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For the last couple of years, the copyright world has been grappling with the latest generation of AI, as numerous posts on Walled Culture attest. That’s hardly…
Over the last few years, with Congress completely incompetent and a massive moral panic about tech raging, states have stepped up to try to regulate the internet any way…
flowkey is a fun, interactive piano learning platform that helps anyone go from absolute beginner to confident player — at their own pace. It combines step-by-step…
On one hand, it’s great to see a ruling like this. On the other hand, it’s not going to set any precedent, not even in its own jurisdiction. But it does push this…
Larry Ellison has succeeded in fusing Paramount and Warner Brothers in a $110 billion merger that will culminate in mass layoffs, higher prices, lower-quality product…
There’s looking a gift horse in the mouth, and then there’s deciding to shoot that gift horse in the face repeatedly for no good reason. Famed West Coast burger chain…
I’ve written a few times now about why Meta’s big “settlement” with the states is a bad deal. It’s Meta seeking to control how the rest of the internet is regulated in a…
Trump has declared any non-white migrants to be garbage people from shithole countries (that’s in his own words, believe it or not) and has acted accordingly. Mass…
I feel I need to start out posts like this by reminding anyone that nudification apps are bad. They’re almost exclusively used to abuse and harass people, most often…
The Salesforce Certification Exam Training Bundle includes practice exam questions and study guides for various certifications, covering a wide range of roles such as…
Yet another one of Trump’s many, many, often blatantly illegal playbooks is on display here. It seems Trump really doesn’t know who’s going to be loyal enough to satisfy…
Meta’s agentic AI product Muse has had a rocky few weeks since launch. The product, which features an animated avatar named Jolly (one presumes to make mass hyper…
The measles outbreaks in America, and specifically in Pennsylvania, are getting worse instead of getting better. And, while RFK Jr. has and will continue to attempt to…
The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own…
The other day the Copia Institute filed an amicus brief at the Fourth Circuit in a case involving West Virginia attempting to punish Apple for not filtering CSAM the way…
Techdirt has been around for almost 30 years now, and the one internet law issue that never seems to change is the bullshit use of copyright to take down speech. It’s…
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Finally. Now, it doesn’t matter what Trump wants his DOJ minions to do. If he’s going to try to pin a botched repair job on people who just happened to stick a hand into…
Trump FCC Boss Brendan Carr loves to insist he’s being tough on robocalls, which have increasingly rendered U.S. voice communications networks less and less usable…
This week, our first place winner is danderbandit with a comment about the California ruling against a rogue sheriff who seized 650,000 ballots: So a sheriff broke the…
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I must be getting old, because the concept around most IoT injections into otherwise perfectly usable home devices has me wanting to get all these smart-devices off of…
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. In the lead-up to the 2026 midterm elections, how is the…
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