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1. CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs (www.techdirt.com)
   844 points by speckx 27 days ago | 309 comments
2. The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy (www.techdirt.com)
   132 points by hn_acker 20 days ago | 148 comments
3. Trump Surrenders to Iran on Virtually Every Point (www.techdirt.com)
   79 points by speckx 18 days ago | 11 comments
4. Apparently the Real Reason Anthropic's Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Grudge (www.techdirt.com)
   20 points by cdrnsf 20 days ago | 1 comments
5. Stop Killing Games Pivots to Amending Digital Fairness Act in EU After Loss (www.techdirt.com)
   17 points by beardyw 11 days ago | 2 comments
6. The EU Wants to Grow Homegrown Tech. Its Courts Keep Making That Impossible (www.techdirt.com)
   15 points by beardyw 10 days ago | 1 comments
7. The Reason Anthropic's Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge (www.techdirt.com)
   13 points by ndesaulniers 19 days ago | discuss
8. Beneath the Enshittification, Something Is Growing (www.techdirt.com)
   12 points by doener 21 days ago | discuss
9. ICE Officers Break Cameras. Cops Steal Them. Welcome to New Jersey (www.techdirt.com)
   12 points by hn_acker 25 days ago | discuss
10. Michigan Lawmakers Want to Ban Chinese-Tagged Cars from Even Visiting the State (www.techdirt.com)
    10 points by hn_acker 23 days ago | 3 comments
11. Meta's AI 'Perv Glasses' Now Come with Stupid Comcast-Esque Usage Restrictions (www.techdirt.com)
    7 points by beardyw about 12 hours ago | 2 comments
12. Beneath The Enshittification, Something Amazing Is Growing (www.techdirt.com)
    6 points by hn_acker 26 days ago | discuss
13. Ncose lawyers' corrected brief had more fake cases (www.techdirt.com)
    4 points by logickkk1 6 days ago | discuss
14. Illinois' Social Media Tax Is a Modern Stamp Act – and Just as Doomed (www.techdirt.com)
    3 points by hn_acker 13 days ago | 2 comments
15. Technical Dimensions of Programming Systems (tomasp.net)
    3 points by tosh 19 days ago | discuss
16. Why Techdirt Is Now a Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It or Not) (www.techdirt.com)
    61 points by erentz over 1 year ago | 12 comments
17. Attacker Has Techdirt Reclassified as Phishing Site (www.techdirt.com)
    19 points by hn_acker over 1 year ago | 3 comments
18. There will be no mention of Amazon Prime today on Techdirt (bsky.app)
    7 points by hiddencost almost 2 years ago | 1 comments
19. Support Techdirt's Uncompromising Coverage, Get Our First Commemorative Coin (www.techdirt.com)
    4 points by doener 7 months ago | 1 comments
20. Trying out Techdirt's 2025 game, One Billion Users (netwars.pelicancrossing.net)
    1 points by ColinWright 5 months ago | discuss
21. Ask HN: Will we ever do something about patent trolls?
    2 points by giancarlostoro 3 months ago | 8 comments
22. The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing (www.techdirt.com)
    561 points by cf100clunk 4 months ago | 173 comments
23. FTC Pushed to Crack Down on Companies That Ruin Hardware via Software Updates (www.techdirt.com)
    493 points by lg_rocket almost 2 years ago | 218 comments
24. Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever (www.techdirt.com)
    488 points by chocmake over 1 year ago | 116 comments
25. 'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately (www.techdirt.com)
    372 points by speckx 8 months ago | 184 comments
26. A Coup Is in Progress in America (www.techdirt.com)
    365 points by maximilianburke over 1 year ago | 170 comments
27. Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks (www.techdirt.com)
    340 points by speckx over 1 year ago | 159 comments
28. TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse (www.techdirt.com)
    320 points by lateforwork 7 months ago | 382 comments
29. 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
30. FCC abandons efforts to make U.S. broadband fast and affordable (www.techdirt.com)
    262 points by CharlesW 11 months ago | 231 comments
31. Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN (www.techdirt.com)
    230 points by BallsInIt 11 months ago | 113 comments
32. ICE, CBP Knew Facial Recognition App Couldn't Do What DHS Says It Could (www.techdirt.com)
    230 points by cdrnsf 5 months ago | 93 comments
33. Google's requirement for developers to be verified threatens app store F-Droid (www.techdirt.com)
    216 points by beardyw 9 months ago | 152 comments
34. DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?' (www.techdirt.com)
    191 points by hn_acker 5 months ago | 50 comments
35. ARPA is funding cheap community-owned gigabit fiber to neglected neighborhoods (www.techdirt.com)
    172 points by hn_acker over 1 year ago | 116 comments
36. Training students to prove they're not robots is pushing them to use more AI (www.techdirt.com)
    162 points by PretzelFisch 4 months ago | 175 comments
37. Trump's Police Are Now Disappearing Students for Their Op-Eds (www.techdirt.com)
    160 points by areoform over 1 year ago | 63 comments
38. NY Times gets 230 wrong again (www.techdirt.com)
    149 points by hn_acker over 1 year ago | 128 comments
39. FTC orders 'gun detection' tech maker Evolv to stop overstating effectiveness (www.techdirt.com)
    148 points by shakna over 1 year ago | 128 comments
40. Appeals court finds California’s “Age Appropriate Design Code” unconstitutional (www.techdirt.com)
    139 points by hn_acker almost 2 years ago | 83 comments
41. ICE Arrested and Detained a US Citizen for Hours Because He Looked Mexican (www.techdirt.com)
    139 points by klipt over 1 year ago | 19 comments
42. The Wyden Siren: Senator's Cryptic CIA Letter Pattern Has Never Been Wrong (www.techdirt.com)
    124 points by hn_acker 5 months ago | 13 comments
43. CJEU has made it effectively impossible to run a user-generated platform legally (www.techdirt.com)
    122 points by alsetmusic 7 months ago | 61 comments
44. The Government Told Courts It Could Easily Refund Tariffs. Now It Says It Can't (www.techdirt.com)
    119 points by cdrnsf 4 months ago | 42 comments
45. LA Times Flips Anti-RFK Jr. Op-Ed into Pro-Kennedy Propaganda (www.techdirt.com)
    115 points by hn_acker over 1 year ago | 12 comments