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FCC's Foreign-Made Router Ban Expands To Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot Devices(2026-04-24 05:00:03)

The FCC has expanded its foreign-made router ban to also cover consumer Wi-Fi hotspots and LTE/5G home-internet devices, though existing products and phones with hotspot features are not affected. PCMag reports: On Wednesday, the FCC updated its FAQ on the ban, clarifying which consumer-grade router...
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New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations(2026-04-24 00:00:03)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: New gas projects linked to just 11 data center campuses around the US have the potential to create more greenhouse gases than the country of Morocco emitted in 2024. Emissions estimates from air permit documents examined by WIRED show that these natura...
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Apple Stops Weirdly Storing Data That Let Cops Spy On Signal Chats(2026-04-23 20:00:07)

Apple has fixed a bug that could cause parts of Signal notifications to remain stored on iPhones even after messages disappeared and the app was deleted. "Affected users concerned about push notifications can update their devices to stop what Apple characterized as 'notifications marked for deletion...
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Tim Cook Calls Apple Maps Launch His 'First Really Big Mistake' as CEO(2026-04-23 15:00:04)

In a recent town hall meeting reported by Bloomberg (paywalled), Apple CEO Tim Cook named the troubled 2012 launch of Apple Maps as his "first really big mistake" in the role. "The product wasn't ready, and we thought it was because we were testing more of local kind of stuff," Cook told staff. MacR...
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53 Nations Gather To Plan a Fossil Fuel Phaseout(2026-04-23 10:00:11)

Ancient Slashdot reader hwstar shares a report from The Conversation: For the first time ever, more than 50 nations will gather next week in Colombia to hash out how to wind down and end their dependence on coal, oil and gas. The history-making conference was planned before the Iran war. But this ye...
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