Newscan: U.S. court upholds state laws limiting municipal broadband

U.S. senators confirmed FCC Commissioners Brendan Carr and Geoffrey Starks to new terms, meaning that no one on the current five-member FCC will be forced to leave the agency during the next two years based on term expiration. Carr, a Republican, and Starks, a Democrat, were confirmed by the Senate in a voice vote on […]

Early investments into advanced artificial intelligence (AI) services will be funneled into large data centers and won’t involve edge computing, according to industry executives and analysts. But that may change in the future. “When we move to the large-scale distribution of the inference [AI] model, that’s when edge becomes important,” Brian Pryor told Light Reading. […]

An Israeli surveillanceware company used the three Apple zero-day vulnerabilities disclosed last week to develop an exploit chain for iPhones, and a Chrome zero-day to exploit Androids — all in a novel attack on Egyptian organizations. According to a recent report from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), the company — which calls itself “Intellexa” — used the special […]

Several years ago, telco customers of Huawei were hauled in front of parliamentary committees and grilled by politicians who evidently knew as much about telecom as the average infant. After the sudden, Trump-led backlash against the Chinese equipment vendor, authorities were determined to figure out why Huawei had such a commanding presence in UK telecom […]