Amazon has blamed today's massive outage on the "DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1." @kentik.bsky.social observed a complete drop-off in traffic to this particular AWS service beginning at 06:55 UTC. Thousands of services around the world were impacted.

Since yesterday, the Taliban in Afghanistan have shut down the internet. Without the internet, many people are severely restricted in their daily lives. @ioda.live is a reliable source for tracking internet shutdowns. The measurement data is completely transparent and therefore quotable.

The shutdown is still ongoing!

Blackout in Afghanistan as Taliban orders internet service downed at 12:38 UTC (5:08pm local). Earlier this month, Taliban banned fiber optic internet in a rural province to “prevent immorality.” This shutdown follows brief national outage minutes earlier from 11:33 to 11:53 UTC.

What is the impact? ...from Putin's perspective. What comes next?

⚡️ Today, we published a report documenting the shutdowns during the student uprising in #Bangladesh last year. 🔗 ooni.org/post/2025-ba... Together with Digitally Right, we compiled a comprehensive timeline of blocks, outages, and political events that happened in the 22 days of the uprising.

LEO satellite operator Starlink currently experiencing a total outage beginning at 19:13 UTC today. #Starlinkdown No word yet on cause of the outage.

Satellite #Internet provider Starlink is currently experiencing a network-wide outage. They have acknowledged the outage, but have not yet provided information on a cause. x.com/Starlink/sta...

Aserbaidschan verschärft das Mediengesetz erneut: Ausländischen Redaktionen droht Schließung, Presseagenturen brauchen 20 lokale Abos – in einem Land ohne unabhängige Medien. RSF fordert: Gesetz zurücknehmen, Journalist*innen freilassen! #Pressefreiheit #Azerbaijan

⚡️ BREAKING: Zelensky announces next prime minister, launches government reshuffle. "I have proposed that Yuliia Svyrydenko lead the Government of Ukraine and significantly renew its work," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

For more information on the situation in Iran, follow @ammir.bsky.social and his colleagues at @filter.watch: bsky.app/profile/filt...

To put this in context, today's drop is in addition to the drop in traffic levels observed on June 13th.

As we hear reports of mobile Internet shutdown in Iran, IODA measurements are showing loss of connectivity on mobile networks IranCell (AS44244) and RighTel (AS57218). Follow connectivity in near realtime […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

TikTok has breached EU rules for failing to disclose sufficient information about advertising on the platform, the European Commission said today.

Teile der Trump Regierung nutzten einen israelischen Signal Clone mit eingebauter Backdoor für sensible Chats. Hierüber wurden komplette Chatverläufe unverschlüsselt an Server in der AWS Cloud übertragen. Wer welche Informationen abgegriffen hat ist unbekannt. Das war vermutlich nur der Anfang...

Despite misleading marketing, Israeli company TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs. My findings are based on TM SGNL's source code, and they are corroborated by hacked data micahflee.com/despite-misl...

Only a limited amount of information is coming out of #Myanmar following the heavy #earthquake. Publicly available measurement data from @radar.cloudflare.com shows a significant drop in internet traffic in the country. This indicates that parts of the infrastructure has been destroyed.

There is not much information from #Myanmar after the #earthquake with the epicenter near the 2nd largest city, Mandalay. The internet is partly disrupted. This is shown by data from @ioda.live, @radar.cloudflare.com, e.g. from the provider MPT. Internet restrictions makes it harder to report.

In den Koalitionsverhandlungen fordert die Union, das #Informationsfreiheitsgesetz abzuschaffen. Verhandlungsführer bei diesem Thema ist ausgerechnet Philipp Amthor. Durch das besagte Gesetz wurden Dokumente von Amthors Augustus-Intelligence-Skandal öffentlich. #IFG netzpolitik.org/2025/koaliti...

Of course, @signal.org is secure, even if you join a chat from a 🇷🇺 network, because it has a proofed end-to-end-encryption. Interesting that the US Gov is using Signal. It was founded with the support of the @opentechfund.bsky.social. One of the USAGM organizations whose funding Trump has frozen.

🚨NEW REPORT: first forensic confirmation of #Paragon mercenary spyware infections in #Italy... Known targets: Activists & journalists. We also found deployments around the world. Including ... #Canada? And a lot more... Thread on our @citizenlab.ca investigation 1/ citizenlab.ca/2025/03/a-fi...

@opentechfund.bsky.social President: Once we lose a user from one of our VPNs, particularly in China, it is almost impossible to get them back. This has clear consequences for any future U.S. government effort to reach people behind authoritarian firewalls. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

#Turkey starts blocking platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and X. Data from @ooni.org indicates that the first internet providers (not all!) in the country are implementing the blocking at around 5 a.m. today. The mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoğlu, was arrested in Turkey today.

Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa tells us about losing democracy

"European Parliament urges lawmakers to only use encrypted messages after China hacks" www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Da bin ich auf jeden Fall dabei. weact.campact.de/petitions/sa...

Investigating the latest subsea cable cut in the Baltic (h/t @auonsson.bsky.social) Based on BGP, appears that Latvian State Radio and Television Centre's cable (AS8194) cable was cut at 00:45 UTC (2:45am local) on Sunday morning when it lost transit from Arelion. www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas...

President Trump picks Media Research Center founder L. Brent Bozell III — who wrote a letter on behalf of his son, a convicted Jan. 6 rioter who assaulted law enforcement during the Capitol riot — to run the U.S. Agency for Global Media.

🚨 Tiktok went offline in the US last night at 03:30 UTC (10:30pm ET) 🚨 Graphic based on @kentik.bsky.social aggregate traffic stats. #tiktokban

#TikTok has now disappeared from the US Appstore. This is shown by data from applecensorship.com. The deadline for TikTok to hand over its business to a US company expired today.

Meine Meinung: Big Tech stärker regulieren, für mehr Vielfalt im Internet sorgen und redaktionellen Medien somit eine Chance zum Überleben geben. Aktuell bedeutet dies eine klare Konfrontation mit der neuen US Regierung. Ein tolles Interview zu dem wichtigsten Thema 2025. www.zdf.de/nachrichten/...

#Russland: Die ukrainische Organisation Detector Media analysiert die Kreml-Propaganda mit der die Invasion der #Ukraine gerechtfertigt wird. Direktorin Halyna Petrenko erklärt Russlands Desinformationsstrategie und identifiziert die Drahtzieher. rsf.org/en/exclusive...

Apple acknowledges that Siri unintentionally recorded private conversations "The only clue that users seemingly had of Siri's alleged spying was eerily accurate targeted ads that appeared after they had just been talking about specific items" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Net neutrality on the way out? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/t... #netneutrality #internet

Most media in Russia are blocked via the Internet. dw.com has been blocked since March 2022. YouTube was still accessible and people in 🇷🇺 used it. Since 18 December, YouTube has hardly been accessible 🇷🇺 either. This is shown by data from ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu.

Im Jahr 2025 müssen dringend entsprechende Weichen zur Regulierung von BigTech gestellt werden! www.heise.de/news/Spotify...

Broad interview (thanks to Deutsche Welle), where I was allowed to explore what’s wrong with China’s economy, where it has chalked up successes, and what the govt is or isn’t doing to bring about closure. Beijing is focused mainly on cyclical and supply, not systemic and demand youtu.be/xtJZd1dWq2I

My latest collaboration with the NYT is finally out! (it’s been months in the making) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Die Webseite Apple Censorship gibt euch einen Überblick über die weltweite Zensur im Appstore. Apple löscht seit vielen Jahren Apps aus dem Store in China und seit ein paar Wochen auch in Russland. Darunter VPN Tools und Apps westlicher Medienorganisationen. applecensorship.com/app-store-mo...

Use @torproject.org or Psiphon to circumvent online censorship. Deutsche Welle is blocked in Iran, China, Russia, Belarus and Turkey. youtu.be/tUaxyP3Yg50?...

Finally had some time to dig into the subsea cable cuts in the Baltic Sea that have gotten a lot of attention lately. Due to the rich fabric of connectivity in the region, the loss of the two cables caused minimal disruption. However, here are some subtle BGP impacts I was able to identify. 🧵

Bluesky trends in Google search requests, but you can see also a real usage of Bluesky in the increasing traffic.

Follow @eldomador.bsky.social for all updates about the detected fault in the submarine cable between Finland and Germany

Gibt es hier Apple User? Warum arbeitet Apple mit der russischen Zensurbehörde Roskomnadzor zusammen? Seit gestern werden Podcasts der BBC aus dem russischen iTunes entfernt. Zuvor wurde die App von RFE/RL (USA) entfernt. Davor wurden zahlreiche VPN Apps von Apple gelöscht. meduza.io/news/2024/11...

Wenn ein Land X abschaltet... Die Menschen suchen zuerst nach Möglichkeiten die Blockierung zu umgehen. Im zweiten Schritt suchen sie nach Alternativen und landen zum Beispiel bei #bluesky #brazil

X (vormals Twitter) wird in #Brasilien seit heute (etwa 3:00 UTC) geblockt. Das zeigen Daten von OONI.org Nicht alles ISPs haben die Anweisung scheinbar bisher umgesetzt.

Turkey blocks Instagram! www.ooni.org

#YouTube one of the last accessible western platforms in #Russia will be throttled/restriced. No confirmation yet. meduza.io/en/news/2024...