In 2015, the Federal Communications Commission adopted historic Internet rules , when the Democratic-led commission approved 3-to-2, split along party lines, to assert extra government authority over the Internet and permitted enforcement of net neutrality rules that would prevent Internet providers-including cellular carriers-from blocking or throttling traffic or giving priority to Web services in exchange for payment . That came to an end on Monday, June 11, 2018 , following another FCC vote, split on party lines again , but breaking for the GOP.
The U.K.'s High Court will not send Lauri Love to face trial in the U.S. for hacking government computer systems. Instead they've issued a final refusal to overturn Love's successful appeal of his extradition , Ars Technica reports, "effectively ending the extradition effort permanently."
A 74-year-old rancher from Encinal, Texas, is suing the federal government after he found a surveillance camera on his property, and subsequently refused to give it back to authorities. Ricardo Palacios, who is also an attorney, is specifically filing suit against the Customs and Border Protection and the Texas Ranger Division, including two agents of the respective agencies.
NOAA's best weather model seems to be getting worse with hurricanes, not better. We have written a fair amount at Ars [Technica] recently about the superiority of the European forecast model, suggesting to readers that they focus on the ensemble runs of this system to get a good handle on track forecasts for Hurricane Irma.
If you were thinking that the FAA doesn't really have a say in what you do with drones, you can kiss that thought goodbye. At the U.S. district court in Connecticut, a federal judge ruled against drone pilot Austin Haughwot and his father Bret in this matter.
A federal appeals court has upheld a federal judge's $81,000 sanction against three lawyers who made millions of dollars by pursuing porn downloaders for minor cases of copyright infringement. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the sanction imposed against three lawyers who operated Prenda Law: John Steele, Paul Hansmeier and the late Paul Duffy.