Internet
Business
Uncanny Valley: Pentagon vs. ‘Woke’ Anthropic, Agentic vs. Mimetic, and Trump vs. State of the Union
By Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger
The Big Story
Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible
By Jane Ruffino
Business
Jimmy Wales Will Never Edit Donald Trump’s Wikipedia Page: He ‘Makes Me Insane’
By Katie Drummond
Culture
A Computer Science Professor Invented the Emoticon After a Joke Went Wrong
By Benj Edwards, Ars Technica
Security
With the Rise of AI, Cisco Sounds an Urgent Alarm About the Risks of Aging Tech
By Lily Hay Newman
Politics News
Teachers Get Death Threats After MAGA Claims Their Halloween Costumes Mocked Charlie Kirk
By David Gilbert
Cyberattacks and Hacks
Why the F5 Hack Created an ‘Imminent Threat’ for Thousands of Networks
By Dan Goodin, Ars Technica
Culture
How One Wikipedia Editor Unraveled the ‘Single Largest Self-Promotion Operation’ in the Site's History
By Nate Anderson, Ars Technica