MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Massachusetts District Court Finds VoIP Service is Not Cellular Service Per Se Under the TCPA  
2. Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Pandora Could Face Billions In ‘Fast Lane’ Surcharges
3. How To Make Sense Of Net Neutrality And Telecom Under Trump
4. 50,000 net neutrality complaints were excluded from FCC’s repeal docket: FCC is “going to great lengths to ignore these documents,” advocate says.
5. Democrat asks why FCC is hiding ISPs’ answers to net neutrality complaints: Records request for net neutrality complaints and resolutions still unfulfilled.
6. Use This Tool to See If Your Name Was Used to Support Net Neutrality Repeal 
7. New York AG Provides Tool To Help You Check If Your Name Was Used To Support Killing Net Neutrality
8. Net neutrality activists just took over Reddit with protest posts: “This is my Senator. He sold me out to telecom lobbyists.” 
9. Absent Facts To Support Repealing Net Neutrality, Ajit Pai Wildly Attacking Hollywood Tweeters
10. After Attacking Random Hollywood Supporters Of Net Neutrality, Ajit Pai Attacks Internet Companies
11. Ajit Pai Attacked Hollywood & Silicon Valley Because Even Republicans Are Against His Net Neutrality Plan
12. Ajit Pai Doesn’t Want You Talking About Court Ruling That Undermines His Bogus Claim That The FTC Will Protect Consumers
13. Days Before Doing Verizon’s Bidding, Ajit Pai Gives A Talk At Verizon
14. The FCC Tried To Hide Net Neutrality Complaints Against ISPs 
15. Tom Wheeler slams Ajit Pai’s plan to kill net neutrality rules: FCC is “bend[ing] to the wishes” of big Internet providers, ex-chair says.
16. Commentary: The FCC Has Always Defended Net Neutrality. Why Stop Now?
17. Guardians of the Future: The FCC Commissioner is Working to Delay the Net Neutrality Vote
18. FCC won’t delay vote, says net neutrality supporters are “desperate”: Pai says FTC will protect consumers—but FTC could lose its regulatory authority.
19. AT&T wants you to forget that it blocked FaceTime over cellular in 2012 – AT&T: Your Internet service won’t change after FCC eliminates net neutrality rules.
20. ISPs Are Already Using The FCC’s Planned Net Neutrality Repeal To Harm Consumers 
21. No Parlay for Pirates: FCC Turns Up the Heat on Dozens of Alleged Pirate Radio Operators 
22. Digital Cancon, the Sequel: CRTC Broadcast Consult Sparks Demands for Everything from Internet and iPod Taxes to Website Blocking to Abandoning Net Neutrality (Michael Geist)
23. Tragedy offers lessons for event organisers managing volunteers

DIGITAL

1. Bell Leads on Radical Proposal for CRTC-Backed Mandatory Website Blocking System (Michael Geist)
2. Bell’s Latest Privacy Solution: Enhance Internet Privacy By Blocking Access to It (Michael Geist) 
3. Not Just Bell: Shaw Calls on CRTC To Support Website Blocking (Michael Geist)
4. SCC To Weigh In On Fees For Identifying ISP Subscribers: Rogers v. Voltage 
5. “Relief and happiness”: Supreme Court of Canada to hear VICE press freedoms case
6. The Reckoning at Vice Has Begun
7. Sixth Circuit Suggests Liability for Copyright Infringement May Justify Reduced First Amendment Protection for Anonymous Speech, But Recommends Consideration of Context and ‘Practical Need’ for Unmasking 
8. Silicon Valley Investor Takes Leave of Absence After Harassment Reports
9. Senator Kamala Harris Serves Up A Not-Completely-Terrible Revenge Porn Bill
10. Hyperloop One co-founder takes leave after sexual harassment accusations: Shervin Pishevar claims he is the subject of a “smear campaign.”
11. Disney Sues Redbox Over Sale of Movie Download Codes: The DVD kiosk rental company allegedly disassembles a product package and then sells codes separately in what Disney asserts is a violation of copyright law.
12. The Uber-Waymo Lawsuit Gets A New Star—And Takes A Wild Turn
13. LA City Attorney Jumps Into Uber Fray 
14. Waymo can’t stop Uber employees from explaining Wickr use while at Waymo – Judge Alsup: “I can’t stand it when Waymo or the other side wants it both ways.”
15. Yahoo’s Insanely Bad Deal to Pay Mozilla $375 Million a Year for Nothing Is Headed to Court
16. Apple agrees to set aside more than $15 billion to Ireland in back taxes: Despite EU ruling, neither Apple nor Ireland wants the Cupertino company to pay.
17. Twitter’s Year in Review Confirms 2017 Sucked
18. Tinder Can Now Show Who It Thinks You’ll Swipe Right On
19. The Future of Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on Society
20. A Swarm Intelligence Correctly Predicted TIME’s Person of the Year
21. I Enlisted an Algorithm to Help Me Write the Perfect Piece of Science Fiction. This is our Story.
22. Google Yanks YouTube From Amazon’s Echo Show And Fire TV Devices
23. Google will pull YouTube support from Amazon Fire TVs in 2018: No more YouTube for yet another Amazon device.
24. Google and Amazon are punishing their own customers in a bitter feud: It shouldn’t have come to this
25. Google And Amazon Are Harming Consumers And Behaving Like Obnoxious Toddlers 
26. Amazon Prime Video finally arrives on Apple TV, months after original announcement: The long-awaited app is now available for 3rd-gen Apple TVs and newer devices.
27. Google is blocking YouTube on Amazon’s Echo Show and Fire TV: The service won’t work until Amazon is willing to collaborate with Google on a YouTube app for its devices.
28. Google bans Android developers from adding lock screen ads: Users will no longer be troubled by shady apps that hijack lock screens.
29. Chrome to stop third-party software injections because they make it crash: Users with injected software are 15 percent more likely to experience crashes.
30. Essential CEO Andy Rubin goes on leave for “personal reasons”: A report claims Rubin, the father of Android, left Google after an HR investigation.
31. Google, Amazon Find Not Everyone Is Ready For AI
32. Inside Baidu’s Bid To Lead The Ai Revolution
33. San Francisco Just Put The Brakes On Delivery Robots
34. Many Startup Founders Doubt Extent Of Sexual Harassment
35. Home Security Company Says No One Linking To Its Website Is Allowed To Disparage It
36. Snopes Debunks Fake YouTube Video; Video’s Creator Responds With A Bogus DMCA Notice
37. Data-Saving YouTube Go App Arrives In Thailand, Malaysia, Ghana, Kenya, More
38. YouTube Will Reportedly Make Advertisers Pay More To Ensure Placement On Top-Level Videos
39. YouTube Will Have 10,000 Humans Working To Purge Questionable Content In 2018
40. Expanding our work against abuse of our platform
41. Toy Freaks Dad Reportedly Under Investigation For Disturbing Videos
42. Seven-Year-Old Suffers Severe Burns After Attempting YouTube ‘Fire Challenge’
43. Amid Kids’ Content Controversy, YouTube To Offer 5 Family-Friendly Red Series For Free
44. YouTube CEO To Creators: We’re Going To Be Better About Demonetization
45. Vidme Shuts Down Its Video Platform, Will Launch New Product Next Year
46. YouNow Inks First Content Deal With Eleven Sports For Crypto App Rize
47. BET To Celebrate Influencers, Viral Videos At Inaugural ‘Social Awards’
48. It’s 25 years since someone sent the first text message
49. Emails Show Pretty Much Everyone on Trump’s Transition Team Knew Mike Flynn Talked to Russians
50. Oh my god, he just admitted to obstruction of justice. If Trump knew Flynn lied to the FBI when he asked Comey to let it go, then there is your case.
51. Looking for the Linguistic Smoking-Gun in a Trump Tweet: Could the word pled really reveal who wrote Trump’s reaction to the Flynn news?
52. The underground story of Cobra, the 1980s’ illicit handmade computer: In their poor, Communist country, Romania’s computer curious built an underground industry.
53. ‘Mailsploit’ Lets Hackers Forge Perfect Email Spoofs
54. Is Bitcoin a Pyramid Scheme?
55. The IRS Has Come Knocking at Bitcoin’s Door
56. Bitcoin, Bankers, and Barriers to Legislation
57. Bitcoin’s insane energy consumption, explained: One estimate suggests the Bitcoin network consumes as much energy as Denmark.
58. Bitcoin Mining Guzzles Energy—And Its Carbon Footprint Just Keeps Growing
59. A brief history of Bitcoin hacks and frauds: Bitcoins have been a juicy target for hackers since 2011.
60. Feds shut down allegedly fraudulent cryptocurrency offering: Cryptocurrency offerings are no longer a regulation-free zone.
61. Will Repealing Net Neutrality Really Spell Doom for Cryptocurrencies? 
62. The Wikipedia Competitor That’s Harnessing Blockchain For Epistemological Supremacy
63. Preparing for liability in the age of the Internet of Things 
64. Future Historians Probably Won’t Understand Our Internet, and That’s Okay: Archivists are working to document our chaotic, opaque, algorithmically complex world—and in many cases, they simply can’t.
65. Canada’s Missing Internet Provision: Why NAFTA Offers the Chance to Establish Long Overdue Online Speech Safeguards (Michael Geist)

CREATIVITY

1.  Disney Sued Over Alleged “Let It Go” Song Theft, Millions Of YouTube Covers Could Be Affected
2. Brown v. Time Warner, Inc.
3. Copyright Does Not Protect Ideas, Only Expression 
4. Comic-Con Busted In Libya For Being “Exploitative”
5. Protecting TV Show Formats
6. New copyright protection test for designs of useful articles
7. Can You Copyright Infringe Anonymously? Revisited.
8. What Happens If The DOJ Ends Up With Martin Shkreli’s Sole Copy Of The Wu Tang Clan Album?
9. Robin Wright To Lead Final ‘House Of Cards’ Season Without Kevin Spacey
10. In the Future, Everyone Will Have Their Personality Misappropriated for 15 Minutes 
11. Ohio couple gronked again 
12. Don’t Stop The Presses! When Local News Struggles, Democracy Withers
13. Atlanta Anchor Sharon Reed Claps Back at Viewer Who Calls Her N-Word After Mayoral Election
14. Appeals Court Affirms Dismissal of Libel Claims in Stolen Valor Case: Shane Ladner sued New World Communications of Atlanta for defamation after Ladner and his wife were among veterans on a float that collided with a train in Texas.
15. Ladner v. New World Communications of Atlanta Inc.

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Drawing the Line: Supreme Court Addresses Major Privacy Rights in Cell Phone Dispute
2. Judge Rules Amended Eavesdropping Suit Against Golden State Warriors Can Proceed
3. Trump Tweet About Surveillance Undercuts FBI’s Glomar Responses In FOIA Lawsuits 
4. House Internet Censorship Bill Is Just Like The Senate Bill, Except Worse
5. House Intelligence Committee Lobs Zero-Reform Section 702 Bill Into The Mix At The Last Possible Minute
6. German Government Official Wants Backdoors In Every Device Connected To The Internet
7. Navy Officer Working For The NSA Caught Trying To Search Her Boyfriend’s Son’s Phone
8. NSA, DOJ Still Aren’t Letting Defendants Know They’re Using Section 702 Evidence Against Them
9. Don’t Buy Anyone an Echo
10. Electrician Used Greasy Junk Food Bags to Hide His GPS Location and Skip Work
11. Evidence That Ethiopia Is Spying On Journalists Shows Commercial Spyware Is Out Of Control
12. Champing At The Cyberbit: Ethiopian Dissidents Targeted with New Commercial Spyware
13. 100,000-strong botnet built on router 0-day could strike at any time: New strain of Mirai is sophisticated, locked, and loaded.
14. “Malware-free” attacks mount in big breaches, CrowdStrike finds: Stolen credentials, exploits of command-line tools used in 66 percent of attacks.
15. Mastermind behind sophisticated, massive botnet outs himself: Andromeda kingpin is identified by his ICQ number.
16. Are you kidding me? Only 15% of US companies have insurance for their data! 
17. The Internet of Toys: Legal and Privacy Issues with Connected Toys

GAMES

1. Epic Sues 14 Year Old It Accuses Of Cheating In Videogames After He Counternotices a DMCA On His YouTube Video
2. Epic Games lawsuit over Fortnite cheats ends in settlement
3. Creators of Star Control accuse Stardock of publishing games without permission
4. Star Control creators accuse Stardock of selling games unlawfully: GOG.com pulling games from sale as publisher says devs have gone years without asserting rights, should have addressed it sooner
5. Gambling-addicted teen begs EA to reconsider microtransaction strategy: Meanwhile, Take-Two Interactive boss insists loot boxes aren’t gambling
6. EA trips up on the path from Product to Service: Consumer annoyance over micro-transactions doesn’t change the fact that every major publisher is shifting business model wholesale in that direction
7. State Rep: Games industry must self-regulate loot boxes before government steps in
8. Games industry must self-regulate on loot boxes, says state representative – Sean Quinlan: Legislation would be a “slippery slope”
9. 35% or more of EA Sports players spend on Ultimate Team: CFO Blake Jorgensen says publisher focuses on getting people into the funnel, not on making payers spend more
10. Warframe dev: Industry must get better at “giving players a choice and a voice” – Microtransactions aren’t inherently bad, and they can work with AAA-type experiences says Meridith Braun, VP, Publishing, Digital Extremes
11. PUBG Will Never Add A Loot Box Item ‘That Affects The Gameplay’: New cosmetic items will come after official launch.
12. EA says half of Ultimate Teamplayers spend money on the F2P mode: “Of those 75 percent of the people, about half of those people actually spend some money and the other half just play without spending. But in a free-to-play world, that’s a fantastic balance of spenders and non-spenders.”
13. What reaching 25 million users says about Rainbow Six Siege and games-as-a-service: Siege is an outlier, and one the publishing giants can learn from
14. FTC Finalizes Its First Settlement For Social Media Influencers
15. Childline and NSPCC condemn ‘unacceptable’ Detroit: Become Human – Campaigners concerned by the depiction of violence against children
16. “We have to remember it’s a game”: Mixing anti-cultism and action in Far Cry 5: Creative director Dan Hay discusses reactions to Ubisoft’s upcoming shooter and how the Far Cry team touches on topical themes
17. “It’s the game designer’s job to evoke different sides of humanity”: Thatgamecompany president Jenova Chen believes that positive behavior can be rewarded and monetized
18. Bungie opens up about Destiny 2 changes after hidden “scaling” debacle: Big changes coming for experience system and everything else.
19. “Smaller studios will define the future of video game storytelling”: A fresh wave of developers aims to change the industry with narrative titles that appeal to wider audiences than anything in the charts
20. Sega cuts full-year profit forecast by 54.5 percent
21. People of the Year 2017: Ninja Theory – Ninja Theory is to be commended for its handling of mental illness and for showing how indies can still approach AAA development
22. People of the Year 2017: Larian Studios – With Divinity: Original Sin II, the Belgian studio combined both commercial performance with creative excellence – and it did so on its own terms
23. War Child UK launches world’s first mobile gaming armistice: Charity looking to build on success of 2016’s armistice which raised over £100,000
24. Twitch sees “glimmer of hope” in battle against toxic behavior: Co-founder Kevin Lin tells GamesIndustry.biz he believes positivity will perpetuate out from smaller, more controlled channels
25. The Odd, Enduring Appeal Of Musou Games May Finally Be Paying Off
26. Why The Golden State Warriors Bet Millions On A League of Legends Team
27. Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue On Esports: ‘It’s Not Sports’
28. Mark Emmert: NCAA Exploring Whether Or Not It Has Role In Esports
29. College Conference Commissioners Question Whether Esports Is A Sport
30. The Overwatch Videogame League Aims To Become The New NFL
31. The Overwatch League Preseason Begins Today, Here’s What You Need To Know
32. BBC launches VR Hub studio: Broadcaster will focus on high-quality, high-impact experiences in effort to push tech to the mainstream
33. VR devs need to unlearn unspoken game dev rules, says Oculus exec: “Sometimes people don’t understand how specific an IP is to the hardware it’s been made for.”
34. Analyst: The Switch topped online sales charts during Thanksgiving weekend
35. The Switch was the best-selling product online over Thanksgiving: Nintendo’s console tops the charts despite not going on sale
36. Nintendo brings Wii and GameCube titles to Nvidia Shield in China
37. Nintendo targets Chinese gamers with remasters for Nvidia Shield: Platform holder increases presence in lucrative market with China-only re-release of Twilight Princess and New Super Mario Bros. Wii
38. Nintendo brings HD Wii games to China’s Nvidia Shield—is Switch next?: Remastered ports could be a test run on similar Tegra hardware.
39. A List Of Old Games That I Would Definitely Buy Again On Switch
40. Valve announces the return of Portal… via Bridge Constructor: Licensed expansion almost counts as V alve’s first “new” game in years.
41. Vivendi a third wheel in the Activision Blizzard union: 10 Years Ago This Month: The media giant orchestrated a massively successful merger but walked away with relatively little to show for it
42. Blizzard, EA among Glassdoor’s best places to work: Employees have given both game companies high marks
43. Digital revenues up 15% in October – Superdata: Single-player games holding their own while Destiny 2 and PUBG push premium PC up 28%; worldwide digital revenues total $8.5 billion
44. Sega’s game division holds strong despite 54.5% cut to company-wide profit forecast: Operating income for games up by $35 million despite net sales decline
45. Neill Blomkamp: ‘It’s inevitable that the uncanny valley just goes away’ – District 9 director talks about his experience creating the ADAM short films with Unity
46. The games industry has an inferiority complex, and it’s holding us back: Some studios have a “fundamental lack of understanding” of narrative and character development, says writer for Destiny: The Taken King
47. Super Mario Run, CATS get Google Play 2017 nods: Nintendo claims most downloaded new title while ZeptoLab’s battle bot fighter awarded Game of the Year
48. World of Warcraft, world of inspiration – Why I Love: Lightseekers senior designer Ana Steiner traces her history with the MMO that convinced her to pursue a career in games
49. Blackbird Interactive to open new gaming studio in False Creek Flats
50. Citing volatile value, Steam drops Bitcoin support
51. Steam no longer accepting Bitcoin: Storefront says high fees and volatile price fluctuations make supporting the cryptocurrency “untenable”
52. Crytek helping launch Crycash cryptocurrency: Developer says paying players who reach certain milestones in its games will be a cost-effective user acquisition strategy

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY 

1.  Canada and the U.S. stand divided at the crossroads of net neutrality (Michael Geist)
2. Bell insider reveals high-pressure sales tactics required on every single call: Bell says allegations are ‘completely unfounded and untrue’
3. Trump administration files suit to block AT&T/Time Warner merger: $108 billion merger would raise TV bills and prices for AT&T rivals, DOJ said.
4. The Right Choice For The Wrong Reasons? DOJ Sues To Kill The AT&T Time Warner Merger
5. Why Mergers Like the AT&T-Time Warner Deal Should Go Through
6. A ‘Supernatural’ Profits Fight, and the AT&T-TW Merger Issue That Few Are Discussing: Warner Bros. has been battling the creator of one of the longest-running television shows in an arbitration that addresses the fairness of media consolidation and the very mechanism to resolve disputes with those who feel shortchanged.
7. Why The Government Is Right To Block The AT&T-Time Warner Merger
8. The Economic Case Against an A.T. & T.-Time Warner Merger
9. FCC Releases Net Neutrality Killing Order, Hopes You’re Too Busy Cooking Turkey To Read It
10. FCC Moves To Gut Rules Protecting Broadband Users Telcos No Longer Want
11. FCC Head Ajit Pai: Killing Net Neutrality Will Set the Internet Free
12. An Open Letter to the FCC:
13. FCC Plans To Gut Net Neutrality, Allow Internet ‘Fast Lanes’
14. FCC will also order states to scrap plans for their own net neutrality laws – Double win for ISPs: No more net neutrality, and state laws will be preempted.
15. I’m on the FCC. Please stop us from killing net neutrality
16. Here’s How The End Of Net Neutrality Will Change The Internet
17. Welcome to 2018. There’s No Net Neutrality. We Made Dystopia a Reality.
18. Will Your TV Watch You? FCC Green Lights Targeted Advertising in Next Gen TV Broadcasting Standard 
19. Sorry, poor people: The FCC is coming after your broadband plans: 70% of low-income wireless subscribers in Lifeline could have to find new ISPs.
20. Here’s the FCC’s Plan to Kill Net Neutrality
21. The FCC Is Trying To Destroy The Internet
22. Why Are People Celebrating Al Franken’s Incomprehensible Speech About The Internet?
23. Republicans Finally Set a Date to Kill Net Neutrality
24. The End Of Net Neutrality As We Know It
25. FCC stonewalled investigation of net neutrality comment fraud, NY AG says: Net neutrality fraudsters likely impersonated “hundreds of thousands” of people.
26. Who is Ajit Pai, the “Trump soldier” remaking America’s internet?
27. FCC will also order states to scrap plans for their own net neutrality laws – Double win for ISPs: No more net neutrality, and state laws will be preempted.
28. FCC Finds the Case for Broadcast Ownership Deregulation Compelling 
29. Disgusted With Charter Spectrum Merger, Lexington To Build Entirely New Fiber Network
30. Robocalls from spoofed Caller IDs may soon be blocked by phone companies: FCC authorizes aggressive blocking of spoofed and invalid numbers.
31. The Robocall Nightmare Is Only Getting Worse—But Help Is Here
32. Verizon may sign new deal with NFL to expand game streaming rights: Increasing the number of devices to which Verizon can stream football games.
33. Shaw undercuts Big Three on iPhone pricing, Freedom Mobile to sell iPhone X for $0 upfront: Freedom’s steep discount comes with the caveat that its network only covers major centres in B.C., Alberta and Ontario, meaning consumers may face additional roaming charges outside those zones 

DIGITAL

1. Music Canada Data Confirms Huge Increase in Streaming Revenues and Sharp Decline of Music Listening from Pirated Sources (Michael Geist)
2. SOCAN Financial Data Highlights How Internet Music Streaming is Paying Off for Creators (Michael Geist)
3. Judge Halts Copyright Troll’s Lawsuit Against A Now-Deceased Elderly Man With Dementia And An IP Address
4. EFF Wins Over Patent Troll Trying To Silence EFF Calling Its Patent Stupid
5. Microsoft facing lawsuit over alleged HoloLens patent infringement
6. Microsoft sued over HoloLens patent infringement: Connecticut-based HoloTouch claims that HoloLens actually infringes two of its patents
7. Google plans to ‘de-rank’ Russia Today and Sputnik to combat misinformation: Alphabet chief executive Eric Schmidt says Google and other tech companies must act against state-run Russian news agencies to stop spread of falsehoods
8. US court thumbs its nose at Supreme Court of Canada: Google v Equustek (Barry Sookman)
9. Monopoly Leveraging & Equal Treatment: the EU Commission’s Google Shopping Decision
10. NSW Supreme Court considers jurisdictional issues in an online contract: Gonzalez v Agoda Company Pty Ltd [2017] NSWSC 1133
11. Closed by Default: Why is Prime Minister Trudeau Using Restrictive Terms for Flickr Image Use? (Michael Geist)
12. Inside Google’s Struggle to Filter Lies from Breaking News: The company is revamping the way it displays breaking news search results
13. YouTube Terminates Controversial Kids Channel With Over 8.5 Million Subscribers
14. YouTube’s Purge Of Inappropriate Content Aimed At Kids Spans Tens Of Billions Of Views
15. What makes YouTube’s surreal kids’ videos so creepy?
16. ‘This is not TV’: A growing number of advertisers feel duped by YouTube
17. The Professional Friends of YouTube: The platform and its young celebrities have built a self-contained universe of political cluelessness
18. YouTube Is Addressing Its Massive Child Exploitation Problem: After BuzzFeed News provided YouTube with dozens of examples of videos — with millions of views — that depict children in disturbing and abusive situations, the company is cracking down.
19. Anatomy of a Fake News Scandal: Inside the web of conspiracy theorists, Russian operatives, Trump campaigners and Twitter bots who manufactured the ‘news’ that Hillary Clinton ran a pizza-restaurant child-sex ring
20. Surveillance Fans Angry Journalist Used Metadata, Contact Chaining To Out Comey’s Secret Twitter Account
21. By year’s end, you’ll know if you liked a Kremlin-created Facebook page: “This tool will be available for use by the end of the year in the Facebook Help Center.”
22. One Of The Biggest Alternative Media Networks In Italy Is Spreading Anti-Immigrant News And Misinformation On Facebook: The network sheds light on the overlap between the fringe underbelly of the Catholic world, Italy’s nationalist movements, and for-profit clickbait.
23. We’ll Be Paying For Mark Halperin’s Sins For Years To Come: Reports of sexual harassment destroyed his reputation and his career. But I want to talk about the deeper, subtler, more insidious effect Mark Halperin had on our politics.
24. The policy that the US porn industry has and Facebook needs
25. In her new book, ‘The Uterus Is a Feature, Not a Bug,’ Sarah Lacy says women should fight back, not ‘lean in’: Amusingly, Lacy says Facebook — whose COO Sheryl Sandberg wrote “Lean In” — rejected ads for the book because of the word “uterus.”
26. The Education of Mark Zuckerberg: The Facebook founder has discussed “community” more than 150 times in public. A close reading reveals his road map for the platform’s future.
27. Facebook Launches Creator-Focused App With Content Production And Analytics Tools
28. Facebook Acquires Exclusive Rights to 47 College Basketball Games From Smaller Conferences
29. Athens Court of Appeal applies CJEU GS Media linking decision and interprets ‘profit-making intention’ restrictively
30. Vice Forms Advisory Committee With Gloria Steinem Following Sexual Harassment Claims
31. Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo Tenders Investment In News Startup Axios
32. Chinese students claim they worked illegal overtime making the iPhone X: Teens say a school made them intern at Foxconn, but Apple says it was voluntary.
33. The Hidden Cost of Bitcoin? Our Environment.
34. A Virtual Reality Film Experience Just Received the First Oscar for VR
35. Inside The Race To Hack The Human Brain
36. This Man Is Leading an AI Revolution in Silicon Valley—And He’s Just Getting Started: The cofounder and CEO of semiconductor and software maker Nvidia saw the future of computing more than a decade ago, and began developing products that could power the artificial intelligence era. Thanks to that vision, and relentless execution, his chipmaker today is perhaps the hottest company in Silicon Valley. And it may just be getting started.
37. China Challenges Nvidia’s Hold On Artificial Intelligence Chips
38. For the First Time, a Robot Passed a Medical Licensing Exam: Chinese AI-powered robot Xiaoyi took the country’s medical licensing examinations and passed, according to local reports. Xiaoyi is just one example of how much China is keen on using AI to make a number of industries more efficient.
39. Experts: Artificial Intelligence Could Hijack Brain-Computer Interfaces
40. Has The Silicon Valley Hype Cycle Run Its Course?: The social media boom, powered by the growth of mobile computing, is over. And while a glittering new technological age of artificial intelligence beckons, the current cycle seems bloated and fatigued. It’s no wonder venture capitalists are looking elsewhere.
41. iOS 11 Is Killing Me
42. Report: Apple Acquired VR Headset Startup Vrvana for $30 Million
43. Amazon Secures Rights To Stream ATP World Tour In U.K., Ireland
44. Amazon’s Last Mile: Who delivers Amazon orders? Increasingly, it’s plainclothes contractors with few labor protections, driving their own cars, competing for shifts on the company’s own Uber-like platform. Though it’s deployed in dozens of cities and associated with one of the world’s biggest companies, government agencies and customers alike are nearly oblivious to the program’s existence.
45. The Uber CEO Who Arrived In The Us With Nothing
46. Colorado fines Uber $8.9M for allowing dozens of unauthorized drivers: Colorado found many drivers with “suspended, revoked, or cancelled driver’s licenses.”
47. Hackers hit Uber in 2016: data on 57 million riders, drivers stolen – CEO: “You may be asking why we are just talking about this now, a year later.”
48. Uber Hid Security Breach Impacting 57 Million People, Paid Off Hackers
49. Jeffrey Tambor To Depart ‘Transparent’ Amid Sexual Harassment Claims: The actor Jeffrey Tambor will depart Transparent — one of Amazon’s most synonymous original shows — following accusations of sexual harassment by two women involved in the Emmy-winning production.
50. We’ll Be Paying For Mark Halperin’s Sins For Years To Come: Reports of sexual harassment destroyed his reputation and his career. But I want to talk about the deeper, subtler, more insidious effect Mark Halperin had on our politics.
51. The Washington Post Is A Software Company Now: The newspaper created a platform to tackle its own challenges. Then, with Amazon-like spirit, it realized there was a business in helping other publishers do the same.
52. This Amazon seller lost $400,000 in sales after being attacked by self-proclaimed ‘virus of Amazon’
53. Tencent crosses $500 billion market cap milestone: Gaming giant is the first Chinese tech company to cross that financial mark
54. Tencent and Bluehole partner to bring Battlegrounds to China
55. Tencent to publish PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds in China: Bluehole’s new partner obliterates any notion on a ban in PUBG’s biggest market
56. IGN, PCMag, AskMen Owner Acquires Mashable For $50 Million
57. Marvell Technology to buy chipmaker Cavium for about $6 billion: Two more chipmakers come together to try to compete with Intel, Broadcom.
58. BuzzFeed IPO Dreams Fizzle as Company Said to Miss 2017 Revenue Target
59. Univision Seeking to Sell Minority Stake in Fusion Media Group
60. Archivist Leslie Berlin Tackles Silicon Valley’s Past In ‘Troublemakers’
61. The media industry has suddenly become a ‘Game of Thrones’-like battle for power

CREATIVITY

1. Judge: EFF’s “Stupid Patent of the Month” clearly protected by Constitution – GEMSA, which has sued dozens of US tech firms, never responded to EFF’s lawsuit.
2. Good Ruling: Court Affirms Fox’s Victory In Trademark Suit From Empire Distribution Over Its Hit Show ‘Empire’
3. The Monkey Selfie Strikes Back (Andres Guadamuz)
4. The Sad Legacy Of Copyright: Locking Up Scientific Knowledge And Impeding Progress
5. Ninth Circuit: Let’s Talk About Comic-Con
6. Twentieth Century Fox Television v. Empire Distribution, Inc.
7. Gucci “Wrongfully Claims a Monopoly” on Stripes, per Forever 21 Complaint
8. Nobel Prize Winning Economist Says Non-US Countries Have Unique Opportunity To Reform Intellectual Property
9. Trial Set To Start For Journalist Facing Decades In Prison For Covering Inauguration Day Protests 
10. Roy Moore’s Threat Letter To Sue The Press Is An Artform In Bad Lawyering
11. Alabama Media Group Isn’t Messing Around With Roy Moore’s Silly Threat
12. Israeli court addresses relationship between design protection and copyright
13. Zack Snyder Fans Petition For The Release of His Cut of Justice League As Deleted Scenes Leak Online
14. Ben Affleck Stole Some Batarangs From the Justice League Set
15. Justice League, Rotten Tomatoes, And DC Fans’ Persecution Complex
16. Kaye v. Cartoon Network, Inc.
17. Harvey Weinstein’s Secret Settlements: The mogul used money from his brother and elaborate legal agreements to hide allegations of predation for decades.
18. What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?
19. Broadcaster Leeann Tweeden Accuses Sen. Al Franken of Assault
20. Trump Mocks Al Franken On Twitter, Blows It
21. Twitter, It’s Time to End Your Anything-Goes Paradise
22. The Soft Racism of Apu from “The Simpsons”
23. Rashida Jones And Writing Partner Dropped Out Of Toy Story 4 Over “Philosophical Differences” With Pixar: “It is a culture where women and people of color do not have an equal creative voice.”
24. The Female Supercomputer Designer Who Inspired Steve Jobs: The designer and artist Tamiko Thiel gets her due in a new show at MoMA.
25. The Rope: The Forgotten History of Segregated Rock & Roll Concerts – The Platters, the Flamingos, and other pioneering performers share stories of divided audiences, Jim Crow absurdities and harrowing violence
26. How culinary propaganda from a women’s magazine made Thanksgiving a thing
27. Life After ESPN: In April, around 100 employees of the Worldwide Leader in Sports were laid off. Since leaving the mothership, some have found new work, new homes, and new careers—while others are still searching for their next chapter.

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Apple formally asked to release Texas shooter’s iCloud data: Texas judge also signs off on search of shooter’s iPhone SE, LG dumbphone.
2. Court Denies Government’s Demasking Demands In Inauguration Protest Case
3. New York Court Says NYPD Must Get Warrants To Deploy Stingrays
4. Kaspersky: Yes, we obtained NSA secrets. No, we didn’t help steal them – Moscow-based AV provider challenges claims it helped Russian spies.
5. Dozens Of Tech Experts Tell DHS & ICE That Its Social Media Surveillance And Extreme Vetting Should Be Stopped
6. Intel Chip Flaws Leave Millions Of Devices Exposed
7. Defense Department Spied On Social Media, Left All Its Collected Data Exposed To Anyone
8. Investigation Finds Google Collected Location Data Even With Location Services Turned Off
9. No, you’re not being paranoid. Sites really are watching your every move: Sites log your keystrokes and mouse movements in real time, before you click submit.
10. New Study Finds Poorly Secured Smart Toys Lets Attackers Listen In On Your Kids
11. Court Says Glassdoor Must Disclose Anonymous Reviewers’ Information in Grand Jury Proceedings
12. Most Senate Intelligence Committee Members Are Fine With Domestic Surveillance By The NSA
13. Man gets threats—not bug bounty—after finding DJI customer data in public view: A bug bounty hunter shared evidence; DJI called him a hacker and threatened with CFAA.
14. Pentagon contractor leaves social media spy archive wide open on Amazon: Trove included more than 1.8 billion posts spanning eight years, many from US people.
15. Infosec star accused of sexual assault booted from professional affiliations: Morgan Marquis-Boire resigned from Citizen Lab back in September 2017.
16. Iconic hacker booted from conferences after sexual misconduct claims surface: Professor, reporter say meetings with Draper years ago turned inappropriate
17. Skype is the latest messaging app to disappear from Chinese app stores: Skype falls victim to China’s strict cybersecurity laws and Internet regulations.
18. DOJ names Iranian as hacker who stole unaired episodes from HBO: “Those hiding behind keyboards in countries far away—eventually, winter will come.”
19. New “Quad9” DNS service blocks malicious domains for everyone: Set DNS server to 9.9.9.9, and (known) malware and phishes won’t be able to phone home.
20. Should I Confess My Internet Stalking To My Date?
21. Thirty years later, “Max Headroom” TV pirate remains at large: Whoever was behind 1987 Chicago “broadcast intrusion” is the D.B. Cooper of media 

GAMES

1. Russian Foreign Ministry Accuses America Of Supporting ISIS With Video Game Footage
2. Clicker Heroes developer drops free-to-play model over ethical concerns: “We really don’t like making money off players who are in denial of their addiction,” says Playsaurus
3. Citing ethics and better game design, Clicker Heroes 2 dev forgoes free-to-play: “The mere existence of real-money purchases puts an ugly cloud over the player’s experience, with the persistent nagging feeling of ‘My game could be so much better if I just spent a few dollars.’ That alone feels terrible”
4. When F2P goes wrong: NCSoft gave latest game five months before pulling plug – Refunds for some MxM players; in-game coins for all (which won’t matter by Jan. 31).
5. It’s Only A Game. Or Is It? Advergaming In The Digital Age 
6. Star Wars Battlefront II Is Less A Game Than A Value Proposition
7. Star Wars: Battlefront II review: Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope: Even if EA fulfills promises, this game may still be too far gone to the Dark Side.
8. After fan outcry, EA kicks real-money purchases out of Battlefront II: Feature will return, but “only after we’ve made changes to the game.”
9. “Nothing should feel unattainable”: DICE responds to Star Wars loot box backlash: Battlefront II developer hosts Reddit AMA, “deeply saddened” by negative response
10. Belgian Gambling Commission targets EA and Blizzard over loot boxes: “The crate mechanics of Star Wars Battlefront II are not gambling,” says EA
11. Belgian officials say they’d like lootboxes banned, but investigation continues
12. Belgium Aims To Ban Loot Boxes In Europe
13. Star Wars Battlefront II: This Is What $100 Could Get You Before Microtransactions Were Disabled
14. Battlefront II dev temporarily turns off all microtransactions
15. EA suspends microtransactions in Star Wars Battlefront II hours before game launch: “Sorry we didn’t get this right,” says DICE general manager
16. Star Wars Battlefront II: Will EA’s concession hurt sales?: Analysts debate the impact of EA’s last-minute move to pull microtransactions from the title
17. Star Wars Battlefront loot boxes investigation continues, say Belgian authorities: Hawaii also considers legislation against “Star Wars-themed online casino”
18. Hawaiian representative wants to clamp down on ‘predatory’ loot boxes
19. Wall Street is freaking out as EA caves again to social media outrage over its ‘Star Wars’ game: Investors are now worried the controversy over Electronic Arts’ “Star Wars Battlefront II” in-game monetization model will hurt the video game’s sales. – “The escalation of EA concessions over the past month are a potential negative indicator of pre-order sales trends and overall unit confidence,” Bank of America Merrill Lynch analyst Justin Post writes.” – EA’s stock is down 7 percent month to date through Thursday compared with the S&P 500’s 0.4 percent gain.
20. EA tells investors turning off Battlefront 2’s microtransactions will not affect earnings
21. EA share price dips following loot box debacle: Also, Need for Speed Payback retools loot boxes following “community feedback”
22. Star Wars: Battlefront II debacle points the way forward – EA’s approach to microtransactions has been a complete disaster, but it may have stumbled upon a model other publishers should consider emulating
23. Did Disney push for EA’s Battlefront microtransaction decision?: Off-the-record “concerns” and official “support.”
24. Disney pressured EA to pull Star Wars microtransactions – Report: Online outrage had licensing partner concerned the Battlefront II reception could tarnish the Star Wars brand
25. UK boxed charts: Disappointing debut for Star Wars Battlefront II: EA’s blockbuster shooter down 50% compared with Battlefield 1
26. After Battlefront 2 Backlash, Need For Speed: Payback Alters Progression System
27. EA Devs Dial Down Microtransaction Pressure In Latest Need For Speed
28. Devs promise to change Battlefront II until players are happy: “We will be looking at data continually and make adjustments…”
29. Loot boxes are not bad game design, say devs: Star Wars aside, loot boxes are here to stay; “It’s just us dinosaurs that remember buying a game once for a fixed price and getting a set experience”
30. Applying ‘players first’ logic to loot boxes and other mechanics in Hearthstone
31. Economics Of Microtransactions In Video Games
32. Video Game Monetization Strategies
33. FCC is about to dismantle net neutrality: Gamers who rely on equal access to the internet may no longer have any such guarantee
34. When Will Video Game Software Need to Meet FCC Accessibility Requirements?
35. Video Game Software Industry Seeks a Final Disabilities Access Waiver Extension 
36. Marvel Heroes players chasing add-on refunds after short-lived console launch
37. The survival of GAME: Why the retailer is feeling defiant in the face of digital dominance
38. 11 years after launch, Titan Quest gets a new expansion pack
39. “It’s not Hitman without IO”: Why Square Enix set the franchise free – President and CEO Yosuke Matsuda tells GamesIndustry.biz the reasons behind the surprise split with IO Interactive
40. Steam overhauls user reviews to counter spam bots: Platform holder seeks to take power away from accounts that rate an “excessive number of reviews”
41. Publishers are “the most valuable piece of the puzzle” right now: We Are Fuzzy’s Maxx Burman offers a not-so-fuzzy view of indie development in 2017 as he readies his first project, Sleep Tigh
42. NCsoft will shut down Master X Master just months after launch
43. Tiny Metal director accused of funding game with money from another Kickstarter
44. Marvel Heroes Players Are Demanding Refunds For In-Game Purchases
45. Marvel Heroes players chasing add-on refunds after short-lived console launch
46. Marvel Heroes to close down as Disney terminates Gazillion partnership: Future remains uncertain for Marvel Heroes staff
47. Gazillion faces surge of refund requests after Marvel Heroes closure news: Players frustrated after spending hundreds of dollars on in-game microtransactions
48. Chasing the local optimum: Data-led strategies have left many companies trying to squeeze revenue from the same small but lucrative market segment – it’s not an approach with a bright future
49. Twitch: “We’re almost ready to go full-blown Hunger Games” – Co-founder Kevin Lin is excited for a new age of games development where streaming audiences can interact with the players
50. How Ninja Theory proved independent AAA has a future: “Smaller indie teams that want to make that step up in production values can adopt this kind of model”
51. Mario can’t prevent US game sales from falling 11% in October: Nintendo had a great month, but that was offset by an overall decline in software spending
52. Super Mario Odyssey tops US charts for October: Nintendo all over the NPD charts as Switch and Super NES Classic take top two spots on hardware side
53. Nintendo Switch is dominated by physical sales – GAME: Publishers says physical tie-ratio for Switch is almost identical to Wii
54. GAME: In UK and Spain, Switch attach rates are matching the Wii’s
55. GameStop’s earnings rise thanks to demand for new games and Nintendo’s Switch
56. Nintendo Switch drives GameStop global sales to just shy of $2bn for latest quarter: Hardware and software demand counters slight decline in pre-owned sales
57. Nintendo’s Switch and SNES Classic topped U.S. game hardware sales last month
58. Square Enix says its games are a good fit for the Switch, get buried on Steam
59. Vivendi holding off on Ubisoft takeover plans for six months
60. Vivendi: No plans for Ubisoft takeover for six months – French media giant still has aspirations to grow in gaming, but says it will limit stake in Assassin’s Creed publisher for now
61. Jon Shafer leaves Paradox over creative differences: Civilisation V designer moves on after just six months with new employer
62. Xbox One X launch sales well behind competition in Japan: Brand new super-powered console outsold by six-year-old handheld PlayStation Vita
63. The world of Skyrim is thrilling and flawed in VR: A nice place to visit, but I’m not sure about spending 100 hours.
64. “Life doesn’t wait for you, and neither does VR”: Baobab discusses the difficulty of directing player attention, and why we need new terms for virtual reality experiences
65. Wargaming’s symbiotic relationship with education and marketing: Director of special projects Tracy Spaight explores the applications for AR and VR outside of gaming
66. Riot Games Is Trying To Turn League Of Legends Into A Collegiate Esport
67. Why NCAA Involvement In Esports May Not Be Such A Bad Thing
68. What I learned visiting my first live eSports tournament: Just watching on Twitch isn’t the same as being immersed in the crowd.
69. You Can Now Hire Professional Gamers To Play Call Of Duty For You
70. Brooklyn Soccer Leagues To Replicate FIFA Video Game ‘In Real Life’
71. Wanted: Loving home for Boeing 737 cockpit and flight simulator
72. It’s A Living: Meet One Of New York’s Best Professional D&D Dungeon Masters
73. The rise of D&D liveplay is changing how fans approach roleplaying: From Stranger Things’ Dungeons & Dragons obsession to the YouTube and Twitch players becoming online celebrities, role-playing games are becoming public entertainment
74. South Australian government launches $2M digital games investment fund
75. Opinion: South Australia’s $2 million AUD investment in game devs
76. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild leads Golden Joystick award winners
77. The McLaren Formula 1 team just hired the World’s Fastest Gamer: The F1 team wanted a new simulator driver. Now it has found one—through gaming.
78. During The Holiday Season, Home Is Where The Games Are
79. Axiom Verge Publisher Donating 75 Percent Of Its Share To Developer’s Son’s Healthcare

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Quebec Digital Sales Tax Bill Demonstrates the Complications That Come With Implementing a “Netflix Tax” (Michael Geist)
2. US regulators demand CNN sale to approve AT&T-Time Warner deal: Dispute erupts in public as AT&T boss says he will not put news channel up for sale
3. Trump’s DOJ wants AT&T/Time Warner to sell CNN or DirecTV before merger: AT&T could fight government in court in order to keep merger intact.
4. Giant International Egos May Derail The Sprint T-Mobile Merger
5. Competition Dodges A Bullet As T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Dies
6. T-Mobile and Sprint finally, officially, say they definitely won’t merge: T-Mobile and Sprint will “fight the duopoly,” but as separate companies.
7. Don’t Pay Verizon’s $10 ‘Premium Video’ Upcharge
8. FCC Boss Demolishes Media Ownership Rules In Massive Gift To Sinclair Broadcasting
9. FCC tries to help cable companies avoid state consumer protection rules: The FCC wants to block Minnesota from regulating Charter’s VoIP phone service.
10. Sorry, Comcast: Voters say “yes” to city-run broadband in Colorado – Municipal broadband wins “David vs. Goliath battle” in Fort Collins, Colorado.
11. Comcast Tries To Stop Colorado City From Even Talking About Building Its Own Broadband Network
12. Comcast has a lot to lose if municipal broadband takes off: Comcast revenue could take a big hit in two cities that might build networks.
13. Comcast Urges FCC To Ban States From Protecting Broadband Privacy, Net Neutrality
14. Comcast asks the FCC to prohibit states from enforcing net neutrality: Pressure builds on FCC Chair Ajit Pai to preempt state net neutrality laws.
15. AT&T Backs Off Nuisance Lawsuit Intended To Hamstring Broadband Competitors Like Google Fiber
16. An AT&T drone is now providing cellular service to people in Puerto Rico: Cellular network still devastated; carriers scramble to reconnect residents.
17. AT&T struggles to get Trump administration approval for Time Warner merger: DOJ could sue to block merger, but AT&T says everything is on track.
18. House Antitrust Subcommittee Explores the Role of Antitrust Law in Net Neutrality 
19. What blockchain can learn from the net neutrality debate: antitrust and regulatory aspects of “paid prioritization” for a nascent technology 
20. Australia’s national broadband network under relentless attack—by cockatoos: Birds love steel braided cables for beak maintenance.
21. ESPN Joins List Of Companies Enforcing Stringent Social Media Policies, Which Is Both Bad And Stupid

DIGITAL

1. Did a U.S. Court Just Disrespect the Supreme Court of Canada’s Global De-Indexing Decision?
2. US judge says “global de-indexing order” against Google threatens free speech: Canada’s highest court sought to alter search results, but it won’t apply in US.
3. Equustek No-Shows Legal Challenge Of Canadian Court Order Demanding Google Delist Sites Worldwide
4. Company that sought to control Google search results is a no-show in US court: Equustek won an unprecedented global order, but it’s unlikely to stick in the US.
5. US Court Protects Google From Canadian Court’s Delisting Order–Google v. Equustek (Eric Goldman)
6. U.S. Judge Rules Canadian Court Order “Threatens Free Speech on the Global Internet” (Michael Geist)
7. Linking in the US: is an embedded tweet an infringement of the public display right?
8. Does Sharing A Link To Online Content Amount To Copyright Infringement?: This would destroy the way we communicate today, including interactions on social media platforms — and you can thank Tom Brady for it.
9. Piracy site for science research dinged again in court—this time for $4.8M: Latest ruling might require Google to remove Sci-Hub from search.
10. Global Music Lobby Groups Hit Ottawa in Blitz Over Copyright Term Extension (Michael Geist)
11. Judge Ignores Congress, Pretends SOPA Exists, Orders Site Blocking Of Sci-Hub
12. Russian Twitter Support for Trump Began Right After He Started Campaign: In three months after Mr. Trump announced his candidacy, tweets from Russian accounts offered far more praise for the businessman than criticism
13. Russia funded Facebook and Twitter investments through Kushner associate: Institutions with close links to Kremlin financed stakes through business associate of Trump’s son-in-law, leaked files reveal
14. On last day of work, rogue Twitter employee deactivated Trump’s account: “We are conducting a full internal review.”
15. Trump Account Deactivation Exposes Tensions Within Twitter: Disconnect between Twitter’s employees and its highest-profile user is exposed after account deactivation
16. The rogue Twitter employee who deleted Trump’s account could face hacking charges
17. Don’t Cheer For The Twitter Employee Who Deleted Donald Trump’s Account
18. Trump Twitter Use Violates First Amendment, Argue Scholars in Brief by Georgetown Law’s ICAP
19. Newly released e-mails show Ivanka Trump kept using personal account: “The unusual formatting makes it appear that she is not using a government account.”
20. How Russia ‘Pushed Our Buttons’ With Fake Online Ads
21. Jenna Abrams, Russia’s Clown Troll Princess, Duped the World
22. Inside story: How Russians hacked the Democrats’ emails
23. Mitch McConnell: Tech Companies Should Help Us Weaponize the Internet Against Russia
24. Twitter rewrote its user guidelines so it’s easier to tell what will get you banned: Twitter hopes it can make things clearer.
25. Dianne Feinstein Wants Twitter To Just Hand Her A Bunch Of Private Communications
26. Congress Pats Itself On The Back Via Social Media For Its Opportunity To Slam Social Media
27. Twitter officially doubles character count, says most 280 testers didn’t use it: Today, you can spell out “two hundred and eighty” and still have room to say other stuff.
28. Twitter gives new 280-character limit to all users following limited testing phase: The tech company said the new limit will begin its global rollout Tuesday, with everyone receiving the bump up from 140 characters soon
29. Facebook’s New Mission: Video Will Bring Us Together
30. Senator Portman Pushes Forward With SESTA, Despite Being Misinformed
31. Dear Senators Portman & Blumenthal: What Should Blogs Do If SESTA Passes?
32. Internet Association Sells Out The Internet: Caves In And Will Now Support Revised SESTA
33. Will Sheryl Sandberg And Facebook Help Small Websites Threatened By SESTA?
34. How The Internet Association’s Support For SESTA Just Hurt Facebook And Its Users
35. How SESTA Undermines Section 230’s Good Samaritan Provisions (Eric Goldman)
36. Why Does SESTA Allow State Attorneys General To File Civil Claims?
37. Another Human Trafficking Expert Raises Concerns About SESTA
38. Ron Wyden Puts A Hold On SESTA And Warns About Its Dangers
39. Would Shutting Down Backpage Reduce Violence Against Women?
40. It’s Getting Harder for Tech Companies To Deny Responsibility for Content: The industry, having lost control of the narrative in Washington, has reversed course and backed a bill against online sex trafficking
41. Beware These Texas Shooting Rumors That Spread on CNN and Google
42. Now, Silicon Valley Is Totally Cool With a Bill That Could Ruin the Internet 
43. The Internet is Not a VCR
44. EFF destroys the podcasting patent, one last time: Owners of an infamous licensing campaign have now really tried everything.
45. Government-Supported Dutch YouTube Channel Turns Heads By Depicting Effects Of Recreational Drugs
46. YouTube’s Latest Pitch To Brands Celebrates Users Who Are “More Than Just Viewers”
47. After Neglecting Creators, Snapchat To Offer Monetization Opportunities, New Content Tools
48. Snapchat To Redesign Its App Following Disappointing Results
49. CNN Launches E-Commerce Unit, Plans Digital News Subscriptions in 2018
50. Amazon Fresh reportedly shutting down in neighborhoods in up to five states: Customers in affected areas will have to find a new grocery delivery service.
51. With deletion of one wallet, $280M in Ethereum wallets gets frozen: Parity multi-signature wallets created since July break, affecting 1M ETH.
52. SEC warns that celebrity cryptocurrency endorsements may be illegal: Floyd Mayweather and Paris Hilton could be in hot water for paid endorsements.
53. With deletion of one wallet, $280M in Ethereum wallets gets frozen: Parity multi-signature wallets created since July break, affecting 1M ETH.
54. How To Keep Your Bitcoin Safe And Secure
55. Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs): The Current State of Play
56. IBM’s plan to regulate pot with blockchains isn’t as crazy as it sounds: Canada is legalizing marijuana, and IBM wants to help.
57. How A Tiny Error Shut Off The Internet For Parts Of The Us
58. The Web began dying in 2014, here’s how
59. Something is wrong on the internet
60. The Tower of Babel: Five Challenges of the Modern Internet
61. Stephen Hawking: “I Fear That AI May Replace Humans Altogether”
62. Computer says no: why making AIs fair, accountable and transparent is crucial – As powerful AIs proliferate in society, the ability to trace their decisions, challenge them and remove ingrained biases has become a key area of research
63. Ray Kurzweil: “AI Will Not Displace Humans, It’s Going to Enhance Us”
64. Can copyright survive artificial intelligence?
65. China Could Soon Overtake the US in AI Development, Former Google CEO Says
66. DeepMind “Never Found the Limit” of AlphaGo Zero’s Intelligence
67. Can Artificial Intelligence Revolutionize Medicine?
68. Artificial Intelligence Is Putting Ultrasound On Your Phone
69. How sheep with cameras got some tiny islands onto Google Street View
70. The Google Docs Lockout Fiasco & The Failed Promise Of The Cloud
71. Intel Brings Virtual Reality Content To NBA On TNT, Offers Vision Of Future
72. Steven Soderbergh’s New App Will Change How You Watch TV
73. Apple At Its Best
74. I Hate How Much I Love the iPhone X
75. iPhone 8 and 8 Plus are hits as Apple sells 46.7 million smartphones in Q4: Apple Watch sales continue to grow while the company bounces back in China.
76. When Apple soured on Irish tax laws, it turned to a tiny English Channel island: “Apple is so big that it is effectively able to negotiate its own tax laws.”
77. Supreme Court won’t hear Apple v. Samsung round two: Apple has $120M final resolution in one of its two big cases against Samsung.
78. Apple’s Video Offering Takes Shape with Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon TV drama
79. Broadcom wants to buy Qualcomm in unprecedented $130 billion deal: Broadcom would become the world’s third-largest chipmaker, behind Intel and Samsung.
80. Elderly doctor: I lost my license because I don’t know how to use a computer – Doc says her paper records are just fine – state medical board disagrees.
81. Doctor with no computer skills vows to battle medical board in court: “I am not going to compromise patients’ lives or health for the system.”
82. Watching Hackers in 2017 – what happened to all the anarchy?: The 1995 cult classic depicts a vision of techies as stylish, punk and sexy – over twenty years later that aesthetic and attitude is nowhere to be seen
83. The Year in Push Alerts: How the onslaught of breaking news has shaped our lives since Nov. 8, 2016.
84. The End Of The Cult Of The Founder
85. Vice Opens Up Asia HQ, Plots Regional Expansion

CREATIVITY

1. High Court rules on copyright protection of TV formats for game shows 
2. DC Comics Defeats “Jesus” Trademark
3. Moosehead Still At It: Sues Hop ‘N Moose Brewing For Trademark Infringement
4. ‘Cosby Show’ Producer Sues BBC for Using Clips in Bill Cosby Doc: In a copyright lawsuit, Carsey-Werner Company alleges the network sought to capitalize on the popularity of ‘The Cosby Show.’
5. This lawsuit against a Cosby rape documentary is why fair use exists: “Cosby Show” producers say even 7-second clips amount to copyright infringement.
6. Harvey Weinstein: Rape claim by actress credible, police say
7. David Boies Accused Of Running Horrifying Spy Operation Against Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers
8. Netflix Reportedly Severs Ties With Kevin Spacey, Effective Immediately
9. Netflix Is the Reason Behind the Disney, Fox Deal Talks
10. Taylor Swift’s Legal Rep Tries To Kill Critical Blog Post With Bogus Defamation, Copyright Claims 
11. Taylor Swift threatens to sue blogger who connected her to white supremacists: Swift tried to use copyright to keep her threat of a lawsuit secret.
12. Taylor Swift Attempts to Silence Critic, ACLU Fires Back: Pop star and attorney send threatening letter to local blogger
13. India: In Defence of AIB’s Game of Thrones Memes: When can Satire/Critique Act as a Suitable Defence?
14. SLAPP Alert: Professor Sues Another For Defamation Over Competing Academic Papers
15. Disney Bans LA Times Writers From Advance Screenings In Response To Negative Articles
16. LA Times: You can’t read our Thor review because Disney is mad – LA Times documented lavish election spending to defend Disneyland tax breaks.
17. Disney forced to backpedal after banning LA Times from Thor screening: LA Times documented lavish election spending that defended Disneyland tax breaks.
18. Thor: Ragnarok’s Valkyrie Shows How Far We’ve Got to Go for LGBTQ Representation on the Big Screen
19. Chadwick Boseman Chose His Black Panther Accent to Make a Point About White Supremacy
20. Museum fees are killing art history, say academics
21. Top Academic Publisher Kowtows To China: Censors Thousands Of Papers, Denies It Is Censorship
22. Journalists also have a “duty to warn”: Are we starting to do our jobs?: Media’s obsession with “balance” and addiction to spectacle led to disaster. Can we get back to real reporting now?
23. Marvel loses creator of Jessica Jones, Miles Morales to DC: Bendis worked with Marvel since the early 2000s, writing for nearly every big series.
24. Canadian Heritage Minister Joly Hints Many Cultural Groups Don’t Comply With Lobbyist Reporting Rules (Michael Geist)

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Canadian Court Says Law Enforcement Doesn’t Have To Hand Over Info On Stingray Devices
2. Kim Dotcom settles case he filed against NZ police over “military-style raid”: Cops could have “knocked at our door at a reasonable hour and advised me of my arrest.”
3. FBI can’t break the encryption on Texas shooter’s smartphone: FBI won’t confirm it’s an iPhone: “I don’t want to tell bad guys what phone to buy.”
4. Miami City Attorney Tries To Erase Photos Of Fired Firefighters From The Internet
5. Should I be worried that Amazon knows so much about me?
6. Security vs. convenience? IoT requires another level of thinking about risk – Op-ed: Devices like Amazon Key put too much risk assessment on users; bad decisions follow.
7. With Amazon Key’s launch, customers and lawyers have lots of questions – Prof: “Why would anyone want to give Amazon access to their home?”
8. How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You’ve Ever Met
9. Uploading all your nudes to Facebook isn’t such a bad idea: An industry-wide database of image hashes could stop non-consensual pornography, or revenge porn, at source
10. To prevent revenge porn, Facebook will look at user-submitted nude photos: Pilot program goals are laudable, but is the remedy as bad as the ailment it treats?
11. Flaw crippling millions of crypto keys is worse than first disclosed: Estonia abruptly suspends digital ID cards as crypto attacks get easier and cheaper.
12. Cryptojacking craze that drains your CPU now done by 2,500 sites: Android apps with millions of Google Play downloads also crash the party.
13. Stuxnet-style code signing is more widespread than anyone thought: Forgeries undermine the trust millions of people place in digital certificates.
14. Critical Tor flaw leaks users’ real IP address—update now
15. Russia’s ‘Fancy Bear’ Hackers Exploit A Microsoft Office Flaw—And NYC Terrorism Fear
16. The Devious Netflix Phish That Just Won’t Die
17. So What the Hell Is Doxxing?: What doxxing really is, plus advice on how to protect yourself from unwanted exposure of personal and private information online.
18. What Is Informational Injury? The FTC Wants to Know What Folks Think Is Enough Harm to Take Action
19. The Case Of Glassdoor And The Grand Jury Subpoena, And How Courts Are Messing With Online Speech In Secret
20. Some Thoughts On Gag Rules And Government Unmasking Demands

GAMES

1. Humvee maker sues Activision over ‘Call of Duty’
2. AM General sues Activision over ‘Call of Duty’ Humvee use: The “Call of Duty” franchise rakes in billions, and AM General wants a piece of the pie.
3. Overwatch devs aim to combat toxicity with a dedicated ‘strike team’
4. The Trouble with Trailers: Developers have learned to deal with violence and difficult themes intelligently and respectfully in recent years – it’s time for marketing teams to catch up
5. The Price Wolfenstein 2 Had To Pay To Get Around Germany’s Anti-Nazi Laws Was Removing A Mustache
6. Board members vote to officially end voice actors’ strike
7. Nearly a year later, video game voice actors end their strike: Approved deal ends the longest acting strike in U.S. history.
8. In Amazon’s game engine, voice actors can now be replaced with robots: Just after actor strike ends, Lumberyard update adds a full text-to-speech pipeline.
9. The End of Ownership: Video gamers have discovered a new and scary loophole in the laws of ownership—and the upshot is that a lot of your digital property might not technically be yours.
10. The life, death, and rebirth of EVE Online’s player-created cemetery
11. Need For Speed Payback Review: One step forwards and two steps back for the series.
12. Call Of Duty: WWII Is A Small Story, Told Poorly
13. Launch to launch, Call of Duty: WWII saw double Infinite Warfare’s sales
14. Call of Duty: WWII doubles Infinite Warfare sales worldwide – Over $500m in opening weekend is just shy of Black Ops III’s $550m
15. Niantic is developing a Harry Potter AR game
16. Harry Potter AR game in the works from Niantic
17. Pokemon Go creator looking to replicate its mobile success in partnership with Warner Bros
18. Report: Apple preparing to release AR headset in 2020
19. PUBG ban in China unlikely, says industry analyst: China is already the number one region for the game, with a 40% share of active players
20. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds crosses 20 million copies sold
21. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds hits 20 million sold: Bluehole survival shooter hits newest milestone less than a month after reaching 15 million
22. Fortnite’s Battle Royale reaches 20 million downloads: Epic Games’ free-to-play battle royale edges in front of main rival PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, but remains well behind on concurrent players
23. Canadian game dev surging – ESA Canada: Trade group says national games industry growing at six times the pace of the country’s economy
24. As ESA enthusiastically backs GOP tax reform plan, some devs dismay
25. UK console game sales now 30 – 45% digital: Confidential data shown to GamesIndustry.biz reveals massive shift in UK game sales
26. UK physical market drops 16% in October as downloads increase: FIFA 18 tops a very different looking Top 20
27. UK games tax relief extended to 2023: European Commission renotifies tax incentive scheme, granting another six years of support for British developers
28. Super Mario Odyssey sells over 500,000 copies in Japan in a few days: The latest Famitsu numbers, which don’t include download sales, make Mario the second-highest selling Switch software launch
29. Odyssey is fastest-selling Super Mario game in US and Europe: Switch sales now at 2.6m in the US, with Odyssey selling 1.1m
30. L.A. Noire is too big to download to a standard Switch: Even the physical version requires a massive downloadable patch.
31. EA not committing to more Switch games: Publisher wants to wait until system has been on sale a year to decide on development support beyond FIFA 18
32. Sold Out: “Nintendo does not exclude you, it just asks you to up your game” – CEO Garry Williams says “the opportunities are there” for boxed games on Switch following digital indie gold rush
33. Mobile still a “core pillar” of Nintendo’s strategy, despite Super Mario Run shortfall: “There is still much we have to learn,” says president Tatsumi Kimishima; no plans for platform holder to manufacture smartphones
34. Sales up at Capcom thanks to ‘stalwart’ Monster Hunterfranchise
35. Monster Hunter Switch drives Capcom’s sales up to $295mz: Nintendo title shows “stalwart performance”, publisher expects downloads to account for one in three sales by April
36. Bandai surprised by Switch’s popularity, wants more titles on console
37. Bandai Namco ramping up support for the Nintendo Switch: “We didn’t think the Switch [would] be accepted this fast”, says president Mitsuaki Taguchi
38. One modder is on a quest to preserve Nintendo’s forgotten Flash games
39. Blizzard has its own classic World of Warcraft server in the works
40. Blizzard finally relents to years of fan pressure with World of Warcraft Classic: Shock announcement comes at outset of annual Blizzcon event.
41. Destiny 2 and digital drive Activision Blizzard growth: More than half of Destiny 2 copies sold on consoles were purchased digitally as Activision side carries the company’s quarter – Over $1bn in-game revenues
42. For console games, downloads are approaching a tipping point: Destiny 2’s digital success could spell long-term trouble for discs
43. Activision Blizzard beats expectations to post record Q3 revenues
44. StarCraft II goes free-to-play seven years after launch: Single-player campaign, ranked multiplayer available free of charge.
45. Blizzard is making StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty free-to-play
46. Starcraft II goes free-to-play: New WoW expansion announced alongside new business model for Blizzard’s hit RTS
47. Take-Two plans to only release games with ‘recurrent consumer spending’ hooks: “It may not always be an online model, it probably won’t always be a virtual currency model, but there will be some ability to engage in an ongoing basis with our titles after release across the board. That’s a sea change in our business.”
48. NBA 2K18, GTA Online drive Take-Two’s Q2: CEO Strauss Zelnick says despite complaints of aggressive microtransactions, player spending “probably the best barometer of how a title’s being received”
49. Take-Two wants “recurrent consumer spending” from all titles, won’t always be virtual currency: Meanwhile CEO Strauss Zelnick remains confident Red Dead 2 won’t cannibalise ongoing GTA Online success
50. Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy drive strong earnings for Square Enix
51. New Dragon Quest, old Final Fantasy drive Square Enix growth: Japanese debut of DQ XI, HD remaster of FF XII, and Nier: Automata push publisher to 24% sales growth for first half of fiscal year
52. For the first time, Ubisoft’s microtransactions out-earned digital game sales
53. Microtransactions now account for nearly half of Take-Two’s revenue
54. Games revenue slows to a crawl at Microsoft
55. Microsoft gaming revenue stalls ahead of Xbox One X launch: Strong Xbox software and services revenue offset by lower hardware revenue
56. Pressure Mounts for Xbox’s Missing VR Strategy as PSVR Rakes in Half a Billion in Hardware Alone: VR nowhere in sight for next week’s Xbox One X launch
57. Microsoft joins OpenXR VR and AR standardization project
58. Xbox plans to ramp up in-house development efforts
59. Xbox to make bigger first-party push, could acquire studios: “We need to grow,” Xbox boss Phil Spencer tells Bloomberg
60. Microsoft will have game streaming within 3 years as focus shifts to software: After years of decline, Microsoft plans to invest in first-party game development.
61. Microsoft could bring first-party titles to rival platforms
62. Xbox One X games at launch: The boosts, the bummers, and the bottom line
63. Xbox One X review: An exclamation point for hardware, a question mark for software: Is Microsoft’s “true 4K” console worth $100 more than the PS4 Pro?
64. Xbox One X pre-orders from Amazon UK delayed: Stock issues to responsible for delay, says distributor
65. Assassin’s Creed Origins launch sales double Syndicate’s: Strong return of historical action franchise a bonus as Mario + Rabbids, Rainbow Six Siege help push first half sales up 66% year-over-year
66. Zynga sees earnings rise for the second quarter in a row
67. Zynga turnaround continues, company buys Peak Games’ card studio for $100m: Zynga has now posted two consecutive profitable quarters for the first time since going public
68. Zynga looks to solidify newfound profitability: Developer building a portfolio of card games to keep players engaged for “a very long period of time”
69. 2 Years of Gremlins, Inc.: demographics
70. VR devs react to CCP exit: “VR is not dead”: Studios still optimistic about VR’s future, saying headlines about its death are simply “scandalous”
71. Opioids Haven’t Solved Chronic Pain. Maybe Virtual Reality Can
72. Wind Simulation Accessory for VR Headsets Hits $30k Crowdfunding Goal on Day One
73. A word of warning on VR: Professor Mark Mon-Williams explains why VR headsets have different minimum age ratings, and what developers can do to avoid potential negative effects
74. Intel To Bring Esports To PyeongChang Before Winter Olympic Games
75. Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Acquires compLexity Gaming
76. Dallas Cowboys owner buys majority stake in Complexity Gaming: Complexity to relocate to Cowboys’ headquarters as construction begins on “state-of-the-art operations centre”
77. UK games tax relief initiative extended until 2023
78. Zynga pays $100M in cash to buy Turkish mobile dev Peak Games
79. Zynga sees earnings rise for the second quarter in a row
80. Telltale Games lays off 90 employees

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Government Rejects Call for an Internet Tax: “Conflicts With Principle of Affordable Access” (Michael Geist)
2. Compliance and Enforcement Decision CRTC 2017-367: 3510395 Canada Inc., operating as Compu.Finder – Constitutional challenge to Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation
3. Bill O’Reilly says he was one of many employees accused of sexual harassment at Fox
4. James Murdoch Says Size of O’Reilly Settlement Was ‘News to Me’ 
5. Local TV and radio stations no longer required to have local studios: Republicans eliminate rule, make it easier for stations to close local studios.
6. The Main Studio Rule Is Dead; Long Live the Main Studio 
7. FCC Approves Repeal of Main Studio Rules and Starts Proceeding to Examine Broadcast Public Notices and Filing of TV Ancillary and Supplementary Revenue Reports 
8. FCC Likely To Use Thanksgiving Holiday To Hide Its Unpopular Plan To Kill Net Neutrality
9. A Public Focused Approach To Net Neutrality
10. Michigan Lawmaker Flees Twitter After Reports Highlight She Helped AT&T Push Anti-Competition Broadband Law
11. Verizon brings back full-quality video streaming for $10 more: If you want your mobile video to stream in 4K on Verizon, you’ll need to pay extra. And have the right phone.
12. Report: Verizon struggling to launch streaming TV service in crowded field – It’s had two delays and now plans to launch in the spring, says Bloomberg. 
13. Verizon’s Long-Shot Bet To Disrupt Google And Facebook
14. Michigan Lawmaker Doesn’t Understand Her Own Bill Hamstringing Broadband Competition
15. The Cable Industry’s Ingenious ‘Solution’ To TV Cord Cutting? Raise Broadband Rates
16. After Report Suggests It Ripped Off Taxpayers, Frontier Communications Shrugs When Asked For Subsidies Back
17. $100 Internet bill became $340 for no reason, Frontier customer says: Overcharges continue for months despite customer service promising a fix.
18. Google Fiber is now in Louisville thanks to new fiber deployment strategy: Microtrenching sped up work in Louisville during court battle over utility poles.
19. Wireless Carriers Again Busted Collecting, Selling User Data Without Consent Or Opt Out Tools
20. Jails pocket up to 60 percent of what inmates pay for phone calls: “Site commissions” raise prices by sending up to 60 percent of revenue to jails. 

DIGITAL

1.  Demers v. Yahoo Inc: Québec Court Confirms that Québec Consumer Law Applies to Free Online Services
2. Google Removed Catalonian Referendum App Following Spanish Court Order
3. Another Court Rejects ‘Material Support To Terrorists’ Claims Against Social Media Sites–Gonzalez v. Google (Eric Goldman)
4. Controversial “Gripe Site” Protected (Again) by the Communications Decency Act and Defeats Novel Copyright Attack with Website “Browsewrap” License to User Generated Content
5. Spanski Enterprises, Inc. v. Telewizja Polska, S.A.: How Far Is Too Far When It Comes to the Extraterritorial Reach of US Copyright Law? 
6. Nielsen Data says 89% of OTT Viewing Takes Place on TV Sets
7. Apple calls report of reduced iPhone X Face ID specs “completely false”: Apple says Face ID will still only have a one-in-a-million chance of failing.
8. All The Face-Tracking Tech Behind Apple’s Animoji 
9. After Supreme Court detour, Apple v. Samsung goes to a fourth jury trial: Apple wields design as a weapon, a strategy that has led to judicial paralysis.
10. Apple’s Billion-Dollar Bet on Hollywood Is the Opposite of Edgy: A conservative corporation takes its first steps into a new industry.
11. Empathy – the latest gadget Silicon Valley wants to sell you: The tech world wants us to believe that virtual reality will unlock human understanding on a global scale. But it’s also a business strategy 
12. Vox Media Fires Editorial Director Lockhart Steele For Misconduct, Says Investigation Is “Ongoing”
13. Open for business, ransomware authors and perpetrators cashing in on emerging dark web marketplace economy 
14. Two-week-old Pixel 2 XL displays are already showing burn-in: LG’s terrible OLED panels have yet another issue.
15. Gab Drops Its Lawsuit Against Google; Considers Trying Its Hand At Lobbying
16. Copyright Office Will Renew Previous DMCA Exemptions Without Much Fuss — But Why Is This Even Necessary?
17. Report: Twitter CEO took a Russian impostor’s bait in 2016: The retweets were for innocent, “positive” stories.” And that was the point. 
18. Proposed law would regulate online ads to hinder Russian election influence: Honest Ads Act requires Google, Twitter, Facebook to open ads to public review.
19. When Russian Trolls Attack: Anna Zhavnerovich knew she was taking a risk when she publicized the details of her assault online. But in doing so, she joined a growing movement of survivors fighting back against Russia’s Kremlin-influenced trolling machine. 
20. Political ads on Twitter will now be labeled with lots of spending data: Follows mounting congressional pressure about social media ads and disclosure.
21. In its new timeline, Twitter will end revenge porn next week, hate speech in two: The company has laid out a “safety calendar” with changes through January.
22. Lawyers: Trump’s Twitter Account Not Presidential; Also: Trump Is President, Can’t Be Sued
23. Trump’s Favorite Law Firm Loses Massive RICO SLAPP Suit Against Greenpeace, But Has Another One Already Going
24. This Week’s Best Twitter Is College Kids Pretending to Flunk Midterms for Viral Fame 
25. Mercedes handles the competition because it knows how to handle data, too: Ahead of (another) Mercedes win, Ars gets a look at the team’s network stack.
26. High-tech mirror for cancer patients only works if you smile
27. UK Gov’t Considering Redefining Social Media Services As Publishers To Make It Easier To Control Them
28. How Social Media Endangers Knowledge
29. How Fiction Becomes Fact on Social Media 
30. The Responsibility of Online Platforms: a Marginal Challenge in Québec
31. Russian Cyberspies Are Rushing to Exploit Recent Flash 0-Day Before It Goes Cold
32. Computer Parts Site Newegg Is Being Sued for Allegedly Engaging in Massive Fraud [Updated]
33. Korean banks sue Newegg, allege online retailer aided massive fraud: Both Newegg, ASI will “vigorously defend” their companies and deny wrongdoing.
34. When Government Fails, Social Media Is The New 911
35. How blockchain technology can set us free from this Brexit time warp
36. Blockchains Explained In Two Minutes
37. MasterCard Announces That Payments Can Now be Made on Blockchain 
38. Your Browser Could Be Mining Cryptocurrency For A Stranger
39. An AI god will emerge by 2042 and write its own bible. Will you worship it?
40. Elon Musk Eviscerates People Who Discuss “A.I. Gods”
41. Artificial Intelligence in Christian Thought and Practice: This series by Christian computer scientists introduces questions for Christians about AI and its role in society
42. These Are The Ethical Dilemmas We Face As AI Takes Over Our Lives 
43. Using Abstract VR Art for Neural Entrainment & Brain Research + Can Creative AI Become Conscious?
44. The Surreal Comedy Bot That’s Turning AI Into LOL
45. Google Is Honing AI That Can Recognize Human Actions Using YouTube Videos
46. Insights: Google Knits Artificial Intelligence Into Everything, But Are We Sure It Won’t Be Evil?
47. Welcoming Our New Robot Overlords: Once, robots assisted human workers. Now it’s the other way around.
48. The Future of Online Dating Is Unsexy and Brutally Effective
49. Facebook is struggling to meet the burden of securing itself, security chief says: Chief Security Officer described security report as a “very painful process.”
50. How People Inside Facebook Are Reacting To The Company’s Election Crisis
51. Monopoly Power and the Future of Facebook
52. Will Facebook Kill All Future Facebooks?
53. Court Not Impressed With Sneaky Plan To Sell Patents To Native Americans To Avoid Review… But New Lawsuits Filed
54. Several women accuse tech pundit Robert Scoble of sexual harassment
55. Tech Writer Robert Scoble Accused of Sexual Harassment, Assault by Multiple Women
56. The Slippery Slope of Internet Censorship in Egypt: In response to a recent, dramatic increase of Internet filtering in Egypt, Internet users take to social media and Google Drive to protest filtering and disseminate banned content.
57. A Joke Tweet Leads To ‘Child Trafficking’ Investigation, Providing More Evidence Of Why SESTA Would Be Abused
58. Beyond ICE In Oakland: How SESTA Threatens To Chill Any Online Discussion About Immigration
59. Study On Craigslist Shutting ‘Erotic Services’ Shows SESTA May Hurt Those It Purports To Help
60. Is Hollywood ‘Exploiting’ Anti-Trafficking Organization To Support SESTA?
61. How A Startup’s Legal Battle With A Software Giant Could Redefine Tech Workers’ Rights
62. Uber, Intel, and other tech firms will urge Congress to let “Dreamers” stay – Uber: “We plan to support Dreamers as long as they need help.”
63. Regulators of ‘sharing economy’ platforms caught between competing interests
64. Cities around US offer billions in tax breaks to be Amazon’s HQ2: Cities and states are trying to one-up each other, showing off their best features.
65. Another German decision warns against broad application of GS Media presumption for for-profit link providers
66. NAFTA Modernization and IP/E-commerce: My Appearance at the Senate Open Caucus (Michael Geist)
67. Netflix Plans To Fund Its Increased 2018 Content Budget With Additional $1.6 Billion Of Debt
68. Netflix to Raise $1.6 Billion More Debt Financing to Fuel Content-Buying Binge
69. Nielsen Now Vends Ratings Info For Netflix Shows To Top Media Companies
70. Using YouTube Takedowns As Extortion
71. YouTube’s brilliant ad was one of the biggest stories from Game 1 of the World Series
72. As YouTube TV Begins World Series Ad Campaign, Its Play Button Vexes Viewers
73. Billboard Will Decrease Weight Of YouTube Views In Hot 100 Charts
74. How YouTube Entrepreneurs In Their 20s Are Disrupting Traditional Record Labels
75. “Despacito”, YouTube’s Most-Viewed Video, Was Shot In 14 Hours And Edited On Final Cut Pro X
76. Amazon Video Direct Funds Programming For The First Time By Investing In Funny Or Die Shorts
77. BroadbandTV Signs Yousef ‘FouseyTube’ Erakat, Bart Baker, And h3h3Productions
78. Snap Has Hundreds Of Thousands Of Unsold Spectacles Sitting In Warehouses 
79. The Judge’s Code: Meet the judge who codes — and decides tech’s biggest cases
80. Digital Goods Are Valued Less Than Physical Goods
81. How has digital journalism changed your work day?
82. How Big Tech Became A Bipartisan Whipping Boy 

CREATIVITY

1. Eminem Wins New Zealand Copyright Lawsuit; Awarded Over 400K In Damages
2. Author Who Lost Copyright Case Over The Da Vinci Code In The US In 2007 Looks To Revive It In The UK In 2017
3. TV formats potentially eligible for copyright protection as dramatic works under UK law
4. Forgetting Functionality (Christopher Buccafusco & Jeanne Fromer)
5. Copyright Laws Make Photographs of the Eiffel Tower at Night Illegal
6. Does a French copyright smell anything?
7. Judge Bars News Station From Showing Pictures In News Story, Admits It’s Prior Restraint, Shrugs
8. Hate speech is protected free speech, even on college campuses: My students trust colleges to control offensive speech. They shouldn’t.
9. Communism’s Answer to Mickey Mouse Is Thrust Into a Very Capitalist Dispute
10. Long Trail Brewing Sues East Coast Apparel Company Over ‘Take A Hike’ T-Shirt
11. Harvey Weinstein Case Brings Sexual Harassment Back to the Spotlight 
12. Photographer Spends Eternity Waiting For Museum Visitors To Match Artworks And The Result Is Worth The Wait
13. Serialized Television Has Become a Disease
14. How (not) to protect an idea for a TV format 
15. Arnold Schwarzenegger Thinks Last Action Hero Bombed Because of Bill Clinton 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. DOJ changes “gag order” policy, Microsoft to drop lawsuit – Brad Smith, Microsoft’s attorney: “It is an unequivocal win for our customers.”
2. New DOJ Policy Restricts Use Of Warrant/Subpoena Gag Orders
3. Government Drops Its Demand For Data On 6,000 Facebook Users
4. Amazon Key Is Bigger Than Package Delivery
5. Amazon Key unlocks your door for in-home package deliveries: Will you let Amazon be the gatekeeper to your home?
6. Court Has No Problem With All House Residents Being Forced To Hand Over Fingers To Law Enforcement
7. Judge: MalwareTech is no longer under curfew, GPS monitoring – Marcus Hutchins, awaiting trial, can now live and work unencumbered in LA.
8. New Ransomware Linked To Notpetya Sweeps Russia And Ukraine
9. New wave of data-encrypting malware hits Russia and Ukraine: Highly advanced “Bad Rabbit” hits train stations, airport, and media.
10. DOJ Subpoenas Twitter About Popehat, Dissent Doe And Others Over A Smiley Emoji Tweet
11. The DOJ’s Bizarre Subpoena Over An Emoji Highlights Its Ridiculous Vendetta Against A Security Researcher
12. The Reaper IoT Botnet Has Already Infected A Million Networks
13. Equifax Deserves The Corporate Death Penalty
14. Key e-mail from feds got caught in body-cam maker’s spam filter: Axon hopes “to resolve these matters as expeditiously as possible.”
15. Police body cams had no “statistically significant effect” in DC: “There was no indication that the cameras changed behavior at all.”
16. NYPD Tells Judge Its $25 Million Forfeiture Database Has No Backup
17. NYPD can’t get story straight on evidence system backups: Deputy commissioner says the system is “backed up”; IT staff affidavit says otherwise.
18. FBI director: Unbreakable encryption is a “huge, huge problem”: “I get it, there’s a balance that needs to be struck,” Christopher Wray said.
19. Law Prof Argues Cell Location Records Shouldn’t Need Warrants Because Cell Phones Have Encryption
20. Time For The Feds To Say What They Know About Kaspersky
21. Worker who snuck NSA malware home had his PC backdoored, Kaspersky says: Kaspersky presses its case it didn’t knowingly help Russia steal NSA secrets.
22. Kaspersky pledges independent code review to cast off spying suspicions: After accusations by DHS of ties to Russian intel, company seeks to reassure customers.
23. Crippling crypto weakness opens millions of smartcards to cloning: Gemalto IDPrime.NET almost certainly isn’t the only smartcard vulnerable to ROCA.
24. How To Avoid Future Krack-Like Failures: Create Well-Maintained ‘Fat’ Protocols Using Initial Coin Offerings
25. “Security concerns” lead to LTE service shutdown on Chinese Apple Watches: The Chinese government doesn’t know what to do with eSIMs yet.
26. Amazon Key Puts Deliveries—And Delivery People—In Your Home
27. Computer hacking victims to receive up to £6,000 compensation for ‘distress’ caused by cyber crime, under new plans: There are fears the EU regulations will spark industry of bogus hacking claims – Companies with millions of customers could be left crippled if they have to pay – Bill would give right for payout for ‘psychiatric and psychological damage’ – In 2013 157,000 TalkTalk customers were affected when it was hacked – If everyone affected claimed, the company would have to pay £471 million 
28. On Internet-Connected Toys and Human Flourishing: Hello, Privacy
29. Police Camera Study Shows New Tech Having Little Effect On Misconduct And Excessive Force
30. Google, Facebook & Comcast Jointly Lied to California Lawmakers To Scuttle Broadband Privacy Bill
31. How lobbyists convinced lawmakers to kill a broadband privacy bill: Leaked documents reveal scare tactics that helped ISPs avoid privacy rules.
32. A comparative guide to data security penalties in 10+ jurisdictions

Jon

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Netflix in campaign to ‘set record straight’ on $500-million pledge for Canadian productions
2. Think There Should be a Netflix Tax?: Why There is Nothing Stopping Canadian Subscribers From Paying Today (Michael Geist)
3. Donald Trump tweet suggests that FCC should take NBC off the air: That’s “not how it works,” FCC commissioner tells the president.
4. Zero Rating & Internet Adoption
5. Advertised broadband speeds should actually be realistic, UK tells ISPs: ISPs would have 30 days to improve speeds or risk losing customers.
6. Anybody Claiming Net Neutrality Rules Killed Broadband Investment Is Lying To You
7. Wall Street Predicts Apathetic Regulators And Limited Competition Will Let Comcast Double Broadband Prices
8. Analysts Predict Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Will Be A Massive Job Killer 

DIGITAL

1. Catalan independence websites blocked by Spanish government in bid to stop referendum: ‘Blocking domain name servers is doing what Turkey does and what China does and North Korea does’
2. The Disturbing Rise Of Cyberattacks Against Abortion Clinics
3. Iran Cracks Down On Movie Pirates In The Most Inception-Esque Manner Possible
4. Russia Moves to Block Cryptocurrency Exchanges
5. Miami Beach Police Unaware Of The First Amendment, Arrest Guy For Twitter Parody Account
6. Miami Beach cops arrest man for Twitter parody of police spokesman – Police chief: Parody “threatened to damage the reputation” of police department.
7. Congress members threaten Twitter with regulation if it doesn’t suppress ‘racially divisive communications’ and ‘anti-American sentiments’
8. Alt-White: How the Breitbart Machine Laundered Racist Hate – Here’s How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas Into The Mainstream – A cache of documents obtained by BuzzFeed News reveals the truth about Steve Bannon’s alt-right “killing machine.”
9. Fantasy gambling is newsworthy, doesn’t violate players’ rights of publicity (Rebecca Tushnet)
10. Suing Doe reviewers under the Lanham Act fails (Rebecca Tushnet)
11. Hyperlinking to Sources Can Help Defeat Defamation Claims–Adelson v. Harris (Eric Goldman)
12. B.C. social-media terror case shows pitfalls for prosecution (Benjamin Perrin)
13. Real Talk About Fake News: Towards a Better Theory for Platform Governance (Nabiha Syed)
14. How to seek truth in the era of fake news
15. Supreme Court Leaves Troubling CFAA Rulings In Place: Sharing Passwords Can Be Criminal Hacking
16. Potential Lawsuit Could Reveal How Trump Targeted Voters on Facebook and If There’s Any Connection to Russia
17. How Israel Caught Russian Hackers Scouring the World for U.S. Secrets
18. Kaspersky reportedly modified its AV to help Russia steal NSA secrets: Hackers used company’s software to secretly scan for top-secret information, WSJ says.
19. Kaspersky, Russia, And The Antivirus Paradox
20. Silicon Valley’s Russian ads problem, explained: Why Facebook, Google and Twitter find themselves in the middle of an investigation into the 2016 election.
21. Report: Facebook removed references to Russia from fake-news report – Facebook decided it didn’t have enough evidence to name Russia in April report.
22. Atone? He’d better: Facebook is still the biggest source of right-wing fake news – From Hillary rumors to the nonexistent Puerto Rico truckers’ strike, Facebook continues to spread total garbage
23. The Threat of Big Tech Is Real: Why it’s time to panic about what Google and Facebook are doing to our lives.
24. “The Industry Is Fundamentally Broken”: Women On Sexism In Silicon Valley
25. How Facebook Rewards Polarizing Political Ads
26. The science behind why fake news is so hard to wipe out: It’s time for Facebook and Google to pay attention to the psychology of the illusory truth effect.
27. How Facebook Outs Sex Workers
28. Facebook outsources its fake news problem to Wikipedia—and an army of human moderators
29. Accidental Dow Jones News Report Claims Google to Buy Apple for $9 Billion
30. Dow Jones posts fake story claiming Google was buying Apple: Story claims Jobs arranged the $9 billion acquisition in his will.
31. Why Apple could be slapped with a massive $15 billion Irish tax bill: Tech giants use shell companies to defer corporate income tax bills indefinitely.
32. Jony Ive’s creativity pales compared to Apple’s App Store lawsuit defense: Apple sells “software distribution services to developers” who lease App Store space.
33. Supreme Court says live streaming would “adversely affect” oral arguments: Court wants transparency “while preserving the integrity of its proceedings.”
34. Facebook’s Promise of Community Is a Lie: Under increasing criticism for spreading fake news, the internet giant is using communitarianism as a shield.
35. Monopoly Men: After an eventful summer in Silicon Valley, there is blood in the water. At stake is democracy itself.
36. Should Facebook And Twitter Be Regulated Under The First Amendment?
37. Insights: New Year, New Start for Facebook’s Ad Targeting Troubles
38. Dove apologizes for ‘racist’ ad that caused outcry on social media
39. Twitter Temporarily Blocks Campaign Ad… Getting It Much More Attention
40. “Baby body parts” campaign ad from US House member blocked by Twitter
41. Algorithms Have Already Gone Rogue
42. Most people saw the Las Vegas shooting as a tragedy. Propagandists saw an opportunity.: Fake rumors designed to spread anti-leftist bias included making up victims, wrongly identifying the shooter, and feeding false narratives to media.
43. YouTube Enacts Search Algorithm Changes After Las Vegas Conspiracy Videos Run Rampant
44. Return of the algorithm monster: YouTube auto-promoted conspiracy theory videos – Dubious search results have led YouTube to “accelerate the rollout of planned changes.”
45. Algorithmic Consumer Protection: To manage the risks & benefits of AI, we need to look beyond the fairness and accuracy of AI decisions.
46. Vegan’s life upended after Facebook rant about “carnists” killed in Vegas: “It’s almost like a lynch mob is forming,” she says about the fallout from her post.
47. YouTube Restricts Videos Related To Bump Stocks In Wake Of Las Vegas Shooting
48. When YouTube Removes Violent Videos, It Impedes Justice
49. Creators Cry Foul After YouTube Demonetizes Casey Neistat’s #LoveArmyLasVegas Video
50. Jake Paul Sued For Damaging Man’s Hearing During Car Horn Prank
51. German YouTube Star Finds Himself Facing Trial One Year After Ill-Advised Prank
52. Defy Media Fires ‘Honest Trailers’ Creator Andy Signore After Wave Of Sexual Misconduct Allegations
53. Amazon Weighing New Ad Programs To Make It A More Formidable YouTube Competitor (Report)
54. GAW Miners founder owes nearly $10 million to SEC over Bitcoin fraud: Homero Josh Garza’s now-defunct companies must also pay $10 million.
55. The Creator of Bitcoin Comes Clean, Only to Disappear Again
56. How a Silicon Valley Striver Became the Alt-Right’s Tech Hero: Andrew Torba founded Gab.ai as a “free speech” alternative to other social networks
57. Google CEO Sundar Pichai: ‘I don’t know whether humans want change that fast’ – From artificial intelligence to cheap smartphones, Google is on the frontline of technological development. But is it growing too big and moving too fast?
58. Google’s New AI Can Mimic Human Speech Almost Perfectly
59. Google’s Internet-Beaming Balloons Will Soon Be Floating Over Puerto Rico
60. Google Fiber is losing interest in old-school TV: Existing TV customers will be kept on, but some will see a price increase.
61. Kurzweil Claims That the Singularity Will Happen by 2045
62. The Last Invention of Man: How AI might take over the world.
63. The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions: Mistaken extrapolations, limited imagination, and other common mistakes that distract us from thinking more productively about the future.
64. Put Humans at the Center of AI
65. Waiting for the AI claims hurricane 
66. We Almost Gave Up On Building Artificial Brains
67. As IBM Ramps Up Its AI-Powered Advertising, Can Watson Crack the Code of Digital Marketing?: Acquisition of The Weather Company fuels a new division
68. Should drunk drivers be charged with DUI in fully autonomous cars?: New laws will have to be written based on the level of automation you have.
69. How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds: Research suggests that as the brain grows dependent on phone technology, the intellect weakens
70. ‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia: Google, Twitter and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks alarmed by a race for human attention
71. While You Were Offline: The People Of Twitter Agree With Rex Tillerson
72. Does The Media Cover Trump Too Much? Too Harshly? Too Narrowly?
73. Your Data is Being Manipulated (danah boyd)
74. Six Features of the Disinformation Age
75. Facebook Security Chief Alex Stamos Hits Back at Media Coverage of Its Algorithms
76. Facebook security chief rants about misguided “algorithm” backlash
77. Facebook Quietly Enters Starcraft War For AI Bots, And Loses
78. At UN, robot Sophia joins meeting on artificial intelligence and sustainable development
79. The Reports Are In: AI and Robots Will Significantly Threaten Jobs in 5 Years
80. District 9 Director’s New Short Movie Offers A Disturbing Look At Our AI Future
81. New Theory Cracks Open The Black Box Of Deep Neural Networks
82. Why Don’t We Know the 100s of Women Writing About Tech?: When the Los Angeles Review of Books included only one woman writer in its tech issue, the Internet responded with a glorious list of women writers we should all know.
83. How To Tell When Someone Else Tweets From @Realdonaldtrump
84. What Rick and Morty fans’ meltdown over McDonald’s Szechuan Sauce says about geek culture: The mass revolt illustrated what increasingly toxic fandom culture looks like in real life.
85. McDonald’s apologizes after ‘Rick and Morty’ Szechuan sauce deal makes adults mad, kids cry
86. Dubai Prince Shows Off His Life Like No Other Royal
87. Netflix Is Raising Prices Again
88. Netflix raises its US monthly fee again, but only for two plans: The lowest tier stays the same, and the others are still competitive.
89. Why Shonda Rhimes left TV for Netflix: ‘I love the creative freedom’
90. Publishers seek removal of millions of papers from ResearchGate: Academic social network accused of infringing copyright on a massive scale
91. New ‘Coalition For Responsible Sharing’ About To Send Millions Of Take-Down Notices To Stop Researchers Sharing Their Own Papers
92. Library trolls copyright zealots by naming collection after Sonny Bono: Little-known copyright provision allows reproduction of full book texts.
93. Authors Alliance & Creative Commons Launch New Termination Of Transfer Tool
94. Windows Phone is now officially dead: A sad tale of what might have been
95. “Technical difficulties” plague Arizona lottery; same winning numbers drawn: Yet again, Arizona Lottery investigates a glitch with a random number generator.
96. 7th Annual Streamy Awards Live Stream Scores One Million Unique Viewers On Twitter
97. AOL Is Shutting Down AIM in December
98. kthxbai: AOL Instant Messenger is being turned off on December 15^th – 20 years is a long time on the Internet.
99. So Long, Aim. For Years, For Millions, You Were The Internet
100. Fact: Asking Whether We Live in a Simulation is Not A Scientific Question
101. Tim O’Reilly on why the future probably won’t be all that terrible: Economies as AI, humans as gut bacteria for tech, and how the Luddites got it wrong.
102. What is the Value of Re-use? Complementarities in Popular Music (Jeremy Watson)
103. Online Platforms and Free Speech: Regulating Fake News (Yale Law Journal)
104. DPLA Exchange Offers Library-Centered Ebook Marketplace
105. EU Commission issues guidance to online platforms for tackling illegal content online

CREATIVITY

1.  Ennio Morricone Loses Bid to Reclaim Rights to Film Scores
2. Appeals Court Skeptical About Overturning Marvin Gaye Family’s “Blurred Lines” Victory
3. Salt Lake Comic Con Fights Back Against Judge’s ‘Unprecedented’ Gag Order
4. Courtroom “Feud” Leaves Accurate Speech About Celebrities Unprotected
5. Who Can Create Copyrightable Work in Canada? Musings on a Monkey’s Selfie
6. Books from 1923 to 1941 Now Liberated!
7. Gender stereotyping in UK advertising – staying on the right side of the line  
8. Entertainment trade associations looking for opportunity to push a false narrative
9. From Aggressive Overtures to Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers Tell Their Stories – Multiple women share harrowing accounts of sexual assault and harassment by the film executive.
10. Men Must Step Up to Change the Hollywood Culture That Enabled Harvey Weinstein 
11. Caroline Gleich Fights Back Against Cyber Harassment: Caroline Gleich’s Instagram feed is full of epic shots of the pro skier conquering the planet’s hardest lines. But in recent years, it was marred by an ugly shadow: anonymous bullies whose abusive comments left a wake of anxiety and doubt. Then Gleich spoke out about her tormenters—and realized she wasn’t the only adventure athlete being harassed online. 
12. The share of women in newsrooms has increased barely 1 percentage point since 2001, ASNE data shows: Things are almost as bad when it comes to the hiring of people of color: The share of POC working in American newsrooms is up 2.9 percent since 2001.
13. The fight for the First Amendment, on campuses and football fields, from the sixties to today.
14. Can the First Amendment save us?: It took a long time for the press to gain freedom and respect in America. Now both are in peril.
15. How hip hop became the force behind Gabon’s political activism
16. Bassel Khartabil’s Story Proves Online Activism Is Still Powerful
17. Is Trump-Whisperer Maggie Haberman Changing The New York Times?: She’s a West Wing-beat colossus and a sui generis creature at the paper of record. “Maggie’s success is very much part of that tabloid, Twitter-fied sensibility bleeding into the Times,” says a colleague.
18. Trump and the Watergate effect: Will young journalists still be inspired by today’s watchdog reporting?
19. The Liberation of Kesha: Before she could make one of the year’s best albums, Kesha had to save her own life
20. Whoops: Drug ads gloss over risks with a mind trick – that’s backed by the FDA – Drug makers are supposed to be forthcoming with health risks – and the more the better.
21. France Has ‘Champagne,’ Portugal Has ‘Port.’ Should Australia Have ‘Uggs?’
22. Marvel Keeps Making TV—But How Many Networks Is Too Many?
23. Canada: The cult of personality (rights)

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. SCC rules residential school survivors’ testimony should be kept private
2. US Government Has ‘No Right To Rummage’ Through Anti-Trump Protest Website Logs, Says Judge
3. Court significantly reins in what data anti-Trump website must give to feds – Judge: DOJ can’t “rummage through the information contained on DreamHost’s website.”
4. Treasury Department Wing Latest To Be Accused Of Domestic Spying
5. Supreme Court: Hacking conviction stands for man who didn’t hack computer: High court refuses to hear appeal of hacking conviction, one-year prison sentence.
6. Russia reportedly stole NSA secrets with help of Kaspersky—what we know now: Proven or not, the accusations almost certainly mean the end of Kaspersky as we know it.
7. How Kaspersky AV reportedly was caught helping Russian hackers steal NSA secrets: Reports say Israeli spies burrowed inside Kaspersky’s network caught Russia red handed.
8. Hackers Grab More NSA Exploits, Possibly With Assistance Of Russian Antivirus Developer
9. The NSA’s ‘Time Machines’ Make It Incredibly Easy To Violate Section 702 Restrictions
10. The Worst-Case Scenario For John Kelly’s Hacked Phone
11. House Judiciary Committee Introduces Weak Surveillance Reform Bill
12. Deputy AG Pitches New Form Of Backdoor: ‘Responsible Encryption’
13. Trump’s DOJ tries to rebrand weakened encryption as “responsible encryption”: DOJ rekindles fight with Apple, wants government access to encrypted devices.
14. DOJ Says No One Has Any Right To Question The Adminstration’s Handling Of Records, Not Even The Courts
15. How the Chinese cyberthreat has evolved
16. UK Home Secretary Calls Tech Leaders ‘Patronizing’ For Refusing To Believe Her ‘Safe Backdoors’ Spiels
17. Man who sued over Facebook childbirth livestream slapped with $120k in fees: Plaintiff stayed mum about possible money received in three other cases.
18. The Equifax Aftermath – We Need More Hacking
19. Man: My wife and I were secretly filmed at our Airbnb rental – “I hope more victims will come forward,” says man who claims he was recorded naked.
20. T-Mobile customer data plundered thanks to bad API: T-Mobile missed bug that allowed harvesting of IMSI numbers, security question answers.
21. Hackers Score Touchdown: NFL Players Association Hit With Data Breach 
22. Google is permanently nerfing all Home Minis because mine spied on everything I said 24/7 
23. Sex Toys Are Just As Poorly-Secured As The Rest Of The Internet of Broken Things
24. Locking Your Phone Like This Is Pretty Much Useless
25. Mattel withdraws kid-focused “smart hub” from market after complaints: Lawmakers, child advocates expressed concern about caregiving being “outsourced.”
26. Beware of sketchy iOS popups that want your Apple ID: Benign iOS prompts are indistinguishable from those generated by malicious apps.
27. Schrems Redux: What’s the Future for Transatlantic Data Transfers?
28. An Irish Court Clouds the Future of EU Data Transfers: The Luck of the Model Clauses May Be Done

Jon