How To Build Your Own Internet in 2026

AI slop and enshittification are making the public social commons unbearable. The alternative pathways are more accessible ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Did YouTube algorithm spur ISIS killing? Supreme Court weighs Google’s liability in terror case over key internet law Section 230

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Mother Jones

Will SCOTUS Overturn This 1996 Law Governing the Internet?

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On Tuesday, they brought that argument to the Supreme Court in a case that has the ...
The Atlantic

The Supreme Court Actually Understands the Internet

For the first time, the Supreme Court is considering its opinion on the brief but powerful “26 words that created the internet.” Enacted in 1996, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act ...
Live Science

'Absurdly fast' algorithm solves 70-year-old logjam — speeding up network traffic in areas from airline scheduling to the internet

Network slowdowns could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a superfast new algorithm. The breakthrough offers a dramatically faster solution to a problem that has been plaguing computer scientists ...
EurekAlert!

How to put an end to gender biases in internet algorithms

Endless screeds have been penned on whether the internet algorithms with which we constantly interact suffer from gender bias, and all you need to do is carry out a simple search to see this for ...