Letter to FCC: Why are US carriers locking handsets to networks? [Wed Sep 21 2022]

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Letter to FCC: Why are US carriers locking handsets to networks?

Advocacy group claims Verizon and co should be stopped as the practice hurts competition, consumers

 
 

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Oracle Cloud at one point would let you access any other customer's data

chmod a+rw at hyperscale

You didn't ask for it but Nvidia's gonna get you a metaverse-as-a-service cloud

Sorry, sorry, Omniverse – and think subscription-based digital twins

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Amazon's Roomba acquisition gets caught on FTC's rug

The Wrath of Khan

Nvidia unveils RTX 4090 – but it's the 4080 to watch out for

And don't forget AMD's RDNA 3 GPUs are right around the corner

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Morgan Stanley fined $35m after customers' personal info left on sold-off hard drives

Encryption? Data destruction? Bueller?

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Warning: That new AMD Ryzen 7000 laptop may not be as fresh as you think

The House of Zen is back to its tricks: Chips with three-year-old cores

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Intel pushes out NUC mini PC with Arc graphics

NUC NUC. Who's there? It's me again. You folks still want computers, right?

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Musk says Starlink will ask for exemption to US sanctions on Iran

Violence flares amid internet blackouts after woman dies in police custody

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Letter to FCC: Why are US carriers locking handsets to networks?

Advocacy group claims Verizon and co should be stopped as the practice hurts competition, consumers

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'Last man standing in the floppy disk business' reckons his company has 4 years left

Obsolete media still in demand in some industries, and Floppydisk.com is happy to oblige

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Another Big Fund exec under investigation by China's anti-corruption watchdog

Ren Kai, vice president of Sino IC Capital, is also on the board of SMIC

Internet Society recommends development of Solar-System-scale routing framework

Needs to be autonomous, interoperable, and capable of scaling to 100,000 nodes

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Crypto biz Wintermute loses $160m in cyber-heist, tells us not to stress out

The other Tessier-Ashpool AIs are surely disappointed

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Meta, Twitter, Apple, Google urged to up encryption game in post-Roe America

Tech giants 'throwing their users to the wolves'

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Cyberthreats Racing Ahead of Your Defenses?

Security-Driven Networking Can Put a Stop to That

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In Rust We Trust: Microsoft Azure CTO shuns C and C++

Mark Russinovich goes hardcore against old languages

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Apple to raise App Store prices in 28 countries

No reason given, but inflation and app tracking changes may both factor

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Nvidia sets out timeline for H100 GPUs – now for HGX, next year for DGX

It's called Hopper because most of the chips announced today skipped it

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Admins run into Group Policy problems after Win10 update

Scratch Patch ... it's Rip Tuesday: Users complain that Microsoft’s KB5017308 breaks desktop shortcuts

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Oracle brews Java 19. Mmmm, kinda tastes like RISC-V

Upstart CPU integration, incremental improvements – just the way cautious corporate customers like it

Microsoft low code branches into lightweight GUI widgets

Building features into Teams, Outlook without JSON coding possible with new Cards play

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SETI seeks amateur astronomers to find hot Jupiter-like exoplanets

Much better use of time than 'hot singles in your area'

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Excel's comedy of errors needs a new script, not new scripting

Microsoft reanimates the wrong corpse

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Linux Foundation launches European division

Plans to drive more open source – and more transparency – into public sector

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Creatives up in arms over claim that AI is killing human art

Plus: Cruise expanding self-driving robotaxi operations, and more

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Document Foundation starts charging €8.99 for 'free' LibreOffice

Only in the Mac App Store, as part of FOSS-for-biz strategy software org admits may not quickly deliver results

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Google's AI call center agents all take the morning off

Replace unreliable people with tireless cloudy software, they said …

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China to launch space tourism by 2025, says industry veteran

Asserts Beijing can achieve parity with US capabilities within a decade, thanks to burgeoning private sector

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