In one of its many attempts to curb robocalls, the Federal Communications Commission said it is making it harder for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers to obtain direct access to US telephone numbers....
Incomplete information included in recent disclosures by Apple and Google reporting critical zero-day vulnerabilities under active exploitation in their products has created a “huge blindspot” that’s causing a large number of offerings from other developers to go unpatched, researchers said Thursday....
Apple used billions of dollars and thousands of engineers on a ‘spectacular failure,’ WSJ reports::Apple’s “spectacular failure” to build a modem chip for its new iPhones was the topic of a Wall Street Journal expose Wednesday.
Drug dealer flew drone carrying $75K in opioids, porn-filled USB drive into prison yard::Cheyenne Petryszyn was sentenced after admitting to her role in a smuggling plot that involved launching a drone to deliver drugs and porn to a Queensland, Australia, prison.
US lawmaker moves bill to double H-1B visas::A US lawmaker of Indian origin has proposed legislation to double the annual intake of foreign workers on H-1B visas, which is a short-term work permit that has been used by Indians to work and eventually seek US citizenship. The bill would lift the annual H-1B visas from 65,000 to...
US finalizes rules to prevent China from benefiting from $52 bln in chips funding::The U.S. Commerce Department on Friday is issuing final rules to prevent semiconductor manufacturing subsidies from being used by China and other countries deemed to pose American national security concerns.
Right to repair has no cannier, more dedicated adversary than Apple, a company whose most innovative work is dreaming up new ways to sneakily sabotage electronics repair while claiming to be a caring environmental steward, a lie that covers up the mountains of e-waste that Apple dooms our descendants to wade through.
Mastodon recently incorporated into a nonprofit to continue development. What I don’t understand is how can you truly say an app is decentralized when at any time an instance owner can be kicked by the powers that be from the federation. You work really hard to build up an instance then it is just pulled from the federation...
Hi. In today’s episode, we look at Planned Obsolescence, the resulting mountains of e-waste, and why companies don’t want you to be able to fix their crummy products....
Journalist asks GM CEO Mary Barra about $29 million paycheck after UAW strike — On average, the Detroit Three’s CEOs are making 40 percent more today than they did four years ago::On average, the Detroit Three’s CEOs are making 40 percent more today than they did four years ago
Apple has refused to provide the calibration tool for the sleep sensor to independent repair people. A German repairman has beaten Apple and developed a calibration tool....
Amazon Prime Video will soon come with ads, or a $2.99 monthly charge to dodge them::Amazon’s Prime Video will begin showing ads during shows and movies early next year.
The United States is already a global leader in traffic-related fatalities, with a thirty-percent jump in the last decade. That’s in contrast to every other developed country, which saw a decline....
SpaceX has received the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) approval to operate upgraded Starlink user terminals. These dishes are the first of their kind that will be deployed to users after SpaceX's partial buildup of its second generation Starlink constellation, and the approval came a couple of days back. SpaceX had...
The European Commission has re-imposed a fine of around €376.36 million on Intel for a previously established abuse of dominant position in the market for computer chips called x86 central processing units ('CPUs'). Intel engaged in a series of anticompetitive practices aimed at excluding competitors from the relevant market...