On February 18th, 2026 with 46 comments
TP-Link is facing legal action from the state of Texas for allegedly misleading consumers with "Made in Vietnam" claims despite China-dominated manufacturing...
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On February 2nd, 2026 with 94 comments
The U.S. laid fiber-optic cables to a record number of homes last year as billions of dollars in federal broadband grants and a surge in data-center...
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On November 12th, 2025 with 25 comments
New submitter UsRanger175 shares a report from Space.com: The sun erupted in spectacular fashion this morning (Nov. 11), unleashing a major X5.1-class solar...
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On September 23rd, 2025 with 74 comments
mrspoonsi writes: The US Secret Service says it has dismantled a network of more than 300 SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards in the New York area that were...
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On September 12th, 2025 with 37 comments
California's legislature this week approved a bill to let renters opt out of bulk-billing arrangements that force them to pay for Internet service from a...
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On August 8th, 2025 with 29 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: The Federal Communications Commission is planning a review of the US emergency alert systems. Both the Emergency Alert...
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On July 1st, 2025 with 84 comments
The FCC will suspend enforcement of rules that would lower prison phone and video call prices until April 1st, 2027. Trump-appointed FCC Chair Brendan Carr...
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On June 23rd, 2025 with 34 comments
The U.S. House chief administrative officer has banned WhatsApp from congressional staffers' government devices citing data vulnerability concerns. The...
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On May 8th, 2025 with 226 comments
President Trump on Thursday attacked a law signed by President Joe Biden aimed at expanding high-speed internet access, calling the effort "racist" and...
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On March 6th, 2025 with 57 comments
The FCC says it plans to vote next month to explore alternatives to GPS after national security concerns have been raised about relying on a single system...
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On February 2nd, 2025 with 35 comments
An aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy tested "vastly increased" levels of internet connectivity, reports the defense-news web site TWZ, callling it "a...
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On January 21st, 2025 with 71 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Brendan Carr is now formally the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, giving him the power to set the agency's...
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On December 19th, 2024 with 43 comments
Congress approved $3 billion Wednesday for a long-languishing project to cull Chinese equipment from networks nationwide over fears they are vulnerable to...
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On December 18th, 2024 with 38 comments
The U.S. government is urging senior government officials and politicians to ditch phone calls and text messages following intrusions at major American...
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On December 17th, 2024 with 76 comments
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) believes that China, Russia, Iran, and Israel are the "primary" countries exploiting security holes in...
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On December 8th, 2024 with 55 comments
The head of America's FCC "has drafted plans to regulate the cybersecurity of telecommunications companies," reports the Washington Post, and the plans could...
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On November 18th, 2024 with 233 comments
Donald Trump has named FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr to chair the U.S. communications regulator when he takes office in January 2025, citing Carr's stance...
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On September 30th, 2024 with 41 comments
DirecTV has agreed to acquire struggling rival Dish Network, creating a satellite TV behemoth with nearly 20 million subscribers. The complex transaction,...
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On September 30th, 2024 with 60 comments
Thousands of Verizon users across the United States reported having little or no cellphone service on Monday morning in major cities, including in Atlanta,...
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On September 17th, 2024 with 33 comments
Google's philanthropic arm is partially funding a new initiative that "aims to deploy more than 50 small satellites in low-Earth orbit to pinpoint flare-ups as...
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On August 29th, 2024 with 25 comments
A new study of broadband reliability finds a top-two finish that you might not expect from recent surveys of ISP customer satisfaction: Charter's Spectrum and...
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On August 9th, 2024 with 11 comments
The FCC has proposed new rules governing the use of AI-generated phone calls and texts. Part of the proposal centers on create a clear definition for...
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On August 2nd, 2024 with 103 comments
schwit1 writes: A U.S. appeals court on Thursday blocked the Federal Communications Commission's reinstatement of landmark net neutrality rules, saying...
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On July 25th, 2024 with 137 comments
A U.S. appeals court has ruled that the Federal Communications Commission's Universal Service Fund, which collects fees on phone bills to support telecom...
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On July 15th, 2024 with 20 comments
On July 12, 1999, the last Morse code message was sent from a Bay Area radio station, marking the end of an era. Every July 12, the Historic KPH Maritime Radio...
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On June 25th, 2024 with 23 comments
The Biden administration is investigating China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom over concerns the firms could exploit access to American data through...
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On June 19th, 2024 with 90 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phys.Org: When old satellites fall into Earth's atmosphere and burn up, they leave behind tiny particles of aluminum...
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On May 2nd, 2024 with 33 comments
The FBI cut its warrantless searches of American data in half in 2023, according to a government report released on Tuesday. From a report: According to the...
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On April 29th, 2024 with 20 comments
The Federal Communications Commission has fined the nation's largest wireless carriers for illegally sharing access to customers' location information without...
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On April 20th, 2024 with 90 comments
"Workers installing a light pole in Missouri cut into a fiber line," reports the Associated Press, knocking out 911 phone service "for emergency agencies in...
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