Trump’s CNN attacks may hobble legal case to block AT&T-Time Warner deal
The court’s rejections of the Muslim ban foreshadow the tainted DoJ review of the AT&T/Time Warner merger review: Trump’s repeated claims that CNN produces “fake news” and other criticisms of…
How Level 3’s Tiny Error Shut Off the Internet for Parts of the US
Wired explains why you had a hard time accessing a big part of the Internet yesterday. Level 3 misconfigured some routes due to a “route leak”. A YEAR AGO, a…
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,…