Economy
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Office default Calibri will join Clippy, Internet Explorer in Windows retirement
Rumor has it Calibri is already working on its goodbye note. [credit: Nathan Mattise ] In tech, all good defaults…
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Verizon “leads” all US carriers in mmWave 5G availability at 0.8%
Enlarge / A Verizon booth at Mobile World Congress Americas in Los Angeles in September 2018. (credit: Verizon) US mobile…
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Chipmaker says it will ramp up production of older 28nm chips
Enlarge / A woman watches a mask—a part used in wafer conception—at a show room of the 12-inch United Microelectronics…
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Ransomware crooks threaten to ID informants if cops don’t pay up
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Ransomware operators have delivered a stunning ultimatum to Washington, DC’s Metropolitan Police Department: pay them $50…
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FCC lets SpaceX cut satellite altitude to improve Starlink speed and latency
Enlarge / A SpaceX Starlink user terminal/satellite dish. (credit: SpaceX) SpaceX today was granted permission to use a lower orbit…
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Cable-chewing beavers take out town’s Internet in “uniquely Canadian” outage
Enlarge / A wild beaver works furiously in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. (credit: Getty Images | Jeff R…
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Actively exploited Mac 0-day neutered core OS security defenses
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) When Apple released the latest version 11.3 for macOS on Monday, it didn’t just introduce support…
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Pentagon explains odd transfer of 175 million IP addresses to obscure company
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Andriy Onufriyenko) The US Department of Defense puzzled Internet experts by apparently transferring control of…
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Apple’s AirDrop leaks users’ PII, and there’s not much they can do about it
Enlarge (credit: Apple) AirDrop, the feature that allows Mac and iPhone users to wirelessly transfer files between devices, is leaking…
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Apple’s ransomware mess is the future of online extortion
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) On the day Apple was set to announce a slew of new products at its Spring…
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