Cox Internet now charges $15 extra for faster access to online game servers
Enlarge / Cox’s website advertises the Cox Elite Gamer service.
Cox cable is beginning to charge Internet users an extra $15 a month for a service that reduces lag in …
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Amazon plans to make Prime shipping one-day by default
Enlarge / A drone with an Amazon package floats in front of the Amazon logistics center in Leipzig, Germany, 28 October 2014. Amazon did not comment on whether drones will fuel this default one-day speed boost for paying Amazon Prime
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Russia launches sub that will carry doomsday nuke drone torpedo
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SEVERODVINSK, RUSSIA – APRIL 23, 2019: The Belgorod nuclear-powered submarine (Special Project 09852), during the launching ceremony, that carries Poseidon strategic underwater drones. (Photo by Oleg Kuleshov/TASS
AT&T says 5G will be priced like home Internet—pay more for faster speeds
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson.
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson today said that 5G will likely be priced similarly to wireline Internet, with customers paying more for faster speeds.
With 5G, “I …
In meeting with Twitter chief, Trump complains about lost followers
Enlarge / Trump giving Jack Dorsey advice on how to run Twitter better, April 23.
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On April 23, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had a meeting in the Oval …
Leaked report: crashed Russian Air Force MiG-31 was shot down by wingman
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MiG-31 radar
Almost exactly two years ago, a Russian Air Force MiG-31 Foxhound supersonic interceptor went down during an exercise over the Telemba proving …
Millimeter-wave 5G isn’t for widespread coverage, Verizon admits
Enlarge / A Verizon booth at Mobile World Congress Americas in Los Angeles in September 2018.
Verizon’s early rollout of millimeter-wave 5G is producing high speeds and throughput, but the …
Twitter shuts down 5,000 pro-Trump bots retweeting anti-Mueller report invective
Enlarge / The since-suspended account for the empty “news site” The Globus was at the center of a 5,000 bot Twitter army denouncing the Mueller campaign and posting pro-Trump (and pro-Saudi) messages.
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Bug in French government’s WhatsApp replacement let anyone join Élysée chats
Enlarge / Around the same time French President was greeting firefighters who saved Notre Dame Cathedral from fire, a security researcher was burning a new “secure” chat application for French government officials intended to keep them off WhatsApp and Telegram.
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Loose online lips sink hack targeting governments and embassies
Security researchers gave mixed grades to a recently discovered hacking campaign targeting government finance authorities and embassies. On the one hand, the attacks used carefully crafted decoy documents to trick …