Hacker News with Generative AI: Verizon

Verizon is sharing customers email addresses (verizon.com)
Our Privacy Policy describes the information we collect, how it is used and disclosed, your choices about uses and disclosure and your rights under certain privacy laws.
Privacy, Verizon, Data Security, Email
12 points by wys2wyg 3 days ago | 2 comments
Bad news for Verizon users: Samsung Messages is ditching RCS in January 2025 (neowin.net)
Samsung Messages will no longer support RCS after 1.6.2025. Switch to Google Messages to maintain the more robust messaging you're used to.
Messaging Apps, Samsung, Verizon, RCS
4 points by bundie 168 days ago | 0 comments
Florida Man Who Spied on Verizon for China Gets 4 Years in Prison (gizmodo.com)
A former Verizon employee who fed information to Chinese security agents about his employer, Chinese hacking operations, and pro-democracy activists living in the U.S. was sentenced to four years in prison on Monday.
Espionage, China, Verizon, Cybersecurity, Law Enforcement
14 points by indigodaddy 174 days ago | 2 comments
Verizon suggests I should use an unpatched operating system or trash my device (verizon.com)
Verizon does not provide bootloader unlock codes or the decryption necessary to unlock a bootloader.
Security, Verizon, Mobile Devices
4 points by headcr4sh 221 days ago | 4 comments
Verizon's mobile services are down across the country (theverge.com)
Verizon is experiencing a huge outage affecting its mobile services across the country.
Verizon, Telecommunications, Mobile Services, Outage
11 points by spdustin 235 days ago | 2 comments
Verizon experiencing widespread outage across the US (9to5mac.com)
Verizon is experiencing a massive outage, according to subscribers across the United States. Several of us here at 9to5Mac are also affected by the outage and are unable to an access any sort of cellular connectivity. This includes cellular data, phone calls, and text messages.
Verizon, Telecommunications, Outages, United States
48 points by mikece 235 days ago | 14 comments
Cellular Apple Watch buyers call out Verizon's maddening activation block (appleinsider.com)
Apple Watch owners can't activate their cell plans through Verizon — unless they bought the device from the carrier, or complain at length.
Apple Watch, Verizon, Cellular Service, Consumer Issues
5 points by miles 241 days ago | 0 comments
Verizon to eliminate 5,000 employees in nearly $2B cost-cutting move (fortune.com)
Verizon Communications Inc. will take a pre-tax charge of as much as $1.9 billion in the third quarter tied to 4,800 planned job cuts.
Verizon, Telecom, Layoffs, Cost Cutting, Business
13 points by belter 252 days ago | 7 comments
Music labels sue Verizon for more than $2.6B (theverge.com)
Music Industry, Lawsuits, Verizon
6 points by worstspotgain 312 days ago | 3 comments
Verizon and T-Mobile are trying to gobble up US Cellular (theverge.com)
Telecommunications, US Cellular, Verizon, T-Mobile
27 points by sea-gold 378 days ago | 11 comments
2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report [pdf] (verizon.com)
Data Breaches, Security, Cybersecurity, Reports, Verizon
122 points by cws 387 days ago | 49 comments