AT&T is talking up the benefits of paid prioritization schemes in preparation for the death of net neutrality rules while claiming that charging certain content providers for priority access won’t create “fast lanes and slow lanes.” “[T]he issue of paid prioritization has always been hazy and theoretical,” AT&T Senior VP Bob Quinn wrote in a blog post today. But that’s about to change, because “business models for services that would require end-to-end management” have begun to come into focus, he wrote. “The rhetoric of this debate has centered on the concept of prohibiting fast lanes and slow lanes on the…

The Federal Communications Commission said in a notice filed Thursday that new rules repealing the net neutrality protections are set to take effect on June 11. “Now, on June 11, these unnecessary and harmful internet regulations will be repealed and the bipartisan, light-touch approach that served the online world well for nearly 20 years will be restored,” Ajit Pai, chairman of the FCC, said in a statement Thursday. The Republican-led FCC voted along party lines in December to repeal the Obama-era net neutrality rules, which were intended to prevent internet providers from blocking, speeding up, or slowing down access to…

The American Gaming Association is a vocal supporter of legal, regulated sports betting, including mobile wagering, yet the group has been deafeningly silent on the topic of online gambling. That silence could be coming to an end. With the US Supreme Court paving the way for states to take sports betting matters into their own hands, the AGA’s focus has shifted to legislation and ensuring that the new legal sports betting markets are successful and capture the sports betting dollars currently heading offshore. The AGA’s support of mobile sports betting is at odds with its position of “no position” when…

The Senate on Wednesday voted to reinstate the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) net neutrality rules, passing a bill that has little chance of advancing in the House but offers net neutrality supporters and Democrats a political rallying point for the midterm elections. Democrats were able to force Wednesday’s vote using an obscure legislative tool known as the Congressional Review Act (CRA). CRA bills allow Congress, with a majority vote in each chamber and the president’s signature, to overturn recent agency moves. Three Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and John Kennedy (La.) — joined the 49 Senate…

The live dealer gaming industry is still in its infancy, perhaps moving into toddlerhood. Live dealer games were introduced at Golden Nugget NJ online casino in August 2016. Since then, Golden Nugget has been the undisputed leader in live dealer gaming. In March 2018, the casino raked in $8.7 million in gross gaming revenue. Some would credit live dealer games for the NJ gambling site’s success. In second place was Borgata, which generated $4.6 million the same month. Now, however, Golden Nugget’s closest competitor could be making a move in the market that Golden Nugget, in a sense, created. Until…

American and British crime fighters have launched another round of investigations into Russian router attacks with a warning that Moscow-backed hackers are trying to subvert the world’s network devices. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) on Monday issued a joint Technical Alert describing a global assault on routers, switches, firewalls, and network intrusion detection hardware by Russian state-sponsored cyber actors. This is not quite the same thing as last month’s warning against cyber-attacks on the West’s energy utilities and other critical infrastructure, or other…