Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP(arstechnica.com)

295 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 195 comments

Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz(arstechnica.com)

58 points by JeanKage 5 months ago | 45 comments

Comcast reluctantly agrees to stop its misleading "10G Network" claims(arstechnica.com)

187 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 106 comments

Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users(arstechnica.com)

224 points by RadixDLT 2 years ago | 140 comments

RFK Jr.'s Wi-Fi and 5G conspiracies appear to make it into MAHA report draft(arstechnica.com)

22 points by duxup 1 year ago | 2 comments

New York starts enforcing $15 broadband law that ISPs tried to kill(arstechnica.com)

87 points by athousandsteps 1 year ago | 67 comments

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado(arstechnica.com)

825 points by JaimeThompson 1 year ago | 332 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that the FBI raided the home of an Indiana University computer scientist whose profile was quietly removed and who has gone silent.

ISPs complain that listing every fee is too hard, urge FCC to scrap new rule(arstechnica.com)

422 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 314 comments

Ars Technica article on broadband ISPs urging the FCC to scrap a new rule requiring them to list all recurring monthly fees on broadband labels.

Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining(si.inc)

392 points by nee1r 1 year ago | 267 comments

Standard Intelligence blog post describing how they built a 30-petabyte hard drive storage cluster in a San Francisco colocation center for under $500k to store video pretraining data.

Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal(arstechnica.com)

614 points by nobody9999 1 year ago | 75 comments

Ars Technica article on a court rejecting Verizon's claim that selling customer location data without consent was legal, amid a circuit split with AT&T's case.

Some Supabase customers are publicly exposing reams of people's data to the web(techcrunch.com)

4 points by rvz 1 month ago | 0 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that some Supabase customers have misconfigured databases publicly exposing large amounts of personal data.

Private equity is buying everything from vet offices to tech conglomerates(theverge.com)

482 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 312 comments

A Verge Decoder interview with prosecutor Brendan Ballou on how private equity buys companies from vet offices to tech firms, why the system is broken, and fixes.