Tech & Big Tech

from the this-is-all-extremely-stupid dept In case you’ve been asleep, what appears to be an increasingly mentally unstable Donald Trump has…

from the yikes dept First, some of the good news: certain AI models—currently Anthropic’s Mythos, but surely others are well…

from the fuck-em-for-being-human-beings,-I-guess dept I’m not here to cut the Trump administration any slack or engage in both-sides bullshit, but…

We go through this every couple of years: Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which of Americans’ communications…

from the 24/7-agitprop dept Last month FCC boss Brendan Carr illegally ignored remaining U.S. media consolidation laws to rubber stamp…

from the rejected-at-the-rim dept A little over a year ago, we wrote about a fairly silly lawsuit filed against Netflix…

Google moved up its estimated deadline for quantum preparedness in cryptography to 2029—only 33 months from now. That’s earlier than…

from the ctrl-alt-speech dept Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and…

As long as people have had more than one purchasing option, they’ve been comparing those options and looking for bargains.…

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

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…

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…