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Verizon Communications is a major US carrier offering wireless, broadband, and business services, and publishes the annual Data Breach Investigations Report.
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BT Group will buy TalkTalk out of administration, debt-free, at a cash cost it puts at 400 million pounds. Once a regulatory process ends, TalkTalk's wholesale customers, including connections that support health, defence and emergency services, would be buying from BT.
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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, 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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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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The 5G bundle costs $2,395 with $10 a month for Verizon customers, and the Specs Intelligence app opened a waitlist today for people with no glasses at all, asking to connect the apps they already use.
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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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The Verge's Charles Pulliam-Moore argues that streamers are re-creating cable from first principles. The evidence he offers is interface design, and that is what decides how a product team should read it.
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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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Exploitation is now the top initial-access vector at 31% of breaches. The median defender needs 43 days to close a known-exploited flaw. Both figures reach operators through a guide selling the fix.
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The $5.08 million average comes from IBM and the $139,875 median from Verizon, one a mean and one a median across different samples, so 36 to 1 is an order of magnitude. Even discounted, the money sits in downtime.
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Cisco and Splunk spent the .conf26 keynotes on trust and on who is authorized to act. The two items named as shipping are a token-cost meter available now and a dataset join gated on holding two licenses.
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At a Los Angeles event Snap wired its $2,200 glasses to HBO Max, Spotify, an NBA shooting drill and enterprise partners including Amazon, Salesforce and Nvidia. The demo that explained the pitch featured a repair job.
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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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9to5Google published leaked Motorola design sketches only after a wireless charging listing turned up carrying the same Lenovo/Motorola watermark. The sketches describe a bezel-less cover display and a fold with no crease.
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Jon Baker of AttackIQ treats the subscription-gated report as evidence that AI hands any attacker fast access to a technique catalog that has not grown, and builds a spending case for chokepoint detection on it.
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