A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic.
The act explicitly applies to ByteDance and its subsidiaries such as TikTok, and any other "foreign adversary controlled application" (FACA)—defined as software that allows registered users to "generate, share, and view text, images, videos, real-time communications, or similar content", has at least 1 million monthly active users, and is based in or at least 20%-owned by people connected to a country declared to be a foreign adversary—that the president deems to be a threat to national security. PAFACA was introduced as H.R. 7521 during the 118th United States Congress by representativesMike Gallagher and Raja Krishnamoorthi, following years of various attempts by federal lawmakers to ban TikTok in the country. A modified version was passed by the House on April 20, 2024, as a rider to a foreign aid package, which was then passed by the Senate on April 23.
Donald Trump signed an executive order on January 20, 2025, following his inauguration, delaying the enforcement of PAFACA for 75 days, upon which TikTok was restored to app storefronts. As of September 2025, Trump has extended the deadline three further times through executive orders, claiming constitutional executive power to ignore the law's enforcement, while negotiating with ByteDance to have a controlling interest in TikTok by American investors as to satisfy the PAFACA requirements. In December 2025, TikTok agreed to a sale that will allow its U.S. operations to continue in compliance with the terms of PAFACA. (Full article...)
... that Gambit Digital acquired the rights to the 2023 video game Fae Farm five days after the original developer ended online support in September2025?
... that the sex-oriented blog Fleshbot received more than onemillion views in the week it was launched?
... that the emoji of the unofficial flag of Saint Pierre and Miquelon is often used online by Basques because it features the flag of the Basque Country, which does not have its own emoji?
... that Gambit Digital acquired the rights to the 2023 video game Fae Farm five days after the original developer ended online support in September2025?
William Ford Gibson, born (1948-03-17) March 17, 1948 (age78), in Conway, South Carolina is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. Gibson coined the term cyberspace in 1982, and popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In depicting a visualised worldwide communications network before the ubiquity of the Internet, Gibson is credited with anticipating important aspects, and establishing the conceptual foundations, of the Internet and the Web in particular. Although much of Gibson's reputation has remained rooted in Neuromancer, his work has continued to evolve conceptually and stylistically. After expanding on Neuromancer with two more novels to complete the dystopic Sprawl trilogy, Gibson became central to an entirely new science fiction subgenre—steampunk—with the publication in 1990 of the alternate history novel The Difference Engine, written in collaboration with Bruce Sterling. In the 1990s he composed the Bridge trilogy of novels, which focused on sociological observations of near future urban environments and late stage capitalism. His most recent novels—Pattern Recognition (2003), and Spook Country (2007)—are both set in a contemporary universe and have put Gibson's work onto mainstream bestseller lists for the first time.
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Image 1Postage stamp of Azerbaijan (2004): 35 Years of the Internet, 1969–2004 (from History of the Internet)
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Broadband affordability in 2011
This map presents an overview of broadband affordability, as the relationship between average yearly income per capita and the cost of a broadband subscription (data referring to 2011). Source: Information Geographies at the Oxford Internet Institute. (from Internet access)
Image 12The digital divide measured in terms of bandwidth is not closing, but fluctuating up and down. Gini coefficients for telecommunication capacity (inkbit/s) among individuals worldwide (from Internet access)
In the final analysis, more people will read more words off more screens and fewer words off fewer pages and when those two lines cross, ebooks are gonna have to be the way that writers earn their keep, not the way that they promote the dead-tree editions.
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