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Regulation and infrastructure dominate: a French per-gigabyte traffic tax, the UK landline shutdown date, and local fights over data centers. OpenAI's lower funding target adds to the financing story.
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French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 per gigabyte of internet traffic. The measure is likely to draw strong industry pushback. It is the largest regulatory item in the topic.
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Openreach will retire the UK public switched telephone network on January 31, 2027, with no extensions, about 100 days out. Landline-dependent services such as alarms and care devices need migration plans.
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A judge allowed an NAACP lawsuit alleging xAI's data center violates the Clean Air Act to proceed.
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Reddit plans to gradually restrict content to logged-in users to combat scrapers. Visitors without accounts will see less.
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Hermantown's city council approved a controversial Google data center in a late-night meeting. Separately, TechCrunch says AI and data centers have become a New York midterm campaign issue.
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TikTok is reportedly expanding into restaurant guides and payments in a push to become a super app.
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OpenAI reportedly lowered its funding target for its new round after weaker-than-expected investor interest.
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OpenAI’s latest funding round doesn't seem to be living up to expectations.
TechCrunch reports that AI and data centers have become a campaign issue in the New York midterm elections.
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At a Brooklyn midterm party five days before Election Day, every conversation, from a council member’s fireside chat to a debate about the Democratic Party, kept circling back to AI and data centers.
A/SIDE launches a private photo sharing and encrypted messaging social app.
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Article URL: https://a-side.social/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317484 Points: 14 # Comments: 16
Koppar released an open-source USB-C LTE modem that gives a computer a phone line.
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Article URL: https://github.com/Koppar-AI/koppar-lte-modem Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317331 Points: 27 # Comments: 16
Meta suspended a US Senate candidate's Instagram account during a rally, prompting questions about the decision.
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Article URL: https://newrepublic.com/post/217281/meta-suspend-democratic-candidate-angie-nixon-instagram-account Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315776 Points: 42 # Comments: 35