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Electronic Frontier Foundation will deprecate HTTPS Everywhere plugin

Enlarge / We had trouble even finding HTTPS statistics earlier than 2016—but even in 2016, fewer than one in four websites were delivered via HTTPS. (credit: HTTP Archive) Last week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation announced that it will deprecate its HTTPS Everywhere browser plugin in 2022. Engineering director Alexis Hancock summed it up in the announcement’s own […]

AT&T took $283 million but did Not deploy broadband, Mississippi States

Expand / A guy walks with the umbrella Outside AT&T corporate headquarters at March 13, 2020, at Dallas, Texas. AT&T kindly told the US authorities that it fulfilled its duty to deploy broadband in greater than 133,000 places in Mississippi, state officials say. Because 2015, AT&T has obtained over $283 million in the Federal Communications […]

Labor board orders a do-over in Amazon warehouse union election

Enlarge / An Amazon warehouse in Germany on April 2, 2020. (credit: Patrick Pleul | picture alliance | Getty Images ) A regional official at the National Labor Relations Board has called for a new union election at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama, fulfillment center following recommendations issued in August by a hearing officer. The Retail, Wholesale, […]