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Daily Digest 4/7/2025 (Jesse Lyle Kornbluth)

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Mon, 04/07/2025

Today's top broadband news

How Tariffs Are Hitting Digital Commerce Companies (New York Times)

Submitted by benton on Mon, 04/07/2025 - 06:22

President Trump Weakens U.S. Cyberdefenses at a Moment of Rising Danger (New York Times)

Submitted by benton on Mon, 04/07/2025 - 06:22

Social Security website keeps crashing, as DOGE demands cuts to IT staff (Washington Post)

Submitted by benton on Mon, 04/07/2025 - 06:21

Wi-Fi is one of the great backward compatibility success stories (Verge, The)

Submitted by grace@benton.org on Sun, 04/06/2025 - 22:22

Washington worries Trump could bail out Zuckerberg ahead of landmark antitrust trial against Meta

Less than two weeks before the start of a landmark antitrust trial against tech giant Meta, the growing relationship between President Donald Trump and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is stoking fears in Washington (D.C.) that the White House could pull the plug on the whole case.