The Long Tail of the AWS Outage

A sprawling Amazon Web Services cloud outage that began early Monday morning illustrated the fragile interdependencies of the internet as major communication, financial, health care, education, and government platforms around…

AT&T Users Tap T-Mobile Satellite D2D

AT&T Users on T-Mobile Satellite: Data Signals Cross-Carrier D2D Demand New usage data shows AT&T subscribers are tapping into T-Mobile’s Starlink-powered T-Satellite more than expected, signaling a rapid shift in…

Resistant Bacteria Are Advancing Faster Than Antibiotics

The proliferation of difficult-to-treat bacterial diseases represents a growing threat, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance Report. Wired: The report reveals that, between 2018 and…

Mint Mobile 5G home internet: $30 unlimited

Mint Mobile launches MINTernet: 5G home internet on T-Mobile Mint Mobile is expanding from prepaid wireless into fixed wireless access, introducing a 5G home internet offer that targets price-sensitive households…

BISSELL FurFinder stick vacuum — Australian Review

Anyone who lives with pets (or people with long hair) knows how hair seems to migrate everywhere—even in places you thought you’d vacuumed already. The BISSELL PowerClean FurFinder stick vacuum…

Tutorial Session on Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTNs) and 3GPP Standards from 5G to 6G

Over five years ago, we introduced the concept of Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) in our NTN tutorial and wrote IEEE ComSoc article, “The Role of Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) in Future 5G…

Verizon buys the not-quite-5G wireless ISP Starry to expand wireless broadband

Verizon is acquiring Starry, the ISP that delivers home internet using antennas and millimeter wave technology. The acquisition “advances” Verizon’s ability to offer high-speed internet in apartments, condominiums, and other…

Hilarious Architecture Memes That Every Architect Will Understand

Talking about architecture, memes wouldn’t be the first thing that crosses your mind, right? Architecture sure is a serious business—until it isn’t. Student or professional, the life of an architect…

Rubbish IT Systems Cost the US At Least $40 Billion During Covid

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times: A lot of critical financial and government infrastructure runs on Cobol. The more-than-60-year-old mainframe coding language is embedded into payments…

Meta cuts 600 AI jobs amid ongoing reorganization

Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, wrote in a memo to staff on Wednesday that the company will cut about 600 jobs from its superintelligence lab, according to a report…