Enlarge / The AT&T logo displayed at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona on February 25, 2019. reader comments 27 with 23 posters participating Share this story AT&T has agreed to pay $60 million back to customers to settle a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit over the carrier’s severe throttling of mobile data plans advertised ..
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Aurich Lawson / Getty reader comments 107 with 61 posters participating Share this story 8chan was back online this week—albeit with a new name—three months after the site was essentially kicked off the public Internet. 8Chan is now called 8kun and located at 8kun.net. (In Japanese, “chan” is generally an honorific for children while “kun” is ..
Enlarge / The Apple Park campus stands in this aerial photograph taken above Cupertino in October 2019. reader comments 137 with 67 posters participating, including story author Share this story Apple has pledged $2.5 billion to help address California’s affordable-housing crisis, the company announced on Monday. In recent years, the San Francisco Bay Area has ..
reader comments 30 with 26 posters participating Share this story DirecTV and Comcast are being investigated by Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, who objects to the TV providers continuing to charge regional sports network (RSN) fees despite not providing one of the major regional sports networks. While Comcast is giving customers partial bill credits, DirecTV apparently ..
Enlarge / A stand of TikTok (Douyin) at The First International Artificial Products Expo Hangzhou on October 18, 2019 in Hangzhou, China. reader comments 25 with 22 posters participating Share this story A week after members of Congress expressed concern about Chinese ownership of popular short-form video app TikTok, national security regulators are taking a ..
Enlarge / Traffic moves through an interchange along Interstate 580 on July 25, 2019 in Oakland, California. reader comments 143 with 87 posters participating Share this story The White House is apparently blinking in a contentious lawsuit over fuel efficiency standards, leaving a number of major automakers that had backed the administration in an awkward ..
reader comments 30 with 26 posters participating Share this story Nation-sponsored hackers have a new tool to drain telecom providers of huge amounts of SMS messages at scale, researchers said. Dubbed “Messagetap” by researchers from the Mandiant division of security firm FireEye, the recently discovered malware infects Linux servers that route SMS messages through a ..
Enlarge / A Twitter logo displayed on a smartphone. reader comments 144 with 95 posters participating Share this story Twitter might be the president’s favored platform and a valued way for candidates to spread their messages far and wide, but starting next month, elected officials and candidates alike are going to have to make sure ..
Enlarge / The Facebook app displayed on the screen of an iPhone. reader comments 78 with 63 posters participating Share this story Facebook about a month ago confirmed that politicians are exempt from its speech policies and ad standards. That policy frees up holders of political jobs, and candidates seeking those jobs, to, basically, lie ..
Enlarge / Malware attributed to North Korea’s Lazarus group is confirmed to have infected a system on the administrative network Nuclear Power Corp.’s Kudankulam plant in India. Bloomberg via Getty Images reader comments 5 with 5 posters participating Share this story The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) has acknowledged today that malware attributed ..
