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It started off as a small annoyance. Once every couple of days, my home Internet connection would “stall”. All of the lights on the modem would be fine, but I couldn’t get a webpage to open. Given my job, this was obviously more than a minor annoyance, but it didn’t happen very often and I chalked it up to an ISP issue. I spoke to the Charter Internet team on Twitter and, after some basic troubleshooting, the company sent out a tech to investigate....

When AT&Tannouncedtoday that it was going to be effectively increasing the pricing of its text messaging plans by removing the 1000 message plan and keeping only the more expensive $20 unlimited plan and a 20c per text plan, it wasn’t taken with much joy. Text messages are a notorious source of profit for carriers and cost almost nothing for them to send. But if you’ve been using Apple’s upcoming iOS 5 beta, due out this fall, and its included iMessage feature, then you understand that this move is as inevitable as it is greedy....

Why is it so rare to have a woman leading a game? A brief history of women leading games Samus wasn’t the first woman to lead her own game — that honor belongs to Ms. Pac-Man most likely, though there area smattering of lesser-known arcade gameswith women in prominent roles. The point is, female-led games were not particularly common, and the revelation that you were playing the grittyMetroidas a woman the whole time was nothing short of paradigm-shifting....

WordPress powers about 14% of the web today and still growing. What sets it apart from other content management systems is that it ‘just works’ and is super-easy to use. But how do you balance between simplicity and functionality? If you try to pack everything into the CMS, you get a bloated monster that can’t carry its own weight. If you stick to just basic features, you get great performance and simplicity but with limiting functionality....

Two high-profile cyberattacks on critical infrastructure companies over the past month have shone what experts say is a much-needed spotlight on the rising threat of ransomware. An attack against Colonial Pipeline in May forced the company to temporarily shut down 5,500 miles of pipeline that it said supplies nearly 45 percent of the East Coast’s fuel. Colonial eventually paid the extortionists—a group known as DarkSide—nearly$5 millionin Bitcoin. TheFBI has since recoveredroughly half of the ransom....