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from the damn-copyright-trolls dept Copyright law is supposed to encourage creativity. Too often, it’s used to extract payouts from others.…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the current secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), but like so many (too many) political…

In brief Google is rolling out an AI avatar feature for YouTube Shorts creators. Users can generate videos of themselves…

President Donald Trump was reelected, in part, because he reached new voters by vowing to “Make America Healthy Again.” It’s…

In brief Enterprise AI agents drive 40% of OpenAI revenue, according to its chief revenue officer. Multi-agent systems replace simple…

from the gee-who-could-have-the-incentive-to-do-that? dept We’ve talked for years about how the DMCA’s notice-and-takedown system is ripe for abuse. The legal…

Courtney Williams never made her gripes with the military a secret. In the mid-2010s, she filed a discrimination complaint with…

In brief Researchers from the Google Cloud AI team have unveiled PaperOrchestra, an AI system that converts scattered research materials…

from the they-can’t-kill-us-all dept Forgive me for this digression. I know it’s usually left to Mike Masnick to lift us…

As Social Security careens towards insolvency in the early 2030s, policymakers and the American public will have to reconsider what…

In brief Some Bitcoiners welcomed a report that Iran and affiliated actors are accepting Bitcoin for safe passage through the…

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly,…