- Comcast-Time Warner Cable deal to face antitrust probe
- Time Warner Cable Deal Sets Comcast's D.C. Lobbying Machine in Motion
- Comcast spreads cash wide on Capitol Hill Politico
- Top Official Can't Rule on Cable Merger—"The Justice Department official, William Baer, represented NBCUniversal during its takeover by Comcast and is therefore forbidden from considering the merger." NYT
- Our Rights Shouldn't Come with an Expiration Date
- In Tennessee, four bills seek to reverse restrictions on public broadband—"Telco lobby angry about prospect of facing competition."
- Frustrated Cities Take High-Speed Internet Into Their Own Hands
- This is why Verizon gets away with charging customers more money
- Our $7 Billion Emergency LTE Network Appears Stuck In Corrupt, Bureaucratic Purgatory
- Ultra-fast 5G broadband to download a film in less than ONE SECOND
- True Detective Finale Crashes HBO GO—Took them 3.5 hours to come back online.
- Why a Netflix Price Increase Is Inevitable
- US Solicitor General's Office, Run By Former Top MPAA Lawyer, Shockingly Sides With Broadcasters Over Aereo
- The world's largest photo service just made its pictures free to use—"Getty Images is betting their business on embeddable photos."
- 'Candy' Trademark Bully King Gets Trolled In Exquisite Fashion By 'Trademarkville'
- Popcorn Time Is So Good at Movie Piracy, It's Scary
- Dutch Supreme Court Agrees To Let Rights Group Collect Back 'You Must Be A Pirate' Taxes On Mp3 Players And Hard Drives
- Stalking trolls—"Intellectual property: After being blamed for stymying innovation in America, vague and overly broad patents on software and business processes could get the chop."
- Congress gets out club for patent 'trolls'
- Nintendo and HTC score a win against patent trolls
- German court dismisses $2 billion patent troll claim against Apple
- EFF goes to court, quashes patent troll's attempt to grab donor names—"Podcasting patent troll sought 1,300 EFF donor names; it's getting zero."
- 15 Theses About the Digital Future
- Study: 11% of Americans Think HTML Is an STD
- Keurig Insists Coffee DRM Brings 'Interactive-Enabled Benefits' And Is For Your Own Safety—Keep bullshitting.
- Yahoo will block Google and Facebook accounts from accessing its services
- Mozilla anger over Dell Firefox fee—Charging users to install the free browser.
- History's 15 Worst Named Tech Products
- RadioShack closing 1,100 stores after dismal holidays
- How QuarkXPress became a mere afterthought in publishing—"In the early '90s, Quark boasted 95% market share. In '99, InDesign arrived..."
- Feinstein: CIA searched Intelligence Committee computers—"Head of intelligence panel said agency appears to have violated Constitution and federal laws." What's Dianne complaining about? Isn't that what she's enabling the NSA to do anyway on ordinary citizens? WaPo
- Snowden accuses Senate intelligence chair of hypocrisy over CIA disclosures—"NSA whistleblower accuses Dianne Feinstein of double standards, pointing out her lack of concern about widespread surveillance of ordinary citizens."
- How CIA snooped on Senate Intel Committee's files—"It's easy to search someone's network when you hired the IT department."
- Why Does Congress Lack the Backbone to Oversee the CIA?—"The spy agency should pay a price for its intransigence. But not enough legislators are willing to defend the oversight role of their colleagues."
- Behind Clash Between C.I.A. and Congress, a Secret Report on Interrogations—"A dispute over a classified C.I.A. report has led to a bitter fight between the agency and the Senate Intelligence Committee, with each side accusing the other of spying on it." NYT
- CIA: We Only Spied On Senate Intelligence Committee Because They Took Classified Documents That Prove We're Liars
- The CIA has brought darkness to America by fighting in the shadows—"After 9/11 the agency was given free rein to break the rules but when allowed to play dirty abroad, it's difficult to stop at home."
- Snowden: I raised NSA concerns internally over 10 times before going rogue WaPo
- Snowden Gives Testimony To European Parliament Inquiry Into Mass Surveillance, Asks For EU Asylum
- Snowden has shown the 'huge disparity of surveillance and power', says Gellman—"Government needs reminding that they work for us, says Pulitzer-winning reporter Barton Gellman, who describes Edward Snowden as ending an era of indifference to surveillance."
- Edward Snowden is Becoming the Face of Leadership in America—"He may not even be allowed back on American soil, but Edward Snowden is becoming a pioneer for an America that is finally beginning to value information and transparency over pride and fear."
- Weirdest Snowden leak yet: The NSA has an advice columnist—"'Ask Zelda' column was a favorite among staffers."
- Kill the Snowden interview, congressman tells SXSW—"Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo wants organizers of South by Southwest Interactive to back out of their scheduled video conference interview of Edward Snowden." Fat chance.
- Edward Snowden speaks at SXSW, calls for public oversight of U.S. spy programs—And of Congress itself.
- Edward Snowden: 'They're setting fire to the future of the Internet' WaPo
- Court Rejects NSA Bid to Hold Phone Data Longer—"A federal surveillance court has rejected the Obama administration's bid to hold onto millions of phone records beyond the current five-year limit."
- Julian Assange: 'We're heading towards a dystopian surveillance society'—"Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange joins Alex Wagner to discuss society 'heading towards surveillance totalitarianism,' his exile, censorship and why Edward Snowden 'has become a symbol.'"
- Digital surveillance: How you're being tracked every day
- Disney Bets $1 Billion on Technology to Track Theme-Park Visitors
- Judge orders Internet commenter's name revealed
- Outgoing NSA chief hints at 'media leaks legislation' Politico
- The Guardian's Alan Rusbridger: 'It's Essential to Be Paranoid' NYT
- I got 30 months in prison. Why does Leon Panetta get a pass?—"The Espionage Act should be rewritten to deal with issues of intent and motive, and it should be enforced equally."
- Embarrassing stories shed light on U.S. officials' technological ignorance—"One U.S. official asked what an ISP is in preparation for cybersecurity negotiations with China."
- Why Your Mobile Device Isn't As Secure As You Think
- Stop Glorifying Hackers—"I would not learn for nine months that within my short, oblivious interval of defenselessness Guccifer had managed to capture a passwords list I had Gmailed to myself at the office." Maybe she should stop doing stuff like that in the first place.
- HTTPS can't be trusted to obscure private online activity
- Apple security rules leave inherited iPad useless, say sons—Sound like a necessary CYA on Apple's part.
