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Internet providers that won FCC grants try to escape broadband commitments::“Coalition of RDOF Winners” lobbies FCC but won’t reveal its full member list.

Move comes in response to Canadian legislation requiring internet giants to pay news publishers...

From the author: My next book is The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation: it’s a Big Tech disassembly manual that explains how to disenshittify the web and bring back the old good internet. The hardcover comes from Verso on Sept 5, but the audiobook comes from me – because Amazon refuses to sell my audio.

Phoenix heat wave broke record for electricity demand again and again and again::Phoenix’s hottest month in history led to multiple record-breaking days for electricity usage.

FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore::Chair proposes 100Mbps national standard and an evaluation of broadband prices.

Estate of Henrietta Lacks reaches settlement with biotech company for nonconsensual use of her cells in medical research::The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cells have been used for scientific research for decades, reached a settlement Tuesday with the biotech company Thermo Fisher Scientific, the family’s...

Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing::It’s been a rough few days in the condensed matter physics realm following claims of the world’s first room-temperature superconductor being achieved. However, work to verify and replicate the results

About Matrix Matrix is an open protocol for decentralised, secure communications....

Heat pumps sold so fast in Maine, the state just upped its target::undefined

China considers limiting kids’ smartphone time to two hours per day | Younger children would face even stricter terms.::China is mulling a two-hour daily limit on phone screen time for anyone under 18…