Enlarge / French President Emmanuel Macron. LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images reader comments 148 with 96 posters participating Share this story The French parliament has agreed to pass a new law requiring age verification on pornographic websites to prevent access by children under 18, Politico reports. The initiative has the support of President Emmanuel Macron, who ..
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Enlarge / A Frontier Communications service van. reader comments 69 with 58 posters participating Share this story Frontier Communications misled thousands of customers about the prices it charges and about the speeds its broadband network can provide, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s office has found. The state’s investigation of Frontier’s business practices found evidence ..
reader comments 21 with 18 posters participating Share this story Microsoft has neutered a large-scale fraud campaign that used knock-off domains and malicious apps to scam customers in 62 countries around the world. The software maker and cloud-service provider last week obtained a court order that allowed it to seize six domains, five of which ..
Words projected onto the EPA’s headquarters during a demonstration. reader comments 151 with 61 posters participating Share this story A series of decisions in the last few days has halted or scuttled three high-profile oil- and gas-pipeline projects. The Keystone and Dakota Access oil pipelines—sources of long-running controversy—both suffered legal setbacks that will require additional ..
reader comments 181 with 107 posters participating Share this story Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today sued the Trump administration to block an action that forces foreign students with nonimmigrant visas to leave the United States or transfer to different schools that offer in-person classes. The schools’ complaint, filed in US District Court ..
d3sign / Getty reader comments 94 with 60 posters participating Share this story The secure chat app Signal has become the most downloaded app in Hong Kong on both Apple’s and Google’s app stores, Bloomberg reports, citing data from App Annie. The surging interest in encrypted messaging comes days after the Chinese government in Beijing ..
Enlarge / A stand of TikTok (Douyin) at The First International Artificial Products Expo Hangzhou on October 18, 2019, in Hangzhou, China. reader comments 128 with 91 posters participating Share this story Trade War! USA v. China View more stories The Trump administration is considering banning Chinese social media apps inside the United States, Secretary ..
reader comments 182 with 105 posters participating Share this story The Trump administration has officially withdrawn the United States from the World Health Organization, according to a Democratic senator and multiple news reports. But the withdrawal process will take a year, so Trump may not be able to see it through. “Congress received notification that ..
reader comments 62 with 46 posters participating Share this story The broadband industry has lost a key initial ruling in its bid to kill a privacy law imposed by the state of Maine. The top lobby groups representing cable companies, mobile carriers, and telecoms sued Maine in February, claiming the privacy law violates their First ..
Enlarge / Illustration of fiber-optic cables. Getty Images | Tetra Images reader comments 90 with 54 posters participating, including story author Share this story Google Fiber’s wireline broadband is expanding to a new city for the first time in several years as part of a public-private partnership to build an open-access network that any ISP ..
