Amazon’s Project Kuiper Launches With 27 Satellites for Internet Service

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Amazon launched 27 low-Earth orbit satellites on Monday night as part of Project Kuiper, which will provide satellite broadband services, competing with Elon Musk’s Starlink. The launch mission, KA-01 or Kuiper Atlas 1, used a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, and began its journey from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.  Missed the launch? You can watch … Read more

USTR report links Pakistan’s internet restrictions, Peca law to trade barriers

Representational image of containers placed at a port. — Reuters/File The United States Trade Representative (USTR) has released its annual report on foreign trade barriers, listing Pakistan’s trade and investment policies, internet restrictions, and corruption, among other issues disrupting commercial operations. The Office of the USTR issued the 2025 National Trade Estimate Report (NTE) two days … Read more

the Q1 2025 Internet disruption summary

The Cloudflare Blog

Cloudflare’s network spans more than 330 cities in over 125 countries, where we interconnect with over 13,000 network providers in order to provide a broad range of services to millions of customers. The breadth of both our network and our customer base provides us with a unique perspective on Internet resilience, enabling us to observe … Read more

The Internet’s Biggest-Ever Black Market Just Shut Down Amid a Telegram Purge

For years, a Chinese-language market for crypto scammers and money launderers—by some measures, the internet’s biggest black market of all time—operated in plain sight on the messaging service Telegram, facilitating tens of billions of dollars in illicit finance. Now, thanks to the scrutiny of one team of crypto crime researchers and Telegram’s ban hammer, it’s … Read more