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Currently following: Tim Bray, Simon Willison, Techdirt, Manton Reece and Cory Doctorow.
It's an extension of blogrolls.
More info: https://devs.feediverse.org/
Currently following: Tim Bray, Simon Willison, Techdirt, Manton Reece and Cory Doctorow.
It's an extension of blogrolls.
More info: https://devs.feediverse.org/
10 (Not So) Hidden Dangers of Age Verification.
10 (Not So) Hidden Dangers of Age Verification
It’s nearly the end of 2025, and half of the US and the UK now require you to upload your ID or scan your face to watch “sexual content.” A handful of states and …
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December 25, 2025 at 3:44 AM
10 (Not So) Hidden Dangers of Age Verification.
UK Law Enforcement Pushed Hard To Maintain Access To Deeply Flawed Facial Recognition Tech.
UK Law Enforcement Pushed Hard To Maintain Access To Deeply Flawed Facial Recognition Tech
While each iteration presents a chance to improve, there are some very real reasons why facial recognition tech will do a bit of stagnating. And that reason is the biggest market for this tech: law…
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December 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
UK Law Enforcement Pushed Hard To Maintain Access To Deeply Flawed Facial Recognition Tech.
LG Forces TV Owners To Use Microsoft ‘AI’ Copilot App You Can’t Uninstall And Nobody Asked For.
LG Forces TV Owners To Use Microsoft ‘AI’ Copilot App You Can’t Uninstall And Nobody Asked For
If your product is even a third as innovative and useful as you claim it is, you shouldn’t have to go around trying a little too hard to convince people. The product’s usefulness should…
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December 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
LG Forces TV Owners To Use Microsoft ‘AI’ Copilot App You Can’t Uninstall And Nobody Asked For.
Google Built Its Empire Scraping The Web. Now It’s Suing To Stop Others From Scraping Google.
Google Built Its Empire Scraping The Web. Now It’s Suing To Stop Others From Scraping Google
Last week, Google filed suit against SerpApi, a scraping company that helps businesses pull data from Google search results. The lawsuit claims SerpApi violated DMCA Section 1201 by circumventing G…
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December 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Google Built Its Empire Scraping The Web. Now It’s Suing To Stop Others From Scraping Google.
Larry Ellison Is Very Excited To Destroy What’s Left Of CNN, Sweetens The Pot For Hostile Warner Takeover.
Larry Ellison Is Very Excited To Destroy What’s Left Of CNN, Sweetens The Pot For Hostile Warner Takeover
We’ve noted how right wing billionaire Larry Ellison, as part of his attempt to control the entirety of media, had launched a $108 billion hostile takeover bid for Warner Brothers backed by Sa…
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December 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Larry Ellison Is Very Excited To Destroy What’s Left Of CNN, Sweetens The Pot For Hostile Warner Takeover.
40 Years Of Copyright Obstruction To Human Rights And Social Justice.
40 Years Of Copyright Obstruction To Human Rights And Social Justice
One of the little-known but extremely telling episodes in the history of modern copyright, discussed in Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available), concerns the Marrakesh T…
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December 24, 2025 at 4:10 AM
40 Years Of Copyright Obstruction To Human Rights And Social Justice.
Quoting Salvatore Sanfilippo. simonwillison.net
December 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Quoting Salvatore Sanfilippo. simonwillison.net
Trump Admin Reinvents US Digital Services Program After Elon Musk Fired All Their Actual Tech Experts.
Trump Admin Reinvents US Digital Services Program After Elon Musk Fired All Their Actual Tech Experts
Here’s a fun game the Trump administration keeps playing: destroy a successful government program, wait a few months, then breathlessly announce you’ve “invented” the exact …
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December 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Trump Admin Reinvents US Digital Services Program After Elon Musk Fired All Their Actual Tech Experts.
Kansas Resident Patrick Roach Successfully Sues Verizon For Refusing To Unlock His Phone (And Wins).
Kansas Resident Patrick Roach Successfully Sues Verizon For Refusing To Unlock His Phone (And Wins)
If you’ve been around a while, you might remember that Verizon used to be completely obnoxious when it came to forcing you to use their phones and their shitty apps. At one point, Verizon wou…
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December 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Kansas Resident Patrick Roach Successfully Sues Verizon For Refusing To Unlock His Phone (And Wins).
Administration: ASL Interpreters At Briefings Would Prevent Trump From ‘Controlling His Image’.
Administration: ASL Interpreters At Briefings Would Prevent Trump From ‘Controlling His Image’
Once again, this administration is demonstrating it has zero interest in serving the public. The administration acts together to serve a single person: Donald Trump. Anything that looks like it mig…
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December 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Administration: ASL Interpreters At Briefings Would Prevent Trump From ‘Controlling His Image’.
Daily Deal: The 2026 Generative AI And Coding Mastery Bundle.
Daily Deal: The 2026 Generative AI And Coding Mastery Bundle
Use the power of generative AI to your advantage and improve your coding skills with 66 hours of content on Java programming, Python, and data analysis in the 2026 Generative AI and Coding Mastery …
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December 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Daily Deal: The 2026 Generative AI And Coding Mastery Bundle.
Support Techdirt: Where Bari Weiss Is Not Our Editor In Chief.
Support Techdirt: Where Bari Weiss Is Not Our Editor In Chief
If you’re wondering what independent journalism that won’t bend to White House pressure looks like, you’re looking at it. On Sunday night, CBS News’ newly imported “ed…
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December 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Support Techdirt: Where Bari Weiss Is Not Our Editor In Chief.
FCC Boss Brendan Carr Bullied Bay Area AM Radio Station For Telling Locals The Truth.
FCC Boss Brendan Carr Bullied Bay Area AM Radio Station For Telling Locals The Truth
Brendan Carr was dragged before Congress last week for some light questioning about all the terrible, illegal bullshit he’s been up to. While the hearing mostly focused on FCC independence an…
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December 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
FCC Boss Brendan Carr Bullied Bay Area AM Radio Station For Telling Locals The Truth.
Cooking with Claude.
Cooking with Claude
I’ve been having an absurd amount of fun recently using LLMs for cooking. I started out using them for basic recipes, but as I’ve grown more confident in their culinary …
simonwillison.net
December 23, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Cooking with Claude.
Larian Studios The Latest To Face Backlash Over Use of AI To Make Games.
Larian Studios The Latest To Face Backlash Over Use of AI To Make Games
I guess I’m a masochist, so here we go. In my recent post about Let It Die: Inferno and the game developer’s fairly minimal use of AI and machine learning platforms, I attempted to make…
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December 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Larian Studios The Latest To Face Backlash Over Use of AI To Make Games.
The Shakedown: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers To “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism.
The Shakedown: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers To “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. On the morning of Thursday, July 31, James B. Milliken was enjoying a round …
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December 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The Shakedown: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers To “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism.
County Judge Convicted Of Obstruction For Helping Migrants Avoid An ICE Ambush.
County Judge Convicted Of Obstruction For Helping Migrants Avoid An ICE Ambush
You generally don’t see criminal charges filed against judges at any level of the court system. If it does happen, it’s used to address egregious and constant criminal activity by sitti…
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December 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
County Judge Convicted Of Obstruction For Helping Migrants Avoid An ICE Ambush.
Marsha Blackburn Bundles Every Bad Tech Bill Into One, Slaps Trump’s Name On It.
Marsha Blackburn Bundles Every Bad Tech Bill Into One, Slaps Trump’s Name On It
Fourteen years ago, right after the FCC issued its order on net neutrality, Marsha Blackburn flipped out and released a video talking (misleadingly!) about how wonderful Facebook and Twitter were a…
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December 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Marsha Blackburn Bundles Every Bad Tech Bill Into One, Slaps Trump’s Name On It.
Bari Weiss Shows Her True Colors, Kills A 60 Minutes Story Critical Of The President’s Concentration Camps.
Bari Weiss Shows Her True Colors, Kills A 60 Minutes Story Critical Of The President’s Concentration Camps
We’ve noted repeatedly how right wing billionaire Larry Ellison hired Bari Weiss to run CBS for a very obvious set of reasons: to coddle wealth and power, validate and amplify right wing grie…
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December 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Bari Weiss Shows Her True Colors, Kills A 60 Minutes Story Critical Of The President’s Concentration Camps.
DOJ Temporarily Deletes Trump Photo From Epstein Files, Ensuring Everyone Knew About The Deletion.
DOJ Temporarily Deletes Trump Photo From Epstein Files, Ensuring Everyone Knew About The Deletion
Imagine having all the power but none of the brains. That’s the current administration, the one that behaves like a blind, enraged bull set loose in its own china shop. “We can always g…
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December 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
DOJ Temporarily Deletes Trump Photo From Epstein Files, Ensuring Everyone Knew About The Deletion.
Using Claude in Chrome to navigate out the Cloudflare dashboard.
Using Claude in Chrome to navigate out the Cloudflare dashboard
I just had my first success using a browser agent - in this case the Claude in Chrome extension - to solve an actual problem. A while ago I set …
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December 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Using Claude in Chrome to navigate out the Cloudflare dashboard.
CEO David Zaslav Poised To Get $567 million (!) Payout For Screwing Up Warner Brothers.
CEO David Zaslav Poised To Get $567 million (!) Payout For Screwing Up Warner Brothers
I’ve written a lot about the AOL–>AT&T–>Time Warner–>Discovery mergers simply because I think they perfectly encapsulate the pointless, destructive incompetence at the heart of mo…
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December 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
CEO David Zaslav Poised To Get $567 million (!) Payout For Screwing Up Warner Brothers.
Quoting Shriram Krishnamurthi. simonwillison.net
December 21, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Quoting Shriram Krishnamurthi. simonwillison.net