When global pop culture collides with local language, the internet does not wait. That is exactly what unfolded after BLACKPINK unveiled the teaser of their upcoming track GO from their third mini ...

India has tightened rules governing the use of artificial intelligence on social media to combat a flood of disinformation, but also prompting warnings of censorship and an erosion of digital freedoms ...

An Indian nurse’s first-person anecdote about dealing with a desi family in the UK is going viral on social media, even though doubts have been raised about its authenticity. In a post shared on ...

Guyana minister switches to Hindi in Parliament. (Image credit: @AdityaRajKaul/X) Guyana minister Vikash Ramkisoon impressed with Hindi skills in parliament Ramkisoon challenged an MP to debate in ...

You see them everywhere: in train stations, restaurants, shopping malls. Yet, few people actually know what the letters "WC" mean. A viral discussion on social media recently shed light on this ...

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Two-week blackout tests system where web access becomes a vetted privilege. Regime insiders use “white SIM cards” for unrestricted access, while 85 million citizens remain cut off. Irancell’s CEO was ...

As of Thursday, 92 million Iranians have been completely blocked from accessing the internet for more than a week, in what is now one of the longest nationwide internet shutdowns ever, according to ...

The internet has a talent for turning harmless slang into something far more cursed. In early 2026, that process produced “lowkirkenuinely,” a mashup word that sounds nonsensical at first glance but ...

Iranian leaders have apparently shut down internet and phone networks in Tehran as protests erupt in the capital. Cloudflare, an internet firm, and the advocacy group NetBlocks said sweeping internet ...

Internet connectivity collapsed across Iran on Thursday amid nationwide protests, according to web monitoring firms. “I think we’re at a near-total disconnection from the outside world now,” Amir ...

Elon Musk’s Starlink is offering free internet service in Venezuela after the US conducted a “large scale strike” on the nation and captured dictator Nicolás Maduro. In a Sunday blog post on its ...