Enlarge / A Colonial Pipeline facility in Woodbridge, New Jersey. Hackers last month disrupted the pipeline supplying petroleum to much of the East Coast. reader comments 45 with 38 posters participating Share this story Ukrainian police have arrested members of a notorious ransomware gang that recently targeted American universities, as pressure mounts on global law ..
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Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 455 with 122 posters participating, including story author Share this story Last week, El Salvador’s government passed a law to accept bitcoin as legal tender alongside the US dollar. The country receives $6 billion in remittances per year—nearly a quarter of its gross domestic product—and the hope is ..
Enlarge / The Ohio Statehouse in Columbus. Getty Images | Joseph Sohm reader comments 247 with 159 posters participating Share this story Ohio’s Republican-controlled legislature is on the verge of imposing a state law to dramatically restrict the rights of cities and towns to build and operate municipal broadband networks. The Ohio Senate on June ..
Enlarge / President Joe Biden joins a CEO Summit on Semiconductor and Supply Chain Resilience via video conference from the Roosevelt Room at the White House on April 12, 2021, in Washington, DC. reader comments 122 with 75 posters participating Share this story President Joe Biden’s failure to break the Federal Communications Commission’s 2-2 partisan ..
Enlarge / The dome of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, DC. Getty Images | Phil Roeder reader comments 150 with 93 posters participating, including story author Share this story Legislators in the US House of Representatives introduced five new bills Friday afternoon that promise the biggest overhaul of antitrust law since the trust-busting ..
Getty Images reader comments 4 with 4 posters participating Share this story Humanity is struggling to contain two compounding crises: skyrocketing global temperatures and plummeting biodiversity. But people tend to tackle each problem on its own, for instance by deploying green energies and carbon-eating machines while roping off ecosystems to preserve them. But in a new ..
Getty Images | PM Images reader comments 74 with 55 posters participating Share this story On Friday, the broadband industry won a court order that prohibits New York from enforcing a state law that would require ISPs to sell $15-per-month broadband plans to low-income households. Lobby groups for ISPs sued New York to block the ..
Enlarge / AT&T’s logo at its corporate headquarters in Dallas, Texas. reader comments 111 with 85 posters participating Share this story AT&T CEO John Stankey yesterday called President Biden’s plan to fund municipal broadband networks “misguided” and said the US shouldn’t pay for any broadband deployment in areas that already have networks. But as AT&T ..
Enlarge / Boxes move along a conveyor belt at the Amazon.com Inc. fulfillment center in Robbinsville, New Jersey. reader comments 154 with 103 posters participating Share this story Amazon and a who’s who of online-only retailers are trying to kill proposed federal and state legislation that would make the companies disclose contact information for third-party ..
reader comments 72 with 55 posters participating Share this story Some broadband users who qualify for the government’s new $50-per-month subsidies haven’t been able to obtain the discounts because of technical problems in the Federal Communications Commission’s rollout of the program. The problems stem from the FCC’s National Verifier and how the broadband providers’ systems ..
