Computers and the internet articles
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Computer says no: British judge refuses to cancel divorce resulting from computer mistake
When a staffer at British law firm Vardags brought up the wrong computer file, it resulted in the wrong couple being granted an automated divorce. And now a judge, Sir Andrew McFarlane, has dismissed the company's application to reverse the error. — Read the rest
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The Freedom That Once Was The Internet
The Freedom That Once Was The Internet Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), It’s time to declare as regards the internet of old: Requiescat in Pace. In this photo illustration an internet page is displayed on a computer screen in London, England, on April 13, 2006. (Scott Barbour/Getty Images) It’s dead. We might as well face it. Nearly every large application and website in existence, meaning most of what people use on what we call the internet,...
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How the internet is deleting the past
Last year, Nanna Thylstrup wrote about the precarity of our digital past. Old blogs, once thriving with activity and personal memories, are unceremoniously deleted by platforms and users. The Internet Archive, a bastion of digital preservation, finds itself under constant assault. Search engines continue eroding, making locating and accessing information increasingly difficult. Movies and TV shows vanishing from streaming platforms without warning; we find out too late that our VCRs don’t work...