Study finds fringe communities on Reddit and 4chan have high influence on flow of alternative news to Twitter
Reddit and 4chan help fake news garner eyeballs on Twitter, which then helps it break out on the New York Times, Infowars, CNN, and similar sites. After analyzing millions of…
Will an Algorithm Replace Me?
Greg Adamson and colleagues at University of Melbourne offer advice on keeping your job from going to a robot: “Since the Industrial Revolution 200 years ago, technological advances have always…
Making DOCSIS Suitable for LTE Backhaul
Cable Labs and Cisco are exploring ways to reduce DOCSIS latency so it can become a suitable backhaul for LTE. One trick is parallelism: We found that traditional cable equipment…
Net Neutrality: Two Sleeper Legal Issues May Force Congress to Act
Szoka and Owens on the “major questions” doctrine and Section 230 protection for ISPs: The Major Questions doctrine doesn’t always mean the government loses. In fact, in King v. Burwell,…
Supreme Court Should Free the Internet from the FCC
Cato comments on Dan Berninger’s Supreme Court petition: The Federal Communications Commission, at least under previous chairmen, desperately wanted to control the internet. To further this objective, the FCC reversed…
The $40 Billion Broadband Plan That Misses the Mark
Check the American Action Forum’s post in the Democrats’ “Better Deal” broadband plan. It’s got more holes than Swiss cheese. In arguing for this buildout, the Better Deal plan suggests…
Depressing Investment Figures
Figures released by US Telecom on Tuesday showed reduced spending on broadband infrastructure for the second year in a row. While 2014 was the best year for broadband investment since the fiber bubble…
Internet Monopoly Platform Crisis
How the tables have turned. At the dawn of the net neutrality debate, the good guys in the Internet marketplace were the scrappy platform startups created in dorm rooms and…
FCC Marriott Consent Decree Makes KRACK Attack Worse
By now you’ve certainly heard about the KRACK Internet security nightmare afflicting Wi-Fi. The exploit, discovered by Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens, leverages a vulnerability in the IEEE 802.11i standard for data…
AI: Useful Tool or Existential Threat?
Perhaps because there seems to be a shortage of natural intelligence these days, artificial intelligence is grabbing a prominent place in public discourse. MIT Technology Review is running an exceptional…