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Techdirt 1d ago

Trump Is Literally Negotiating With Himself Over How Much Taxpayer Money He Gets Because His Taxes Were Leaked

by Mike Masnick

Back in January, we covered Trump’s audacious lawsuit demanding $10 billion from his own IRS over the 2019-2020 leak of his tax returns by IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn (who…

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Techdirt 22h ago

AI Could Create A Massive Problem For Valve’s Steam

by Timothy Geigner

Two trends that I’m very interested in are about to collide and it’s going to be a mess. By now, some of you will be tired of my calling for a more nuanced discussion about the…

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Techdirt 1d ago

A First Amendment Legend Eviscerates Brendan Carr With Substance And Style

by Mike Masnick

We’ve been covering Brendan Carr’s censorial ambitions for a long time now. When Trump first picked him to chair the FCC, we warned people that the “free speech warrior” branding…

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Techdirt 2d ago

Oh Look, The MAGA FTC Built The Censorship Industrial Complex It Was Screaming About

by Mike Masnick

We’ve been covering the Trump administration’s escalating campaign against NewsGuard for a while now. It started with the House Oversight Committee’s absurd investigation of the…

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Techdirt 1d ago

Rockstar On Latest Potential Hack & Information Leak: Meh, We Don’t Care

by Timothy Geigner

Several years ago, Rockstar Games suffered an intrusion into its corporate network. During that intrusion, a trove of data, files, and information about the in-development and…

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Techdirt 1d ago

Brendan Carr Cooking Up New Sham Investigation Of Jimmy Kimmel

by Karl Bode

As the boss of the country’s media and telecom regulators, there’s plenty of corporate malfeasance and corrupt shenanigans Brendan Carr could be targeting on any given day at the…

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Techdirt 1d ago

Trump Still Pretending The Most Dangerous Domestic Terrorists Are People Who Don’t Like Fascism

by Tim Cushing

Just to be clear, when I refer to “Trump” in terms of his administration, I’m referring to the collective hive mind of dangerous enablers he employs. Trump, by himself, is…

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Techdirt 1d ago

Inside Trump’s Effort To “Take Over” The Midterm Elections

by Doug Bock Clark and Jen Fifield

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. In mid-December 2020, federal officials responsible for protecting American…

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Techdirt 3d ago

ACAB: Cops Are Bringing ‘Delinquency Of A Minor’ Charges Against Adults Who Assist Students During Anti-ICE Protests

by Tim Cushing

While the Trump administration’s extremely aggressive, thoroughly bigoted attempts to eliminate as many non-white people from this country as possible have resulted in some…

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Techdirt 2d ago

The Right Wing Origins Of Age Verification Laws Don’t Disappear Just Because They’re Going Bipartisan.

by Michael McGrady

I think it’s important to understand that, despite claims to the contrary, age verification is, inherently, a right-wing effort. While it’s currently true that age verification…

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Techdirt 2d ago

The Wall Street Journal Wonders Why There Are Suddenly So Many Sleazy Fees

by Karl Bode

I cut my teeth as a telecom reporter, so I spent a lot of time writing about how broadband monopolies and cable TV giants rip off consumers with sleazy, misleading fees. I also…

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Techdirt 2d ago

Nintendo’s Haphazard ‘Mario Maker 2’ Takedown Process Rife With Abuse

by Timothy Geigner

We’ve talked for many years about Nintendo’s shotgun approach to IP enforcement, as well as its heavy-handed ToS enforcement policies that can include bricking customer consoles…

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Techdirt 1d ago

Daily Deal: Python Crash Course

by Daily Deal

The Python Crash Course is a guide on how to get started in Python, why you should learn it, and how you can learn it. The syntax of the language is clean and the length of the…

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Techdirt 2d ago

All But 3 Of The 4,499 Refugees Admitted To The US Under Trump Are White South Africans

by Tim Cushing

We’ve got a throwback administration that wants to bring us back to halcyon days of early 1950s America, that preceded Supreme Court-ordered school desegregation. If it could, I’m…

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Techdirt 2d ago

Daily Deal: The Ultimate Python & Artificial Intelligence Certification Bundle

by Daily Deal

The Ultimate Python and Artificial Intelligence Bundle has 9 courses to help you take your Python and AI knowledge to the next level. You’ll learn about data pre-processing and…

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Techdirt 6h ago

Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Lilac Song

by Leigh Beadon

We’re past the halfway point in our series of spotlight posts looking at the winners of our eighth annual public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1930! We’ve already covered the…

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Techdirt 2d ago

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The Silence Of The LLMs

by Mike Masnick

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts,…

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