Using Trust & Safety Tycoon In The Classroom
Early in the media law and ethics course I teach, as I shift gears from the ethics section to the law and core free speech issues, I try to build…
Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand
Nowhere is the US data center boom bigger than in Texas. But less than a year after declaring Texas the “epicenter of AI development,” Governor Greg Abbott has declared a…
The Antifa Terrorism Threat Trump Describes Does Not Exist
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The State Department on July 16, 2026, hosted what officials billed as a ministerial…
Trump admin “aware” of deaths in explosive diarrhea outbreak, delays reporting
Two people have died amid the ongoing record-breaking outbreak of explosive diarrhea from the foodborne parasite Cyclospora, Michigan health officials announced Monday. Cyclosporiasis fatalities are extremely rare, and despite the…
Tom DeLay helped create TV ownership cap—he says Trump FCC has no authority to repeal it
Tom DeLay, the Texas Republican who was House majority leader from 2003 to 2005, said the Federal Communications Commission has no legal authority to repeal the National Television Ownership Rule.…
The Pixel 11’s “glow” feature is actually called HiLight—here’s what it does
Google will reveal the Pixel 11 series later this month, but leaks and teasers so far have painted a picture of phones that have barely changed since last year. One…
China is Tesla’s cash cow, but for how much longer?
Tesla’s factory in Shanghai had its best June ever, according to the China Passenger Car Association. Tesla built 93,579 cars in China that month, a hefty 38 percent increase compared…
Greatness PhaaS Adds Device Code Phishing to Bypass MFA and Steal Tokens
The commercial phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) toolkit known as Greatness has become the latest crimeware solution to add support for device code phishing, a rapidly growing cyber threat that abuses the legitimate…
eBay And Former Execs Agree To Pay $56 Million For Trying To ‘Crush’ A Journalist
For much of Techdirt’s nearly three decades in existence we’ve covered attacks on the media by the rich and powerful. And sometimes we’ve been on the receiving end of such…
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