Freedom IndexMedia & Culture
Media & Culture explores how journalism, entertainment, and creative industries influence—and are influenced by—free speech. From press freedom to artistic expression, this category highlights the cultural impact of censorship and the ongoing struggle for open dialogue.
From Friday’s Connecticut Supreme Court decision in Tov Realty LLC v. Suarez: The record and the representations to this court at…
In brief Mocha CEO Nicholas Charriere hid a microphone in his toddler’s room, fed the recording to Claude, and built…
Darshan Magdum, a member of the viral boy band Boy Throb, has announced that his U.S. visa has been approved.…
In brief Ledger says the Coldcard exploit is a warning for the hardware Bitcoin wallet industry but says its own…
from the lies-the-trump-administration-told-you dept This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The State Department…
The Fifth Circuit has launched a new design for its website. I love the glow-up! Here is the before design…
In brief Solana validators are considering a proposal to increase daily SOL burns through a new fee model. A companion…
There seem to be very few issues that Republicans and Democrats can agree on these days, but disdain for data…
In brief A firmware bug meant Coldcard wallets generated seeds from a software pseudo-random generator instead of the hardware chip…
from the attacks-on-a-free-press dept For much of Techdirt’s nearly three decades in existence we’ve covered attacks on the media by…
Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Make some smart financial moves this week. Apologies if today’s photo…
In brief Qwen3.8-Max runs 2.4 trillion parameters and is the first Max-class Qwen model Alibaba will release as open weights.…