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A Court Threw Out the FCC’s 38.1% Universal Service Fee. Today’s Rate Is 42%.

The Fifth Circuit ruled the FCC never had the authority to create the company that runs the Universal Service Fund, and voided a 38.1 percent fee. The bigger problem is…

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Fiber and Fixed Wireless Are Finishing America’s Broadband Map Together

Fixed wireless passed 17 million U.S. connections this year while BEAD-funded fiber…

PHP2Shell Hit the Software Behind 70% of Websites. Cloudflare Counted Tens of Thousands of Attacks in 45 Minutes.

AI tools found PHP2Shell, a pair of critical flaws in the language…

Hackers Reached School Employees’ Social Security Numbers Through a Vendor’s Vendor. Notices Took Seven Weeks.

A breach at Frontline Education, which sells HR and workforce software to…

The Senate Couldn’t Agree on Who Pays for Data Center Power. Google Just Signed Up for 890 New Megawatts.

The Senate blocked a bill meant to keep data center power costs…

Paramount Can Now Buy Warner Bros. for $110 Billion. Most of Its Promises Expire in Five Years.

A judge cleared Paramount's $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery after…

The FCC Says 99.7% of Americans Can Get Satellite Broadband. Fewer Than Half of Satellite Users Got the Promised Speeds.

The FCC counts satellite as available to 99.7 percent of Americans at…

153 Million Driver’s Licenses Leaked From a Company That Only Needed to Check Your Age

Hackers got hold of more than 153 million driver's license scans from…

GTA 6 Costs $80. GTA V Has Sold 230 Million Copies. Take-Two Is Betting on the Second Number.

GTA 6's $80 price got the headlines. But GTA V has sold…

A Year Without the $7,500 EV Credit: Electric Cars Fell Back to 5.8%. Hybrids Hit 16%.

The federal EV credit expired a year ago. EV share dropped back…