New Russian Law Will Criminalize Internet Searches For ‘Extremist Content’
It should be uncontroversial at this point to say that the Russian government has waged a long but incremental war on both free speech and a free and open internet.…
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Live At TrustCon 2025
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,…
Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes
New types of AI coding assistants promise to let anyone build software by typing commands in plain English. But when these tools generate incorrect internal representations of what’s happening on…
Trump, who promised to save TikTok, threatens to shut down TikTok
Donald Trump vowed to save TikTok before taking office, claiming only he could make a deal to keep the app operational in the US despite national security concerns. But then,…
Google’s new “Web Guide” will use AI to organize your search results
Search is changing at a breakneck pace, with Google rolling out new AI features so quickly it can be hard to keep up. So far, these AI implementations are being…
Hackers—hope to defect to Russia? Don’t Google “defecting to Russia.”
To the casual observer, cybercriminals can look like swashbuckling geniuses. They possess technical skills formidable enough to penetrate the networks of the biggest companies on the planet. They cover their…
Nvidia AI chips worth $1B smuggled to China after Trump export controls
At least $1 billion worth of Nvidia’s advanced artificial intelligence processors were shipped to China in the three months after Donald Trump tightened chip export controls, exposing the limits of…
Trump’s order to make chatbots anti-woke is unconstitutional, senator says
The CEOs of every major artificial intelligence company received letters Wednesday urging them to fight Donald Trump’s anti-woke AI order. Trump’s executive order requires any AI company hoping to contract…
You Shouldn’t Have To Make Your Social Media Public To Get A Visa
The Trump administration is continuing its dangerous push to surveil and suppress foreign students’ social media activity. The State Department recently announced an unprecedented new requirement that applicants for student…
RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine group sues him: “This is not the Bobby we know”
A lawyer who represents Children’s Health Defense—the rabid anti-vaccine organization founded by the equally fervent anti-vaccine advocate and current US health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—has filed a lawsuit against…