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Verizon will pay a $1 million fine to settle a 911 outage investigation
26 Jun

Verizon will pay a $1 million fine to settle a 911 outage investigation

John RoutledgeLatest News
Verizon has agreed to pay a $1.05 million penalty to settle a Federal Communications Commission investigation into whether the company broke the agency's rules after a 911 outage. Over a period of one hour and 44 minutes in December 2022, the outage prevented hundreds of emergency calls from going through in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee,…
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This cute pink blob could lead to realistic robot skin
26 Jun

This cute pink blob could lead to realistic robot skin

John RoutledgeLatest News
Someday, we may have humanoid robots so real, they have skin that looks and feels, heals and moves just like ours. A team of scientists from the University of Tokyo and Harvard University are looking into how to make that happen, and the process includes creating some pretty curious, partly terrifying and partly adorable experimental machines with skin. In their…
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Rabbit R1 security issue allegedly leaves sensitive user data accessible to anybody
26 Jun

Rabbit R1 security issue allegedly leaves sensitive user data accessible to anybody

John RoutledgeLatest News
The team behind Rabbitude, the community-formed reverse engineering project for the Rabbit R1, has revealed finding a security issue with the company's code that leaves users' sensitive information accessible to everyone. In an update posted on the Rabbitude website, the team said it gained access to the Rabbit codebase on May 16 and found "several critical hardcoded API keys." Those…
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The Morning After: Microsoft might be the latest company to violate antitrust laws
26 Jun

The Morning After: Microsoft might be the latest company to violate antitrust laws

John RoutledgeLatest News
Nearly a year after the European Commission opened its investigation into Microsoft, the European Union’s executive body’s preliminary findings say the company violated antitrust laws by tying Microsoft Teams to its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 business suites. (Microsoft pulled Teams for users in the EU back in October.)This all kicked off in 2020 when Slack — rival work chat…
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EU finds Microsoft violated antitrust laws by bundling Teams
26 Jun

EU finds Microsoft violated antitrust laws by bundling Teams

John RoutledgeLatest News
It has been nearly a year since the European Commission opened its investigation into Microsoft and there's finally a preliminary finding. The European Union's executive body announced its "view" that the tech giant violated antitrust laws by tying Microsoft Teams to its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 business suites. Last October, Microsoft unbundled Teams for users in the European Union…
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The Morning After: Apple may face another huge EU fine
26 Jun

The Morning After: Apple may face another huge EU fine

John RoutledgeLatest News
The European Union isn’t entirely happy with Apple’s approach to its Digital Markets Act and there could be financial consequences. In preliminary findings of its investigation, the European Commission says the company breached Digital Markets Act (DMA) rules by failing to let App Store developers freely tell users about alternate payment options outside of Apple’s ecosystem, what it calls anti-steering…
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