Public Utilities Commission of Ohio authorizes AT&T Ohio to end participation in Lifline program
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) approved an application by AT&T Ohio to end its participation in the federal Lifeline program.
March 2019
Huawei confirms it has built its own operating system just in case US tensions disrupt use of Google’s Android (South China Morning Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 03/14/2019 - 11:58Facebook and Instagram are officially back and blaming server configuration change for outage (USA Today)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 03/14/2019 - 11:56A Rise In Depression Among Teens And Young Adults Could Be Linked To Social Media Use (National Public Radio)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 03/14/2019 - 11:55Software Industry op-ed: We need a national privacy law that respects the First Amendment (Hill, The)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 03/14/2019 - 11:17Because of the Facebook outage, Telegram gained 3 million new users (Fast Company)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 03/14/2019 - 08:47With Tech on the Defensive, SXSW Takes an Introspective Turn (Wired)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 03/14/2019 - 08:47Sen Harris Wants to Give States Millions to Overhaul Tech
Democratic presidential candidate Sen Kamala Harris (D-CA) is introducing the Digital Service Act of 2019 on March 14 that would give state and local governments access to a pool of $15 million a year in grant funding, which they could use to set up tech teams and overhaul the often outdated tools and websites their constituents use every day. The bill is modeled after the United States Digital Service, an elite team of geeks inside the White House working on ways to make federal government technology less clunky and confusing—and maybe even good.