Getty Images | Eugene Mymrin reader comments 111 with AT&T’s stock price hit a 29-year low on Friday and continued to sink today as investors fled telecom stocks on reports that cleanups of lead-covered telephone cables could cost the industry tens of billions of dollars. AT&T stock dropped 4.1 percent to $14.50 on Friday, reportedly ..
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Enlarge / AT&T’s stand at Mobile World Congress on February 27, 2023, in Barcelona, Spain. Getty Images | Joan Cros Garcia-Corbis reader comments 67 with Newly raised concerns about lead-covered telephone cables installed across the US many decades ago are putting pressure on companies like AT&T and Verizon to identify the locations of all the ..
reader comments 125 with [Update: Top10VPN’s head of research, Simon Migliano, told Ars that “demand for VPN services is significantly up in a handful of major EU countries, such as Italy (26 percent), France (19 percent) and Sweden (20 percent), and up around 12 percent across the bloc as a whole since the launch of ..
reader comments 32 with Yesterday, an Ohio plastic surgeon, Katharine Grawe—who accumulated nearly 15 million likes by livestreaming operations on TikTok as “Doctor Roxy”—was permanently banned from practicing medicine and surgery in Ohio. The decision came following a November 2022 suspension temporarily barring Grawe from seeing patients after the State Medical Board of Ohio reviewed ..
Getty Images | Christopher Furlong reader comments 188 with Elon Musk’s X Corp. is suing four unidentified data scrapers accused of “severely tax[ing]” Twitter’s servers and degrading the social network’s user experience. The defendants, known only by their IP addresses so far, allegedly “engaged in widespread unlawful scraping of data from Twitter” by “flooding Twitter’s ..
Artist’s conception of the FTC and Microsoft fighting over this deal in the courts. reader comments 96 with The Federal Trade Commission has given legal notice that it intends to appeal a recent district court decision that denied a temporary injunction in Microsoft’s proposed merger with Activision. The appeal notice, filed with the 9th Circuit ..
reader comments 338 with Data shows that a sudden spike in interest in Meta’s Threads—which surpassed 100 million sign-ups in five days, Mark Zuckerberg boasted yesterday—has likely already put a tiny dent in Twitter’s traffic, The Wall Street Journal reported. The news comes after a tweet from Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince went viral. In it, Prince ..
Enlarge / Comedian and author Sarah Silverman. reader comments 338 with On Friday, the Joseph Saveri Law Firm filed US federal class-action lawsuits on behalf of Sarah Silverman and other authors against OpenAI and Meta, accusing the companies of illegally using copyrighted material to train AI language models such as ChatGPT and LLaMA. Other authors represented include Christopher Golden and ..
Getty Images | BeeBright reader comments 62 with The European Commission today decided it is safe for personal data to be transferred from the European Union to US-based companies, handing a victory to firms like Facebook and Google despite protests from privacy advocates who worry about US government surveillance. The commission announced that it “adopted ..
Aurich Lawson / Duncan Hull / Getty reader comments 321 with Elon Musk’s X Corp. this week sued a law firm that Twitter hired last year after Musk tried to break their $44 billion merger agreement. Musk’s lawsuit in San Francisco County Superior Court alleges that Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz overcharged Twitter when it ..
