Wayne Rash

Everyone seems happy about the launch of the Robocall Strike Force, which AT&T is facilitating at the behest of the Federal Communications Commission. They should be. While robocalls have been a growing problem for years, only now has the FCC managed to convince the major carriers, the major internet providers and the rest of the […]

Just when we boldly announced that self-driving cars would be making their appearance on city streets in the United States by 2021, it turns out we weren’t bold enough. The very next day, Uber announced a very ambitious plan to begin fielding self-driving cars in Pittsburgh before the end of August. Initially, the self-driving cars […]

The Ford Motor Company is making a major step into autonomous vehicles, but it’s moving carefully into this automotive technology. The company announced on August 16 that it will begin high-volume production of fully autonomous vehicles in 2021 and will market them for ride sharing. Ford also announced that it has locked up agreements with […]

The public release by a previously unknown group called the Shadow Brokers of information purportedly stolen from a server run by the National Security Agency’s hacking team is providing a lot of fodder for conspiracy theorists, but hard facts are in short supply. Shadow Brokers announced in a Tweet that the group was auctioning the […]

When the Federal Communications Commission issued its rule preempting state laws that limited local governments’ authority to build broadband networks, the commissioners’ comments were all about why broadband deployment is good for all concerned. Now that the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down that attempt, the complaints from those same commissioners are a […]

The chances are, you’ve never heard of Business Data Services, probably because it’s a new name recently coined by the Federal Communications Commission in place of what was previously called “special access.” The chances are you’ve probably not heard of special access either. While it hasn’t received much attention, it’s one of the last remnants […]

When Jet launched a year ago, part of the hype surrounding the new online shopping service was that it would be less expensive than Amazon and it would challenge Amazon in sales. A year later, it’s not clear that either has happened. But Jet was able to attract millennials to its customer base in significant […]

It should have come as no surprise when it was revealed at the Black Hat USA conference that Windows 10’s ability to run some Linux commands through the inclusion of the Bash shell command language also created a security risk. The fact is that any time you introduce a new way to interact with software […]

It seems as though Microsoft has been talking about its plans to release a major overhaul of Windows 10 in time for the operating system’s first birthday since its original release in July 2015. People in the company’s Insiders Program have been getting periodic looks at planned features, and news stories about the update have […]

When the EMV card liability shift happened in October 2015, the situation seemed to be fairly straightforward: If a merchant wanted to avoid new rules transferring liability for stolen or counterfeit cards to them, they needed to accept the more secure types of payment cards outfitted with a Europay, MasterCard and Visa chip. Those cards, […]