Pole imposition
AT&T explains why it sometimes delays Google Fiber access to poles
Google Fiber can’t always access AT&T utility poles despite US-wide agreement.
Ministry of Innovation / Business of Technology
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Losing face
WhatsApp does about face, will serve ads in Facebook-owned app
Nominal subscription fee was dropped in January of this year.
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Questionable outlook
Alphabet CEO ordered Google Fiber to downsize, report claims
Google Fiber is reportedly well short of goal to get 5 million subscribers.
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anti anti trust
Antitrust regulators approve Tesla deal to buy SolarCity
Deal was on a fast track because the two companies had little overlapping business.
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The new season of Halt and Catch Fire is about the origins of McAfee
In season 3, our heroes try to compete with Compuserv and a creepy antivirus company.
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Apple Video
Apple may be working on a Snapchat-like video app for 2017
Video recording, editing, and sharing in less than one minute.
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“Silicon Valley is hostile to diversity,” says Slack Director of Engineering Leslie Miley
Ars Live #5: How an engineer who's worked at 7 big-name companies thinks hiring should happen.
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Those lucky sons of guns
Google Fiber hits Salt Lake City, now available in seven metro areas
Future cities could get wireless instead of fiber, though.
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Crashing and burning
NASA’s outsourced computer people are even worse than you might expect
Agency's CIO holds off signing the "authority to operate" for systems and tools.
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screw your newsletter
Google to punish sites that use intrusive pop-over ads
If ads interfere with the mobile experience, it'll spell bad news for the site.
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Comcast’s $70 gigabit deal is shockingly difficult to sign up for
The Keyser Söze of Internet offers: Even some Comcast reps don't know it exists.
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Mozilla is changing its look—and asking the Internet for feedback
Each concept “emphasizes a particular facet of the Mozilla story.”
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Comcast-sized price
Comcast will offer $70 gigabit Internet in Chicago after all [Updated]
Initially, Comcast said it wouldn't match $70 price in non-Google Fiber city.
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Mixed bag
AT&T eliminates $20 wireless plan, cuts data in half on $30 plan
No more automatic overage charges: 128kbps speeds after hitting data cap.
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Ars Technica Live
Bay Area: Join us TONIGHT, 8/17, to talk diversity (or lack thereof) in tech
Slack Director of Engineering Leslie Miley will talk about problems with diversity in Silicon Valley.
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Tricky switch over?
Cisco will lay off 5,500 employees, hoping to stay nimble [updated]
Networking giant seemingly faces painful transition to software-defined future.
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The next chapter
Univision buys Gawker Media for $135 million
Gawker still has an outstanding judgment of $140M from the Hulk Hogan case.
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Welcome to Hotel Comcastifornia
Cable expands broadband domination as AT&T and Verizon lose customers
Comcast and Charter get another 500,000 Internet subscribers.
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Free stuff!
You can watch free episodes of Amazon shows on YouTube and Facebook
Only the pilots, and a few shows including Transparent and Annedroids.
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Windows 7, 8.1 moving to Windows 10’s cumulative update model
Individual security fixes are out, combined packages are in.
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TV goes down, broadband goes up
Every major cable TV company lost subscribers last quarter
Top pay-TV operators lost 665,000 subscribers in Q2 2016.
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Pepper, the 4-foot-tall robot that “reads emotions,” makes her US debut
Through August 18, SoftBank's latest creation is rolling around a Palo Alto store.
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Can 42 US, a free coding school run by a French billionaire, actually work?
Just across the bridge from Facebook HQ, a radical education experiment is underway.
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Link NYC kiosks provide public Wi-Fi you’ll actually want to use
When your phone fails you, tablets in giant walls are here to help.
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An ATM hack and a PIN-pad hack show chip cards aren’t impervious to fraud
The good news? Hacks are limited for now. The bad news? Hackers will get better.
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Celebrate good times, come on!
ISPs and FCC Republicans celebrate FCC’s court loss on muni broadband
FCC critics glad that commission can't preempt state laws.
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Touchdown!
Sling TV will stream football games via NFL Network and NFL RedZone
Streaming live football just got a little easier.
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States win the right to limit municipal broadband, beating FCC in court
Major loss for Tom Wheeler in attempt to boost broadband competition.
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