This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.

Why the internet kept breaking and taking down your favorite sites in 2025 ...

Weeks into an internet blackout in Iran, NPR speaks to a protester who is still online and a U.S.-based activist who is ...

Many in Iran are gaining brief and unexplained windows of online connectivity, offering a widening glimpse of the extent of ...

How a Beeping Modem Turned Into Lightning-Fast Connection Everywhere? Once upon a time - and not even that long ago - using the internet meant blocking your entire phone line, listening to a series of ...

Below is a transcript of an episode of “The Opinions.” We recommend listening to it in its original form for the full effect. You can do so using the player above or on the NYTimes app, Apple, Spotify ...

The modern internet was never designed to be the single point of failure for daily life that it has quietly become. Yet experts now argue that a large, cascading outage is not a sci‑fi scenario but a ...

With a gTLD application round set to open this spring, it’s a timely moment for digital entrepreneurs to understand how the process works and what they should consider.

The worst page on the internet begins innocently enough. A small button beckons the user to “Click me.” When they do, the game commences. The player’s score, or “stimulation,” appears in the middle of ...

VSCO filters, Kylie lip kits and the summer of Pokemon Go ...