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Topic: Internet

What is ‘Posting Zero’? The internet generation is growing tired of social media

Coined by The New Yorker’s Kyle Chayka in his weekly column Infinite scroll, Posting Zero refers to daily life updates by an average online user becoming rarer.

How a dormant bug shut down ChatGPT, X, Canva. Cloudflare outage exposes big risks

The problem was mitigated within a few hours, but it had a significant revenue dent. For Cloudflare itself, the hit was modest but real—its stock slipped briefly.

Cloudflare outage is a sharp warning to India. We’re exposed to foreign digital failures

Digital sovereignty cannot stop at government cloud systems. It must extend to the networking, CDN, AI, and security layers permeating the entire economy.

Govt report flags digital divide in schools—25% in Bihar, Bengal have computer facilities, 65% nationally

Similarly, only 18.6% of schools in Bengal have internet connectivity as compared to 63.5% nationally, says UDISE+ 2024-25 report. Chandigarh, Delhi & Lakshadweep boast 100% access.

UK govt announces broadband contract for 37,000 homes

Isolated communities to see major upgrade in internet speeds.

India’s push for faster internet in Northeast hit as Bangladesh cancels bandwidth supply agreement

The proposal involved using the India-Bangladesh Akhaura border in Tripura as a transit route from Singapore to connect the region with Southeast Asia via Bharti Airtel’s network.

50% of India’s internet users don’t know how to send email, a third know online banking—govt survey

CAM survey by National Sample Survey Office showed big rural-urban gap in ability to use internet, with only 53.6% respondents able to operate it in rural areas, and 74% in urban areas.

SubscriberWrites: The Evolution Of The Internet

Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was first awarded the contract to form the same in a local area they called it ARPANET.

Internet access can be good for you, says Oxford study. Unless you’re a young woman

84.9% of associations between internet connectivity and well-being were positive. Only 5% of the associations were negative—mostly observed among 15 to 24-year-old women.

From Jat agitation to Nuh violence, mobile internet services cut 55 times in Haryana in last 8 years

Data submitted in Haryana assembly by Anil Vij during Question Hour earlier this week, in reply to a query by Nuh MLA and Congress leader Aftab Ahmed.

On Camera

Can Pakistan stay neutral on Iran? Saudi Arabia holds the purse strings

Security of Saudi Arabia is something that Pakistani armed forces have committed themselves to for a long time, even before the September 2025 agreement.

Iran war pummels India’s already turbulent aviation sector. Your ticket fare will get hit next

More than 1,600 flights were canceled between 28 February and 3 March. Aviation consultants have now started weighing the cost of the conflict in the Middle East.

SMPP secures order for additional 10,000 bulletproof jackets for paramilitary forces

SMPP Limited gets order for additional 10,000 bulletproof jackets for BSF, CISF & SSB. This is over & above the existing order for 40,000 jackets, taking the total to 50,000.

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.