Charter raises sneaky “broadcast TV” fee for second time in four months
Charter fee rose from $9 to $10 in November and will go up to $12 in March.
Policy // Civilization & Discontents
Coal production may have reached a point of no return, per projections
EIA's projections show that even without the Clean Power Plan, coal is on the decline.
House Democrats tell Ajit Pai: Stop screwing over the public
Pai's FCC is too secretive and too beholden to corporations, Democrats say.
Apple pays France €500 million to cover a decade of back taxes
Paris has been urging other EU states to more heavily tax Silicon Valley giants.
Mark Zuckerberg still thinks Facebook has made the world better
Opinion: Facebook celebrates 15 years of impact—much of which is negative.
Prosecutors: Two men used SIM swapping to extort cryptocurrency
A third suspect was found to have a file on his computer: "Hacker Sh—t!"
Remember the woman who was killed by an Uber AV? Her family sued Tempe
Lawsuit claims city was liable for its design of a particular median.
Man who stole $5M in cryptocurrency via SIM swap pleads guilty
Prosecutors: Joel Ortiz tricked mobile firms, fraudulently transferred phone numbers.
Ajit Pai loses in court—judges overturn gutting of tribal broadband program
Court: FCC failed to provide evidence and ignored harm to broadband access.
Boy arrested for “joking” about shooting up school on social media
Screenshot showed Siri suggesting nearby schools—cops say threat wasn't credible.
In Estonia, students’ transit, school meals, and textbooks are all free
Mailis Reps: "I would still like to see a still more individual approach to all learners."
Here’s what the Sacklers didn’t want you to see in the OxyContin lawsuit
From 2007 to 2018, the Sacklers paid themselves more than $4B from opioid sales.
FCC struggles to convince judge that broadband isn’t “telecommunications”
Skeptical judges question FCC's justification of net neutrality repeal.
UAE buys its way toward supremacy in Gulf cyberwar, using US and Israeli experts
UAE hired ex-NSA employees to build a spying operation possibly targeting US citizens, others.
Court dismisses Defense Distributed’s lawsuit over New Jersey “ghost gun” law
Judge avoids central question of whether NJ law barring gun file sales was constitutional.
