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.
In brief Canary Capital’s spot XRP ETF recorded $58 million in first-day volume, edging out Bitwise’s Solana ETF. XRPC is…
The Washington University Law Review has just published my new article, “The Two Tests of Search Law: What Is the…
In brief Publicly traded Bitcoin miner Bitfarms posted a $46 million loss in Q3. The firm is beginning a transition…
The Trump administration goes for huge homelessness policy shift: According to confidential grant-making plans first reported by The New York…
When New Yorkers elected Zohran Mamdani as their mayor on 4 November, many commentators and politicians treated the result as…
In brief The first successful New Glenn booster landed on an ocean barge. It marks a step toward competing with…
A claque of online anti-vaccine influencers and dissentient researchers are claiming that COVID-19 vaccines are causing an epidemic of aggressive,…
In brief The system used Google’s Gemini model to reason about goals, explain its plans, and act across unfamiliar games.…
from the ctrl-alt-speech dept Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and…
The Los Angeles City Council voted yesterday to lower the allowable rent increases on some 650,000 rent-stabilized units in the…
In brief Anthropic said it has disrupted what it called the first large cyberattack run mostly by AI. The company…
from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept MagStack is the perfect on-the-go wireless charging station that also transforms into a floating stand for…