What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel

The Domain Name System, like most pieces of the internet, was designed to be distributed across many computers. Concentration ...
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Ohanian And Altman Warn Of ‘Dead Internet Theory’—What Is It And How Is AI Making It Happen?

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman have warned on social media in recent weeks of the “Dead Internet Theory,” an idea that the internet is dominated by bot activity ...
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What to know about the Amazon cloud outage that exposed the internet's vulnerable backbone

A massive internet outage stemming from errors in Amazon cloud services ... and what the malfunction reveals about a rapidly ...

Sora gives deepfakes 'a publicist and a distribution deal.' It could change the internet

OpenAI's new hit app has unleashed a new wave of AI slop across the internet. But what happens when there are no rules over ...