May 2024

Russia, in New Push, Increasingly Disrupts Ukraine’s Starlink Service (New York Times)

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After ‘whites only’ job posting, tech staffing firm settles with Departments of Justice and Labor (National Public Radio)

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Telegram Is the App Dividing Europe (Bloomberg)

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Licensing deals, litigation raise raft of familiar questions in fraught world of platforms and publishers (Columbia Journalism Review)

Submitted by benton on Mon, 05/27/2024 - 17:09

The Commerce Department was expecting to fund high-tech research. Congress sent it to a secretive natsec program instead (Politico)

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What Happened to Our Ad-Free TV? (New York Times)

Submitted by benton on Mon, 05/27/2024 - 17:07

The media bosses fighting back against AI — and the ones cutting deals (Washington Post)

Submitted by benton on Mon, 05/27/2024 - 17:06

Another US state repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition

Minnesota eliminated two laws that made it harder for cities and towns to build their own broadband networks. The state-imposed restrictions were repealed in an omnibus commerce policy bill signed on May 21 by Gov Tim Walz (D-MN). Minnesota was previously one of about 20 states that imposed significant restrictions on municipal broadband.

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Federal Communications Commission

Date:

Wed, 08/07/2024 - 13:15

Agenda

Establishing a Missing and Endangered Persons Alert Code – The Commission will consider a Report and Order to establish a Missing and Endangered Persons event code that will provide law enforcement, EAS Participants, and WEA providers with a means to quickly disseminate information pertaining to missing and endangered persons cases. (PS Docket Nos. 15-91, 15-94)

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