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I tried out Mint’s home internet service to find out if it’s actually worth it

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Mint Mobile first announced plans to enter the wireless internet market late last year, eventually rolling out service in October. The company’s so-called Minternet service is built on the same network and technology as T-Mobile 5G Home Internet, though its pricing and plan structure work a bit differently. I’ve

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FBI’s Washington Post Investigation Shows How Your Printer Can Snitch On You

alternative_right quotes a report from The Intercept: Federal prosecutors on January 9 charged Aurelio Luis Perez-Lugones, an IT specialist for an unnamed government contractor, with “the offense of unlawful retention of national defense information,” according to an FBI affidavit (PDF). The case attracted national attention after federal agents investigating Perez-Lugones searched the home of a

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Trump is steamrolling global calls for a moratorium on deep sea mining

A sample of a polymetallic nodule at the Viridian Biometals lab in Pasadena, California. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration took the next step toward unilaterally jumpstarting deep-sea mining this week, announcing a “consolidated” permitting process for both searching for and commercially extracting minerals that have so far remained relatively untouched. These minerals are

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