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AT&T is squaring off with California in a legal dispute over who should bear the cost of keeping copper phone lines alive. The telecom giant argues it spends roughly one billion dollars a year maintaining infrastructure that now reaches only three percent of potential customers — a fight that cuts to the heart of how we define universal service in a wireless age.
Shifting to the skies, hyperscalers are seriously exploring the idea of moving AI compute infrastructure into orbit, and experts are pushing back hard. The warnings center on layered access control, physical redundancy, and the simple fact that when something breaks hundreds of miles above Earth, you cannot send a technician. Potential outages measured in months, not hours, are a very real concern.
And on the labor front, Wikipedia's workforce is moving to organize. The Wiki Workers United effort is now soliciting public solidarity signatures, raising questions about how the Wikimedia Foundation — long celebrated as a volunteer-driven institution — will navigate the realities of a unionizing paid staff.
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