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1. Court to DOGE: Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?' Is Not Proper Legal Process (www.techdirt.com)
   99 points by hn_acker 14 days ago | 19 comments
2. Palantir Workers Are Finally Noticing the Skulls on Their Caps (www.techdirt.com)
   48 points by throawayonthe 21 days ago | 16 comments
3. Amazon Gets Exemption from Trump FCC Router (Extortion) Ban, Doesn't Say How (www.techdirt.com)
   34 points by speckx 24 days ago | 6 comments
4. To the Surprise of No One, Cops Are Using ALPR Cameras to Stalk Their Exes (www.techdirt.com)
   33 points by cdrnsf 15 days ago | 1 comments
5. Trump Sued Himself and Walked Away with a $100M Tax Debt Erased (www.techdirt.com)
   24 points by latexr 2 days ago | discuss
6. OpenAI's KOSA Endorsement Is Regulatory Capture with a Smiley Face (www.techdirt.com)
   15 points by repelsteeltje 7 days ago | discuss
7. Tech Lobbyists Hard at Work Undermining Proposed Alaska 'Right to Repair' Law (www.techdirt.com)
   13 points by hn_acker 24 days ago | 1 comments
8. Trump's AI Oversight Plan Is Everything VCs Claimed to Hate About Biden's Plan (www.techdirt.com)
   13 points by speckx 17 days ago | discuss
9. FCC Uses False Claims of Immigrant Fraud to Drive Up Broadband Cost for Everyone (www.techdirt.com)
   12 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 1 comments
10. The Open Social Web Needs Section 230 to Survive (www.techdirt.com)
    12 points by HotGarbage 18 days ago | 1 comments
11. If December Was Too Late to Fix Unconstitutional Gerrymandering Why Is May Okay? (www.techdirt.com)
    11 points by hn_acker 15 days ago | 2 comments
12. Migrant Deaths Hit Record High Under Trump 2.0 (www.techdirt.com)
    10 points by speckx 22 days ago | discuss
13. Why the US Can't Adopt Ukraine's Innovative Approach to Unmanned Warfare Systems (www.techdirt.com)
    8 points by beardyw 6 days ago | discuss
14. Good News If You Have a Sony TV and Were Hoping It Would Become Less Useful (www.techdirt.com)
    7 points by cf100clunk 25 days ago | discuss
15. France Keeps Breaking the Internet to Stop Piracy, Even Though It's Not Working (www.techdirt.com)
    7 points by hn_acker 29 days ago | discuss
16. Tech Companies Fail to Kill Colorado's 'Right to Repair' Law (www.techdirt.com)
    6 points by cdrnsf 11 days ago | discuss
17. Copyright Office Rejected My Attempt to Copyright a Tweet (www.techdirt.com)
    5 points by danhite 3 days ago | 2 comments
18. We Need a More Serious Discussion About Suicide and AI Chatbots (www.techdirt.com)
    5 points by cdrnsf 4 days ago | discuss
19. Leading Charity Stops Funding Open Access Publishing Because It's Not Working (www.techdirt.com)
    4 points by dangle1 23 days ago | discuss
20. In the Vacuum of AI Legislation, Libraries Have the Playbook (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by hn_acker 10 days ago | discuss
21. The Open Social Web Needs Section 230 to Survive (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by benwerd 17 days ago | discuss
22. France Keeps Breaking the Internet to Stop Piracy, Even Though It's Not Working (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by HotGarbage 28 days ago | discuss
23. Hey Platforms: Add Take It Down to Your Transparency Reports (www.techdirt.com)
    2 points by hn_acker 3 days ago | discuss
24. Technical Dimensions of Programming Systems (tomasp.net)
    2 points by tosh 12 days ago | discuss
25. 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
26. Attacker Has Techdirt Reclassified as Phishing Site (www.techdirt.com)
    19 points by hn_acker over 1 year ago | 3 comments
27. There will be no mention of Amazon Prime today on Techdirt (bsky.app)
    7 points by hiddencost almost 2 years ago | 1 comments
28. Support Techdirt's Uncompromising Coverage, Get Our First Commemorative Coin (www.techdirt.com)
    4 points by doener 6 months ago | 1 comments
29. Using AI to help write and edit Techdirt (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by nickwritesit almost 2 years ago | discuss
30. Trying out Techdirt's 2025 game, One Billion Users (netwars.pelicancrossing.net)
    1 points by ColinWright 4 months ago | discuss
31. Ask HN: Will we ever do something about patent trolls?
    2 points by giancarlostoro about 1 month ago | 8 comments
32. The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing (www.techdirt.com)
    561 points by cf100clunk 2 months ago | 173 comments
33. 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
34. Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever (www.techdirt.com)
    488 points by chocmake over 1 year ago | 116 comments
35. 'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately (www.techdirt.com)
    372 points by speckx 6 months ago | 184 comments
36. A Coup Is in Progress in America (www.techdirt.com)
    365 points by maximilianburke over 1 year ago | 170 comments
37. Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks (www.techdirt.com)
    340 points by speckx over 1 year ago | 159 comments
38. TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse (www.techdirt.com)
    320 points by lateforwork 5 months ago | 382 comments
39. 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
40. FCC abandons efforts to make U.S. broadband fast and affordable (www.techdirt.com)
    262 points by CharlesW 10 months ago | 231 comments
41. Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN (www.techdirt.com)
    230 points by BallsInIt 9 months ago | 113 comments
42. ICE, CBP Knew Facial Recognition App Couldn't Do What DHS Says It Could (www.techdirt.com)
    230 points by cdrnsf 3 months ago | 93 comments
43. Google's requirement for developers to be verified threatens app store F-Droid (www.techdirt.com)
    216 points by beardyw 8 months ago | 152 comments
44. DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?' (www.techdirt.com)
    191 points by hn_acker 3 months ago | 50 comments
45. 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
46. Training students to prove they're not robots is pushing them to use more AI (www.techdirt.com)
    162 points by PretzelFisch 3 months ago | 175 comments
47. Trump's Police Are Now Disappearing Students for Their Op-Eds (www.techdirt.com)
    160 points by areoform about 1 year ago | 63 comments
48. NY Times gets 230 wrong again (www.techdirt.com)
    149 points by hn_acker over 1 year ago | 128 comments
49. FTC orders 'gun detection' tech maker Evolv to stop overstating effectiveness (www.techdirt.com)
    148 points by shakna over 1 year ago | 128 comments
50. Appeals court finds California’s “Age Appropriate Design Code” unconstitutional (www.techdirt.com)
    139 points by hn_acker almost 2 years ago | 83 comments
51. 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
52. The Wyden Siren: Senator's Cryptic CIA Letter Pattern Has Never Been Wrong (www.techdirt.com)
    124 points by hn_acker 4 months ago | 13 comments
53. CJEU has made it effectively impossible to run a user-generated platform legally (www.techdirt.com)
    122 points by alsetmusic 6 months ago | 61 comments
54. The Government Told Courts It Could Easily Refund Tariffs. Now It Says It Can't (www.techdirt.com)
    119 points by cdrnsf 2 months ago | 42 comments