Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Zuck And Cover
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts,…
Public health emergency declared amid LA’s devastating wildfires
The US health department on Friday declared a public health emergency for California in response to devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area that have so far killed 10 people…
Liz Truss, Who Accused Earlier PM Of ‘Crashing’ Economy, Threatens To Sue Current PM For Saying She Crashed The Economy
In a twist that highlights the absurdity of UK libel laws, former Prime Minister Liz Truss is threatening to sue current PM Keir Starmer for saying she “crashed the economy”…
Strange, unique, and otherwise noteworthy PCs and PC accessories from CES 2025
The Consumer Electronics Show is a reliable source of announcements about iterative updates to PCs and PC components. A few of those announcements are significant enough in some way that…
Meta kills diversity programs, claiming DEI has become “too charged”
Meta has reportedly ended diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs that influenced staff hiring and training, as well as vendor decisions, effective immediately. According to an internal memo viewed by…
AI could create 78 million more jobs than it eliminates by 2030—report
On Wednesday, the World Economic Forum (WEF) released its Future of Jobs Report 2025, with CNN immediately highlighting the finding that 40 percent of companies plan workforce reductions due to…
Everyone agrees: 2024 the hottest year since the thermometer was invented
Over the last 24 hours or so, the major organizations that keep track of global temperatures have released figures for 2024, and all of them agree: 2024 was the warmest…
Judge ends man’s 11-year quest to dig up landfill and recover $765M in bitcoin
A British judge ruled against a man who wants to excavate a landfill where he says a hard drive with access to thousands of bitcoins was mistakenly dumped over 11…
Man turns irreversibly gray from an unidentified silver exposure
When an 84-year-old man in Hong Kong was admitted to a hospital for a condition related to an enlarged prostate, doctors noticed something else about him—he was oddly gray, according…
German router maker is latest company to inadvertently clarify the LGPL license
The GNU General Public License (GPL) and its “Lesser” version (LGPL) are widely known and used. Still, every so often, a networking hardware maker has to get sued to make…