The Recording Industry Association of America is asking BitTorrent to make more of an effort to battle piracy. The RIAA says BitTorrent facilitated 75% of the piracy it saw last year, according to Mashable. "Like it or not, BitTorrenting products are the premier products used for peer-to-peer infringement today," Victoria Sheckler, deputy counsel of the RIAA, reportedly said.

Google is preparing to build a 1 GB fiber network in San Antonio, Texas, Ars Technica reports. "Soon, we’ll enter the design phase of building our fiber network in San Antonio," Mark Strama, the head of Google Fiber in Texas, wrote today in a company announcement. "We’ll work closely with city leaders over the next several months to plan the layout of over 4,000 miles of fiber-optic cables -- enough to stretch to Canada and back -- across the metro area."

Facebook has been awarded a patent for a system that could allow lenders to determine a users' creditworthiness by examining their friends credit ratings. The company applied for the patent in 2012, after acquiring it from Friendster for $40 million, CNN reports.  

Comcast is upgrading its Internet Essentials program, which offers more than 500,000 low-income households discounted broadband service. The company is increasing the speed of downloads from 5 Mbps to 10 Mbps, and is offering participating families free Wi-Fi routers. Internet Essentials allows families with at least one child eligible for the National School Lunch program to purchase Web service for $9.95 a month.

Windows 10's default settings send a host of information to Microsoft, including users' contacts, calendar details and location data. People can change those settings, but doing so "could significantly dent voice recognition accuracy" and other features, Ars Technica reports.

The UK Supreme Court will hear Google's appeal of a ruling that allowed Safari users to sue the company for allegedly circumventing their privacy settings. Google has argued that the UK courts lack jurisdiction, and that users weren't harmed by the alleged tracking.

Dish's new Sling ads, which make fun of the cable industry's high prices and poor customer service, won't air on Comcast-owned NBC stations in New York, San Diego, San Francisco and Washington, according to DSLReports. The other major networks are running the ads.