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		Google Built Its Empire Scraping the Web. Now It's Suing a Scraper of Google (techdirt.com)
		24 points by hn_acker 1 day ago \| past \| 4 comments
		Trump Admin Reinvents US Digital Services Program After Elon Musk Fired Experts (techdirt.com)
		7 points by beardyw 1 day ago \| past \| 1 comment
		Patrick Roach Sues Verizon for Refusing to Unlock His Phone (and Wins) (techdirt.com)
		3 points by speckx 2 days ago \| past \| discuss
		Senators Want to Hold Open Internet Hostage, Demand Meta Write the Ransom Note (techdirt.com)
		10 points by hn_acker 6 days ago \| past \| 2 comments
		TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse (techdirt.com)
		320 points by lateforwork 6 days ago \| past \| 381 comments
		When the Internet Grew Up – and Locked Out Its Kids (techdirt.com)
		3 points by hn_acker 7 days ago \| past \| discuss
		Literal Enshittification: 'Smart' Toilets Play Fast and Loose with Pooping Data (techdirt.com)
		7 points by cf100clunk 10 days ago \| past \| 3 comments
		Australia's social media ban was pushed by ad agency focused on gambling ads (techdirt.com)
		98 points by hn_acker 10 days ago \| past \| 23 comments
		Trump Pretends to Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That's Legal (techdirt.com)
		16 points by beardyw 12 days ago \| past \| discuss
		ChatGPT Is Helping Federal Officers Misrepresent Confrontations With Protesters (techdirt.com)
		8 points by mdhb 14 days ago \| past
		How ICE's Plan to Monitor Social Media Threatens Privacy and Civic Participation (techdirt.com)
		7 points by beardyw 15 days ago \| past
		Netflix Makes Itself Less Useful, Removes Casting with No Explanation (techdirt.com)
		4 points by beardyw 17 days ago \| past \| 2 comments
		John Oliver Auction Raises $1.5M for Public Broadcasting (techdirt.com)
		5 points by thunderbong 19 days ago \| past
		Radicalized Anti-AI Activist Should Be a Wake Up Call for Doomer Rhetoric (techdirt.com)
		4 points by artninja1988 20 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
		John Oliver Auction Raises $1.5M for Public Broadcasting (techdirt.com)
		3 points by cf100clunk 20 days ago \| past
		CJEU has made it effectively impossible to run a user-generated platform legally (techdirt.com)
		122 points by alsetmusic 21 days ago \| past \| 61 comments
		The 'Trump Phone' Is an Unsurprising No Show Months After Promised Launch Date (techdirt.com)
		8 points by speckx 21 days ago \| past
		Support Techdirt's Uncompromising Coverage, Get Our First Commemorative Coin (techdirt.com)
		4 points by doener 22 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
		Our Founders Would Abhor What the USPTO Is Doing with the Patent System (techdirt.com)
		3 points by hn_acker 23 days ago \| past
		Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs–and They Have No Idea What They're Doing (techdirt.com)
		101 points by speckx 24 days ago \| past \| 24 comments
		Larry Ellison Met with Trump to Discuss Which CNN Reporters They Plan to Fire (techdirt.com)
		26 points by throw0101a 30 days ago \| past \| 3 comments
		Age Verification, Estimation, Assurance, Oh My a Guide to the Terminology (techdirt.com)
		4 points by speckx 30 days ago \| past
		Defense Contractor Lobbyists Are Trying to Kill Army 'Right to Repair' Reforms (techdirt.com)
		11 points by speckx 34 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
		The TikTok 'Ban' Continues to Be One of the Biggest Turds in Tech Policy History (techdirt.com)
		3 points by hn_acker 35 days ago \| past
		Book Reports Potentially Copyright Infringing, Thanks to Court Attacks on LLMs (techdirt.com)
		11 points by speckx 37 days ago \| past
		Federal Judges Frees 300 Chicago-Area Detainees. ICE Violated a Consent Decree (techdirt.com)
		10 points by speckx 38 days ago \| past
		'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately (techdirt.com)
		372 points by speckx 41 days ago \| past \| 184 comments
		Judge Orders OpenAI to Give Lawyers 20M Private Chats – 'Anonymization' (techdirt.com)
		49 points by heisenbit 42 days ago \| past \| 11 comments
		CyberGhost DMCAs Our Story About Their Bogus DMCA (Yes, Really) (techdirt.com)
		7 points by hn_acker 48 days ago \| past
		Whoops: 'Smart' Vacuum May Be Broadcasting a 3D Map of Your Home (techdirt.com)
		3 points by speckx 49 days ago \| past
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