This is one state. If other states pile on (some may, some may not), it might actually be more than just a rounding error in Meta's yearly financial statements.

If there was a functional federal government, I could image a serious DoJ investigation. I don't expect that to happen.

The appeals will go on for a years before any of the money might even be available.

It is not the technocrats, it is the FCC commissioners (who are nominated by the president, and confirmed by the senate) that sets the policies. The technocrats administer the rules that the commissioners approve. While some of the staff (at least the commissions lawyers) explained that this proposed rule was possibly not in compliance with the existing law, the commissioners still approved the changes. It will surprise no one if the change ends up being litigated.

Undoing M&A is rare, but it can and does happen, but more often specific remedies tend to be used (forcing divestiture of one/more assets, and/or compensation to those impacted by the M&A). And if the agency originally approved the M&A there is going to be a very high bar for reversing that approval.

The large station owner groups can't wait to grow and be able to increase revenue by increasing prices even faster.

In a functioning government, the congress would likely take action against the FCC, as the FCC is usurping specific legislation.

When it all works easily, it all works easily (I have also upgraded to a new phone without needing assistance, and so have a number of friends, some of which are not exactly tech savvy). But there are always the edge cases. If you find yourself in one of those edge cases you often need to escalate to someone qualified to assist. And while not all stores have competent people in them, they at least tend to have access to some people that are.

MVNOs almost always have lower priority than the owners of the network if the location is currently overloaded. However, Spectrum also works really hard to minimize their MVNO costs by offloading to WiFi hotspots, which, themselves, may be overloaded. The old adage of getting what you are paying for still applies.

One of the advantages for actual stores is that the reps can attempt to up-sell a customer with a higher cost phone, or a higher cost plan, or additional services ("Would you like fries with that burger?"). Will the app be able to convince the customer they need to send T-Mobile more money?

Some of the largest buyers of Chinese manufactured transceivers are the hyperscalers. The hyperscalers represent more than half of Zhongji Innolight's total revenue. While there may be other sources, blocking the purchase of Chinese manufactured transceivers may have a significant impact on the AI data center builds.

There is (as with the Riemann Hypothesis) a one million dollar prize for the answer (with a proof).

Not really surprising the prices increased, and they probably will again soon enough. Their "binned" chip supply (which were otherwise unavailable for product use, so closer to free to Apple) being used in the Neo had been mostly exhausted. and the price of memory has only gone up over the months (thank you AI data center build out). While Apple may try to keep the price increases low (for all their iDevices) for a bit (where low may be *only* 15-20%), Apple is not going to absorb all of the cost increases longer term, but will pass them on to their customers. Apple is not the only impacted vendor, of course, which is why the low cost educational chromebooks and windows laptop prices are also going up.

Apple chose ... poorly.

Cleaning this up is not likely to be especially easy, and doing the forensics to determine what people had access to confidential data after they were no longer employed, and what damage that may have done to the company, is going to take a lot of time.

Coinkite may be toast.

I will not condone the destruction of government property. I will also not report it should it occur as there is no legal requirement that I do so.

The GCC policy is largely in alignment with the greater GNU project policy (under which they reside).

The more interesting question will be if individual contributors (many of which are employed by major organizations that may already be using various AI enhanced tooling) need to change their development practices (and will they).

And "revenue" in the next quarter, the goal of most large corporation? Apple will just throw Klarna under the bus if individuals figure out that this is not in the individuals best interest.