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Tiniest Crack In The Wall: Senate Votes To Dump Trump’s Vindictive Brazil Tariffs

4 hours 20 minutes ago
For the first time in ten months of near-total congressional capitulation to Trump, five Republican Senators broke ranks on Tuesday, siding with Democrats to block the nonsense tariffs Trump unilaterally declared on Brazil as punishment for their treatment of Trump buddy Jair Bolsonaro. The US Senate on Tuesday approved a measure that would terminate Donald […]
Mike Masnick

Daily Deal: 1 Year Sam’s Club Plus Membership with Auto-Renew

4 hours 25 minutes ago
Sam’s Club is a membership warehouse club, a limited-item business model that offers members quality products at an exceptional value unmatched by traditional retail. From groceries and kitchen supplies to electronics and furniture, Sam’s Club has great deals on the items you want! By redeeming and signing up as a member, you’ll be paying just […]
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Mexican Government To Tax Violent Video Games It Says Make Kids Violent

19 hours 9 minutes ago
The whole “blame video games for everything” theme seems to be resurfacing more and more these days. It’s a bit strange, as I honestly thought that this bizarre reflex would be waning as each new generation that increasingly grew up with video games came to be adults. But apparently this needs to be reiterated: law […]
Timothy Geigner

Ring, Flock Safety Join Forces To Expand Law Enforcement Surveillance Networks

23 hours 35 minutes ago
I’m not saying this unholy matrimony wouldn’t have occurred under any other regime, but it’s definitely the sort of thing that plays well with the Oval Office while it’s housing Donald Trump. Both Flock Safety and Ring have weathered plenty of negative press, largely because they were doing the sort of thing they’re going back […]
Tim Cushing

Techdirt Podcast Episode 436: Venture Capital Is Eating The World

1 day 1 hour ago
Support us on Patreon » It was nearly 400 episodes ago when Catherine Bracy joined the podcast for a two part discussion (one, two) to talk about Silicon Valley culture and what investors are willing to fund. Now, more than a decade later, Catherine has released a new book, World Eaters: How Venture Capital Is Cannibalizing […]
Leigh Beadon

Biden Admin Blessed UN Surveillance Treaty, Trump Admin Gets To Abuse It

1 day 3 hours ago
The US attended the UN Cybercrime Treaty signing ceremony in Hanoi this weekend, where 72 countries signed on to a Russia-backed framework for global surveillance cooperation. Whether the US actually puts pen to paper (and all the reporting on this is kind of cagey) is almost beside the point—by showing up and legitimizing the proceeding, […]
Mike Masnick

Bari Weiss And The Tyranny Of False Balance

1 day 4 hours ago
Bari Weiss walked into 60 Minutes and asked the staff: “Why does the country think you’re biased?” The question stunned them into awkward silence. And it should have—not because it caught them off guard, but because it reveals everything wrong with what passes for journalistic sophistication in our moment. Let’s be precise about what Weiss is doing. She’s […]
Mike Brock

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1 day 4 hours ago
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King Trump Makes It Clear He Wants His BFF Larry Ellison To Own Warner Brothers

1 day 9 hours ago
Whether it’s Jeff Bezos lobotomizing the Washington Post, Elon Musk turning Twitter into a far right propaganda mill, or Larry Ellison buying CBS, CNN, and TikTok, the country’s shittiest right wing billionaires aren’t being subtle about their quest to dominate what’s left of U.S. media. And Trump’s FCC is paving the way by destroying whatever […]
Karl Bode

Are Web Browsers With Integrated Chatbots A Paradigm Shift – Or Just Privacy And Security Disasters Waiting To Happen?

1 day 23 hours ago
In a further sign of where the generative AI world is heading, OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Atlas, “a new web browser built with ChatGPT at its core.” It’s not the first to do something like this: earlier browsers incorporating varying degrees of AI include Microsoft Edge (with Copilot), Opera (with Aria), Brave (with Leo), The […]
Glyn Moody

How “Neutrality” And “Free Speech” Become Excuses For Driving Out The People You Claim To Value

2 days 4 hours ago
Mike Brock’s piece on Sequoia Capital last week laid out a pretty damning case study: a well-respected COO complains about a partner’s Islamophobic posts, senior leadership invokes “institutional neutrality” and declines to act, she resigns, he stays because he made them billions on SpaceX. Brock correctly calls this out as a choice, not neutrality—a calculation […]
Mike Masnick

Daily Deal: Babbel Language Learning (All Languages)

2 days 4 hours ago
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