Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US (arstechnica.com)
Reddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit (arstechnica.com)
Twitter commandeers @X username from man who had it since 2007 (arstechnica.com)
Twitter took Gene X Hwang's username and only offered him “some merch.”
FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free” (arstechnica.com)
It’s about time that Intuit was called out for their scam. Hopefully, the attempt to stop the federal tax filing will get dismissed as well.
FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore (arstechnica.com)
Chair proposes 100Mbps national standard and an evaluation of broadband prices.
AMAs are the latest casualty in Reddit’s API war (arstechnica.com)
Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best (arstechnica.com)
Will Reddit get quality replacements? "Not a snowball's chance in hell."
Musk, Tesla board to return $735M after being sued for overpaying themselves (arstechnica.com)
Shareholder lawsuit said Tesla board pay "grossly exceeds" corporate norms.
FTC prepares “the big one,” a major lawsuit targeting Amazon’s core business (arstechnica.com)
FCC says “too bad” to ISPs complaining that listing every fee is too hard (arstechnica.com)
Aww … poor little ISPs.
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
Senate confirms Biden FCC nominee, finally giving Democrats a 3-2 majority (arstechnica.com)
Anna Gomez confirmation means "FCC can act swiftly to restore net neutrality."
Film companies demand names of Reddit users who discussed piracy in 2011 (arstechnica.com)
Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US (arstechnica.com)
Twitter held in contempt, fined $350K over Trump data delay (arstechnica.com)
Sanctions were applied after the social media platform delayed compliance with a federal search warrant that required Twitter to hand over Donald Trump’s Twitter data without telling the former president about the warrant for 180 days.
Protests broke Reddit hack for useful Google search results—and Google knows it (arstechnica.com)
FCC moves ahead with Title II net neutrality rules in 3-2 party-line vote (arstechnica.com)
The Federal Communications Commission today voted to move ahead with a plan that would restore net neutrality rules and common-carrier regulation of Internet service providers....
No regrets: Gender-affirming chest surgery in adults has long-term satisfaction (arstechnica.com)
People who underwent gender-affirming chest reconstruction surgeries as adults have virtually no regrets years later and overwhelmingly high levels of satisfaction with their decision to have the procedure, according to a study published Wednesday in JAMA Surgery. The results were so clear, in fact, that the study authors were...
Tesla exaggerated EV range so much that drivers thought cars were broken (arstechnica.com)
Inundated with complaints, Tesla created "Diversion Team" to cancel appointments.
Twitter gets buggier: Followers don’t display, users restricted in error (arstechnica.com)
Twitter looking into a bug restricting some users from liking and retweeting.
14 big landlords used software to collude on rent prices, DC lawsuit says (arstechnica.com)
FCC details plan to restore the net neutrality rules repealed by Ajit Pai (arstechnica.com)
Calif. passes strongest right-to-repair bill yet, requiring 7 years of parts (arstechnica.com)
California, the home to many of tech's biggest companies and the nation's most populous state, is pushing ahead with a right-to-repair bill for consumer electronics and appliances. After unanimous votes in the state Assembly and Senate, the bill passed yesterday is expected to move through a concurrence vote and be signed by...
Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge (arstechnica.com)
The outcome was predicted by plenty users in this community, but now the news are noticing it.
No apologies as Reddit halfheartedly tries to repair ties with moderators (arstechnica.com)
Reddit is reaching out to moderators after tensions rose over recent policy changes and API pricing. A Reddit admin acknowledged the strained relationship and outlined new weekly feedback sessions and other outreach efforts to repair ties. However, moderators remain skeptical of Reddit’s efforts given mixed results from past...
