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The Global Knowledge Index (GKI) 2022 ranked Saudi Arabia first in the population using the internet and in the percentage of individuals with standard information and communications technology (ICT) skills. GKI showed that Saudi Arabia has five strengths including individuals with standard ICT skills, internet users' percentage, households with internet…

Despite all the furor, the future of the internet does not hinge on a pair of cases argued this week at the U.S. Supreme Court. There’s no risk that the statutory immunity that Congress granted long ago to internet service providers will collapse. The justices are being asked to decide…

The ban would hurt Americans—and there are better ways to protect their data.

Net neutrality is an unnecessary and failed policy.

“These are not, like, the nine greatest experts on the internet,” noted Justice Elena Kagan – a reference to herself and fellow colleagues on the Supreme Court.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court held oral arguments for a case that could substantially alter the internet. While the case was specifically focused on who should be held liable for automatic recommendations, the justices will ultimately be deciding how platforms manage content moderation and misinformation.

Corners of the internet have praised the arrival of (relatively) life-like women entirely generated by artificial intelligence, writes Matthew Neale. But what do these eerily homogenised women say about straight men, and should we be scared?

The United Nations’ educational, scientific and cultural agency chief is urging a global conversation on the regulation of social media and its role in the spread of misinformation in order to make the internet a safer place

Microsoft is ready to take its new Bing chatbot mainstream — less than a week after making major fixes to stop the artificially intelligent search engine from going off the rails. The company said Wednesday it is bringing the new AI technology to its Bing smartphone app, as well as…

Two supreme court battles in the US this week could ‘reshape the rules of the internet’.

Plus: The U.S. Supreme Court considers another internet free speech case, the Department of Transportation pushes expensive new rail regs, and more...