AT&T and Verizon agreed to delay the expansion of a new C-band spectrum of 5G for about a month so they can work with the Federal Aviation Administration to address concerns about potential interference with critical cockpit safety systems. The Federal Aviation Administration has expressed concerns about how this newContinue Reading
Zoom announced that it has begun rolling out an advertising program for millions of Basic users who take advantage of the free video conferencing service. At least for now, ads will show only on the browser page that users see after a meeting ends. In Zoom’s announcement blog post, the companyContinue Reading
Two headlines caught my eye today, and sadly they are related. Meta (the faceless corp. once known as Facebook) took down a large troll farm on Facebook run by Nicaragua’s government. The tale of the troll farm plays out like I would have expected, from Facebook’s report, “We removed a networkContinue Reading
Recently Facebook announced a name change and a bit of a new vision for the company’s future. That new vision, called the metaverse, is really a vision for the internet, not just Facebook. As a concept of a future iteration of the internet, the metaverse made up of shared virtual realityContinue Reading
Facebook has been a busy little beaver this week. It’s just possible the social network, with 2.89 billion users, generated more headlines this week than Dave Chappelle’s extremely overly discussed three-week-old stand-up special. Here’s a bit of a round-up of some of the reason’s the social network made headlines thisContinue Reading
In February 2020, the world seemed to shut down, and it’s reopened and re shut down several times since. With nearly two years of only intermittent access to the real world, it’s not surprising that everything from escape rooms to medical care moved online. Almost every work-related meeting having moved to the internet isContinue Reading
This week Google went down… Well, YouTube, Gmail, and Google Cloud Platform services when down. The outage lasted only a few hours, and it felt a bit like an old video from The Onion where Google shut Gmail down for two hours to show their immense power. The cause of the outageContinue Reading
Pornhub removes all unverified videos from its platform “Today, Pornhub said that the third-party Internet Watch Foundation had reported 118 incidents of child sexual abuse material on the Pornhub platform, compared to 84 million instances self-reported by Facebook. Pornhub also pointed out that, as of today, every piece of content onContinue Reading
Cellebrite became broadly known in 2016 after an offer to hack the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone for the FBI. They are one of a handful of companies that make universal forensic extraction devices to access encrypted data on cell phones. These sorts of tools are used by government agencies aroundContinue Reading
Last week the New York Times published an OpEd calling for action from both governments and businesses in the private sector to take punitive measures against Pornhub. The OpEd written by Nicholas Kristof has circulated widely, and While the column has faced criticism with adult industry journalist Gustavo Turner breakingContinue Reading