Slashdot Items Tagged "communications"

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Monday April 20, 2026 @02:06AM Zoom Partners With Sam Altman's Iris-Scanning Company To Offer Callers Verifications of Humanness
Tuesday April 07, 2026 @09:45PM Planet Labs Tests AI-Powered Object Detection On Satellite
Tuesday April 07, 2026 @01:50PM Supreme Court Wipes Piracy Liability Verdict Against Grande Communications
Saturday April 04, 2026 @01:47AM Before Webcomics: Selling Political Cartoons On BBSes In 1992
Tuesday March 31, 2026 @06:29PM SpaceX Starlink Satellite Suffers Mysterious 'Anomaly' In Orbit
Monday March 30, 2026 @03:50PM After 16 Years and $8 Billion, the Military's New GPS Software Still Doesn't Work
Monday March 09, 2026 @07:00PM Startup Wants To Launch a Space Mirror
Saturday March 07, 2026 @01:21AM Military GPS Jamming is Interfering with the Navigation Systems of Commercial Ships
Monday March 02, 2026 @02:56PM Charter Gets FCC Permission To Buy Cox, Become Largest ISP In the US
Sunday March 01, 2026 @01:04AM Americans Listen to Podcasts More Than Talk Radio Now, Study Shows
Wednesday February 18, 2026 @02:26PM Texas Sues TP-Link Over China Links and Security Vulnerabilities
Friday February 13, 2026 @03:21PM 600% Memory Price Surge Threatens Telcos' Broadband Router, Set-Top Box Supply
Wednesday February 11, 2026 @10:01AM T-Mobile Will Live Translate Regular Phone Calls Without an App
Monday February 02, 2026 @11:10AM High-Speed Internet Boom Hits Low-Tech Snag: a Labor Shortage
Wednesday January 21, 2026 @08:44PM Blue Origin's Satellite Internet Network TeraWave Will Move Data At 6 Tbps
Wednesday January 21, 2026 @04:18PM HAM Radio Operators In Belarus Arrested, Face the Death Penalty
Saturday January 17, 2026 @08:35PM Could We Provide Better Cellphone Service With Fewer, Bigger Satellites?
Saturday January 17, 2026 @08:06PM Acer Sues Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile, Alleging Infringment on Acer's Cellular Networking Patents
Friday January 16, 2026 @01:09PM Verizon Offers $20 Credit After Nationwide Outage Stranded Users in SOS Mode For Hours
Thursday January 15, 2026 @06:28PM Iran's Internet Shutdown Is Now One of the Longest Ever
Wednesday January 14, 2026 @03:18PM Widespread Verizon Outage Prompts Emergency Alerts in Washington, New York City
Tuesday January 13, 2026 @10:24PM Iran Shuts Down Musk's Starlink For First Time
Monday January 12, 2026 @10:23AM Cloudflare Threatens Italy Exit After $16.3M Fine For Refusing Piracy Blocks
Friday January 09, 2026 @07:49PM French-UK Starlink Rival Pitches Canada On 'Sovereign' Satellite Service
Wednesday December 31, 2025 @01:36PM Net Neutrality Was Back, Until It Wasn't
Monday December 15, 2025 @03:00PM Verizon Refused To Unlock Man's iPhone, So He Sued the Carrier and Won
Wednesday December 10, 2025 @08:26PM NASA Loses Contact With MAVEN Mars Orbiter
Thursday November 20, 2025 @06:51PM IBM, Cisco Outline Plans For Networks of Quantum Computers By Early 2030s
Friday November 14, 2025 @12:16AM Amazon Renames 'Project Kuiper' Satellite Internet Venture To 'Leo'
Thursday November 13, 2025 @02:42PM Germany To Ban Huawei From Future 6G Network in Sovereignty Push
Thursday November 13, 2025 @12:51PM Verizon To Cut About 15,000 Jobs
Tuesday November 11, 2025 @10:12PM Sun Unleashes Strongest Solar Flare of 2025
Sunday November 09, 2025 @07:53PM Apple Explores New Satellite Features for Future iPhones
Wednesday November 05, 2025 @03:17PM T-Mobile Brings Free 911 Emergency Texting To AT&T and Verizon Customers
Sunday November 02, 2025 @10:23PM Manufacturer Remotely Bricks Smart Vacuum After Its Owner Blocked It From Collecting Data
Friday October 31, 2025 @07:47PM SpaceX Set To Win $2 Billion Pentagon Satellite Deal
Wednesday October 29, 2025 @01:44PM FCC's Gomez Slams Move To Revise Broadband Labels as 'Anti-Consumer'
Thursday October 23, 2025 @05:28PM Programmer Gets Doom Running On a Space Satellite
Wednesday October 22, 2025 @11:11PM SpaceX Disables 2,500 Starlink Terminals Allegedly Used By Asian Scam Centers
Monday October 20, 2025 @08:00PM SpaceX Launches 10,000th Starlink Satellite
Friday October 17, 2025 @10:19PM A Classified Network of SpaceX Satellites Is Emitting a Mysterious Signal
Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:33AM ISPs Object as California Lets Renters Opt Out of Bulk Broadband Plans
Tuesday October 14, 2025 @06:43AM Satellites Are Leaking the World's Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
Thursday October 09, 2025 @11:25AM ISPs Created So Many Fees That FCC Will Kill Requirement To List Them All
Friday October 03, 2025 @05:31PM Thwarted Plot To Cripple Cell Service In NY Was Bigger Than First Thought
Friday September 26, 2025 @03:37PM ULA Launches Third Batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper Satellites
Tuesday September 23, 2025 @10:41AM US Secret Service 'Dismantles Telecommunications Threat'
Monday September 15, 2025 @08:07PM UK's MI5 'Unlawfully' Obtained Data From Former BBC Journalist
Friday September 12, 2025 @04:30PM California Bill Lets Renters Escape Exclusive Deals Between ISPs and Landlords
Wednesday September 10, 2025 @06:02PM US Warns Hidden Radios May Be Embedded In Solar-Powered Highway Infrastructure
Tuesday September 09, 2025 @07:03AM Pakistan Spying On Millions Through Phone-Tapping And Firewall, Amnesty Says
Wednesday September 03, 2025 @04:38PM Garmin Beats Apple to Market with Satellite-Connected Smartwatch
Tuesday August 26, 2025 @07:55AM AT&T To Buy Wireless Spectrum From EchoStar For $23 Billion Cash
Thursday August 21, 2025 @12:00PM T-Mobile Claimed Selling Location Data Without Consent is Legal - Judges Disagree
Wednesday August 13, 2025 @10:26PM Russia Restricts Calls Via WhatsApp and Telegram
Wednesday August 13, 2025 @03:24AM ULA Launches First National Security Mission On Vulcan Centaur Rocket
Tuesday August 12, 2025 @12:05AM Amazon's Starlink Competitor Tops 100 Satellites
Friday August 08, 2025 @02:28PM The FCC Will Review Emergency Alert Systems in the US
Wednesday August 06, 2025 @01:00AM NASA Satellites That Scientists and Farmers Rely On May Be Destroyed On Purpose
Thursday July 24, 2025 @04:22PM Starlink Suffers Worldwide Outage
Wednesday July 23, 2025 @04:24PM Starlink-Powered 'T-Satellite' Service Is Now Live On T-Mobile
Monday July 21, 2025 @10:47AM T-Mobile is Bringing Low-Latency Tech To 5G For the First Time
Thursday July 17, 2025 @09:13PM SES Completes $3 Billion Acquisition of Intelsat, Expanding Global Satellite Fleet
Wednesday July 16, 2025 @06:46PM Transatlantic Communications Cable Doubles As Ocean Sensor
Monday July 14, 2025 @07:30PM Japan Sets New Internet Speed Record, Surpassing Average US Broadband Speeds By 4 Million Times
Tuesday July 08, 2025 @06:39PM Chinese Satellites Complete First High-Altitude Rendezvous For Possible Groundbreaking Refueling
Tuesday July 01, 2025 @06:11PM Bezos-Backed Methane Tracking Satellite Is Lost In Space
Tuesday July 01, 2025 @02:01PM AT&T Now Lets Customers Lock Down Account To Prevent SIM Swapping Attacks
Tuesday July 01, 2025 @10:48AM FCC Delays Enforcement of Prison Call Pricing Limits
Friday June 27, 2025 @01:37PM Android 16 Will Tell You When Fake Cell Towers Try To Track Your Phone
Friday June 27, 2025 @01:19PM Supreme Court Rejects Challenge To FCC Broadband Subsidy Program
Friday June 27, 2025 @02:37AM Starlink Helps Eight More Nations Pass 50% IPv6 Adoption
Monday June 23, 2025 @04:01PM Canadian Telecom Hacked By Suspected China State Group
Monday June 23, 2025 @10:41AM House Bans WhatsApp on Congressional Staff Devices Over Security Concerns
Wednesday June 18, 2025 @12:40PM NFC Release 15 Extends Tap-to-Pay Range From 0.5cm To 2cm
Friday June 13, 2025 @05:15PM Strange Radio Pulses Detected Coming From Ice In Antarctica
Friday June 06, 2025 @04:49PM Lawmakers Vote To Stop NYPD's Attempt To Encrypt Their Radios
Tuesday June 03, 2025 @02:20PM T-Mobile Launches Fiber Internet Service in the US With a Five-Year Price Lock
Friday May 30, 2025 @02:54PM ISPs Ask Justice Department To Sue States Over Low-Income Broadband Mandates After Court Losses
Tuesday May 27, 2025 @01:47PM Qualcomm-Funded Study Finds Qualcomm's Modems Outperform Apple's C1 Chip in Real-World Tests
Monday May 26, 2025 @06:38PM The CIA Secretly Ran a Star Wars Fan Site
Thursday May 22, 2025 @12:00PM Verizon Asks For An End To Its Phone Unlocking Requirements
Wednesday May 21, 2025 @09:56PM Phone Companies Failed To Warn Senators About Surveillance, Wyden Says
Tuesday May 20, 2025 @06:46PM Starfish Space Announces Plans For First Commercial Satellite Docking
Friday May 16, 2025 @09:11PM NASA Resurrects Voyager 1 Interstellar Spacecraft's Thrusters After 20 Years
Tuesday May 13, 2025 @06:47PM FCC Threatens EchoStar Licenses For Spectrum That's 'Ripe For Sharing'
Tuesday May 13, 2025 @02:35PM Google Says Over 1 Billion RCS Messages Sent in the US Daily
Friday May 09, 2025 @04:42PM Newark Airport Radar Outage Strikes Again, Delaying More Flights
Thursday May 08, 2025 @09:30PM SpaceX Gets Approval To Sell Starlink In India
Thursday May 08, 2025 @08:59PM Trump To End Biden-Era High-Speed Internet Program
Tuesday May 06, 2025 @04:41PM iOS 18.5 Enables Carrier Satellite Service Like T-Mobile Starlink On Older iPhones
Wednesday April 30, 2025 @07:01PM Satellite Launches On Mission To 'Weigh' World's 1.5 Trillion Trees
Tuesday April 29, 2025 @02:15PM SK Telecom Offers SIM Replacements After Major Data Breach
Wednesday April 23, 2025 @06:27PM Quantum Messages Travel 254 km Using Existing Infrastructure For the First Time
Wednesday April 23, 2025 @11:12AM Amazon's Starlink Rival Struggles To Ramp Up Satellite Production
Wednesday April 23, 2025 @10:00AM Deep-Sea Fishers Fight for Wi-Fi
Thursday April 17, 2025 @07:05PM Q-CTRL Unveils Jam-Proof Positioning System That's 50x More Accurate Than GPS
Tuesday April 15, 2025 @11:14AM FCC Chairman Tells Europe To Choose Between US or Chinese Communications Tech
Wednesday April 02, 2025 @10:48PM ESA's New Documentary Paints Worrying Picture of Earth's Orbital Junk Problem
Wednesday April 02, 2025 @10:37PM Amazon Set To Launch First Operational Satellites For Project Kuiper Network
Saturday March 29, 2025 @02:31PM 'An Open Letter To Meta: Support True Messaging Interoperability With XMPP'
Sunday March 23, 2025 @05:20PM Is WhatsApp Being Ditched for Signal in Dutch Higher Education?
Monday March 17, 2025 @05:17PM Top Broadband Official Exits Commerce Department With Warning About Starlink
Monday March 17, 2025 @03:23AM Alphabet Spins Off Laser-Based Internet Project Taara From 'Moonshot' Unit
Friday March 14, 2025 @09:20AM T-Mobile Raising Rates for More Legacy Customers
Tuesday March 11, 2025 @07:25AM SpaceX Readies Starlink India Launch
Friday March 07, 2025 @11:46PM Rayhunter: A Cheap New Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying
Friday March 07, 2025 @02:17PM Why Most Countries Are Struggling To Shut Down 2G
Thursday March 06, 2025 @05:23PM Starlink Benefits As Trump Admin Rewrites Rules For $42 Billion Grant Program
Thursday March 06, 2025 @02:03PM US Communications Agency To Explore Alternatives To GPS Systems
Thursday February 27, 2025 @08:58PM Viral Video Shows AIs Conversing In Their Own Language
Monday February 24, 2025 @05:36PM AT&T and Verizon Connect First Cellphone-To-Satellite Video Calls
Tuesday February 18, 2025 @12:16PM Nokia is Putting the First Cellular Network On the Moon
Monday February 10, 2025 @08:43PM Pidgin Adds Google Talk Voice and Video Support (and a Vulnerability)
Sunday February 02, 2025 @01:56PM Remote Cybersecurity Scans and F-35 Updates: A US Navy Aircraft Carrier Gets High-Speed Internet
Sunday February 02, 2025 @12:07PM IPhones and Some Android Phones Will Support Starlink Direct-to-Cell Coverage in US
Sunday February 02, 2025 @01:44AM IPhones and Some Android Phones Will Support Starlink Direct-to-Cell Coverage in US
Saturday February 01, 2025 @02:32AM America's FDA Warns About Backdoor Found in Chinese Company's Patient Monitors
Friday January 31, 2025 @12:28AM AM Radio For All Vehicles Legislation Reintroduced
Tuesday January 28, 2025 @04:37PM FCC Will Drop Biden Plan To Ban Bulk Broadband Billing For Tenants
Tuesday January 21, 2025 @10:24AM Brendan Carr is Officially in Charge of the FCC
Sunday January 12, 2025 @09:39PM Starlink's Satellite Internet is Cheaper than Leading ISPs in Five African Countries
Wednesday January 08, 2025 @09:58PM Italy Plans $1.6 Billion SpaceX Telecom Security Deal
Tuesday December 31, 2024 @06:27PM NATO Plans To Build Satellite Links As Backups To Undersea Cables
Wednesday December 25, 2024 @11:07AM FCC 'Rip and Replace' Provision For Chinese Tech Tops Cyber Provisions in Defense Bill
Thursday December 19, 2024 @05:38PM Starlink's First Nationwide Satellite Texting Service Goes Live In New Zealand
Thursday December 19, 2024 @05:32PM Feds Warn SMS Authentication Is Unsafe
Thursday December 19, 2024 @10:03AM Congress Funds Removal of Chinese Telecom Gear as Feds Probe Home Router Risks
Wednesday December 18, 2024 @03:26PM US Government Tells Officials, Politicians To Ditch Regular Calls and Texts
Tuesday December 17, 2024 @03:18PM Big Loss For ISPs as Supreme Court Won't Hear Challenge To $15 Broadband Law
Tuesday December 17, 2024 @02:44PM DHS Says China, Russia, Iran, and Israel Are Spying on People in US with SS7
Monday December 16, 2024 @03:00PM EU Signs $1 Billion Deal For Sovereign Satellite Constellation To Rival Starlink
Saturday December 14, 2024 @01:48AM America's FCC Opens 6-GHz Band to Unlicensed Very-Low-Power Devices
Saturday December 07, 2024 @09:57PM America's Phone Networks Could Soon Face Financial - and Criminal - Penalties for Insecure Networks
Saturday December 07, 2024 @09:24PM Dozens of Countries Hit in Chinese Telecom Hacking Campaign, Top US Official Says
Tuesday November 26, 2024 @10:08PM FCC Approves T-Mobile, SpaceX License To Extend Coverage To Dead Zones
Friday November 22, 2024 @06:02PM DirecTV Terminates Deal To Buy Dish Satellite Business
Monday November 18, 2024 @10:45AM Trump Picks Carr To Head FCC With Pledge To Fight 'Censorship Cartel'
Friday November 15, 2024 @03:21PM The Rich Country With the Worst Mobile-Phone Service
Monday November 11, 2024 @09:59PM Somebody Moved UK's Oldest Satellite, No-One Knows Who or Why
Thursday November 07, 2024 @01:16PM What Tired Texans Wrote To the FCC
Friday November 01, 2024 @11:27PM Starlink Enters National Radio Quiet Zone
Friday November 01, 2024 @12:56PM Apple is Buying 20% of Its iPhone Satellite Services Partner
Wednesday October 30, 2024 @08:16PM Arecibo Collapsed Because of Engineering Failures That Inspectors Failed To Spot
Tuesday October 29, 2024 @02:19PM FCC Chair: Mobile Dead Spots Will End When Space-Based and Ground Comms Merge
Wednesday October 23, 2024 @09:42PM Boeing-Made Satellite Explodes In Space
Wednesday October 16, 2024 @08:10PM SpaceX Requests Starlink Gen2 Modification, Previews Gigabit-Speeds
Tuesday October 15, 2024 @10:35AM India Agrees With Musk in Satellite Spectrum Allocation Row
Monday October 14, 2024 @03:50PM AT&T, T-Mobile Prep First RedCap 5G IoT Devices
Saturday October 12, 2024 @03:00PM The Radio-Obsessed Civilian Shaping Ukraine's Drone Defense
Friday October 11, 2024 @04:42PM The Radio-Obsessed Civilian Shaping Ukraine's Drone Defense
Monday October 07, 2024 @04:37PM FCC Lets Starlink Provide Service To Cellphones In Area Hit By Hurricane
Sunday October 06, 2024 @11:00PM Mozilla Thunderbird for Android is Almost Ready After 2 Years
Monday September 30, 2024 @02:36PM DirecTV To Buy Rival Dish Network
Monday September 30, 2024 @12:04PM Verizon Cellphone Users Report Outages Across the US
Friday September 27, 2024 @08:54PM Starlink Surpasses 4 Million Subscribers
Thursday September 26, 2024 @08:39PM Starlink Is Now Available on All Hawaiian Airlines Airbus Flights
Tuesday September 17, 2024 @12:42AM Google Backs Privately Funded Satellite Constellation For Wildfire Detection
Sunday September 15, 2024 @08:59PM EFF Decries 'Brazen Land-Grab' Attempt on 900 MHz 'Commons' Frequency Used By Amateur Radio
Saturday September 07, 2024 @02:44AM Starlink Now Constitutes Roughly Two Thirds of All Active Satellites
Saturday September 07, 2024 @02:04AM Signal is More Than Encrypted Messaging. It Wants to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Is Wrong
Wednesday September 04, 2024 @03:14PM Verizon Nearing Deal for Frontier Communications
Sunday September 01, 2024 @05:06PM Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Home Videoconferencing System?
Thursday August 29, 2024 @07:26PM Astronomers Back Review of Satellite Swarms Flying Without Environment Checks
Thursday August 29, 2024 @03:22PM Cable Providers Top Telecom Rivals for Internet Reliability
Thursday August 29, 2024 @12:15PM Verizon Taps Another Satellite Operator To Make Texting From the Middle of Nowhere Easier
Monday August 26, 2024 @06:33PM Telegram CEO Pavel Durov's Arrest Upends Kremlin Military Communications
Saturday August 24, 2024 @10:32PM ARRL Pays $1 Million Ransom To Decrypt Their Systems After Attack
Saturday August 24, 2024 @06:53PM Telegram CEO Arested In France
Sunday August 18, 2024 @02:09PM Apple is Building Its Own Cellular Modem, Playing 'Long Game' to Drop Qualcomm
Thursday August 15, 2024 @09:24PM AT&T and Verizon Ask FCC To Throw a Wrench Into Starlink's Mobile Plan
Tuesday August 13, 2024 @07:12PM Google's Pixel 9 Phones Are the First To Get Satellite SOS For Android
Friday August 09, 2024 @10:28AM FCC Proposes New Rules For AI-Generated Robocalls and Robotexts
Wednesday August 07, 2024 @06:43PM China Launches Satellites For Major Network To Rival Starlink
Tuesday August 06, 2024 @08:35PM SpaceX's New Direct-To-Cell Starlink Satellites Are Way Brighter Than the Originals
Friday August 02, 2024 @12:05PM US Court Blocks Biden Administration Net Neutrality Rules
Friday July 26, 2024 @08:30PM NASA Fires Lasers At the ISS
Friday July 26, 2024 @03:49PM ISPs Seeking Government Handouts Try To Avoid Offering Low-Cost Broadband
Thursday July 25, 2024 @02:07PM 5th Circuit Court Upends FCC Universal Service Fund, Ruling It an Illegal Tax
Tuesday July 23, 2024 @09:27AM AT&T Outage Blocked 92 Million Calls, FCC Report Reveals
Monday July 22, 2024 @01:59PM Verizon Hit By Prepaid Subscriber Exodus After Internet Subsidy Ends
Friday July 19, 2024 @06:56PM May Solar Superstorm Caused Largest 'Mass Migration' of Satellites In History
Monday July 15, 2024 @04:23PM Nation's Last Morse Code Station Comes Back To Life On Annual 'Night of Nights' In Point Reyes
Saturday July 13, 2024 @05:51PM After Criticism, Signal Agrees to Secure Plain-Text Encryption Keys for Users' Message Databases
Saturday July 06, 2024 @12:58AM Is China Building Spy Bases in Cuba?
Tuesday July 02, 2024 @07:57PM Two of the German Military's New Spy Satellites Appear To Have Failed In Orbit
Monday July 01, 2024 @11:34PM Swiss Broadcasting Corporation To Pull Plug On FM Radio
Saturday June 29, 2024 @11:16AM Japan Achieves 402 TB/s Data Rate - Using Current Fiber Technology
Friday June 28, 2024 @11:01AM T-Mobile Faces Backlash Over Broken Price Guarantee
Thursday June 27, 2024 @03:29PM ISS Astronauts Take Shelter In Boeing Starliner After Satellite Breakup
Tuesday June 25, 2024 @10:47AM US Probing China Telecom, China Mobile Over Internet, Cloud Risks
Tuesday June 18, 2024 @05:42PM Satellite 'Megaconstellations' May Jeopardize Recovery of Ozone Hole
Sunday June 16, 2024 @06:32PM FCC Approves Mysterious SpaceX Device: Is It for the Starlink Mini Dish?
Monday June 10, 2024 @10:02AM Nokia Unveils 'Future of Voice Calls'
Wednesday June 05, 2024 @11:43PM Nearly All of Apple's Newest Devices Have an Unannounced Thread Radio On Board
Wednesday June 05, 2024 @05:22PM Remote Amazon Tribe Connects To Internet, Gets Addicted To Porn and Social Media
Friday May 31, 2024 @10:58AM Recycling Old Copper Wires Could Be Worth Billions For Telcos
Wednesday May 29, 2024 @01:59AM Earthcare Cloud Mission Launches To Resolve Climate Unknowns
Tuesday May 28, 2024 @07:58AM T-Mobile To Acquire Most of US Cellular in $4.4 Billion Deal
Saturday May 25, 2024 @03:56PM American Radio Relay League Confirms Cyberattack Disrupted Operations