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If you’ve been following the story for the past few months, you know that AT&T has started negotiations toacquire US wireless carrier T-Mobilefor $39 billion. The deal is reportedly to give AT&T the infrastructure required to roll out a 4G wireless system to a wider population in the United States.Updated with statement from FCC and AT&T below. The deal has not been without its share of controversy, with Sprint being the loudest voice of opposition....

Washington is currently assessing whether security had been compromised after Googlerevealeda series of hacker attacks targeting U.S. officials, among others, was traced to China. “We take them seriously; we’re looking into them,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters a day after a Google spokesman said the company has already detected and disrupted the campaign. Government employees were directed not to use private accounts to discuss sensitive issues, which gives The White House a reason to believe that no official government emails were hacked in the incident....

Wiredreports that under the proposed Protect IP Act, introduced by 11 senators of the senate anti-piracy legislation, the government would be granted the authority to bring lawsuits against copyright infringing websites, and obtain court orders requiring search engines like Google to stop displaying links to them. Sherwin Siy, deputy legal director at Public Knowledge, makes it clear that the scope of the legislation doesn’t only include sites that directly infringe copyright, but ones that enable and facilitate infringement as well....

The US Governmentis to cutthe number of websites it operates in half, closing some of the 24,000 websites that it operates in an attempt to reduce taxpayer expense, removing redundant content and unify its presence on the web. Of the 24,000 websites, the federal government maintains 2,000 top level .gov domains, which it hopes to cut by 25% in the coming months, increasing it to 50% within a year. To assist, the Office of Management and Budget has already implemented an immediate freeze on ....

Shed a tear for passengers on Jeff Bezos’ joyrides to space: their trips may not make them official astronauts. The tragic ruling comes courtesy of the Federal Aviation Administration, which regulates all aspects of civil aviation in the US. In anew order,the transportation agency listed two ways to qualify for FAA Commercial Space Astronaut Wings: The hazy definition suggests Bezos andRichard Bransoncould still get wings for spearheading commercial space flight. But other travelers on their rockets —like Elon Musk— may not be so lucky....