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2017

June

20

• Headlines | Trump chooses democrat who backed net neutrality for FCC. Democrat Jessica Rosenworcel was chosen to return to the Federal Communications Commission, where she supported net neutrality rules and stricter media ownership limits that now may be undone under Republican leadership.

15

• Headlines | Trump wants to hide your complaints about Wall Street. The U.S. Department of the Treasury formally recommended that Congress and the White House stop public access to a database that collects consumer complaints about financial companies, tracks responses, and records whether consumers end up satisfied. The Treasury…

14

• Headlines | Verizon has acquired Yahoo, will combine with AOL. Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) said on Tuesday it closed its $4.48 billion acquisition of Yahoo Inc's (YHOO.O) core business and that Marissa Mayer, chief executive of the internet company, had resigned. The completion of the…

02

• Headlines | Is AI the end of jobs or a new beginning?. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is advancing so rapidly that even its developers are being caught off guard.

May

30

• Headlines | Hackers hide cyberattacks in social media posts. It took only one attempt for Russian hackers to make their way into the computer of a Pentagon official. But the attack didn’t come through an email or a file buried within a seemingly innocuous…

25

• Headlines | Court weighs whether Trump can say “You’re fired!” to consumer watchdog. In a packed courtroom at the U.S. District Court of Appeals, the 11 judges peppered the attorneys for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and mortgage lender PHH Corporation, which is challenging the regulator, about the bureau’s powers…

22

• Headlines | America’s dangerous Internet delusion. The United States may have escaped most digital damage from this month’s unleashing of a global “ransomware” virus, though cyber-experts fear more attacks. The unmistakable lesson of recent years is that the Internet is a…

18

• Headlines | Google wants to be everywhere with everyone. Seven of its products — including Search, YouTube and Maps — have more than a billion users each.  Google’s ambition is to knit all those devices and services together. Google users — which means just…

16

• Headlines | How to protect yourself from a global ransomware attack. Security experts are bracing for more fallout from Friday's worldwide WannaCry ransomware attack, which has so far affected more than 150 countries and major businesses and organizations, including FedEx, Renault and Britain's National Health Service. But…

11

• Headlines | Robocalls flooding your phone? Here’s how to stop them. An unfamiliar number appears on your cellphone. It’s from your area code, so you answer it, thinking it might be important. There is an unnatural pause after you say hello, and what follows is a…

10

• Headlines | The two biggest cable companies just struck a deal. Maybe you've heard: Charter Communications is teaming up with Comcast. The two cable companies are working together to protect their nascent cellphone businesses from huge, national providers — such as Verizon and AT&T — by largely refraining from going…

09

• Headlines | New baby monitors offers ‘peace of mind’ but may deliver the opposite. The monitors track infants’ vital signs, but it’s not clear how accurate this information is or how it should be used by parents and medical providers.
• Headlines | Don’t let Facebook make you miserable. IT is now official. Scholars have analyzed the data and confirmed what we already knew in our hearts. Social media is making us miserable.

02

• Headlines | Companies take their privacy a lot more seriously than yours. A business gets hacked and customers are then treated like children, given only the sketchiest details so as not to bruise the delicate feelings of the hacked business.

April

28

• Headlines | Ultimate guide to cutting cable and saving money on streaming TV. Use this tool to build your own, personalized TV bundle — then see which streaming video services match it best

27

• Headlines | Push to kill prepaid card protections. Major consumer protections slated to take effect next spring for users of prepaid credit cards would go away if a push succeeds to have Congress kill the safeguards before a deadline early next month. Scripps…
• Headlines | FCC chair pushes sweeping changes to net neutrality rules. The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission outlined a sweeping plan to loosen the government’s oversight of high-speed internet providers, a rebuke of a landmark policy approved two years ago to ensure that all online…

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• Headlines | How is public money spent? Steve Ballmer has the data. The former Microsoft chief executive is unveiling a website aimed at giving United States citizens a transparent look at government budgets. Mr. Ballmer plans to make public a database and a report that he and…
• Headlines | What Windows users should know about the latest bugs. Microsoft announced late Friday that it had already fixed a number of Windows security vulnerabilities before they were revealed last week by the Shadow Brokers — a group that has released several leaks about the…

07

• Headlines | At F.C.C., Obama-era rules on chopping block. First, privacy rules fell. Up next are net neutrality, broadband subsidies and rules blocking local media consolidation.

06

• Headlines | Trump signed repeal of FCC privacy rules. Here’s what’s next. President Trump signed congressional legislation that repeals the Federal Communications Commission's privacy protections for Internet users.  The Obama-backed rules would have banned Internet providers from collecting, storing, sharing and selling certain types of customer information…
• Headlines | The future of net neutrality in Trump’s America. Now that President Trump has signed legislation repealing landmark federal privacy protections for Internet users, many in Washington are trying to decipher what the move could mean for net neutrality. That's the principle, recently enshrined in a separate…

04

• Headlines | Verizon announces new name brand for AOL and Yahoo: Oath. Oath? Oof. That was largely the reaction on Monday to the news that Verizon plans to house two giants of the early days of the internet, AOL and Yahoo, under the new name Oath.

03

• Headlines | How Uber uses psychology to push its drivers’ buttons. Uber's drivers are officially independent business owners rather than traditional employees with set schedules. This allows Uber to minimize labor costs, but means it cannot compel drivers to show up at a specific place and…

March

29

• Headlines | Don’t agree with a company fee? Consider the power of asking. As if we aren't shelling out enough dough to handle our monthly bills, we often find ourselves slammed with late fees, annual fees, and interest rate spikes. Sometimes, it's easier to pay up rather than…

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