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Starlink can serve 500,000 users easily, several million “more of a challenge”
Enlarge / Screenshot from the Starlink order page, with the street address blotted out. (credit: SpaceX Starlink) SpaceX has received…
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Netflix IT exec forced employees to use products from vendors that bribed him
Netflix’s former vice president of IT operations was convicted of taking bribes from technology vendors in exchange for awarding them…
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New Spectre attack once again sends Intel and AMD scrambling for a fix
Enlarge (credit: Intel) Since 2018, an almost endless series of attacks broadly known as Spectre has kept Intel and AMD…
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Frontier exits bankruptcy, claims it will double fiber-to-the-home footprint
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Rafe Swan) Frontier Communications emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Friday, saying that it plans…
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Apple reports 2 iOS 0-days that let hackers compromise fully patched devices
Enlarge / The 2020 iPhone lineup. From left to right: iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12, iPhone…
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Verizon agrees to sell Yahoo and AOL to private-equity firm for $5 billion
Enlarge / Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, on Wednesday, April 21, 2021. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) Verizon announced on Monday that…
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An ambitious plan to tackle ransomware faces long odds
Enlarge (credit: Miragec | Getty Images) Schools, hospitals, the City of Atlanta. Garmin, Acer, the Washington, DC, police. At this…
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Ford’s ever-smarter robots are speeding up the assembly line
Enlarge / Ford is adding artificial intelligence to its robotic assembly lines. In 1913, Henry Ford revolutionized car-making with the…
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More US agencies potentially hacked, this time with Pulse Secure exploits
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) At least five US federal agencies may have experienced cyberattacks that targeted recently discovered security flaws…
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Verizon tries to sell Yahoo and AOL after spending $9 billion on fallen giants
Enlarge / Yahoo logo at the 2014 International CES conference in Las Vegas. (credit: Getty Images | Ethan Miller )…
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