Apple says iPhone 18 Pro Max phones that lost service on AT&T must be replaced because software cannot reactivate them. Its iOS 27.0.1 release and a new AT&T carrier settings file are meant only to keep working phones from failing.
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Bill Gross told investors to own no bonds except one-year Treasury bills at 4.55%, citing about $84 trillion of credit and federal debt at 100% of GDP. Holding only bills gives up the gain longer bonds would make in a slowdown, and Gross himself expects the debt to bring one.
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AT&T texted iPhone 18 Pro Max owners to install iOS 27.0.1 immediately, warning that some phones may be unable to complete calls, including to 911. Teams managing those phones can install it for the fixes Apple documented while keeping the cellular fault logged as unresolved.
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AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile formed a company on Oct. 1 to pool some of their airwaves so ordinary phones can reach satellites beyond tower range. Analysts read it as a defense against SpaceX, while a driver who loses signal on a back road this week has the same options as before.
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T-Mobile cut "with Starlink" from its T-Satellite homepage in the week it, AT&T and Verizon launched a joint venture to pool satellite spectrum. The satellites behind the service are still SpaceX's, under a US exclusivity T-Mobile's CEO says lasts beyond this year.
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AT&T is texting affected iPhone 18 Pro Max owners to install iOS 27.0.1 because some phones may be unable to complete calls, texts or data, including to 911. Teams issuing the phones should install it before moving any eSIM, the setup step tied to some failures.
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Army soldier Cameron Wagenius got 70 months in prison for extorting AT&T with call records taken from Snowflake accounts that lacked MFA. His group got in with exposed credentials alone, and AT&T's $370,000 ransom did not stop the leaks that followed.
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The Gen 6+ sells for $649.99 and is the first Fairphone the company has sold directly in America. The argument it makes is arithmetic, not atmosphere.
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Sens. Mark Warner and Ted Cruz filed a bill giving NTIA 18 months to write voluntary telecom security practices, with an optional third-party certification. Adopting them stays each carrier's choice, nearly a year after the mandatory post-breach rules were scrapped.
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Apple's iPhone 18 Pro pre-orders and its first foldable sit five weeks apart. Anyone buying handsets in quantity now has two ordering windows to choose between, and the larger phone is already the constrained one.
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Twenty of the 63 electric cooperatives holding provisional BEAD broadband awards in 27 states have withdrawn from the $42.5 billion program. More are weighing an exit over a pole-attachment condition, so a provisional co-op award is now a weak basis for a rural fiber plan.
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Apple's iPhone Handoff moves calls and messages between two iPhones sharing one number. Availability, price and cancellation all run through the carrier, and on T-Mobile that is $5 a month per number.
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Jeremy Legg told WIRED that AT&T will carry fewer people in five years. An anonymous account puts the 2030 target at 85,000 employees, a figure AT&T calls inaccurate, and the first half of 2026 ran at half last year's cutting pace.
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Sharing one phone number across two iPhones is an iOS 27 setting that the carrier has to switch on and bill for. Adding a second handset now depends on the mobile contract.
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Federal broadband money for California now comes with a promise not to enforce state affordability, net neutrality and public-safety rules against the recipients. The window to contest that promise closes at signature.
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Phil Portman, who runs the SMS tool Textdrip, says traffic that does not match its registration is rejected the same night under A2P 10DLC, while Virginia now requires businesses to honor a text opt-out for ten years.
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Cost per request is down 34% at Uber and cost per session down 52%, and total AI spend has been flat since March even as token use grew. Pinterest and AT&T report similar savings from open models.
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The gap implies each session now uses roughly a quarter fewer requests, so the compaction threshold and the prompt cache in Uber's own harness are carrying part of a saving usually credited to cheaper open models.
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AT&T Business will sell Amazon's Leo capacity through contracts its customers already hold, which settles who owns the ticket queue well before anyone can quote a price for the satellite layer itself.
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An MIT Sloan Management Review essay argues that loyalty is a conditional virtue which rewards silence and compliance, and that leaders in a tough job market would do better to measure commitment to a stated purpose.
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