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1. The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing (www.techdirt.com)
   561 points by cf100clunk 25 days ago | 173 comments
2. The Government Told Courts It Could Easily Refund Tariffs. Now It Says It Can't (www.techdirt.com)
   119 points by cdrnsf 29 days ago | 42 comments
3. Turns out the DOGE bros who killed humanities grants are sensitive about it (www.techdirt.com)
   61 points by LaSombra 21 days ago | 10 comments
4. Sens Ask Gabbard to Tell Americans That VPN Use Subjects Them to Surveillance (www.techdirt.com)
   39 points by c420 3 days ago | 11 comments
5. People Cheering Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What Theyre Cheering For (www.techdirt.com)
   32 points by WarOnPrivacy 12 days ago | 9 comments
6. Iceland Foods Surrenders in Trademark Fight with Iceland, the Country (www.techdirt.com)
   20 points by Gaishan 30 days ago | 1 comments
7. Weeks After Denouncing Censorship, Zuckerberg Texted Musk to Remove DOGE Content (www.techdirt.com)
   15 points by tastyface 7 days ago | discuss
8. US Gov Investigators Found No EU Internet Censorship, and Ignored the Findings (www.techdirt.com)
   13 points by hn_acker 14 days ago | 4 comments
9. What Does the Viral Afroman Trial Have to Do with Section 230? (www.techdirt.com)
   10 points by hn_acker 15 days ago | 6 comments
10. Ninth Circuit Guts California's Kids Code Once Again (www.techdirt.com)
    6 points by hn_acker 25 days ago | discuss
11. If You're Going to Defend AI, You Should Be Honest About Its Actual Harms (www.techdirt.com)
    5 points by hn_acker 29 days ago | 2 comments
12. IRS System for Sharing Data Would Accept ‘Don’t Care 12345’ as Valid Address (www.techdirt.com)
    5 points by hn_acker 25 days ago | 1 comments
13. Hegseth's War on Anthropic Encounters the First Amendment (www.techdirt.com)
    5 points by cdrnsf 11 days ago | discuss
14. You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 (2020) (www.techdirt.com)
    5 points by kyledrake 13 days ago | discuss
15. AI Might Be Our Best Shot at Taking Back the Open Web (www.techdirt.com)
    4 points by speckx 13 days ago | 1 comments
16. David Zaslav Will Soon Get $550M for Disastrous Warner Bros Reign (www.techdirt.com)
    4 points by hn_acker 19 days ago | discuss
17. Chiles v. Salazar: The Supreme Court Issues a Bad Good First Amendment Decision (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by hn_acker 4 days ago | 1 comments
18. The EU Killed Voluntary CSAM Scanning. West Virginia Is Trying to Compel It (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by speckx 5 days ago | discuss
19. Copyright Industry Continues Its Efforts to Ban VPNs (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by duringmath 6 days ago | discuss
20. Ars Fires Reporter for Accidentally Using Fake AI Quotes (www.techdirt.com)
    2 points by umilegenio 27 days ago | 2 comments
21. Why Techdirt Is Now a Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It or Not) (www.techdirt.com)
    61 points by erentz about 1 year ago | 12 comments
22. Attacker Has Techdirt Reclassified as Phishing Site (www.techdirt.com)
    19 points by hn_acker over 1 year ago | 3 comments
23. There will be no mention of Amazon Prime today on Techdirt (bsky.app)
    7 points by hiddencost over 1 year ago | 1 comments
24. Support Techdirt's Uncompromising Coverage, Get Our First Commemorative Coin (www.techdirt.com)
    4 points by doener 4 months ago | 1 comments
25. Using AI to help write and edit Techdirt (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by nickwritesit almost 2 years ago | discuss
26. I Use AI to Help with Techdirt (and, No, It's Not Writing Articles) (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by bookofjoe almost 2 years ago | discuss
27. I Use AI to Help with Techdirt (and, No, It's Not Writing Articles) (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by speckx almost 2 years ago | discuss
28. Trying out Techdirt's 2025 game, One Billion Users (netwars.pelicancrossing.net)
    1 points by ColinWright 2 months ago | discuss
29. FTC Pushed to Crack Down on Companies That Ruin Hardware via Software Updates (www.techdirt.com)
    493 points by lg_rocket over 1 year ago | 218 comments
30. Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever (www.techdirt.com)
    488 points by chocmake over 1 year ago | 116 comments
31. 'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately (www.techdirt.com)
    372 points by speckx 5 months ago | 184 comments
32. Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments (www.techdirt.com)
    365 points by WarOnPrivacy almost 2 years ago | 220 comments
33. A Coup Is in Progress in America (www.techdirt.com)
    365 points by maximilianburke about 1 year ago | 170 comments
34. Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks (www.techdirt.com)
    340 points by speckx over 1 year ago | 159 comments
35. TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse (www.techdirt.com)
    320 points by lateforwork 4 months ago | 382 comments
36. Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S. (www.techdirt.com)
    299 points by rntn almost 2 years ago | 250 comments
37. Federal Court Says Dismantling a Phone to Install Firmware Isn't a 'Search' (www.techdirt.com)
    270 points by hn_acker over 1 year ago | 142 comments
38. FCC abandons efforts to make U.S. broadband fast and affordable (www.techdirt.com)
    262 points by CharlesW 8 months ago | 231 comments
39. Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN (www.techdirt.com)
    230 points by BallsInIt 8 months ago | 113 comments
40. ICE, CBP Knew Facial Recognition App Couldn't Do What DHS Says It Could (www.techdirt.com)
    230 points by cdrnsf about 2 months ago | 93 comments
41. Google's requirement for developers to be verified threatens app store F-Droid (www.techdirt.com)
    216 points by beardyw 6 months ago | 152 comments
42. DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?' (www.techdirt.com)
    191 points by hn_acker about 2 months ago | 50 comments
43. ARPA is funding cheap community-owned gigabit fiber to neglected neighborhoods (www.techdirt.com)
    172 points by hn_acker about 1 year ago | 116 comments
44. Training students to prove they're not robots is pushing them to use more AI (www.techdirt.com)
    162 points by PretzelFisch about 1 month ago | 175 comments
45. Trump's Police Are Now Disappearing Students for Their Op-Eds (www.techdirt.com)
    160 points by areoform about 1 year ago | 63 comments
46. NY Times gets 230 wrong again (www.techdirt.com)
    149 points by hn_acker over 1 year ago | 128 comments
47. FTC orders 'gun detection' tech maker Evolv to stop overstating effectiveness (www.techdirt.com)
    148 points by shakna over 1 year ago | 128 comments
48. Appeals court finds California’s “Age Appropriate Design Code” unconstitutional (www.techdirt.com)
    139 points by hn_acker over 1 year ago | 83 comments
49. ICE Arrested and Detained a US Citizen for Hours Because He Looked Mexican (www.techdirt.com)
    139 points by klipt about 1 year ago | 19 comments
50. The Wyden Siren: Senator's Cryptic CIA Letter Pattern Has Never Been Wrong (www.techdirt.com)
    124 points by hn_acker 2 months ago | 13 comments