The House Energy and Commerce technology subcommittee will take up two net neutrality bills o Tuesday. One would prevent the Federal Communications Commission from regulating prices for broadband service; the second would exempt some Internet service providers from transparency obligations.

Christopher Correa, former scouting chief for the St. Louis Cardinals, pleaded guilty in Texas last week to hacking charges centering on allegations that he illegally accessed the Houston Astros' password-protected database. Correa allegedly guessed the password, which gave him access to scouting reports, stats, notes, and other information, according to Ars Technica.  

New York State regulators voted on Friday to approve Charter's acquisition of Time Warner Cable, provided that Charter meets certain conditions, including that it offers 300 Mbps Internet speeds throughout the state by 2019. Charter also must agree to continue a Time Warner program that offers a 3 Mbps service tier for just $14.99 a month.

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings says the company doesn't object when subscribers share their passwords. "We love people sharing Netflix," Hastings said Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show here in Las Vegas, according to CNET. "That's a positive thing, not a negative thing." At the same time, the company has built-in restrictions on sharing: A standard $9.99 a month accounts only allow the same user to watch on two screens at once.

Security researchers from Lookout discovered that 13 Android apps available in Google Play made unauthorized downloads to users' devices. One of the apps, Honeycomb, had one million downloads, Lookout reported. Google has now removed the apps from Play.

ESPN's Adam Schefter and Chris Mortensen recently promoted Domino's Pizza in tweets, without disclosing that those tweets were part of an ad campaign. ESPN says that future tweets associated with ads will include disclosures.

The Federal Communications Commission has suspended its review of Charter's $79 billion merger with Time Warner Cable until Jan. 20. "Pausing the clock will ensure that commenters have sufficient time to review and comment on this new information, and will provide Commission staff with the necessary time to review both the Applicants' materials and any responses," the agency says in a letter, according to DSLReports.

Wearable tech company Valencell alleges that its patents are infringed by Apple and Fitbit. Valencell also says that Apple breached a contract by downloading publicly available white papers, but failing to enter required contact information.

More than five years after the U.S. government seized and shut down the music site OnSmash.com, the site's operator was able to get the site returned after paying a $7 fee. "What happened was just one confusing chapter in the long history of conflict between the entertainment industry and the Internet," The New York Times writes.

Warner Brothers has sued Legend Sky, the owner of HD Fury, over $199 boxes that enable people to copy video. The devices strip out the digital locks, which violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's ban on circumventing copyright protection technology, according to the lawsuit.