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In September 2024, Amandla Thomas-Johnson was a Ph.D. candidate studying in the U.S. on a student visa when he briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest. In April…
California’s bill, A.B. 2047, will not only mandate censorware — software which exists to bluntly block your speech as a…
When people see Customs & Border Protection’s giant, tethered surveillance blimp flying 20 miles outside of Marfa, Texas, lots of…
from the can’t-pretend-rights-just-don’t-exist dept More of the same for the Trump administration — one that seems incapable of achieving its…
from the gaming-like-it’s-1930 dept It’s time for the third in our series of spotlight posts looking at the winners of…
from the the-italian-job dept Last month, we discussed NVIDIA’s demo video for its forthcoming DLSS 5 technology and the controversy…
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 dominating-the-skies dept Elon Musk is desperate to dominate the Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) satellite broadband market. So is Jeff Bezos.…
from the this-is-why-we-can’t-have-nice-things dept There’s a meaningful push afoot to implement statewide “right to repair” laws that try to make it cheaper,…
from the more-of-that-famous-prosecutorial-discretion dept Never underestimate the stupidity of law enforcement. When things could just be left alone and everything…