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techdirt.comWhen No ID Means No Internet: Age Verification And The Right To Access InformationAge verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who cannot verify their age at all? This is particularly a problem when users are required to prove their age with identity documents. Age-related […]
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techdirt.comDOJ Demands California Help It Hunt Down Thousands Of ‘Illegal’ Voters Who Don’t Actually ExistThe thing about being in power is that there’s not much room left between the floor and the ceiling. The administration can fall, but only so far, because it’s still the administration. Conversely, it can only rise so far. The system of checks and balances — even when broken — limits upward trajectories. Bureaucracy generates […]
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techdirt.comMusk Falsely Claims His Traitorous Meddling In Ukraine Is Somehow Anti-WarLast week Elon Musk arbitrarily started throttling the LEO (low-Earth orbit) satellite connections of Ukraine’s military, preventing it from engaging in offensive and defensive operations. The decision blindsided the White House, caused significant financial and operational headaches for Ukraine, and created no shortage of bipartisan backlash. After spending a week blaming one another, both the […]
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techdirt.comSpaceX Whines About Space Collisions After Gutting Regulators That Oversee That Sort Of ThingMichael Nicolls, SpaceX’s vice president for Starlink and president of xAI, appeared recently at the International Astronautical Congress in Turkey to lament the rise of space collisions as Musk and Bezos flood the night sky with low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. According to Nicolls, there’s been a decided lack of coordination among space companies as they’ve […]
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techdirt.comDaily Deal: The Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2024 for Windows + Windows 11 Pro License BundleThe Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2024 and Windows 11 Pro Bundle provides perpetual licenses of each for 1 Windows PC (not compatible with Mac or macOS). Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus provides a comprehensive and stable productivity suite for organizations that prefer a traditional perpetual license model. This version offers the complete set of Office […]
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techdirt.comHow Trump’s FBI Purge Saved Lindsey Graham And James Clyburn From A Bribery InvestigationThis story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. On March 3, 2020, Sen. Lindsey Graham walked into a private dining room at Charlie Palmer Steak in Washington, D.C. Graham’s time was expensive. He was meeting with two executives and a lobbyist from a Hawaiian naval defense contractor called Navatek. And he had required them […]
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techdirt.comOPM 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 government with basically zero accountability or oversight? All sorts of bad stuff happened, but one of the lawsuits we’ve been covering was the American Federation of Gov’t Employees (AFGE) along with the Association of Administrative Law Judges and a few individual federal workers […]
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techdirt.comTrump Leveraged FCC ‘Investigation’ Into Dish CEO Charlie Ergen To Get Him To Donate To BallroomThe Washington Post recently had some interesting additional insight into the various “pay to play” shenanigans related to Trump’s $330 million ballroom. They got a hold of a broader donor list, noting that Nvidia and Apple each committed $25 million, the top contribution amount. As did GOP donor mainstay the Adelson family. Crypto companies are […]
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techdirt.comStarlink Throttling In Ukraine Again Shows Musk’s Right Wing Extremism Is A National Security ThreatLast year you might recall how Elon Musk’s far right wing extremism (and endlessly incoherent behavior) had many countries reconsidering their use of his low-Earth orbit satellite company, Starlink. It was driven by the fact that Musk had restricted Ukraine’s access to the service near Crimea because he personally opposed Ukraine’s military aims (defending itself […]
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techdirt.comJD Vance Says Trump Hates People Cashing In On Government Access. Meet Former Trump Lawyer Alina Habba’s $50 Million Contract.On Wednesday, JD Vance did the one thing JD Vance knows how to do with full commitment: lie through his teeth about something he fully knows is bullshit. In this case, claiming that Donald Trump “hates the idea of people enriching themselves fraudulently over access to the government.” Remember, this is the same Donald Trump […]
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techdirt.comBrendan Carr, A Weak Coward, Threatens Journalists For Covering Polls Trump Doesn’t LikeBrendan Carr is a silly, hypocritical fascist who splits his time between destroying U.S. consumer protection standards and media consolidation limits, and abusing his position as FCC boss to threaten broadcast networks for airing stuff like comedy. Or journalism. Or politicians that the increasingly-unpopular President is clearly afraid of. Lately Trump has been complaining about […]
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techdirt.comDOJ Turns A Thumb Drive And A Post-It Note Into A Lawsuit Aimed At Disrupting Voting In CaliforniaFor the past several months, the DHS and DOJ have been pushing hard to make Trump’s illegal voter election conspiracy theories a reality. Trump continues to claim millions of non-citizen voters are participating in federal elections — something he persists in proclaiming despite having won two of the last three presidential races. This isn’t really […]
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techdirt.comDaily Deal: CyberTraining 365 Online AcademyCyberTraining 365 is the best training destination for you and your team. Here you can Master Cyber Security techniques such as Analyzing Malware, Penetration Testing, Advanced Persistent Threats, Threat Intelligence Research, Reverse Engineering, and much more. This online academy offers 3,877 up-to-date modules on all the latest technologies and industry standards. These courses are aligned […]
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techdirt.comExpert For News Orgs Suing OpenAI Warned ‘Always Verify’ AI, Then Didn’t Verify His AI-Made Charts In His Expert ReportA few weeks ago we wrote about how the lawyers for OpenAI and Microsoft in the massive multi-district litigation (MDL) against the companies over how they trained their AI had called for the exclusion of an expert witness report after it was revealed that lawyers for the plaintiffs had apparently surreptitiously paid for the report, […]
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techdirt.comNew Skydance Already Worth Less Than Half Of Warner Brothers, Paramount Were CombinedI’ve documented for years how major media consolidation is simultaneously completely pointless and incredibly harmful. Such deals exist exclusively so that unremarkable rich men with no real ideas can grab some tax breaks, create the illusion of perpetual growth, and pretend they’re “savvy dealmakers.” Yet every single time a major media merger is completed the […]
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techdirt.com‘We Didn’t Do This Perfectly’: American Fork Police Chief’s Understatement Now Anchors A Civil Rights Lawsuit By Reckless Ben’s HelpersWe’ve been covering a bunch of stories related to the saga of “Reckless” Ben Schneider and Bricks & Minifigs (“BAM”), which began with a series of videos Schneider produced about his increasingly more extreme attempts to get back the Lego sets that someone had given to a BAM franchise on a consignment deal, and which […]
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techdirt.comDaily Deal: Soundfreaq Sound Spot II Bluetooth SpeakerThe Soundfreaq Sound Spot II combines wireless audio performance, ambient lighting, and relaxing sound features in a compact design built for modern lifestyles. Featuring a Bamboo and White finish with eco-friendly materials, this Bluetooth speaker complements bedrooms, offices, living rooms, and personal spaces while delivering both style and functionality. Engineered with a custom-designed audio driver, […]