The Mayor of Boston is mad and isn't going to take it any more regarding Comcast's ever-rising basic cable rates. He has filed a petition with the FCC demanding the right to regulate pay TV prices, regulatory authority that the city lost in 2002.

They wanted "lulz" and drama, and now Anonymous has plenty of both. AnonOps, which ran the main IRC channels used to coordinate Anonymous' denial of service attacks, had its servers disrupted by a "rogue admin." But the admin says that AnonOps had become tyrannical.

Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) has introduced the Do-Not-Track Online Act of 2011, which would create a "universal legal obligation" for companies to honor users' opt out requests when it comes to tracking them online or on mobile devices. The FTC is tasked with coming up with the rules and enforcement, which has led numerous privacy groups to support the bill.

Worried about going over your ISP's data cap limit? Most services offer some kind of bandwidth use monitor within your account. Here's a visual tour of some of the best known applications.

The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved all 1,506 government requests to electronically monitor suspected "agents" of a foreign power or terrorists on US soil last year, according to a Justice Department report released via the Freedom of Information Act.

Nervous about lawsuits and confusing consumers, the City of San Francisco says it's going back to the drawing board on its controversial cell phone radiation disclosure bill. But the city's representative in the California State Senate says he's moving forward with a statewide version of some kind of disclosure law.