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What we know about the DOJ’s antitrust case against Google so far (Ars Technica)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 10/20/2020 - 17:02Twitter, Facebook face blowback after stopping circulation of NY Post story (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 10/14/2020 - 18:47SpaceX gets FCC approval to bid in $16 billion rural-broadband auction. 400 ISPs qualify, with SpaceX as only LEO satellite (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 10/14/2020 - 15:06AT&T has trouble figuring out where it offers government-funded Internet
If you live in an area where AT&T has taken government funds in exchange for deploying broadband, there's a chance you won't be able to get the service—even if AT&T initially tells you it's available. AT&T's Mississippi division has received over $283 million from the Federal Communications Commission's Connect America Fund since 2015 and in exchange is required to extend home-Internet service to over 133,000 potential customer locations.
Remote tribe says SpaceX Starlink “catapulted” them into 21st century (Ars Technica)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 10/13/2020 - 16:20Microsoft thumbs its nose at Apple with new “app fairness” policy
Microsoft adopted a whole slew of "fairness principles" for its Windows app store.
Comcast says gigabit downloads and uploads are now possible over cable
Comcast's broadband internet access service still has a heavy emphasis on download speeds, as even its gigabit-download service only comes with 35Mbps uploads. But that may not be the case forever, as the company announced a "technical milestone" that can deliver gigabit-plus download and upload speeds over existing cable wires.