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Tech reporter for , but backpacking & bikes ftw. Sometime foreign policy wonk. Formerly & . brian.fung@washpost.com

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    7 Oct 2016
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    "Sharing the road" doesn't mean cyclists must move over for drivers. It means cyclists, like drivers, get their own space on the road.

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  2. 6 hours ago

    That said, every company would have had an interest in trying to understand who Trump was at that point -- and the stakes were high for the company, given the brewing antitrust case involving AT&T and Time Warner.

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  3. 6 hours ago

    Same goes for antitrust. What possible leverage could Cohen have brought to bear on Makan Delrahim that Jeff Sessions could not in the normal course of business? Not saying that it's impossible. But it seems like a stretch.

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  4. 6 hours ago

    The idea that AT&T tried to get its way on net neutrality by paying Trump’s personal lawyer would require A) believing that Cohen has much influence over Trump or his administration and B) that for some reason Trump needed to convince Pai to repeal the rules, which he didn’t.

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  5. 6 hours ago

    So, the question is, what could paying Cohen have gained AT&T on net neutrality that it couldn't have gotten with all its millions in lobbying spend?

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  6. 6 hours ago

    AT&T may be sophisticated, but they’re not sloppy. They know the FCC is an agency that by law must operate independently from the White House, and AT&T has entire teams of lawyers and lobbyists whose whole job it is to advocate for the company everywhere across town.

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  7. 6 hours ago

    A few thoughts on this strange coincidence. To imply that there was some pay-for-play here strikes me as inconsistent with what we know about AT&T, the FCC and the White House.

    Holy shit. AT&T was quietly paying Michael Cohen. And the contract ended in Dec 17, the month the FCC repealed net neutrality.
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  8. 9 hours ago

    When you step back, it kind of makes sense. New tech often has to be explained to its eventual users. Nobody needs an explainer on how ExxonMobil's petroleum works. But at the same time, it's… weird.

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  9. 9 hours ago

    Can you think of any other Fortune 500 industry where executives striding around on a stage to announce products and features is a regular occurrence?

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  10. 9 hours ago

    Every year around this time I think about how big a role Steve Jobs played in making The Tech Keynote a thing.

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    11 hours ago

    Waymo's I/O news today: they're now up to 6 million miles (from 5 million earlier this year) and they're making progress on driving in snow.

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    18 hours ago

    For those of you following along from Eastern Time, I’m doing readings in DC and Baltimore on June 11, 12. (Details at )

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  13. 14 hours ago

    For the first time, Equifax is disclosing how much of each type of data was lost to hackers in that 2017 breach:

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  14. May 7

    Took my first ride on a Bird scooter. I didn't die!

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  15. May 4

    At SFO, the cheap Chinese place in the food court has dim sum that’s about as good as what you can get at a sit-down spot on the east coast. The white people ordering sesame chicken and fried rice have no idea.

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  16. May 3

    A lot of the reporting around diversity and tech is about how to engage young women and minorities, as if it's simply a matter of holding their interest. It rarely accounts for what these students actually have to go through sometimes that white men don't:

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    May 1

    NEW: I first reported in February that comments by FCC Commish O'Rielly at CPAC may have violated the Hatch Act Today, I'm told feds found he *did* break rules. Warned not to do it again, will act if he does. American Oversight filed original complaint.

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  18. May 1

    You: Hey, nice to meet you, I'm fun and hip and– Facebook: HE STILL LIKES NSYNC You: Wait a minute– FB: HE'S GOING TO THE REUNION CONCERT You: That's… I was only joking with that post FB: HERE'S HIS 'LIKE' HISTORY You: Come back

    Facebook dating features? Oh yeah, that's just what we all wanted.
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  19. May 1

    "New stuff" is just a cooler way of saying "new attack surfaces"

    Mark Zuckerberg says Cambridge Analytica was a major breach of trust that will not happen again. But, he concedes, data security is an arms race. So he switches gears to building new stuff. Not a smooth pivot as predicted
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    Apr 29

    This is amazing: in an online community, simply telling misbehaving members that their account may have been compromised, asking for a password change made them stop the behavior — giving them the opportunity to save face instead of openly berating them

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  21. May 1

    Yesterday it was Rep. Pallone calling for a congressional hearing on the T-Mobile/Sprint merger; today it's Sen. Markey. T-Mo CEO John Legere is in Washington this week to talk up the deal, but it seems he has his work cut out for him:

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