#vz — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #vz, aggregated by home.social.
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Neuer #Cupra #Born im ersten #Fahrbericht. Gute ID.3 Neo Alternative. #ev
NEUER Cupra Born #VZ 2026 im Test: Besser als der VW ID.3 Neo? ⚡️ Erste Fahrt & #Review Der neue Cupra Born VZ ( #Facelift 2026 ) ist da – und er macht einiges anders! In unserem ersten Fahrbericht testen wir das sportliche Elektroauto auf Herz und Nieren. Cupra hat genau dort nachgebessert, wo es wichtig war:...
@ELEKTROBAYS
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Nevím úplně přesně, jak to číst:
‚Zresetujeme zařízení.‘ Čeští zpravodajci ve spolupráci s FBI zasáhli proti zneužitým přístrojům"‚Podstatou operace, na níž se Vojenské zpravodajství podílelo formou aktivního zásahu, bylo odebrat přístup útočníkům ke zranitelným zařízením a následně je zabezpečit, (...),‘ přibližuje Pejšek."
Znamená to, že Vojenské zpravodajství leze lidem do routerů a dělá jim úpravy ve firmwaru?
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Weekly output: wireless-service satisfaction, ransomware survey, Dashlane report, Verizon fee increases, drone policy
I had one work event on my calendar this week that I don’t think rates as an appearance worth listing here, since I got roped into it at the last minute. I’d put the Internet Law & Policy Foundry’s tech-law trivia contest on my schedule Wednesday thinking it would be fun to watch, but then one of the contestants asked if I’d like to join their team–and we finished in third place. This was one of the first public trivia contests I’d joined since 1987, when I was a member of the high school team that won a New Jersey state championship, and it’s nice to see that I still have it or at least some of it.
This coming week has me traveling for work for the first time since the middle of June and to an event that first landed on my travel calendar in 2018: I’m headed to Las Vegas for the Black Hat information-security conference. The trip doesn’t include the DEF CON infosec conference that follows Black Hat, and on Patreon I explained why I opted out of that and feel a little guilty about it.
7/31/2025: People Like Wireless Service Best When It Doesn’t Involve the Big 3 Carriers, PCMag
The gap betweeen J.D. Power’s customer-satisfaction stats for the big three wireless carriers and that firm’s metrics for companies reselling the networks of AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon caught my eye.
8/1/2025: Ransomware Victims Are Still Paying Up, Some More Than Once, PCMag
This survey published by the security firm Semperis got an unfortunate news peg when the Trump administration rescinded the West Point department-chair appointment of one of the report’s expert contributors, former Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Administration head Jen Easterly.
8/1/2025: This Password Manager Caught Some of Its Own Employees Not Using Its Product, PCMag
Dashlane’s PR folks offered me this story ahead of time. Since I have always found the fallible-human element of information security to be fascinating, I accepted the offer, and then my editors concurred.
8/1/2025: Months After Freezing Wireless Rates But Not Fees, Verizon Slips in a Fee Increase, PCMag
One of my colleagues brought this to my attention, and I was happy to set aside some time Friday morning to cover it.
8/2/2025: The Drone Industry Can’t Wait for This One Federal Regulation to Take Off, PCMag
I spent Tuesday and Wednesday at Nationals Park to cover a drone-policy conference hosted there by the trade group AUVSI, but I didn’t get around to writing it until Thursday night.
#AUVSI #BlackHat #ConsumerCellular #Dashlane #droneDelivery #drones #finePrint #JDPower #junkFees #NationalsPark #NatsPark #passwordManager #ransomware #Semperis #verizon #Vz #wirelessServices
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Weekly output: wireless-service satisfaction, ransomware survey, Dashlane report, Verizon fee increases, drone policy
I had one work event on my calendar this week that I don’t think rates as an appearance worth listing here, since I got roped into it at the last minute. I’d put the Internet Law & Policy Foundry’s tech-law trivia contest on my schedule Wednesday thinking it would be fun to watch, but then one of the contestants asked if I’d like to join their team–and we finished in third place. This was one of the first public trivia contests I’d joined since 1987, when I was a member of the high school team that won a New Jersey state championship, and it’s nice to see that I still have it or at least some of it.
This coming week has me traveling for work for the first time since the middle of June and to an event that first landed on my travel calendar in 2018: I’m headed to Las Vegas for the Black Hat information-security conference. The trip doesn’t include the DEF CON infosec conference that follows Black Hat, and on Patreon I explained why I opted out of that and feel a little guilty about it.
7/31/2025: People Like Wireless Service Best When It Doesn’t Involve the Big 3 Carriers, PCMag
The gap betweeen J.D. Power’s customer-satisfaction stats for the big three wireless carriers and that firm’s metrics for companies reselling the networks of AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon caught my eye.
8/1/2025: Ransomware Victims Are Still Paying Up, Some More Than Once, PCMag
This survey published by the security firm Semperis got an unfortunate news peg when the Trump administration rescinded the West Point department-chair appointment of one of the report’s expert contributors, former Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Administration head Jen Easterly.
8/1/2025: This Password Manager Caught Some of Its Own Employees Not Using Its Product, PCMag
Dashlane’s PR folks offered me this story ahead of time. Since I have always found the fallible-human element of information security to be fascinating, I accepted the offer, and then my editors concurred.
8/1/2025: Months After Freezing Wireless Rates But Not Fees, Verizon Slips in a Fee Increase, PCMag
One of my colleagues brought this to my attention, and I was happy to set aside some time Friday morning to cover it.
8/2/2025: The Drone Industry Can’t Wait for This One Federal Regulation to Take Off, PCMag
I spent Tuesday and Wednesday at Nationals Park to cover a drone-policy conference hosted there by the trade group AUVSI, but I didn’t get around to writing it until Thursday night.
#AUVSI #BlackHat #ConsumerCellular #Dashlane #droneDelivery #drones #finePrint #JDPower #junkFees #NationalsPark #NatsPark #passwordManager #ransomware #Semperis #verizon #Vz #wirelessServices
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Weekly output: wireless-service satisfaction, ransomware survey, Dashlane report, Verizon fee increases, drone policy
I had one work event on my calendar this week that I don’t think rates as an appearance worth listing here, since I got roped into it at the last minute. I’d put the Internet Law & Policy Foundry’s tech-law trivia contest on my schedule Wednesday thinking it would be fun to watch, but then one of the contestants asked if I’d like to join their team–and we finished in third place. This was one of the first public trivia contests I’d joined since 1987, when I was a member of the high school team that won a New Jersey state championship, and it’s nice to see that I still have it or at least some of it.
This coming week has me traveling for work for the first time since the middle of June and to an event that first landed on my travel calendar in 2018: I’m headed to Las Vegas for the Black Hat information-security conference. The trip doesn’t include the DEF CON infosec conference that follows Black Hat, and on Patreon I explained why I opted out of that and feel a little guilty about it.
7/31/2025: People Like Wireless Service Best When It Doesn’t Involve the Big 3 Carriers, PCMag
The gap betweeen J.D. Power’s customer-satisfaction stats for the big three wireless carriers and that firm’s metrics for companies reselling the networks of AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon caught my eye.
8/1/2025: Ransomware Victims Are Still Paying Up, Some More Than Once, PCMag
This survey published by the security firm Semperis got an unfortunate news peg when the Trump administration rescinded the West Point department-chair appointment of one of the report’s expert contributors, former Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Administration head Jen Easterly.
8/1/2025: This Password Manager Caught Some of Its Own Employees Not Using Its Product, PCMag
Dashlane’s PR folks offered me this story ahead of time. Since I have always found the fallible-human element of information security to be fascinating, I accepted the offer, and then my editors concurred.
8/1/2025: Months After Freezing Wireless Rates But Not Fees, Verizon Slips in a Fee Increase, PCMag
One of my colleagues brought this to my attention, and I was happy to set aside some time Friday morning to cover it.
8/2/2025: The Drone Industry Can’t Wait for This One Federal Regulation to Take Off, PCMag
I spent Tuesday and Wednesday at Nationals Park to cover a drone-policy conference hosted there by the trade group AUVSI, but I didn’t get around to writing it until Thursday night.
#AUVSI #BlackHat #ConsumerCellular #Dashlane #droneDelivery #drones #finePrint #JDPower #junkFees #NationalsPark #NatsPark #passwordManager #ransomware #Semperis #verizon #Vz #wirelessServices
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Weekly output: Mark Vena podcast, Verizon customer service, AI fair use, Comcast ditches data caps, Aurora’s autonomous trucks, age verification for porn sites, Universal Service Fund, Trump tariffs
The first half of this year is almost in the books, which means I’m thinking of a few longer pieces that I’d meant to have seen published and paid for by now but instead have yet to start writing.
Patreon readers got an extra post from me this week: a recap of how Uber rides in Mexico City helped me realize how much trouble cheap Chinese EVs are going to cause for Tesla.
6/23/2025: Ep 112 SmartTechCheck Podcast — Apple WWDC 25, Apple Intelligence, OpenAI device, Trump phone, Mark Vena
I suggested that this podcast cover the exercise in commercialized cult worship that is Trump Mobile. Two days after we recorded the show, that site’s description of the T1 phone that it plans to sell changed from “proudly made right here in the USA” to “brought to life right here in the USA.”
6/24/2025: Verizon Touts Upgraded Customer Service Push: Will It Make a Difference?, PCMag
Put me down as a skeptic of the difference that customer service can make in broadband: I can’t remember when I last called either my wireless carrier or my Internet provider for help.
6/24/2025: Judge: It’s Fair Use to Train AI on Books You Bought, But Not Ones You Pirated, PCMag
I found this case interesting for two reasons: It did not involve any claims of AI plagiarism and it allowed for a distinction between training AI models on purchased content and training it on pirated material. That last point should have Silicon Valley nervious, since so many large firms–hi, Meta–could not resist taking that copyright-infringing shortcut.
6/26/2025: Comcast’s New Plans Dump the Data Caps, PCMag
This is a post I have wanted to be able to write for years. I guess seeing enough subscribers flee for unlimited-data offerings of fiber and fixed-wireless services had a persuasive effect on Comcast’s management that my own posts denouncing this exercise in abuse of market power did not.
6/27/2025: Aurora hits a self-driving trucking milestone, Fast Company
One of my editors suggested that Aurora launching commercial deliveries via its self-driving trucks meant it was time to revisit the company I’d profiled for Fast Co. last summer. Conveniently enough, Aurora’s president Ossa Fisher was one of the speakers at Web Summit Vancouver, allowing me to interview her IRL during that conference.
6/27/2025: Sorry, Pornhub Fans: Supreme Court Upholds Texas Age-Verification Law, PCMag
I had this case on my list of opinions to look for on the Supreme Court’s site Friday morning, with an idea that my lede would have to reference Avenue Q’s “The Internet Is For Porn” regardless of the outcome. I’m surprised nobody else seems to have gone with that. After publication, my editor added statements about the decision from a few interested parties.
6/27/2025: That ‘Universal Service Charge’ on Your Phone Bill Isn’t Going Away, PCMag
As I was working on a post about the Texas case, I saw this opinion pop up and realized that I should write about that as well. In the hours that passed, my inbox accumulated comments from a variety of groups–including telecom trade associations that in other scenarios want the government to butt out–applauding this decision.
6/28/2025: For Electronics Makers in Latin America, the Roller-Coaster Ride Is Worse Than Just Paying a High Tariff, PCMag
I started writing this piece from my hotel in Mexico City hours before my departure and then needed another week to check with NielsenIQ to see if they had any stats about the effects of tariffs on the country and then find time to finish and file the thing.
#ageVerification #AITraining #Anthropic #Aurora #autonomousTrucks #autonomousVehicles #Comcast #ComcastDataCaps #copyright #dataCaps #ElectronicsHomeMexico #FirstAmendment #LLMs #MarkVena #podcast #SupremeCourt #tariffs #UniversalServiceFund #USF #VerizonCustomerService #VerizonSupport #Vz #Xfinity
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Die Risiken der Produkte sollten transparenter gemacht werden. Das sehen nicht nur wir so, sondern auch die #VZ BaWü und Finanzjournalist Wolf Brandes www.boersen-zeitung.de/banken-finan... (€) 3/4
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Meta will seine KI mit Beiträgen bei Instagram und Facebook trainieren. Die Verbraucherzentrale NRW geht dagegen vor.#Verbraucherzentrale #VZ #Meta #KI #widersprechen #Widerspruch #AI #Facebook #Instagram #Insta #WhatsApp #ablehnen #Formular #Klage
KI-Training bei Instagram und Facebook: Was passiert mit meinen Daten? -
Wie gut ist der #MEB Allrad? #CUPRA #Tavascan #VZ im #Wintercheck!
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Wie gut ist der #MEB Allrad? #CUPRA #Tavascan #VZ im #Wintercheck!
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US stock futures dipped as earnings ramps up. General Motors rose 0.7%, while Verizon fell 1.6% despite slightly beating earnings estimates. 3M gained 4.1% after exceeding expectations. RTX climbed 0.8% following strong demand in defense. Target slipped 0.2% amid price cuts for holiday shoppers. GE fell 4.2%, while PulteGroup rose 1.2%. SAP ADRs gained 4%, Zions Bancorporation climbed 3%.
#US #Stocks #Earnings #GM #VZ #MMM #RTX #TGT #GE #PHM #SAP #ZION $GM $VZ $MMM $RTX $TGT $GE $PHM $SAP $ZION
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Ein schöner Erfolg! Danke an alle, die sich engagiert haben! #mobilsicher #digitalcourage #deutschebahn #vz
Digitale BahnCard ohne App-Zwang: DB stellt PDF-Option in Aussicht · mobilsicher.de https://mobilsicher.de/aktuelles/db-bahncard-bahn-app-navigator-pdf
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Build A 7%-Yielding Dream Retirement Portfolio With 12 Amazing Blue Chips
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4581430-build-a-7-percent-yielding-dream-retirement-portfolio-with-12-amazing-blue-chips?source=feed
#DividendSensei #ENB:CA #KEY:CA #KEYUF #LGGNY #KMLM #MPLX #SCHD #BTI #ENB #EPD #MMP #OKE #MO #VZ -
Build A 7%-Yielding Dream Retirement Portfolio With 12 Amazing Blue Chips
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#DividendSensei #ENB:CA #KEY:CA #KEYUF #LGGNY #KMLM #MPLX #SCHD #BTI #ENB #EPD #MMP #OKE #MO #VZ -
Build A 7%-Yielding Dream Retirement Portfolio With 12 Amazing Blue Chips
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#DividendSensei #ENB:CA #KEY:CA #KEYUF #LGGNY #KMLM #MPLX #SCHD #BTI #ENB #EPD #MMP #OKE #MO #VZ -
5 Relatively Safe And Cheap Dividend Stocks To Invest In - January 2023
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4567991-5-relatively-safe-cheap-dividend-stocks-to-invest-in-january-2023?source=feed
#FinanciallyFreeInvestor #NGT:CA #CMCSA #TD:CA #AMAT #AVGO #COST #CTRA #INVH #MSFT #QCOM #TROW #ADP #BEN #BHP #BXP #CVX #DLR #EOG #EPD #JNJ #LEN #LOW #LYB #MRK #NEM #NKE #NRG #PXD #RIO #SWK #TGT #TSM #UPS #BX #CI #MO #TD #VZ #V -
5 Relatively Safe And Cheap Dividend Stocks To Invest In - January 2023
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4567991-5-relatively-safe-cheap-dividend-stocks-to-invest-in-january-2023?source=feed
#FinanciallyFreeInvestor #NGT:CA #CMCSA #TD:CA #AMAT #AVGO #COST #CTRA #INVH #MSFT #QCOM #TROW #ADP #BEN #BHP #BXP #CVX #DLR #EOG #EPD #JNJ #LEN #LOW #LYB #MRK #NEM #NKE #NRG #PXD #RIO #SWK #TGT #TSM #UPS #BX #CI #MO #TD #VZ #V -
5 Relatively Safe And Cheap Dividend Stocks To Invest In - January 2023
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4567991-5-relatively-safe-cheap-dividend-stocks-to-invest-in-january-2023?source=feed
#FinanciallyFreeInvestor #NGT:CA #CMCSA #TD:CA #AMAT #AVGO #COST #CTRA #INVH #MSFT #QCOM #TROW #ADP #BEN #BHP #BXP #CVX #DLR #EOG #EPD #JNJ #LEN #LOW #LYB #MRK #NEM #NKE #NRG #PXD #RIO #SWK #TGT #TSM #UPS #BX #CI #MO #TD #VZ #V -
The list you see below reflects a lot of work done in earlier weeks–three virtual panels recorded in advance, plus a Wirecutter update that I started researching last year.
4/19/2021: Time to cut internet cords: T-Mobile, Verizon up their bids to be your next home broadband, USA Today
I wrote about the fixed-wireless home-broadband services now available from these two carriers–one of which looks better positioned to let more Americans dump their local cable or telco monopoly.
4/19/2021: A key lesson of sports on OTT: first, do no lag, FierceVideo
An editor at this trade pub asked if I could fill in with coverage of an online event they were hosting. That work started with a write-up of a panel about lessons learned in distributing live sports events on over-the-top (aka “OTT,” meaning delivered on a third party’s broadband) video services.
4/20/2021: Keynote Interview: Producing OTT Sports Content, StreamTV Sports Summit
I didn’t just write about Fierce’s conference, I also participated in it by interviewing Chris Marinak, Major League Baseball’s chief operations and strategy officer. You can watch our banter after registering with your e-mail or Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter accounts; meanwhile, take a close look at the screenshot at the right and you may be able to recognize the Nationals bobblehead I’d placed on my desk for this recording.
4/20/2021: MLB to RSNs: It’s time to think direct-to-consumer, FierceVideo
Fierce then invited me to write up my own appearance at its show, so I led with Marinak’s answer to my question about his statements in a March season-preview event that MLB wants regional sports networks to sell game coverage direct to subscribers instead of making them sign up for a big pay-TV bundle. (I’d covered those earlier comments in an Opening Day post at Forbes.) Marinak reiterated that stance, and my recap got picked up at a few places; among them, Awful Announcing‘s Andrew Bucholtz and The Streamable‘s Jason Gurwin provided useful context.
4/21/2021: Netflix subscriber growth downshifts in Q1, FierceVideo
I wrote one more post for Fierce, in this case because the usual reporter was taking a just-in-case day off after getting his second dose of a coronavirus vaccine. Netflix earnings are less annoying to cover than those of other tech companies, because NFLX posts an “earnings interview” video instead of making people listen to an audio-only recording on which all the executives usually sound alike.
4/21/2021: The Best Wi-Fi Hotspot, Wirecutter
This overdue update to the guide I’d last revised in those innocent days of early 2020 brings a new 5G-specific pick, T-Mobile’s M2000 hotspot. AT&T and Verizon’s 5G hotspots, lacking the midband 5G T-Mo offers, were nowhere close–and yet Verizon’s LTE remains so good that the top pick went to the same Vz 4G hotspot as last year.
4/21/2021: Preparing for the return to live, Collision
I started this interview of Nathan Hubbard (formerly of Musictoday, Ticketmaster, Twitter and Rival) by mentioning the last game and concert I’d attended in the Before Times. That last musical event was a John Hiatt set at the Birchmere, which led Hubbard to recount how he’d once played that Alexandria venue himself.
4/21/2021: Verizon’s Slumping Video-Subscriber Numbers: Here’s What A Post-TV Provider Looks Like, Forbes
Seeing Verizon lose another stadium’s worth of pay-TV subscribers led me to take a closer look at both its Fios TV service and its sales pitch for it online, which at this point represents the softest of sells.
4/22/2021: WWE: Breaking down the data, Collision
I talked to WWE CTO Rajan Mehta about the network’s applications of technology… after offering the disclaimer that not only am I not anybody’s idea of a WWE viewer, as a D.C.-based journalist I must self-identify as a C-SPAN man.
4/22/2021: Facebook Exec Sounds Off On Its New Audio Features, Forbes
Fidji Simo, who heads Facebook’s app efforts, spoke at a couple of Collision panels about the social network’s upcoming audio features–while other Collision speakers made some good points about Facebook’s history of not thinking through the implications of new products and features.
4/24/2021: SmartTechCheck Podcast (4-23-21), Mark Vena
I returned to my tech-analyst friend’s podcast to discuss Apple’s announcements from its “Spring Loaded” event and talk about my findings from testing 5G hotspots around the D.C. area.
#5G #AirTags #baseball #ChrisMarinak #Clubhouse #Collision #FacebookAudio #FidjiSimo #FiosTV #LTEHotspots #MLBTv #NathanHubbard #Netflix #newIMac #NFLX #OTTVideo #overTheTopVideo #RajanMehta #SpringLoaded #TMobileHomeInternet #TMobileM2000 #verizon #Verizon5GHome #Verizon8800L #VerizonLTEHomeInternet #Vz #WashingtonNationals #WWE
