Hacker Andrew 'Weev' Auernheimer, who was prosecuted for allegedly violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act after he exposed a security glitch at a site operated by AT&T, now says he will reveal the identities of federal prosecutors who signed up for extramarital dating site Ashley Madison. An appellate court reversed Auernheimer's conviction last year. "The scope and methodology of Weev’s doxxing attacks renew and expand concerns that Ashley Madison users will be outed," Forbes writes.

Verizon mobile customers who still have unlimited data plans will soon see a $20 monthly price hike. The move marks the company's latest attempt to move customers to tiered plans, where they are billed based on the amount of data consumed in a month.

Cox Communications' lawsuit against the city of Tempe, Arizona has delayed Scottsdale's plans to move with Google Fiber. Cox sued Tempe last month for allegedly violating federal law by passing regulations aimed at letting Google build a new fiber network. Cox contends that Tempe established a "discriminatory regulatory framework" by exempting Google from regulations governing cable companies.

Senators Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) say they will oppose the GOP's attempt to prevent the Federal Communications Commission from enforcing the net neutrality rules. Earlier this year, a Republican budget proposal contained a provision that prohibited enforcement of the rules until after the courts rule on whether they're legal. "ISPs are certainly free to file their suits but until they prevail, and I don’t believe they will, there is no basis for Republicans blocking the FCC from doing its job," Franken said in a press conference today.

Prepping for the arrival of Google's 1 GB fiber network, Portland will soon review applications for so-called fiber huts, which will be placed at seven sites in the city, according to DSLReports. Each hut will be able to serve around 40,000 homes.

Notices sent to LinkedIn users about a proposed $13 million class-action settlement were "badly bungled," Santa Clara University professor Eric Goldman writes for Forbes. "Communicating with a large class of millions of victims is never easy, but this particular notification was handled particularly poorly," he says. "If I were the judge, I would require the parties to redo the emailed settlement notification properly."

Mayors in 13 cities including New York, Pittsburgh, and Newark criticize Verizon for failing to more quickly build fiber networks. "Consistently and increasingly, our consumers have complained that FiOS service is not available to them," the officials write. The telecom counters that it has "met or surpassed" its obligations to deploy fiber.

The town of Leverett, Massachusetts has launched a new 1 GB fiberoptic broadband network. More than 650 of 800 households in the town have already signed up for the service, which will cost $65 a month, according to DSLReports.

The upcoming app Peeple, which will enable users to "rate" other people, might be a hoax, according to Snopes. "The premise of the purported app itself was so frightening that few who learned about it stopped to check [the developers'] receipts," Snopes writes. "The diversion created by dumping news of a new, privacy-invading social media function sufficiently diffused any checking into whether Peeple was likely to get off the ground anytime soon. As it stands, the concept of Peeple was virtually non-existent until August 2015, and its founders didn’t appear to take into account that another app of the same …

Ad-blocking apps for the iPhone significantly improved load times and cut down on data consumption at a number of Web sites, the New York Times reports. Boston.com, for instance, measured 19.4 MB with ads, but only 4 MB with an ad blocker. On the 4G network, the site loaded in 39 seconds with ads, and 8 seconds without ads.