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Amazon Is Ditching The United States Postal Service
11+ hour, 54+ min ago (838+ words) Amazon Is Ditching The United States Postal Service After nearly three decades of working together, Amazon is ending its delivery relationship with the United States Postal Service, a move that significantly alters how packages are moved across the country, according…...
Data Centers Were 40% Of PJM Capacity Costs In Last Auction: Market Monitor
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (371+ words) Submitted by Ethan Howland of Utility Dive In PJM's last three base capacity auctions, costs related to data center forecasts above existing data center loads totaled $21.3 billion, or 45% of the $47.2 billion in the cost of the cleared capacity, according to…...
Finnish Police Seize Russia-Linked Ship Accused Of Cutting Undersea Cable
1+ week, 2+ day ago (326+ words) Finnish authorities have newly detained a cargo ship suspected of damaging an undersea communications cable. The vessel has been identified as the Fitburg, and had departed St. Petersburg, Russia and was traveling toward Israel when it was intercepted by Finnish…...
Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake Just Played On Russia's Doomsday Shortwave Radio Station
1+ week, 4+ day ago (219+ words) X users are reporting that a mysterious Russian shortwave radio signal, nicknamed "The Buzzer" and informally known as the "doomsday radio station," that has been continuously broadcasting since the late 1970s, has just transmitted the classical piece Swan Lake by Pyotr…...
"Boosters On. Wings Out!": AST SpaceMobile Launches Biggest Satellite Yet To Take On Starlink
2+ week, 3+ day ago (272+ words) On X, AST SpaceMobile announced that its BlueBird 6 satellite - designed to deliver direct-to-smartphone cellular connectivity from space and function as a space-based cell tower - successfully reached orbit after launching aboard the Indian Space Research Organisation's LVM3 rocket from the Satish Dhawan…...
Governments In The West Turn Their Sights On VPNs As They Escalate Assault On Online Privacy/Anonymity
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1730+ words) The current Danish government is clearly no friend of online privacy or anonymity. During its rotating six-month presidency of the EU council, which is, thankfully, coming to an end, it tried to push through the European Commission's proposed Regulation to…...
Australia Imposes World's First Under-16 Social Media Ban
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (398+ words) Australia will soon bar anyone aged 15 and under from using major social media platforms " an unprecedented national ban set to take effect Wednesday " leaving many young users bracing for sudden offline life, according to Nikkei." Fourteen-year-old TikTok creator Zoey, whose…...
SpaceX Trademark Filing Signals "Starlink Mobile" May Soon Take Aim At AT&T, Verizon
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (184+ words) SpaceX has taken one step toward becoming a direct competitor to AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile. Its Starlink subsidiary quietly filed to register the "Starlink Mobile" trademark on Oct. 16, signaling plans to enter the wireless carrier business. For context, Elon…...
No More Data Centers In Largest US Power Grid Unless They Can Be Reliably Served: Market Monitor
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (416+ words) By Ethan Howland of UtilityDive The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should tell the PJM Interconnection that it can only add large data centers to its system when they can be reliably served, according to a complaint filed Tuesday at the…...
The Dutch Are The Most Likely To 'Borrow' Their Neighbor's WiFi
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (169+ words) According to data collected by'Statista Consumer Insights, 16 percent of'Dutch'online respondents said that they mainly access their internet at home via their neighbor or landlord's wireless connection. As Statista's Anna Fleck shows in the chart below, this is double the rate…...