GAMES
- Judge orders $150,000 in damages in GTA Online cheating case
- Federal court orders Grand Theft Auto V cheat creator to pay $150,000
- Gaming disorder diagnosis puts industry at risk – ESA: Acting president Stanley Pierre-Louis discusses World Health Organization’s gaming addiction concern, loot boxes, unions, and more
- Konami ends sale of in-game currency for PES 2019 in Belgium
- Konami halts sales of PES 2019 currency in Belgium over loot box ruling: “We fully respect the BGC’s interpretation of relevant laws,” says publisher
- Activision offers to refund some Guitar Hero Live players following GHTV shutdown
- Following lawsuit, Activision starts refund program for Guitar Hero Live
- Report: Activision Blizzard to make significant layoffs this week 8
- Activision Blizzard share price slumps to two-year low: Reports of layoffs and expected earnings decline lead to further pessimism over publisher’s fortunes
- Activision-Blizzard Employees Brace For Massive Layoffs
- Activision Blizzard sees “record year,” plans to lay off hundreds: Company prepares for “transition year” as it refocuses on development of core franchises, cuts back on admin and under-performing initiatives
- Activision Blizzard reports historic financial gains amid major layoffs
- Significant layoffs hit Activision Blizzard
- Amid layoffs, Blizzard won’t release a “major” new game in 2019
- Activision Blizzard reportedly shutters King’s Seattle studio: King communication manager confirms that Seattle and San Francisco studios have closed
- Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy has sold over 10m units: Remake of classics reaches milestone less than two years after launch
- Activision-Blizzard lays off 775 people after “record results in 2018”
- Activision Blizzard Lays Off 800 Employees, Expects Revenue Drop And Few New Games In 2019
- Activision Blizzard staff cuts largely hurt support teams, IT, QA, and publishing: Blizzard especially affected as company restructures gearing toward more new game releases over less time
- The Fallout Of Activision Blizzard’s Massive Layoffs
- Game Workers Unite sparks campaign to fire Activision Blizzard CEO following mass layoffs: “We, the workers of Activision and their friends, have had enough. Join us in saying that it’s time to #FireBobbyKotick,” says advocacy group
- Activision split with Bungie because Destiny “was not meeting financial expectations”: COO Coddy Johnson reiterates that decision to part was mutual, is “right for both parties”
- For Activision, giving up Destiny 2 was the result of ‘missed financial expectations’
- Following Activision Blizzard layoffs, King shuts down mobile studio Z2Live
- King’s San Francisco studio closed in wake of Activision Blizzard layoffs
- Swedish Tax Agency targets King with $389m fine: Skatteverket claims Candy Crush firm has disposed immaterial rights out of its home nation
- King signs Tech Talent Charter to drive diversity: Candy Crush Saga developer is first UK games company to pledge to the initiative
- Blog: Being gay in the games industry – Research from the field
- American Sign Language emotes added to Star Citizen
- Don’t Miss: How devs design the Lego games to appeal to all ages
- Video: How Overwatch’s gameplay architecture creates variety
- Mobile games continue to drive App Store spending in the U.S.
- Hardsuit shutting down Blacklight: Retribution to focus on new projects
- Putting Red Dead Redemption 2’s 23 million shipments in context
- Shares slump for big four publishers after latest financials: Take-Two and Electronic Arts suffer the most but analyst maintains games industry still “in rude health”
- Fortnite alone can’t explain tumbling game stocks: The industry’s biggest firms have lost around 13% of their value in the past week, and many are down a third in recent months
- Fortnite iOS revenue estimated at $500 million: Sensor Tower’s data shows Epic’s game reaching that milestone faster than Clash Royale and Honor of Kings
- Fortnite Sparks a Battle Royale Over the Right to Use Dance Moves
- Epic claims it’s not really copying rapper 2 Milly’s dance in Fortnite
- Epic critical of Fortnite dance lawsuit, urges court to dismiss case
- Epic Games files for dismissal of 2 Milly’s Fortnite dance lawsuit: Developer insists dance routines are an “unprotectable idea” and claims rapper’s complain is “at odds with free speech”
- PUBG takes home Steam Awards 2018 Game of the Year
- Zynga’s mobile games generated a record $228 million revenue last quarter
- Zynga CEO: It’s “too early to tell” if more will follow Epic’s anti-App Store stance – Frank Gibeau says casual games firm has a “great partnership” with both Apple and Google
- Zynga “turnaround now complete” as dev posts record mobile performance for 2018: Company reports second profitable year in a row after a lengthy period of recovery
- Zynga’s turnaround: How once-beleaguered game company plans for 2019 growth
- WWE Hall of Famer sues Activision for character copyright infringement: Booker T Huffman claims Black Ops 4 character too similar to his own comic book hero
- EEDAR: Nintendo Switch attracting more women, wider age ranges over time – System on track to follow certain demographic trends of Nintendo predecessors rather than those of console competition
- Switch missed hardware target because Nintendo didn’t ‘convey appeal’ of the system
- Mario Maker 2 and a Link’s Awakening remake drive today’s Nintendo Direct
- Nintendo plans to “boost” Switch Online after surge in short subscription plans: Proportion of single month subs is rising, Nintendo president expresses “critical” need to increase value of the service
- Quality over quantity is Nintendo’s first-party focus as the Switch nears year 3
- Nintendo: 3DS sales falling “faster than anticipated”
- 3DS sales have slowed, but Nintendo still sees a market for its long-running handheld
- Gaming business bolsters Bandai Namco’s Q3 profits: Soulcalibur publisher increases full-year guidance following solid holiday sales in network entertainment segment
- THQ Nordic net sales rose 713% to $447.6m in 2018: Publisher now has 77 games in development, including 48 unannounced projects
- THQ Nordic to acquire Kingdom Come: Deliverance dev for $37.5 million
- Australian publishing partner 18Point2 acquired by THQ Nordic
- THQ Nordic acquires Warhorse Studios in a €33.2m cash deal: Kingdom Come Deliverance has sold 2m units one year on from its release
- Apex Legends Review
- Apex Legends: Critical Consensus – Respawn’s surprise release praised for its polish and innovative mechanics, hailed as the future of battle royale
- Apex Legends crossed 1 million concurrent players in under 72 hours
- Apex Legends reaches 25m players, 2m concurrent: Respawn’s battle royale reaches milestone in first week, after reaching 1m concurrent in first 72 hours
- Respawn played with muted mics to get Apex Legends’ smart comms system just right
- Video Game Deep Cuts: The Apex Of Legends, Observing The Sunless Skies
- After glitch grants access, Bethesda says locked Fallout 76vault will open
- EA pays respects to Emiliano Sala, removes him from FIFA: FC Nantes player also pulled from Ultimate Team packs, card prices fixed
- EA CEO claims poor marketing, delays, and battle royale woes hurt Battlefield V
- Bigben acquires publishing rights for two Cyanide titles: Following last year’s acquisition, publisher adds Tour de France and Pro Cycling Manager to portfolio
- Behind The AI of Horizon Zero Dawn (Part 1)
- Behind The AI of Horizon Zero Dawn (Part 2)
- Global esports revenues to top $1 billion in 2019: report
- Newzoo: Global esports market will exceed $1 billion in 2019 – North America, China to continue to represent majority of esports revenue, though global awareness remains on the rise
- Esports now officially a profession in China: ‘Esports operator’ and ‘esports professional’ formally recognized by Chinese government
- Riot, Sega, four more join ESA: League of Legends studio, Intellivision, and Wizards of the Coast sign up as Sonic publisher, Natsume, and THQ Nordic return to the US trade group’s ranks
- Russ Pitts steps down from Take This, on leave from Escapist: Charity co-founder, site editor-in-chief takes hiatus after “diminishing” experience of Gamergate abuse survivor in Twitter fight
- Riot Games: “Before we take on football, we have to be humble”: League of Legends European Championship makes less revenue than a German second division football team, Riot’s Alban Dechelotte said at Esports BAR Cannes yesterday
- AppLovin: Mobile users play games 3-4 times per week on average, but are reluctant to identify as gamers – US, UK mobile users most commonly play games to pass the time, relax, and relieve stress
- Bill imposing new excise tax on video games with “mature” or “adults-only” ratings introduced in Pennsylvania Legislature
- Nexon celebrates record year for revenue and income: 2018 full-year financials show highest full-year PC and mobile results so far
- New releases can’t stop sales and profits falling at Square Enix
- Supercell revenue down second year in a row as titles reach revenue milestones: CEO Ilkka Paananen remains optimistic, outlines plan for studio to become carbon-neutral in 2019
- Starbreeze sells back publishing rights to System Shock 3
- Starbreeze sells System Shock 3 publishing rights: Troubled publisher and OtherSide Entertainment “mutally agreed” rights should return to the latter
- Report: Unity is looking to go public in 2020
- Unity reportedly considering IPO for 2020: But engine provider will only float if market conditions are favourable, sources claim
- Sony ‘open for business’ on cross-play, but Wargroove dev claims otherwise
- Devs refute Sony claims that it’s “open for business” with cross-platform play: “We were told in no uncertain terms that it was not going to happen,” says Chucklefish CEO
- Layden recalls PS3 ‘Icarus moment,’ looks ahead to expanding PlayStation’s audience
- PS3 was “a stark moment of hubris” – Layden: Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios chairman reflects on last generation’s missteps and how the company changed course for PS4
- Sony’s Shawn Layden on making fewer PlayStation games: ‘We’re spending more energy on them’
- E3 has lost its impact in a changing industry, says Sony’s Shawn Layden
- Monster Hunter: World nears 12 million sales – Sales stood at 11.9m at the end of December, 60% more than any game in Capcom’s history
- 20th Century Fox announces indie games fund: Etherborn becomes first title to take advantage of fund aimed at developers “taking creative risks”
- Marvel Strike Force dev FoxNext Games opens up indie dev fund
- League of Geeks: “We are a response to what was before” – Blake Mizzi and Trent Kusters on using the mistakes of Australia’s past to build a better studio, and moving on from its hit digital board game Armello
- Tearing down the lone developer myth: Iconoclasts creator Joakim Sandberg says developers should learn from his mistakes rather than follow his example
- New conference hopes to improve UK games skills crisis: The Games Education Summit 2019 will unite educators and developers under one roof this April
- Ubisoft aims to help machine learning find a place in every stage of game dev
- Ubisoft partners with Mozilla on AI coding assistant Clever-Commit
- Ubisoft partners with Mozilla on AI coding assistant: Clever-Commit promises to quickly identify and fix bugs from code changes
- Mozilla to use machine learning to find code bugs before they ship
- Learn how machine learning can help you make better games at GDC 2019
- “They’re more attractive than real boyfriends.” Inside the weird world of Chinese romance video games: In China, love and romance designed by women for women could be the next video game trend
- Steam Responds To Epic’s Competition By Weaponizing The Steam Community
- Turning painting into a game mechanic in the gorgeousEastshade 2
- Valve has some new thoughts on what’s “humanly possible” in SteamVR
- Microsoft teases next-gen HoloLens ahead of February 24 reveal
- Video: Designing games to better support player expression
- Video: To make 1997’s Blade Runner, Westwood first had to create the universe
- Video: How to invite player creativity through game mechanics
- Amy Hennig sees a social future for storytelling games
- Video: Injecting originality into the music of Fallout
- Blog: Getting your big break as a game composer
- Blog: How does the future of the streamer-developer relationship look?
- Obituary: Renowned Atari ST programmer Steve Bak has passed away
DIGITAL
- Just when an end seemed near, two 3D-printed gun-file legal battles get new life
- Change how Facebook uses our data: Scandals underscore the need to regulate use of customers’ information
- Our Thoughts on Facebook’s Oversight Board for Content Decisions
- How Facebook Screwed Us All: It’s not just spreading phony stories everywhere – it’s killing real news.
- I Was A Facebook Fact-Checker. It Was Like Playing A Doomed Game Of Whack-A-Mole.
- Facebook Wants You To Know Jay Shetty Made $1 Million In Ad Revenue As It Tries To Appeal To More Creators
- Facebook Orders Stephen Curry Docu-Series, Sets BuzzFeed News’ Live Trivia Game Launch
- Court upholds conviction of girl who urged suicide with texts and calls
- Lessons from Estonia on digital government: What Canada can learn from a tiny country that devised a coordinated, efficient system to serve its citizens using what’s called platform government
- ESPN+ Debuts ‘The Boardroom’ Talk Show From NBA Star Kevin Durant
- I Cut the ‘Big Five’ Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell
- Canada needs to commercialize AI, not just do research, industry leaders say – Fewer than half of 100 machine-learning patents developed in Canada remain here: CIGI study
- A Bill of Rights for the Age of Artificial Intelligence: We should be concerned about the rights of all sentients as an unprecedented diversity of minds emerges
- When Are Advertisers Responsible For Unsupported Claims Made By Consumers on Third Party Sites? NAD Weighs In.
- Reddit Raises $300 Million at $3 Billion Valuation
- Lack Of Internet Access Threatens 2020 Census Success And The Future Latino Voting Power
- As Trump Prepares Ban On Huawei, Few Notice The Major Holes In The Underlying Logic
- Tech Genius Donald Trump to Sign Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence Today
- White House Touts Artificial Intelligence (as FTC’s Chopra Flags AI Concerns)
- Microsoft Is Worried Its AI Will Go Rogue And Hurt Its Reputation
- Windows 7 Extended Security Updates will double in price each year
- Microsoft: Yeah, we make Office 2019 and Internet Explorer, but don’t use ‘em
- Hackers keep trying to get malicious Windows file onto MacOS
- Messy office owners, rejoice: Skype now blurs the background to your video
- A Human Debater Just Roasted IBM’s “Intelligent Debate” AI Onstage: Project Debater can formulate arguments, but can’t quite refute opponents.
- Artificial Intelligence: The New Driving Force Behind Sports Performance and Entertainment
- Mysterious Site Uses AI to Create Realistic Yet Horrifying Faces
- R.I.P., Opportunity Rover: The Hardest-Working Robot In The Solar System
- Tesla Driver Claims Autopilot Wouldn’t Let Him Prevent Crash
- Driverless delivery startup Nuro raises almost $1 billion
- Sex robots are here, but laws aren’t keeping up with the ethical and privacy issues they raise
- Will Tech Workers Rise Up Around Automation, Too?
- Bots and Sockpuppets and Scammers, Oh My!
- Bot or Not: California Mandates Disclosure of Online Accounts Used by Bots
- Fake news threatens our businesses, not just our politics
- Dirty Data, Bad Predictions: How Civil Rights Violations Impact Police Data, Predictive Policing Systems, and Justice (Kate Crawford, Rashida Richardson, Jason Schultz)
- Insights: In The Battle Of Data Versus Privacy, Whose Team Are You On?
- Copyright Holders Still Don’t Support EU’s Already Awful Upload Filter Proposal; Demand It Be Made Worse
- EU countries agree on copyright reforms, deal in sight next week
- The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has just been finalised
- Article 13 Was Purposefully Designed To Be Awful For The Internet; EU Moves Forward With It Anyway
- EU’s New ‘Open By Default’ Rules For Data Generated By Public Funding Subverted At The Last Minute
- Bandersnatch, the case for Trade Mark Infringement: Whose right was it to let you choose your own adventure?
- Netflix records all of your Bandersnatch choices, GDPR request reveals: Frosties or Sugar Puffs? Netflix knows your preference
- AR Will Spark The Next Big Tech Platform – Call It Mirrorworld
- Expert: AR Will Let Hackers Steal “Deep Psychological Data”
- Most Online ‘Terms of Service’ Are Incomprehensible to Adults, Study Finds: Reading the terms and conditions of online consumer contracts requires, on average, more than 14 years of education.
- Augmented Reality, Advertising, and Practical Legal Considerations
- Apple to developers: disclose screen recording or get booted from App Store
- Apple worked on biometric unlock for cars: One day you could unlock your car just by looking at it.
- Apple Patented Facial Recognition to Unlock Your Car
- The logic behind Apple’s give-us-half-your-revenue pitch to news publishers
- The Cost of Apple News
- Apple in talks to create “Netflix for news” subscription service
- Apple pushes fix for “FacePalm,” possibly its creepiest vulnerability ever
- Apple Is Compensating the Kid Who Figured Out Its Sketchy Eavesdropping FaceTime Bug
- Apple, Google Both Hosting Saudi Government App That Lets Men Track Women, Restrict Their Travel
- Google, Apple Called Out For Hosting Saudi Government App That Allows Men To Track Their Spouses’ Movements
- Apple’s insider-trading policy enforcer accused of insider trading
- Google Caves On Russian Censorship
- NYPD Demands That Google Stop Flagging DWI Checkpoints on Waze
- Google Chrome Extension That Optimized YouTube Videos Pulled After Spamming Millions Of Users
- Google wants a VP of Wearables, might finally take smartwatches seriously
- Augmented Reality Google Maps is coming, starts testing in private
- Former Algorithm Engineer Guillaume Chaslot Calls YouTube’s Decision To Stop Recommending Conspiracy Videos “A Historic Victory”
- Here’s How A Scammer Abused YouTube’s Copyright Infringement System In An Attempt To Extort Money From Users
- NFL Star Quarterback Cam Newton Launches YouTube Channel
- The Taxonomy Of YouTube Videos (And How You Can Develop Original Content That Works)
- Ariana Grande Becomes Most-Subscribed Female Artist On All Of YouTube
- The dodgy, vulnerable fame of YouTube’s child ASMR stars: Right now, children are filming themselves chewing, whispering and tapping to give their adult audience an ASMR buzz. The Chinese government banned them, and PayPal blocked their payments, yet some
- YouTube Reverses Course, Deletes Austin Jones’ YouTube Channel
- Kids’ Content Upstart Moonbug Acquires 2 More YouTube Heavyweights
- Influencers under fyre: celebrities commit to be more transparent regarding product endorsements
- Influencers Tagged in Fyre Festival Subpoena
- ‘Roblox’ Bans PewDiePie For “Continued Inappropriate Behavior”
- Chuck E. Cheese’s Refutes Shane Dawson Conspiracy That It Recycles Uneaten Pizza
- Jake Paul To Discontinue ‘Uncut’ Docuseries Because It “Became Too Real”
- Gigi Hadid Photo Provokes Copyright Lawsuit
- Movie Torrents Shown To Actually Boost Box Office Sales For Post-Release Movies
- Philip DeFranco Launches Hair Care Line ‘Beautiful Bastard,’ Is On Track To Sell Out Today
- How TikTok Gets Rich While Paying Artists Pennies: The company behind lip-sync app TikTok is reportedly worth three times as much as Spotify, but the artists whose music powers the platform are seeing very little of that money.
- Does The Spotify Gimlet Purchase Signal The End Of The Open World Of Podcasting?
- Jeff Bezos goes public with alleged AMI blackmail over nudes
- Report: Bezos-hired sleuth suspects sexts stolen by “government entity”
- Woody Allen Sues Amazon for Cancelling Multi-Film Contract
- Woody Allen Files $68 Million Lawsuit Against Amazon Studios For Backing Out Of Four Film Deals
- Why an Amazon Router Freaks Me Out
- Amazon Calls for Regulation of Its Own Facial Recognition Tech: The company may be hoping to pen some of the government’s ethical standards.
- Amazon is Right: Thresholds and Legislation Matter, So Does Truth
- Amazon and Hulu’s algorithms are recommending conspiracy theory films, and the consequences could be more serious than you might think
- Amazon acquires Eero, maker of mesh Wi-Fi routers
- ChooseCo Inks Lucrative Deal With Amazon, Possibly Thanks To Netflix’s ‘Bandersnatch’
- Instagram Integrates IGTV Previews Into Main Feed To Bolster Fledgling Video Hub
- Instagram Tries to Boost IGTV Views With Previews in Users’ Feeds
- Instagram Looking Into Issue That Caused Users’ Follower Counts To Drop
- Instagram Bug Causes Katy Perry And Kylie Jenner To Lose Millions Of Followers Temporarily
- 4-Year-Old Instagram Phenoms Mila And Emma Stauffer To Launch Clothing Line At Target
- Bhad Bhabie’s Original Snapchat Series Banks 10 Million Viewers In 24 Hours
- Snapchat Posts Better-Than-Expected Revenues, As Q4 User Growth Remains Flat
- Twitter keeps losing monthly users, so it’s going to stop sharing how many
- UK Cop Calls Up 74-Year-Old Woman To Ask Her To Stop Tweeting Mean Things
- Disney+ will be a true Netflix competitor, with non-Disney shows streaming, too
- After Netflix Breakup, Disney Courts Hulu With 4-Show Marvel Deal, Potential For Hulu To Revive Cancelled Netflix Series
- ‘Howard the Duck’ Among Four Marvel Animated Shows Ordered at Hulu
- BuzzFeed Employees Vote to Unionize After Major Layoffs
- The business of Patreon: Building a new economy for creators requires a focused business strategy
- The Internet Civil War
- Tech’s Long Hours Are Discriminatory and Counterproductive
- Revolt of the gig workers: How delivery rage reached a tipping point
- Can Big Tech be fixed? Center for Democracy and Technology CEO Nuala O’Connor is “long-term optimistic.”
- The Secret History of Women in Coding: Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?
- Tech debate hits bencher election
- Password to $200m digital currency account lost on death
- Google Play caught hosting an app that steals users’ cryptocurrency
- Cryptocurrencies – A quandary for Quadriga
- Virtual Currency Regulation in Canada: A Changing Landscape Comes Into Focus
- IRS Makes Cryptocurrency a Compliance Priority
- Emoji 12.0 brings us waffles, more diversity, suggestive “finger pinch” glyph
- What’s New With Emoji Law? An Interview (Eric Goldman)
- Captain Marvel’s Official Website Is Basically a Geocities Fansite
CREATIVITY
- Infowars’ Alex Jones ordered to undergo sworn deposition in case involving Sandy Hook parents
- Gender-swapped and race-flipped remakes aren’t living up to their potential: Films like What Men Want and 2016’s Ghostbusters could be doing so much more with their rebooted premises
- How Hollywood Lets Real Fascists Off The Hook: Far from helping us fight fascism, Nazis on film may do the opposite.
- Obsolete Hot News Doctrine Back In The News As Bloomberg Is Sued For Reporting Too Quickly
- Japanese brand Loft pulls down Valentines Day ad after sexism controversy
- How TV Pirates Accidentally Pushed a 25-Year-Old Indie Song to the Top of the Charts in Japan
- Reporter Maria Ressa Arrested Over Bogus Charges For Her Critical Reporting
- Danish haunted-house studies seek to reveal the seductive appeal of horror
- U.S. Music Modernization Act: Copyright law changes its tune
- A Storm Is Coming to the Global Music Industry – and More than $100 Billion Is at Stake: Up to half of Universal Music Group is for sale – and all indications are it’s going to bank an astronomical sum of money. This could spell amazing news for the other
- Journalism Isn’t Dying. It’s Returning To Its Roots
- Inside an indie: Making a film from scratch without a Hollywood budget
- More on Models’ Lanham Act claims
- Can you sell an Oscar?
- Monster Energy Loses Appeal On Monsta Pizza Trademark Ruling
- Owner Of Harry Caray’s Restaurants Finds You Can’t Just Trademark A Widely Used Hashtag
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY
- Flawed Arguments and Inappropriate Analogies: Why Netflix Taxes and Cancon Requirements Should be Rejected (Michael Geist)
- Blacklock’s, Spam, CRTC, and ATIP
- CRTC on OpenMedia’s Site Blocking Campaign: “Contributed to a Better Understanding of the Issues” (Michael Geist)
- Selling 911 location data is illegal – US carriers reportedly did it anyway: AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint sale of GPS data called “unquestionably illegal.”
- Wireless Carriers Busted Sharing User 911 Location Data
- Texas lawmaker wants to ban mobile throttling in disaster areas
- Study Details How Phone Companies Prey on Families of Inmates in Local Jails
- Cable lobby asks for net neutrality law allowing paid prioritization
- Zero Rating Actually Costs Broadband Customers More, EU Study Finds
- SpaceX seeks FCC OK for 1 million satellite broadband Earth stations
- FEC Seeks Comment on Proposal for Change in TV Political Disclosures
- AT&T sued by Sprint, must defend decision to tell users that 4G is “5G E”
- Sprint Sues AT&T Over Its Fake 5G, Says AT&T’s Tricking Consumers
- A Deeper Look At Verizon’s Early 5G ‘Launch’ Finds It’s Barely Available
- Charter raises sneaky “broadcast TV” fee for second time in four months
- Lawsuit: Verizon tempted customers with free Amazon Echos, failed to deliver
- Google Fiber’s biggest failure: ISP will turn service off in Louisville
- Google Fiber Leaves Louisville As Alphabet Retreats From Telecom
- SS7 Cellular Network Flaw Nobody Wants To Fix Now Being Exploited To Drain Bank Accounts
SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
- SB-327: Why Your Next Refrigerator Might Have a Password Longer than Your Email’s
- Why Humanitarians Are Worried About Palantir’s New Partnership With the U.N.: The infamous data-analytics firm is now working with one of the planet’s largest aid organizations. What could go wrong?
- “Catastrophic” hack on email provider destroys almost two decades of data
- Indecent disclosure: Gay dating app left “private” images, data exposed to Web (Updated)
- Cisco, like Apple and other tech giants, now wants new federal privacy law
- Ex-director of FBI, CIA takes on a phone scammer – and wins: Scammer took hundreds of thousands of dollars from more than 30 victims.
- MalwareTech loses bid to suppress damning statements made after days of partying
- Australian Government Agencies Already Flexing Their New Encryption-Breaking Powers
- NYPD Sends Letter To Google Demanding It Remove Cop Checkpoint Notifications From Google Maps
- Minnesota Judges Spent Only Minutes Approving Warrants Sweeping Up Thousands Of Cellphone Users
- German Data Protection Authority Says GDPR Requires Email To Use At Least Transport Layer Encryption
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