1500 ‘High Demand’ Surcharge
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spacex
Techdirt
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Jul 1, 2026
Hey Ezra Klein: Why Did You Stop Talking About Broadband And The Infrastructure Bill?
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Interaksyon
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Jun 3, 2026
‘Stay protected’: How to safely use free public Wi-Fi without risking your privacy
Trends + Spotlights
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Department of Information and Communications Technology
WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and Business…
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May 26, 2026
Internet Starts to Return in Iran After 3-Month Blackout
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Security / National Security
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The Colorado Sun: News, climate, politics, water, housing and more
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Mar 31, 2026
New technology helps first responders overcome digital dead zones in San Luis Valley
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Technology
GZERO Media: Global politics, world news and analysis [Unoffici…
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Mar 28, 2026
How can AI improve everyday life for citizens?
Ai
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Artificial intelligence
Global [Unofficial]
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Mar 5, 2026
Episodio 70 de KDE Express: Plasma 6.6.1 y las Naciones Unidas
episodio 70 de KDE Express
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**había nacido KDE Express**
WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and Business…
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Feb 9, 2026
Iran’s Digital Surveillance Machine Is Almost Complete
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Security / Privacy
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Aug 26, 2025
Over-Filtering The Internet
Despite many, many failed attempts to do so, people keep trying to filter the internet. Let’s look at the lens of the current moment through past attempts—including one led by, of all people, a librarian.
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censorship
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Jan 12, 2024
What Was ISDN?
For decades, the telephone industry supported a new technology designed to make copper lines more useful to the average consumer. It’s great—if you’re a voice actor.
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phone history
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Sep 22, 2023
The Modem Tax
How a real-life attempt to charge online services for using the phone line became an infamous internet legend. The “modem tax” was a chain-mail boogeyman.
fcc
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federal communications commission
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Jul 22, 2022
Surf Like A Shark
That time the company behind the GameShark cheating device came up with a dial-up online service for the Nintendo 64. SharkWire strangely targeted 7-year-olds.
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nintendo 64
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Apr 13, 2022
Free As In Internet
In the '80s, a defining online phenomenon—being able to use the internet for free—came from (of all places) Cleveland. Here’s the story of the Free-Net.
modems
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internet access
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Oct 15, 2021
Source Tags & Codes
The saga of the Missouri governor reflects a failure by the powerful to embrace curiosity—curiosity encouraged by the HTML language he fails to understand.
internet
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internet access
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Feb 5, 2021
Tab It Your Way
How the power-user web browser Vivaldi has managed to maintain a flexible design philosophy in an era when so much is decided for you online.
vivaldi
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web browsers
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Aug 11, 2020
News In Small Bytes
Newspapers said they wanted to protect the print product, but they were raring to go when it came to experimental online news approaches in the early '80s.
internet
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internet access
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Jul 17, 2020
We Were Promised Skynet
Satellite internet was once seen as a holy grail of connect-anywhere online access. It hasn’t worked yet, but the promise is closer than ever.
internet
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internet access
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Jun 2, 2020
Now You’re Playing With Power
How I found home networking nirvana with a powerline connection, a form of home networking that might be called poor man’s ethernet. No drilling involved.
internet
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internet access
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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May 12, 2020
Browse Minimally
Perhaps the problem with the modern web browser is that there’s just too much stuff. What if we cut things down to the bare minimum?
web browsers
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internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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May 8, 2020
The Internet’s Many Branches
The evolution of the top-level domain, a solution to a technical problem that has evolved into something with lots of cultural and marketing value.
domains
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domain names
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Apr 9, 2020
The Original Internet Bottleneck
Many early ISPs—particularly AOL—weren’t ready to offer unlimited internet access in the mid-’90s. That is, until a surprising disruptor appeared: AT&T.
aol
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america online
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