Enlarge / The Amazon logo at the entrance of a logistics center in France, July 2019. reader comments 182 with 118 posters participating Share this story Some days it seems like searching for an item on Amazon just brings up endless pages of junk with no clear pattern. There’s a reason for that, it turns ..
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Enlarge / This listing image is slightly hyperbolic—Nginx co-founders Sosoev and Konovalov didn’t do time in jail, they were “just” detained and interrogated at gunpoint in their homes at 7am local time. reader comments 86 with 63 posters participating, including story author Share this story Maxim Konovalov and Igor Sysoev—founders and creators of the popular ..
Enlarge / Amazon’s going to need some bigger boxes to ship those Outpost racks next year. reader comments 135 with 107 posters participating Share this story If you’re cramming last-minute Christmas or Hanukkah shopping online ahead of next week’s holidays, and it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight, don’t count on FedEx being the ..
reader comments 73 with 55 posters participating Share this story ICANN is reviewing the pending sale of the .org domain manager from a nonprofit to a private equity firm and says it could try to block the transfer. The .org domain is managed by the Public Internet Registry (PIR), which is a subsidiary of the ..
reader comments 86 with 62 posters participating Share this story The world of cryptocurrency has no shortage of imaginary investment products. Fake coins. Fake blockchain services. Fake cryptocurrency exchanges. Now five men behind a company called BitClub Network are accused of a $722 million scam that allegedly preyed on victims who thought they were investing ..
Enlarge / You’re not the only one looking at your phone’s location history. reader comments 78 with 58 posters participating Share this story Federal investigators trying to solve arson cases in Wisconsin have scooped up location history data for about 1,500 phones that happened to be in the area, enhancing concerns about privacy in the ..
Enlarge / The Federal Communications Commission seal hangs inside a meeting room at the headquarters ahead of an open commission meeting in Washington, DC, on Thursday, December 14, 2017. Getty Images | Bloomberg reader comments 56 with 49 posters participating Share this story Mozilla and other organizations today appealed the court ruling that upheld the ..
Getty Images | Steven Puetzer reader comments 121 with 83 posters participating Share this story AT&T doesn’t want its home Internet speeds to be measured by the Federal Communications Commission anymore, and it already convinced the FCC to exclude its worst speed-test results from an annual government report. “AT&T this year told the commission it ..
Enlarge / An Amazon Ring security camera on display during an unveiling event on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018. reader comments 58 with 45 posters participating Share this story A series of creepy Ring camera intrusions, including one where a stranger sang to an 8-year-old child and said he was Santa Claus, may be linked through ..
reader comments 49 with 42 posters participating Share this story The Federal Communications Commission plans to designate 988 as the short dialing code for the United States’ suicide-prevention hotline. Much like 911 for general emergencies, 988 could be dialed by anyone undergoing a mental health crisis and/or considering suicide. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline can ..
