Communications Stories for 2018

China Gets on the Bandwagon To Provide Global Satellite Internet 86
FCC Says It is Investigating CenturyLink 911 Outage 143
Facebook's WhatsApp Has an Encrypted Child Porn Problem 156
Business Communication Service Slack, in Compliance With US Regulations, Broadens Ban on Users in Sanctioned Nations 43
AT&T's Silence on 5G Speeds Screams 'Stay Away For Now' 73
We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites 310
Researchers Demonstrate Teleportation Using On-Demand Photons From Quantum Dots 76
T-Mobile Denies Lying To FCC About Size of Its 4G Network 31
AT&T Opens 5G Network in 12 US Cities, Announces Pricing For First 5G Mobile Device and Service 59
Taiwan To Shut Down 3G Networks By Year End 38
Spam Calls Jumped Over 300% Globally in 2018 80
Germany Refuses To Ban Huawei, Citing Lack of Real Evidence 127
FCC Forces California To Drop Plan For Government Fees On Text Messages 79
Lawmakers Push To Create a Three-Digit Suicide Hotline Number 157
MIPS Goes Open Source 70
CenturyLink Blocked Its Customers' Internet Access in Order To Show an Ad 198
Instagram Tightens Eating Disorder Filters 94
T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Will Reportedly Be Cleared By US National Security Panel 32
Facebook Doesn't Care About Fixing Fake News Problem On Its Platform 113
Quantum Network Joins Four People Together For Encrypted Messaging 60
California Considers Text Messaging Tax To Fund Cell Service For Low-Income Residents 244
FCC Gives Carriers the Option To Block Text Messages 107
Comcast Rejected by Small Town -- Residents Vote For Municipal Fiber Instead 311
At Least One Major Carrier Lied About Its 4G Coverage, FCC Review Finds 46
Google Just Can't Get the Message 135
Millions of Smartphones in 11 Countries Were Taken Offline Yesterday by an Expired Certificate 34
Opinion: 5G Has an Exciting Future When It Comes To Dedicated Mobile Apps But Will Do Little To Improve Our General Browsing Experiences. 95
Microsoft's New Study Finds 162.8 Million People in the US Do Not Use the Internet at Broadband Speeds, Up From FCC's 24.7 Million Estimate 132
Cuba Offers 3G Mobile Internet Access To Citizens 42
FCC Chairman Admits Russia Meddled In Net Neutrality Debate 171
Google Is Shutting Down Its Allo Messaging App, Says Report 62
Thieves Are Boosting the Signal From Key Fobs Inside Homes To Steal Vehicles 269
Qualcomm: 5G Android Flagship Phones Will Storm the 2019 Holidays 47
Elon Musk Says Autopilot Will Soon Recognize Emergency Response Vehicles 115
Apple Will Wait Until at Least 2020 To Release a 5G iPhone: Report 107
Google Hangouts For Consumers Will Be Shutting Down Sometime In 2020 83
Starbucks Says It Will Start Blocking Porn On Its Stores' Wi-Fi In 2019 218
The App Destroying Iran's Currency 83
Customer Service Agents Might Be Able To See What You're Typing In Real Time 135
Urban Massage Data Breach Exposed Sensitive Comments On Its Creepy Clients 38
Google To Open Project Fi To iPhone, Samsung, and OnePlus 66
5G Will Cover Roughly 1.5 Billion People By 2024, Researchers Say 43
Google Is Being Vague With Disclosure In Early Real-World Duplex Calls 71
ISS Marks 20 Years Orbiting Earth With Longest Timelapse Ever Made In Space 54
Amazon May Be Hiding Its Plans To Test New Wireless Tech By Masquerading as a Massage Spa 20
Hollywood Wants Hosting Providers To Block Referral Traffic From Pirate Sites 149
The Fax is Not Yet Obsolete 163
Apple To Drop iPhone XR Price in Japan Amid Weak Sales 74
Google's Duplex is Rolling Out To Small Group Of Pixel Owners 7
'Relatively Few' Twitter Bots Were Needed To Spread Misinformation and Overwhelm Fact Checkers, Study Finds 85
FCC To Consider Making Text Messaging an Information Service, Denying Twilio Petition 92
The Story of Lenny, the Internet's Favorite Telemarketing Troll 130
US Wireless Data Prices Are Among the Most Expensive On Earth 107
Canada Has 'No Plan' To Bring Broadband To Rural and Remote Communities, Watchdog Says 182
NASA Chooses the Landing Site For Its Mars 2020 Rover Mission 58
Ivanka Trump Used Personal Account For Emails About Government Business 498
Mars Opportunity Rover Appears To Contact Earth; Turns Out To Be a False Alarm 55
Apple's Siri May Soon Process Voice Locally On a Device, No Cloud Required 83
A New Senate Bill Would Hit Robocallers With Up To a $10,000 Fine For Every Call 180
MiSafes' Child-Tracking Smartwatches Are 'Easy To Hack' 29
FCC Paves the Way For Improved GPS Accuracy 78
SpaceX Launched and Landed Another Used Falcon 9 Rocket, Marking Its Record-Tying 18th Launch of the Year 72
SpaceX Wins FCC Approval To Deploy 7,518 Satellites 114
The US Military is Making Balloons That Hover at the Edge of Space, Indefinitely 35
Chinese Telecoms Giant ZTE is Helping Venezuela Build a System That Monitors Citizen Behavior Through a New Identification Card 109
Large, Strangely Dim Galaxy Found Lurking On Far Side of Milky Way 68
Nigerian Firm Takes Blame For Routing Google Traffic Through China 56
A 100,000-Router Botnet Is Feeding On a 5-Year-Old UPnP Bug In Broadcom Chips 39
Researchers Defeat Perceptual Ad Blockers, Declare 'New Arms Race' 144
The First Detailed Look at How Elon Musk's Space Internet Could Work 130
Chinese News Agency Adds AI Anchors To Its Broadcast Team 79
Sprint Is Throttling Microsoft's Skype Service, Study Finds 84
Facebook's Unsend Feature Will Give You 10 Minutes To Delete a Message 65
Police Decrypt 258,000 Messages After Breaking Pricey IronChat Crypto App 122
AT&T To Cut Off Some Customers' Service in Piracy Crackdown 85
Oracle Says China Telecom Has Misdirected Internet Traffic, Including Out of the US, in Recent Years 58
US Regulator Demands Companies Take Action To Halt Robocalls 161
Supreme Court Rejects Industry Challenge of 2015 Net Neutrality Rules 56
File-Sharing Software On State Election Servers Could Expose Them To Intruders 125
Apple's First 5G iPhone Will Arrive In 2020, Says Report 47
iRobot, Google Team Up To Understand Your Smart Home 60
Russia Blames a Bad Sensor For Its Failed Soyuz Rocket Launch 57
NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Is Dead 86
How Much Does a Cable Box Really Cost? The Industry Would Prefer You Don't Ask 219
Apple's Dual-SIM Tech Ruins Verizon Coverage 76
China's OnePlus, Backed by Qualcomm and T-Mobile, Launches OnePlus 6T Smartphone in US 66
FCC Leaders Say We Need a 'National Mission' To Fix Rural Broadband 176
Nobody's Cellphone Is Really That Secure, Bruce Schneier Reminds 80
Facebook Removes 82 Accounts Linked To Iranian Disinformation Campaign 54
Worried About Trump iPhone Eavesdroppers? China Recommends a Huawei 109
China Telecom Hijacks US, Canadian Internet Traffic On a Regular Basis, Report Says 64
With 5G, You Won't Just Be Watching Video. It'll Be Watching You, Too 131
China, Russia Are Listening To Trump's Phone Calls, Says NYT Report 423
Prank Calls Brought ICE Hotline To a Standstill, Internal Emails Show 457
Intel Says They Aren't Abandoning 10nm Chips, Despite Report Saying They're Canceled 107
UK ISP Tests SIM Card That Forces All of Your Mobile Data Through Tor 46
Hack On 8 Adult Websites Exposes Oodles of Intimate User Data 68
How the Finnish Survive Without Small Talk 283
Ajit Pai Killed Rules That Could Have Helped Florida Recover From Hurricane 225
Twitter Publishes Archive of 10 Million Tweets From Russian, Iranian Bots 144
eBay Files Lawsuit Against Amazon Over 'Seller Recruitment' 38
Number of Robocalls Placed in the US Surged By 50 Percent in the First Half of This Year 147
Qualcomm's New Wi-Fi Chips Are Meant To Rival 5G Speeds 34
Facebook Could Use Data Collected From Its Portal In-Home Video Device To Target You With Ads 62
New York Attorney General Expands Inquiry Into Net Neutrality Comments 93
Most Americans Can't Tell the Difference Between a Social Media Bot and A Human, Study Finds 140
Facebook To Ban Misinformation On Voting In Upcoming US Elections 245
Fire At AT&T Facility Causes Outage For Over a Million U-Verse Fiber Customers In Texas 54
99.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality, Independent Analysis Finds 137
Our Reliance on Cellphones Began 35 Years Ago This Week 123
A Future Where Everything Becomes a Computer Is As Creepy As You Feared 144
Facebook Is Testing An Unsend Feature For Messenger 24
US Lawmakers Urge Canada To Snub China's Huawei in Telecoms 72
FCC Tells Court It Has No 'Legal Authority' To Impose Net Neutrality Rules 226
State Attorneys Urge FCC To Combat Neighborhood Spoofing 202
Pentagon's New Next-Gen Weapons Systems Are Laughably Easy To Hack 93
Google's Human-Sounding Phone Bot Is Coming To the Pixel Next Month 26
New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in US Telecom: Bloomberg 191
First SpaceX Mission With Astronauts Set For June 2019 48
How To Disable Gmail's Annoying New 'Smart Compose' Predictive Typing Feature 108
It's Ham Vs.Ham As Radio Amateurs Are In Conflict At ARRL 183
Apple Insiders Say Nobody Internally Knows What's Going On With Bloomberg's China Hack Story 176
A Shadowy Op-Ed Campaign Is Now Smearing SpaceX In Space Cities 264
New Yorkers Sue Trump and FEMA To Stop Presidential Alert 511
Verizon is Offering Buyout Packages To as Many as 44,000 Management Employees; Some IT Employees Will Be Transferred To Indian Outsourcing Firm Infosys [Update] 128
Cities Will Sue FCC To Stop $2 Billion Giveaway To Wireless Carriers 71
Wi-Fi Now Has Version Numbers, and Wi-Fi 6 Comes Out Next Year 133
Entire Broadband Industry Sues California To Stop Net Neutrality Law 293
Cellphones Across the US Will Receive a 'Presidential Alert' at 2:18 pm Eastern Today 267
GeoCities Japan Is Finally Shutting Down 48
Use of the Internet and Smartphones is No Longer on the Rise in America 99
Gov. Jerry Brown Signs Bill To Restore Net Neutrality in California; the Trump Administration is Already Trying To Block It 165
New York's Free LinkNYC Internet Kiosks Are Now Used By 5 Million Users, Who Have Participated in 1 Billion Sessions and Make 500,000 Phone Calls a Month 35
Satellite Company Partners With Jeff Bezos' AWS To Bring Internet To 'Whole Planet' 60
Microsoft Will End Support For Skype Classic In November 51
Cloudflare Partners With Microsoft, Google and Others To Reduce Bandwidth Costs 43
Using Wi-Fi To Count People Through Walls 26
Google Ends Cryptocurrency Ad Ban For Certain Kinds of Ads 58
Safari's 'Siri Suggested' Search Results Highlighted Conspiracy Theories, Fake News 120
Internet Society Partners with Facebook To Expand Internet Connectivity in Africa 14
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Is Headed To Washington This Week To Discuss Censorship, China 100
Gut-Brain Connection Could Lead To a 'New Sense' 91
Facebook Is Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma, Lawsuit Claims 210
iPhone XS and XS Max Users Are Reporting Poor Cell and Wi-Fi Reception 172
A New Report Outlines Apple's Reluctance For Mature Content On Its Streaming Service 49
Researchers Create 'Spray-On' 2D Antennas 42
Instagram Says It's Not Working On a Regram Feature 12
Comcast Outbids Fox With $40 Billion Offer For Sky In Auction 24
Streaming Accounts For 75 Percent of Music Industry Revenue In the US 55
Japan Has Attempted To Land Two Tiny Rovers On a Distant Asteroid 51
Amazon Is Making It Easier To Set Up New IoT Gadgets 48
Google Employees Discussed Tweaking Search Results To Counter Trump's Travel Ban 211
Facebook Will Open a 'War Room' Next Week To Monitor Election Interference 218
China Blocks Twitch 72
Apple Will Judge Call, Email Activity To Assign Users a 'Trust Score' 106
Crippling DDoS Vulnerability Put the Entire Bitcoin Market At Risk 37
Xiaomi Admits To Putting Ads In the Settings Menu of Its Phones 46
The New York Times Sues FCC For Net Neutrality Records 55
Facebook Could Face EU Sanctions If It Doesn't Change Its TOS 134
Twitter Is Reviving the Chronological Timeline 35
Slashdot Asks: Have You Ever Gotten Someone Else's Email? 257
Some Northern California Cities Are Blocking Deployment of 5G Towers 187
Why Can't More Than Four People Have a Conversation at Once? 75
Almost Half of US Cellphone Calls Will Be Scams By Next Year, Says Report 278
Facebook Will Start Fact-Checking Pictures, Videos 116
Leaked Video Shows Google Executives' Candid Reaction To Trump Victory 558
Alphabet's Loon Balloons Just Beamed the Internet Across 620 Miles 61
US Carriers Introduce Project Verify To Replace Individual App Passwords 92
The EU Can Still Be Saved From Its Internet-Wrecking Copyright Plan 87
T-Mobile, Ericsson Sign $3.5 Billion 5G Agreement 16
Teens Would Rather Text Their Friends Than Talk To Them In Person, Poll Shows 142
FCC Says It Needs More Time To Review T-Mobile, Sprint Merger 22
NASA May Sell Corporate Naming Rights For Rockets, Spacecraft 141
About a Quarter of Rural Americans Say Access To High-Speed Internet Is a Major Problem 157
Net Neutrality Gives 'Free' Internet To Netflix and Google, ISP Claims 361
Verizon Lobbyist Runs For New York Attorney General As the State Sues FCC Over Net Neutrality Repeal 69
Apple Is Building An Online Portal For Police To Make Data Requests 75
Vizio May Soon Inform Customers When Its Smart TVs Are Spying On Them 77
Why Google Fiber Is High-Speed Internet's Most Successful Failure 77
AT&T Offers Unlimited Plan Deal For First Responders, But It Can Be Throttled 70
In UK, Consumers Are Now More Aware That They Can Ditch Their Phone Bundles, And Are Increasingly Doing So 33
Icelanders Seek To Keep Remote Nordic Peninsula Digital-Free 71
EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services 350
Ask Slashdot: Should We Hang Up on Conference Calls? 145
TiVo Says It Will Discontinue Support For Dial-up Service Later This Month 91
Twitter Says Trump Not Immune From Getting Kicked Off 342
Get Ready For Atomic Radio 125
MikroTik Routers Are Forwarding Owners' Traffic To Unknown Attackers 31
US Telcos Are Slowing Internet Traffic To and From Popular OTT Apps Like YouTube, Netflix, and Amazon Prime Video, New Research Finds 168
After Making Skype Convoluted and Difficult To Use, Microsoft is Now Rolling Out Features To Restore Simplicity 143
FCC Criticized For Surrendering Power To Punish Verizon After Firefighters Got Throttled During Wildfire 161
Justice Department Warns It Might Not Be Able To Prosecute Voting Machine Hackers 102
Google's Assistant Is Now Bilingual 78
In an Accidental Email To TechDirt Editor, Telco Lobbyists Outline How They Intend To Shift The Blame For Privacy, Net Neutrality and More To Internet Companies 144
Emails While Commuting 'Should Count as Work', Researchers Say 130
Google Debunks Trump's Claim It Censored His State of the Union Address 508
The 'Scunthorpe Problem' Has Never Really Been Solved 382
WhatsApp Warns Free Google Drive Backups Are Not End-To-End Encrypted 38
FCC Can Define Markets With Only One ISP as 'Competitive', Court Rules 163
'It Is a Challenging Time for the Internet: We Must Not Let It Be Undermined' 220
Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data To Sell Advertisers 88
Internet Groups Urge US Court To Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules 109
Big Telecom Is Using Robocalls To Fight a Net Neutrality Bill in California 126
Smart Tags Add Touch Controls To Ordinary Objects 37
Facing 'Net Neutrality' Criticism, Verizon Suddenly Lifts Data Caps On All Public Safety Workers 138
IRC Turns 30 157
Hackers Stole Personal Data of 2 Million T-Mobile Customers 56
Comcast/Charter Lobby Asks FTC To Preempt State Broadband Regulations 80
Google Removes Accounts Tied To Iran-Led Misinformation Campaign 87
The Consequences of Indecency 502
Encrypted Communications Apps Failed To Protect Michael Cohen 475
Australia Bans Huawei, ZTE From Supplying Technology For Its 5G Network 77
Apple Removes Facebook's Onavo Security App From the App Store 98
Fire Department Rejects Verizon's 'Customer Support Mistake' Excuse For Throttling 251
New Tech Lets Submarines 'Email' Planes 58
Verizon Throttled Fire Department's 'Unlimited' Data During Calif. Wildfire 299
22 States Ask US Appeals Court To Reinstate Net Neutrality Rules 125
Judge Guts FTC's $4 Billion Lawsuit Against DirecTV 57
Antenna Sales Are Rising, In Another Sign of Churn In TV Watching 186
Does Gmail's 'Confidential Mode' Go Far Enough? 160
Two Months Later: NASA's Opportunity Rover Is Still Lost On Mars After Huge Dust Storm 46
Facebook Flat-Out 'Lies' About How Many People Can See Its Ads, Lawsuit Alleges 70
Google Is Developing Native Hearing Aid Support For Android 50
The Ampex Sign Is Coming Down 153
Google Employees Protest Secret Work On Censored Search Engine For China 169
SEC Sends Subpoena To Tesla In Probe Over Musk's Take-Private Tweets 273
Engineers Say They've Created Way To Detect Weapons Using Wi-Fi 91
A Look at Facebook's Presence in Myanmar Where Despite Public Outcries, Facebook is Still Struggling To Contain Hate Speech 110
Mobile Internet Goes Free, National For a Day In Cuba 87
Verizon Nears 5G Launch Deals With Apple and Google: Bloomberg 32
WWV Shortwave Time Broadcasts May Be Slashed In 2019 305
A Community-Run ISP Is the Highest Rated Broadband Company In America 102
Australia To Pass Bill Providing Backdoors Into Encrypted Devices, Communications 168
Apple Delays 32-Person Group FaceTime From iOS 12 Launch 18
Facebook Bans Sites That Host Blueprints of 3D-Printed Guns 214
Millions of Android Devices Are Vulnerable Right Out of the Box 67
Tribune Terminates $3.9 Billion Merger With Rival Sinclair 54
YouTube Will Soon Pass Facebook As Second Biggest Website In US 65
NASA's Newest Spacecraft Will Fly Through the Sun's Scorching Hot Atmosphere 96
Comcast Security Flaw Exposes Partial Addresses, Social Security Numbers of 26 Million Users 67
AI Can Now Help Write Wikipedia Pages For Overlooked Scientists 97
WhatsApp Flaw Could Allow Hackers To Modify, Send Fake Messages 11
Samsung To Spend Over $22 Billion on AI, Auto Tech and 5G 19
People Still Don't Like Their Cable Companies, ConsumerReports' Telecom Survey Finds 116
Verizon 'Grossly Overstated' Its 4G LTE Coverage In Government Filings, Trade Group Says 81
SpaceX Successfully Launches Its Used Block 5 Rocket 85
FCC Admits It Was Never Actually Hacked 214
ISPs' Listed Speeds Drop Up To 41 Percent After UK Requires Accurate Advertising 68
Have Smartphones Killed the Art of Conversation? 78
FCC Sides With Google Fiber Over Comcast With New Pro-Competition Rule 134

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