NYC prosecutor resigns after being filmed by internet vigilantes
A Bronx district attorney abruptly resigned after being caught on video attempting to meet a boy he’d been in contact with online, according to a video made by an Internet vigilante group that hunts down child abusers. William C. C. Kemp Neal, 30, resigned from the Bronx District Attorney’s Office four days after the group’s […]
Bangladesh ends 11-day mobile internet blackout after deadly protests
Mobile internet services were restored in Bangladesh on Sunday after an 11-day internet shutdown following days of student protests over government job quotas. The country’s 4G mobile internet services were resumed on Sunday following a meeting with internet service providers and other leaders, Minister of State for Communications and Information and Communications Technology Zunaid Ahmed […]
Would-be Trump assassin searched internet about JFK killer Lee Harvey Oswald, FBI director says
A Pennsylvania man who plotted to assassinate former President Donald J. Trump at a July 13 campaign rally had used a laptop to search the Internet for information about “how far away was Oswald from Kennedy,” FBI Director Christopher Wray told a U.S. House of Representatives committee on July 24. Wray told the House Judiciary […]
REPORT: Disgusting Last Internet Search Of Thomas Matthew Crooks Before Trump Shooting Revealed
Former president Donald Trump’s would-be assassin reportedly searched for porn before the shooting, according to the Daily Beast. Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old who attempted to assassinate Trump, was found to have searched for pornography on his cell phone shortly before the attack, according to a senior law enforcement source speaking with the Daily Beast. […]
Why is the internet down? What to know about the global Microsoft outage
An unprecedented global IT outage caused worldwide chaos on Friday morning, leaving passengers stranded in airports, television stations off the air and banks unable to serve customers. CrowdStrike, a major cybersecurity provider, released a flawed software update that dealt a major blow to users of Microsoft’s Windows operating system, causing many of their computers to […]
Bangladesh Reportedly Manipulates Internet As Students Mass Riot Against Government
The Bangladesh government imposed a “near-total” suspension of mobile internet services on Thursday after reports of violence by student protesters, a censorship monitoring group reported. The Bangladesh government implemented a “near-total, nationwide internet shutdown,” digital governance and cybersecurity watchdog NetBlocks reported on Twitter. The “new measures follow previous efforts to throttle social media and restrict […]
Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator II’ Trailer Drops, Exploding The Internet
The official trailer for “Gladiator II” dropped Tuesday, and it nearly broke the Internet. Not really, but it does look like we’ve got one heck of a movie in store for us. Then again, wouldn’t almost anything starring Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal and Denzel Washington, featuring big fights and attitude and historical contexts do well? […]
Viral Clip From MTV’s ‘Help! I’m In A Secret Relationship’ Has The Internet In Stitches: “Is This Real Or Is It A Skit?”
MTV may have hit its stride when it aired Nev Shulman’s 2010 documentary. catfish It evolved into a sprawling reality TV series, but now the network is trying again with a different, even stranger premise. Help! I’m in a secret relationship. In the series, which premiered in 2022, hosts Travis Mills and Rahne Jones help […]
The FBI Has “50-Percent Rate” Of Getting Speech Censored From The Internet, Court Filing Says
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The FBI is successful at getting speech censored from the internet 50% of the time, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a September court filing as part of an ongoing free speech lawsuit. DOJ Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar said in a September court filing that the FBI successfully convinced social […]
Economist editorial mocking Biden with image of walker breaks internet: ‘Goes for the jugular’
The liberal magazine The Economist stunned social media users on July 4th with a surprising new cover story that harshly criticized President Biden’s age and fitness for the presidency. Most notably, Cover article It featured an image of an elderly person’s walker with the presidential seal emblazoned on it, along with the words “No way […]