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Photo shows Bill Clinton typing out email in 1998. But was it his first?

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Laerke Christensen
Feb. 23, 2026 Clinton himself said he wrote his first email in November 1998. His late White House technology ...
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Does 'Nazis.us' redirect to DHS website? Yes, here's who bought the domain

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Jack Izzo
Jan. 16, 2026 Snopes linked the domain to an email address owned by Mark Davis, a candidate for Congress in Fl ...
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Has Biden's $42B broadband equity program connected no one to the internet?

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Emery Winter
Nov. 21, 2025 While the BEAD program hadn't connected anyone yet, government officials were still inching it c ...
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'Incognito mode' isn't as private as you might hope

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William Kramer
Nov. 10, 2025 In November 2025, some Reddit users were shocked to find Google apparently had access to their p ...
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The gray box comment issue on Facebook, explained

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Rae Deng
March 6, 2025 In early March 2025, social media users noticed gray boxes started appearing when leaving a Face ...
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Elon Musk Urged People to Stop Donating to Wikipedia. Here's Why

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Anna Rascouët-Paz
Dec. 27, 2024 Calling the free online collaborative encyclopedia "Wokepedia," Musk said it should "restore bal ...
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Video Shows North Koreans Pretending to Use the Internet?

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Aleksandra Wrona
March 17, 2024 The viral footage featured a North Korean man staring blankly at the Google homepage.
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WEF's Klaus Schwab Called Musk a 'Dangerous Extremist Fuse on the Internet'?

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Nur Ibrahim
Oct. 4, 2023 The chairman of the World Economic Forum has been the subject of many conspiracy theories.
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Did NASA Issue Warning About Pending 'Internet Apocalypse'?

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Alex Kasprak
June 30, 2023 Developments in our understanding of the sun's convection systems evidently go more viral when p ...
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Did David Bowie Say This in 1999 About the Internet?

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Bethania Palma
Nov. 20, 2022 The famed singer made some prescient remarks about the internet before it became as ubiquitous a ...
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Did the FBI Compile an 83-Page Guide to Internet Slang?

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Nur Ibrahim
April 21, 2022 Even the FBI needs help decrypting what the youth are saying.
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Did a Professor Berate a Student Unable to use Internet Due to Myanmar Coup?

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Alex Kasprak
March 21, 2021 "Alternate arrangements for the teaching of the course have been made," York University later an ...
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Did Paul Krugman Say the Internet's Effect on the World Economy Would Be 'No Greater Than the Fax Machine's'?

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David Emery
June 7, 2018 In a 1998 article about the pitfalls of making predictions about technological progress, the Nob ...
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Trump Signs Executive Order on Cybersecurity

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Arturo Garcia
May 11, 2017 Critics say the order threatens to lead to a "haphazard patchwork of fixes" regarding how to det ...
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Activists Threaten to Spill Congress' Browsing Histories After Privacy Rollback Vote

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Bethania Palma
March 30, 2017 One activist says he plans to create a searchable tool that allows constituents to look up legis ...
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SpaceX Rocket Explodes on Florida Launchpad

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Brooke Binkowski
Sept. 1, 2016 The rocket was carrying a communications satellite that was supposed to bring Internet service t ...
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Internaut Day: The Web's Birthday?

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Brooke Binkowski
Aug. 23, 2016 23 August is supposed to be the anniversary of the World Wide Web's birth, but that isn't its ac ...
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America to Hand Off Internet Domain Name Control

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David Emery
Aug. 17, 2016 Despite what critics charge, the U.S. isn't giving away the Internet, but America is relinquishi ...
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Trump Wants to Shut Down the Internet?

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Kim LaCapria
Dec. 9, 2015 Donald Trump made some confusing remarks about an internet shutdown or ban, but he appeared to b ...
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Is the 'Talking Angela' App Unsafe for Children?

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David Mikkelson
Sept. 30, 2013 The Talking Angela app supposedly unsafely prompts children to provide personal information abou ...
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