- Glassholes accused of hurting restaurant's ratings—"Feast restaurant in New York gets a slew of one-star reviews on Google after one customer is asked to remove her Google Glass."
- How cell phones have made you flaky—"You can cancel at the last minute. You can be horribly late. As this short film shows, cell phones make the flake."
- 5 Ways to Deal With Dinner Party Guests Who Won't Put Down Their Phones
- Why the Internet is Getting Bland—"How social media and the search for brand-safety advertising is changing the internet forever."
- The Internet as we know it is dying—"How Facebook and Google are killing the classic Internet and reinventing it in their image." Salon
- The Internet With A Human Face
- What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2014?
- Wil Wheaton: pirate my TV show if you have to, but help my ratings if you can
- Pirated movies shown to prisoners in Lorain County prison
- Stallman: Did You Say "Intellectual Property"? It's a Seductive Mirage
- Comcast, Verizon and Co. Stop Mass Piracy Lawsuits on Appeal
- How Disney learned to stop worrying and love copyright infringement—"For years, Disney was notoriously heavy-handed in defense of its intellectual property. Then along came 'Frozen.'" Salon
- 'Unbeatable' Cinavia Anti-Piracy Technology Cracked by DVD-Ranger
- How Google found the best route for the Netflix era
- Forbes: 'Net neutrality is a dumb idea'
- Report: Verizon FiOS claimed public utility status to get government perks—"Still, Verizon campaigns against utility-style regulation that it benefits from."
- Who's against Net neutrality? Follow the money—"The cable industry has not been shy about handing out campaign donations to Congress. So guess who's sending letters to the FCC arguing against Net neutrality."
- America doesn't know how bad its Internet speed is: Sprint's Son
- Bill would prohibit FCC from reclassifying broadband as utility—Republican Rep. Latta, bought and paid for by ISP lobbyists.
- FCC to study whether payments to ISPs signal a broken marketplace
- FCC may force Internet providers to stop calling their slow, crappy speeds 'broadband'
- State laws that ban municipal Internet will be invalidated, FCC chair says—"But can the FCC preempt all 20 state laws that limit public broadband?"
- John Oliver wants the internet's worst trolls to yell at the FCC
- Comcast CEO has a ridiculous explanation for why everyone hates his company
- Comcast, Blasted By Customers, Disappoints Developers Too—"CEO Brian Roberts strings along app makers, dangling the release of dev tools someday, before addressing the Comcast haterade."
- Comcast promised poor Americans cheap internet, but most of them didn't get it
- Comcast CEO Brian Roberts: It's time to pay the postman. (Just FYI: I am the new postman)
- Washington doesn't care about your cable bill: Why the Comcast merger is inevitable—"By all accounts, the federal government should block such a deal. To understand why it won't, just follow the money." Salon
- AT&T is Already Being Misleading to Get DirecTV Deal Approved
- Comcast Employing 40 Lobbying Firms to Get Merger Approved
- A Cable Merger Too Far—"Regulators should block Comcast's acquisition of Time Warner Cable because it would control too much of what consumers watch, read and listen to." NYT
- How the patent trolls won in Congress—"Trial lawyers and pharma companies teamed up to stop change to patent laws."
- Why The Trial Lawyers May Have Miscalculated In Killing Patent Reform, And How It May Come Back To Bite Them
- Top Patent Judge Steps Down Over Ethics Scandal, Highlighting How CAFC Has Become Too Close To Patent Lawyers
- Payback time: First patent troll ordered to pay "extraordinary case" fees
- Apple wants more money from Samsung, so it's asking for a retrial
- Amazon Doubles Down on Intimidation Campaign Against Hachette
- Amazon plays hardball -- and puts the hurt on consumers
- Amazon's Tactics Confirm Its Critics' Worst Suspicions NYT
- Amazon acknowledges contract standoff with Hachette—"Internet retail giant admits restricting sales of the publisher's titles but calls it a justified negotiating approach."
- Rules for Uber, Lyft to Become Law in Colorado
- New York's mayor is proving Uber right about cab cartels
- Uber: the smartphone app that is driving London cabbies to distraction
- After Showdown With Prosecutors, Airbnb Gives Up Customer Data
- Malibu to crack down on short-term rentals via Airbnb, other websites
- AT&T Hacker 'weev' Demands One Bitcoin for Each Hour He Spent in Jail—Trolling.
- LulzSec hacker 'Sabu' released after 'extraordinary' FBI cooperation—"Authorities credit Hector Xavier Monsegur with helping them cripple Anonymous in lenient sentence of time served."
- US cybercrime laws being used to target security researchers—"Security researchers say they have been threatened with indictment for their work investigating internet vulnerabilities."
- N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images—"The National Security Agency's reliance on facial recognition technology has grown as it has used new software to exploit images in emails, text messages, social media, videoconferences and other communications." NYT
- Snowden Docs Expose How the NSA "Infects" Millions of Computers, Impersonates Facebook Server
- Edward Snowden seeks asylum in sunny Brazil
- EFF to Court: There's No Doubt the Government Destroyed NSA Spying Evidence
- Reddit, Imgur, DuckDuckGo, BoingBoing And More Will Participate In Anti-NSA Protests This Week
