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Georgia Robocall Surge: Atlanta Hit Hard
2+ hour, 42+ min ago (162+ words) Data from the You Mail Robocall Index shows Georgians received 1, 000, 552, 300 robocalls from January through April 2026. On the index's Atlanta page, the metro accounts for roughly 535, 559, 200 of those calls, which works out to about 59. 9 calls per person, with nearly 140 million junk…...
Verizon Outage Throws Pittsburgh Phones Into SOS Panic
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (209+ words) According to WPXI, Verizon's status map labeled the disruption a "known issue" and showed data, voice, text, and wireless home internet as limited across the station's viewing area. The station reported that Verizon engineers were working on a fix and…...
Mystery Saboteur Slices Spectrum Lines, Shakes West Charlotte
1+ week, 2+ day ago (306+ words) Hoodline Mystery Saboteur Slices Spectrum Lines, Shakes West Charlotte Early yesterday in west Charlotte, someone intentionally sliced through Spectrum lines, briefly knocking out internet, phone and TV service for nearby homes and businesses. The outage centered on the West Tyvola…...
Quiet i Phone Update Slams Door On 'Deleted' Messages Bug
1+ week, 2+ day ago (317+ words) According to Apple Support, the patch addresses a "logging issue" in Notification Services (CVE-2026-28950) and improves data redaction so deleted alerts are not unexpectedly retained. Apple lists the update as available for i Phone 11 and later, along with several i…...
Pinellas Commissioner Proposes Ban On Large AI Data Centers
1+ week, 4+ day ago (233+ words) As reported by the Tampa Bay Times, Peters raised the idea during the Thursday work session and suggested staff look into the county's authority to restrict what she called "large-scale" data center developments. The Times notes that her comments came…...
OG&E to Power Three Google Data Centers in Oklahoma
1+ week, 5+ day ago (440+ words) OG&E will power three new Google data centers planned for Muskogee and Stillwater, under a deal the utility says will keep everyday Oklahomans from getting stuck with the tab for big'ticket grid upgrades. In a Thursday news release, OG…...
Phones Go Silent As Landline Meltdown Hits Irving City Offices
2+ week, 8+ hour ago (421+ words) Landline phones went quiet across Irving city offices yesterday after a system-wide outage with the municipal phone provider knocked out service at multiple facilities, leaving staff to lean on the city website while technicians work behind the scenes. In a…...
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2+ week, 1+ day ago (11+ words) Durham "Fed Court" Phone Hustle Nearly Cons Local Out Of $30 K'Hoodline...
FBI IC3: Internet Crime Losses Top $20 B in 2025
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (438+ words) Hoodline Cyber Crooks Bleed Americans For Record $20 Billion, FBI Says Online scammers walked off with more than $20 billion of Americans" money in 2025, according to the FBI"s Internet Crime Complaint Center, setting a new single-year record for cyber-enabled fraud. The…...
Alamo Heights ISD Internet Outage Disrupts Wi'Fi and Gmail
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (211+ words) San Antonio schools have been here before. In December 2024, a third'party fiber cut triggered a major outage that knocked internet and phone service offline for multiple districts, highlighting how a single shared backbone provider can spread problems across campuses. KSAT…...