DIGITAL

1. New Québec “Netflix / Amazon Tax” Will Affect Non-Canadian Businesses 
2. Report: Chinese government is behind a decade of hacks on software companies
3. As Iran Joins Russia’s Block On Telegram, The Echoes Of The Arab Spring Begin To Sound
4. House Democrats Release 3,500 Russia-Linked Facebook Ads
5. Facebook security analyst is fired for using private data to stalk women
6. Facebook’s New Focus On ‘Community’ Might Actually Depress You
7. German Politician Decries Censorship, Follows It Up By Suing Facebook To Have A Critical Comment Deleted
8. Irish Judge Slaps Down Facebook’s Attempt To Halt EU’s Top Court Examining The Legality Of Sending Personal Data To US
9. UN Celebrates World Press Freedom Day By Suppressing Presentation Of Turkey Suppressing Press
10. Artificial intelligence will sharpen the East-West divide
11. Four days at the wild, AI-filled Collision Conference—before it bails for Canada
12. DeepMind has trained an AI to unlock the mysteries of your brain: While it seems like second nature, what goes on in your brain when you navigate between two places is surprisingly complex.
13. Ars ex machina: artificial intelligence, the artist
14. Microsoft continues its quest to bring machine learning to every application
15. With Timeline and Your Phone, Microsoft makes a PC the phone’s second screen
16. Sorry Elon Musk, there’s no clear evidence Autopilot saves lives
17. Elon Musk hung up on NTSB chief during call about Tesla crash probe
18. Report: Software bug led to death in Uber’s self-driving crash
19. Ai Isn’t A Crystal Ball, But It Might Be A Mirror
20. Everyone Is Flipping Out About Google’s AI Assistant That Just Booked A Haircut On The Phone
21. How Google’s Eerie Robot Phone Calls Hint At Ai’s Future
22. Google’s ML Kit offers easy machine learning APIs for Android and iOS
23. The Price Of Google’s New Conveniences? Your Data
24. Android Things 1.0 launches, Google promises 3 years of updates for every device 
25. Google And The Rise Of ‘Digital Well-Being’
26. The Research Behind Google’s New Tools For Digital Well-Being
27. Google News gets Material Design look, better personalization with AI
28. Google releases open source framework for building “enclaved” apps for cloud
29. Google Maps unveils its first-ever augmented reality interface                     
30. Microsoft Charts Its Own Path On Artificial Intelligence
31. Apple reportedly removing apps that share location data with third parties
32. Signal’s “disappearing messages” live on in macOS notifications
33. Want To Prove Your Business Is Fair? Audit Your Algorithm
34. Section 230 Doesn’t Provide a Basis To Remove Cases to Federal Court–A.R.K. v. Grindr
35. Airbnb, Homeaway, And The Importance Of Holding The Line On Section 230 
36. Another Convicted Fraudster Attempts To Manage His Reputation With Bogus DMCA Takedown Notices
37. GoDaddy has shut down Richard Spencer’s white supremacist site
38. Nigerian Email Scammers Are More Effective Than Ever
39. Reserve Bank of India reins in cryptocurrency
40. Hundreds of big-name sites hacked, converted into drive-by currency miners
41. YouTubers Are Mad Again After YouTube Deletes Videos With Paid Promos for Academic Cheating
42. Over a 5th of the world’s population is logging in to YouTube—despite scandals
43. More Than 250 Creators Get Into Hot Water For Promoting Academic Essay-Writing Service EduBirdie 
44. YouTube Removes Hundreds Of Videos To Quash Advertisements From “Academic Aid” EduBirdie 
45. YouTube Announces New Ad-Supported Originals From Stars Like Will Smith, Priyanka Chopra
46. YouTube TV Enters Streaming Pact With Third Major League Soccer Club
47. Amid Growth To 1.8 Billion Logged-In Users, YouTube CEO Vows To Remain “On The Right Side Of History”
48. Google News And New VR180 Camera App To Add YouTube Integrations
49. Google News to be revamped, incorporate YouTube videos and magazines
50. YouTube investing $5 million on 47 creators trying to make platform more positive: Creators for Change program looks to tell stories about important topics
51. YouTube and Vevo have struck a new ad deal
52. Did YouTube Phenomenon Poppy Steal Her Style From Another Star?
53. Philip DeFranco Launches Interactive Website And App Dubbed ‘DeFranco Now’ In Partnership With Snakt
54. Lele Pons Drops Debut Music Video, Clocking 10 Million Views In 4 Days
55. Patreon Has Paid Out $350 Million To Creators Since Its Founding 5 Years Ago
56. Racing needs new fans—and paywalls and geoblocking aren’t helping
57. The Media’s Paywall Obsession Will End In Disaster For Most
58. Snapchat, Despite Redesign Woes, Keeps Adding Media Partners – Including Disney’s ‘Star Wars’
59. Spotify Ends First Quarter as a Public Company With 75 Million Paying Subscribers
60. Instragram, In Continued Quest For Social Video Domination, Will Launch Video Chat
61. Digital Media Company Popsugar Lays Off 19 Amid Financial Struggles 
62. Hulu Hits 20 Million Subscribers, Picks Up ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ For Third Season
63. Hulu will soon offer offline viewing and episode downloads
64. Following Facebook, Verizon Quietly Backs Off Opposition To Modest California Privacy Rules
65. Facebook Canada’s Hard Questions Series Turns to Privacy (Michael Geist)
66. $2-Billion Class Action Commenced Against Facebook
67. An Overview of Facebook’s Election-Related Disclosure Program for Advertisers
68. Facebook to release “clear history” tool
69. Facebook Dating Looks A Whole Lot Like Hinge
70. Why Facebook Won’t Put Ads on Its Dating App
71. Facebook Adds New Live Stream Tools, One Like Twitch Co-Streams 
72. What’s The Deal With Facebook And The Blockchain? 
73. Facebook Wants To Explore Blockchain Technology. Here’s What They Might Be Up To.
74. The Second Coming Of Vine Is On Indefinite Hold
75. V2, The Planned Successor To Vine, Postponed Indefinitely Due To “Financial Hurdles”
76. How Collab Built A Digital Talent Network And Rights Management Powerhouse Six Seconds At A Time
77. ESPN To Launch Daily Edition Of ‘SportsCenter’ On Redesigned Mobile App
78. Conan O’Brien’s TBS Show Trimmed To 30-Minute Episodes Amid Digital Pivot
79. What Ecologists Can Learn From Memes
80. CLOUD Act – clever acronym or real certainty for Cloud Service providers?
81. A short primer on applicable US eSignature laws
82. EU Commission Asks Public To Weigh In On Survey About Just How Much They Want The Internet To Be Censored
83. The Sinar Project shines light on Malaysian Internet Censorship
84. The First Amendment in the Second Gilded Age – The 2018 Mitchell Lecture (Jack Balkin)

CREATIVITY

1. The fake news Russians hear at home
2. Then they came for Peppa Pig
3. Malaysian ‘Fake News’ Law Claims Its First Victim 
4. Maybe InfoWars defense will be – “Hey nobody believe us anyway”
5. First Amendment Doesn’t Protect Encouraging Readers to Make Anti-Semitic Attacks–Gersh v. Daily Stormer
6. Monkey See, Monkey Do: Ninth Circuit Declines to Go Bananas over “Monkey Selfie” Copyrights
7. ‘Monkey Selfie’ Film in the Works at Conde Nast  
8. Olivia de Havilland Looks to Revive ‘Feud’ Defamation Suit
9. Duke Administrator Gets Baristas Fired For Listening To Rap Music 
10. Dispute over rap song leads to protest at Duke and apology from coffee shop owner
11. Nike, Great Protectors Of IP, Found To Be Infringing On Copyright And Refusing To Pay After Software Audit
12. Raging Bull and Fearless Girl – moral rights in copyright
13. New Report Shines Much-Needed Light On Shadow Libraries Around The World
14. Romance Novelist Secures Trademark For Word ‘Cocky,’ Begins Beating Other Novelists Over The Head With It
15. Springer Nature Opens Up on Educational Publishing: “E-Piracy” Sites Do Not Replace Traditional Subscription Services, Business Risks Primarily Stem from Marketplace Changes (Michael Geist)
16. Canadian Publisher on the Term of Copyright: Life Plus 50 Years is “Already Too Long” (Michael Geist)

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. World’s Worst Wireless Pricing?: Report Finds Canadian Wireless Broadband Pricing Offers Least Bang for the Buck in Developed World (Michael Geist)
2. Why one man’s victory against Bell won’t resolve telecom’s customer-service problems
3. Bell Backroom Pressure: Internal Documents Reveal How a Brock University Executive Came to Provide Support for Website Blocking (Michael Geist)
4. Text “Y” to confirm your subscription! Companies agree to $100,000 payment for alleged CASL violations
5. AT&T Stumbles As It Tries To Explain Why It Paid $200K To Cohen’s Shady Shell Company
6. AT&T’s Estimated Payment to Trump’s Lawyer Rises to $600,000 as Investigations Ramp Up
7. AT&T explains why it blocked Cloudflare DNS: It was just an accident
8. AT&T/Verizon lobby asks FCC to help raise prices on smaller ISPs
9. AT&T will ask Supreme Court to cripple the FTC’s authority over broadband
10. The Sprint And T-Mobile Merger Will Test The Department Of Justice’s Mettle
11. Sprint announces highest profit ever after saying it needs T-Mobile merger
12. T-Mobile pays ex-FCC commissioner to lobby for Sprint merger
13. T-Mobile CEO Hallucinates Competitors In Bid To Sell Competition-Killing Sprint Merger
14. Comcast preparing hostile bid for Fox properties—and control of Hulu 
15. Your Favorite Websites Are Rallying In A Last-Ditch Effort To Save Net Neutrality
16. Senate will vote to kill or keep net neutrality rules by June 12
17. Facebook Quietly Backs Away From Its Net Neutrality Killing ‘Free Basics’ Program Overseas
18. Cord Cutting Is The Obvious Result Of A 70% Spike In Cable TV Prices Since 2000

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1.  Once more unto the breach: Canada’s PIPEDA breach notification and reporting regulations in force November 1, 2018
2. Police Drop Charges Filed Against 19-Year-Old Who Downloaded Public Documents From Gov’t FOI Portal
3. Oakland passes “strongest” surveillance oversight law in US: “They are even being exploited by the federal government to fuel mass deportations.”
4. Oakland Residents Now Protected By The ‘Strongest’ Surveillance Oversight Law ‘In The Country’
5. Georgia governor vetoes cyber bill that would criminalize “unauthorized access”
6. Facial Recognition Tech Is Creepy When It Works  – And Creepier When It Doesn’t
7. UK police say 92% false positive facial recognition is no big deal 
8. Not Ready For Prime Time: UK Law Enforcement Facial Recognition Software Producing Tons Of False Positives  
9. Privacy Group Files Legal Complaint Over UK Law Enforcement’s Warrantless Phone Searches
10. You Can’t Opt Out Of Sharing Your Data, Even If You Didn’t Opt In
11. Equifax breach exposed millions of driver’s licenses, phone numbers, emails
12. FTC settles with cellphone manufacturer over data security issues 
13. We Don’t Need a National Data Center of the Poor: The many, many ways the food-stamp database proposed by House Republicans could go wrong. 
14. Change Your Twitter Password Right Now
15. Twitter alerts users: Please change your passwords, we’ve seen them
16. Yahoo Fined $35 Million for Failing to Report Data Breach
17. Welsh Police Used Face Scanning Software That Incorrectly Flagged Thousands
18. Virginia Supreme Court Says License Plate Readers Collect Personal Data; Suggests Use Violates State Law
19. Smart Doorbells That Call The Police Are Going to Endanger Some Innocent People

GAMES

1. Gamevice v Nintendo – Let’s try this again, at the ITC: Certain Portable Gaming Console Systems with Attachable Handheld Controllers and Components Thereof – International Trade Commission, Inv. No. 337-TA-1111 -and- Gamevice, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd.
2. NBA 2K Tattoo Copyright Dispute Blocked
3. Man sentenced to prison over 2010 World of Warcraft DDoS attack
4. Don’t Miss: How a band of modders restored Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II
5. Free-to-play game Loadout ending service in wake of GDPR regulation
6. GDPR spells closure for free-to-play shooter Loadout: Developer says new regulations are a “major burden” for small studios doing business in EU
7. Gaming Industry And Game Consumers On A Collision Course Over Loot Boxes
8. EA will continue to use loot boxes that are ‘transparent, fun, and fair’
9. EA adamant loot boxes aren’t gambling: Publisher pushes back after Belgian Gaming Commission finds fault with FIFA 18, talks game-streaming plans and Fortnite/PUBG phenomenon
10. EA experiences growth in revenue from digital downloads and live services
11. EA celebrates a record year, forecasts another: Full game downloads and physical game sales drop as booming live services now make up 40% of publisher’s income
12. EA: ‘Innovators’ like Fortnite can benefit the entire games industry
13. Madden NFL creative director Rex Dickson departs EA
14. Madden NFL could go in “new direction” following departure of creative director: Rex Dickson leaves EA after 12 years with publisher
15. Vulcan debuts new Holodome shared immersive reality platform
16. Analyst: Mobile to make up over half of worldwide game revenue in 2018
17. An in-depth breakdown of how mobile game media coverage fared in 2016
18. New Nintendo president targets ¥100bn mobile business: Incoming chief Shuntaro Furukawa believes a Pokémon Go-style hit will transform the platform holder’s fortunes on smart devices
19. Mobile Now Makes Up Majority Of Gaming Sales And Nintendo’s New President Wants To Get The Company On Board
20. Switch online service will introduce cloud saves and NES multiplayer
21. Nintendo courts families with Switch Online service: Eight-person membership available, alongside cloud saves and free NES games
22. Nintendo says Switch won’t get Virtual Console classic game downloads
23. Virtual Console Is Not Coming To Switch, Nintendo Says
24. Nintendo drops Virtual Console model in favor of subscriptions: Focus turns to the Nintendo Switch Online service for future monetization of classic games
25. Nintendo introduces Switch cloud saves as part of paid online subscription
26. Nintendo starts moving to a Wii-like “non-gamer” strategy for the Switch
27. Push the button: Steam now supports the Switch Pro Controller
28. Hackers find “official,” usable PSP emulator hidden in PS4’s PaRappa
29. PS4 expands its sales lead, now 71% of “two-console” market with Xbox One
30. Future Minecraft updates won’t come to last-gen consoles
31. Top 25 companies made up 77% of global games market in 2017 – Newzoo: Market intelligence firm points to industry consolidation as largest companies solidify positions
32. Supercell: Meet the industry’s “least powerful CEO”: Ilkka Paananen on the value of leaving power in the hands of developers, and Supercell’s ambition to create a “truly global” mobile hit
33. Google Play Instant leaves closed beta, now open to all developers
34. Report: Google has quietly opened a new game studio called Arcade
35. Google confirms new social gaming startup: Arcade is an “experiment” that will reportedly release its first game this summer
36. Chrome update auto-mutes audio on many web-based games
37. Google breaks HTML5 games with latest Chrome update: Efforts to mute autoplay video ads have unexpectedly affected browser-based web games
38. Google slams “for-profit bail-bond providers,” won’t let them advertise
39. God of War sold 3.1M copies in three days
40. God of War tops 3.1 million sold in three days: Sony says PS4-exclusive game is the fastest-selling first-party game on the system to date
41. Sony updates warranty terms following FTC warning 
42. FTC Calls Out Nintendo, Microsoft, And Sony For Their Illegal ‘Warranty Void If Removed’ Stickers
43. Capcom sees improved profits from sales of Monster Hunter: World
44. Monster Hunter: World drives Capcom’s most profitable year ever – Fantasy action game has now sold 7.9 million units, offsetting “worsened conditions” in amusement market
45. Xbox One sales up by 15% for 2018: Record-setting start to the year for platform holder
46. The Kinect lives on through Microsoft’s new project for Azure
47. Twitch tries ‘Bounty Board’ approach to setting streamers up for sponsored streams
48. Zynga posts $5.6m profit last quarter after predicting $9.5m loss: Meanwhile, company founder Mark Pincus reduces personal voting power from 70 per cent to ten per cent
49. The Curious Case Of The Fortnite Cheater: Is it illegal to cheat in a video game?
50. Fortnite pulls in fives times more revenue than PUBG on iOS: First week of monetisation for PUBG Mobile sees combined platform revenue reach only one third of Epic Games’ offering
51. Why do mobile games get a ‘free’ pass?: The mainstream media launches attacks on Fortnite’s business model, but ignores more egregious behaviour in mobile – does this reflect a bias?
52. Activision Blizzard sees new Q1 records, though share prices still falter
53. Activision shows PC some love, plans “significant” resources for Call of Duty
54. Activision is feeling the heat from battle royale titles 
55. Activision Blizzard jumping on battle royale bandwagon: Executives say Fortnite and PUBG have expanded the industry; publisher is “very quick to figure out how to capture inspiration from innovation”
56. Battlegrounds item trading shut down due to marketplace abuse
57. Fortnite Is Getting An Avengers: Infinity War Crossover
58. “The reason we’re killing ourselves isn’t because we love what we’re doing”: Night in the Woods’ Scott Benson and Bethany Hockenberry discuss unionizing in games and what to do about indie devs crunching themselves
59. Why the Campo Santo team hung up their indie spurs and joined Valve
60. Tequila Works’ Raul Rubio on the dangers of building on stereotypes: “If you look at games made in Spain, you will notice a shocking lack of bullfighters”
61. DDoS attack against Blizzard lands Romanian man in US federal prison: Calin Mateias extradited to face charges over 2010 cyber attack
62. Pink Mercy skin comes to Overwatch, all proceeds go to charity
63. Blizzard to donate more than $250,000 to Breast Cancer Research Foundation: Overwatch’s Pink Mercy charity skin will drive fundraising, alongside livestreams and more merchandise
64. ‘Overwatch’ Esports League Launches Social VR Experiences With Sansar
65. UK Charts: God of War beats Donkey Kong to No.1: Nintendo Labo slips down the charts in a quiet week for games retail
66. Chinese games market expected to reach $42bn revenue by 2022: Increase in number of female users puts China on path to 720 million gamers
67. Activision Blizzard posts record Q1 – Call of Duty: WWII helps drive Activision business even as engagement metrics drop for King and Blizzard
68. Activision share price wounded following “extraordinary error” by Dow Jones: Confusion overshadowed record Q1 revenue for publisher; stock value down 2.3 per cent by market close
69. PUBG most downloaded mobile game last quarter, but revenue flags: Sensor Tower Data Digest: Mobile game downloads up to 2.4 billion on iOS and 7.23 billion on Android
70. Google’s ARCore 1.2 enables multiplayer AR across Android and iOS
71. Ninja Hits 10 Million YouTube Subscribers, Gaining 3 Million Subs Over The Past Month
72. Hi-Rez Studios announces new esports production company: Studio co-founder and COO to head up Skillshot Media as president
73. Digi-Capital: Combined Asian markets could deliver over half of AR/VR revenue by 2022: “Western companies might need to adopt a ‘we try harder’ approach to compete at the same level,” says investment bank
74. Oculus Go to ship 1.8 million this year – Superdata: Market intelligence firm expects new stand-alone offering to lead all premium headsets in shipments this year, downgrades overall VR projections
75. Oculus: “We don’t want exclusivity. We want VR to thrive” – At Reboot Develop, Oculus’ Matt Conte urged developers to make the most of a small market by shipping on every VR platform possible
76. Facebook changes an Oculus division’s name, invents term “Facebook Reality”
77. ‘I AM A MAN’ Puts You At The Heart Of The Civil Rights Struggle, Now Available On Rift
78. Square Enix reports decreased sales, increased profits: Dragon Quest XI publisher only takes a 2.5% hit to revenues despite 32% dip in software unit sales
79. Rising revenues in US and Europe drive profits for Bandai Namco
80. Bandai Namco sees game sales up 14%: Company’s full-year results show strong gains in revenues, units sold over previous year
81. Inside Bandai Namco’s Innovation Department: Why the Pac-Man publisher is turning to Alexa and other emerging technologies
82. Tencent partners with UK government’s cultural and creative industries
83. Harmonix denies association with Columbus Nova
84. Steam reviews study suggests ‘bad design,’ not bugs, irks players most
85. Players less concerned by bugs than bad game design, study finds: Study of over 10 million Steam user reviews unearths valuable data for developers
86. New Steam Link app allows players to stream Steam games to mobile
87. Valve will soon let you stream Steam games to phones and tablets
88. Using Steam reviews to estimate sales: A game dev guide
89. Early Access effort Conan Exiles surpassed 1M sales ahead of launch
90. Analyzing the financial impact of 2 years spent on Early Access
91. Blog: A marketing perspective on trademarking
92. Game streaming service Utomik has officially launched
93. Jagex shutting down online game portal FunOrb after ten years: Advancements in technology have made it “increasingly difficult to access and play the games”
94. Artificial Intelligence Is Making Video Game Levels So Good That Even Other AI Thinks They’re Man-Made
95. Why pseudo-localization is essential 
96. In blocking autoplay videos, Chrome is breaking many Web-based games
97. Attentat 1942 wins a top honor at A MAZE Berlin, remains banned in Germany
98. Episode, Old Man’s Journey, and Empires & Puzzles win at 2018 Google Play Awards
99. Empires and Puzzles wins Best Breakthrough Hit at Google Play Awards: Best Android apps and games announced at award ceremony ahead of Google I/O 2018
100. Shadow of the Tomb Raider and the risk of making an introspective AAA game
101. Spacewar!, Tomb Raider, and others join World Video Game Hall of Fame
102. Devs share personal touches they’ve hidden in games
103. Republican politician and lobbyist runs for election in EVE Online: “Maybe 20 years ago this would be weird, but given how mainstream gaming has become…how can anyone say ‘You’re throwing your life away playing these games?'”
104. Blog: 10 negotiation tips from a video game lawyer (Pete Lewin)

Jon

DIGITAL

1. Google Fails to Amend Canadian De-indexing Injunction Despite California Court Order
2. B.C. Court Leaves Google Global Takedown Order Intact Pending Full Trial (Michael Geist)
3. U.S. Falls To 45th On Press Freedom Index, Trump Labeled ‘Media-Bashing Enthusiast’
4. Michael Cohen Drops Ridiculous Lawsuit Against Buzzfeed After Buzzfeed Sought Stormy Daniels’ Details
5. It’s Spreading: Lindsey Graham Now Insisting ‘Fairness Doctrine’ Applies To The Internet
6. WikiLeaks, Russia, Trump Jr. named in new DNC hacking lawsuit: “It’s more than a shot over the bow, it’s a shot into the hull of the ship.”
7. Trump’s cell phone use is security “nightmare” waiting to happen, lawmakers say – New letter: “Does the President use encryption when he makes phone calls…?”
8. Verizon says Yahoo users must waive class-action rights – or stop using Yahoo: Yahoo, facing data breach lawsuits, starts enforcing mandatory arbitration.
9. Google disables “domain fronting” capability used to evade censors: A “long-planned” change happens to coincide with a new wave of state censorship in Russia.
10. Judge Agrees: Perfectly Fine For Google To Deny Ad Placement For ‘Honey Cures Cancer’ Claims 
11. Russia and China take Big Brother to absurd new levels
12. Internet Watch Foundation publishes its Annual Report
13. LA councilman asks city attorney to “review possible legal action” against Waze: “They say the crises of congestion they cause is the price for innovation.”
14. Are our smart devices starting to outsmart us?
15. The next big battle over internet freedom is here: Congress just passed a law to combat sex trafficking. Now the future of the free internet is in danger. 
16. Be Careful What You Wish For: The Risk of Ceding Online Content Monitoring to Internet Giants (Michael Geist)
17. Sweeping the Internet for Netsweeper
18. Calling Facebook A Utility Would Only Make Things Worse
19. What’s Not Included In Facebook’s ‘Download Your Data’
20. How academic at centre of Facebook scandal tried – and failed – to spin personal data into gold: The story of Aleksandr Kogan’s business ventures reveals a world where companies traded in the currency of personal information
21. Man behind Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook data mining says he’s sorry: Aleksandr Kogan, if he’d known survey would upset many: “I would’ve never done it.”
22. The Security Risks Of Logging In With Facebook
23. Delete Your Account: On the Theory of Platform Capitalism
24. Minds Is The Anti-Facebook That Pays You For Your Time 
25. Here’s What Facebook Won’t Let You Post
26. For the first time, Facebook clearly tells its users what’s allowed: Social network not saying why it took 14 years to release this document.
27. Facebook removes 1.5 billion users from protection of EU privacy law: In anticipation of the EU’s new GDPR rule, Facebook limits its legal umbrella. 
28. Facebook Publishes Internal Content Moderation Guidelines For The First Time 
29. Imposing Regulations on Online Technology Giants 
30. Meet the Professor Who’s Warning the World About Facebook and Google
31. FOSTA/SESTA Passed Thanks To Facebook’s Vocal Support; New Article Suggests Facebook Is Violating FOSTA/SESTA
32. Sex Workers Set Up Their Own Social Network In Response To FOSTA/SESTA; And Now It’s Been Shut Down Due To FOSTA/SESTA
33. Authorities May Charge Pennsylvania Juvenile Who Threatened Second YouTube Shooting
34. Exclusive: YouTube ran ads from hundreds of brands on extremist channels
35. 300 Companies Ran Ads On YouTube Channels Promoting Nazism, Pedophilia, Conspiracies (Report) 
36. YouTube CEO To Discuss Brand Safety On Conference Call With 30 Top Advertisers (Report)
37. YouTuber Convicted Of Hate Crime For Teaching Nazi Salute To Dog Raises £118,366 For Legal Appeal
38. YouTube Deleted 8.3 Million Objectionable Videos Last Quarter, Thanks Mostly To Machines
39. ‘Deadpool’ Writers To Serve As Executive Producers For Upcoming YouTube Red Series
40. New Footage Of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” Receives One Million Views In First Day On YouTube
41. YouTube Gives Creators With At Least One Million Subscribers A Space On The Trending Tab
42. YouTube Kids Amplifies Parental Controls, Including Ability To Whitelist All Videos, Channels
43. P&G Resumes YouTube Spend After 13-Month Boycott — As New Ad Controversy Looms
44. Proposed US Consumer Internet Privacy Legislation Threatens Digital Advertising
45. Texas Revenge Porn Laws Loses Battle With First Amendment
46. Cheddar Joins Hulu’s Live TV Lineup 1 Day After Being Added To YouTube TV
47. The Roku Channel gets live news thanks to ABC, Cheddar, and other partners: But it won’t replace all live news broadcasts.
48. Flipboard’s Answer To Fake News: More Human Curation
49. We’re underestimating the mind-warping potential of fake video: Doctored photos can easily create false memories. What happens when there’s fake video?
50. Fullscreen, Concerned About Inappropriate Content, Cuts About 160 Partners From Its Network 
51. DJ Khaled Alcohol Endorsements Exposed, Says TINA
52. Citing Tepid Crowdfunding Results, Neill Blomkamp Cancels Plans To Adapt Digital Short Into Feature
53. Snapchat’s Stock Tumbles As Company Confirms It’s Testing Yet Another Redesign
54. Hollywood is Wrong: Netflix is the Future of Film
55. Netflix Is Launching A Podcast That Breaks Down Its Original Documentary Shows And Films
56. BuzzFeed Pacts With Netflix For Short-Form Docuseries About Its Journalists
57. Netflix Again Raising $1.5 Billion In Debt Financing Amid Aggressive Content Push 
58. Netflix, Amazon, and major studios try to shut down $20-per-month TV service: It’s the third lawsuit against TV box makers filed by Netflix and film studios.
59. Jeff Bezos Says Video Has Helped Drive 100 Million Amazon Prime Members 
60. It’s Thanks To The Pirate Community That Amazon’s Attempt To Degrade Its Streaming Service Is Now Public
61. Amazon Key expands to deliver packages inside your car: Another option for those skeptical about in-home deliveries.
62. Amazon made an Echo Dot for kids, and it costs $30 more than the original: New parental controls and FreeTime Unlimited subscription coming soon, too. 
63. Twitter’s Bet on Video Is Starting to Pay Off: The company is doing as good a job as anyone figuring out live streaming, a medium that has been slow to take off in the U.S
64. In Earnings Report, Twitter Says Video Ads Now Make Up More Than Half Of Its Ad Revenue
65. State Appeals Court Upholds Criminal Conviction For Twitter Harassment Targeting An Autistic Student 
66. How Twitter Suspended The Account Of One Of Our Commenters… For Offending Himself? 
67. Vevo Announces Layoffs After The Departure Of Its CTO 
68. Backlash prompts Eventbrite to drop demand to crash events, record them: “We’ve heard some concerns from our customers,” company says, over perpetual copyright grab.
69. Ben Makuch of Vice takes on police in Supreme Court: The refusal of a journalist to hand over communications with a terror suspect has raised fundamental questions about press freedoms and national security.
70. Vice Media Launches Local Operations in India
71. Spotify Just Gave You a Pretty Good Reason Not to Pay for Spotify
72. Spotify Exec Jabs YouTube Amid Launch Of Redesigned App With More Free Feature
73. Spotify Bolsters Free Service In Defense Against Apple Music
74. Tim Cook on merging macOS and iOS: “I don’t think that’s what users want”: Apple’s CEO appeared to debunk speculation that the company seeks a unified OS.
75. Apple offers free battery replacements for select MacBook Pro models: Only some newer 13-inch MacBook Pros without Touch Bars have been affected.
76. Apple Sued An Independent Norwegian Repair Shop In Bid To Monopolize Repair — And Lost
77. ABKCO Music, Inc. v. William Sagan 
78. The ‘Terms and Conditions’ Reckoning Is Coming: Everyone from Uber to PayPal is facing a backlash against their impenetrable legalese.
79. Robot Showboat: Now Even Our Celeb Feuds Are Automated
80. Your Next Job Interview Could Be with a Racist Bot: Companies are using AI-powered cameras and chatbots to screen applicants. And that could unintentionally make employers even more discriminatory than before.
81. Some Startups Use Fake Data To Train AI 
82. Ready Lawyer One: Virtual Reality Is Coming To Courtrooms
83. Augmented Reality Is Transforming Museums
84. Coinbase Reportedly Shuts Down Wikileaks Store, Assange Calls for Boycott in Response 
85. Silicon Valley’s Latest Revolution: Cutting Out Wall Street 
86. The Selfie As We Know It Is Dead
87. Why So Many People Make Their Password ‘Dragon’ 
88. Reinventing the Internet via blockchain 
89. New hacks siphon private cryptocurrency keys from airgapped wallets: Beware of smartphones and cameras around wallets storing your digital coin.
90. Icelandic bitcoin heist suspect arrested in Amsterdam after leaving prison
91. “Secondary Sales” of Private Securities (And Tokens) in Crowdfunding
92. Suspicious event hijacks Amazon traffic for 2 hours, steals cryptocurrency: Almost 1,300 addresses for Amazon Route 53 rerouted for two hours.
93. ‘We’ve Lost 10 Years of Innovation. This Decade Has Been Boring for the Web.’: A conversation with Ethan Zuckerman, media scholar and inventor of the pop-up ad, on the original sin of advertising and the web’s lost decade.
94. Want To Blog In Tanzania, Or Read Social Media In Uganda? Pay The Government, Please

CREATIVITY

1. 9th Circuit rules that Naruto has no standing under US Copyright Act
2. Naruto v. Slater
3. Monkey has no standing to assert copyright infringement in selfie case, 9th Circuit rules
4. Monkey-selfie lawsuit finally ends: Court affirms adorable macaque can’t sue: PETA claimed to be a friend to Naruto but “failed” at doing so, 9th Circuit finds.
5. We Interrupt The News Again With Hopefully The Last Update From The Monkey Selfie Case
6. Grumpy Cat Limited v. Grenade Beverage LLC, et al.
7. U.S. Court of Appeals Finds That the Lines Remain Blurred
8. Music publishers score major victory in closely watched copyright case
9. Kimberley v. Penguin Random House 
10. Silberstein v. Fox Entertainment Group, Inc. 
11. Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC v. Ren Ventures Ltd
12. Fearless Girl to be moved due to … viability concerns
13. Astronaut’s Right-of-Publicity Case Won’t Timeout
14. LeBron James hit with trademark suit over his barbershop-based web series
15. When Your Trademark Is A False Advertisement
16. Supreme Court upholds patent review process, dealing trolls a blow: A key part of the 2011 America Invents Act is constitutional, high court rules.
17. Brexit and copyright law: will the English courts revert to the ‘old’ test for originality?
18. The CASE Act – A Noble but Toothless Gesture Toward Fair Copyright Enforcement 
19. Of Course The RIAA Would Find A Way To Screw Over The Public In ‘Modernizing’ Copyright 
20. Publisher Helps To Keep Sci-Hub In The Public Eye By Trying To Bully It Into Submission Using Ineffectual Legal Remedies
21. This band is storing their best-selling album in DNA 
22. Following Questionable Election, Honduran Government Debuts New Censorship Law
23. Hate Speech Laws In India 

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1.  F-Word in Live Sports Broadcasts Should be Avoided, Says Canadian Broadcast Standards Council
2. Discussion about Sex Shops Was Acceptable Before 9:00 pm, Says Canadian Broadcast Standards Council
3. Wait for it: Government to clarify anti-spam law – eventually
4. Government Response to CASL Report Released
5. Government Response Suggests No Appetite for Canadian Anti-Spam Law Reform (Michael Geist)
6. Another Survey Shows Massive Bipartisan Opposition To Net Neutrality Repeal
7. Ajit Pai hasn’t finalized net neutrality repeal – here’s a theory on why: Pai’s delayed repeal could let Congress pass weaker law while ISPs behave.
8. No, Net Neutrality Isn’t Officially Dead (Yet), And The FCC Is Stalling For A Reason 
9. AT&T, Verizon face DOJ investigation for allegedly trying to lock eSIMs: Carriers reportedly sought ability to lock eSIMs to networks; Apple complained.
10. DOJ Investigating AT&T, Verizon for Making It Harder To Switch Wireless Carriers
11. NYC blasts broadband competition shortage as it pursues suit against Verizon: Two-thirds of NYC homes have only one or two broadband options, city report says. 
12. ISPs should charge for fast lanes – just like TSA Precheck, GOP lawmaker says: GOP’s Marsha Blackburn wants Internet service to be just like airport security. 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Australian Gov’t Scooped Up Tons Of Cell Site Location Data To Track Citizens’ Movements
2. High Court establishes ‘right to be forgotten’ in English law
3. Company obtains cyber injunction under the protection of anonymity
4. SEC issues $35 million fine over Yahoo failing to disclose data breach
5. Supreme Court Dismisses Microsoft Appeal as Moot After Passage of the CLOUD Act 
6. Framed For Murder By His Own DNA 
7. Florida Police Allegedly Crash Funeral Home to Unlock Phone With Slain Man’s Fingerprints
8. Hackers Designed a ‘Master Key’ to Unlock Millions of Hotel Room Doors
9. When you go to a security conference, and its mobile app leaks your data: RSA Conference attendee contact data extracted using hard-coded API data.
10. Cracking The Crypto War: Ray Ozzie thinks he has an approach for accessing encrypted devices that attains the impossible: It satisfies both law enforcement and privacy purists.
11. Jaywalking in China Can Get You Hit with a Stream of Water
12. Atlanta Spent $2.6m To Recover From A $52,000 Ransomware Scare
13. Batten down the hatches: The GDPR wind is about to blow

GAMES

1. Loot boxes in leading games violate Dutch gambling legislation: Developers have eight weeks to change their loot box mechanics or face prohibition
2. Netherlands pushes for EU-wide loot box legislation: Loot box ruling from Dutch government body could set precedent in Europe against certain iterations of the mechanic
3. Loot boxes with real-world value deemed unlawful in The Netherlands
4. Four publishers must change in-game loot boxes to avoid Dutch gambling laws: Study determines randomized items that have a “market value” violate the law.
5. Belgian Gaming Commission declares loot boxes illegal
6. Video game loot boxes are now considered criminal gambling in Belgium: FIFA, Overwatch, Counter-Strike: GO could face fines and prison penalties.
7. EA, Activision Blizzard, and Valve found in breach of Belgian gambling laws: Loot boxes in FIFA 18, Overwatch, and CS:GO violate gambling legislation, says Belgian Gaming Commission
8. Tattoo artist takes aim at WWE and video game maker
9. Tattoo artist sues WWE in Southern Illinois, says her designs were copied in video games
10. Terminal Reality is suing Microsoft over shadow and lighting patents
11. Microsoft accused of ‘egregious and wilful’ patent infringement: Terminal Reality and Infernal Technologies file lawsuit against tech giant for infringing patent with multiple games
12. A fan-made Halo PC patch meets Microsoft’s legal muscle – and apparently survives: Lawyers arrive after Halo Online “ElDewrito” patch explodes – but no C&D yet.
13. 343 clarifies Halo modding policy as fan-led Halo Onlinerevival gets the axe
14. Blizzard brings paid mods to StarCraft II with ‘Premium Arcade’ initiative
15. The Gaming Industry is Susceptible to ADA Website Accessibility Lawsuits
16. Ragnarok Online shutting down European servers after 14 years
17. GOG is getting more Steam-like with addition of new social features
18. Australian High Court orders Valve to pay $2.4M fine over misleading refund policy
19. Valve fined $3m over breach in Australian law with misleading Steam refund policy: Steam operator’s appeal denied by High Court of Australia
20. Valve acquires Firewatch creator Campo Santo
21. Valve acquires Firewatch developer Campo Santo: Yet another sign Valve might be interested in making new games again.
22. Detroit developer sues French press over “toxic culture” reports: Developer goes to court to fight what it calls a “smear campaign.”
23. Quantic Dream takes legal action against French media for negative press
24. Quantic Dream sues press over reports of toxic workplace – Report: Detroit Become Human studio takes legal action against two of the three outlets who unearthed allegations of harassment and discrimination
25. Maxis renames The Sims 4’s in-game ‘insane’ trait to ‘erratic’
26. EA Maxis renames The Sims’ “insane” character trait: Switch to “erratic” is a reflection of how “language evolves”, EA says
27. Studio apologizes for delay by pledging 90+-hour work weeks: NeoCoreGames says it was joking when it promised crunch as atonement for pushing full launch of Early Access game Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr back three weeks
28. The Red Flag of Passion: How a seemingly harmless word is used to put a happy face on some of the industry’s biggest problems
29. Fortnite breaks $25 million in first month on mobile: Revenue could pass $500 million this year, Sensor Tower suggests
30. Fortnite streamer peaks at 667,000 concurrent viewers, breaking own record: Las Vegas Esports Arena inaugural event becomes record-breaking Twitch stream
31. Thanks to a cosmetic change, Epic accidentally rebalancedFortnite’s shotguns
32. Tencent investing $15M to help establish Fortnite in China
33. Tencent will invest $15 million in Fortnite’s rollout in China: Seeding an esports community for Epic’s game will be a focus of the investment
34. As PUBG-like contenders emerge, Islands of Nyne might already have them beat: Rumors swirl around Battlefield, Call of Duty, but awesome sci-fi twist is already here.
35. First major PUBG tournament launches this summer with $2m prize pool on the line: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Global Invitational set to take place this year in Berlin, Germany
36. Twitch starts beta for new monetisation system: Viewers can now spend virtual currency in Extensions, with revenue divided between streamer and developer
37. Twitch Has Expanded Monetization To 220,000 Affiliates 1 Year After Program’s Launch
38. TheWaveVR secures $6M for its social VR platform
39. CCP chief: EVE dev’s move to leave VR due to risk, not loss of faith
40. Oculus overhauls privacy policy and terms of service
41. UK God of War launch is the biggest in the series history: Same for the new Yakuza, too
42. God of War Director’s Review Reaction Is A Reminder That Games Are Made By Humans
43. Sony’s studios continue their winning streak: The success of the PS4’s excellent first-party experiences belie the commercial challenges single-player titles still face
44. The infamous FMV game Night Trap is headed to the Nintendo Switch after all
45. Nintendo Switch hardware exploits cannot be patched out
46. The “unpatchable” exploit that makes every current Nintendo Switch hackable: Newly published Tegra bootROM exploit could be a big headache for Nintendo and others.
47. Behind the scenes with the hackers who unlocked the Nintendo Switch: “The best way to get a chip security audited is to put it in a game console”
48. Nintendo Labo belongs in the classroom
49. Review: Nintendo Labo (Variety And Robot Kits – Nintendo’s big gamble on cardboard and imagination pays off.
50. How to make your old Game Boy as good as (or better than) new: Why wait for a “Game Boy Classic” when you can fix up your old stuff instead?
51. How Squidlit’s devs authentically recreated a Game Boy game in 2018
52. Sonic Mania surpasses 1M sold worldwide
53. Capcom scrapping Puzzle Fighter to focus on Dead Rising
54. Italian games market hits $1.8 billion in 2017: The latest wave of GSD data is released for Europe
55. Steam sales, store pages and the art of selling games: At Reboot Develop, Rockfish, Vlambeer and 11 bit take very different views on the value of cutting prices
56. Kartridge announces new dev-friendly revenue terms
57. Kartridge offers developers 100% of revenue up to $10,000: Exclusive games will also get 90% up to $40k, in new terms aimed at “smaller developers”
58. How indie publishers stand out – and why they need your game to help them: Speaking at Reboot Develop, Devolver Digital, Paradox Interactive and Raw Fury reflect on their role in a game’s success and offer advice on pitching to them
59. “We just want to keep the IP” – Why Swery is banking on crowd-funding: The Good Life approaches its last stretch on Kickstarter
60. How Space Ape eschewed convention to make its most profitable game – Simon Hade and Nicolas Boulay discuss growing Fastlane: Road to Revenge from $5,000 ad revenue a day to $45,000 in four months
61. Ubisoft launches second season of start-up incubator program: “Ubisoft is proud of its roots and has not forgotten that its very own adventure began as a start-up,” says program sponsor
62. Darwin Project goes free-to-play after six weeks in Early Access: Scavengers Studio cites players’ “difficulty finding matches” as motivation for the change
63. Crossfire developer Smilegate closes Berlin studio
64. Smilegate to close Berlin office just over a year after it opened: Crossfire developer shuts down European base as part of new business strategy
65. “What’s your plan to not destroy yourself as you’re stepping into this career path?”: At Reboot Develop, Devolver and Good Shepherd co-founder Mike Wilson discussed the need for unions, mental burnout, and dealing with online toxicity
66. Better than reality: New emulation tech lags less than original consoles: “LAGFIX” fast-forwards through “hidden” frames for near-instant response times.
67. The Sentinel stands alone: Why I Love: Quantum Soup’s Chris Payne remembers Geoff Crammond’s purely innovative, rarely imitated classic
68. Rovio and Sony confirm a new Angry Birds movie for 2019: The first film earned $352 million since it opened two years ago
69. Wolfenstein II has five nominations at the Nordic Game Awards 2018: But Ultra Ultra’s Echo leads the pack with six, Tarsier Studios’ Little Nightmares and Image & Form’s SteamWorld Dig 2 close behind
70. Three years out, Final Fantasy VII remake still seems a long way off: Despite 2015 announcement, ambitious overhaul effort appears to be in early stages.
71. Death Road to Canada devs delay release out of respect for recent tragedy
72. Reboot Develop expands with Canada conference in 2019: Spring conference will remain in Dubrovnik alongside new student event, Canadian debut to be held in autumn next year
73. Social media ‘fair game’ in admissions process: But survey finds less than a third of colleges actually look at social media profiles when making admissions decisions
74. GDPR: Frequently Asked Questions – In the final part of their GDPR guide, Purewal & Partners’ Jas Purewal and Peter Lewin tackle the industry’s most common concerns
75. Blog: How the Rubik’s Cube inspired a laid-back Atari puzzler
76. Video: We force kids to confront ’80s technology – Youngsters struggled to understand why the TV must be on channel 3 to play games.

Jon

DIGITAL

1. Was Facebook’s Work With the Trump Campaign Illegal?
2. The Questions Zuckerberg Should Have Answered About Russia
3. Facebook admits Zuckerberg wiped his old messages – which you can’t do: Ordinary Facebook users can’t delete their messages from recipients’ inboxes.
4. Facebook Admits Mark Zuckerberg and Top Execs Have Deleted Their Sent Messages Remotely
5. Hours after Zuck deletion scandal, Facebook announces new unsend feature: How stupid does Facebook think we are?
6. Facebook sent a doctor on a secret mission to ask hospitals to share patient data
7. Facebook can’t catch a break: Medical data-sharing plan halted 
8. Watch Zuckerberg Struggle to Answer Sharp, Uncomfortable Questions About Peter Thiel’s Creepy Company
9. A Hard Transparency Choice: What is WikiLeaks?
10. Zuckerberg: Failing to identify Russian misinformation one of his ‘greatest regrets’: Mark Zuckerberg called Facebook’s failure to identify the influence of Russian information operations on the 2016 U.S. election one of his “greatest regrets.”
11. Data firm that worked on Brexit suspended by Facebook: But the company says all allegations are untrue.
12. “Facebook Doesn’t Sell Your Data. It Sells You”: Zeynep Tufekci on How Company’s Profit Really Works
13. Steve Wozniak drops Facebook: “The profits are all based on the user’s info” – Apple cofounder – “Apple makes its money off of good products, not off of you.”
14. Zuckerberg: regulation of social media firms is ‘inevitable’
15. As Zuck testifies to Senate, Democrats propose tough opt-in privacy law: Democrats propose opt-in privacy rules for Facebook, Google, and other websites.
16. Facebook urged to make GDPR its “baseline standard” globally
17. Mark Zuckerberg Answers To Congress For Facebook’s Troubles
18. CEO Zuckerberg apologizes for Facebook’s privacy failures
19. It’s not just America: Zuckerberg has to answer for Facebook’s actions around the world
20. Why Zuckerberg’s 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn’t Fixed Facebook
21. What were the failures of Mark Zuckerberg pre-Facebook?
22. 1 million UK Facebook users could have compensation claims for misuse of their personal information
23. From Mark Zuckerberg to Harvey Weinstein, founder CEOs can become too big to fail
24. Facebook isn’t too big to fail 
25. Mark Zuckerberg’s Testimony Birthed An Oddly Promising Memepocalypse
26. Congress Is Unearthing Facebook’s Terrible Power 
27. Facebook And The Price Of Tech Utopia
28. Facebook Imposes New Restrictions On Ads And Popular Pages
29. Facebook: If you want to buy a political ad, you now have to be “authorized” – “We know we were slow to pick-up foreign interference in the 2016 US elections.”
30. Facebook’s surveillance is nothing compared with Comcast, AT&T and Verizon: Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance risk than Facebook – but their surveillance is much harder to avoid
31. MIT Civic Media Director: Facebook’s Apologies Are ‘Long Overdue’
32. Mark Zuckerberg’s Privacy Shell Game
33. Facebook CEO puts on suit and a smile to try to seduce, assuage senators – Sen. Blumenthal (D-CT): “Your business model is to maximize profit over privacy.” 
34. Cambridge Analytica Could Have Also Accessed Private Facebook Messages
35. How To Check If Cambridge Analytica Could Access Your Facebook Data
36. How to Find Out If Your Facebook Data Was Stolen by Cambridge Analytica
37. Data Lords: The Real Story of Big Data, Facebook and the Future of News
38. Broadband Industry Aims To Use Facebook Fracas To Saddle Silicon Valley With Crappy New Laws
39. Yep, Russian trolls hit Reddit, too—on /r/funny and elsewhere – CEO: “We still have a lot of room to improve, and we intend to remain vigilant.”
40. Here’s why tech companies abuse our data: because we let them (Brett Frischmann)
41. The Rise Of Platform Authoritarianism
42. Court Shuts Down Yet Another Lawsuit Against Social Media Companies Over Terrorist Attacks
43. Cali Lawmakers Pushing For 72-Hour Bot Removal Requirements For Social Media Companies
44. Court Says Kentucky Governor Free To Block Critics Using Official Social Media Accounts
45. FOSTA Signed into Law, Amends CDA Section 230 to Allow Enforcement against Online Providers for Knowingly Facilitating Sex Trafficking
46. Trump signs bill to shut down websites that facilitate prostitution: FOSTA becomes law—sex work forums were already shutting down to prepare.
47. Ted Cruz Gets Section 230 All Wrong, While Zuck Claims He’s Not Familiar With It
48. Backpage domains seized by feds, co-founder’s Arizona home raided: Notorious site had used Section 230 as a shield against state prosecution.
49. Backpage execs indicted on federal prostitution, money laundering charges – AG: “Backpage.com existed as the dominant marketplace for illicit commercial sex.” 
50. DOJ Seizes And Shuts Down Backpage.com (Before SESTA Has Even Been Signed)
51. “Erotic Review” blocks US Internet users to prepare for government crackdown: Sex work review site censors itself in US before SESTA is signed into law.
52. Politicians Who Said SESTA Was Needed To Takedown Backpage Claim Victory Over Backpage Takedown… Without SESTA
53. Federal Backpage Indictment Shows SESTA Unnecessary, Contains Zero Sex Trafficking Charges
54. Japanese Government Seeks To Circumvent Its Own Constitution To Censor ‘Pirate’ Sites
55. Studio71 Launches Brand Safety Tool To Help Its Partners Advertise Securely
56. Right to be forgotten and online information removal under debate: Privacy commissioner may face challenges with the law
57. Canadian Government Leaning Towards A Right To Be Forgotten It Can Enforce Anywhere In The World
58. Vimeo Copyright Infringement Case Still Going Nearly A Decade Later, With Another Partial Win For Vimeo
59. Latest EU Copyright Plan Would Ban Copyright Holders From Using Creative Commons
60. Apple Must Pay $502.6 Million to VirnetX, Federal Jury Rules
61. Apple ordered to pay $502.6M to VirnetX after jury finds patent infringement: Suing over patents hasn’t paid off: VirnetX lost over $75M from 2015 through 2017.
62. Patent Troll Sues Spotify, SoundCloud And Deezer Over Patent On A ‘Music Organizer And Entertainment Center’
63. Apple has begun notifying macOS users of coming 32-bit app incompatibility: Warnings have started, but 32-bit support will likely continue for many months.
64. Amazon customers take to social media after mysterious account closures  
65. Most Links To Popular Sites On Twitter Come From Bots
66. Instagram Testing ‘Nametags’ Feature That’s Essentially A Snapcodes Clone
67. One Woman Got Facebook To Police Opioid Sales On Instagram
68. ‘Mister Rogers’ Fan Film Battles Copyright Claim On YouTube
69. After “Horrific Act Of Violence,” YouTube Will Tighten Security “At All Of Our Offices Worldwide”
70. Google Staffer Launches $24,000 GoFundMe Campaign For YouTube Shooting Hero
71. Groups Allege YouTube Is Violating Law That Protects Kids
72. Advocacy Groups, Citing Children’s Privacy Laws, Ask FTC To Investigate YouTube
73. Unite the Right? How YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm Connects The U.S. Far-Right
74. YouTube TV To Launch Linear Channels With Cheddar, Tastemade, The Young Turks
75. Philip DeFranco Answers Sean Evans’ Burning Questions About YouTube On ‘Hot Ones’ 
76. ‘Study With Me’ YouTube Videos Are Finding Massive Audiences In Japan 
77. YouTube To Stream Coachella For Eighth Year, Including Headliner Beyoncé
78. YouTube Kids Is Going To Release A Whitelisted, Non-Algorithmic Version Of Its App: YouTube will approve all channels allowed to post, a source told BuzzFeed News, giving parents a firewall against an algorithm that’s often proved lacking.
79. Google Turns To Users To Improve Its AI Chops Outside The US
80. Again, Algorithms Suck At Determining ‘Bad’ Content, Often To Hilarious Degrees
81. BroadbandTV Unveils ‘VISO’ Platform To Help Creators Collaborate, Optimize Uploads, More
82. Netflix Reportedly Threatens Cannes Boycott After Its Films Are Banned From Competition
83. The Military Wants to Make AI That Mimics the Human Brain. Experts Know There’s a Better Way.
84. A Brain-Boosting Prosthesis Moves From Rats To Humans
85. A New AI “Journalist” Is Rewriting the News to Remove Bias
86. A lawyer’s guide to artificial intelligence
87. China Now Has the Most Valuable AI Startup in the World
88. Artificial Intelligence, Fair Use, and Using AI to Create New Works
89. President Trump Announces Trade Actions Targeting Chinese Tech and Intellectual Property Policies 
90. Mozilla Diagnoses The Health Of The Global Internet
91. The Internet has serious health problems, Mozilla Foundation report finds: Consolidation of control, “fake news,” IoT security weakness are symptoms of larger problems.
92. More Governments Granting Themselves Extra Censorship Powers With ‘Fake News’ Laws
93. Indian Government Enacts, Abandons ‘Fake News’ Law In Less Than 24 Hours
94. Mt. Gox ex-CEO, who may profit from site’s fall, says he “doesn’t want this”
95. Beijing Higher Court Affirms Grant of Injunction in IWNComm v. Sony
96. The Never-Ending Self-Driving Car Project
97. China Now Has the Most Valuable AI Startup in the World
98. 10 Hidden URLs to Help You Rule the Web
99. Quebec Digital Sales Tax Plan Shows It Is Easier Said Than Done (Michael Geist)

CREATIVITY

1. Public policy and offensive trademarks
2. Strong Shield Law Protections for Journalists in California and Across the Country 
3. RIAA Gets To Move Forward In Case That Tries To Force ISPs To Help Copyright Trolls
4. MPAA Report Shows How The Internet Is Saving The Film Industry, Not Destroying It 

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Canadian Internet Providers Warn of Site Blocking Consequences: Threat to Affordable Internet Access and Market Competition (Michael Geist)
2. CRTC Website Blocking Submissions Confirm Over-Blocking Risks: “Every Blocking Technique Suffers from Over-blocking and Under-blocking” (Michael Geist)
3. Broken Record: Why the Music Industry’s Secret Plan for iPhone Taxes, Internet Tracking and Content Blocking is Off-Key (Michael Geist)
4. The Competition-Killing Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Nobody Asked For Is Back On The Menu
5. Oregon finalizes net neutrality law despite likelihood that ISPs will sue: Oregon governor signs net neutrality bill today.
6. Oregon passes its own net neutrality laws, but not for home users: “The internet has democratised knowledge and is an invaluable tool. It’s so important that it remains open and accessible”
7. Massachusetts Legislature Issues Net Neutrality Report, Recommends Legislation
8. More Colorado Towns Vote Down A Comcast State Law Hamstringing Broadband Competition
9. Ex-Obama FTC Boss Now Lobbying For Comcast, Trying To Prevent States From Protecting Consumers
10. Ajit Pai’s “Harlem Shake” video preparations must remain secret, FCC says: It’s the second time FCC refused to release emails about an Ajit Pai comedy skit.
11. FCC Withholds Ajit Pai’s Emails Regarding The Infamous ‘Harlem Shake’ Video
12. FCC Commissioner Says Her Agency Is Now Just A Giant Rubber Stamp For Sinclair Broadcasting
13. Trump and the idiot box: White House aides will try to get guests to make their points on Fox News shows because President Trump “will listen more when it is on TV.” 
14. The crisis in journalism that’s helping Trump: Did the collapse of local journalism help give us Donald Trump? 
15. When You Merge The Message With The Medium, You Make A Messium 
16. What’s Next for the FCC’s Radio Ownership Rules? – Do Changes in the Audio Marketplace Justify Changes in Ownership Limits? 
17. AT&T’s 5G trials produce gigabit speeds and 9ms latency: AT&T boasts about millimeter-wave 5G as it prepares for late 2018 launch.
18. CenturyLink Tries To Dodge Broadband Billing Lawsuit By Claiming It Technically Has No Subscribers

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. The NYPD Wants Everyone’s Licenses for Facial Recognition. How Concerned Should You Be?
2. DHS defends media-monitoring database, calls critics “conspiracy theorists”: Says only wearers of “tinfoil hats” have issues with “standard practice monitoring.”
3. Thousands of hacked websites are infecting visitors with malware: Unusually advanced campaign infects people visiting a variety of poorly secured sites. 
4. Another Company Blows Off Breach Notification For Months, Lies About Affected Customers When It’s Exposed
5. DC’s Stingray Mess Won’t Get Cleaned Up
6. DHS Says Rogue Stingrays Are In Use In Washington, DC; Also Says It Hasn’t Done Anything About It
7. How to keep your ISP’s nose out of your browser history with encrypted DNS: Using Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1, other DNS services still require some command-line know-how.
8. Cyberinsurance Tackles The Wildly Unpredictable World Of Hacks 
9. Striking the Balance: Privacy and Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age (Michael Geist) 
10. Data Rules in Modern Trade Agreements: Toward Reconciling an Open Internet with Privacy and Security Safeguards (Michael Geist)
11. Practical passwordless authentication comes a step closer with WebAuthn: Microsoft, Mozilla, and Google are all implementing the new standard.

GAMES

1. GTA V producer hits speed bump in $150M lawsuit against Rockstar
2. Former GTA producer suffers setback in $150m lawsuit against Take Two: Court finds profit sharing agreement unambiguous, but Benzies could still be compensated
3. GTA V is the most profitable entertainment product of all time: 90 million sales and $6 billion in revenue means nothing comes close to Rockstar’s biggest hit
4. Court Dismisses Lohan’s Invasion of Privacy Suit
5. Grand Theft Auto 5 Has Many Different Characters, But Lindsay Lohan Is Not One of Them 
6. Appeals Court Rules That GTA5 Didn’t Infringe On Lindsay Lohan’s Likeness Rights
7. Lawsuit Filed Against PUBG Mobile Clones
8. PUBG Corp takes NetEase to court over alleged mobilePUBG copycats
9. PUBG creators finally decide a copycat game has gone too far, file suit: What gets PUBG lawyers’ attention? A 25-strong list that includes chicken dinners.
10. PUBG Corp. files lawsuit against NetEase for alleged copyright infringement: Look and feel of both mobile games “closely mimic” PUBG, says developer
11. CliffyB’s Radical Heights is a new low for cashing in on the PUBG craze: What happens when a game studio is late to a hot trend twice in a row?
12. Microsoft & other game companies win out in camera patent lawsuit
13. Ubisoft to prioritize ‘toxicity management’ in Rainbow Six: Siege
14. Ubisoft cracking down on hate speech, team-killing in Rainbow Six: Siege – “Egregious offenders” can now earn a permanent ban “without warning.”
15. “You’re a__ is about to get swatted,” swatting suspect tweets from jail: A software glitch in a Kansas jail temporarily gave the suspect Internet access.
16. Pokémon Go Producers Attacked by Strange Plaintiff-Beasts
17. Korean companies fined $950K for deceptive loot box practices
18. Nexon and Netmarble fined for loot box practices: Korean FTC hands out almost $1 million in fines, the majority to Nexon
19. Korean FTC Issues Fines Over Loot Box Advertising 
20. FTC: Warranty-voiding language like Nintendo’s and Sony’s is illegal – FTC warns companies to stop voiding warranties for unauthorized repairs.
21. Online gaming could be stalled by net neutrality repeal, ESA tells court: Entertainment Software Association fights FCC’s net neutrality repeal in court.
22. The Video Game Industry Joins The Lawsuit To Save Net Neutrality
23. Public UK wage database showcases game industry’s gender pay gap
24. Exploring the pay gap: What does the data really say about the industry’s gender imbalance? – Full analysis reveals important questions about female representation across all industry levels
25. Gender pay gaps: Here’s how we fix them – Amiqus’ Liz Prince believes this week’s revelations should compel the industry to address how it recruits, retains and promotes women
26. Indie collective Juegos Rancheros dismisses co-founder Boyer
27. Brandon Boyer dismissed from Juegos Rancheros: Austin indie game organization removes co-founder and former IGF chair from board of directors over conduct concerns
28. Blog: Recapping the IGDA’s localization roundtable from GDC
29. Altered Ventures launches $36M fund to help devs succeed in emerging markets
30. How long should game devs spend working on just one game?
31. BossKey backing away from active LawBreakers development 
32. Lawbreakers “failed to find an audience,” dev officially admits FPS defeat: Implies that game won’t receive an end-of-life transition to free-to-play, either.
33. Ubisoft opens Winnipeg studio to develop world building tech
34. Ubisoft opening Winnipeg studio: Far Cry 5 producer Darryl Long named managing director of new co-development studio focused on tools and tech for publisher’s AAA open-world brands
35. Nightdive shares source code for System Shock on Mac
36. Far Cry 5 has more than doubled Far Cry 4’s first week sales
37. Insights: Fortnite’s Pop Culture Breakthrough May Last More Than Two Weeks
38. Fortnite mobile revenue tops $15M after less than a month
39. Fortnite mobile daily revenue peaks at $1.8m since lifting invite-only requirement: Total revenue surpasses $15 million in less than a month
40. Resident Evil 7 has surpassed 5.1M sales worldwide
41. With 2 million units sold, Shovel Knight generated the most income from Switch sales
42. Nintendo warns against using substandard Switch charging cables
43. Overwatch League team drops player: Boston Rising terminates contract of Jonathan “DreamKazper” Sanchez after allegation of sexual communications with a minor
44. What Is The Copyright Status In eSports Casts?
45. Esports and gambling
46. Blizzard looking to grow Overwatch League with All-Access Pass
47. Video Game Deep Cuts: A WiLD eSports Mario Approaches
48. NBA’s Adam Silver Welcomes ‘New Generation Of Athletes’ With NBA 2K League
49. Video games can create beneficial social connections and take on real issues
50. Wadjet Eye: Streamers “pushed me to make the game that I’ve always wanted to play” – With Unavowed, founder Dave Gilbert aimed to make a point and click adventure game that can’t be spoiled by YouTube videos
51. I got occupational burnout – and you might, too: Will Luton on a “scarily ubiquitous” problem in the games industry, but one that can be identified and prevented
52. ‘VRChat’ is the Closest VR Experience Available Today to ‘Ready Player One’s’ OASIS
53. Group Behind JPEG Unveils New ‘visually lossless’ Compression Standard for VR/AR and More
54. Leap Motion reveals open-source North Star AR headset 
55. Trade marks: How much do you really need to protect?: As the Star Control legal battle extends to alien race names, Harbottle & Lewis’ Kostya Lobov offers advice on striking a balance
56. “Most developers think of funding as fixing their problem”: But VC investors care about opportunities and not problems, says Jason Della Rocca, and this year’s Nordic Game Conference will feature an event to show the difference
57. Steam privacy tweaks spell the end for services like Steam Spy
58. Steam Spy announces it’s shutting down, blames Valve’s new privacy settings: Sales-estimate service, born from an Ars data project, says goodbye to its best source.
59. SteamSpy shutting down after Steam privacy update: Switch to default hidden game libraries cuts off primary source of tracker’s data
60. Blog: Early Access without Steam? Let’s break down the numbers
61. Blog: A history of game analytics platforms
62. iOS App Store shrinks as number of new apps falls for first time ever
63. Razer sets up shop as a PC game retailer
64. Myst creators launch Kickstarter to bring every game in the series to Windows 10: Most of the games are already available, but there are some collector’s items.
65. The ESA has joined the fight to save net neutrality
66. ESA joins battle for net neutrality: E3 organiser and games lobbying group files to participate in lawsuit against Federal Communications Commission
67. Humble is selling a huge gaming history ebook collection for $15: MIT Press combines 18 of its incredibly wonky game design studies books for cheap.
68. How game writers craft meaningful romances in games
69. Blog: The importance of knowing your inheritance, as a game dev
70. V&A Museum to highlight game design innovations in coming exhibit
71. Video Games: Design/Play/Disrupt arrives at Victoria and Albert Museum this autumn: “Exhibition will provide a compelling insight into one of the most important design disciplines of our time,” says V&A director
72. Take a gander at how the very first arcade video games were advertised

Jon

DIGITAL

1. Appeals court revives Oracle’s billion-dollar copyright claim against Google
2. The Case That Never Ends: Oracle Wins Latest Round vs. Google
3. Oracle America Inc. V Google LLC
4. Insanity Wins As Appeals Court Overturns Google’s Fair Use Victory For Java APIs
5. The Federal Circuit’s Judicial Hypocrisy In Overturning Jury Concerning Java API Fair Use Question 
6. 9th Circuit Appeals Court Recognizes That DMCA Repeat Infringer Policies Must Be Flexible
7. Founder Of Fan-Subtitle Site ‘Undertexter’ Loses Copyright Infringement Appeal
8. DOJ Indicts 9 Iranians For Brazen Cyberattacks Against 144 US Universities
9. Nine Iranians indicted by US for hacking to steal research data: “Password spraying” attack gave Mabna group access to 32TB of diverse research data.
10. Security Researcher At The Center Of Emoji-Gate Heading Home After Feds Drop Five Felony Charges
11. Best Buy walks away from Huawei, leaving it with zero US retail partners: Spying concerns have now totally shut down Huawei’s retail presence. 
12. Tumblr Finally Breaks Its Silence On Russian Propaganda
13. Tumblr finally names the 84 accounts it says were Russian trolls: Tumblr says it “helped indict 13 people who worked for” Internet Research Agency.
14. DNC “lone hacker” Guccifer 2.0 pegged as Russian spy after opsec fail: “Hacktivist” logged into a social media account from an IP address at GRU HQ in Moscow.
15. How the U.S. Can Play Cyber-Offense: Deterrence Isn’t Enough
16. Judge Dismisses Conservative Organization PragerU’s Censorship Case Against YouTube
17. The NRA Quadrupled Its Digital Ad Budget After Parkland Killings, Flooding Facebook and YouTube
18. YouTube expands firearms restrictions, more gun videos to be banned: Some gun-related channels are already feeling the heat.
19. Only 10% Of Affiliate Links On YouTube Are Being Disclosed, Princeton Study Finds
20. What lies beneath: The things Facebook knows go beyond user data – Op-ed – With Facebook, you’re not the customer. You’re the product.
21. Facebook cracks down on “platform abuse” following Cambridge Analytica debacle: Social media giant announces five key implementations
22. Cambridge Analytica’s London offices raided by British investigators
23. Forget Cambridge Analytica. What about Facebook’s role in ethnic strife and genocide?
24. Cambridge Analytica breach results in lawsuits filed by angry Facebook users: “Facebook lies within the penumbra of blame,” Maryland woman claims.
25. Facebook accused of massive fraud in new lawsuit filed by Cook County – Lawyer: “Facebook… is the largest data mining operation in existence.”
26. Deleting Facebook? Here Are The Best Alternatives For What You’ll Miss
27. Tesla and SpaceX just scrubbed their Facebook pages: In a Twitter exchange, Musk says Tesla’s Facebook page “looked lame anyway.” 
28. What To Look For In Your Facebook Data – And How To Find It
29. Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, Dr. Kogan and my data protection analysis
30. The Cambridge Analytica Data Apocalypse Was Predicted In 2007 
31. Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones: Maybe check your data archive to see if Facebook’s algorithms know who you called.
32. Facebook Logs Text, Call Histories for Some Android Users: Company says it never sells the data nor does it see the content of the messages or calls
33. Mark Zuckerberg Finally Speaks About Cambridge Analytica; It Won’t Be Enough
34. Tim Cook Takes His Turn to Dunk on Facebook, Backing Data Privacy Regulations 
35. Tim Cook is throwing lots of shade — first at Amazon, then at Mark Zuckerberg
36. Tim Cook says Apple’s customers are not its product, unlike Facebook: “The truth is, we could make a ton of money if we monetized our customer.”
37. Mark Zuckerberg requested to testify to Congress about Facebook/Cambridge Analytica Privacy  
38. What Congress Should Ask Mark Zuckerberg: They’re going to need a long session. 
39. Hey Mark Zuckerberg: Don’t Lock Down Everyone’s Data, Open It Up To Services That Give Your Users More Control Over Their Data
40. It’s Official: The FTC Is Investigating Facebook
41. The Facebook Privacy Setting That Doesn’t Do Anything At All
42. Wherein Facebook Loses Recess For Everyone
43. Facebook Working With Comcast To Scuttle California Broadband Privacy Protections
44. Facebook will (soon) yank third-party ad data in the name of privacy: “We want to let advertisers know that we will be shutting down Partner Categories.”
45. Insights: Zayonara, Zuck! It’s Time For A New Facebook CEO
46. Facebook is limiting developers’ access to account data – here’s how that will impact them
47. Was Facebook wrong? Or the university that let our data go?
48. Cambridge Analytica academic’s work upset university colleagues: Emails reveal rows over Aleksandr Kogan’s ‘get rich quick scheme’ with Facebook data
49. Schiff invites professor accused of harvesting Facebook data to testify
50. Information commissioners are seen searching Cambridge Analytica’s London offices as it is revealed Facebook gave information about 57 billion friendship connections to academic in privacy scandal: Dr. Aleksandr Kogan was given data on 57bn Facebook friendships worldwide
51. Facebook co-authored report with Dr Kogan hailed by Cambridge University
52. University says it has ‘no connection’ with Cambridge Analytica as lecturer caught up in data scandal
53. Facebook’s New Data Restrictions Will Handcuff Even Honest Researchers
54. Start treating private personal data on Facebook like medical data: It’s just as sensitive to nefarious manipulation
55. Facebook reportedly delaying smart speaker launch in wake of data outrage: Now might not be the best time for an always-listening Facebook device.
56. This Is So Much Bigger Than Facebook (Ethan Zuckerman)
57. Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica problems are nothing compared to what’s coming for all of online publishing (Doc Searl)
58. It’s not just Facebook. Thousands of companies are spying on you (Bruce Schneier) 
59. Facebook Did Not Kill Privacy, It Was Already Dead (Andres Guadamuz) 
60. Twitter Nukes American Attorney’s Tweet About Unflattering Depiction Of Turkish President
61. The Next Cold War Is Here, And It’s All About Data
62. What Are ‘Data Brokers,’ and Why Are They Scooping Up Information About You?: These sites you haven’t heard of are sharing boatloads of data about you.
63. Court of Appeal considers when material posted on Facebook is published for the purposes of defamation 
64. Court approves website seizure and Anton Piller order against online copyright piracy platform
65. Bill Expands Corporate Liability for Human Trafficking to Social Media Companies
66. Personalisation in retail: what are the key legal issues?
67. SESTA’s First Victim: Craigslist Shuts Down Personals Section
68. Craigslist Is Shutting Down Its Personals Section
69. Craigslist missed connections: The consummate Internet casualty?
70. Craigslist personals, some subreddits disappear after FOSTA passage – EFF: “Online platforms will have little choice but to become much more restrictive.”
71. Tweet tweet! Not so fast! Copyright Issues Ahead!
72. Apple Streaming Service To Launch As Early As March 2019
73. Apple may surpass $1B content budget, new shows could debut in March 2019: Around the same time that Disney plans to reveal its own streaming service.
74. Apple makes iOS more school-friendly with ClassKit educational framework: New tools give teachers, students, and administrators more power in the classroom.
75. Apple targets education with new iPad hardware: New iPad and Apple Pencil will be cheaper for schools, and allow teachers to use app market for education
76. Analysis: New iPads will help Apple in education but probably not enough – Apple painted a beautiful picture of tech and school today in Chicago.
77. How Apple Lost Its Place In The Classroom
78. A critical analysis of the latest cellphone safety scare: In which we describe how we decided not to cover the newest cellphone-cancer study.
79. Deep learning: Why it’s time for AI to get philosophical – For years, science fiction writers have spelled out the technological marvels and doomsday scenarios that might result from artificial intelligence. Now that it’s a part of our lives.
80. Once Again, Algorithms Can’t Tell The Difference Between ‘Bad Stuff’ And ‘Reporting About Bad Stuff’
81. A Window Into How YouTube Trains AI To Moderate Videos
82. Workers Enlisted By YouTube For AI-Training Efforts Make 10 Cents A Task To Analyze Videos
83. You won’t own copyright in photos taken with Google’s new camera
84. YouTube Becomes Top-Grossing iPhone App For First Time On Strength Of YouTube Red, Super Chat 
85. YouTube TV Becomes Presenting Sponsor Of NBA Finals
86. YouTube TV Will Be The Presenting Sponsor Of This Year’s NBA Finals
87. Formula 1 starts this weekend, so where’s that new streaming service?: It apparently needs more “stress tests,” with no fixed date for a launch.
88. YouTube Says It Now Reaches 80% Of All Internet Users In India
89. YouTube Boxing King KSI: Unfortunately, Drama Is Always Going To Be An Eye-Catcher
90. Some Creators Are Mad At YouTube Over Live Streaming Notifications
91. No, YouTube’s “trolls” won’t destroy Wikipedia
92. Italian Court Rules The Wikimedia Foundation Is Just A Hosting Provider For Wikipedia’s Volunteer-Written Articles
93. Google starts blocking “uncertified” Android devices from logging in: Custom ROM users get a way out, but noobs with pirated apps will be out of luck.
94. Google throws publishers a bone with News Initiative
95. 38% Of Gen Z And Millennials Trust Digital Influencers, Says Fullscreen Study
96. The Rise In Streaming Video Exclusives Could Annoy Consumers, Driving Them Back To Piracy
97. You Can Pay To Watch Single Games On New Bleacher Report Streaming Service 
98. Endeavor Buys NeuLion In $250 Million Cash Deal
99. Police chief said Uber victim “came from the shadows” – don’t believe it: YouTube videos give a different impression of the site of a deadly Uber crash.
100. Uber’s Video Shows The Arizona Crash Victim Probably Didn’t Cause Crash, Human Behind The Wheel Not Paying Attention
101. Arizona Bans Ub’s Autonomous Vehicles Following Pedestrian Death
102. Arizona Bans Self-Driving Car Tests; Still Ignores How Many Pedestrians Get Killed
103. Uber, losing $1 billion a quarter, sells its Southeast Asian business: The deal could help Uber slow 2017’s $1 billion-per-quarter burn rate.
104. Uber stops AV testing “indefinitely” in California, Pennsylvania, and Toronto: Uber must provide new analysis in wake of Arizona crash if it seeks to renew.
105. Why it’s time for Uber to get out of the self-driving car business: Uber’s self-driving car project would be stronger outside Uber.
106. Tesla stock falls 12% on crash investigation, debt downgrade: It’s unknown if Tesla’s Autopilot was engaged at the time of the crash.
107. Chrissy Teigen Becomes Third Major Celeb To Proclaim Snapchat Defection
108. NBA tests micropayments livestreaming offering
109. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver Details Plan To Sell Short Game Segments
110. Cybersecurity Uncertainty for Cryptocurrencies
111. The Dark Web’s Favorite Currency Is Less Untraceable Than It Seems
112. Cannes Film Festival Shuts Netflix And Other Streamers Out Of Palme D’Or Competition
113. Cannes Bans Netflix Films From Competition Because The Internet Is Bad (Or Something)
114. What Oversharing On Social Media Taught Me About Parenting 
115. Transparency: What’s Gone Wrong with Social Media and What Can We Do About It?
116. What Are Screens Doing To Our Eyes—And Our Ability To See?: Our eyes are hardening; we can barely see our phones anymore. We must learn to look at the wider world. 

CREATIVITY

1. Federal Court of Appeal Rejects Access Copyright Bid to Overturn Board Ruling on Insubstantial Copying, Fair Dealing (Michael Geist)
2. ‘Blurred Lines’ Verdict Upheld by Appeals Court 
3. The ‘Blurred Lines’ Appeal Failed — Now What?
4. ‘Blurred Lines’ copyright ruling is a ‘devastating blow’ and sets dangerous precedent for musicians, judge warns: Judge Jacqueline Nguyen said ‘Blurred Lines’ and Marvin Gaye’s song ‘Got To Give It Up’ ‘differed in melody, harmony and rhythm’
5. Blurred Lines Between Inspiration and Infringement: Ninth Circuit Holds “Blurred Lines” Infringes Copyright
6. Bob Murray Sends Judge Whiny Letter Saying That Losing Case To John Oliver Is Making People Say Mean Things To Him
7. Tenth Circuit Issues A Troubling Ruling Limiting New Mexico’s Anti-SLAPP Statute In Federal Court 
8. TVEyes Television Watch Service Not Protected by Fair Use
9. Eyeing the Line for Fair Use
10. Ninth Circuit Reviews Copyright Infringement Suit Over ‘Jumpman’ Logo
11. Jumpman Logo Ruling Is a Slam Dunk for Nike
12. Tinder takes a swipe at Bumble with IP action
13. Subject Of Unflattering News Story Gets Journalist Arrested For Criminal Harassment
14. Spanish Hate/Anti-Terrorism Speech Laws Doing Little But Locking Up Comedians, Artists, And Dissidents
15. UN Advisor Tells Italy To Drop Its Terrible ‘Fake News’ Law Before It Does Any Real Damage
16. Trump’s Lawyer’s Lawyer Threatens Defamation Over Claims Stormy Daniels Did Not Make
17. Brexit & IP: Finally, some real news…
18. This Disney/Pixar Bracket Is Tearing the Internet Apart, So Tear It Some More and Show Us Yours 
19. What The World Would Look Like Scrubbed Free Of Advertising

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. Coalition Featuring Google, Amazon, GoDaddy and CogecoPeer1 Warn Against Canadian Site Blocking Plan: Lost Jobs, Stifled Innovation (Michael Geist)
2. Outlier, Part 2: What is the CBC Doing Supporting Website Blocking? (Michael Geist)
3. For Ottawa, CRTC decision marks another failed effort at fixing wireless affordability (Michael Geist)
4. Back to Bains: Why the CRTC Has Left Fixing Canada’s Wireless Woes to the Government (Michael Geist)
5. Religious Terms Used as Expletives Not in Violation of Broadcast Code, Says Canadian Broadcast Standards Council
6. Cable Companies Warn In Court That AT&T Time Warner Merger Will Be Absolutely Terrible For Competition And Consumers
7. AT&T/Verizon lobbyists to “aggressively” sue states that enact net neutrality: ISPs will sue to block net neutrality laws until they get one they like.
8. Senators Say The FCC’s Broadband Maps are a Bad Joke
9. FCC Adopts Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Looking to Simplify Sale of Satellite TV Stations 
10. FCC says it will block Chinese technology to protect national security: Huawei and ZTE gear would be banned in FCC-funded broadband projects.
11. The FCC’s Evidence-Optional Blacklist Of Huawei Is About Protectionism, Not National Security
12. With April Fools’ Day Coming Up, Plan Your On-Air Pranks with Care – Remember the FCC Hoax Rule  
13. Consolidated Net Neutrality Appeal Transferred to D.C. Circuit
14. The Fall Of The TV Family In Trump’s America
15. Propaganda reigns in the ‘ethical wasteland’ of mass media: Recently, I left Fox News, where I’d been at home for a decade, because I believed that its prime-time line-up had become a propaganda arm for a wanton president. – But my despair over Fox does n
16. Analog Regulators Can’t Keep Up With the Digital Age

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. Kim Dotcom Wins Human Rights Tribunal Case Over Kiwi Government Withholding Info
2. Second Circuit rejects fair-use defence for online service allowing users to watch Fox News content
3. FBI didn’t fully know its own capabilities during showdown with Apple: FBI Office of the Inspector General offers critique of how agency handled 2016 case.
4. FBI Officials Were Angry That An iPhone Hack Blocked Them From Getting Court To Force Apple To Break Encryption
5. DOJ Back To Pushing For Legislation Targeting Encryption
6. Feds pushing new plan for encrypted mobile device unlocks via court order: “Weakening security makes no sense,” top Apple VP tells Ars.
7. Remember the Right to Be Forgotten? Google Does
8. What US-Based Companies Need to Know About the GDPR, and Why Now?
9. Thousands of servers found leaking 750MB worth of passwords and keys
10. Atlanta city government systems down due to ransomware attack
11. CIA releases rules and materials for its training board games
12. CIA’s in-house board games can now be yours thanks to FOIA request: After SXSW 2017 reveal, CIA releases buckets of marked-up board game design notes.

GAMES

1. Star Control legal battle intensifies as alleged settlement offer surfaces: Stardock’s “unfathomable” demands reportedly include surrender of IP rights, a public apology, $225,000 and a five-year development ban
2. Stardock responds to Star Control designers’ settlement offer claims: Developer’s VP shares original proposal, clarifies company’s position on Star Control IP rights
3. Rare cancels planned Sea of Thieves“death cost” after player complaints: “Thanks for the feedback here. We’re listening,” says developer.
4. Microsoft says Sea of Thieves sold well, even without counting Game Pass copies
5. Gran Turismo Sport ad misrepresented offline content, rules UK ad authority
6. ASA upholds complaint levelled against Sony over misleading Gran Turismo ad: Sony reprimanded for failing to specify that the “majority” of the game was unavailable without an internet connection
7. Sony cuts price of PlayStation VR Camera bundle by $100
8. PlayStation VR receives $100 price cut: Sony’s headset now cheapest on the market
9. PlayStation VR now costs $100 less: $650 now gets you “all in” for VR with console, headset, controllers, and game.
10. Oculus Go world premiere: Acceptable compromises, amazing quality for $199: A legitimate 3D VR device, so long as you accept its tracking limitations.
11. New Vive Pro owners will pay $1,250, including needed accessories: Online “Starter Kit” bundle saves just $80 over a la carte pricing.
12. Square Enix kills unsanctioned Tomb Raider remakes: “Our recent research, studies and reviews on Tomb Raider 3 were unwelcome,” says developer Realtech VR
13. Everything a VR studio had to do to port to the Mac: Apple talks a lot about AR, but how does the Mac fare for VR? We asked Survios devs.
14. #1ReasonToBe: “Listen to the people you do not hear, because they’re not allowed to speak” – Rami Ismail’s GDC panel explored development in Madagascar, the Philippines, Colombia and beyond
15. #ThirdWorldProblems: How to not get a visa for GDC – Gwen Foster, one of the #1ReasonToBe speakers denied a visa, on being treated with “diplomatic hostility” in a global industry
16. GDC 2018 breaks attendance record: 28,000 industry professionals attended last week’s show in San Francisco; dates announced for 2019 GDC and VRDC
17. Splatoon creator: “Fan art and live events are part of the world of the game” – How Nintendo’s most recent super franchise was born
18. Here’s how Nintendo chooses its indie partners on Switch
19. Nintendo’s advice for indies trying to get games on Switch: Platform holder’s warns that Switch will remain a “closed dev environment” for now
20. The Nintendo King And The Midlife Crisis
21. Josef Fares hopes A Way Out inspires more risks in AAA games: The director also discusses his relationship with EA, and ambitions to follow in the footsteps of Naughty Dog
22. Google Play announces Change the Game Design Challenge: $10,000 college scholarship up for grabs in design contest
23. EA has taught an AI how to play Battlefield 1 multiplayer
24. EA’s SEED builds AI capable of teaching itself to play Battlefield I: “As deep learning technology matures, I expect self-learning agents to be part of the games themselves, as truly intelligent NPCs,” says SEED technical director
25. Blog: Are hybrid AIs the answer to better video game AI?
26. Casey Neistat: Twitch’s Monetization Model Feels “So Much More Fair” Than YouTube’s
27. Sea of Thieves attracts two million players in first week: Rare’s shared world pirate adventure also drives streaming and Xbox Live friendship figures
28. Xbox, Twitch, Blizzard, Riot and more form Fair Play Alliance to combat toxic players: “We envision a world where games are free of harassment, discrimination and abuse”
29. Culturalisation, and why Microsoft rewrote history for Korea: Geogrify’s Kate Edwards discusses how to tailor your game for global appeal – and what to do if you inadvertently cause offence
30. Microsoft tweaks Code of Conduct for Xbox and other platforms
31. Microsoft takes a stand against “offensive language” on Xbox Services: Amended Services Agreement will use suspensions and bans to fight toxic behaviour
32. Analysis: A closer look at MidBoss’ chaotic, hostile work environment
33. MidBoss CEO accused of exploitative practices, sexual harassment: “I’ve made some major mistakes,” says Matt Conn of 2064: Read Only Memories studio and GaymerX organizer
34. Elements of games industry “fundamentally broken” says IGDA president: Round table discussion on unions highlights employee grievances
35. Game developers push for unionization amid insecure positions, excessive OT: “Game Workers Unite” push leads to some contentious discussions.
36. IGDA head on the problems with unions: Jen MacLean discusses challenges she sees to organized labor in games, attributes horror stories like 38 Studios to human nature and “wishful thinking”
37. Developers need a better advocate: The IGDA is supposed to be looking out for developers’ interests, but it doesn’t have the resources or the leverage to do it effectively
38. Rovio proposes pay cuts for chairman and owner amid financial worries: Investor disappointing and sub-par game performances spell salary shake-up at Angry Birds firm
39. GAME revenue up but profits tumble
40. WholesGame launches wholesaler price comparison site: The Wholesale Video Games Marketplace is among the first of its kind for buyers and sellers of wholesale games
41. Breath of the Wild takes top prize at the 2018 Game Developers Choice Awards!
42. Zelda: Breath of the Wild triumphs at Game Developers Choice Awards – Multiple wins also secured by Gorogoa and Cuphead at San Francisco ceremony
43. DDR, Half-Life, and Minecraft among 2018 World Video Game Hall of Fame nominees
44. SteamSpy creator says 2017 was Valve’s most profitable year yet
45. SteamSpy: The top 100 games on Steam accounted for 50% of sales revenue last year – Valves generates record-breaking $4.3bn in 2017
46. Valve to open source networking tool for devs, Steam not required
47. Live-action Street Fighter TV series in the works following Capcom and eOne deal: Team behind web series Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist brought on board to executive produce
48. Why Fortnite Is Not An Esport Despite The Drake/Ninja Publicity
49. Fortnite dominates both Twitch and YouTube, according to latest figures: Epic Games’ battle royale generates $5.3m in first ten days on iOS
50. 100-player Fortnite livestream held on YouTube hit 1M views
51. 1.1 Million YouTube Viewers Tune Into ‘Fortnite’ Live Stream Led By Spanish Gamer El Rubius
52. For Ubisoft it’s goodbye Vivendi, hello Tencent: China’s largest technology company, Tencent, is taking on 5% of Ubisoft – continuing its progress into becoming by far the largest game company most gamers have never heard of
53. Tencent pleased with ‘strong growth’ of mobile and PC games
54. Ubisoft Pulls Plug on IBM Watson Integration in ‘Star Trek: Bridge Crew’
55. Ubisoft opens two new studios in India and Ukraine
56. Ubisoft opens new studios in India and Ukraine: New development units in Mumbai and Odesa
57. Creative Director on Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon Dean Evans leaves Ubisoft
58. Eye Tracking Is Coming To VR Sooner Than You Think. What Now?
59. Oculus Affirms Commitment to Rift, Believes PC Will Lead the VR Industry for the Next Decade
60. Snap Inc acquires British VR and software startup PlayCanvas: Snapchat capitalises on success of its AR platform as move toward VR looks likely
61. What A Real Wedding In A Virtual Space Says About The Future: They met in VR. They fell in love in VR. They tied the knot in VR. Here’s a glimpse into the future of relationships.
62. The decade-long journey of a single mother into the games industry – Kick Alley Soccer: The augmented reality app that was ten years too early
63. PlayFusion partnership brings augmented reality capabilities to CryEngine: Enhanced Reality Engine is industry’s “most feature-rich and performant AR technology,” says Crytek CEO
64. Crytek partners with PlayFusion to bring mixed reality tools to CryEngine
65. Games industry to benefit from UK government’s £150m Creative Industires deal: £33m promised for the funding of immersive tech such as VR, £1.5m added to UK Games Fund
66. Games London initiative nets $1.7M investment from London mayor 
67. Sadiq Khan aims to attract £30m for developers with new Games London investment: City mayor pledges £1.2m for London Games Festival organisers, ensuring three more years of events
68. Tomorrow’s best video games may be private, offline experiences: Ars Live in conversation with award-winning game designer Tracy Fullerton.
69. The making of Dark Castle: An excerpt from The Secret History of Mac Gaming
70. The Mac gaming console that time forgot: From the new book, The Secret History of Mac Gaming, remember Project Pippin?
71. NBA Jam, Sonic 1, Ultima Online remembered with rare stories, concept art
72. “Don’t get cocky”: The story of Ratchet and Clank’s 15-year survival – Adapt or Die and staying true to your heritage is a difficult balance to strike, says Insomniac
73. Unity releases engine and editor source code through GitHub
74. Blog: Defining accessibility in game design
75. Google Play partners with Girls Make Games for design competition
76. Google offers 15,000 online scholarships to new and seasoned African devs
77. How (and why) you should better represent Muslims in your games
78. LGBTQ devs & players speak up about the need for authentic queer culture in games
79. Devs should make it easier to play shooters without firing guns
80. Laralyn McWilliams on rediscovering creativity following trauma
81. Blog: Conveying the nuances of disorders like Tourette’s through game design
82. How the creator of SimCity helped save Psychonauts: In a heartfelt speech, Tim Schafer recalls Will Wright’s crucial generosity.

Jon

DIGITAL

1. Back to B.C.: Court Re-examines Google Takedown Order In Light of U.S. Ruling (Michael Geist)
2. College Athletes Appeal to Seventh Circuit Against FanDuel’s and DraftKings’ Use of Images 
3. How Isis And Russia Won Friends And Manufactured Crowds: The Islamic State built a global brand using the power of social media. Now, Russia is following a similar playbook—and it’s all too easy.
4. Russian Propaganda Remains On Reddit
5. House Committee Report Highlights Russian Use of Social Media to Disrupt Pipeline Projects
6. Russia Censors News Reports About Anti-Putin Ice Graffiti, Leaving Its Contents Entirely Up To Our Collective Imagination
7. Rian Johnson: Russian Bots Targeted Star Wars: The Last Jedi to Save General Hux
8. If The US Government Can’t Figure Out Who’s A Russian Troll, Why Should It Expect Internet Companies To Do So? 
9. Egypt sets up hotline for complaints against ‘fake news’: Egypt’s government press centre has called BBC report on human rights abuses ‘fake news’
10. Bad Actors Are Using Social Media Exactly As Designed
11. The spread of true and false news online (Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy, & Sinan Aral)
12. The science of fake news (David M. J. Lazer, Matthew A. Baum, Yochai Benkler, Adam J. Berinsky, Kelly M. Greenhill, Filippo Menczer, Miriam J. Metzger, Brendan Nyhan, Gordon Pennycook, David Rothschild, Michael Schudson, Steven A. Sloman, Cass R. Sunstein, Emily A. Thorson, Duncan J. Watts, Jonathan L. Zittrain)
13. When WhatsApp’s Fake News Problem Threatens Public Health
14. Be The (Online) Change You Want To See 
15. Trump Issues Order to Block Broadcom’s Takeover of Qualcomm
16. Trump issues order blocking Broadcom takeover of Qualcomm, citing national security 
17. President Trump blocks $117 billion Qualcomm takeover: Singaporean rival Broadcom prevented from buying US chip firm over “national security” concerns
18. President Trump blocks Broadcom takeover of Qualcomm despite re-domiciliation efforts
19. President Trump halts Broadcom’s bid for Qualcomm, citing “national security”: Last week, Treasury official argued deal would let China dominate 5G development.
20. Is China Discriminating against U.S. Firms Related to Technology Transfer, IP, Trade Secrets, and Innovation? 
21. Court documents reveal 238 gender discrimination and harassment complaints filed against Microsoft: Microsoft facing lawsuit over “unchecked gender bias that pervades its corporate culture”
22. “Women at Microsoft are sexualized by their male managers,” lawsuit alleges: Of 108 gender discrimination complaints, Microsoft concluded just one was legit.
23. Microsoft Helps Get A Computer Recycler Sentenced To 15 Months In Prison For Offering Unapproved Recovery Disks
24. YouTube Shows Dennis Prager’s Claim Of Discrimination Against Conservatives Is Laughable
25. YouTube Will Link Directly To Wikipedia To Fight Conspiracy Theories
26. YouTube To Clamp Down On Conspiracy Theories With Wikipedia-Sourced Text Boxes
27. Wikimedia’s Transparency Report: Guys, We’re A Wiki, Don’t Demand We Take Stuff Down
28. It’s Not Just The US — The Indian YouTube Community Has a Fake News Problem, Too
29. Twitter’s Attempt To Clean Up Spammers Meant That People Sarcastically Tweeting ‘Kill Me’ Were Suspended 
30. Rage against the Machine! CMA sets up a new on data unit to investigate online anti-competitive behaviour
31. Five Senators Agree: Search Engines Should Censor Drug Information 
32. Cannabis website to California: Section 230 protects us from your demands – Prof: “It is difficult to see how Weedmaps could be held liable for these ads.”
33. More People Realizing That SESTA Will Do A Lot More Harm Than Good
34. Just As Everyone’s Starting To Worry About ‘Deepfake’ Porn Videos, SESTA Will Make The Problem Worse
35. If You Think SESTA Will Help Victims Of Sex Trafficking, Read This Now
36. Sex Workers And Survivors Raising The Alarm About SESTA: It Will Literally Put Their Lives In Danger
37. Sri Lanka Blocked Facebook This Week for Allegedly Spreading Hate Speech and Violence
38. News Publishers Ask For Monopoly Powers To Fight Back Against Google/Facebook Monopoly
39. Facebook Didn’t Kill Online Sketch Comedy—The Entire Internet Did
40. Facebook has signed a deal to stream 25 afternoon MLB games
41. Facebook Watch Will Exclusively Air 25 Weekday MLB Games In 2018
42. Facebook Reportedly Pays At Least $30 Million For Rights For 25 Weekday Afternoon MLB Games
43. MLS, Twitter Announce Three-Year Live Streaming Deal
44. YouTube TV Wants To Woo Sports Fans, So It Will Sponsor Two More World Series
45. Judge Rules In YouTube’s Favor In Zombie Go Boom’s Adpocalypse Lawsuit
46. YouTube Reptile Vlogger Charged With 23 Counts of Illegally Possessing Venomous Snakes
47. YouTube’s Robert Kyncl On Logan Paul Controversy: “We Should Have Done Better”
48. YouTube Star Jake Paul Talks To Marco Rubio, Pledges $25,000 In Quest To Stop School Shootings
49. YouTube’s Human Moderators Will See Limited Four-Hour Shifts To Preserve Their Sanity
50. The Price Of YouTube TV Is Officially Up To $40 Per Month, With Existing Customers Grandfathered In
51. Penny’s Notes on the Rising Influence of Influencers
52. Vice CEO Shane Smith To Be Replaced By Former A&E Chief Nancy Dubuc (Report)
53. How To Make A Clean Break With The Clingiest Social Networks
54. Today’s Debate Over Online Porn Started Decades Ago
55. Ad-Blocker Ghostery Just Went Open Source – And Has A New Business Model
56. AI Has A Hallucination Problem That’s Proving Tough To Fix
57. The Quest To Make A Robotic Cat Walk With Artificial Neurons
58. It’s Really Hard to Give AI “Common Sense”
59. Four AI composition tools easy enough to soundtrack your film masterpiece: AI creativity now extends to music composition tools that anyone can access.
60. Come Harvest Time, Who Owns the Fruits of Machine Learning? 
61. Sierra Leone Just Held the World’s First Blockchain-Powered Election 
62. Bitcoin Is Ridiculous. Blockchain Is Dangerous
63. Is The Blockchain Hype Over? (Andres Guadamuz)
64. Beware the use of crypto-currencies
65. Cryptocurrencies fall as Google announces ad ban: Facebook banned ads for cryptocurrency from its ad networks in January.
66. There’s a currency miner in the Mac App Store, and Apple seems OK with it: Popular Calendar 2 app mines Monero by default, but at least it discloses it. 
67. Taxation of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
68. The Obamas Are In “Advanced Negotiations” With Netflix For Political Series Slate
69. Netflix may sign the Obamas in exclusive content deal: Apple and Amazon are reportedly also interested in working with the former president.
70. Netflix Piloting Feature That Lets Kids Earn Virtual Rewards For Streaming
71. Spotify Enlists Its Users to Add Music Metadata
72. Killing The Golden Goose (Again); How The Copyright Stranglehold Dooms Spotify
73. Apple is acquiring the Netflix of magazines: The service had “hundreds of thousands” of subscribers as of 2016.
74. Apple Buys Texture, the Netflix for Magazines
75. Eddy Cue On Apple’s Video Vision: Unlike Netflix, “We’re Not After Quantity”
76. Operation Bayonet: Inside The Sting That Hijacked An Entire Dark Web Drug Market 
77. The Long-Awaited Interactive Adaptation Of ‘WarGames’ Has Premiered 
78. Inside The Vatican’s First-Ever Hackathon

CREATIVITY

1. The Supreme Court’s Decision in Livent: a Framework for Deciding Auditor’s Negligence Cases 
2. Can Mattel be prevented from making its own Frida Kahlo Barbie doll?
3. Playboy Decides Not To Appeal Silly Boing Boing Lawsuit In The Most Petulant Manner Possible
4. Copyright, Censorship, Pepe & Infowars
5. Pay attention to the “moral rights” of visual artists  
6. Research Shows That Published Versions Of Papers In Costly Academic Titles Add Almost Nothing To The Freely-Available Preprints They Are Based On 
7. Court Orders Copyright Troll To Post $10,000 Bond After He Lied About His Client’s Licensing Agreement
8. Domain names: getting real 
9. Federal Judge Says Business Names Provided By Reviewers At A Review Site Are Contributory Trademark Infringement
10. Nevada Supreme Court Overturns Lower Court’s Abysmal Ruling On Las Vegas Shooting Coroner’s Reports
11. Iowa Town Threatens Critical Resident With A Lawsuit, Gets Sued By The ACLU Instead
12. Trump’s Lawyers Apparently Unfamiliar With Streisand Effect Or 1st Amendment’s Limits On Prior Restraint
13. Is Jediism a recognized religion in Canada?

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY

1. The Case Against the Bell Coalition’s Website Blocking Plan, The Finale (Michael Geist) 
2. Why Canadians oppose blacklisting “pirate” websites
3. FCC must defend net neutrality repeal in court against dozens of litigants: Lawsuits filed by tech firms, states, and advocates were merged into one suit.
4. States Take Sides on Net Neutrality
5. Calif. weighs toughest net neutrality law in US—with ban on paid zero-rating: Bill would recreate core FCC net neutrality rules and be tougher on zero-rating. 
6. Telecom Lobbyists Whine About State Net Neutrality Efforts They Helped Create 
7. Terrified Of Losing In Court, ISPs (With Senator John Kennedy’s Help) Push Hard For A Fake Net Neutrality Law
8. When slow downloads hit an app developer, only Comcast customers suffered: Comcast and Cogent fight again, and customers lose with slow Internet service.
9. Comcast gets FCC’s help in $3.5 million battle against small cable company: Wave Broadband paid Comcast millions and won’t get refund; FCC rejects complaint.
10. Verizon Forced To Briefly Give A Damn About Its Neglected Broadband Networks
11. Verizon agrees to fix failing broadband networks to settle investigation: Verizon will fix NY copper lines and potentially upgrade more than 30,000 homes.
12. AT&T/Time Warner merger will raise TV bills $436 million a year, US says: AT&T scoffs at “insubstantial 45-cent monthly increase, all of 0.4% per bill.”
13. ‘Intense distress’: Lawsuit from Seth Rich’s parents details trauma from Fox News hatchet job
14. Cable’s Top Lobbyist Again Calls For Hyper Regulation Of Silicon Valley
15. When Monsters Exaggerate 
16. Broadcasting: A Key Brexit Priority
17. Pakistan Court Declares Mobile Data Disconnections By The Government Illegal

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

1. California district court rules social media company cannot dismiss non-users’ facial scan privacy claims 
2. TSA accused of searching domestic travelers’ devices with no warrant: TSA has failed to fully respond to FOIA requests from the ACLU.
3. FBI Documents Show More Evidence Of Agency’s Sketchy Relationship With Best Buy’s Geek Squad
4. FBI Director Says It’s ‘Not Impossible’ To Create Compromised Encryption That’s Still Secure
5. Yahoo’s ToS limitations of liabilities challenged in Cyberbreach of 3 billion users! 
6. Judge Says Yahoo Still On The Hook For Multiple Claims Related To Three Billion Compromised Email Accounts
7. There Are No Guardrails on Our Privacy Dystopia: If tech is going to infiltrate, influence, and shape all of society, it is unacceptable for tech and pure market forces to decide the limits of the surveillance state.
8. Potent malware that hid for six years spread through routers: Nation-sponsored Slingshot is one of the most advanced attack platforms ever.
9. Senior ex-Equifax executive charged with insider trading: CIO allegedly sold $1 million worth of stock 10 days before public learned of breach.
10. Router-Hacking ‘Slingshot’ Spy Operation Compromised More Than 100 Targets
11. Weighing Privacy vs. Security For The Internet’s Address Book
12. Keeper Security Reminds Everyone Why You Shouldn’t Use It; Doubles Down On Suing Journalist

GAMES

1. White House meeting over violent video games accomplished little, say attendees 
2. Opinion: Trump’s video game ‘summit’ reminds us who the enemy is
3. Trump’s Video Game Summit: Developers On One Side, Partisan Hack Puritan Cosplayers On The Other
4. After industry meeting, Trump highlights alleged game violence effects: Democrats accuse president of using games to “change the subject” from gun control.
5. IGDA: Blaming gun violence on games is a distraction, but a chance to educate  
6. Yelling at “scumbags” – inside the White House’s last gaming violence summit: When gaming executives meet the executive branch, the discussion can get a bit bumpy.
7. What to expect from Trump’s game industry summit today: Attendee list suggests a vigorous debate between pro- and anti-gaming voices.
8. These are the people attending the White House’s game violence meeting
9. ZeniMax, Take Two CEOs to meet with President Trump: White House sources have confirmed two attendees of today’s meeting on gun violence
10. Trump meeting with game execs yields “significant progress” – Legislator: Missouri Representative Vicky Hartzler gives her assessment as ESA thanks president for “receptive and comprehensive approach”
11. Trump White House’s Horribly Violent Video-Game Reel Goes Viral
12. This alternate montage challenges the White House’s violent games reel 
13. Watch the industry’s response to Trump’s violent video games reel: Games For Change compiles montage of beautiful and emotional moments from The Last of Us, Zelda, Minecraft, Abzu and more
14. Devs of violent games in White House reel “should be ashamed” – Spector: Warren Spector calls supercut of gory titles “simply disgusting,” says those titles hurt the industry
15. ‘The American Dream’ Parodies US Gun Culture, Launching This Week at a Key Moment in Gun Rights Debate
16. What would Trump’s trade war mean for the games business?: The high-profile summit on game violence is a paper tiger; the industry should take the opportunity to persuade the President on trade issues instead
17. Super Seducer blocked from release on PlayStation 4: The BBC has claimed that Sony “banned” the controversial seduction game
18. “Dating coach” game Super Seducer barred from PlayStation 4: Available on Steam, game using live-action video to “teach” pick-up techniques.
19. Voice-acting rights halt effort to put Fallout 3 inside Fallout 4: Converting licensed vocal files falls into a legal gray area.
20. Fortnite Players Are Getting Fraudulent Charges For Hundreds Of Dollars
21. Fortnite players receiving refunds after accounts were hacked  
22. Fortnite’s cross-platform play will not work between Xbox and PlayStation: Sony appears to be the holdout again as Epic’s multiplayer hit adds cross-play between PC, Mac, console and new mobile versions
23. Fortnite Battle Royale will have the “same gameplay” on mobile devices: PS4 and Xbox One can play with PC/mobile, but not with each other.
24. Blog: Making a multiplayer PC game playable cross-platform on PS4
25. Microsoft claims Sony is stopping Xbox One and PS4 cross-play
26. ModDB has restored and relaunched GameFront
27. Fully restored GameFront relaunches: Modding hub is back online after two years, with completely restored content and new features
28. Game Developer Embraces Modding Community So Much They Made Their Work An Official Release
29. PUBG Corp acquires MadGlory to enable community developer tools: New subsidiary will launch online portal for custom-made APIs, matchmaking engines and esports systems
30. PUBG is third highest-earning Steam game of all time, according to Gabe Newell: Valve boss points to Bluehole’s phenomenon as proof of how Steam benefits the industry
31. Op-Ed: Australia’s gambling crackdown signals choppy waters for loot boxes
32. Happy Wars shutting down Xbox 360 and PC servers this year
33. Devs celebrate women game devs on International Women’s Day
34. Here’s how the games industry is honouring International Women’s Day: We round up all the events and other activities video games firms are hosting to celebrate women everywhere
35. Ubisoft and Microsoft Women in Gaming panel pushes for clarity on how feminism fits into gaming
36. Female Overwatch League host receives death threats over Women’s Day tweet: Soe ‘Soembie’ Gschwind-Penski besieged on social media for thanking supportive men
37. Overwatch League team releases twice-banned player: Dallas Fuel cuts ties with Félix “xQc” Lengyel after he follows up suspension for homophobia with suspension for racism
38. Red Bull announces UK’s largest public esports studio: Studio launches later this month in partnership with ASUS Republic of Gamers, Noblechairs, and Newegg
39. This Stadium In China Is Built Exclusively For Esports
40. Violent video games not welcome for Olympic esports consideration: Overwatch and Call of Duty won’t be Olympic sports any time soon.
41. Alibaba backs non-violent esports for Olympic inclusion
42. Alibaba to focus on non-violent games for Olympic esports bid: First-party publishers of violent games will be “suspected of only pushing your games for your own benefit”
43. NHL Announces First Esports Draw With EA Sports Game
44. EA adds 6 Warner Bros. published games to Origin Access
45. EA adds WBIE to Origin Access: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment becomes first major external publisher added to subscription game service
46. Twitch is getting into the ‘free games for subscribers’ business 
47. Kixeye raises $20M to blend machine learning and game marketing
48. Facebook opens up its Instant Games platform to all devs
49. Dotemu opens new publishing label to support small creative devs
50. Valve adds optional ‘Plus’ paid subscription to free-to-playDota 2
51. Jason Rohrer’s “off-Steam” gamble paid off: The indie designer released his new game outside of Valve’s platform, and it eclipsed sales of his last Steam release in one week
52. Indie devs weigh the pros and cons of forgoing a Steam release
53. Analysts: Games responsible for 80% of all mobile app spending in 2017
54. Could games development transition to a complete outsource model?
55. FoxNext opens new studio to create story-driven titles
56. What’s the story at Wooga?: CEO Jens Begemann explains the reasoning for the casual games studio’s plan to focus on story-driven games
57. Call of Duty goes early to avoid Red Dead clash: Activision releasing Black Ops 4 a full month earlier than usual as Rockstar’s next is set to dominate Q4 – but will others follow?
58. Dune II and the three rules of a good licensed game
59. Oculus has a fix for the mass Oculus Rift outage
60. Oculus Publishes Repair Tool to Patch Debilitating Rift Error, Offers $15 Store Credit
61. Cities: Skylines has sold 5M copies on PC alone
62. Nintendo rescues quiet February for UK games retail
63. 3DS lifecycle extends to 2019 with Nintendo Direct surprise announcements: Luigi’s Mansion remake, new WarioWare and Bowser’s Inside Story bolsters handheld’s line-up for the next 12 months
64. Nintendo announces a bunch of 2018 games, but none as big as Switch Smash Bros.: Nintendo Direct video includes lots of ports coming to Switch, 3DS, as well.
65. Nintendo inks deal with YoYo to bring GameMaker Studio 2 games to Switch
66. Street Fighter collection revives rare multiplayer mode for Switch
67. Don’t Miss: How Nintendo designed the inviting mini-world of Animal Crossing
68. Why you should (and shouldn’t) port your mobile game to the Switch: EEDAR senior analyst Matt Diener finds that Switch players are big mobile spenders – will that lead to successful mobile adaptations?
69. Google Maps transforms into Mario Kart for Mario Day  
70. Google announces new open source multiplayer server Agones
71. Devs can now use Google Maps API to build their own game worlds
72. How to Turn Google Maps Into Mario Kart
73. Gabe Newell: Valve has always been a ‘bit jealous’ of companies like Nintendo 
74. Dota 2 card game “the first of several games” coming from Valve: Gabe Newell’s company now has “ability to develop hardware and software simultaneously”
75. Valve’s making games again: Hands-on with Artifact’s digital trading cards – Newell: “Artifact is to trading card games what Half-Life 2 was to single-player action.”
76. Valve introduces subscription model to Dota 2: $3.99 a month subscription “an evolution of the Majors Battle Pass” says Valve
77. Valve lets us loose in its new offices, unlocks the doors to a rare merch room: Valve recently moved to new offices, so we took every photo we were allowed.
78. BitGuild announces blockchain platform for online games: “The implications of having a true gaming network built on the blockchain are nearly limitless,” says CEO
79. Tencent invests up to $1bn into streaming services within 24 hours: Chinese giant poured $632m into Douyu and led a $461m funding round into its rival Huya
80. Kixeye secures $20m funding for machine learning platform: Mobile firm claims tech optimises gameplay and monetisation to solve the ‘one-hit wonder problem’
81. Looking at open world games to understand player autonomy
82. Report: Fruit Ninja creator Halfbrick cuts workforce by 50 percent
83. Outpost wants to mix games with reality TV: CEO Wright Bagwell says incorporating an audience and fame leaderboards into the studio’s SOS survival game “radically changes” player behavior
84. HQ Trivia raises $15 million in funding: Growing trivia game platform offers real-money prizes, is now worth $100 million
85. Microsoft Shows New Research in Haptics With ‘CLAW’ VR Controller Prototype
86. Valve launches VR resolution auto-optimization tool for SteamVR
87. Steam will now auto-scale VR resolution to max out your GPU: New feature aims to “take the headset out of the equation for [VR] developers.”
88. Eyes-on with the HTC Vive Pro: Not a revolution, but also more than resolution – We take a closer look at a Ready Player One event during SXSW.
89. Skyrim VR is coming to PC, and it marks a Bethesda first: Oculus approval 
90. The First Reactions to Ready Player One Are Mostly Positive… Mostly
91. The Princeton Review reveals the best schools in the world for game design: University of Southern California and the Southern Methodist University ranked top for the second year in a row
92. Meet the dev who sold his house to make a 100% for-charity game

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