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Clarence Thomas Regrets Brand X Decision That Paved Way For The Net Neutrality Wars NSA

Clarence Thomas Regrets Brand X Decision That Paved Way For The Net Neutrality Wars

from the a-little-late dept In its 2005 Brand X decision, the courts changed US telecom oversight forever. You might recall that in the early aughts, former FCC boss Michael Powell (now the top lobbyist for the cable industry) engaged in wholesale deregulation of the broadband sector, insisting it would usher…
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March 2, 2020
Logging to start in bushfire-ravaged New Zealand forests this week Bushfire

Logging to start in bushfire-ravaged New Zealand forests this week

Credit: CC0 Public Domain New South Wales' Forestry Corporation will this week start "selective timber harvesting" from two state forests ravaged by bushfire on the state's south coast. The state-owned company says the operations will be "strictly managed" and produce timber for power poles, bridges, flooring and decking. Similarly, the…
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March 2, 2020
NCAA tournament bracketology: How Pac-12 teams will win the bubble on Selection Sunday Bubble

NCAA tournament bracketology: How Pac-12 teams will win the bubble on Selection Sunday

Shelby Mast and Scott Gleeson USA TODAY SportsPublished 10:20 AM EST Mar 2, 2020Last season the Pac-12 was awful.The league ranked last of seven power conferences in the NCAA's NET metric and had a historically bad non-league winning percentage (62%) that was worse than several mid-major conferences. Washington was a No.…
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March 2, 2020
Finance Minister Kate Forbes Launches Scottish Apprenticeship Week Scotland

Finance Minister Kate Forbes Launches Scottish Apprenticeship Week

Finance Secretary Kate Forbes today visited Capgemini’s office in Inverness to help launch Scottish Apprenticeship Week 2020. Forbes met the tech consultancy firm’s latest group of eight cyber security Graduate Apprentices who joined the company four months ago. Following the meeting and guided tour of Capgemini’s cyber defence room and…
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March 2, 2020
Will My Data Be Online Forever? Big Data

Will My Data Be Online Forever?

Illustration: Elena Scotti (Photos: Getty Images, AP, Shutterstock) Forever WeekForever WeekThis week we're exploring all things eternal, endless, and infinite.We’ve all pretty much reconciled ourselves to the fact that a handful of unaccountable technology executives have, with our help, generated the largest repository of personal information ever assembled, housed in…
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March 2, 2020