Getty Images | Hans-Guenther Oed | STOCK4B-RF reader comments 100 with 76 posters participating, including story author Share this story The Federal Trade Commission and officials from six states yesterday sued Frontier Communications, alleging that the telecom provider misrepresented Internet speeds and charged many customers for higher speeds than it actually provided or was capable ..
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reader comments 44 with 35 posters participating Share this story AT&T overcharged the District of Columbia government for more than five years and has “agreed to pay $1.5 million for its failure to comply with its long-term contract with the District for cell phone and Internet services,” DC Attorney General Karl Racine announced Monday. The settlement ..
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 344 with 166 posters participating Share this story Overnight, a broad selloff of prominent cryptocurrencies has vaporized billions of dollars in value. Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency affected, is off more than 18 percent in the last 24 hours. Currently, it’s worth just over half what it was in ..
reader comments 16 with 15 posters participating Share this story Verizon and other Internet service providers are preventing some low-income customers from getting new $50-per-month government subsidies unless they switch to different plans that are sometimes more expensive. Over 825 ISPs nationwide are selling plans eligible for the new subsidies that the US government made ..
reader comments 29 with 24 posters participating, including story author Share this story An employee for the city of Oldsmar, Florida, visited a malicious website targeting water utilities just hours before someone broke into the computer system for the city’s water treatment plant and tried to poison drinking water, security firm Dragos said Tuesday. Ultimately, ..
reader comments 70 with 41 posters participating Share this story To limit global warming to 1.5˚C by the end of the century, the world has to deploy clean technologies en masse while slashing investment in new oil, gas, and coal supplies, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency. Getting to net-zero carbon ..
reader comments 55 with 46 posters participating Share this story AT&T today announced it will spin off WarnerMedia—including HBO and Warner Bros.—into a new company, less than three years after AT&T bought Time Warner Inc. for $108 billion. AT&T said it struck a deal with Discovery, Inc. to combine WarnerMedia and Discovery’s assets into a ..
reader comments 41 with 31 posters participating Share this story The city of Fullerton, California, has agreed to pay $350,000 to settle a lawsuit it brought against two bloggers it accused of hacking the city’s Dropbox account. Joshua Ferguson and David Curlee frequently made public record requests in the course of covering city government for ..
reader comments 64 with 49 posters participating Share this story After the California Gold Rush, in 1870, two Kentucky swindlers whipped up a scheme to prey on thirsty financiers’ FOMO. They invented a diamond field out West. Investors sunk millions in today’s money into the scheme. All of it, of course, was for naught—a cautionary ..
Getty Images | Guirong Hao reader comments 105 with 93 posters participating Share this story Biden administration officials are not convinced by the broadband industry’s claims that Internet prices aren’t too high, according to a report today by Axios. The White House announced on March 31 that President Biden “is committed to working with Congress ..
