Leigh Beadon 2021-07-24 15:00:00 www.techdirt.com from the as-before dept Five Years Ago This week in 2016, Cy Vance was still arguing for mandated encryption backdoors with an unconvincing legal argument, while Apple was snubbing John McCain's attempts to drag…
Tim Cushing 2021-07-23 22:39:00 www.techdirt.com from the looks-like-law-enforcement-will-have-to-do-some-actual-work-going-forward dept The state of Maine recently enacted the strictest facial recognition limitations in the country, prohibiting the use of the tech in most areas of the government and preventing state law…
Daily Deal 2021-07-23 13:50:58 www.techdirt.com from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept The Complete 2021 SQL Master Class Bundle has 7 courses focused on SQL to help you become an expert. SQL has been around for years and is used by many…
Daily Deal 2021-07-22 13:39:03 www.techdirt.com from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept The 2021 Complete All-in-One Adobe Creative Cloud Suite Course Bundle has 12 courses designed to teach you about video editing, animations, photography, design, and more. Courses cover popular Adobe products…
Mike Masnick 2021-07-22 13:44:03 www.techdirt.com from the slapp-suits dept Techdirt was recently sued in Florida by Larry Klayman for an article that we published concerning the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit suspending his license…
Daily Deal 2021-07-21 13:51:52 www.techdirt.com from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept CuriosityStream is the award-winning streaming and on-demand viewing destination where you can journey through our world and beyond. Its immersive experiences feature experts like David Attenborough, who will teach you…
John Bozzella 2021-07-21 04:56:58 www.techdirt.com from the patent-quality-week dept This post is one of a series of posts we're running this week in support of Patent Quality Week, exploring how better patent quality is key to stopping efforts that…
Tim Cushing 2021-07-20 22:45:13 www.techdirt.com from the how-high-were-you-when-you-wrote-your-report dept When cops are looking to perform warrantless searches, the only thing more useful than drug dogs is officers' own noses. The invocation of the phrase "smell of marijuana" magically dissipates…
Leigh Beadon 2021-07-20 16:30:00 www.techdirt.com from the promoting-good-patents dept Although it's taken a bit of a back seat lately, the topic of patents has long been important here at Techdirt. Now that we're in the first ever Patent Quality…
Daily Deal 2021-07-20 13:44:17 www.techdirt.com from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept The Modern Web Development and MySQL Programming Bundle has 5 courses to help you master popular programming languages. You'll learn PHP, MySQL, GitHub, Heroku, Blazor, .NET, and more. It's on…
Daily Deal 2021-07-19 13:45:41 www.techdirt.com from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept The How to Hack Bundle has 8 courses to teach you all about ethical hacking. You’ll learn how to diagnose different kinds of cybersecurity attacks and how to defeat them.…
Glyn Moody 2021-07-19 13:50:41 www.techdirt.com from the ma-foi dept France has long been in the vanguard of passing bad copyright laws. For example, it rushed to bring in probably the worst implementation of the EU Copyright Directive's upload filters.…
Mike Masnick 2021-07-16 12:32:59 www.techdirt.com from the florida-man-does-florida-man-things dept As you'll recall, Florida's social media bill was declared unconstitutional by a federal judge a couple weeks ago. The state has already moved to appeal that decision, so we'll have…
Daily Deal 2021-07-16 13:41:31 www.techdirt.com from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept Zulu Exero is a bone conduction headset that lets you experience truly personal out-of-ear audio. Using a light vibration in the headset as they rest around your ears, music is…
Glyn Moody 2021-07-16 13:46:31 www.techdirt.com from the out-of-their-tiny-minds dept One of the last hopes of getting the EU's terrible upload filters thrown out was an intriguing legal challenge brought by Poland at the region's highest court, the Court of…
Karl Bode 2021-07-16 08:58:48 www.techdirt.com from the keeping-the-bar-at-ankle-height dept The US has always had a fairly pathetic definition of "broadband." Originally defined as anything over 200 kbps in either direction, the definition was updated in 2010 to a pathetic…
Daily Deal 2021-07-15 13:52:02 www.techdirt.com from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept The The Professional Microsoft Excel Training Bundle has 8 courses designed to help you become a data crunching pro. You'll learn the basics of designing a spreadsheet, creating charts and…
Mike Masnick 2021-07-15 13:57:35 www.techdirt.com from the bingo dept The Washington Examiner is popular among conservatives, so it's good to see them publish a wonderful article by Hannah Cox completely dismantling the various arguments made by so many Republicans…
Mike Masnick 2021-07-15 17:06:51 www.techdirt.com from the be-careful-what-you-wish-for dept We warned that this was likely back when Google announced plans to phase out third-party cookies in Chrome (something all the other major browser makers had already done): that this…
Tim Cushing 2021-07-15 15:17:19 www.techdirt.com from the ambulance-drivers-can't-be-ambulance-chasers dept A decision that created a chilling effect on protected First Amendment activity is headed to yet another court to get the details sorted out. It's been more than four years…
Tim Cushing 2021-07-15 12:52:37 www.techdirt.com from the [headed-to-the-ER-to-get-my-third-degree-stupid-burns-treated] dept Grandstands and bandwagons: that's what's headed to Social Media Town. Professional victims -- far too many of them earning public money -- have produced a steady stream of stupid legislation…
Karl Bode 2021-07-15 09:35:33 www.techdirt.com from the pay-me-more-to-avoid-my-nonsense dept For years, US wireless carriers have had a... somewhat nebulous relationship with the dictionary definition of "unlimited." As in, for the better part of two decades they've sold wireless data…
Copia Institute 2021-07-14 18:48:01 www.techdirt.com from the content-moderation-in-new-areas dept Summary: Since its debut in 2007, Twitter hasn't changed much about its formula, except for expanding its character limit from 140 to 280 in 2007 and adding useful features such…
Mike Masnick 2021-07-14 16:43:01 www.techdirt.com from the this-is-important dept I know that the internet is taking quite a beating these days, but we should not forget the promise of the internet, and how it can be used for important…
Daily Deal 2021-07-14 13:36:00 www.techdirt.com from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept The Complete 2020 Learn Linux Bundle has 12 courses to help you learn Linux OS concepts and processes. You'll start with an introduction to Linux and progress to more advanced…
Mike Masnick 2021-07-13 16:40:43 www.techdirt.com from the fiscal-conservative? dept Last month, a federal judge easily declared Florida's social media law (complete with its Disney-inspired theme park exemption) as unconstitutional. It wasn't a hard call. Florida had tossed out a…
Mike Masnick 2021-07-13 12:32:00 www.techdirt.com from the congress-made-companies-free-not-to-do-anything-to-encourage-censorship? dept As you know, last week Donald Trump sued Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube in ridiculously dumb cases (which seemed to only really serve the purpose of continuing his culture grievance war…
Tim Cushing 2021-07-13 13:44:00 www.techdirt.com from the retooling-the-tools-of-the-trade dept Now that it's been revealed the FBI -- along with an unnamed conspirator linked to encrypted phone development -- created a honeypot device to harvest communications between suspected criminals, the…
Karl Bode 2021-07-12 18:50:20 www.techdirt.com from the do-not-pass-go,-do-not-collect-$200 dept While most folks didn't notice ahead of the holiday weekend, the FTC on Friday announced it would be giving chipmaker Broadcom a bit of a wrist slap after the agency…
Daily Deal 2021-07-12 13:48:26 www.techdirt.com from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept Experience next-level browsing convenience even when you're on the move with this refurbished Apple iPad Air 2. This supremely thin tablet sports a 16GB capacity, letting you download your favorite…
Leigh Beadon 2021-07-10 15:35:00 www.techdirt.com from the what-was dept Five Years Ago This week in 2016, transparency was under attack on many fronts. A North Carolina legislator who was a former police chief pushed through legislation to keep body…
Timothy Geigner 2021-07-09 22:39:00 www.techdirt.com from the this-is-gonna-suck dept Advertising in the digital age is always something of a tricky subject. On the one hand, we have made the point for years that advertising is content and content is…
Daily Deal 2021-07-09 13:36:34 www.techdirt.com from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept The 2021 All-In-One AWS, Cisco, and CompTIA Super Bundle has 22 courses and over 240 hours of content to help you prepare to sit for various IT certification exams from…
