Ctrl-Alt-Speech: School Of Hard Blocks
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,…
Personalized pricing is “abhorrent,” but FTC limits may increase costs, critics say
Some Americans worry that the Federal Trade Commission’s rush to limit personalized pricing in the name of consumer protection could end up killing discounts they depend on or, counterintuitively, raising…
Fighter jets help destroy Russian drone boat near European offshore gas platform
This week, Romania accused Russia of sending a drone boat loaded with explosives to a vital European natural gas platform in the Black Sea. A Romanian F-16 fighter jet used…
Chinese regulators tell Tesla to fix nearly 3 million cars
Tesla is facing a massive recall in China today. Chinese regulators are taking a stricter approach to safety, and the automaker now has to add warning labels to 2.98 million…
Zero Knowledge Proofs Aren’t Age Verification Silver Bullets
Age verification (laws and regulations requiring platforms and websites to assure or estimate that a user seeking to use an online service is of a certain age) is everywhere. At…
Daily Deal: Plantum Plant Identifier (iOS only)
The Plantum app is a digital tool that helps to identify plants, diagnose plant diseases, and improve plant care. The app can identify over 40,000 plant species, assess their health,…
Android Car Malware Spreads Through Built-In Updaters for Ad Fraud, Proxy Botnet
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware family that’s specifically designed to infect Android-based vehicle head unit firmware developed by DoFun. Kaspersky, which discovered the threat in June 2026, said…
Microsoft Defender’s Own Driver Can Be Weaponized to Delete Security Software at Boot
Check Point Research has disclosed a technique that uses Microsoft Defender’s own legitimately signed boot-time remediation driver to perform arbitrary kernel-level file and registry operations on Windows systems ranging from…
CBP Officers And Contractors Abused Government Databases To Stalk Their Exes
This news will come as no surprise to anyone. Those who have been following police misconduct revelations for years have seen this happen time and time and time and time…
Waymo doubles spending on lobbying in robotaxi battle with Uber
Waymo has sharply increased its lobbying spending as it seeks to persuade US regulators to clear a path for fully autonomous taxi services, intensifying its battle with rival Uber over…