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Police In Guinea-Bissau Raid Offices Of Danish Anti-Vaxxers Planning CDC-Funded Unethical Study
Published: October 24, 2026 02:39
In all of our coverage of the disastrous tenure RFK Jr. has had as Secretary of HHS, we have not yet discussed a bonkers study the CDC planned to fund in Guinea-Bissau. This hepatitis B āvaccine trialā was supposed to already have been kicked off, but itā¦
How Trumpās FBI Purge Saved Lindsey Graham And James Clyburn From A Bribery Investigation
Published: October 23, 2026 22:11
This story wasĀ originally publishedĀ by ProPublica.Ā Republished under aĀ CC BY-NC-ND 3.0Ā license. On March 3, 2020, Sen. Lindsey Graham walked into a private dining room at Charlie Palmer Steak in Washington, D.C. Grahamās time was expensive. He was meetingā¦
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Meta Had A Lotta Scams, Lotta Scams, Lotta Scams
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/23/ctrl-alt-speech-meta-had-a-lotta-scams-lotta-scams-lotta-scams/
Published: October 23, 2026 20:10
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderationās Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice ā or goā¦
OPM Barely Bothered Defending DOGEās Access To Federal Employee Data. Court Rules It Was Illegal.
Published: October 23, 2026 18:06
Remember back when Elon Musk was handed the keys of our federal government with basically zero accountability or oversight? All sorts of bad stuff happened, but one of the lawsuits weāve been covering was the American Federation of Govāt Employees (AFGE)ā¦
Daily Deal: MOGICS Power Bagel Travel Power Strip
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/23/daily-deal-mogics-power-bagel-travel-power-strip-2/
Published: October 23, 2026 18:01
The MOGICS Bagel has 5 international AC sockets, dual USB ports, 3ft integrated length-adjustable power cord, and an ergonomic AC plug. Unlike ordinary power strips, the bagel design makes it easier to charge multiple devices giving ample space for eachā¦
Malcolm Gladwell: Cops Are Violent Because The US Doesnāt Have Enough Cops
Published: October 23, 2026 16:31
One of Americaās foremost thinkers hasnāt done enough thinking. Instead, heās delivered a handful of thoughtful-sounding stuff that simply doesnāt hold up the minute readers start actually thinking about what heās saying. Malcolm Gladwell has a new bookā¦
Trump Leveraged FCC āInvestigationā Into Dish CEO Charlie Ergen To Get Him To Donate To Ballroom
Published: October 23, 2026 12:28
The Washington Post recently had some interesting additional insight into the various āpay to playā shenanigans related to Trumpās $330 million ballroom. They got a hold of a broader donor list, noting that Nvidia and Apple each committed $25 million, theā¦
Trump Hides IRS Report Showing How His Big Beautiful Bill Fucked America
Published: October 23, 2026 03:09
It seems that burying reports because he doesnāt like the data within them is becoming a habit for Donald Trump and his administration. This practice didnāt begin during Trump 2.0, of course. He was burying reports he didnāt like all the way back in 2017.ā¦
The Metric Is Not The Mission: After The Platform Age
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/22/the-metric-is-not-the-mission-after-the-platform-age/
Published: October 22, 2026 22:04
The Metric Is Not the MissionĀ is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolutionā¦
Starlink Throttling In Ukraine Again Shows Muskās Right Wing Extremism Is A National Security Threat
Published: October 22, 2026 20:03
Last year you might recall how Elon Muskās far right wing extremism (and endlessly incoherent behavior) had many countries reconsidering their use of his low-Earth orbit satellite company, Starlink. It was driven by the fact that Musk had restrictedā¦
JD Vance Says Trump Hates People Cashing In On Government Access. Meet Former Trump Lawyer Alina Habbaās $50 Million Contract.
Published: October 22, 2026 18:06
On Wednesday, JD Vance did the one thing JD Vance knows how to do with full commitment: lie through his teeth about something he fully knows is bullshit. In this case, claiming that Donald Trump āhates the idea of people enriching themselves fraudulentlyā¦
Daily Deal: Build A Weather App With Ruby On Rails
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/22/daily-deal-build-a-weather-app-with-ruby-on-rails-4/
Published: October 22, 2026 18:01
Itās time you get up to speed with Ruby on Rails! This full-stack web framework is all about letting you build applications quickly. Its elegance, flexibility, and speed make Ruby on Rails a popular choice for businesses, so taking the time to master itā¦
ICE Officers Who Ran Over Man Were Trying To Arrest Someone Who Had Been Dead For Years
Published: October 22, 2026 16:24
Not that we really needed any more evidence of bad faith by ICE and the officer who decided to drive his car across a city street and into an adjacent parking lot for the apparent sole purpose of running over a fleeing migrant, but here it is anyway. As weā¦
Brendan Carr, A Weak Coward, Threatens Journalists For Covering Polls Trump Doesnāt Like
Published: October 22, 2026 12:26
Brendan Carr is a silly, hypocritical fascist who splits his time between destroying U.S. consumer protection standards and media consolidation limits, and abusing his position as FCC boss to threaten broadcast networks for airing stuff like comedy. Orā¦
Epic Rolls Out Vibe-Coded Launcher Update & Itās Absolute Trash
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/21/epic-rolls-out-vibe-coded-launcher-update-its-absolute-trash/
Published: October 22, 2026 03:07
Alright, I donāt quite know what to make of what Epic Games is doing with this AI-driven nonsense, but itās not great. Iāve spent a bit of time trying to argue that new AI technology has some place in this industry, but Epic and its leadership appears toā¦
Court Stays Bricks & Minifigsā Ridiculous Subpoenas Trying To Unmask Publisher Of The BAM Map, For Now.
Published: October 21, 2026 22:02
A quick update on a story we mentioned earlier this month. Much of the attention in the whole Bricks & Minifigs saga has focused on Reckless Ben and his attempts to expose sketchy behavior by the company, but the fight has also put a lot more scrutiny onā¦
AI Is Anti-Punk
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/21/ai-is-anti-punk/
Published: October 21, 2026 20:00
Sam Altman is not punk. Heās no revolutionary. Jensen Huang wears a black leather jacket, the uniform of Brando and the Ramones, but that doesnāt make him a rebel. The scientists and engineers we might have looked to as the new hackers are well on theirā¦
DOJ Turns A Thumb Drive And A Post-It Note Into A Lawsuit Aimed At Disrupting Voting In California
Published: October 21, 2026 17:59
For the past several months, the DHS and DOJ have been pushing hard to make Trumpās illegal voter election conspiracy theories a reality. Trump continues to claim millions of non-citizen voters are participating in federal elections ā something he persistsā¦
Daily Deal: CyberTraining 365 Online Academy
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/21/daily-deal-cybertraining-365-online-academy-4/
Published: October 21, 2026 17:54
CyberTraining 365 is the best training destination for you and your team. Here you can Master Cyber Security techniques such as Analyzing Malware, Penetration Testing, Advanced Persistent Threats, Threat Intelligence Research, Reverse Engineering, and muchā¦
Expert For News Orgs Suing OpenAI Warned āAlways Verifyā AI, Then Didnāt Verify His AI-Made Charts In His Expert Report
Published: October 21, 2026 16:24
A few weeks ago we wrote about how the lawyers for OpenAI and Microsoft in the massive multi-district litigation (MDL) against the companies over how they trained their AI had called for the exclusion of an expert witness report after it was revealed thatā¦
Broken Fifth Circuit Kills Massive Program That Helps Poor Rural Kids Get Broadband
Published: October 21, 2026 12:19
You may have noticed that under corrupt Trumpist courts, if a regulator like the FCC engages in literally anything that threatens corporate power or aids workers, competition, or consumers (say, net neutrality, for example), or even school kids, itāsā¦
Stormy Vetter, And Yet More Ways The Supreme Court Is Selling Us Out
Published: October 21, 2026 03:12
Court reform cannot come soon enough, because unless and until it does we cannot count on the Supreme Court to dispense justice. For many reasons, but this week brought the focus to one in particular, one weāve long known was a problem, because weāve seenā¦
AI Firms Should Answer For What Their Models SayāOn The Same Terms As Everyone Else
Published: October 20, 2026 22:10
Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool for free expression. And it keeps improving. As the saying goes, itās the worst it will ever be. People use it to receive ever-smarter speech and to create ever-better speech of their own. AI is now an importantā¦
Teen Sues CBS News Over Report That Referred To Him As A Reflecting Pool Vandalism Suspect
Published: October 20, 2026 20:07
Itās never a good idea to just print whatever the government tells you to print, not when you have the First Amendment to rely on. On the other hand, if youāre CBS News, itās probably in your best interest to run whatever the government says to run becauseā¦
Accident Or Not, The No Kings Takedown Is Why You Shouldnāt Rent Your Megaphone From Zuck
Published: October 20, 2026 18:03
This past weekend was the latest in an ongoing series of (massive) āNo Kingsā protests held around the country (and in some cases around the globe). The latest one was part of a āget out the (early) voteā campaign to make sure people are voting in theā¦
Daily Deal: Nibble All-Around Knowledge App
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/20/daily-deal-nibble-all-around-knowledge-app/
Published: October 20, 2026 17:59
Weād all like to learn something new, but long courses or heavy reading can feel too time consuming. Nibble transforms your screen time into short, interactive learning experiences designed to fit your daily routine. With bite sized lessons, quizzes,ā¦
Kash Patel Claims Local Arrests As His Own To Boost FBI Crime Stats
Published: October 20, 2026 16:24
At best, most Trump administration officials can be called āsycophants.ā At BEST. But so many of them can be called a lot of other things a bit more insulting. We have a lot of shoe options to work with. Most of them fit multiple people. Rubes, hucksters,ā¦
New Skydance Already Worth Less Than Half Of Warner Brothers, Paramount Were Combined
Published: October 20, 2026 12:25
Iāve documented for years how major media consolidation is simultaneously completely pointless and incredibly harmful. Such deals exist exclusively so that unremarkable rich men with no real ideas can grab some tax breaks, create the illusion of perpetualā¦
Congressman Ritchie Torres Authors Bill For Digital Games Ownership Rights
Published: October 20, 2026 03:05
The Stop Killing Games movement appears to still be alive and well. The grassroots campaign to legislate out the practice of gaming companies selling games that they neuter or render unplayable in whole or part later when shutting down backend serverā¦
The Metric Is Not The Mission: When The Reckoning Reaches The Courts
Published: October 19, 2026 22:03
The Metric Is Not the MissionĀ is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolutionā¦
Sling TV Drops Innovative Streaming āDay Passesā After Disney, Warner Bros Sued
Published: October 19, 2026 20:05
Last year, Sling TV unveiled a rare bit of innovation in an increasingly enshittified streaming video market. They began offering what they called āmini-subscriptions,ā allowing users to subscribe to live streaming TV for the day, weekend, or a full weekā¦
āWe Didnāt Do This Perfectlyā: American Fork Police Chiefās Understatement Now Anchors A Civil Rights Lawsuit By Reckless Benās Helpers
Published: October 19, 2026 18:09
Weāve been covering a bunch of stories related to the saga of āRecklessā Ben Schneider and Bricks & Minifigs (āBAMā), which began with a series of videos Schneider produced about his increasingly more extreme attempts to get back the Lego sets that someoneā¦
Daily Deal: Soundfreaq Sound Spot II Bluetooth Speaker
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/19/daily-deal-soundfreaq-sound-spot-ii-bluetooth-speaker-4/
Published: October 19, 2026 18:04
The Soundfreaq Sound Spot II combines wireless audio performance, ambient lighting, and relaxing sound features in a compact design built for modern lifestyles. Featuring a Bamboo and White finish with eco-friendly materials, this Bluetooth speakerā¦
Canadian YouTuber Visited By Cops After Building Mock Flock To Track Cop Cars
Published: October 19, 2026 16:30
If most cops had a sense of irony, they wouldnāt be cops. By that I mean that thereās little in the job that attracts people with tons of self-awareness or a finely developed sense of humor. Both of those traits generally contain a sense of irony. Andā¦
Whoops: Grok Bot Spills Tech CEOās Bank Data In Public Slack
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/19/whoops-grok-bot-spills-tech-ceos-bank-data-in-public-slack/
Published: October 19, 2026 12:23
Shane Mac, a tech entrepreneur and CEO of the software developer XMTP Labs, decided to connect Grok Bot to his personal bank account. Like many people who attach undercooked big tech agentic AI agents to their personal accounts without reading theā¦
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/18/funniest-most-insightful-comments-of-the-week-at-techdirt-230/
Published: October 18, 2026 19:00
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is n00bdragon with a comment about Floridaās age-gating law and its esoteric definition of addiction: Is anyone else bothered by this incredibly strange definition of āaddictionā? Is YMCA soccerā¦
This Week In Techdirt History: October 11th ā 17th
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/17/this-week-in-techdirt-history-october-11th-17th/
Published: October 17, 2026 19:00
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MLB Plans To Play Stupid Games With Its Website Again In Upcoming Lockout
Published: October 17, 2026 02:39
Back in the much simpler times of 2021, we wrote about some of the games Major League Baseball decided to play as part of a brief ownerās lockout of players while both sides negotiated a collective bargaining agreement. This included essentially scrubbingā¦
Something Else To Look Forward To: AI Worms
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/16/something-else-to-look-forward-to-ai-worms/
Published: October 16, 2026 22:28
Back in the early days of the Internet ā 1988 to be precise ā the self-replicating computer program known as the Morris worm spread across the network and shut down thousands of online VAX and Sun computers. It was a good example of software not goingā¦
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: No Good Feed Goes Unpunished
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/16/ctrl-alt-speech-no-good-feed-goes-unpunished/
Published: October 16, 2026 20:02
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderationās Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice ā or goā¦
11 Or 13 Justices Start An Arms Race. 100 Justices Might Actually End It.
Published: October 16, 2026 18:03
For years, the idea of expanding the Supreme Court has been dismissed as a fantasy among āseriousā thinkers. However, with it becoming ever more clear that the Supreme Court has gone completely off the rails and is now a purely partisan entity, rather thanā¦
Daily Deal: The Ultimate Web Coding for Everyone Bundle
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/16/daily-deal-the-ultimate-web-coding-for-everyone-bundle/
Published: October 16, 2026 17:58
The Ultimate Web Coding for Everyone Bundle has 8 introductory courses covering core programming languages and web development frameworks. Youāll learn about Python, Ruby, JavaScript, MySQL, and more. Itās on sale for $30. Note: The Techdirt Deals Store isā¦
DOJ Lawyers Starting To Get Hit With Sanctions, But So Far, Itās Barely Even A Wrist Slap
Published: October 16, 2026 16:29
Thereās been plenty of talk by judges about imposing sanctions on ICE and DOJ lawyers who have routinely violated court orders and constitutional rights, and straight up lied in court (or allowed agents and officers to lie in court). But not much hasā¦
Trump Acquired $5 Million In SpaceX Debt Two Days Before Space Transportation Executive Order
Published: October 16, 2026 12:29
Our consolidated corporate press doesnāt really make this clear, surprisingly, but the United States is too corrupt to function. Thereās simply no shortage of evidence across every arena that matters. Trumpās corruption is utterly historic, yet itās justā¦
RFK Jr. Sets Up Program To Pay Doctors To Report Vaccine āInjuriesā
Published: October 16, 2026 03:03
We just talked about how the majority of the American public either believes that RFK Jr. recommends they not get the MMR vaccine that protects people from measles, or are otherwise unsure of what his stance even is on the topic. When Kennedy sycophantsā¦