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Federal judge grants a preliminary injunction that prohibits New York from enforcing a law requiring ISPs offer low-cost broadband plans to low-income families
Legislation would unmask third-party sellers, but Amazon is fighting it
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What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour
Not a drill: VMware vuln with 9.8 severity rating is under attack
Huawei officially replaces Android with HarmonyOS, which is also Android
Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors
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Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors
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Charter charges more money for slower Internet on streets with no competition
Researcher details a WebKit flaw, which can lead to a RCE exploit, that remains unpatched by Apple despite the availability of an open source fix for 3 weeks
Sources say Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC that could launch by year's end
VMware patches a new bug in vCenter Server, a virtualization management product used by an estimated 43K organizations, that could allow remote code execution
Google launches its third major operating system, Fuchsia
Texas gov knew of natural gas shortages days before blackout, blamed wind anyway | Ars Technica
Neutrons unlock the secrets of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek’s microscopes
By eating them, hyenas gathered 9 Neanderthal skeletons in one cave
Neural implant lets paralyzed person type by imagining writing [90wpm]
Volvo and Daimler bet on hydrogen truck boom this decade
A SpaceX booster now trails only 4 space shuttles in flight experience
Biggest ISPs paid for 8.5 million fake FCC comments opposing net neutrality
Google is going to turn on 2FA by default
Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then decided not to
Data leak makes Peloton’s Horrible, No-Good, Really Bad Day even worse
Netflix IT exec forced employees to use products from vendors that bribed him
YouTube is now building its own video-transcoding chips
Google AI leader has defected to Apple
ISP lobby groups sue New York to block a state law requiring ISPs offer a basic broadband plan for low-income families for no more than $15 a month
SpaceX has a green light from the FAA to fly Starship on Friday
OpenSignal: 5G-capable devices access mmWave 5G less than 1% of the time across all US carriers; Verizon leads with just 0.8% availability
Apple’s AirDrop leaks users’ PII, and there’s not much they can do about it | Ars Technica
Apple sued for terminating account with $25k worth of apps and videos
Backdoored password manager stole data from as many as 29K enterprises
NASA’s bold bet on Starship for the Moon may change spaceflight forever
4chan founder Chris Poole leaves Google
Wisconsin has negotiated a dramatically scaled-back deal with Foxconn
Everybody Hates “FLoC”
Researcher says he can link Facebook accounts to 5M email addresses per day
Cops “almost 99.9% sure” Tesla had no one at the wheel before deadly crash
Executives from Intel, Nvidia, and TSMC say the global chip shortage will likely continue at least into 2022 and maybe into 2023
Court orders Charter to pay $19.2M to Windstream for lying to customers that Windstream was going out of business in order to trick them into switching ISPs
When asked to fix something, we don’t even think of removing parts | Ars Technica
Court rules grocery store’s inaccessible website isn’t an ADA violation
Q Link Wireless, a Florida-based MVNO for low-income consumers, exposed the personal data of its 2M customers to anyone who knew a number from the carrier
How to achieve smart home nirvana (or, home automation without subscription) | Ars Technica
AT&T lobbies against nationwide fiber, says 10Mbps uploads are good enough
Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standard, White House says
Amazon tweets trolling Congress were so bad that IT thought account was hacked
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