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What CIOs everywhere can learn from Canada’s nationwide internet outage

CIO

On July 8, 2022, a botched maintenance update on the Rogers ISP network in Canada crashed internet access across the country for at least 12 hours, with some customers experiencing problems for days afterward. The nationwide outage affected phone and internet service for about 12.2 The impact was profound.

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How to tell when your government shuts down your Internet access

The Parallax

But one oft-used government tactic in some countries to limit the ability of their citizens to communicate and organize has been absent so far: There have been virtually no reports of state-mandated Internet shutdowns in response to the protest. READ MORE ON GOVERNMENT INTERNET INTERFERENCE.

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Ethical Social Media: Oxymoron or Attainable Goal?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

For this generation, social media has generated a vast set of new ethical challenges, which is unsurprising when you consider the degree of its influence. Social media has been linked to health risks in individuals and political violence in societies.

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Kentik Virtual Panel Series, Part 2: How Akamai, Uber and Verizon Media Are Supporting Remote Work and Digital Experience

Kentik

Last week Kentik hosted its second virtual panel on scaling networks and services during COVID-19. As our moderator, Kentik Co-founder and CEO Avi Freedman was joined by network leaders from Akamai, Uber and Verizon Media, namely: Christian Kaufmann, VP of Network Technology, Akamai.

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4 questions every CISO should be asking about the metaverse

TechCrunch

Today, we are more or less at a similar stage in its development lifecycle as we were in the early 1990s for the internet. Social media platforms are awash with aggression, bullying, harassment and exploitation. Data governance, endpoint security, network security and much else will be significantly more important as PII proliferates.

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Difference between MAC Address and IP Address

The Crazy Programmer

Every computer or gadget connected to the internet has two kinds of addresses – one for its physical location and another for its online location. In addition to being known as a physical address, the media access control (MAC) address may be used to identify a device to other devices on the same local network.

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How to build a social media app: An entrepreneur’s guide

Openxcell

Forbes reports that the number of people using social media worldwide has reached 4.9 Over the last few years, social media has evolved from being primarily a communication channel and entertainment platform to marketing and growing businesses, contributing to significant social and political discussions. billion in 2023.

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