reader comments 117 Founded in Dresden in the early 1990s, Germany’s Solarwatt quickly became an emblem of Europe’s renewable energy ambitions and bold plan to build a solar power industry. Its opening of a new solar panel plant in Dresden in late 2021 was hailed as a small victory in the battle to wrestle market ..
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reader comments 166 After years of controversies over plans to scan iCloud to find more child sexual abuse materials (CSAM), Apple abandoned those plans last year. Now, child safety experts have accused the tech giant of not only failing to flag CSAM exchanged and stored on its services—including iCloud, iMessage, and FaceTime—but also allegedly failing ..
Getty Images | SOPA Images reader comments 101 Citing frustration with mobile carriers enforcing different phone-unlocking policies that are bad for consumers, the Federal Communications Commission is proposing a 60-day unlocking requirement that would apply to all wireless providers. The industry’s “confusing and disparate cell phone unlocking policies” mean that “some consumers can unlock their ..
reader comments 138 Continuing to evolve the fact-checking service that launched as Twitter’s Birdwatch, X has announced that Community Notes can now be requested to clarify problematic posts spreading on Elon Musk’s platform. X’s Community Notes account confirmed late Thursday that, due to “popular demand,” X had launched a pilot test on the web-based version ..
Getty Images | Smith Collection/Gado reader comments 101 Major record labels sued Verizon on Friday, alleging that the Internet service provider violated copyright law by continuing to serve customers accused of pirating music. Verizon “knowingly provides its high-speed service to a massive community of online pirates,” said the complaint filed in US District Court for ..
Enlarge (credit: AlexBard | iStock / Getty Images Plus) A feces-encrusted swim diaper tanked a family business after Amazon re-sold it as new, Bloomberg reported, triggering a bad review that quickly turned a million-dollar mom-and-pop shop into a $600,000 pile of debt. Paul and Rachelle Baron, owners of Beau & Belle Littles, told Bloomberg that ..
Enlarge / FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel and FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr arrive to testify during a House committee hearing on March 31, 2022, in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images | Kevin Dietsch ) A federal court on Friday temporarily stayed enforcement of net neutrality regulations but has not decided on the merits of a telecom-industry ..
Getty Images | SOPA Images reader comments 84 AT&T today said a breach on a third-party cloud platform exposed the call and text records of nearly all its cellular customers. The leaked data is said to include phone numbers that AT&T subscribers communicated with, but not names. An AT&T spokesperson confirmed to Ars that the ..
Getty Images | NurPhoto reader comments 309 Elon Musk’s overhaul of the Twitter verification system deceives users and violates the Digital Services Act, the European Commission said today in an announcement of preliminary findings that could lead to a big financial penalty. The social media platform now called X “designs and operates its interface for ..
reader comments 320 After the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary released a report accusing the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) of colluding with companies to censor conservative voices online, Elon Musk chimed in. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Musk wrote that X “has no choice but to file suit against the ..
