Swedish Coast Guard/Getty Images reader comments 21 with 0 posters participating Share this story The first gas leaks on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the Baltic Sea were detected in the early hours of September 26, pouring up to 400,000 tons of methane into the atmosphere. Officials immediately suspected sabotage of the international pipeline.… Read More »
Enlarge / The new version of Dishy McFlatface. Share this story Starlink is imposing new data-usage limits on its Internet customers, slowing speeds after a customer uses 1TB in any given month unless they pay extra. While the new data limits are in some ways more forgiving than Comcast’s data cap, the change may be… Read More »
Dmitry Marchenko/Getty Images reader comments 26 with 17 posters participating Share this story Washington, DC, is the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also home to 690,000 people—and 29 obscure algorithms that shape their lives. City agencies use automation to screen housing applicants, predict criminal recidivism, identify food assistance fraud, determine… Read More »
imaginima/Getty Images reader comments 52 with 36 posters participating Share this story The Asia-Africa-Europe-1 Internet cable travels 15,500 miles along the seafloor, connecting Hong Kong to Marseille, France. As it snakes through the South China Sea and toward Europe, the cable helps provide Internet connections to more than a dozen countries, from India to Greece.… Read More »
Enlarge / Comcast’s xFi Advanced Gateway with Wi-Fi 6E. reader comments 92 with 69 posters participating Share this story For Comcast Internet customers frustrated by the cable service’s slow upload speeds, there have been some welcome announcements recently. But the availability of faster Comcast uploads has a catch—users can only get the higher upstream speeds… Read More »
reader comments 226 with 143 posters participating Share this story ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Renters filed a lawsuit this week alleging that a company that makes price-setting software for apartments and nine of the nation’s biggest… Read More »
reader comments 276 with 115 posters participating Share this story ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. On a summer day last year, a group of real estate tech executives gathered at a conference hall in Nashville to boast… Read More »
Enlarge / Fiber conduits being installed for Los Altos Hills Community Fiber. Los Altos Hills Community Fiber reader comments 173 with 105 posters participating, including story author Share this story Sasha Zbrozek lives in Los Altos Hills, California, which he describes as “a wealthy Silicon Valley town,” in a house about five miles from Google’s… Read More »
reader comments 85 with 56 posters participating Share this story As Russian troops have flooded into Ukraine’s borders for the past eight months—and with an ongoing mobilization of hundreds of thousands more underway—the Western world has taken drastic measures to cut the economic ties that fuel Russia’s invasion and occupation. But even as those global… Read More »
Enlarge / CHINA – 2022/07/25: In this photo illustration, the cryptocurrency exchange trading platform Binance logo is displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) reader comments 98 with 76 posters participating Share this story Hackers have stolen around $570 million in tokens from Binance, in a rare blow… Read More »