DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System

The wild world of sneaker buying bots (2017)

Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing Right to Repair

Bill That Would Restore Net Neutrality Moves Forward Despite Telecom’s Best Efforts to Kill it

Facebook Bans White Nationalism and White Separatism

If We're Going to Break Up Big Tech, We Shouldn’t Forget Big Telecom

This Spyware Data Leak Is So Bad We Can't Even Tell You About It

Microsoft Says the FCC 'Overstates' Broadband Availability in the US - You can’t fix a problem you don’t understand, and America has no idea just how bad its broadband coverage gaps are.

ASUS Confirms It Was Used to Install Backdoors on Its Customers' Computers

Scientists Gave Alligators Ketamine and Headphones to Understand Dinosaur Hearing

No One Trusts Big Telecom to Build a Better Broadband Access Map - After years of opposing measures that would make broadband availability maps better, a telecom trade group says it is "leading the charge" on creating a better map.

AT&T Jacks Up TV Prices Again After Merger, Despite Promising That Wouldn’t Happen - AT&T insisted that post-merger “efficiencies” would likely result in lower, not higher rates.

Some Democrats Are Ready to Water Down Their Own Net Neutrality Bill - Activists say efforts to “compromise” at this juncture would only weaken rules with broad, bipartisan public support.

Stalkers and Debt Collectors Impersonate Cops to Trick Big Telecom Into Giving Them Cell Phone Location Data

Researchers Find Critical Backdoor in Swiss Online Voting System - a severe issue in the new Swiss internet voting system that they say would let someone alter votes undetected

Facebook’s Phone Number Policy Could Push Users to Not Trust Two-Factor Authentication

T-Mobile Reveals More Location Data Abuse Following Questions from Senator Wyden - “It is now abundantly clear that you have failed to be good stewards of your customers’ private location information,” Senator Wyden wrote in a letter addressed to AT&T…

Scientists Reawaken Cells From a 28,000-Year-Old Mammoth -- The achievement shows that biological activity can be induced in the cells of long-dead creatures, but that does not mean that scientists will be resurrecting extinct animals like mammoths any time soon

For the Love of God, Stop Renting Routers from Comcast (2018)

10,000 Maggots Scarf Down a Pizza in Two Hours

The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers

Studies keep showing that the best way to stop piracy is to offer cheaper, better alternatives.

Canadian Telecom Giant Bell Wanted NAFTA to Ban Some VPNs

New Bill Would Stop Internet Service Providers From Screwing You With Hidden Fees - Cable giants routinely advertise one rate then charge you another thanks to hidden fees a well-lobbied government refuses to do anything about.

Ajit Pai's FCC insists that ignoring consumers and gutting oversight of major ISPs dramatically boosted network investment

Right to Repair Legislation Is Officially Being Considered In Canada

Netflix Has Saved Every Choice You’ve Ever Made in ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch' - A tech policy researcher used GDPR to request information about all of his choices from Netflix

Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavior In a ‘Risk' Database

Insurance Giant Allstate Buys Independent Phone Repair Company, Joins Right to Repair Movement

Most Online ‘Terms of Service’ Are Incomprehensible to Adults, Study Finds

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