Gun Detection Tech Fails To Detect Gun, Prevent School Shooting
There are lots of things we could be doing to limit school shootings. But none of those have been tried because most people, lobbyists, and politicians continue to believe issuing…
The Trump FCC Makes It Easier For Your Landlord And Your ISP To Collude To Rip You Off
To be clear: if there’s a policy decision to be made between the consumer interest and big giant shitty telecom monopolies, the Trump FCC is going to always side with…
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: This Episode Has Masculine Energy
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,…
M. Night Shyamalan, Apple Evade Copyright Lawsuit By Filmmaker For The Most Obvious Of Reasons
So it appears we haven’t covered this up to the present, but back in 2020 Francesca Gregorini sued Apple and M. Night Shyamalan for copyright infringement. At issue was a…
For the first time, a privately developed aircraft has flown faster than sound
High above a barren California desert on Tuesday, a privately developed aircraft broke the sound barrier for the first time when Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator reached Mach 1.122. Piloted by…
States say they’ve been shut out of Medicaid amid Trump funding freeze
Amid the Trump administration’s abrupt, wide-scale freeze on federal funding, states are reporting that they’ve lost access to Medicaid, a program jointly funded by the federal government and states to…
Senator Ted Cruz is trying to block Wi-Fi hotspots for schoolchildren
US Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is trying to block a plan to distribute Wi-Fi hotspots to schoolchildren, claiming it will lead to unsupervised Internet usage, endanger kids, and possibly restrict…
Apple chips can be hacked to leak secrets from Gmail, iCloud, and more
Apple-designed chips powering Macs, iPhones, and iPads contain two newly discovered vulnerabilities that leak credit card information, locations, and other sensitive data from the Chrome and Safari browsers as they…
AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
Last summer, Anthropic inspired backlash when its ClaudeBot AI crawler was accused of hammering websites a million or more times a day. And it wasn’t the only artificial intelligence company…
Nunes’s SLAPP Suit Over Forgotten Esquire Farm Story Crashes (Again)
You may recall a few years back that then Rep. Devin Nunes went on a SLAPPtastic suing spree, filing a bunch of highly questionable defamation lawsuits against a variety of…