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Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

Enlarge / A photo of David L. Mills taken by David Woolley on April 27, 2005. David Woolley / Benj Edwards / Getty Images reader comments 17 On Thursday, Internet pioneer Vint Cerf announced that Dr. David L. Mills, the inventor of Network Time Protocol (NTP), died peacefully at age 85 on January 17, 2024.… Read More »

The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google

Aurich Lawson reader comments 149 with CNET, one of the great-granddaddies of tech news on the web, has been having a rough year. First, its AI-written articles sparked drama, then layoffs rocked the publication. And now, Gizmodo reports that the 28-year-old site has been deleting thousands of its old articles in a quest to achieve… Read More »