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In brief The CFTC added senior executives from crypto, finance, and trading firms to its Innovation Advisory Committee. While the…
From La Union del Pueblo Entero v. Abbott, decided today by Judge Edith Jones, joined by Judge Kurt Engelhardt and…
In brief Recruitment payments tied to labor trafficking typically range between $1,000 and $10,000. Prostitution and escort networks are turning…
from the ctrl-alt-speech dept Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and…
An excerpt from Judge Richard Leon’s long (and exclamation-point-filled) opinion today in Kelly v. Hegseth (D.D.C.):United States Senator Mark Kelly,…
In brief Microsoft found that companies are embedding hidden memory manipulation commands in AI summary buttons to influence chatbot recommendations,…
Discord has begun rolling out mandatory age verification and the internet is, understandably, freaking out. At EFF, we’ve been raising…
Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi are exhausted by the never-ending obsession with Jeffrey Epstein—but here they are again on Freed…
The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes Thursday’s court ruling granting house arrest to investigative journalist Jose Rubén Zamora, president of…
In brief An AI agent’s performance optimization pull request was closed because the project limits contributions to humans only. The…
from the 230-is-free-speech dept For thirty years, internet users have benefited from a key federal law that allows everyone to…
The Supreme Court heard oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais back on October 15. At the time, there was a…