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Daily Deal: The Complete JIRA Agile Project Management Course

1 week ago
In the Complete JIRA Agile Project Management Course, you’ll learn how to master JIRA Agile cloud software to help you streamline your projects while turning yourself into a project management professional! Whether you’re new to JIRA or Agile methodologies, an Agile Certified Scrum Master, product owner or software developer, this course will provide you the […]
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In The Vacuum Of AI Legislation, Libraries Have The Playbook

1 week 1 day ago
The White House AI framework made official what we already knew: this administration has no interest in regulating AI. Any legislation that contradicts the framework will be a dead end. In this regulatory vacuum, it is instructive to turn to norms developed by libraries and archives through their decades of experience working through the same […]
Katherine Klosek

Tech Companies Fail To Kill Colorado’s ‘Right To Repair’ Law

1 week 1 day ago
Last month we noted how tech companies, automakers, and others were trying to kill Colorado’s existing “right to repair” law, which is supposed to make it cheaper and easier to repair the things you own. More specifically, tech companies like Cisco and IBM were pushing Colorado lawmakers to sign off on  SB26-090, the Exempt Critical […]
Karl Bode

Daily Deal: The Modern Tech Skills Bundle

1 week 1 day ago
Bring your tech skills up to 21st-century snuff with the Modern Tech Skills Bundle. This 2,000+ class series covers subject areas that every aspiring tech pro needs to know to get ahead and stay ahead. Broken out into cybersecurity, AI and machine learning, and information technology and cloud computing, you’ll be able to zero in […]
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Share-Owning Journalism Orgs Press Paramount For Company Docs On Corrupt Trump Merger Dealings

1 week 1 day ago
More than 4,000 Hollywood insiders recently signed a letter blasting Paramount’s planned $111 billion merger with Warner Brothers, noting that the massive consolidation will be very historically harmful to labor, consumers, and creatives. That’s a very correct observation, especially as it relates to Warner Brothers, which has never been involved in a merger that didn’t result in […]
Karl Bode

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

1 week 2 days ago
It’s a multi-win week for MrWilson, who takes both top spots on the insightful side with one serving as a double-winner at the top of the funny side too. In first place for both insightful and funny is a rebuke of a very argumentative commenter who defended John Roberts’s claim that the Supreme Court is […]
Leigh Beadon

This Week In Techdirt History: May 3rd – 9th

1 week 3 days ago
Now that our detour for the game jam winner spotlights is complete, we’re rolling out a new version of these weekly history posts after collecting your feedback. We’re shifting the timeframes to drop Five Years Ago and instead cover Ten, Fifteen, and Twenty Years Ago, and simplifying things a bit by just presenting a list […]
Leigh Beadon

I Reached Out To The White House Counterterrorism Czar For Comment. He Lashed Out On X.

1 week 4 days ago
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka is one of the most controversial figures in the Trump administration, a gate crasher in the buttoned-up world of national security.  In a field where quiet professionalism is revered, Gorka is loud and mercurial. With a booming, British-accented voice, he describes U.S. […]
Hannah Allam

FBI Raids Office Of Dem Politician Instrumental In Redrawing Virginia Voter Maps… With Fox News In Tow

1 week 4 days ago
Maybe this isn’t just another vindictive prosecution by the Trump administration. But we’re going to need a lot more evidence to the contrary to abandon this conjecture: The FBI searched the Virginia state Senate leader’s hometown office and her neighboring cannabis shop Wednesday, bringing into public view what two people familiar with the matter told […]
Tim Cushing

Daily Deal: Linux/UNIX Certification Training Bundle

1 week 4 days ago
Linux and UNIX operating systems have become increasingly popular in commercial computing environments. Due to their rapid growth in today’s businesses, Linux/UNIX administrators have also become very much in demand. This hands-on Linux/UNIX Certification Training Bundle will help you prepare for the CompTIA Linux+ and the Novell Certified Linux Professional certification exams. It’s on sale […]
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Appeals Court Kills FCC Effort To Acknowledge Racism In Broadband Deployment

1 week 4 days ago
In late 2023, I wrote a feature for The Verge exploring the FCC’s attempt to stop race and class discrimination in broadband deployment. For decades, big telecoms have not only refused to evenly upgrade broadband in low income and poor areas (despite billions in subsidies for this exact purpose), they’ve provably charged poor and minority neighborhoods significantly more money for worse […]
Karl Bode

GameStop CEO Appears To Be Auctioning Off Video Game History

1 week 4 days ago
By now you likely have caught wind of GameStop, the video game and collectables retailer, announcing a bid to buy eBay. Perhaps you heard of this, as I did, because of GameStop’s CEO, Ryan Cohen, showing up to CNBC’s Squawk Box program where he pulled off one of the strangest interviews about business I’ve ever […]
Timothy Geigner