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FCC also moves, albeit glacially, on robocalls Three ISPs will be fined $25,000 apiece by America’s broadband watchdog, the FCC, for interfering with weather signals in Puerto Rico. Boom Solutions, Integra Wireless, and WinPR were all found to be using devices for their point-to-point broadband that were “misconfigured,” according to the regulator this week. This...

Chocolate Factory sees some benefits in a censorship model Google may be lax in policing policy violating videos on YouTube, but at least it’s adding oversight where it’s needed – to mute overly opinionated employees. The ad biz, having weathered employee walkouts over payouts to execs accused of sexual harassment, protests over a censor-friendly search...

Investors peeved Larry Ellison owned 40% of the biz he paid billions in Big Red cash to buy Three members of Oracle’s board of directors say a class-action lawsuit, filed against Oracle in the US by Oracle shareholders over Oracle’s 2016 acquisition of NetSuite, should go forward. In a filing to the Delaware Chancery Court...

Right to bear arms doesn’t cover armed UAVs If you were wondering whether your right to bear arms extends to the right to bear an armed drone, we have bad news. In an email broadcast to world+dog, the US Federal Aviation Authority has reminded Americans “that it is illegal to operate a drone with a...

27-year-old also shipped weed, flogged ‘how-to’ fraud guides A hacker from Kent has handed over almost a million quid in Bitcoin following a lengthy police investigation. Grant West, 27, of Ashcroft Caravan Park, Sheerness, made most of the money through phishing scams targeting companies and individuals around the world since 2015. He sold financial details...

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Blighty not even on track for legally binding 2023-2032 levels Electronic cars will not help the UK government meet its carbon emissions target, with MPs warning people will have to ditch their cars entirely. A report (PDF) by the Science and Technology Committee was highly critical about the lack of policies in place to deliver...

You can make your own joke about foxes and hen houses… The Linux Foundation has signed up the likes of Microsoft and Google for its Confidential Computing Consortium, a group with the laudable goal of securing sensitive data. The group – which also includes Alibaba, Arm, Baidu, IBM, Intel, Red Hat, Swisscom and Tencent –...

Google’s little-known Auto Update Expiration D-Day leaves users bereft of auto software refreshes and more – here’s how to check yours It is unlikely to be printed on the box, but every Chromebook has an “Auto Update Expiration (AUE) Date” after which the operating system is unsupported by Google. The authoritative document on the subject...

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