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Daily Deal: The 2022 Google Flutter And Solidity Development Bundle

3 years ago
The 2022 Google Flutter and Solidity Development Bundle has 7 courses to help you become a skilled developer of cross-platform apps. Courses cover Flutter, Solidity, Dart, and more. The bundle is on sale for $40. Note: The Techdirt Deals Store is powered and curated by StackCommerce. A portion of all sales from Techdirt Deals helps […]
Gretchen Heckmann

Ed Sheeran Wins Legal Costs After ‘Shape Of You’ Verdict

3 years ago
The saga of Ed Sheeran and the copyright case over his Shape of You song may finally be coming to a close. The case, brought by Sami Chokri, was very thin, largely centering on a two-word refrain line repeated 3 times both Sheeran’s song and Chokri’s Oh Why. Sheeran prevailed, with the court stating that […]
Dark Helmet

The Worst Reason To Brush Off Content Moderation Concerns In Antitrust Bills: Eh, The Supreme Court May Destroy 230 Anyway, So It Shouldn’t Much Matter…

3 years ago
We’ve been highlighting the one big problem with Amy Klobuchar’s AICOA antitrust bill being that it has a trojan horse to enable lawsuit challenges over content moderation — and that this is the main reason why Republicans are supporting it. Still, with a big push to get the bills over the finish line, Adam Conner […]
Mike Masnick

Stingray Manufacturer L3Harris Seeking To Acquire NSO Group

3 years ago
Well, this is an unwelcome development. The US defence contractor L3Harris is in talks to take over NSO Group’s surveillance technology, in a possible deal that would give an American company control over one of the world’s most sophisticated and controversial hacking tools. Multiple sources confirmed that discussions were centred on a sale of the […]
Tim Cushing

California Seems To Be Taking The Exact Wrong Lessons From Texas And Florida’s Social Media Censorship Laws

3 years ago
This post analyzes California AB 587, self-described as “Content Moderation Requirements for Internet Terms of Service.” I believe the bill will get a legislative hearing later this month. A note about the draft I’m analyzing, posted here. It’s dated June 6, and it’s different from the version publicly posted on the legislature’s website (dated April 28). I’m not […]
Mike Masnick

Daily Deal: The 2022 CompTIA Trifecta Course Bundle

3 years ago
The 2022 CompTIA Trifecta Course Bundle has four courses to help you prepare for three CompTIA exams. The courses cover the CompTIA A+, Network+, & Security+ exams. The bundle is on sale for $29. Note: The Techdirt Deals Store is powered and curated by StackCommerce. A portion of all sales from Techdirt Deals helps support […]
Gretchen Heckmann

The Myopic Focus On TikTok Privacy Issues Remains Kind Of Weird

3 years ago
U.S. consumers face a parade of major privacy and security problems. Poorly secured routers, Internet things devices with zero privacy and security safeguards, major telecom network vulnerabilities, a massive unaccountable adtech and telecom hyper-surveillance apparatus (often unaccountably linked to government), all operating in a country that can’t seem to pass a privacy law for the […]
Karl Bode

Daily Deal: Buldix Pro

3 years ago
Buldix is a powerful drag and drop website builder with no coding, that helps both non-techies to build their own websites and web developers to create online projects (websites/landing pages) for their clients in no time. Buldix comes with dozens of responsive pre-built templates, blocks, and elements that make building websites easy and fast for […]
Gretchen Heckmann

White House Launches Yet Another Task Force To Try To Curb Online Abuse; But So Far It Seems Extremely One-Sided

3 years ago
Apparently missing the entire controversy the White House faced just a few weeks ago regarding Homeland Security’s poorly explained Disinformation Governance Board (which has since been put on hold), the White House is trying yet again, with its new White House Task Force to Address Online Harassment and Abuse. At least this time, they didn’t […]
Mike Masnick

Roku, Netflix, Start Behaving More Like The Annoying Cable Giants They Once Disrupted

3 years ago
It’s always interesting to watch one-time disruptors shift toward turf protection, apparently remembering none of the annoyances that drove their passion for disruption (and ultimate success) in the first place. Once Netflix was as powerful as the telecom sector, it shifted its tone on issues like net neutrality. And as the now-dominant company has increasingly […]
Karl Bode

Appeals Court Tells Police Union Its Contract Doesn’t Supersede State Public Records Laws

3 years ago
Cops love secrecy. When a citizen does something wrong, it’s a public record. When cops do the wrong thing, union contracts, internal policies, and multiple public records exemptions often allow law enforcement agencies to keep the public from learning about misconduct. Things have been changing, though. California recently amended its public records law, making police […]
Tim Cushing