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■The US Treasury Department announced sanctions today against a Russian research institute for its role in developing Triton, a malware strain designed to attack industrial equipment.The Triton malware was used by hackers in 2017 to target a petrochemical plant in the Middle East, successfully disrupting operations, and again last year to scan and probe at least 20 U.S. electric facilities for cyber vulnerabilities. The first attack on Petro Rabigh, in August 2017, compromised industrial controllers made by ...
■PayPal is launching its own cryptocurrency service, allowing people to buy, hold and sell digital currency on its site and applications. PayPal is partnering with Paxos Trust Company, a regulated company that holds both physical and digital assets, to power the service in the US. At first, users will be able to buy four cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and Litecoin. This functionality will go live for U.S. users "in the coming weeks. " PayPal says it will expand these ...
■The U.S. Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc "s Google on Tuesday, claiming the $1 trillion company uses its market power to fend off rivals and said nothing was off the table, including a breakup of the internet search and advertising company.The lawsuit was brought forth by Republican Attorneys General of Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, South Carolina, and Texas to stop Google "s anticompetitive conduct and restore ...
■Amazon "s cloud-gaming service Luna is available now to select gamers in the United States. The company launched the platform today in early access. You can request to join this beta period on the company "s website. As part of this program, you can pay $6 per month to subscribe to the Luna+ Game Channel that starts with a library of 50 games.Luna will offer a library of games behind a subscription service, plus Twitch integration and support for a $49.99 Luna game controller. Releasing this month, the ...
■NASA and Nokia are planning the first cellular network on the moon. NASA is giving Nokia $14.1 million for this project. The purpose of the network is for more reliable communication between astronauts while on the moon.As well as voice communication and data transmission, the mobile network could power navigation, stream biometric data so controllers can keep an eye on each astronaut "s health and fitness, and direct remote-control robots and sensors on the lunar surface. "Leveraging our rich and ...
■Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai said Thursday he will move to "clarify the meaning " of Section 230, the law which protects social media companies from being legally liable for the content their users post.Section 230 became effective in 1996 and is designed to shield "interactive computer service " providers from liability for comments posted by third parties on their platforms. So, if someone defames FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on Twitter he can sue the ...
■The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that nearly 400 applicants are qualified to bid in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I auction in the U.S. Ilon Musks " SpaceX, Hughes Network Systems and Viasatare among them.The Federal Communications Commission on Oct. 13 released a list of "qualified bidders " for the RDOF funds, which will be awarded via reverse auction to telecom providers bidding to bring subsidized voice and broadband internet services to rural ...
■Verizon is making a big expansion of its 5G network: the carrier is now rolling out nationwide support for the new networking standard, which will reach more than 200 million people.The newly enabled 5G runs on the same spectrum bands used by Verizon for 4G, so it won "t be nearly as fast as Verizon "s millimeter-wave version of 5G. Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg said in May that 5G users on the non-millimeter-wave bands will see only a "small " upgrade at first. "It "s always been ...
■At its big iPhone 12 event, Apple announced today new iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini, which support new faster 5G networks. The newly designed iPhone 12 models feature expansive edge-to-edge Super Retina XDR displays for a brighter, more immersive viewing experience, and a new Ceramic Shield front cover, providing the biggest jump in durability ever on iPhone. The Apple-designed A14 Bionic, the fastest chip in a smartphone, powers every experience on iPhone 12, and coupled with an advanced dual-camera ...
■Tesla is going to release its "Full Self-Driving Beta " to some customers who are "expert and careful drivers " next week, says CEO Elon Musk.Tesla drivers have been waiting to get their hands on FSD for a while. At the company "s Battery Day event, Musk said Tesla had to complete a "fundamental rewrite " of its Autopilot software to make FSD a reality. "The sophistication of the neural net of the car and the overall logic of the car is improved ...
■IBM is splitting into two public companies, with a spin-off handling the firm "s legacy IT infrastructure work, allowing IBM to focus on new high-margin businesses, particularly cloud services and AI. The new company which has the placeholder name "NewCo " in official documents will have roughly 90,000 employees and $19 billion in revenue. (IBM as it current stands has roughly 352,000 workers.) When the spin-off is completed, which IBM says will take place before the end of 2021, ...
■Amazon on Thursday unveiled its electric delivery vans that were created in partnership with start-up Rivian Automotive. The four-wheeled box is the first unit of 100,000 ordered that will hit the road in 2021 according to the Seattle-based company. The new delivery van has been designed from the ground-up to suite Amazon "s needs. It doesn "t look too different from existing, traditional fuel and hybrid commercial delivery vans (though there are a lot more rounded edges), but most of the innovation is ...
■SpaceX has won $149 million from the Space Development Agency (SDA) to leverage the successes of its Starlink constellation and build custom satellites for the US Department of Defense (DoD).The companies will build four overhead persistent infrared imaging (OPIR) satellites of their own design that must be able to track missiles and communicate directly with transport layer satellites. Those satellites are currently being developed by Lockheed Martin and York Space Systems under separate contracts. Four ...
■Lawmakers from the US House of Representatives accused Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple of "abuses of monopoly power " in a 449-page report released Tuesday. The House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee drew its conclusions after a 16-month investigation that culminated in an hours-long hearing with Facebook "s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon "s Jeff Bezos, Apple "s Tim Cook and Alphabet "s Sundar Pichai in July.During the investigation the staff found that the four businesses enjoy monopoly ...
■Apple is suing former recycling partner GEEP Canada now a part of Quantum Lifecycle Partners for allegedly stealing and reselling at least 103,845 iPhones, iPads, and Watches it was hired to disassemble. Recently, Apple became suspicious during a warehouse audit when it found that GEEP housed some of its devices in an area not covered by cameras. So Cupertino checked the serial numbers of the products GEEP had received between 2015 and 2017. It found that 18 percent of the 531,966 iPhones, 25,673 ...
■AT&T "s has recently announced that it stops the sale of DSL to new customers amid a greater focus on fiber-fed and wireless broadband services. This move impacts legacy DSL service only, and not what AT&T labels IP DSL, or what used to be branded AT&T U-verse (now called AT&T Internet). "We are focused on enhancing our network with more advanced, higher speed technologies like fiber and wireless, which consumers are demanding, " AT&T said in a ...
■Amazon on Thursday released comprehensive data on the spread of the coronavirus among its employees, disclosing for the first time that more than 19,000 workers, or 1.44% of the total, contracted the virus this year.The company said it has conducted an analysis of data on 1.3 million front-line employees who worked for Amazon and Whole Foods in the U.S. from March 1 to Sept. 19 and compared rates to the general population during that time. Amazon said that if the rate would have been the same among its ...
■Verizon announced today a dramatic expansion of its 4G LTE fixed wireless service, which targets more rural markets. The service is now available in 189 markets across 48 states.The service includes unlimited data with download speeds of 25 Mbps with peak download speeds of 50 Mbps. The router can be self-installed, allowing customers to get set up on their own time.Pricing starts at $40/month for existing Verizon mobile wireless customers and rises to $60 for non-customers. There are no monthly data caps. ...
■Google might soon face an antitrust investigation in China on top of one that could launch in the US, according to Reuters. The government will reportedly look into charges that Google used its Android dominance to stifle mobile competition, saying it could cause "extreme damage " to Huawei and other Chinese companies.The case was proposed by telecommunications equipment giant Huawei last year and has been submitted by the country "s top market regulator to the State Council "s antitrust ...
■Beginning October 1, Verizon will launch 5G Home Internet in Minneapolis & St. Paul, bringing the blazing fast 5G Home Internet service to customers in eight cities, along with newly designed hardware including easy self-setup using augmented reality.The new router, made by Wistron for Verizon (known as the Wistron LV55), can be placed inside by a window, so there "s no external install needed. A smartphone app guides you where to put the unit. The device has Wi-Fi 6 and one Ethernet port. The ...
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