Emma Roth

Starlink is raising prices across its satellite internet plans in the US—including Standby Mode—with the cheapest 100 Megabits per second (Mbps) Residential plan going from $50 to $55/month. Meanwhile, Starlink’s 200 Mbps residential plan has jumped from $80 to $85/month, while the Residential Max plan went from $120 to $130/month. Standby Mode, which allows subscribers to pause their main Starlink service while using unlimited low-speed data, now costs $10/month instead of $5.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is pressing the Trump administration for more information on potential plans to “prop up” major AI companies with money from taxpayers. In a letter to David Sacks, the White House special advisor for AI and Crypto, and Michael Kratsios, the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Sen.

Google Fiber is changing up its internet plans in Huntsville (AL) and Nashville (TN). The new Core 1 Gig, Home 3 Gig, and Edge 8 Gig plans appear to have launched in November and streamline the company’s existing options. These options replace the 1 Gig, 2 Gig, 5 Gig, and 8 Gig plans currently available in other supported cities. Like the existing 1 Gig plan, Google Fiber’s new Core 1 Gig option costs $70 / month with symmetrical 1 gigabit per second upload and download speeds.

Satellite internet competitors OneWeb and SpaceX are in the running to reconnect Alaskans after ice damaged a sub-sea fiber-optic cable in the Arctic Ocean. While repairs are expected to take an additional six to eight weeks, satellites could help locals weather the widespread outage.

Twitter will no longer allow users to promote their presence on certain social platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr, and Post. Twitter says it will take action against users that violate this policy “at both the Tweet level and the account level.” This means users can no longer include links to their profiles on other social networks in their Twitter bio, nor can they send out tweets directing users to check out their Instagram or Facebook accounts.