Federal bill would allow clean energy companies to structure like oil companies Reddit · 21 hours ago
AT&T cuts another 1,800 jobs as it finishes fiber-Internet buildout – 1,800 new job cuts in addition to 23,000 AT&T jobs cut since December 2017. Reddit · 1 day ago
Porn troll Paul Hansmeier gets 14 years for fraud and perjury – Judge blasts Hansmeier for "almost incalculable" harms to justice. Reddit · 4 days ago
Study finds that a GPS outage would cost $1 billion per day – 90 percent of the technology’s financial impact has come since just 2010. Reddit · 4 days ago
Ajit Pai says NOAA and NASA are wrong about 5G harming weather forecasts | Pai tells Congress that NOAA warnings are based on bad data. Reddit · 5 days ago
Researchers discover "Fishwrap" disinformation campaign recycling images and reports from past terrorist attacks and presenting them as breaking news Techmeme · 6 days ago
Electric car charging in America just got a little bit easier — ChargePoint and Electrify America electric car chargers will be interoperable. Reddit · 7 days ago
Ubisoft announces UPlay+, a $14.99/month subscription service with access to Ubisoft's full library of 100+ games, launching on PC on Sept. 3 and Stadia in 2020 Techmeme · 1 week ago
A look at EverQuest, the 20-year-old game that served as the model for many other MMORPGs, inspired over a dozen spin-offs, and is still running to this day Techmeme · 1 week ago
Command execution flaw found in Exim 4.87 to 4.91 that could affect up to 4.7M machines; flaw was fixed in version 4.92 but never identified as a vulnerability Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Phone companies can block robocalls by default starting today, FCC says – FCC changes robocall rules and urges carriers to step up call blocking. Reddit · 2 weeks ago
FCC says AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, and US Cellular agreed to pay a total $2.5B+ for spectrum licenses in 24GHz-28GHz bands across the US for their 5G networks Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Ransomware recovery will take weeks longer, cost Baltimore more than $18 million – Mayor says Baltimore is "open for business," but city has lost millions from slowed payments. Reddit · 2 weeks ago
Apple says users of iTunes on Windows will not see any immediate changes, despite the app being shuttered on Mac Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Verizon avoided a decade’s worth of taxes—a new law could make it pay up – Proposed law targets Verizon, which didn’t pay tax levied by New Jersey towns. Reddit · 2 weeks ago
Apple shares its vision for macOS 10.15 Catalina: Cross-platform apps are key. The future of macOS is in iOS—but there’s other new stuff to be excited about too. Reddit · 2 weeks ago
A tale of lost WW2 uranium cubes shows why Germany’s nuclear program failed Hacker News · 2 weeks ago
China’s saber-rattling on rare-earths trade has US officials looking for options Reddit · 3 weeks ago