Newscan: The maker of Taser stun guns wants to put them on drones to stop school shootings

Last month, the FirstNet Authority named John Stevens as this year’s recipient of the Harlin R. McEwen Public Safety Broadband Communications Award recognizing an individual “who has displayed remarkable leadership or made significant contributions in the field of public-safety broadband communications.” As New Hampshire’s longtime statewide interoperability coordinator, Stevens (pictured above, right, with FirstNet Authority […]

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations San Francisco will allow police to deploy robots that kill Sen. Cantwell expresses doubt that FAA, FCC nominations will receive votes this year Pegasus spyware inquiry targeted by disinformation campaign Wildfires are burning an ever-larger hole in state budgets Starlink prices in Ukraine nearly double as mobile networks […]

Energy consumption should be a decent proxy for telco operating cost trends. Before the war in Ukraine, it accounted for only about 5% of total expenses at an average telco, which spends far more on its staff (representing about a quarter of costs). But even the most economically phrased text message needs electricity to leap […]

The federal government has once again signaled that our traditional approach to cybersecurity, one predicated solely on prevention and perimeter defenses, is failing us. In the past two years alone, 76% of organizations were attacked by ransomware, and 66% experienced at least one software supply chain attack. Now, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is the […]