reader comments 36 with 22 posters participating Share this story A critical bug that has lurked in iPhones and iPads for eight years appears to be under active attack by sophisticated hackers to hack the devices of high-profile targets, a security firm reported on Wednesday. The exploit is triggered by sending booby-trapped emails that, in ..
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Enlarge / A Charter Spectrum vehicle. reader comments 38 with 33 posters participating Share this story More than 230 Charter employees have tested positive for COVID-19, and at least two have died, The New York Times reported today. New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office has opened an inquiry into Charter’s labor practices and management ..
Enlarge / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on December 14, 2017 in Washington, DC, the day of the FCC’s vote to repeal net neutrality rules. reader comments 76 with 49 posters participating Share this story The Federal Communications Commission is in another dispute with the fire department that fought for net neutrality rules after being throttled ..
Enlarge / Bottles of MMS, the bleach product that Genesis II Church of Health and Healing was ordered to stop selling. reader comments 101 with 65 posters participating Share this story A federal court has ordered the “Genesis II Church of Health and Healing” to stop distributing a bleach product that Genesis claims is a ..
Enlarge / Protestors demonstrate against Washington state’s stay-at-home order at the Capitol building in Olympia on April 19, 2020. Karen Ducey/Getty Images reader comments 190 with 88 posters participating, including story author Share this story Facebook has nixed event pages for planned protests against stay-at-home measures in California, New Jersey, and Nebraska. The actions come ..
Enlarge / Unused mobile phones lie on the floor. Getty Images reader comments 98 with 62 posters participating Share this story As many as a billion mobile phone owners around the world will be unable to use the smartphone-based system proposed by Apple and Google to track whether they have come into contact with people ..
Getty Images | Photographer is my life reader comments 112 with 66 posters participating Share this story Update (April 20): The FCC unanimously approved the Ligado network plan on Monday. The order “was adopted without dissent and will promote more efficient and effective use of our nation’s spectrum resources and ensure that adjacent band operations, ..
reader comments 62 with 41 posters participating, including story author Share this story In a move that it had been planning since at least last year, the EPA affirmed the existing rules that limit mercury emissions produced by power plants. But the current EPA is not interested in wasting an opportunity to weaken regulations, so ..
Enlarge / US President Donald Trump departs from a news conference at the White House in Washington D.C., U.S. on Thursday, April 16, 2020. Some U.S. states and employers may be able to abandon most social distancing practices to curb the coronavirus outbreak within four weeks under guidelines the Trump administration issued to governors on ..
Enlarge / Dry years are ahead. reader comments 227 with 120 posters participating Share this story As the Colorado River slowly dwindles, groundwater resources are depleted, and wells are being dug ever deeper, the specter of drought looms in the US—particularly, but not exclusively, in the arid Southwest. Preparing for gradual changes like these is ..
