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Most Reddit Forums Still Dark, After CEO Doubles Down

Moderators of thousands of Reddit’s forums maintain blackout in protest at API fees, after Reddit CEO doubles down

Landlocked Kosovo has officially banned cryptocurrency mining as it grapples with soaring energy prices and electricity blackouts

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Australian state of Victoria switches on the biggest battery in the southern hemisphere to provide clean power to one million homes during blackouts

Blackout threat? Russian linked hacking group has compromised networks of American electric utilities

Yesterday's glitch threw Wall Street into one of the biggest blackouts ever experienced, but the outage was reportedly not a cyber attack

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War-torn Syria suffers another nationwide online blackout, with fingers pointed firmly at the Government

A cat signal by the Internet Defense League will warn about the next SOPA

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Several big name IT companies are considering overt protests against the proposed US Stop Online Piracy Act

A committee of MPs have said social networks should not be closed or blocked during civil disorder

Research in Motion co-CEO Mike Lazaridis has said that BlackBerry services have been restored

This week has just got worse for RIM execs after the BlackBerry outages spread to North America

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Libya's new Internet shut down throttles traffic but leaves its Web servers technically up and running

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Within hours, Egypt was isolated from the outside world as the comms infrastructure was completely kettled