Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images reader comments 276 with 110 posters participating Share this story Update, 12:54 pm EDT: Facebook announced today that Donald Trump will remain banned from the company’s platforms through January 7, 2023. On that day, Facebook will evaluate current events and ask experts “to assess whether the risk to public safety has ..
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reader comments 161 with 71 posters participating Share this story The Justice Department has created a task force to centrally track and coordinate all federal cases involving ransomware or related types of cybercrime, such as botnets, money laundering, and bulletproof hosting. “To ensure we can make necessary connections across national and global cases and investigations… ..
Enlarge / In April 2013, more than 120 people attended a rally in Boston to remember Aaron Swartz and call for reform of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Getty Images | Boston Globe reader comments 107 with 59 posters participating Share this story The Supreme Court issued a ruling Thursday that imposes a limit ..
Enlarge / A Verizon FiOS truck in Manhattan on September 15, 2017. reader comments 2 with 2 posters participating Share this story Verizon is defending its practice of forcing customers to switch plans to get a government-funded $50-per-month discount, telling the Federal Communications Commission that this is not the same thing as “upselling.” Verizon has ..
Enlarge / Elon Musk isn’t sure. reader comments 34 with 29 posters participating Share this story The Securities and Exchange Commission is having a hard time reining in Elon Musk’s social media use, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. The regulator sent Tesla three sternly worded letters between August 2019 and ..
Enlarge / An Amazon Echo smart speaker. reader comments 49 with 41 posters participating, including story author Share this story Amazon quietly changed its terms of use last month, dropping a clause that forced customers into arbitration. Now, people can sue the company individually or in a class action. The change apparently was brought about ..
reader comments 298 with 221 posters participating Share this story If you use Alexa, Echo, or any other Amazon device, you have only 10 days to opt out of an experiment that leaves your personal privacy and security hanging in the balance. On June 8, the merchant, Web host, and entertainment behemoth will automatically enroll ..
Getty Images | spxChrome reader comments 68 with 59 posters participating Share this story US government data shows that home-Internet customers pay more each year and that average broadband expenditures are rising faster than inflation, but cable and telecom lobbies keep claiming that broadband prices are getting lower. The latest example came Wednesday from USTelecom, ..
Enlarge / A worker repairs a power line in Austin, Texas, on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. reader comments 232 with 129 posters participating Share this story Texas’ days-long power outages during last February’s deep freeze almost stretched into weeks or even months thanks to a string of failures at “black start” generators. More than half ..
Enlarge / A Charter Spectrum service truck in McKinney, Texas, on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. reader comments 94 with 73 posters participating Share this story It’s no surprise that cable companies charge lower prices for broadband when they face competition from fiber-to-the-home services. But an article yesterday by Stop the Cap provides a good example ..
