The internet can seem ubiquitous and invisible at once, but it relies on an elaborate infrastructure that’s sometimes buried just below our feet. Author and artist Ingrid Burrington has created a ...

Explore how internet infrastructure and global networks really work, who controls critical data routes, and why undersea cables, cloud giants, and governments shape online power. Pixabay, ...

With a federal subsidy that has provided less expensive or free broadband internet to more than 23 million American households due to run out of money by the end of May, a new University of ...

A DECADE AGO someone realised that the locks keeping swathes of the internet secure were not working. OpenSSL, a tool used to encrypt anything from social-media passwords to e-commerce purchases, had ...

Internet-facing VPNs, routers, and remote access services absorbed sustained exploitation attempts throughout the second half of 2025, with nearly 3 billion malicious sessions recorded over 162 days.

Falling water levels in Panama’s Gatún Lake. A cyberattack on a payment platform. An earthquake disrupting silicon-chip production in Taiwan. Elon Musk deciding which countries have access to the ...

The internet is massive. But does it have … actual mass? Big server farms and miles of fiber-optic cables do, of course, but we don’t mean the infrastructure of the internet. We mean the internet ...

In 1973 Bob Metcalfe, a researcher for Xerox at Palo Alto Research Centre, helped think up a way for the company’s computers to send information to each other via co-axial cables. He called this ...

In the armed conflicts of today, shutting down the internet has become an increasingly common, deliberate, and systematic act of warfare. Across conflict zones, belligerent and warring parties attack ...