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Turn the whole internet off and on again: If you’ve heard rumblings about the cybersecurity vulnerability threatening the web but don’t know what’s going on, senior tech editor Tony Ho Tran is here to explain.

From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2026

The picture is not one of clean lineages but of a tangled web of contact and exchange extending across millions of years.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

Google’s core business, built upon ranking and indexing the open web, is facing a structural disruption as artificial intelligence changes how users navigate the internet.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

One could be forgiven if memories of the cool-internet era have grown fuzzier over the years, now that the web has become a self-regulating machine in an indomitable surveillance system and all.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026

Coach Murphy had told them the results would be posted on the school's web page by that time.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

In some frontline Ukrainian cities, nets are hung high and wide across long stretches of road, forming corridors like spiders' webs to thwart aerial attacks.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

They form webs of businesses without storefronts that are owned by other businesses, passing vast sums of money back and forth and even overseas with minimal oversight.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

Oxygen loss can reduce or relocate their prey, damage habitats and alter the food webs they depend on.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026

One study found they can slow the growth of a microscopic marine algae known as phytoplankton, the base of several aquatic food webs.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

Annabeth suspected that without those webs, the statue Would have fallen through the weakened floor long ago.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

They also found a new "amphibious mouse", which has partially webbed feet and eats aquatic insects.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2024

Back in the forest, a Wallace’s flying frog sprang from a tree—its spindly legs and webbed toes spread-eagle—seeming more bat than amphibian.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024

Their feet are adapted for powerful swimming, with every toe webbed.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

While tarantulas wait below with their eight eyes pointed skyward, trapdoor spiders build a webbed door and fling it open when the unsuspecting prey walks by.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

They had webbed toes that splayed out as they sank into the sand and kept them from plunging under.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

It involves wearing a special suit with webbing to allow mid-air lift.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

The local authority advised people not to be concerned about the "harmless" white webbing seen in trees in Belle Isle Park, Exeter, caused by an infestation of caterpillars.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

Many spiders use their webbing to create balloons or parachutes that allow them to float away — sometimes traveling many miles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

While the baby spiders ride individual threads, the threads often clump, after which the spiders leave the webbing and go out into their new habitats.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 5, 2023

In the nylon webbing pocket in front of him was an in-flight magazine with an article in it about camels, which he’d read, and another about upgrading your business wardrobe, which he hadn’t.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood