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President Trump’s highly politicized appointment of an entirely unqualified acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) underscores why the government’s warrantless…

from the saving-the-internet-from-the-fifth-circuit dept It seems hardly a day goes by when another state doesn’t try to keep young people…

Governments must not adopt emerging and powerful AI technologies without also adopting strong and clear safeguards to protect Constitutional rights,…

from the get-rid-of-the-chokepoints-and… dept In January 2011, a man in Tahrir Square held up a handwritten sign that read “Facebook:…

from the ministry-of-truth-back-on-its-bullshit dept History is written by the winners, they say. But it can also be written by losers.…

from the about-face dept While we’ve focused a great deal on RFK Jr.’s war on vaccines in America, it’s worth…

from the j6ers-still-expect-to-get-paid dept There were some rumors earlier this week that, as it was facing a lot of pushback…

from the jim-crow-alito dept The Supreme Court’s conservatives have spent years systematically dismantling the Voting Rights Act, but the last…

from the I-can-most-definitely-do-that,-Dave dept 404 Media reports that hackers were simply able to ask Meta AI for access to high-profile…

from the victim-blaming dept When Russia kicked off its war of aggression against neighboring Ukraine for completely made up reasons,…

from the age-gating-is-still-bad dept After public outrage, California lawmakers are moving closer to exempting open-source operating systems from the sweeping…

from the bricks-and-minifigs-and-influencers-and-lawsuits dept On Techdirt, we often complain about lawyers and bad lawyering and bad cases. But there are…