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Oklahoma A.G. Would Like To Know Where Ryan Walters Spent A Bunch Of Money

13 hours 15 minutes ago
I’m sure all of you beautiful people thought we were collectively done with former Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters. After he resigned abruptly in late September, nearly in mid-screed mandating that public schools hold a moment of silence for slain conservative operative Charlie Kirk and mandating a chapter of Turning Point USA at all public high […]
Timothy Geigner

Superior, Wisconsin Latest City To Build Community-Owned Gigabit Fiber Network

18 hours 21 minutes ago
We’ve long explored how powerful regional broadband monopolies have dominated America, resulting in spotty access, high prices, slow speeds, and terrible customer service. We’ve also long discussed how the U.S. government has done little to actually fix the problem, ranging from outright coddling monopolies (Trump) to performative fixes (the Biden FCC) that don’t take aim […]
Karl Bode

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies

20 hours 20 minutes ago
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Elon Musk’s SpaceX has taken money directly from Chinese investors, according to previously sealed testimony, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of the United States’ most important military contractors. The recent testimony, coming from a SpaceX insider during a court case, marks the […]
Justin Elliott and Joshua Kaplan

Trump’s Immigration Theater: Pulling Cops Off Child Sex Crimes To Chase Landscapers

22 hours 18 minutes ago
So let me get this straight. The same administration that claims fentanyl is such a dire threat that it justifies sweeping tariffs against Canada, Mexico, and China is simultaneously pulling federal agents off drug interdiction duties to chase undocumented landscapers in Pennsylvania. The same political movement that built its base partly on QAnon fantasies about […]
Mike Masnick

Daily Deal: The Complete Big Data And Power BI Bundle

22 hours 22 minutes ago
The Complete Big Data and Power BI Bundle has 5 courses to help you learn how to effectively sort, analyze, and visualize all of your data. Courses cover Power BI, Power Query, Excel, and Access. It’s on sale for $40. Note: The Techdirt Deals Store is powered and curated by StackCommerce. A portion of all […]
Daily Deal

America Is Drowning In Scam Calls And Texts And Donald Trump Is Making It Worse

1 day 3 hours ago
Just so you know: it’s not normal for your country’s voice communications networks to be completely hijacked by scammers and marketers, rendering it almost unusable. That’s literally not something people in most serious countries have to deal with. Yet we’ve largely normalized the fact that Americans are so inundated with unwanted scams and bullshit that […]
Karl Bode

NCTC Discovers That Online Gaming Platforms Have Chats, Image Sharing

1 day 12 hours ago
The rush to blame video games for all the world’s ills is, of course, nothing new. While some of the more novel examples of this blame-game include current Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s claim that video games are the reason the Medicaid is abused (yes, seriously), this nonsense is more commonly trotted out whenever […]
Timothy Geigner

Another Day, Another Age Verification Data Breach: Discord’s Third-Party Partner Leaked Government IDs

1 day 21 hours ago
Once again, we’re reminded why age verification systems are fundamentally broken when it comes to privacy and security. Discord has disclosed that one of its third-party customer service providers was breached, exposing user data, including government-issued photo IDs, from users who had appealed age determinations. Data potentially accessed by the hack includes things like names, […]
Mike Masnick

Google’s Requirement For All Android Developers To Register And Be Verified Threatens To Close Down Open Source App Store F-Droid

1 day 22 hours ago
It would be something of an understatement to say that Alphabet, Google’s holding company, is big and successful. Some Wall Street analysts are even predicting it could become the world’s most valuable corporation. Of course, even for business giants, enough is never enough. They always want more: more money, more power. As part of that […]
Glyn Moody

Daily Deal: Adobe Photoshop Elements 2025 3-Year License

1 day 22 hours ago
Achieve picture perfection with Adobe Photoshop Elements 2025. You can create with stylish effects and templates, and be creative on the go. With the magic of AI and automation behind the scenes, it’s never been easier to fix flaws, fine-tune specific areas, and add motion to quickly bring your vision to life. Get a 3-year […]
Daily Deal

Paramount Formally Hires Bari Weiss To Turn What’s Left Of CBS News Into A Soggy Right Wing Propaganda And Troll Farm

2 days 3 hours ago
It’s super curious how the folks most vocal about being cancelled or having their “Conservative viewpoints silenced” now own or control most major U.S. media companies. Almost as if their claims of being silenced have always been a bullshit ploy to dominate the discourse on the back of something other than the quality of their […]
Karl Bode

Chat Control Is Back On The Menu In The EU. It Still Must Be Stopped

2 days 18 hours ago
The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people. Chat Control, which EFF has strongly opposed since it was first introduced in 2022, keeps being mildly tweaked and pushed by one Council presidency after another. Chat Control is a dangerous legislative […]
Thorin Klosowski

The Tyrant In The White House

2 days 20 hours ago
Stephen Miller just called a federal judge’s enforcement of constitutional law “legal insurrection.” Let that sink in. A Deputy White House Chief of Staff—one of the most powerful people in the executive branch—declared that judicial review of presidential power is rebellion against the United States government. A Trump-appointed judge carefully reviewed the facts, applied the relevant statutes, […]
Mike Brock

Senator Cruz Figure Out Who Was President From 2018 To 2020 Challenge; Impossible

2 days 22 hours ago
I have a simple question for Senator Ted Cruz: Who was president in 2018? How about 2020? I ask because Cruz just released a “bombshell” report claiming that the Biden administration “converted” CISA into “the Thought Police.” There’s just one tiny problem with this narrative: Cruz’s own report shows that everything he’s mad about started […]
Mike Masnick