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DOJ Demands California Help It Hunt Down Thousands Of ‘Illegal’ Voters Who Don’t Actually Exist The thing about being in power is that there’s not much room left... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/27/doj-demands-california-help-it-hunt-down-thousands-of-illegal-voters-who-dont-actually-exist/

Musk Falsely Claims His Traitorous Meddling In Ukraine Is Somehow Anti-War Last week Elon Musk arbitrarily started throttling the LEO (low-Earth orbit) satellite connections of... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/27/musk-falsely-claims-his-traitorous-meddling-in-ukraine-is-somehow-anti-war/

Nintendo Loves You: No Plans To Abandon Physical Media Because ‘Fans Enjoy It’ I’ve taken a lot of shots at Nintendo over the years, often times under various versions of headlines... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/26/nintendo-loves-you-no-plans-to-abandon-physical-media-because-fans-enjoy-it/

SpaceX Whines About Space Collisions After Gutting Regulators That Oversee That Sort Of Thing Michael Nicolls, SpaceX’s vice president for Starlink and president... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/26/spacex-whines-about-space-collisions-after-gutting-regulators-that-oversee-that-sort-of-thing/

A Comprehensive Proposal For Court Reform, V. 1.0 For American democracy to survive, we are going to have to do something about the current operation of our judicial system. But what is needed to fix it is more... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/26/a-comprehensive-proposal-for-court-reform-v-1-0/

Trump’s Voting Fraud Squad Proudly Announces It Has Arrested 28 Of California’s 23 Million Voters It’s essential to understand that this isn’t about protecting... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/26/trumps-voting-fraud-squad-proudly-announces-it-has-arrested-28-of-californias-23-million-voters/

Daily Deal: The Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2024 for Windows + Windows 11 Pro License Bundle The Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2024 and Windows 11... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/26/daily-deal-the-microsoft-office-professional-plus-2024-for-windows-windows-11-pro-license-bundle/

Ofcom’s Fix For An Online Safety Act That Isn’t Working: More Online Safety Act Ofcom’s media relations people know how to email me. I have ten press releases from them this year.... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/26/ofcoms-fix-for-an-online-safety-act-that-isnt-working-more-online-safety-act/

Whoops: Meta’s Muse Share Links Disclosed All Sorts Of Super-Sensitive User Data Earlier this month we noted how Meta’s launch of its cutesy agentic AI software Muse arrived with... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/26/whoops-metas-muse-share-links-disclosed-all-sorts-of-super-sensitive-user-data/

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous comment about the Canadian YouTuber who was visited by the cops... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/25/funniest-most-insightful-comments-of-the-week-at-techdirt-231/

This Week In Techdirt History: October 18th – 24th This Week in 2016 This Week in 2011 This Week in 2006 https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/24/this-week-in-techdirt-history-october-18th-24th/

Police In Guinea-Bissau Raid Offices Of Danish Anti-Vaxxers Planning CDC-Funded Unethical Study In all of our coverage of the disastrous tenure RFK Jr. has had... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/23/police-in-guinea-bissau-raid-offices-of-danish-anti-vaxxers-planning-cdc-funded-unethical-study/

How Trump’s FBI Purge Saved Lindsey Graham And James Clyburn From A Bribery Investigation This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/23/how-trumps-fbi-purge-saved-lindsey-graham-and-james-clyburn-from-a-bribery-investigation/

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Meta Had A Lotta Scams, Lotta Scams, Lotta Scams Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/23/ctrl-alt-speech-meta-had-a-lotta-scams-lotta-scams-lotta-scams/

OPM Barely Bothered Defending DOGE’s Access To Federal Employee Data. Court Rules It Was Illegal. Remember back when Elon Musk was handed the keys of our federal... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/23/opm-barely-bothered-defending-doges-access-to-federal-employee-data-court-rules-it-was-illegal/

Daily Deal: MOGICS Power Bagel Travel Power Strip The MOGICS Bagel has 5 international AC sockets, dual USB ports, 3ft integrated length-adjustable power cord, and an ergonomic AC plug. Unlike ordinary... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/23/daily-deal-mogics-power-bagel-travel-power-strip-2/

Malcolm Gladwell: Cops Are Violent Because The US Doesn’t Have Enough Cops One of America’s foremost thinkers hasn’t done enough thinking. Instead, he’s delivered a handful of... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/23/malcolm-gladwell-cops-are-violent-because-the-us-doesnt-have-enough-cops/

Trump Leveraged FCC ‘Investigation’ Into Dish CEO Charlie Ergen To Get Him To Donate To Ballroom The Washington Post recently had some interesting additional... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/23/trump-leveraged-fcc-investigation-into-dish-ceo-charlie-ergen-to-get-him-to-donate-to-ballroom/

Trump Hides IRS Report Showing How His Big Beautiful Bill Fucked America It seems that burying reports because he doesn’t like the data within them is becoming a habit for Donald Trump... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/22/trump-hides-irs-report-showing-how-his-big-beautiful-bill-fucked-america/

The Metric Is Not The Mission: After The Platform Age The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/22/the-metric-is-not-the-mission-after-the-platform-age/

Starlink Throttling In Ukraine Again Shows Musk’s Right Wing Extremism Is A National Security Threat Last year you might recall how Elon Musk’s far right... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/22/starlink-throttling-in-ukraine-again-shows-musks-right-wing-extremism-is-a-national-security-threat/

JD Vance Says Trump Hates People Cashing In On Government Access. Meet Former Trump Lawyer Alina Habba’s $50 Million Contract. On... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/22/jd-vance-says-trump-hates-people-cashing-in-on-government-access-meet-former-trump-lawyer-alina-habbas-50-million-contract/

Daily Deal: Build A Weather App With Ruby On Rails It’s time you get up to speed with Ruby on Rails! This full-stack web framework is all about letting you build applications quickly. Its elegance,... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/22/daily-deal-build-a-weather-app-with-ruby-on-rails-4/

ICE Officers Who Ran Over Man Were Trying To Arrest Someone Who Had Been Dead For Years Not that we really needed any more evidence of bad faith by ICE and the officer... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/22/ice-officers-who-ran-over-man-were-trying-to-arrest-someone-who-had-been-dead-for-years/

Brendan Carr, A Weak Coward, Threatens Journalists For Covering Polls Trump Doesn’t Like Brendan Carr is a silly, hypocritical fascist who splits his time between... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/22/brendan-carr-a-weak-coward-threatens-journalists-for-covering-polls-trump-doesnt-like/

Epic Rolls Out Vibe-Coded Launcher Update & It’s Absolute Trash Alright, I don’t quite know what to make of what Epic Games is doing with this AI-driven nonsense, but it’s not great. I’ve spent a... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/21/epic-rolls-out-vibe-coded-launcher-update-its-absolute-trash/

Court Stays Bricks & Minifigs’ Ridiculous Subpoenas Trying To Unmask Publisher Of The BAM Map, For Now. A quick update on a story we mentioned earlier this... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/21/court-stays-bricks-minifigs-ridiculous-subpoenas-trying-to-unmask-publisher-of-the-bam-map-for-now/

AI Is Anti-Punk Sam Altman is not punk. He’s no revolutionary. Jensen Huang wears a black leather jacket, the uniform of Brando and the Ramones, but that doesn’t make him a rebel. The... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/21/ai-is-anti-punk/

DOJ Turns A Thumb Drive And A Post-It Note Into A Lawsuit Aimed At Disrupting Voting In California For the past several months, the DHS and DOJ have been... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/21/doj-turns-a-thumb-drive-and-a-post-it-note-into-a-lawsuit-aimed-at-disrupting-voting-in-california/

Daily Deal: CyberTraining 365 Online Academy CyberTraining 365 is the best training destination for you and your team. Here you can Master Cyber Security techniques such as Analyzing Malware, Penetration... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/21/daily-deal-cybertraining-365-online-academy-4/

Expert For News Orgs Suing OpenAI Warned ‘Always Verify’ AI, Then Didn’t Verify His AI-Made Charts In His Expert Report A few weeks ago we... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/21/expert-for-news-orgs-suing-openai-warned-always-verify-ai-then-didnt-verify-his-ai-made-charts-in-his-expert-report/

Broken Fifth Circuit Kills Massive Program That Helps Poor Rural Kids Get Broadband You may have noticed that under corrupt Trumpist courts, if a regulator like the FCC... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/21/broken-fifth-circuit-kills-massive-program-that-helps-poor-rural-kids-get-broadband/

Stormy Vetter, And Yet More Ways The Supreme Court Is Selling Us Out Court reform cannot come soon enough, because unless and until it does we cannot count on the Supreme Court to dispense... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/20/stormy-vetter-and-yet-more-ways-the-supreme-court-is-selling-us-out/

AI Firms Should Answer For What Their Models Say—On The Same Terms As Everyone Else Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool for free expression. And it keeps improving.... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/20/ai-firms-should-answer-for-what-their-models-say-on-the-same-terms-as-everyone-else/

Teen Sues CBS News Over Report That Referred To Him As A Reflecting Pool Vandalism Suspect It’s never a good idea to just print whatever the government tells you to... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/20/teen-sues-cbs-news-over-report-that-referred-to-him-as-a-reflecting-pool-vandalism-suspect/

Accident Or Not, The No Kings Takedown Is Why You Shouldn’t Rent Your Megaphone From Zuck This past weekend was the latest in an ongoing series of (massive) “No Kings”... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/20/accident-or-not-the-no-kings-takedown-is-why-you-shouldnt-rent-your-megaphone-from-zuck/

Daily Deal: Nibble All-Around Knowledge App We’d all like to learn something new, but long courses or heavy reading can feel too time consuming. Nibble transforms your screen time into short, interactive learning... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/20/daily-deal-nibble-all-around-knowledge-app/

Kash Patel Claims Local Arrests As His Own To Boost FBI Crime Stats At best, most Trump administration officials can be called “sycophants.” At BEST. But so many of them can be called a lot... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/20/kash-patel-claims-local-arrests-as-his-own-to-boost-fbi-crime-stats/

New Skydance Already Worth Less Than Half Of Warner Brothers, Paramount Were Combined I’ve documented for years how major media consolidation is simultaneously completely... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/20/new-skydance-already-worth-less-than-half-of-warner-brothers-paramount-were-combined/

Congressman Ritchie Torres Authors Bill For Digital Games Ownership Rights The Stop Killing Games movement appears to still be alive and well. The grassroots campaign to legislate... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/19/congressman-ritchie-torres-authors-bill-for-digital-games-ownership-rights/

The Metric Is Not The Mission: When The Reckoning Reaches The Courts The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/19/the-metric-is-not-the-mission-when-the-reckoning-reaches-the-courts/

Sling TV Drops Innovative Streaming ‘Day Passes’ After Disney, Warner Bros Sued Last year, Sling TV unveiled a rare bit of innovation in an increasingly enshittified streaming... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/19/sling-tv-drops-innovative-streaming-day-passes-after-disney-warner-bros-sued/

‘We Didn’t Do This Perfectly’: American Fork Police Chief’s Understatement Now Anchors A Civil Rights Lawsuit By Reckless Ben’s... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/19/we-didnt-do-this-perfectly-american-fork-police-chiefs-understatement-now-anchors-a-civil-rights-lawsuit-by-reckless-bens-helpers/

Daily Deal: Soundfreaq Sound Spot II Bluetooth Speaker The Soundfreaq Sound Spot II combines wireless audio performance, ambient lighting, and relaxing sound features in a compact design built for... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/19/daily-deal-soundfreaq-sound-spot-ii-bluetooth-speaker-4/

Canadian YouTuber Visited By Cops After Building Mock Flock To Track Cop Cars If most cops had a sense of irony, they wouldn’t be cops. By that I mean that there’s little in the... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/19/canadian-youtuber-visited-by-cops-after-building-mock-flock-to-track-cop-cars/

Whoops: Grok Bot Spills Tech CEO’s Bank Data In Public Slack Shane Mac, a tech entrepreneur and CEO of the software developer XMTP Labs, decided to connect Grok Bot to his personal bank account.... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/19/whoops-grok-bot-spills-tech-ceos-bank-data-in-public-slack/

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is n00bdragon with a comment about Florida's age-gating law and its esoteric... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/18/funniest-most-insightful-comments-of-the-week-at-techdirt-230/

This Week In Techdirt History: October 11th – 17th This Week in 2016 NBC Delayed Story About Trump's Access Hollywood Recording Over Fear That He Might Sue Media, Politics & The Death Of Intellectual Honesty... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/17/this-week-in-techdirt-history-october-11th-17th/

MLB Plans To Play Stupid Games With Its Website Again In Upcoming Lockout Back in the much simpler times of 2021, we wrote about some of the games Major League Baseball decided to... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/16/mlb-plans-to-play-stupid-games-with-its-website-again-in-upcoming-lockout/

Something Else To Look Forward To: AI Worms Back in the early days of the Internet – 1988 to be precise – the self-replicating computer program known as the Morris worm spread across the network and shut down... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/16/something-else-to-look-forward-to-ai-worms/