Man who stole $5M in cryptocurrency via SIM swap pleads guilty
Prosecutors: Joel Ortiz tricked mobile firms, fraudulently transferred phone numbers.
Policy // Civilization & Discontents
Ajit Pai loses in court—judges overturn gutting of tribal broadband program
Court: FCC failed to provide evidence and ignored harm to broadband access.
Boy arrested for “joking” about shooting up school on social media
Screenshot showed Siri suggesting nearby schools—cops say threat wasn't credible.
In Estonia, students’ transit, school meals, and textbooks are all free
Mailis Reps: "I would still like to see a still more individual approach to all learners."
Here’s what the Sacklers didn’t want you to see in the OxyContin lawsuit
From 2007 to 2018, the Sacklers paid themselves more than $4B from opioid sales.
FCC struggles to convince judge that broadband isn’t “telecommunications”
Skeptical judges question FCC's justification of net neutrality repeal.
UAE buys its way toward supremacy in Gulf cyberwar, using US and Israeli experts
UAE hired ex-NSA employees to build a spying operation possibly targeting US citizens, others.
Court dismisses Defense Distributed’s lawsuit over New Jersey “ghost gun” law
Judge avoids central question of whether NJ law barring gun file sales was constitutional.
Apple, Facebook spat is over, for now—iOS certificate access restored
Spokesman: "We are in the process of getting our internal apps up and running."
Feds secretly ship plutonium to Nevada to meet South Carolina court order
The government shipped the material before Nevada requested an injunction.
Facebook nukes hundreds of “inauthentic” accounts “tied to Iran”
"We're not in a position to directly assert who the actor is in this case."
FBI catches another man allegedly stealing Apple self-driving car secrets
Apple has 1,200 people working on its self-driving car project.
Net neutrality court case preview: Did FCC mess up by redefining broadband?
Ajit Pai's net neutrality repeal faces legal test in oral arguments Friday.
More mysterious brain injuries in Cuba; Canada halves staff after new case
Cuba fumes that Canada's actions "do not help find answers."
FBI, Air Force investigators mapped North Korean botnet to aid shutdown
Search warrant based on Sept. 2018 indictment allows DOJ to hunt malware, alert victims.
