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Ajit Pai: Carrier sales of phone-location data is illegal, FCC plans punishment

Ajit Pai’s “surprise” change makes it harder to get FCC broadband funding

Exonerated: Charges dropped against pentesters paid to break into Iowa courthouse

Mozilla and Google crack down on malicious and abusive browser extensions

AT&T slashed billions from network spending, cut tens of thousands of jobs

DOD tester’s report: F-35 is still a lemon

Here come the Gremlins: DOD tests drone launch from C-130 “mothership”

Dozens of companies have data dumped online by ransomware ring seeking leverage

Skimming heist that hit convenience chain may have compromised 30 million cards

AT&T loses another 1.2 million TV subscribers as DirecTV keeps tanking

London to deploy live facial recognition to find wanted faces in crowd

Ajit Pai promised faster broadband expansion—Comcast cut spending instead

The tools and tricks that let Ars Technica function without a physical office

Maryland bill would outlaw ransomware, keep researchers from reporting bugs

Verizon brings 5G to the Super Bowl—for part of the stadium, anyway

Mac users are getting bombarded by laughably unsophisticated malware

Time check: Examining the Doomsday Clock’s move to 100 seconds to midnight

CenturyLink, Frontier took FCC cash, failed to deploy all required broadband

Microsoft’s sneaky plan to switch Chrome searches from Google to Bing

DirecTV races to decommission broken Boeing satellite before it explodes

FCC shuts New York out of $20B broadband fund, and senators are angry

Google researchers find serious privacy risks in Safari’s anti-tracking protections

Sonos sunsets several smart speakers’ software support, spurring storm

Report: Bezos phone uploaded GBs of personal data after getting Saudi prince’s WhatsApp message

737 Max fix slips to summer—and that’s just one of Boeing’s problems