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Canadian ‘Pickle Fest’ Rebranded Under Bullshit Trademark Threat

1 week ago
I’ll let you all in on a little secret: I love pickles. Yes, let that statement spawn a million jokes in the comments; I don’t care. Pickles are great and the fresher the better. I began gardening specifically so that I could grow cucumbers, garlic, onion, and dill, just so I could make my own […]
Timothy Geigner

Prosecutors Had A Drugs-for-Votes Scheme “Locked Up.” Under Trump, They Were Told Not To Pursue Charges.

1 week ago
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. To the narcotics agents investigating drug smuggling in Puerto Rico prisons, it seemed at first like a typical scheme: associates of an inmate gang sneaking drugs into the prison, gang members distributing them inside and bank records showing the money flowing. Then the agents discovered something […]
Raquel Rutledge

Techdirt Podcast Episode 451: Preserving The Web In The Age Of AI

1 week 1 day ago
Support us on Patreon » Recently, Mike joined Dave Hansen, Mark Graham and Kendra Albert on a panel for the Future Knowledge podcast, a joint production of the Internet Archive and the Authors Alliance. The discussion covers a wide variety of questions related to keeping the web (and especially the historical record of the web) alive […]
Leigh Beadon

Daily Deal: The Complete JIRA Agile Project Management Course

1 week 1 day 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 […]
Daily Deal

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 2 days 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 2 days 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 […]
Daily Deal

Share-Owning Journalism Orgs Press Paramount For Company Docs On Corrupt Trump Merger Dealings

1 week 2 days 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 3 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 4 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