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Daily Deal: The 2026 Complete Godot Stack Development Bundle

1 week 5 days ago
Dive into Godot – a rising star in the game engine world – with the 2026 Complete Godot Stack Development Bundle. You’ll learn to create platformers, RPGs, strategy games, FPS games, and more as you master this free and open-source engine with easily expandable systems. Plus, you’ll also explore techniques for game design and game […]
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Out Of Control RFK Jr. Fires Leaders Of Preventative Services Task Force

1 week 5 days ago
Alright, this is getting dire. In addition to all of the anti-vaxxer bullshit that has infected HHS thanks to RFK Jr.’s appointment to run the department, we have also made the point recently that an equally big problem is the talent drain occurring at HHS as well. Between the voluntary exits by smart people who […]
Timothy Geigner

Australian Teens Impacted By The Social Media Ban Are Getting Less News

1 week 5 days ago
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. In the months leading up to the implementation of Australia’s social media ban in December 2025, there was much discussion about the possible negative consequences. Among these were concerns that teenagers would consume less news. As most young adults use social media for news […]
Michael Dezuanni, Simon Chambers, and Tanya Notley

Telecom Industry Covertly Funds Sleazy Attacks On Community Broadband Efforts In Massachusetts

1 week 6 days ago
Like most of the U.S., Western Massachusetts towns and cities have spent decades dealing with expensive, spotty, and slow broadband from private telecom monopolies like Comcast and Verizon. As a result, a lot of these towns and cities have explored building their own community owned fiber networks. Community broadband has been increasingly popular since COVID, […]
Karl Bode

The California Primary And The Frustrating Absence Of Ranked Choice Voting

1 week 6 days ago
Even if you don’t live in California you’ve probably heard about the California primary coming up on June 2 (although early voting has already begun). In particular, you’ve probably heard about it because everyone and their brother has thrown their hat into the ring for governor, and, because it’s a “top-two” primary. Sometimes called a […]
Cathy Gellis

Daily Deal: The Academy of Game Art Bundle

1 week 6 days ago
The Academy of Game Art Bundle teaches you the basics of how to create video game art. You’ll learn how to use Inkscape to create logos, 2D backgrounds, pre-defined modules, UI designs, and characters. A course on using DragonBones will teach you how to animate your characters as well. The bundle is on sale for […]
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Brendan Carr Says He Wants Public Input On His Censorship Campaign Against ABC

1 week 6 days ago
As we’ve previously noted, Brendan Carr recently launched a series of phony inquiries into ABC because Jimmy Kimmel made fun of the president’s wife. Carr can’t just come out and say that, so he’s launched a series of fake (and legally laughable) “investigations” into the company. They’re all designed to scare ABC, and other big […]
Karl Bode

My Kid Vibe Coded Their Way To Actually Learning Math

1 week 6 days ago
I’ve spoken to enough teachers and professors to know that LLM tools are absolutely a challenge for many of them in the classroom. Many struggle with making sure they’re actually teaching students how to learn, worrying that the tools are doing the work for them, and skipping over the actual learning. Many are (understandably) resorting […]
Mike Masnick

‘The Worst Leak I’ve Witnessed’: A CISA Contractor Left AWS GovCloud Credentials Sitting In A Public GitHub Repo

2 weeks ago
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was one of the few genuinely good things Donald Trump was talked into doing during his first term. It was an agency within the Department of Homeland Security that was focused on coordination between the government and industry when there were larger cybersecurity threats that needed coordination to […]
Mike Masnick

Daily Deal: The Complete Arduino, Raspberry Pi & ESP32 Bundle

2 weeks ago
The Complete Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and ESP32 Bundle has 14 courses covering what you need to get started on building out your own smart home. After learning the basics, courses show you how to create a weather monitoring system, a smart home security system, a plant watering system, and more. Courses also cover getting familiar […]
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Super Meth Isn’t The Hero We Want, But It’s The Hero We Deserve

2 weeks ago
Our war on drugs began with a simple man with a simple plan. That plan was this: give the government more powers at the expense of civil rights, all under the “leadership” of soon-to-be-deposed president Richard Nixon and known drug enthusiast, Elvis Presley. While that summary is long on pithiness and short on detail, it’s […]
Tim Cushing

NPR Flubs Its Recovery From Brutal Republican Funding Attacks

2 weeks ago
NPR is imposing a new round of buyouts and layoffs as it tries to survive the brutal Trump GOP attacks on public broadcasting. According to NPR, it’s being forced to trim $8 million of its $300-million annual budget because of the illegal (for whatever that word is worth any more) Trump administration attacks on NPR, […]
Karl Bode

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

2 weeks 2 days ago
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Thad pushing back on some of our criticism about John Oliver’s AI chatbot segment and his call for regulation: Isn’t the logical conclusion of this argument that we shouldn’t have government regulations on vaccines or antidepressants? Like, you’re arguing that we shouldn’t put this […]
Leigh Beadon