• WiFi Password For Republican Debate: StopHillary
    Journalists at tonight's Republican debates in Milwaukee will have to type the password "StopHillary" in order to gain access to WiFi. “We like to force the media to understand that there’s two parties at every chance we get,” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said, according to Politico.
  • AT&T Expands 1GB Fiber Service
    AT&T is expanding its Gigabit fiber service to parts of 23 cities, Ars Technica reports. The telecom will charge $70 a month for Gigabit service in markets where it competes with Google Fiber, but only if customers also agree to allow their Web-surfing activity to be tracked for ad purposes. AT&T is charging $110 a month in markets where it doesn't compete with Google Fiber, including the Chicago, Houston, Miami, and Orlando metro areas.
  • Vizio's Smart TVs Share Users' Viewing Histories With Advertisers
    Vizio's Smart TVs are tracking people's viewing habits and sharing that data with advertisers, who are able to reach those same people on other devices. Vizio's "Smart Interactivity" is turned on by default, ProPublica's Julia Angwin reports.
  • StubHub Loses Antitrust Lawsuit Against Ticketmaster And Warriors
    A judge has thrown out StubHub's antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and the NBA’s Golden State Warriors. StubHub unsuccessfully argued that Ticketmaster and the Warriors violated federal laws by threatening to cancel the subscriptions of season ticket holders if they tried to resell any of their tickets on StubHub.
  • Feds Say Man's False Tweets Manipulated Stock Prices
    Federal authorities have indicted a Scottish man for allegedly manipulating stock prices via Twitter. The defendant, .62-year-old James Alan Craig, allegedly tweeted false information about publicly traded stocks, resulting in price drops. He then allegedly traded those stocks on TradeMonster, Ars Technica reports.
  • Cox Pays $595,000 To Settle Data Breach Investigation
    Cox will pay $595,000 to settle an investigation into an August 2014 data breach that resulted in outside parties obtaining data from 6 million subscribers, the Federal Communications Commission announced. Cox also must notify subscribers and provide them with one year of credit monitoring. according to DSLReports.
  • International Trade Agreement Could Affect Online Privacy, Net Neutrality
    The full text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership has finally been released. Privacy advocates are criticizing the measure's policies, but some net neutrality advocates say the measure could enable regulators to impose tough rules on Internet service providers, Wired reports.
  • Muni-Broadband Clears Hurdles In Colorado
    Colorado voters in 44 cities, towns and counties have approved referenda that could pave the way for new municipal broadband networks in those areas. A 2005 Colorado law prohibits muni-broadband, unless voters approve a referendum, Ars Technica reports. Tuesday's vote gives residents the authority to move forward with muni-broadband networks, but doesn't require them to do so.
  • Apps Found To Transmit Personal Information To Third Parties
    Popular apps frequently send users' email addresses, names and geolocation to third parties, a study of 110 apps has found. A Drugs.com app sent the medical search terms "herpes" and "interferon" to five domains, Ars Technica reports.
  • MPAA Shuts Down Popcorn Time
    The Motion Picture Association of America says it has shut down torrent site YTS and PopcornTime.io, the main Popcorn Time fork. The closures are the result of lawsuits brought by the MPAA in Canada and New Zealand.
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