July 2025
Reddit Sues Perplexity For Scraping Data To Train AI System
An anonymous reader shares a report: Social media platform Reddit sued AI startup Perplexity in New York federal court on Wednesday, accusing it and three other companies of unlawfully scraping its data to train Perplexity’s AI-based search engine. Reddit said in the complaint that the data-scraping companies circumvented its data protection measures in order to […]
3GPP Release 18 Signal level Enhanced Network Selection (SENSE) for Smarter Network Selection in Stationary IoT
As 5G evolves and the number of deployed IoT devices increases globally, efficient and reliable network selection becomes ever more critical. Particularly for stationary devices deployed in remote, deep-indoor or roaming environments, traditional selection mechanisms have struggled to provide robust connectivity. This has led to operational challenges, especially for use cases involving low-power or hard-to-reach […]
The Role of Key Value Indicators (KVIs) in 6G
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) have long been the primary benchmarks for evaluating mobile network performance. However, as 6G moves towards a broader societal and environmental impact, the European Hexa-X-II project and its partners advocate for integrating Key Values (KVs) and Key Value Indicators (KVIs) into network design and evaluation. On 18 December 2024, Hexa-X-II hosted […]
Pikmin 4 is getting a free update with hard mode, Decor Pikmin and a camera to snap field photos
Nintendo has announced a free update for Pikmin 4 that could remedy one of fans’ biggest complaints about the game. (Yes, free. From Nintendo. We’re shocked too, but we’ll take it.) The update, which arrives in November, adds Fierce mode to make the game more challenging for those who want it. We don’t know exactly […]
The Long Tail of the AWS Outage
A sprawling Amazon Web Services cloud outage that began early Monday morning illustrated the fragile interdependencies of the internet as major communication, financial, health care, education, and government platforms around the world suffered disruptions. As the day wore on, AWS diagnosed and began working to correct the issue, which stemmed from the company’s critical US-EAST-1 […]
AT&T Users Tap T-Mobile Satellite D2D
AT&T Users on T-Mobile Satellite: Data Signals Cross-Carrier D2D Demand New usage data shows AT&T subscribers are tapping into T-Mobile’s Starlink-powered T-Satellite more than expected, signaling a rapid shift in how carriers and customers think about direct-to-device connectivity. Early Adoption: Cross-Carrier Demand for D2D/NTN Speedtest intelligence indicates T-Mobile users account for the majority of direct-to-device […]
Resistant Bacteria Are Advancing Faster Than Antibiotics
The proliferation of difficult-to-treat bacterial diseases represents a growing threat, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance Report. Wired: The report reveals that, between 2018 and 2023, antibiotic resistance increased by more than 40 percent in monitored pathogen-drug combinations, with an average annual increase of 5-15 percent. According to data reported […]
Mint Mobile 5G home internet: $30 unlimited
Mint Mobile launches MINTernet: 5G home internet on T-Mobile Mint Mobile is expanding from prepaid wireless into fixed wireless access, introducing a 5G home internet offer that targets price-sensitive households and small offices with unlimited data and headline speeds up to 415 Mbps for as low as $30 per month. What Mint launched: MINTernet 5G […]