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GAMES

1. Tackling mobile’s “game cloning” issue: Riot Games is trying to prevent League of Legends being ripped off by a cloning outfit, but is there more that store operators could do to protect creators?
2. Moonton Responds To Copyright Infringement Suit From Riot Games By Threatening The Press With Lawsuits
3. Pixelmon Minecraft mod shut down: The Pokémon Company’s intervention signals the end for the popular mod
4. Copyright dispute sees River City Ransom: Underground temporarily pulled from Steam – Composer Alex Mauer claims Conatus Creative used her music without permission, Conatus say Mauer claims are false
5. RCR: Underground changes soundtrack to avoid “false” DMCA takedown – “Being legally right is only half the story,” developer says of “wrongful claim.”
6. Capcom Manually DMCAs English Translation Of Ace Attorney Game Not Available In English
7. Zynga apologizes for random DLC pricing experiment: Publisher charged players between $5 and $35 for Fast and the Furious tie-in car in CSR Racing 2
8. Struck by scammers, Itch.io eyes stronger safeguards for devs
9. Itch.io changes policy in wake of pirated games scam: Open marketplace adapts after users report ersatz indie games being sold in store
10. Oculus and Marvel Announce New Rift Co-op Title ‘Powers United VR’
11. Oculus moving on from investing in smaller VR projects: VR market can now support small and mid-sized teams, Oculus now prefers multi-million dollar investments
12. Disney targets virtual and augmented reality with Marvel, Star Wars games: Entertainment behemoth partners with Lenovo to create its own headset
13. Rift Sale Eases Buyer’s #1 Concern, But All-in Cost Still Hinders Mainstream Traction
14. VR criticism “a little unfair” – Fargo
15. Mel Slater’s Theory of VR Presence vs an Elemental Theory of Presence
16. Swery: There’s no guarantee any game will sell in Japan
17. Mario Kart becomes the first Nintendo property to come to VR: …but you’ll have to go to a Japanese arcade to play it for now.
18. Splatoon 2 redeems the most clever online shooter series in years: We have a lot to say about Nintendo finally getting an online game (mostly) right.
19. Crash Bandicoot remaster cut corners on the freaking jump button: Frank admission from developer seems to imply that it won’t be fixed.
20. Overwatch League faces uphill battle to profitability – Pachter: Wedbush analyst cites spectator unfriendliness, reliance on Twitch among factors that could hamper Activision Blizzard’s esports efforts
21. Patriots, Mets and NetEase among first Overwatch League team owners: Five of the seven teams will be in the US, as well as one in Seoul and one in Shanghai
22. Esports College Course Offered Since ‘People Learn Best When At Play’
23. Games software/hardware over $150B in 2017, $200B by 2021, record $2.8B invested
24. Games business worth $200 billion by 2021 – Digi-Capital: Firm says this year will see hardware and software drive $150 billion in revenues, but it’s become a “two speed market”
25. Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds tops GTA V on concurrent Steam users: PUBG is now fourth on the list of highest concurrent player numbers, right behind Fallout 4
26. Battlegrounds Streamer’s Suspension Provokes Candid Explanation From PlayerUnknown
27. ESPN Makes Street Fighter Player Change Character’s Thong Due to ‘Broadcast Standards’
28. Playdemic’s Golf Clash generates $1.1m in a single day: Studio aims to reap revenues of over $100m by the end of the year
29. Ubisoft’s sales are more than 80% digital: No new major releases in Q1, but overall sales still climbed 45% for the French publisher
30. Ubisoft thanks player engagement for growth during an otherwise quiet Q1
31. Highmark raises $2m for games that battle brain disease: Canadian start-up’s oversubscribed seed round attracts investors, studio also names new CFO
32. The state of Mac gaming: WWDC 2017 gave onlookers new hope (Metal 2!), but Mac gaming still lags despite growth.
33. Ataribox retro mini-console plays current and classic games: Atari follows in footsteps of Nintendo’s NES Mini and SNES Mini—but with a twist.
34. Ataribox will be similar to NES Classic: There will be a focus on delivering classic Atari content, but unlike Nintendo, new content will be offered as well
35. New Atari Console Will Bring “Current Gaming Content” As Well As Classic Titles: “Our objective is to create a new product that stays true to our heritage while appealing to both old and new fans of Atari.”
36. As UK retailer GAME struggles, Sports Direct snaps up 26% stake
37. Sports Direct buys large stake in struggling GAME: Retail billionaire Mike Ashley takes almost 26% in the retailer
38. Why does Sports Direct want GAME?: The retail giant now owns almost 26% of the UK High Street chain
39. Early game dev Carol Shaw donates dev docs to Women in Games exhibit
40. Highmark Interactive nets $2M to create games that fight brain disease
41. Netflix’s Castlevania Is The Future Of Videogame Adaptations
42. How an indie game became the star of a Nine Inch Nails music video
43. Doom’s cover art had one secret – and John Romero just spilled it: Co-creator John Romero’s random trivia reveal spoils a Bethesda season-pass giveaway.
44. “Games are the largest provider of critical thinking education in the world”: Improbable’s Oliver Lewis and Nick Button-Brown want to unlock the potential of games as an antidote for “fake news, bias and extremism”
45. Rez’s Mizuguchi: Now ‘it’s possible, genuinely, to movepeople’ with games – “A long time ago there were no colors, just dots on a screen, bleep sounds. Now, we can express so much more, combining so many elements, and it’s possible, genuinely, to move people.”

DIGITAL

1. NAFTA Intellectual Property Talks Should Be Wary of Big Data Impacts: Expanding intellectual property protection may stifle innovation and harm the public interest (Teresa Scassa)
2. My NAFTA Consultation Comments: Promoting Canadian Interests in the IP and E-commerce Chapters (Michael Geist)
3. Russian man who helped create notorious malware sentenced to 5 years: –  DOJ: Citadel led to $500 million in losses for banks.
4. Vladimir Putin Cut From Two Upcoming Hollywood Movies
5. When Do Review Websites Commit Extortion?–Icon Health v. ConsumerAffairs (Eric Goldman)
6. Creators Who Lost Revenue During “Adpocalypse” Seek Class Action Lawsuit Against YouTube
7. Jake Paul’s Neighbors Hate Him And Are Considering A Class Action Lawsuit
8. American YouTuber ‘My Mate Nate’ In Legal Trouble For Thailand Railroad Stunt
9. Lilly Singh Named First UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador From The Digital Space
10. Daenerys Targaryen Is The Most Popular ‘Game Of Thrones’ Character…On YouTube
11. Google responds to academic funding controversy – with a GIF
12. Correction to an article on Google’s academic influence
13. The Ethics of Funded Research & the Ethics of Whistleblowing
14. How (Not) to Buy an Academic
15. All Out Of Ideas, Legacy News Providers Ask US Gov’t For The Right To Collude Against Google & Facebook
16. Google Glass is Back, Glass ‘Enterprise Edition’ Unveiled
17. Google Glass 2.0 Is A Startling Second Act
18. Google’s New Feeds Show You The Internet You Want To See
19. Korean defectors show locations of mass graves using Google Earth: NGO creates maps to guide future investigation of crimes against humanity.
20. Defense of Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop offers case study on how to sell snake oil: While trying to hammer a medical blogger, Goop nails the best ways to sell BS.
21. 70-Year-Old ‘Grandma’ Is Making Serious Waves Within South Korea’s YouTube Scene
22. Insights: In An Escher-esque Turn Of Events, Newspapers Need Antitrust Exemption To Deal With Google’s Antitrust Power
23. The Biggest Dark Web Takedown Yet Sends Black Markets Reeling
24. Two judges smack down notorious patent holder “Shipping and Transit” in one week: More than 300 lawsuits, more than 800 payouts, but not one decision on the merits.
25. EFF has appealed the W3C’s decision to make DRM for the web without protections
26. Germany Obliges Social Media Companies to Delete Hate Speech
27. Nearly 90,000 Sex Bots Invaded Twitter in ‘One of the Largest Malicious Campaigns Ever Recorded on a Social Network’
28. Twitter’s Never Going To Ban Donald Trump
29. Trump’s Policies Are Sending Precious Startup Jobs To Canada
30. As a Guru, Ayn Rand May Have Limits. Ask Travis Kalanick.
31. VC Firms Promise To Stamp Out Sexual Harassment. Sounds Familiar
32. 22,000 People Agree to Clean Toilets for WiFi Because They Didn’t Read the Terms
33. Even Teenagers Are Creeped Out by Snapchat’s New Map Feature
34. Snapchat Teams Up With Formula 1 for Grand Prix Stories
35. Formula 1 Shares ‘Great Moment’ With Snap Inc. To Attract Millennials 
36. Watch a Woman Destroy $200,000 Worth of Art While Taking a Selfie
    Asia’s Online Video Market to Hit $46 Billion by 2022, Dwarfing Theatrical 
37. Netflix surges to record high as company adds non-US subscribers: There are now more people streaming Netflix outside the US than domestically.
38. Netflix Blasts Past Expectations By Adding 5.2 Million New Subscribers In Second Quarter Of 2017
39. Netflix Content Assets Valued at $11 Billion — More Than Time Warner, Viacom, Discovery, AMC
40. Safeguarding Safe Harbors
41. Focus: Social media evidence plays important role in litigation
42. The First Alexa Phone Gets Amazon Even Closer To Total Domination
43. Amazon Bursts Blue Apron’s Bubble, As The Market Checks Tech’s Hype
44. At This Point, Amazon Can Crush a Company Just By Filing for a Trademark
45. Pressure mounting for US government to examine Amazon-Whole Foods accord: On campaign trail, Donald Trump said Amazon had “a huge antitrust problem.”
46. Chatbot lawyer, which contested £7.2M in parking tickets, now offers legal help for 1,000+ topics: DoNotPay has expanded to cover the UK and all 50 US states. Free legal help for everyone!
47. A Son’s Race To Give His Dying Father Artificial Immortality
48. Elon Musk’s Freak-Out Over Killer Robots Distracts From Our Real AI Problems
49. Pocket brains: Neuromorphic hardware arrives for our brain-inspired algorithms – IBM’s TrueNorth helps usher in design that could again get around Moore’s Law limits.
50. Blockchain for the humanitarian sector 
51. The Curious Comeback Of The Dreaded QR Code
52. Scrap dealer finds Apollo-era NASA computers in dead engineer’s basement: Plus hundreds of mystery tapes from Pioneer and Helios probe missions.
53. #engage it’s time for judges to tweet, like, & share

CREATIVITY

1. Federal Court finds University’s Fair Dealing Guidelines Are Not So Fair. When is Fair Foul, and Foul Fair?
2. Access Copyright v. York U – And All Eyes Over to York U for What’s Next
3. Ignoring the Supreme Court: Federal Court Judge Hands Access Copyright Fair Dealing Victory (Michael Geist)
4. Donald Graham’s Copyright Infringement Suit against Richard Prince Allowed to Go Forward 
5. Canadian Rapper Sends Rap Video Cease & Desist Letter To Coca Cola For ‘Jacking’ His Catchphrase
6. Copyright Madness: Blurred Lines Mess Means Artists Now Afraid To Name Their Inspirations
7. Latest EU Parliament Votes On Copyright: Give Big Corporations More Copyright
8. Animal rights? Monkey selfie case may undo evolution of the Internet – Analysis: PETA’s quest for animals to own property is no laughing matter.
9. Monkey selfie photographer says he’s broke: ‘I’m thinking of dog walking’ – David Slater has been fighting for years over who has the copyright to photos taken by monkeys using his camera, and says he’s struggling as a result
10. George Romero, Zombies… And The Public Domain
11. How the Guy Who Played Jar Jar Binks Survived the Fandom Menace
12. No One Looks Good in the Ugly Drama Surrounding Kermit the Frog’s Firing 
13. Freedom of panorama in Italy: does it exist? (Eleonora Rosati)
14. 1H 2017 Quick Links, Part 1 – Trademarks, Keyword Ads (Eric Goldman)
15. 1H 2017 Quick Links, Part 4 – Copyright, Patent, More (Eric Goldman) 

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Government to name industry veteran Ian Scott as new head of the CRTC: The government will name Ian Scott as chairman and Caroline Simard as vice-chair of broadcasting
2. White House gives thumbs up to overturning net neutrality rules: Congress should replace the FCC’s Title II rules, Trump spokesperson says.
3. FCC refuses to release text of more than 40,000 net neutrality complaints: Ajit Pai says there’s no net neutrality problem—but keeps complaints under wraps.
4. Ajit Pai not concerned about number of pro-net neutrality comments: Two million new pro-net neutrality comments claimed by “Day of Action” organizers.
5. Senator Wyden To FCC Chair Pai: Hey, Stop Lying About What I Said To Undermine Net Neutrality
6. Our Net Neutrality Comments To The FCC: We Changed Our Mind, You Can Too
7. Comcast says net neutrality supporters “create hysteria”: Comcast, Verizon, and CenturyLink counter pro-net neutrality “Day of Action.”
8. Comcast accuses net neutrality advocates of not “living in the real world”: Anyone who denies harm from Title II rules is denying reality, Comcast says.
9. Comcast: We Must Kill Net Neutrality To Help The Sick And Disabled
10. A Comcast billing nightmare affects woman caring for her sick father: “People with sick or dying family members should never have to go through this.”
11. Comcast/NBC Caught Intentionally Misspelling Show Names To Help Hide Sagging Nielsen Ratings
12. Charter Spectrum ‘Competes’ With New $20 Streaming TV Service Featuring $6 In Entirely Bogus Fees
13. Openreach faces regulatory action if BT split fails to spur broadband market: Decent speeds and right service to meet consumer needs are on Ofcom’s list of demands.
14. Sixth Circuit Blocks ‘Junk Fax’ Class Action Under Telephone Consumer Protection Act
15. Any Changes to Radio Station Ownership Cap Rule Likely to Come from Courts, Not Congress
16. EFF Highlights How ISPs Are Lying To Californians To Try And Kill New Broadband Privacy Protections

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Appeals court OKs secrecy of FBI national security data requests: Targets of NSLs can’t challenge them because ISPs can’t tell the target about them.
2. Appeals Court Agrees Government Can Tell NSL Recipients To STFU Indefinitely
3. Ashley Madison Parent Company to Pay $11.2 Million to Data Breach ‘Victims’
4. Lawyers score big in settlement for Ashley Madison cheating site data breach: Members who paid $19 for their data to be deleted (it wasn’t) might get a refund.
5. French court refers ‘right to be forgotten’ dispute to top EU court
6. Facebook Persistent Tracking Lawsuit Crashes Again
7. Security experts from Google, Facebook, Crowdstrike want to save US elections: “Defending Digital Democracy” will “generate innovative ideas” to safeguard democracy.
8. Hack Brief: A Myspace Security Flaw Let Anyone Take Over Any Account, No Biggie
9. Private Data Of 6 Million Verizon Users Left Openly Accessible On The Internet
10. Indian ISPs Continue Futile Effort To Prevent Subscribers From Using Decent Encryption
11. Privacy International Sues US Government Over Denied Access To Five Eyes Surveillance Agreements
12. Government Lawyers Hoping To Keep Leaker’s Lawyers From Talking About Leaked Documents
13. US border agents: We won’t search data “located solely on remote servers” – What does that mean in practice? CBP isn’t saying for now.
14. White House voter commission publishes names, numbers of worried citizens: Vice president’s spokesman dismisses concerns: “These are public comments.”
15. Trump’s Pick For FBI Head Sounds A Lot Like The Guy He Fired When It Comes To Encryption
16. Prime Minister Says the Laws of Australia Can Beat the Laws of Math
17. Biometrics catches violent fugitive 25 years on the run: Like it or not, facial-recognition tech has become an everyday part of society.
18. DHS Goes Biometric, Says Travelers Can Opt Out Of Face Scans By Not Traveling
19. DHS Confirms There Will Be More And Greater Intrusiveness During Border Searches
20. New Zealand Airports Customs Officials Performing ‘Digital Strip Searches’ Of Travelers’ Electronics
21. Not for the first time, Microsoft’s fonts have caught out forgers: If you’re going to pretend a document is from 2006, you should use Times New Roman.
22. From Sans Serif To Sans Sharif: #Fontgate Leads To Calls For Pakistan’s Prime Minister To Resign
23. Congresswoman’s iPhone contained nude images, and an aide put them online: Staffer allegedly accessed images while taking lawmaker’s phone in for repair.
24. California Vote on Internet Privacy Could Have Big Impact on Other States: State law would limit how internet service providers can use customers’ data
25. Apple’s Privacy Pledge Complicates Its AI Push
26. An Amazon Echo Can’t Call The Police—But Maybe It Should
27. IBM’s Plan To Encrypt Unthinkable Amounts Of Sensitive Data
28. Reputation Matters: Court of Appeal prohibits Reuters from publishing commercially confidential information – The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by Reuters against an injunction granted by the High Court to hedge fund Brevan Howard, which prohibited Reuters from publishing certain commercially confidential information.
29. 1H 2017 Quick Links, Part 2 – Privacy, Security (Eric Goldman)
30. Averting Robot Eyes (Margot E. Kaminski, Matthew Rueben, William Smart, Cindy Grimm)

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GAMES

1. Tencent imposing time limits on children to allay addiction fears
2. Tencent implements time limits to curb kids’ gaming addictions: Honour of Kings players under 12 restricted to one hour per day, two for under 18s
3. Tencent: Honor of Kings restrictions won’t hurt game revenue – “Under 12 years old constitute a small proportion of our total user base and a smaller percentage of our paying user base”
4. Halo-inspired fan-game gets conditional thumbs up from Microsoft: Installation 01 can continue to operate as long as it stays non-commercial.
5. Report: Xbox One X benchmarks detail 4K capabilities: Some games hit 4K with extra GPU overhead, others struggle with higher resolution.
6. Case study: When 2 indie devs come up with very similar concepts
7. Indie Developer Finds Game On Torrent Site, Gives Away Free Keys Instead Of Freaking Out
8. The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: Diversity in games with Anita Sarkeesian: The Feminist Frequency founder on her Tropes series, dealing with the backlash and how developers can explore new stories
9. 15-Year-Old’s Reaction To Winning Her First Street Fighter V Tournament Is Everything
10. Activision Blizzard: Overwatch League is the most ambitious in eSports history – At Gamelab, MLG founder Mike Sepso opened up about the Overwatch League – “this will be a core part of the future of the eSports business”
11. Nickelodeon invests in amateur eSports outfit Super League Gaming
12. Nickelodeon enters esports as part of $15m funding round for Super League Gaming: SLG total now at $28m, other investors include DMG Entertainment and Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeffrey Vinik
13. Layoffs as ESL restructures: Jobs lost as world’s largest esports organisation “realigns resources”
14. Valve to axe Dota 2 Majors in favour of third-party tournaments: The road to The International 2018 will be handled by third-party tournaments, selected by Valve
15. Bioware Shoots Down Mass Effect: Andromeda DLC Cancellation Rumors, But No Single-Player DLC Reportedly Planned
16. The Nintendo Switch and the Long Game
17. UK retailer GAME issues profit warning as Switch shortage hits hard
18. How Super Mario Run’s lackluster sales are changing Nintendo’s mobile strategy
19. The game has changed for Nintendo on mobile: Last year smartphones were set to be Nintendo’s saviour; with the successful launch of Switch the calculus has changed
20. Nintendo dismisses idea of entering resurgent PC market
21. Nintendo Switch arrests Japanese console market decline: Mario Kart 8 was the best-selling Switch game in H12017, beating Zelda despite much later release date
22. Super Mario Odyssey will never be ‘Game Over’, according to devs
23. Japanese console market grows for the first time in three years
24. Amazon UK retroactively imposes one-per-customer SNES Mini limit: Customers who pre-ordered multiple devices have had their orders reduced
25. Play Game Boy cartridges on your smartphone with this £60 accessory: Adds the physical buttons, too.
26. Pokemon Go surpasses $1.2 billion in revenue
27. Pokémon Go still has millions of players after one year: Millions of Pokémon Go players get big gym, pokécoin, raid boss update for first anniversary.
28. A year in, millions still play Pokémon Go(and will likely attend its festival): Punctuating a wild 12 months, Niantic releases a big gym overhaul patch.
29. Ubisoft wishes Watch Dogs 2 players a terrible Fourth of July: Single-player mode had been slapped with loud surround-sound noise, until update.
30. GAME issues profit warning as Switch stock dries up: But retailer expects to see growth in the software markets over the following financial year
31. China extends lead as the world’s biggest video game market
32. Chinese games market is the world’s biggest at $25.6bn: Expected to grow to $29bn by the end of 2017, currently represents 25% of the global market
33. Sony Pulls “World’s Fastest Platinum Trophy” Game From PSN
34. ‘The economics are really tough’ for console exclusives, says former Sony exec
35. Brexit Britain: League of Legends in-game currency gets UK price hike
36. Brexit prompts League of Legends price hike: Riot Games increasing the cost of virtual currency by 20% from July 25th
37. Zynga Founder Launches New Political Project And It’s Getting Criticized
38. For indie devs, the Vita’s niche audience is what makes it a viable platform: “Any time you have a system that gets kind of neglected by its parent company, you find this hardcore passionate fanbase ready to support anything that’s coming out for it.”
39. Without code from the original, Blizzard had to build StarCraft: Remastered from scratch
40. StarCraft Remastered devs unveil price, explain how much is being rebuilt: Dev team admits losing old code and assets, needing to “eyeball everything.”
41. Razer files for IPO in Hong Kong: Peripherals company to pursue ambitious expansion plans by going public, expects to raise a reported $600 million
42. Video game distributors prepare for digital future: Alliance rebrands and moves into digital publishing – “We believe consumers will access all software digitally,” CEO Jay Gelman says
43. “Gamers are part of our creative process” – Activision’s Eric Hirshberg: The Activision CEO on rescuing Call of Duty, re-launching Destiny and what comes next for Skylanders
44. Survey: 77% of devs believe AR/MR will be more popular than VR, long-term
45. Of Course There’s A Reason Why Tekken 7’s Android Has Breast Physics
46. A programmer turned Wikipedia into a classic text adventure: Developer turned a novel-generation project into an interactive Infocom tribute.
47. The Worst E3 Ever?: 10 Years Ago This Month: ESA nukes its annual showcase just as the industry reaches its peak, and the Red Ring of Death ushers in the Mattrick era at Xbox

DIGITAL

1. Federal Court of Appeal Deals Music Labels Major Defeat By Upholding Tariff 8 Internet Streaming Decision (Michael Geist)
2. The Battle Over Tariff 8: What the Recording Industry Isn’t Saying About Canada’s Internet Streaming Royalties (Michael Geist)
3. Court vacates apparent fake-defendant libel takedown order in Patel v. Chan
4. State Dept. Enlists Hollywood And Its Friends To Start A Fake Twitter Fight Over Intellectual Property
5. Rob Kardashian Could Face Revenge Porn Charges for Posting Explicit Photos of Blac Chyna, Expert Says
6. Trump Mocks Mika Brzezinski
7. Mika Brzezinski explains what President Trump’s tweets reveal about him
8. Morning Joe co-hosts accuse White House of blackmail over tabloid story
9. Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough’s Extortion Claim Against Donald Trump and the National Enquirer
10. Why Trump’s Vengeful Tweeting MattersDonald Trump Is Testing Twitter’s Harassment Policy: The president’s latest outbursts suggest the social-media platform imposes no editorial standards. But should it?
11. Twenty Theses About Twitter (Eric Posner)
12. Trump Supporters Cry Bias After NPR Tweets the Declaration of Independence
13. Save Free Speech From Trolls: Criticism is not censorship no matter how insistent Twitter’s free speech brigade might be.
14. CNN implied threat against redditor over Trump-CNN GIF ignites Internet: After extracting apology from “HanAs**holeSolo”, CNN reserves right to expose him.
15. Silicon Valley sexual harassment scandal spreads: Six women have accused Binary Capital partner Justin Caldbeck of making unwanted sexual advances. Several said the misconduct took place when the women sought funding or guidance on their businesses.
16. More women come forward to talk about Silicon Valley’s sexual harassment problem: Some big name VCs have issued apologies
17. Women in Tech Speak Frankly on Culture of Harassment
18. ‘I was getting confused figuring out whether to hire you or hit on you’: Five Silicon Valley tech investors are accused of sexually harassing women: Dave McClure of 500 Startups and Chris Sacca of Lowercase Capital were both accused of sexually harassing women in the tech industry; Justin Caldbeck of Binary Capital, Marc Canter of Macromedia and investor Jose De Dios also had allegations leveled against them; Ten female entrepreneurs came forward and revealed the allegations this week; They claim the men targeted them with sexist comments, touched them without permission or sent inappropriate messages or emails over the years; McClure, Sacca and Caldbeck have all publicly apologized for their behavior; De Dios has denied the allegations against him, while Canter accused a woman of lying about her claims 
19. Start-up investor Dave McClure resigns from 500 Startups
20. We Are All Internet Bullies
21. UK dealer charged in US over multimillion-dollar fake Bitcoin site scam: Renwick Haddow created ‘trendy’ companies and duped investors into thinking they were big successes, authorities in New York allege
22. Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men from Hate Speech But Not Black Children: A trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook’s censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression.
23. Facebook ‘Hate Speech’ Rules Protect Races And Sexes — So, Yes, White Men Are Going To Be ‘Protected’
24. Facebook found a new way to identify spam and false news articles in your News Feed: People who post 50-plus times per day are likely sharing spam or false news, Facebook says.
25. The Most Important Lesson From the Leaked Facebook Content Moderation Documents
26. Overhauling Groups Won’t Help Facebook Build Communities
27. Denied: Afghanistan’s All-Girl Robotics Team Can’t Get Visas To The US
28. Newegg fought its way through two appeals to win fees from this patent-holder: It took repeated appeals to win an award that “aged like fine wine.”
29. Copyright Office Releases Report on Section 1201
30. What’s wrong with the Copyright Office’s DRM study?
31. Eliminating Internet Safe Harbours Would Hurt The Economy
32. Market Court’s ruling expected to stem flow of copyright letters
33. Instagram Unleashes An AI System To Blast Away Nasty Comments
34. Instagram Starts Using Artificial Intelligence to Moderate Comments. Is Facebook Up Next?
35. Citrix isn’t just for telecommuting, Red Bull Racing uses it at the track: But the next big thing will be machine learning and AI for simulations and design.
36. Copyright and innovation: If Canada is to become an major centre of high-tech business and AI development, it must remove the copyright-related impediments to innovation.
37. SIRI-OUSLY 2.0: What Artificial Intelligence Reveals About the First Amendment (Toni M. Massaro, Helen Norton & Margot E. Kaminski)
38. Search Algorithms Kept Me From My Sister For 14 Years
39. Machine Creativity Beats Some Modern Art: If machines can outperform humans at playing games and driving cars, can they also produce better art? A new kind of Turing test aims to find out.
40. First And Only Snippet Tax Deal In Spain Is With Big Supporter Of Snippet Tax In Germany
41. Delete Hate Speech or Pay Up, Germany Tells Social Media Companies
42. Germany passes law with huge fines for Internet companies that don’t bar hate speech: German legislators want hate speech removed within 24 hours.
43. Germany Officially Gives Up On Free Speech: Will Fine Internet Companies That Don’t Delete ‘Bad’ Speech
44. Designing Genderless Emoji? It Takes More Than Just Losing The Lipstick
45. Zillow Only Kinda Backs Down From Dubious McMansion Hell Threats Following EFF’s Engagement
46. McMansion Hell is Back Online, Will Not Comply With Zillow’s Demands [Update: Zillow Will Not Sue]
47. FilmOn’s chutzpah doesn’t pay off; labeling it a site of (c) infringement is protected by anti-SLAPP law: FilmOn.com v. DoubleVerify, Inc., 2017 WL 2807911, No. B264074 Cal. Ct. App. Jun. 29, 2017 (Rebecca Tushnet)
48. Canadian Supreme Court holds that Google can be ordered to de-index results globally
49. No Monitoring & No Liability: What the Supreme Court’s Google v. Equustek Decision Does Not Do (Michael Geist)
50. Google v. Equustek: Unnecessarily Hard Cases Make Unnecessarily Bad Law (Ariel Katz)
51. Supreme Court of Canada lends an enforcement hand to intellectual property right owners
52. When Google and its ilk become regulators, we all lose
53. Judge Tosses Woman’s Lawsuit Brought Against Google Because A Blogger Said Mean Things About Her
54. Google Begins Experimenting with VR Ads
55. The Lawsuit That Could Pop Alphabet’s Project Loon 
56. Apple Adds VR Rendering Essentials to MacOS via Metal 2
57. Ars spends too much time trying to work in Haiku, the BeOS successor: After years of alpha, the open source execution of BeOS is beautiful but buggy.
58. In attempt to achieve YouTube stardom, woman accidentally kills her boyfriend: According to Pedro Ruiz’ aunt, her late nephew told her – “We want to get famous.”
59. YouTube Reportedly Offered Nominal Refunds To Brands Who Pulled Spend In ‘Adpocalypse’
60. Three-Month-Old YouTube TV Expands To 10 Additional Markets
61. Now Netflix Is Reviving Its Own Canceled Shows, Too
62. Disney Channel And Freeform Ratings Are Falling As Young Viewers Turn To Streaming Platforms
63. BBC Pledges To Invest $44 Million In Digital Content For Kids Through 2020
64. We need our platforms to put people and democratic society ahead of cheap profits: The BBC is a model for a trusted social networking platform that combats fake news and propaganda while serving the public interest.
65. Sale Of Roku Devices Banned In Mexico Due To Rampant Hacking
66. Rotten Tomatoes And The Unbearable Heaviness Of Data
67. Podcast Ad Revenues Are Expected To Reach $220 Million In 2017 (Study)
68. GrubHub trial may finally answer contractor vs. employee quandary: A GrubHub loss could pave the way for a slew of similar labor cases.
69. Couple Asks Internet To Photoshop Out Shirtless Guy From Engagement Photo, Regrets It Immediately
70. People Who Follow Influencers Are More Likely To Engage In Charitable Causes (Study)
71. The US government is removing scientific data from the Internet: At Ars Technica Live, we talked to Lindsey Dillon, who decided to do something about it.
72. Information overload makes social media a swamp of fake news: Low attention and a flood of data are serious problems for social networks.
73. Another Collision of Housing Regulations and Online Innovation–SF Housing Rights Committee v. HomeAway (Eric Goldman)
74. Looking Forward To Next 20 Years Of A Post-Reno Internet
75. The Shifting Landscape of Global Internet Censorship: An Uptake in Communications Encryption Is Tempered by Increasing Pressure on Major Platform Providers; Governments Expand Content Restriction Tactics (Jonathan Zittrain, Robert Faris, Helmi Noman, Justin Clark, Casey Tilton & Ryan Morrison-Westphal)
76. The complete history of the IBM PC: Bill Gates. Mysterious deaths. IBM trying to act like a nimble startup. This story has it all!
77. With iPhone, Apple showed AT&T and Verizon who’s boss: Apple refused to let wireless carriers ruin the customer experience. 

CREATIVITY

1. Paul McCartney Finally Regains Beatles Rights After Near 50-Year-Long Battle
2. Claim U$ 150.000 for Trump: Photographer Julie Dermansky is claiming 150,000 dollars in damages from US President Donald Trump after the Trump organisation apparently used one of her photos without permission.
3. Kanye West Is Done With Tidal
4. The Music Industry’s Still Off Key: The power brokers aren’t responsible for its revival.
5. RIAA Trashes Its Legacy As A 1st Amendment Supporter By Cheering On Global Internet Censorship
6. The elusive data behind copyright reform: In the absence of data, scholars, legislators and other stakeholders are forced to grope in the dark about what copyright reform has wrought. (Bob Tarantino)
7. France’s Highest Court Rules in Favor of Freedom of Expression of Director over Heirs’ Droit Moral
8. Shop Till You Drop… Your Claim… Stores’ Layout Protected by French Copyright
9. Olivia de Havilland Files a Right of Publicity Suit against Feud Producers
10. Library of Awesome—Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter, and Copyright
11. Stars are getting militant about inequality in Hollywood. It’s about time.
12. Alex Jones Has a Perfectly Normal Chat About All the Slave Children Who Are Sent to Mars
13. The End of Utility? Supreme Court of Canada Rewrote Patent Law Rationale as We Knew It
14. Supreme Court harms Canada’s innovation policy stand ahead of NAFTA negotiations
15. ‘Bombshell’ Canadian Patent Ruling Seen Favoring Foreign Companies: Supreme Court decision lowers bar for receiving patents – Decision removes a trade irritant with U.S. before Nafta talks
16. AstraZeneca Canada Inc. v. Apotex Inc. (SCC)
17. USPTO Economists on Patent Litigation Predictors
18. The Importance of Brand Clearance: How About “COVFEFE” As a Brand? Part 2
19. NFL is advising ICE to seize obvious parodies, my FOIA suit reveals (Rebecca Tushnet)
20. EU And US Perspectives On Fair Dealing For The Purpose Of Parody Or Satire (Graeme Austin)
21. The age of distributed truth

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. NFL, DirecTV Defeat ‘Sunday Ticket’ Lawsuit: The battle over blacked-out games has ended. DirecTV and the NFL are dancing in the legal endzone after a California federal court dismissed a nationwide class-action lawsuit over Sunday Ticket.
2. Sports Media Is Dead, Long Live Sports Media
3. Tom Wheeler defends Title II rules, accuses Pai of helping monopolists – Ex-FCC chair: Title II is crucial for net neutrality and consumer protection.
4. Trump picks Republican to fill empty commissioner seat at FCC: Trump nominates Brendan Carr, general counsel and former aide to Chairman Pai.
5. 50 million US homes have only one 25Mbps Internet provider or none at all: 10.6 million homes have no wired access to 25Mbps, 4.9 million can’t get 3Mbps.
6. Vidéotron says it was ‘forced to put an end’ to Unlimited Music, will give customers free data
7. Canadian cellphone startup has success stateside, but shut out at home
8. Record $280M Fine for Dish Network’s Telemarketing Violations
9. AT&T: Forced arbitration isn’t “forced” because no one has to buy service – To avoid AT&T arbitration, your only choice is to not be a customer.
10. Comcast, Charter May Soon Get Even Larger With Joint Acquisition Of Sprint
11. Murdoch’s Sky takeover bid delayed by UK gov’t, sent to CMA for further assessment: Culture secretary says there’s a risk that Murdoch would control too much UK media.
12. Verizon Wireless disconnects some heavy data users in rural areas: Verizon sheds customers who roam on rural networks and use tons of data.
13. ISPs Are No Longer Even Bothering To Provide Bogus Excuses For Their Expanding Use Of Usage Caps
14. Cox expands home Internet data caps, while CenturyLink abandons them: Meanwhile, Cox has plans to charge extra for unlimited data.
15. 40 ISPs, VoIP And VPN Providers Tell FCC They Like Having Net Neutrality Rules
16. ‘Free Market’ Group: FCC Comments Show Nobody Really Wants Net Neutrality
17. A Curious Tale of Economics and Common Carriage (Net Neutrality) at the FCC: A Reply to Faulhaber, Singer, and Urschel (Dwayne Winseck & Jefferson Pooley)

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. DOJ Asks The Supreme Court To Give It Permission To Search Data Centers Anywhere In The World
2. Moving Beyond Backdoors To Solve The FBI’s ‘Going Dark’ Problem
3. NSA Continues To Dodge ‘Incidental Collection’ Question, Wants Its ‘About’ Surveillance Program Back
4. Laptop ban led to 20-percent drop in flights for one Mideast airline: Emirates, Etihad, and Turkish Airlines increase security, drop electronics ban.
5. NATO Considering ‘Petya’ Malware a Potential Act of War
6. NotPetya developers may have obtained NSA exploits weeks before their public leak: Clues may tie people behind massive malware attack to mysterious Shadow Brokers group.
7. Backdoor built in to widely used tax app seeded last week’s NotPetya outbreak: Operation that hit thousands was “thoroughly well-planned and well-executed.”
8. As A New Wave Of Cyberattacks Rolls Out, Rep. Ted Lieu Asks What The NSA’s Going To Do About It
9. Global cyberattack seems intent on havoc aimed at Ukraine, not extortion
10. Coalition Objects to Renewed Calls for Weaker Encryption Following ‘Five Eyes’ Ottawa Meeting
11. Google DeepMind deal with NHS broke UK data law, rules ICO: Medical trial that slurped patient records of 1.6 million Brits ruled illegal by watchdog.
12. In Worrisome Move, Kaspersky Agrees to Turn Over Source Code to US Government
13. HTTPS Certificate Revocation is broken, and it’s time for some new tools: Certificate Transparency and OCSP Must-Staple can’t get here fast enough.
14. Windows 10 will try to combat ransomware by locking up your data: But how to protect files from users who have access to those files remains tricky.
15. Government Kills Cyber Remedies as Cyber Threats Mount
16. Cheerleader Fraudulently Obtains Court Order To Scrub Web Of Her Boyfriend-Beating Past
17. Federal government proposes reform of public sector Access to Information Act
18. The Bootlegger, the Wiretap, and the Beginning of Privacy

Jon

GAMES

1. Court Stops Pokémon GO Litigation 
2. Niantic to punish Pokémon Go cheaters with mark of shame: Gamemaker says ill-gotten Pokémon “may not behave as expected.”
3. Consumer Protection Class Action Lawsuit Over “Free” Candy Crush Plays Will Proceed 
4. After winning $500M in lawsuit against Oculus, ZeniMax pushes for more
5. ZeniMax to judge: Block Oculus sales or give us 20%: After trial victory, company also ups damage demand from $500 million to $1 billion
6. Popular GTA mod OpenIV receives cease and desist from Take-Two: Modder claims legal threat is “illiterate both technically and grammatically”.
7. Take-Two pulls two GTA Online mods amidst OpenIV fallout: Force Hax and Menyoo withdrawn, but OpenIV’s community is fighting back against cease-and-desist order
8. Take-Two shuts down a trio of Grand Theft Auto Online cheat providers
9. Grand Theft Auto modding project folds following Take-Two’s demands: Dev says Take-Two told him that modding games is “an illegal activity.”
10. E3 2017: Rockstar Addresses Take-Two’s Decision To Shut Down GTA Modding Software OpenIV: “Take-Two’s actions were not specifically targeting single player mods.”
11. Rockstar: Single-player Grand Theft Auto mods not under threat – Take-Two’s takedown notice was due to specific problems with OpenIV “enabling malicious mods”
12. Konami accused of blacklisting former employees – report: Publisher instructs other companies not to hire ex-staff, blocked Kojima Productions health insurance application
13. Facebook reports 41m E3 posts, likes and comments
14. According to the ESA, E3 attendance jumped by 18k this year
15. Devolver claims ESA meddling after losing $100k on rented E3 lot: City of Los Angeles denied indie publisher permits to expand its E3 presence, ESA denies claims it was involved
16. Atari re-entering hardware business with mysterious ‘Ataribox’
17. Atari is preparing to launch new hardware: The “Ataribox” is “years in the making” and will be based on PC technology
18. Atari’s New Console Sounds Like a Bad Idea
19. Capcom and Bandai Namco sign cross-licensing deal to improve online play
20. Capcom and Bandai Namco ink cross-licensing deal for fighting games: “Online matching” agreement will reduce dev costs and production times for “game series such as Street Fighter”
21. Rocket League Dev On Cross-Network Play’s Importance To Industry
22. E3 is over and investors are hammering GAME, GameStop: After an E3 filled with great games, you might think retailers could get a little boost, but that’s not the case
23. Are retail investors right to be worried after E3?: GAME and GameStop’s share price takes a tumble following last week’s LA event
24. Video game trade group sees pros and cons in new Trump administration – Good: Tax cuts, visa reform, IP protection. Bad: “Exclusionary” policies.
25. Channel 4: “There’s a massively disproportionate amount of money and effort going into core VR games” – Broadcaster’s games publishing arm says it’s open to opportunities in mobile VR, but first title Soar is currently “a one-off”
26. 15 VR, AR, and video game startups join MIT’s Play Labs summer tech accelerator
27. Minecraft’s cross-platform online play is powered by Xbox Live, even on the Switch
28. Xbox One X selling at a loss: Despite $499 price tag, Microsoft’s new console is still “not the money-making part of the business”
29. Microsoft: Sony’s comments about Minecraft safety “not healthy for anyone” – Xbox boss Phil Spencer responds to Sony’s reasoning for not following Nintendo into cross-platform play
30. Sony’s PlayLink links your phone to your PS4 for multiplayer minigame madness: The second screen concept is back, only this time it might actually be worth it.
31. Twitch and Blizzard Announce Two-Year Worldwide Collaboration
32. Twitch and Blizzard forge two-year streaming deal for eSports events
33. One-upping the NES Classic Edition with the Raspberry Pi 3 and RetroPie: NES Classic is no more, but luckily cheap hobbyist boards are great for little projects.
34. Where Nintendo stands on esports
35. Insights: Should ESPN Now Stand For E-Sports Network? There Are Worse Ideas.
36. Tencent’s five-year plan for a ¥100bn Chinese esports industry: Riot Games parent pushing for unified standards, more leagues and esports-themed industrial parks
37. NBC Sports launches Rocket League tourney: Sports network teams with Psyonix and FACEIT for $100,000 competition, will televise finals in some territories
38. The rise of eSports: are addiction and corruption the price of its success?: Forget football, the world’s fastest-growing sport is live video gaming. But increasingly its impact is proving harmful to those involved
39. Six ways to make the most of Video Games Tax Relief: Altara Games’ Ella Romanos explains why there is no longer a barrier to UK studios who want to benefit from this government incentive
40. Nine Australian indie games receive government funding boost
41. Google Play is fighting an uphill battle against Android adware: Google hasn’t yet removed all of the apps, which have as many as 6 million downloads.
42. After years of GamerGate harassment, Brianna Wu’s still fighting: Internet trolls turned Brianna Wu’s life upside down. But, she’s running for Congress and thinking all isn’t quite lost.
43. Xbox’s revamped, inclusive avatars will let players “really reflect who they are”: New avatar system will launch on Windows 10 this autumn, with Xbox One devices to follow
44. CCP brings color-blind support to EVE Online
45. HDR and video games: Ars leaves E3 with more questions than answers: HDR looks great in applicable games, but newer game consoles blew a big E3 opportunity.
46. A remaster with no old code: Crash Bandicoot was rebuilt nearly from scratch: Just enough source material was salvaged, along with a happenstance speech of old.
47. Games Have Too Many Words: A Case Study.
48. Young Men Are Playing Video Games Instead of Getting Jobs. That’s OK. (For Now.)
49. Player One: The video-game industry is built on the cultish fantasy that all technology and effort can be redeemed as pure pleasure
50. Thy Mighty Contract: What You Need To Know About Publishing Deals, Part 1
51. Video: A lawyer’s guide to practical contract law for indie devs

DIGITAL

1. Supreme Court Won’t Hear Dancing Baby Case… Despite Gov’t Admitting ‘Serious Legal Error’
2. Supreme Court turns down EFF’s “Dancing Baby” fair use case: The law against bogus DMCA takedowns will remain tough to enforce.
3. Supreme Court Says You Can’t Ban People From The Internet, No Matter What They’ve Done
4. Ban on Sex Offenders Using Social Media Violates First Amendment–Packingham v. North Carolina (Eric Goldman)
5. There’s a constitutional right to use social media, Supreme Court says: North Carolina’s law was “unprecedented in the scope of First Amendment speech.”
6. European Court Rules On Legal Nature Of Torrent Links In Pirate Bay Case
7. US Embassy Threatens to Close Domain Registry Over ‘Pirate Bay’ Domain
8. German Court Bans Google From Linking To Lumen Database Showing Takedown Notices
9. It’s criminal charges and leg shackles for man who shared Deadpool on Facebook: A single Facebook post resulted in 5 million views and a federal investigation.
10. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick resigns after pressure from investors: Five major Uber investors called for his resignation following months of blunders.
11. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has resigned due to investor pressure, and a search for a new leader is on: Benchmark, Fidelity and others demanded his resignation in a letter titled “Moving Uber Forward.”
12. A Short History Of The Many, Many Ways Uber Screwed Up
13. With her blog post about toxic bro-culture at Uber, Susan Fowler proved that one person can make a difference: The former engineer took a big swing at the car-hailing giant, and did us all an even bigger favor.
14. Travis Kalanick And The Last Gasp Of Tech’s Alpha CEO
15. Queen’s Speech: We’re getting rid of Internet safe spaces. Really now.
16. Amazon to Buy Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion
17. Amazon shakes up grocery sector with $13.7-billion Whole Foods deal
18. Amazon Is About To Transform How You Buy Groceries
19. Just in Time, Amazon Patents Method to Prevent In-store Comparison Shopping
20. Ready For A Monopoly Fight? Amazon And Whole Foods Isn’t It
21. Spotify Passes 140 Million Users, Promises to Pay Labels $2 Billion as Losses Widen
22. Spotify ‘Sponsored Songs’ lets labels pay for plays
23. California’s Anti-SLAPP Law Saves Another News Publication From Bogus Lawsuit
24. The Chilling Effects Of A SLAPP Suit: My Story
25. The Texting Suicide Case Is About Crime, Not Tech
26. Colorado Legalizes Another Vice: Texting While Driving
27. Frequency of Courts’ References to Emojis and Emoticons Over Time (Eric Goldman)
28. Vice Media Receives $450 Million Boost From TPG
29. Vice Raises $450 Million To Build “Largest Millennial Video Library In The World”
30. Breitbart News, Donald Trump’s Pravda, Is In Crisis
31. Time Warner just handed Snapchat a $100 million lifeline
32. Netflix is getting into the ‘choose your own adventure’ game business
33. Argentina’s government is wooing entrepreneurs with a new law
34. Facebook’s Instagram Stories crushes Snapchat with 250 million daily active users
35. Facebook sics AI on terrorist posts, but humans still do the dirty work: “We don’t want Facebook to be used for any terrorist activity whatsoever,” says FB.
36. An Artificial Intelligence Developed Its Own Non-Human Language: When Facebook designed chatbots to negotiate with one another, the bots made up their own way of communicating.
37. fAIth: The most avid believers in artificial intelligence are aggressively secular – yet their language is eerily religious. Why?
38. Humans Can’t Expect AI To Just Fight Fake News For Them
39. We need our platforms to put people and democratic society ahead of cheap profits: The BBC is a model for a trusted social networking platform that combats fake news and propaganda while serving the public interest.
40. Tesla Model S warned driver in fatal crash to put hands on steering wheel: Model S driver had hands on steering wheel for 25 seconds during a 37-minute period.
41. Digital Native Advertising, Influencers And Reviews
42. First Reported Consumer Complaint About an Influencer Post
43. The FTC Speaks, Instagram Listens: A New Disclosure Tool for Social Media Influencers
44. FTC aims to block DraftKings, FanDuel merger over monopolization concerns
45. When pop stars have Instagram, they no longer need record labels
46. Katy Perry’s Four-Day YouTube Live Stream Amassed 49 Million Views Worldwide
47. Katy Perry Just Became the First Person to Reach 100 Million Twitter Followers
48. Colorado dad gives sons smartphones, regrets it, now wants to ban preteen use: He started nonprofit, wrote ballot measure to prevent use by kids under 13.
49. NCAA Forces UCF Football Player To Choose Between His Athletic Career And His YouTube Channel
50. Google Announces Four More Steps Its Taking To Fight Extremist Content On YouTube
51. Google now actively works against extremist YouTube videos: New policies make it harder for terroristic content to flourish (and be found) on YouTube.
52. Google Glass is apparently back from the dead, starts getting software updates: Google’s aging face computer gets a firmware and companion app update.
53. How Amazon’s Echo Is Making Major Labels Rethink Their Tunes
54. Bitcoin and Ethereum Just Crashed, Taking Coinbase Down With Them
55. 2017 Surface Pro least repairable ever; Surface Laptop is made of glue: Compact design continues to be at odds with maintenance and repairability.
56. Ready Lawyer One: Legal Issues In The Innovation Of Virtual Reality (Crystal Nwaneri) 

CREATIVITY

1. Asian Rock Band v. the PTO: The Supreme Court, the First Amendment, and What the Justices Decided in Matal v. Tam
2. Matal, Interim Director, USPTO V. Tam (SCOTUS)
3. Supreme Court rules: Offensive trademarks must be allowed – Justice Samuel Alito: “Giving offense is a viewpoint.”
4. Supreme Court Ruling on Offensive Trademarks Could Embolden Future Trademark Applicants 
5. Siding with The Slants: Ban on Disparaging Marks Held Unconstitutional
6. SCOTUS Strikes Down Ban on Disparaging Trademarks 
7. How The Supreme Court’s Recent Free Speech Ruling May Destroy Hollywood’s Plans To Kick People Off The Internet
8. Supreme Court Reminds US Government That Hate Speech Is, In Fact, Free Speech
9. Slightly cooler take on Tam (Rebecca Tushnet)
10. Captain Morgan defends trademark as Admiral Nelson’s is ordered to weigh anchor
11. Gene Simmons attempts to trademark love
12. Gene Simmons Abandons Hand Gesture Trademark Application
13. NHL’s Vegas Golden Knights Making a Name for Themselves the Hard Way
14. The search to prove that trademark dilution exists; new study casts “serious doubt” on validity of current evidence
15. Should the Patent and Trademark Office Be Allowed to Change Its Mind?: The Supreme Court will decide soon.
16. A Decade Later, Judge Says ‘Jersey Boys’ Use Of Unpublished Autobiography Is Fair Use
17. Fair use is the fifth season in Jersey Boys case (Rebecca Tushnet)
18. Comicmix Wins Against Dr. Seuss Estate On Trademark Infringement Claim, Copyright Claim In Serious Jeopardy
19. Mankowitz’s famous portrait of Jimi Hendrix is original and deserves copyright protection, says Paris Court of Appeal.
20. Copyright Troll Rightscorp Ramps Up Its Efforts To Get ISPs To Push Its Payment Demands On Users
21. Multiple German Courts Rule Photos Of Public Domain Works Are Not In The Public Domain
22. Coal CEO Threatens John Oliver With A SLAPP Suit
23. SLAPP Threats And The Grenfell Fire: Why We Must Stop Attacks On Free Speech
24. Peter Pan and the Copyright that Never Grew Up
25. Once more into the copyright breach: A look at what adjustments to copyright policy can be made through regulation, what needs legislative tweaking, and what’s brewing in the courts. (Howard Knopf)
26. Fact Check: Distortions and Fake News in Virginia Shooting
27. The Normalization of Conspiracy Culture: People who share dangerous ideas don’t necessarily believe them.
28. It’s Super Dangerous to Be a Journalist in the Philippines
29. Star Wars Han Solo film directors leave, citing “creative differences”: No replacement named, but film still on track for 2018 release says Lucasfilm.

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Why the Government Was Right to Swiftly Ditch the Ill-Advised Internet Tax (Michael Geist)
2. CRTC to ban unlocking fees for smartphones as of Dec. 1
3. CRTC bans smartphone unlocking fees, outgoing chairman Blais regrets not taking decision sooner: Bell, Rogers and Telus all charge $50 to unlock a phone. That fee will be eliminated as of Dec. 1.
4. Change is in the Airwaves: CRTC Expands the Wireless Code of Conduct
5. Canadian Government Suspends Implementation of Private Right of Action Under CASL
6. Saving Private Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Terrible From the Latest Canadian Proposals (Michael Geist)
7. Chris Selley: Federal government should stop trying to help private media and fix the CBC –  If the Trudeau Liberals want to help out media, I suggest they forget about the outlets they don’t own and start worrying about the one they do
8. Andrew Coyne: A bailout won’t save media, but just make it easier to avoid problems – If this proposed Canadian Journalism Fund is about saving news, it’s odd that the publishers should have such a narrow definition of it
9. Alex Jones Scoops Megyn Kelly And Proves The Media Isn’t Ready For The Trolls: “I’m not looking to portray you as a bogeyman,” Kelly said in the published audio.
10. How NBC botched the Megyn Kelly rollout
11. The Psychology Of Why Interviewing Alex Jones Is Such A Bad Idea
12. While You Were Offline: Fox News Is Officially No Longer ‘Fair And Balanced.’ Wait…
13. Democrats urge Trump administration to block AT&T/Time Warner merger – Senate Democrats: “Mega conglomerate” could punish rivals and harm consumers.
14. FCC makes net neutrality commenters’ e-mail addresses public through API: E-mail addresses aren’t required, though names and home addresses are.
15. Netflix joins Amazon and Reddit in Day of Action to save net neutrality: Netflix changes tune, says it “will never outgrow the fight for net neutrality.”
16. Cable Lobbyists Try To Scuttle State Inquiries Into Lousy Broadband Service, Slow Speeds
17. Three UK fined £1.9M over failure to provide non-stop access to 999 services: Ofcom – Tech issues should never hamper customers’ ability to make emergency calls.
18. Cable lobby tries to stop state investigations into slow broadband speeds: Besides gutting net neutrality, industry wants less scrutiny of speed claims.
19. Verizon Is Killing Tumblr’s Fight For Net Neutrality: One of the open internet’s fiercest defenders has a new boss
20. Verizon Bucks AT&T And Comcast, Supports Utility Pole Reform For Faster Fiber Deployment
21. Broadband ISP CenturyLink Accused Of Wells-Fargo-Esque Scam That Bilked Millions From Customers
22. 80% Of Cord Cutters Leave Because Of High Cable TV Prices, But The Industry Still Refuses To Compete On Price
23. It’s Working: Free Press Documents Historic Levels of Investment and Innovation Since FCC’s 2015 Open Internet Order – Using FCC’s own financial disclosures and statements to investors, new report definitively debunks FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s claims about Title II harming investment
24. Cable Industry Lobbyist Proclaims Cable TV Industry ‘Failing’ While Advocating Against Broadband Consumer Rights
25. Wall Street Still Annoyed That Competition Forced Wireless Carriers To Bring Back Unlimited Data Plans
26. Utility that says Comcast didn’t pay bills threatens to pull wires off poles
27. Mobile Roaming Charges Abolished in the EU
28. EU mobile roaming charges end today, but beware of other costs: Rules only apply to roaming, which is subject to fair use policy. So check the small print.
29. California may restore broadband privacy rules killed by Congress and Trump: State law could protect customers’ browsing history, but FCC rule is still dead.

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Web host agrees to pay $1m after it’s hit by Linux-targeting ransomware: Windfall payment by poorly secured host is likely to inspire new ransomware attacks.
2. Netizen Report: China Has a New Cybersecurity Law
3. How An Entire Nation Became Russia’s Test Lab For Cyberwar
4. Russia Stumbles Forth In Quest To Ban VPNs, Private Messenger Apps
5. North Korea’s Sloppy, Chaotic Cyberattacks Also Make Perfect Sense
6. Five Eyes Wide Open: How Bill C-59 Mixes Oversight with Expansive Cyber-Security Powers (Michael Geist)
7. Why the Government’s ATI Reform Bill is a Promise Broken: Proactive Disclosure ≠ Access to Information (Michael Geist)
8. Unnamed Tech Company Challenged 702 Surveillance Order
9. Man To Spend 180 Days In Jail For Turning Over Non-Working Password
10. Reckless Exploit: Mexican Journalists, Lawyers, and a Child Targeted with NSO Spyware
11. Revealed: Facebook exposed identities of moderators to suspected terrorists: A security lapse that affected more than 1,000 workers forced one moderator into hiding – and he still lives in constant fear for his safety
12. Patents Reveal How Facebook Wants To Capture Your Emotions, Facial Expressions And Mood
13. UK Cops Say Visiting the Dark Web Is a Potential Sign of Terrorism
14. The ethics of police using technology to predict future crimes: Using computer models to determine where crime is most likely to occur could reinforce police biases about neighbourhoods with ethnic or racial minorities
15. 2008 FISA Transcript Shows NSA Already Knew It Might Have An Incidental Collection Problem
16. Oversight Report Shows NSA Failed To Secure Its Systems Following The Snowden Leaks
17. Secret Defense Dept. Report Shows Manning Leaks Did No Serious Damage
18. Leaked recording: Inside Apple’s global war on leakers: Former NSA agents, secrecy members on product teams, and a screening apparatus bigger than the TSA.
19. Deputy Attorney General Asks Congress For $21 Million To Solve The FBI’s ‘Going Dark’ Problem
20. There Is No ‘Going Dark’ Problem
21. Security News This Week: Microsoft’s Patching Old Versions Of Windows Because Things Are That Bad
22. Honda shuts down factory after finding NSA-derived Wcry in its networks: Automaker briefly stops making cars to contain worm that first struck in May.
23. Advanced CIA firmware has been infecting Wi-Fi routers for years: Latest Vault7 release exposes network-spying operation CIA kept secret since 2007.
24. How A Company You’ve Never Heard Of Sends You Letters About Your Medical Condition
25. Nevada Enacts Internet Privacy Regulation
26. How to Browse the Web and Leave No Trace
27. GOP Data Firm Accidentally Leaks Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million American Voters
28. GOP Data Firm Left The Personal Data Of 198 Million American Voters On Openly-Accessible Amazon Server
29. How a Company You’ve Never Heard of Sends You Letters about Your Medical Condition
30. U.S. Repeal of Privacy Rules Causes Concern For U.S. Internet Users – What do the Changes Mean for Canadians?
31. No Sanctions for Unintentional, Automatic Deletion of Web History and Related Information
32. Fake Libel Court Order Used In (Failed) Attempt To Vanish Sexual Battery Conviction
33. A French Artist Says He Received a National ID Card Using a Computer-Generated Headshot

Jon

GAMES

1. ESA launches lawsuit against Chicago for its tax on online games
2. ESA sues to overturn Chicago online game service tax: Trade group goes to court over city’s expansion of amusement tax to include game streaming and subscription services
3. Violent video game montages are grounds for demonetization on YouTube
4. YouTube specifies what type of gaming content could face demonetization: Livestreams and let’s play videos should be fine
5. Twitch Now Offering A Cut Of Game Sales To Thousands More Creators
6. Twitch Affiliates will now get a cut of game and IAP sales
7. Valve shuts down Greenlight submissions, dates Steam Direct launch
8. Valve loses fourth writer in 18 months: Jay Pinkerton joined Valve ten years ago, follows Laidlaw, Wolpaw and Faliszek to the door
9. Pokemon Go Decides To Troll Cheaters Instead Of Banning Them
10. The Pokémon Company profits up 2500%: Pokémon Go and Sun/Moon deliver huge growth
11. Klang receives additional funding, strikes a deal with Harvard Law professor: Unity founder David Helgason among backers for studio behind SpatialOS-powered MMO Seed
12. Conflict minerals progress in jeopardy: The games industry has made commendable steps in its sourcing of conflict minerals, but the law that made it possible is facing repeal
13. EA set to donate $1M to anti-bullying efforts via Play to Give
14. EA Play To Give will donate $1m to charity: Gender neutral charity and two anti-bullying organisations to benefit as publisher campaigns for “inclusion and play”
15. Mass Effect: Andromeda devs tell tales of what went wrong during development: “For the last few months of the game, we spent most of our effort just trying to keep it together rather than polishing. Just trying to stay ahead of how quickly it was falling apart.”
16. The Story Behind Mass Effect: Andromeda’s Troubled Five-Year Development
17. Mobile revenue gravity pulls Square Enix inwards: As cash flows in from Final Fantasy titles in the Japanese mobile market, is Square Enix losing its drive to build new IP and conquer overseas markets?
18. Rime allegedly runs faster with Denuvo DRM stripped out: Developer, DRM maker both deny accusations as protection gets removed.
19. Game Developer: Just Wait Until The Game Is Cracked And Then We’ll Patch Denuvo Out; Game Gets Cracked Immediately
20. Rime’s Denuvo Defeated: Developer Gets To Work On DRM Free Version As Performance Hit Details Emerge
21. Denuvo denies claims of Rime slowdown, but publisher removes DRM: Grey Box follows through with promise to drop protection after it’s cracked in five days
22. VMProtect Accuses Denuvo Of Using Unlicensed Software In Its Antipiracy DRM
23. Blizzard avoids China’s loot laws by selling Overwatch in-game currency: In-game currency will now be sold for real money, with loot boxes thrown in for free
24. Blizzard to sell Overwatch credits instead of loot boxes to Chinese players
25. “Releasing your mobile game in China is an absolute necessity”: SuperData CEO Joost van Dreunen discusses the opportunities and challenges of heading East
26. Violent game montages face demonetisation on YouTube: Let’s Plays and livestreams are on safe ground, but “montages where gratuitous violence is the focal point” are not
27. Rocket League to offer cross-platform multiplayer between Xbox One, PC, and Switch
28. Riot overhauls League of Legends eSports: North American League Championship Series will now have more permanent teams with $10 million buy-in, revenue sharing, and a pro players’ association
29. NBA considering Chinese eSports league: Basketball league’s ambitions to expand in the country and competitive gaming could overlap
30. China’s mobile esports revenues to approach $7bn in 2017: Revenues already tripled in 2016, expected to triple again
31. Activision Blizzard Aims for the Big Leagues: Activision Blizzard built a videogame empire around bestselling titles like Call of Duty and Warcraft. Now it wants to become the ESPN of competitive gaming. Will audiences play along?
32. BT Productions teams up with Attention Seekers to produce video games TV shows: Broadcaster says there’s a “legitimate and growing sports season” for video games
33. Zelnick: “We’re probably undermonetising our users” – Despite ongoing success of Grand Theft Auto Online, CEO insists publisher is “not going to grab the last nickel”
34. NPD: Grand Theft Auto V is the US’ best-selling game since 1995 – Market research group confirms Rockstar’s blockbuster is most successful title on record
35. Sony: One in every five PS4s sold is a Pro
36. PS4 Pro accounts for 1-in-5 PS4s sold: Sony says premium-priced console is exceeding its expectations; PS4 family has outsold Xbox 2-to-1 in US, 3-to-1 in Europe
37. PlayStation VR has sold over 1M units worldwide
38. PlayStation sponsoring London Pride 2017: “This is not some kind of corporate step. It means a lot to us”
39. New deep-dive study analyzes the playing habits of Xbox Live users
40. Xbox Unleashed: Our deep-dive study of how millions use Xbox Live – Our follow-up to the Steam Gauge series samples statistics from millions of Gamertags.
41. Xbox One users largely ignore backward-compatible Xbox 360 games
42. Xbox One Exec Responds To Report About Low Backwards Compatibility Usage
43. NES Classic will return (kind of) in updated Nintendo Switch online service: Full service delay to 2018, but $20/year charge will now include more classic games.
44. Nintendo Switch online service pushed back to 2018: Nintendo misses late-2017 launch window, but sets price below competitor services at $19.99
45. Arms review: Nintendo reinvents the fighting game and it’s brilliant – Don’t let the saccharine looks fool you: Arms is deep, challenging, and essential.
46. How will The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild change the open-world paradigm?: We deconstruct the key lessons for developers with the help of Assassin’s Creed and The Witcher designers
47. What went wrong at Mad Catz?: It was once the most powerful peripherals brand in the world, but now it’s in bankruptcy
48. Mad Catz died because it ‘bit off more than it could chew’ says former exec
49. SteamVR is coming to Mac—and Apple says it will actually work: Metal 2 API getting Unreal 4, Unity engine support; Thunderbolt 3 GPU enclosure coming.
50. Crazy VR game lets you explore a world made from 4D mathematical models: 4D Toys also works on iOS, Windows; was borne from upcoming puzzle game Miegakure.
51. Video games in US to grow to $28.5 billion by 2021 – PwC: Latest forecast from PwC estimates 13 million high-end VR headsets in the US with VR content driving $5 billion in sales
52. PwC Report: Esports Revenue In U.S. To Nearly Hit $300 Million In 2021
53. Video gaming’s voice actor strike is ending in slow, small drips: As some publishers hold out, dozens of projects agree to union demands.
54. The Super Nintendo’s Most Valuable Games
55. Everything’s game trailer officially qualifies for an Oscar
56. For The First Time, A Video Game Qualifies For An Oscar: A game that can play itself now counts as an animated film.
57. YouTube Doubles Down On Its Coverage Of Video Game Conference E3
58. Garriott reassures backers after fresh crowdfunding push exposes finances: Portalarium boss says studio tends to operate with $500,000 in the bank despite $11m in donations
59. Why the games industry should not stay neutral this election: With the UK Parliamentary election only days away, there are too many defining policy differences in the parties’ manifestos for the industry to stay mute
60. Taking an IP and making it your own: Cryptic Studios CEO Stephen D’Angelo on how Star Trek Online changed the dev’s approach to licensing
61. Video games aren’t mindless — or heartless — entertainment: Games like “Papers, Please” and “Cart Life” are empathy exercises. Virtual experiences can have real-life impact
62. The quest to save today’s gaming history from being lost forever: Changes in digital distribution, rights management increasingly make preservation tough.
63. Computer scientists quantify just how hard Super Mario Bros. is: Solving an arbitrary level belongs to a class of problems called PSPACE.
64. Ken Rolston speaks to the strengths of Bethesda’s game dev culture

DIGITAL

1. The U.S. Supreme Court Is Reining in Patent Trolls, Which Is a Win for Innovation
2. How one patent troll is desperately trying to stay in East Texas: Uniloc finds plenty of reasons why Google should still be sued in East Texas.
3. Click fraud claim against Google fails:
4. Singh v. Google Inc., 2017 WL 2404986, No. 16-cv-03734 – N.D. Cal. Jun. 2, 2017 (Rebecca Tushnet)
5. Ariana Grande’s ‘One Love Manchester’ Concert To Be Streamed Live On YouTube, Facebook, And Twitter
6. YouTube Takes Down Ariana Grande’s Manchester Benefit Concert On Copyright Grounds
7. Copyright Law In Europe Could Be About To Get Ridiculously Stupidly Bad In Ways That Will Undermine The Internet
8. The Music Licensing Swamp: Spotify Settles Over Failure To Obtain Mechanical Licenses
9. Uber fires 20 employees as fallout from sexual harassment investigation: A law firm is reviewing 215 sexual harassment claims. Uber has about 12,000 workers.
10. Oculus Founder Plots a Comeback With a Virtual Border Wall
11. Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election
12. Leaked NSA report says Russians tried to hack state election officials: Alleged source of leak arrested by FBI after Intercept provided copy to NSA.
13. Russia’s attempt to hack voting systems shows that our elections need better security
14. Feds Charge NSA Contractor Accused of Exposing Russian Hacking
15. How a few yellow dots burned the Intercept’s NSA leaker: By providing copy of leak, Intercept likely accelerated ID of contractor.
16. How Document-Tracking Dots Helped The FBI Track Down Russian Hacking Doc Leaker
17. Intercept Posts NSA Docs On Russian Election Hacking, DOJ Announces Arrest Of Leaker Hours Later
18. The Mysterious Printer Code That Could Have Led the FBI to Reality Winner: Many color printers embed grids of dots that allow law enforcement to track every document they output.
19. Snowden Explains How The Espionage Act Unfairly Stacks The Deck Against Reality Winner
20. Putin: “Patriotic” Russian hackers may have interfered in US election – Comparing hackers to artists, Putin says they may have been inspired by patriotism.
21. How Russian Propaganda Spread From a Parody Website to Fox News
22. You’ll never guess where Russian spies are hiding their control servers: Turla uses social media and clever programming techniques to cover its tracks.
23. Can you commit manslaughter by sending texts? We’re about to find out
24. Wikipedia Seems to Be Winning Its Battle Against Government Censorship
25. 5 Searches That Show Bing Resists Alternative Facts Better Than Google: Breitbart readers really engage with Katy Perry
26. YouTube Spearheads #PowerToDecide Campaign Ahead Of U.K. General Election
27. YouTube Updates Its Guidelines For Advertiser-Friendly Content To Offer More Thorough Info To Creators
28. Philip DeFranco Calls Out What He Sees As YouTube’s Ad Double Standard, Vows To Take Next Show Elsewhere
29. YouTube’s Gossip Vloggers Have Created Their Own Tabloid Industry: There are YouTube celebrities, so of course there are YouTube tabloids
30. Dessert Blogger Files Suit Against Food Network For Copying Recipe Video
31. Confessions of an influencer marketing exec: ‘Micro-influencers are the biggest scam’
32. Late-Night Tweeting Linked To Weaker NBA Performance
33. Covfefe aside, late-night tweets are bad news: Nocturnal Twitter use links to poor performance, according to basketball-player study.
34. Trump Defends Twitter Use as Aides Urge Him to Cut Back
35. President’s Twitter account should not block users, First Amendment lawyers argue
36. Is @RealDonaldTrump violating the First Amendment by blocking some Twitter users?
37. Trump’s Twitter Blocking May Violate First Amendment
38. Twitter users threaten legal action if Trump doesn’t unblock them: Mayors can’t eject city hall critics, so Trump can’t block Twitter critics, either.
39. The Twitter presidency is getting old, according to a new voter survey: “They hate that I can get the honest and unfiltered message out,” Trump tweets.
40. That Lawsuit About A Tweet… Is Both A Publicity Stunt And An Attack On Free Speech
41. Twitter Will Live-Stream James Comey Testimony in Exclusive Bloomberg TV Pact
42. Blaming the Internet for Terrorism Misses the Point
43. Hacking Online Hate Means Talking to the Humans Behind It
44. Google’s Plan to Use Ads to Sway ISIS Recruits
45. Forget far-right populism – crypto-anarchists are the new masters: Many are concerned about the internet’s role in politics. But more worrying is the digital tsunami poised to engulf us, as machine intelligence and a rising tech elite radically restructure life as we know it
46. A Hardware Update for the Human Brain: From Silicon Valley startups to the U.S. Department of Defense, scientists and engineers are hard at work on a brain-computer interface that could turn us into programmable, debuggable machines
47. YouTube clarifies “hate speech” definition and which videos won’t be monetized: h7M bv m,  ore details for creators on what they can and cannot say if they want to make money.
48. An Ad Network That Helps Fake News Sites Earn Money Is Now Asking Users To Report Fake News: In response to queries from BuzzFeed News, Revcontent removed four fake news publishers from its network.
49. Theresa May Calls for International Regulation of Cyberspace in Wake of Attacks
50. Theresa May Blames The Internet For London Bridge Attack; Repeats Demands To Censor It
51. London attack: Internet firms provide safe space for terrorists, claims PM – Home secretary again demands “limit to the amount of end-to-end encryption.”
52. London attack: Tech firms dispute PM’s grandstanding on Internet regulation – Facebook, Twitter, and Google say they’re trying to make sites “hostile” to terrorists.
53. Why not ban cars, Amber Rudd? It’d be more effective than banning encryption – Op-ed: Another terrorist attack, another government attempt at backdooring WhatsApp.
54. Leaving Social Media Taught Me How Broken The News Cycle Is
55. Court Says Facebook Can Block Parents From Deceased Teen’s Account: The page had already been made a “memorial” — blocking them from investigating her death
56. Photographer Sues News Agency For Embedding A Tweet Containing His Photo
57. Social media defamation still a cause for concern
58. The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques
59. Apple adds ad tracker blocker to desktop Safari
60. Intel & Major League Baseball Partnership Will Bring Free Weekly Games Streamed in VR
61. The Internet Is Where We Share — and Steal — the Best Ideas
62. Can’t Take a Joke? That’s Just Poe’s Law, 2017’s Most Important Internet Phenomenon
63. Women Engineers On The Rampant Sexism Of Silicon Valley
64. Warner Bros and Google using Wonder Woman to get girls into coding: New Made With Code project will use latest superhero firm to introduce skills to young women
65. Google prepares publishers for the release of Chrome ad-blocking: The biggest online advertiser will now block ads; the Web won’t look the same.
66. Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox (Lina Khan)
67. Internet Framing is a Valid Ground for Copyright Infringement in Canada
68. Voltage Pictures Canadian Reverse Class Action – An Update to June 6, 2017 (Howard Knopf)
69. Hanging by a thread: How the online nerdy T-shirt economy exists in an IP world: If big media has legal muscle, why can you buy Link racing Harley Quinn on a shirt?
70. Why Netflix Isn’t Getting Involved In Live Sports Streaming Like Amazon
71. Netflix CEO Offers Eyebrow-Raising Justification As Cancellations Increase
72. App Store revenue breaks $70bn: Downloads have grown by 70% in the last 12 months alone
73. The Rate Of TV Cord Cutting Is Actually Worse Than You Think
74. What Has the Internet Done to Media?
75. Online Marketing to Children – New UK Guidance
76. Toward a Canadian Knowledge Transfer Strategy: My Appearance Before the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (Michael Geist)
77. Rise of the machines: who is the ‘internet of things’ good for?: Interconnected technology is now an inescapable reality – ordering our groceries, monitoring our cities and sucking up vast amounts of data along the way. The promise is that it will benefit us all – but how can it?
78. The Internet of Things Connectivity Binge: What Are the Implications?: Despite wide concern about cyberattacks, outages and privacy violations, most experts believe the Internet of Things will continue to expand successfully the next few years, tying machines to machines and linking people to valuable resources, services and opportunities
79. IBM unveils world’s first 5nm chip: Built with a new type of gate-all-around transistor, plus extreme ultraviolet lithography.
80. The Robot Dog Fetches for Whom?
81. The Chatbot Therapist Will See You Now
82. Is language as we know it still relevant for the digital age?
83. Whatever Happened To Our Dream Of An Empowering Internet (And How To Get It Back) (Andres Guadamuz)

CREATIVITY

1. Fair use blocks out copyright claim over LeBron’s tattoo 
2. Drake Winning Sampling Case Over Fair Use Is Big News… But Still Demonstrates The Madness Of Music Licensing
3. In breach of EU copyright law, Paris Court refuses to protect Mankowitz’s photo of Jimi Hendrix
4. Harsh Consequences for Dale Chihuly After Failing to Document IP Rights with Independent Contractor
5. Could Donald Trump Make America Great Again In Canada?
6. The Charging Bull and the Fearless Girl: Moral Rights Protections in Australia and the U.S.
7. The Politics of Political Design: In the UK General Election, support for progressive politics is far more visible in the creative community than pro-Conservative messages are. Yet surveys reveal that not all creative people are left-leaning. Hannah Ellis goes in search of designers on the right and examines the contradiction inherent in an industry predominantly ‘of the left’ that spends much of its time enabling an economic system that is at odds with many leftist ideals.
8. Can America’s moviegoing habit be saved? The past, present and uncertain future of the multiplex
9. Are patents effective brand assets anymore?
10. The Top Hits: Fashion Cases with a Big Impact
11. Top Ten Urban Legends of Intellectual Property
12. How Lego clicked: the super brand that reinvented itself: The revival of Lego has been hailed as the greatest turnaround in corporate history, ousting Ferrari as the world’s most powerful brand. 

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Canadian Government on Wireless Services: High Prices, Low Adoption, and Unaffordable For Too Many (Michael Geist)
2. CASL Private Right of Action Delayed Indefinitely
3. FCC security denies that guards pinned journalist against a wall: Chairman Pai promises security changes as reporter stands by allegations.
4. Report Falsely Blames The EFF For Fraudulent Net Neutrality Comments
5. To kill net neutrality rules, FCC says broadband isn’t “telecommunications”
6. Vimeo, Amazon Among Companies Joining Upcoming Protest To Defend Net Neutrality
7. Net Neutrality and the First Amendment
8. The End Of Net Neutrality Could Shackle The Internet Of Things
9. Comcast Pinky Swears That The Death Of Net Neutrality Won’t Hurt In The Slightest
10. Is Antitrust Law a Viable Substitute for Net Neutrality? 
11. Canada to launch subsidized low-income broadband program
12. Focus: CRTC decision a blow to the industry?
13. ISPs denied entry into apartment buildings could get help from FCC: FCC looks at expanding competition rules, but it could preempt local regulations.
14. Sky scolded over shadowy small print in LEGO Batman broadband ad: Superhero claim about “lowest price fibre” turns into caped capped caper.
15. Fox News Gets Mad That Wonder Woman Isn’t in Her American Apparel Underwear
16. YES Network Streams Production Meetings Through Facebook
17. Going gray: Sports TV viewers skew older – Study – Nearly all sports see quick rise in average age of TV viewers as younger fans shift to digital platforms
18. FTC and DOJ Case Results in Historic Decision Awarding $280 Million in Civil Penalties against Dish Network and Strong Injunctive Relief for Do Not Call Violations
19. Radio spectrum, the 5G auction, and the future of mobile computing: Here’s why the UK’s upcoming 5G radio spectrum auction is important.
20. Cable TV “failing” as a business, cable industry lobbyist says: Broadband is the future as TV faces rising costs and online video competition.
21. Transnational over-the-top video distribution as a business and policy disruptor: The case of Netflix in Canada (Emilia Zboralska & Charles Davis)

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Court Says Password Protection Doesn’t Restore An Abandoned Phone’s Privacy Expectations
2. Supreme Court To Consider Fourth Amendment Implications Of Cell Site Location Info
3. Sixth Circuit Appeals Court Latest To Say Real-Time Cellphone Location Tracking Not A Fourth Amendment Issue
4. OneLogin Data Breach May Have Revealed Encrypted Data
5. OneLogin breach: Hacker stole AWS keys, rifled through customer data for 7 hours – Customer info potentially decrypted by “threat actor” who accessed database tables.
6. Internet cameras have hard-coded password that can’t be changed: Cameras with multiple brand names are wide open to remote hacking.
7. How to Create an Anonymous Email Account
8. Trump administration rolls out social media vetting of visa applicants: The new travel screening is for those deemed a national security threat.
9. Trump’s Tougher Visa Vetting Now Asks For Social Media Handles: It also asks for emails addresses and biographical information
10. DHS Steps Up Demands For Visa Applicants’ Social Media Account Info
11. EFF Sues FBI For Refusing To Turn Over Documents About Its Geek Squad Informants
12. WikiLeaks says CIA’s “Pandemic” turns servers into infectious Patient Zero: Latest Vault 7 release exposes operation that infects PCs inside targeted networks.
13. UK police arrest man via automatic face-recognition tech: Camera-equipped van in South Wales apparently spotted man whose face was in database.
14. Got a face-recognition algorithm? Uncle Sam wants to review it: “Face recognition is hard.”
15. The premature quest for AI-powered facial recognition to simplify screening: “This technology at the airport… is premature. It’s not the right way to go.”
16. Digital Privacy Is Making Antitrust Exciting Again

Jon

GAMES

1. Does Valve really own Dota? A jury will decide: Federal court case could hinge on 2004 forum post granting “open source” license.
2. Jury to decide whether Valve owns DOTA: Two games studios challenge the company’s ownership to DOTA
3. Valve’s ownership of Dota 2 is set to be decided by a jury
4. Why Texas may have lost its status as a hotbed of game patent lawsuits
5. World of Tanks dev apologizes for threatening YouTuber with a takedown
6. Wargaming apologises for World of Tanks YouTuber row: Developer had threatened to issue a copyright take down against SirFoch
7. Bandai Namco delays Get Even after Manchester Arena attack: Meanwhile, MCM London Comic Con beefs up security ahead of this week’s event
8. Pokémon Go hackers getting put in Pidgey-filled purgatory: Niantic appears to be using machine learning to hide rare Pokémon from bot makers.
9. New ‘creators’ section lets game devs curate the PlayStation Store
10. PlayStation Store introduces developer-led curation: The Creators initiative allows studios to share their favourite games
11. Departed Kerbal Space Program devs now work at Valve
12. How Kona’s devs used the Canada Media Fund, and why they won’t use it again
13. Why Chinese industrial firms are snapping up game studios: ‘You can buy profit’: “Obviously there is little industrial logic in combining a Western mobile games company with a Chinese industrial firm. But people see how much money can be made, so it’s not so strange.”
14. Judge to Decide Vexing Question in Entertainment: License Needed to Show Body Tattoos? – A judge lets Take-Two, publisher of ‘NBA 2K,’ seek declaratory judgment against the owner of a tattoo design featured on LeBron James’ body.
15. Facebook expands eSports coverage with ESL partnership: Social network to host over 5,500 hours of live tournament programming including 1,500 hours of exclusive content
16. Are esports sport?
17. Twitch Adds Speed Controls So You Can Watch Noteworthy Plays In Slow Motion
18. Is Switch what the future of consoles looks like?: Is Nintendo’s new platform a one-time gimmick, or an important reinvention of the console for a new market landscape?
19. Nintendo helps push April US game sales up 10% – NPD: Switch hardware and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe dominated the industry
20. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe devs patch out potentially obscene taunt
21. Anita Sarkeesian: “Games need to tell better stories that don’t oversimplify oppression”: Critic praises “cultural shift” in video game storytelling, but says recent examples are a “band-aid on a deeper wound”
22. Many pet rabbits will die in Second Life on Saturday
23. Lawbreakers dev: PC/console cross-platform play is “dumb” – Bleszinski says developing for keyboard/mouse and console leads to “balance issues.”
24. How Destiny 2 is leading to gold devaluation in World of Warcraft: Real-world value of in-game gold dips 7 percent since Battle.net announcement.
25. “Virtual reality will be our best interface with true AI”: VR expert Dave Ranyard discusses the potential for storytelling with virtual and augmented reality at Nordic Game
26. Oskar Burman: “Free-to-play will grow, but will never dominate VR” – Former Rovio exec believes virtual reality has a lot to learn from mobile, but won’t be ruled by the same type of games
27. Unity takes $400 million investment from Silver Lake: Half of the money will let employees and shareholders cash out of the company
28. For Google, the Future of VR Is on the Open Web with WebVR & WebAR
29. Augment Your Legal Knowledge of Augmented Reality
30. Conservative party’s immigration policy could hurt UK game devs, warns UKIE
31. UKIE warns UK Conservative Party over immigration policy: But Dr Jo Twist welcomes ‘commitments to support the UK games and wider creative industries’
32. Game companies are agreeing to strike terms, say screen actors guild: But they don’t reveal who
33. Janet Murray On Why Some Players And Critics Still Cannot Tolerate Narrative In Games
34. How Alexis Kennedy is writing the next Dragon Age
35. How Cuban game devs balance tense relationship between propaganda and creativity: Gov’t once feared, now starting to embrace games
36. There’s now 45 million people gabbing about games on Discord
37. “This is as important as AI or space travel” – Why Improbable is worth over $1bn: We speak to the CEO of Britain’s most talked about start-up
38. Bioware: Humility and compromise are key to good game design – At Digital Dragons, Bioware design director James Ohlen tackled the differences between the “dream” of game development, and the practical reality
39. Kerbal Space Program developers hired by Valve: Timeframe for the new hires coincides with departure of eight of Squad’s core staff last year
40. Jurgen Post: “The Sega brand will come back and start to flourish again”
41. Humble Bundle has raised over $95 million for charity: Humble Freedom Bundle provided a boost, says co-founder John Graham, but Humble will be careful “not to overstep our bounds” on politics
42. Veteran game developers reveal their childhood creations: When they were kids
43. An Improved AlphaGo Wins Its First Game Against the World’s Top Go Player
44. The Original Monopoly Was Deeply Anti-Landlord: The game of cutthroat capitalism was actually intended as a lesson on wealth inequality.
45. ‘Resident Evil’ Franchise Set for a Reboot
46. Nine Days With an Absurd $9,000 Gaming Laptop

DIGITAL

1. Appeals Court Orders Expedited Hearing in ReDigi Case
2. Apple and Nokia end their patent fight
3. Lawsuits get settled, but what about the companies wielding Nokia patents?
4. Titan Note Continues Trying To Sell Its Questionable Device; Its Own Actions Keep Raising More Questions
5. Apple, Verizon Join Forces To Lobby Against New York’s ‘Right To Repair’ Law
6. Terrorism victims can’t hold Facebook liable for Hamas’ use of the platform: Website immunity holds up against the US Anti-Terrorism Act.
7. Facebook Defeats Lawsuit Over Material Support for Terrorists–Cohen v. Facebook (Eric Goldman)
8. Turkish President Demands Google Delist A Bunch Of Websites Comparing Him To Hitler
9. Malta’s Prime Minister Sues Panama Papers Journalist For Defamation; Gets Facebook To Delete His Reporting
10. Revealed: Facebook’s internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence – Leaked policies guiding moderators on what content to allow are likely to fuel debate about social media giant’s ethics
11. Facebook content rules leaked days after Tories vow tougher Internet laws: Facebook mod guidelines are OK with violent death, misogyny; but don’t threaten Trump.
12. A Campus Murder Tests Facebook Clicks as Evidence of Hate
13. EU fines Facebook 110 million euros over WhatsApp deal
14. Facebook fined $122 million for misleading EU over WhatsApp deal: Facebook says it couldn’t automatically match WhatsApp accounts; EC disagrees.
15. Mergers: Commission fines Facebook €110 million for providing misleading information about WhatsApp takeover (European Commission)
16. European Union Proposes Rules To Hold Online Video Platforms Accountable For Hate Speech
17. Social networks face tougher EU oversight on video content: Facebook, Twitter and others may have to abide by same regulations as broadcasters
18. You won’t believe why Facebook will block this headline: Updates to news feed algorithms tweaked to catch spammy and deceptive headlines.
19. How Facebook Sees The World: By acknowledging the existence of an editorial compass, the technology giant tacitly accepts its role as a de facto censorship power—and opens itself to government attack.
20. Facebook Will Begin Streaming One Major League Baseball Game A Week On May 19
21. Facebook Joins Twitter In Live Streaming Major League Baseball Games On Friday Nights
22. ISIS Has A Strategy To Create A Media Frenzy And News Outlets Are Struggling To Disrupt It: Struggling to cover terror in the media age. (Zeynep Tufekci)
23. Twitter And Tear Gas: How Social Media Changed Protest Forever (Zeynep Tufekci)
24. Court of Appeal granted an appeal of the Federal Court’s decision allowing internet service provider to charge a fee for disclosure of suspected infringer
25. Copyright Board Rules Whether YouTube Uploads Constitute “Publication” and “Making Available” Under Copyright Act
26. Four copyright registrations expunged where Respondent was not the author and owner of the works
27. Defense Against the Dark Arts of Copyright Trolling (Matthew Sag)
28. Uber threatens to fire Levandowski if he doesn’t comply with court order: Can Uber engineer be forced to choose between the Fifth Amendment and his job?
29. Objecting to sexual harassment got me fired, says ex-Uber employee
30. The Taking Economy: Uber, Information, and Power (Ryan Calo & Alex Rosenblat)
31. Paypal says Pandora’s logo infringes, starts trademark battle: “The similarities between the logos are striking, obvious, and patently unlawful.”
32. Trademark Has Come To This: Tinder Opposes Dating App With Only One Lonely Dude On Its Dating Roster
33. Shinder, Shinder, Shinder … will you ever be like Tinder?
34. Did eBay Irreparably Injure Trademark Law? (Mark Lemley)
35. How Not to Prove a Mark is Generic. Use of GOOGLE as a Verb Does Not Constitute Genericide
36. A WannaCry Flaw Could Help Some Victims Get Files Back
37. Windows XP PCs infected by WCry can be decrypted without paying ransom: Decryption tool is of limited value, because XP was unaffected by last week’s worm.
38. Hackers Are Trying to Reignite WannaCry With Nonstop Botnet Attacks
39. Windows 7, not XP, was the reason last week’s WCry worm spread so widely
40. How I accidentally stopped a global Wanna Decryptor ransomware attack: A British security researcher found and pulled WannaCrypt’s kill switch.
41. WannaCry Ransomware Cyberattack Raises Legal Issues
42. NSA Was Concerned About Power Of Windows Exploit Long Before It Was Leaked
43. There’s new evidence tying WCry ransomware worm to prolific hacking group: Common tools, techniques, and infrastructure make link “highly likely.”
44. Inside Russia’s Social Media War on America
45. Who Are the Shadow Brokers?: What is—and isn’t—known about the mysterious hackers leaking National Security Agency secrets
46. The Seth Rich Conspiracy Theory: A Tale of Two Filter Bubbles
47. Someone Is Trying to Scrub Trump’s Name From the Wikipedia Page of Lieberman’s Law Firm
48. The Library of Congress Makes 25 Million Records From Its Catalog Free to Download
49. Theresa May Plans To Regulate, Tax And Censor The Internet
50. An EU text and data mining exception: will it deliver what the Digital Single Market Strategy promised?
51. How a Chipmunk Emoji Cost an Israeli Texter $2,200
52. A Pro Flag Football League Is Launching And It Might Be The Most High-Tech League In The World
53. James Corden is getting his own Snapchat show, the first from CBS
54. BostonGlobe.com disables articles when your browser’s in private mode
55. Boston Globe Blocks Readers Using Privacy Modes In Browsers
56. Amid YouTube Ad Plight, Patreon Says It Will Pay Creators $150 Million This Year
57. The Most-Desired Career Among Young People Today Is ‘YouTuber’ (Study)
58. Google Confirms Glass Team is Not Working With AR/VR Team
59. Google’s New AI Is Better at Creating AI Than the Company’s Engineers
60. Google Wants to Apply AI & Machine Learning to All Its Products
61. Intel to make Thunderbolt 3 royalty-free in bid to spur adoption: And the company has promised to put Thunderbolt 3 controllers into its processors.
62. Five Ways Elon Musk’s Brain-Computer Interface Could Transform the World
63. Hear Me Out: Let’s Elect an AI as President
64. How Artificial Intelligence will impact professional writing
65. AI and Robots Will Change the Way We Create and Consume Content
66. An AI invented a bunch of new paint colors that are hilariously wrong: Let’s just say this neural network won’t make you fear the robot uprising.
67. We Are All Kasparov: When Deep Blue beat the world chess champion 20 years ago, we learned a huge lesson. Just not the one we thought.
68. Why Humans Are So Terrified Of Robots With Feelings
69. The value of robotic process automation
70. How Copyright Law Creates Biased Artificial Intelligence (Amanda Levendowski)
71. Plagued by high-profile flops, Kickstarter and Indiegogo are bringing in experts to help inventors fulfill their promises.
72. The Barbarians Are at Etsy’s Hand-Hewn, Responsibly Sourced Gates: The ur-Brooklyn online craft marketplace is under pressure to start acting more like a conventional, shareholder-focused company.
73. Conference Report – ‘Moral Rights and New Technologies: Authorship, Attribution and Integrity in a Digital World’
74. Piece by Piece Review of Digitize-and-Lend Projects Through the Lens of Copyright and Fair Use (Michelle M. Wu)
75. Netflix And Amazon Screenings Are Being Booed At The Cannes Film Festival
76. The A-EON Amiga X5000: An alternate universe where the Amiga platform never died – A new Amiga computer emerges that is both modern and an Amiga.
77. Employee misconduct and social media
78. Eli Pariser Predicted the Future. Now He Can’t Escape It.: Six years after the Upworthy cofounder coined the term “filter bubble,” things are much worse.
79. Tulips, Myths, And Cryptocurrencies

CREATIVITY

1. Supreme Court to decide who owns the 38,000 stories of residential school survivors: The courts say it is up to the survivors to decide what happens to the accounts of their experiences. But a coalition representing the survivors’ children and grandchildren wants to save the stories.
2. Why Is The Far-Right Attacking Ariana Grande After Manchester?: While the world grieves for Manchester, others are taking aim at the pop star’s personal beliefs in a disgusting way.
3. Manchester was an attack on girls: The bombing — and the trolling that followed — show again how females are targeted
4. The Meaning of Ariana Grande: She has one of the most loyal, dedicated fanbases in pop. She represents confidence, empowerment, sexiness, independence. Grownups may never understand, but young women do. Is that what terrorists are afraid of?
5. Conan O’Brien Joke-Stealing Case Gets Green-Lit For Jury Trial
6. A Brief Explainer About What the Heck Is Going On With Rebel Wilson’s Defamation Case
7. Supreme Court urged to clarify law on journalist-source protection
8. Judge Agrees Broadcasters Have First Amendment Right to Refuse Advertisements: SiriusXM wins a lawsuit against a dating company as a result.
9. Music Performing Rights Organizations and the “Full-Work” vs. “Fractional” Licensing Dispute: Government Seeks to Overturn Fractional Licensing Decision
10. RIAA Says Artists Don’t Need “Moral Rights,” Artists Disagree: Major entertainment industry associations often create the impression that they are fighting for the rights of smaller artists, not just their corporate overlords. However, responding to a US Government consultation, both sides are now going head to head over the “moral rights” issue.
11. Sorry East Texas: Supreme Court Slams The Door On Patent Jurisdiction Shopping
12. Supreme Court makes it much harder for patent trolls to sue in East Texas: Folks got sued in East Texas “just because they had a website.” Those days may be over.
13. Lawyer who founded Prenda Law is disbarred: Twenty-one months later, an ethics complaint ends in disbarment.
14. Japanese Music Collection Society Demands Copyright Fees From Music Schools For Teaching Music
15. Trump Allegedly Wants FBI To Look Into Locking Up Journalists Who Publish Leaks
16. News Coverage of Donald Trump’s First 100 Days
17. Burna Boy allegedly stopped from working in US and Canada by New York Supreme Court
18. The Fyre Festival Is Still a Damn Mess, and Now the FBI Is Involved
19. The Fearless Girl who challenges the Charging Bull
20. 17 charts that show the current state of the music industry
21. Time Magazine Rips Off Mad Magazine?
22. Spanish Supreme Court Rules on Originality for Architectural Works
23. The Personal-Essay Boom Is Over
24. The Mad King of Juice: Inside the Dysfunctional Origins of Juicero
25. Is there copyright in the taste of a cheese? Sensory copyright finally makes its way to CJEU
26. Does Fair Use Affect Academic Authors’ Incentive to Write? Some Lessons from Authors of Works from the GSU Course Reserves Case
27. Seeing’s Insight: Toward A Visual Substantial Similarity Test For Copyright Infringement Of Pictorial, Graphic, And Sculptural Works (Moon Hee Lee)
28. The Right to Attention in an Age of Distraction
29. On Bias, Clickbait, And The Future Of Journalism: Insight And Advice From Staffers At The Washington Post

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Canadian TV in the Netflix Age: In Defence of the CRTC Television Licensing Decision (Michael Geist)
2. Diversity and competitive equity underline the CRTC’s recent decisions on television services operated by Canada’s large French- and English-language ownership groups
3. Montreal Economic Institute isn’t ready for internet reality: No, cat videos aren’t going to interfere with self-driving cars and the internet of things. (Peter Nowak)
4. Breaking down the FCC’s proposal to destroy net neutrality: The agency is asking if we even need any rules at all
5. Net neutrality going down in flames as FCC votes to kill Title II rules: GOP’s 2-1 majority starts repeal process, with final vote coming later in 2017.
6. The FCC Just Voted. They Are Going to Start Dismantling Net Neutrality.
7. FCC Ignores The Will Of The Public, Votes To Begin Dismantling Net Neutrality
8. FCC Commissioner Wants To Ban States From Protecting Consumer Broadband Privacy
9. Internet Providers Insist They Love Net Neutrality. Seriously?
10. Cable Companies Refuse To Put Their Breathless Love Of Net Neutrality Down In Writing
11. Comcast vendor sent cease-and-desist to operator of anti-Comcast website: Net neutrality website stays online as Comcast agrees to take no further action.
12. The FCC Doesn’t Care That Somebody’s Spamming Its Net Neutrality Proceeding With Fraudulent Comments
13. FCC Refuses to Release Evidence of the ‘DDoS Attack’ on Its Website
14. Examining the FCC claim that DDoS attacks hit net neutrality comment system: Attacks came from either an unusual type of DDoS or poorly written spam bots.
15. Journalist allegedly “manhandled by FCC guards” for asking questions: FCC apologizes, says guards were on “heightened alert” due to threats.
16. FCC Guards ‘Manhandle’ Reporter Just For Asking Questions At Net Neutrality Vote
17. Senators ask FCC why reporter was “manhandled” after net neutrality vote – Senators to FCC: Don’t roughhouse journalists who are trying to ask questions.
18. If Net Neutrality Dies, Comcast Can Just Block A Protest Site Instead Of Sending A Bogus Cease-And-Desist
19. It’s Not Too Late to Save Net Neutrality From a Captured FCC: The Trump-appointed FCC chairman has ushered in a virulent strain of market libertarianism. He can and must be stopped.
20. A Trump FCC advisor’s proposal for bringing free Internet to poor people: Trump advisor says net neutrality hindered free data services for the poor.
21. California Noncommercial TV Station Licensee Faces $20,000 Proposed Fine for Public Inspection File and Related Violations
22. Wireless Data Revenues Dip For First Time in Seventeen Years — Thanks To A Crazy Little Thing Called Competition
23. Viacom wants to leave sports in the dust with future $20 “skinny” TV bundle: How many people really want cable TV with no live sports?
24. The Worldwide Leader in Schadenfreude: For the first time in 40 years, people aren’t just criticizing ESPN. They’re savoring its decline.
25. How Deregulation Gave Us FM Radio, HBO, and the iPhone
26. What toppled Bill O’Reilly? A reporter’s hunch, a cold call, and a Pilates class.
27. A Fox News Host Was Racist Enough to Actually Get Fired
28. Roger Ailes, who built Fox News into a powerhouse, dies at 77
29. Roger Ailes: Brilliant and Destructive – Fox News may be the greatest business investment Rupert Murdoch ever made. It was Roger Ailes who led it to massive success and controversy. Some think he destroyed sane, constructive political dialogue in America and gave birth to a sinister breed of news.
30. Roger Ailes will be remembered as a lecherous, misogynistic and terrible boss — and that’s a good thing: Ailes spent his life fighting for a world where men are free to exploit women — and the good news is, he lost
31. I’m Sorry To Report That Roger Ailes Ever Lived
32. Alex Jones’ InfoWars Claims To Have White House Press Credentials: A guy who thinks Sandy Hook was a ‘hoax’ now has access to the same White House briefing room as ‘fake news’ outlets
33. How the big TV networks are adapting to ad-skipping viewers … and Google, Snapchat and Facebook
34. Upfronts week just concluded, which means it’s time to take stock of the TV business: Ratings are down, live events are up, and IP is more important than ever
35. Federal Judge Triples Damages Against Dish In Telemarketing Lawsuit, Resulting in $61.34m in Damages
36. Plot twist: Cheesy soap opera script is deceptive drug ad, doctors warn – General Hospital character gets rare disease. Drug company has just the pill for that.
37. The Tricky Ethics of Big Pharma Soft-Selling on Soap Operas

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Russian Military Apparently Using Cell Tower Spoofers To Send Propaganda Directly To Ukrainian Soldiers’ Phones
2. Wikimedia wins small victory in challenge to NSA “Upstream” spying: “This surveillance will finally face badly needed scrutiny in our public courts.”
3. Appeals Court Revives Wikimedia’s Lawsuit Against The NSA
4. “Yahoobleed” flaw leaked private e-mail attachments and credentials: Yahoo promptly retired ImageMagic library after failing to install 2-year-old patch.
5. Vermont DMV Caught Using Illegal Facial Recognition Program: Local, state, and federal law enforcement were allowed to search DMV photo database, documents show
6. Get Ready for the Next Big Privacy Backlash Against Facebook
7. Google and Facebook lobbyists try to stop new online privacy protections: Lobbyists try to kill “opt-in” privacy standard before it can be implemented.
8. Facebook whacked with piddly fine after breaching French data law: But free content ad network insists it complies fully with EU data protection rules.
9. British Human Rights Activist Faces Prison For Refusing To Hand Over Passwords At UK Border
10. New EU Lawsuit Claims Google Failed To Forget ‘Sensitive’ Information, Such As Their ‘Political Affiliation’
11. Inspector General’s Report Shows Section 702 Isn’t The Only Thing Being Abused By The NSA
12. Some Android Phones Keep Listening After ‘OK Google’ Is Disabled
13. RNC, Chamber Of Commerce Want Robocallers To Be Able To Spam Your Voicemail Without Your Phone Ringing
14. Something about Trump cybersecurity executive order seems awfully familiar: Trump’s cybersecurity order cribs from his predecessor, despite campaign bluster.
15. GOP lawmaker who helped kill ISP privacy rules proposes new privacy rules: Bill requires opt-in consent, but prohibits states from imposing stricter rules.
16. The everyday habits that reveal our personalities: From dining on spicy food to singing in the shower, seemingly innocuous behaviours may say a lot about your character.
17. Ontario court finds Information and Privacy Commissioner’s decision to order disclosure of a commercial contract between bank and university reasonable
18. Anti-Lawful Access Tide Continues: Security Consultation Finds Public Strongly Opposed to New Reforms (Michael Geist)
19. Corporate Surveillance Is Turning Human Workers Into Fungible Cogs: Emerging technologies are enabling more invasive management practices.
20. Tech Leaders Say You Could Be Storing Data in Your DNA in the Next 10 Years
21. The Organization That’s Tracking People With Mental Illnesses: An experimental Florida program that aims to use big data to treat the mentally ill raises privacy questions
22. Famed Hacker Kevin Mitnick Shows You How to Go Invisible Online

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