This statement can be attributed to EFF Senior Staff Technologist Cooper QuintinIt was recently reported by Jack Poulson on Substack that ICE has reactivated its 2 million dollar contract with Paragon Solutions, a cyber-mercenary and spyware manufacturer. The reactivation of the contrac
The Pilot Independent reports... Digital Connectivity and Lifeline Awareness Week is right around the corner, and Arvig is joining the effort to spread the word about this federal program. Lifeline provides discounts to help low-income residents connect to the nation’s broadband and phone networks to find jobs, access health care services, connect with family and…
The Granstaff family in Okemah is one of tens of thousands of Oklahomans who are getting a service they’ve lacked for years, or in some cases, never had.
The Federal Communications Commission's Republican chairman is eliminating regulations at breakneck speed by using a process that cuts dozens of rules at a time while giving the public only 10 or 20 days to review each proposal and submit objections.
Chairman Brendan Carr started his "Delete, Delete, Delete" rule-cutting initiative in March and later announced he'd be using the Direct Final Rule (DFR) mechanism to eliminate regulations without a full public-comment period. Direct Final Rule is just one of several mechanisms the FCC is using in the Delete, Delete, Delete initiative. But despite the seeming obscurity of regulations deleted under Direct Final Rule so far, many observers are concerned that the process could easily be abused to eliminate more significant rules that protect consumers.
On July 24, the FCC removed what it called "11 outdated and useless rule provisions" related to telegraphs, rabbit-ear broadcast receivers, and phone booths. The FCC said the 11 provisions consist of "39 regulatory burdens, 7,194 words, and 16 pages."
Jay Stanley is the resident futurist at the American Civil Liberties Union, and studies the legal conundrums that accompany the technologies of tomorrow. He’s conducted extensive research into the threats that AI, chemical detectors and armed robots pose to civil liberties, and testified before the House Committee on Homeland Security in 2023 concerning the privacy risks of requiring digital IDs at airports. The following has been edited for length and clarity.
American households are in a much more financially fragile state than we were in the 1980s. It's a Chinese finger trap economy, dependent on the stock market and more inequality to keep going.
Hosted on September 3rd, the livestream event will feature the film “Rocketeers: The UTOPIA Fiber Story” – a powerful documentary about how a community-owned fiber network in Utah is now empowering dozens of cities at the speed of light.
Hosted by ILSR’s Community Broadband Networks team and the American Association for Public Broadband (AAPB).
The short film documents UTOPIA Fiber's open-access journey and the network of people who are bringing future-proof connectivity and local Internet choice to thousands of homes and businesses.
There is an interesting docket at the FCC that is examining the ability of a City to sign an exclusive agreement with an ISP that keeps other new ISPs out of the market. The case involves Cottage Grove, Minnesota, a suburb of St. Paul with a population of around 43,000. The City of Cottage Grove…
Sept 5 (Reuters) - Technology giant Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab was accused by authors in a lawsuit on Friday of illegally using their copyrighted books to help train its artificial intelligence systems, part of an expanding legal fight over protections for intellectual property in the AI era.
The proposed class action, opens new tab, filed in the federal court in Northern California, said Apple copied protected works without consent and without credit or compensation.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr asked his Commission colleagues to vote on two items that would reverse the agency’s Biden-era decisions to expand COVID spending programs. Specifically, Chairman Carr circulated for vote a declaratory ruling that would overturn the FCC’s 2023 decision to fund unsupervised Wi-Fi use on school buses. He also circulated an order on reconsideration that would reverse the FCC’s 2024 decision to fund Wi-Fi hotspots that kids or library patrons could use outside of schools and libraries.
Gardner was recently Chairman of the Senate Leadership Fund, an outside fundraising group to help Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., elect Republicans and keep GOP control.
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Paul Bunyan Communicaitons sent me an update and press release, for folks outside of Minnesota, I want to share the email intro to the press release sent during the first week or September! The weather has turned quickly, a sure sign that the end of construction season is on the horizon. We continue to make…
Tesla’s board, which has already compensated CEO Elon Musk more than the company earned through its entire existence, is now offering a new pay package worth up to $1 trillion.
Today, Tesla filed its proxy statement ahead of its shareholders’ meeting in November, and there’s a lot in there, but the headline-stealing item is a new compensation plan being proposed for the company’s controversial CEO, Elon Musk.
The FCC recently released a Notice of Proposed Rule Making where the agency is looking to relax some of the rules related to NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act), mostly related to wireless infrastructure. The NEPA rules were created in 1970 as a reaction to air pollution and acid rain. The Act created the Council on…
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, 2025 – Verizon CFO Tony Skiadas unveiled plans Thursday to repurpose the carrier’s wireline footprint to support artificial intelligence workloads.
Washington, D.C. (September 3, 2025) – The Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband (SHLB) Coalition is disappointed by today’s proposals to eliminate E-Rate funding for hotspots loaned by schools and libraries and school bus Wi-Fi. These services have been connectivity lifelines for millions of students and families who lack reliable internet access at home.
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