Internet

For years, brands never really paid attention to Reddit. But as LLMs and AI bots scrape the internet, Reddit has become valuable internet real estate for marketers.

AI summaries are keeping more users on Google, leaving many publishers and businesses searching for new ways to reach customers.

Cookies store your personal information. While they can be useful and remember your log in information, they can also track your behavior.

Undersea cables face threats from fishing, nature, and state-sponsored sabotage.

As the federal government tries to connect every home to high-speed internet by 2030, Kai Ryssdal visits a Kentucky town that already did that — 10 years ago.

The government is spending billions to expand internet access. But distance, low housing density and other factors complicate the plan.

We tour a North Carolina plant where melted glass is pulled into the hair-like strands that power fiber-optic cable.

The federal government wants to bring fiber connections to every home. In the meantime, some areas will still rely on the library.

Instead of tracking added sugar and fiber, they measure added fees and fiber speed.

“It’s quite a tasteless pursuit, but it seems as though it’s a pursuit driven by desperation, like they are casting around looking for ways to make money online,” WIRED reporter Kate Knibbs said of the YouTube obituary pirates.