Enlarge / A stack of 60 Starlink satellites launched in 2019. reader comments 64 with 40 posters participating Share this story A new SpaceX filing outlines plans for Starlink to offer phone service, emergency backup for voice calls, and cheaper plans for people with low incomes through the government’s Lifeline program. The details are in… Read More »
reader comments 45 with 38 posters participating Share this story As the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools, colleges, and businesses to limit in-person meetings, the world quickly adopted video conferencing from services such as Zoom and Google Meet. That, in turn, gave way to “zoombombing,” the term for when Internet trolls join online meetings with the… Read More »
Enlarge / A SpaceX Starlink user terminal/satellite dish. reader comments 72 with 59 posters participating Share this story Lobby groups for small ISPs are urging the Federal Communications Commission to investigate whether SpaceX can deliver on its broadband promises and to consider blocking the satellite provider’s rural-broadband funding. Meanwhile, SpaceX says the Starlink beta is… Read More »
reader comments 58 with 51 posters participating, including story author Share this story A man who has been an AT&T customer since 1960 has a message for CEO John Stankey about the company’s failure to upgrade DSL areas to modern Internet service. Aaron Epstein, 90, is so frustrated by his 3Mbps Internet plan that he… Read More »
Enlarge / A Comcast service van in October 2014. reader comments 24 with 18 posters participating Share this story Comcast is doubling download speeds and increasing upload speeds for the $10-per-month Internet Essentials plan that it sells to low-income subscribers. Comcast had faced criticism for keeping the plan’s speeds at 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up… Read More »
reader comments 133 with 100 posters participating Share this story Mediacom, a cable company with about 1.4 million Internet customers across 22 states, is telling heavy uploaders to reduce their data usage—even when those users are well below their monthly data caps. Mediacom’s fastest Internet plan offers gigabit download speeds and 50Mbps upload speeds with… Read More »
reader comments 187 with 92 posters participating Share this story When hackers exploited a bug in Parler to download all of the right-wing social media platform’s contents last week, they were surprised to find that many of the pictures and videos contained geolocation metadata revealing exactly how many of the site’s users had taken part… Read More »
Getty Images / Aurich Lawson reader comments 98 with 52 posters participating Share this story A home security technician has admitted he repeatedly broke into cameras he installed and viewed customers engaging in sex and other intimate acts. Telesforo Aviles, a 35-year-old former employee of home and small office security company ADT, said that over… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 49 with 34 posters participating Share this story Last month, the makers of one of the most promising coronavirus vaccines reported that hackers stole confidential documents they had submitted to a European Union regulatory body. On Friday, word emerged that the hackers have falsified some of the submissions’ contents and published… Read More »
Enlarge / Parler? Getty Images reader comments 308 with 166 posters participating Share this story By now, you may have heard of the hacker who says she scraped 99 percent of posts from Parler, the Twitter-wannabe site used by Trump supporters to help organize last Wednesday’s violent insurrection on Capitol Hill. What you may not… Read More »