Nintendo’s Haphazard ‘Mario Maker 2’ Takedown Process Rife With Abuse We’ve talked for many years about Nintendo’s shotgun approach to IP enforcement, as well as its heavy-handed ToS enforcement policies that can include bricking customer consoles and/or …

Nintendo’s Haphazard ‘Mario Maker 2’ Takedown Process Rife With Abuse
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War As A Pretext: Gulf States Are Tightening The Screws On Speech—Again War does not only reshape borders. It also reshapes what can be seen, said, and remembered.  When governments invoke “misinformation” during wartime, they often mean something simpler: speech …

War As A Pretext: Gulf States Are Tightening The Screws On Speech—Again
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ACAB: Cops Are Bringing ‘Delinquency Of A Minor’ Charges Against Adults Who Assist Students During Anti-ICE Protests While the Trump administration’s extremely aggressive, thoroughly bigoted attempts to eliminate as many non-white people from this country as possible have resulted in some periodic push back…

ACAB: Cops Are Bringing ‘Delinquency Of A Minor’ Charges Against Adults Who Assist Students During Anti-ICE Protests
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Daily Deal: Geekey Multi-Tool Geekey is an innovative, compact multi-tool like nothing seen before. It’s truly a work of art with engineering that combines everyday common tools into one sleek little punch that delivers endless…

Daily Deal: Geekey Multi-Tool
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Judge Tosses Trump’s Ridiculous $10 Billion Defamation Suit Against Rupert Murdoch Back in January of last year, the Wall Street Journal published a story about a leather-bound birthday book that Ghislaine Maxwell had assembled for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003. T…

Judge Tosses Trump’s Ridiculous $10 Billion Defamation Suit Against Rupert Murdoch
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Administration Apparently Planning To Blow Off FISA Court’s Ordered Fixes For Section 702 It wasn’t all that long ago that GOP legislators were collectively stonewalling a clean reauthorization of Section 702. Three years ago, these legislators were seeking to end the FBI (and oth…

Administration Apparently Planning To Blow Off FISA Court’s Ordered Fixes For Section 702
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‘Trump Phone’ Sees Price Hike, But Still No Release Date (Or Actual Phone) Last year the fraud-prone Trump organization announced a half-assed wireless phone company. As we noted at the time, calling this a “phone company” was generous; it was a lazy marketing rebran…

‘Trump Phone’ Sees Price Hike, But Still No Release Date (Or Actual Phone)
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The CDC Doesn’t Want You To See A CDC Report On How Effective COVID Vaccines Are One of the most remarkable staffing decisions of the second Trump administration has been to allow the anti-vaxxers to run America’s health agencies. While RFK Jr. and his cadre of lieutenant…

The CDC Doesn’t Want You To See A CDC Report On How Effective COVID Vaccines Are
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John Deere Pays $99 Million To Settle ‘Right To Repair’ Class Action A few years ago agricultural equipment giant John Deere found itself on the receiving end of multiple state, federal, and class action lawsuits for its efforts to monopolize tractor repai…

John Deere Pays $99 Million To Settle ‘Right To Repair’ Class Action
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Techdirt Podcast Episode 450: Infrastructure For The New Private Internet Support us on Patreon » As we work our way towards a better future for the internet, the most encouraging and exciting part is the people out there building towards that future. Kickstar…

Techdirt Podcast Episode 450: Infrastructure For The New Private Internet
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Daily Deal: The 2026 Complete Godot Stack Development Bundle Dive into Godot – a rising star in the game engine world – with the 2026 Complete Godot Stack Development Bundle. You’ll learn to create platformers, RPGs, strategy games, FPS games, and more as yo…

Daily Deal: The 2026 Complete Godot Stack Development Bundle
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438 Experts Said Age Verification Is Dangerous. Legislators Are Moving Forward With It Anyway. In early March, 438 security and privacy researchers from 32 countries signed a massive open letter warning that age verification mandates for the internet are technically impossible to get right, …

438 Experts Said Age Verification Is Dangerous. Legislators Are Moving Forward With It Anyway.
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Trump Invites More Criminal Acts By Promising Pardons To Everyone Who Works For Him If you’re not corrupt, you generally don’t have to say certain things. Let’s take a look at ex-NYC mayor Eric Adams who, while dealing with plenty of corruption investigations and…

Trump Invites More Criminal Acts By Promising Pardons To Everyone Who Works For Him
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1,000+ Hollywood Insiders Write Letter Opposing Paramount/Warner Bros Merger More than 1,000 top Hollywood professionals ranging from Glenn Close to Denis Villeneuve have signed off on a new letter opposing the merger between Larry Ellison’s Paramount/CBS and Warner B…

1,000+ Hollywood Insiders Write Letter Opposing Paramount/Warner Bros Merger
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Oh God: RFK Jr. Unveils Plan To Be First Sitting Cabinet Secretary To Host A Podcast With all that RFK Jr. has done, and failed to do, as the Secretary of HHS, he should be terribly busy cleaning up mess after mess. The measles outbreak that is going to cause America to lose its el…

Oh God: RFK Jr. Unveils Plan To Be First Sitting Cabinet Secretary To Host A Podcast
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The FAA’s “Temporary” Flight Restriction For Drones Is A Blatant Attempt To Criminalize Filming ICE The Trump administration has restricted the First Amendment right to record law enforcement by issuing an unprecedented nationwide flight restriction preventing private drone operators, i…

The FAA’s “Temporary” Flight Restriction For Drones Is A Blatant Attempt To Criminalize Filming ICE
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DOJ Is Using A Grand Jury To Force Reddit To Unmask An Anonymous User The government’s reliance on grand juries to bring charges against activists, protesters, and the president’s personal enemies has been misplaced. Increasingly, grand juries are refusin…

DOJ Is Using A Grand Jury To Force Reddit To Unmask An Anonymous User
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Section 230 Is Dying By A Thousand Workarounds, And Massachusetts Just Added Another One We’ve been warning for a while now that Section 230 is dying by a thousand legal workarounds rather than a straightforward repeal, and the hits just keep coming. A few weeks ago, I wrote abou…

Section 230 Is Dying By A Thousand Workarounds, And Massachusetts Just Added Another One
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Daily Deal: uTalk Language Education We have all wanted to learn a language at some point but it’s hard to get started. Some language learning tools can be complicated and very time-consuming. But with uTalk, you’ll be spe…

Daily Deal: uTalk Language Education
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Nevada Court Latest To Say Mandatory Detention Of Migrants Is Illegal More of the same for the Trump administration — one that seems incapable of achieving its goals without breaking the law or disregarding the Constitution. Hundreds of judges handling thousand…

Nevada Court Latest To Say Mandatory Detention Of Migrants Is Illegal
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Whoops: Russia’s Attempt To Block VPNs Causes Major Banking Failure VPNs (when integrity is maintained and the owners aren’t sleazy scammers) have long been the mortal enemy of shitty, surveillance-happy governments.And when shitty, surveillance-happy governm…

Whoops: Russia’s Attempt To Block VPNs Causes Major Banking Failure
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt This week, we’ve got a double-winning comment from Shannon Vanshoon that took first place on the insightful side and second place on the funny side. It’s a response to a particular pass…

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
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Game Jam Winner Spotlight: As I Lay Flying It’s time for the third in our series of spotlight posts looking at the winners of our eighth annual public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1930! We’ve already covered the Best Adaptation a…

Game Jam Winner Spotlight: As I Lay Flying
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NVIDIA’s DLSS 5 Demo Video Briefly Taken Down Because YouTube’s Take Down Process Sucks Last month, we discussed NVIDIA’s demo video for its forthcoming DLSS 5 technology and the controversy surrounding it. While I’m going to continue to be of the posture that an injection…

NVIDIA’s DLSS 5 Demo Video Briefly Taken Down Because YouTube’s Take Down Process Sucks
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Trump’s Two-Faced AI Policy  The Trump administration’s AI policy is two-faced, torn between deregulation and despotism. In March, the administration released its National AI Legislative Framework, directing Congress to “preve…

Trump’s Two-Faced AI Policy 
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Trump Threatens CNN For Very Basic Reporting On His Shitty, Unpopular War In case you’ve been asleep, what appears to be an increasingly mentally unstable Donald Trump has further destabilized the middle east with a war nobody asked for or wanted. Most U.S. media c…

Trump Threatens CNN For Very Basic Reporting On His Shitty, Unpopular War
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AI And Cybersecurity: A Glass Half-Empty/Half-Full Proposition, Where The Glass Is Holding Nitroglycerin First, some of the good news: certain AI models—currently Anthropic’s Mythos, but surely others are well on their way if they haven’t already arrived—turn out to be really good at findi…

AI And Cybersecurity: A Glass Half-Empty/Half-Full Proposition, Where The Glass Is Holding Nitroglycerin
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Daily Deal: Luminar Mobile for iOS And Android Luminar Mobile is your all-in-one creative companion designed for iOS, Android OS, and Chrome OS. Powered by an intuitive, touch-responsive interface, it lets you enhance photos effortlessly—anytim…

Daily Deal: Luminar Mobile for iOS And Android
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No Surprise Here: Inspection Reveals Dozens Of Violations In El Paso ICE Detention Center I’m not here to cut the Trump administration any slack or engage in both-sides bullshit, but this is something that has always been true: we treat anyone imprisoned or detained as less than h…

No Surprise Here: Inspection Reveals Dozens Of Violations In El Paso ICE Detention Center
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Court Blocks Republican Push To (Further) Dominate And Destroy Local Broadcast News Last month FCC boss Brendan Carr illegally ignored remaining U.S. media consolidation laws to rubber stamp Nexstar’s $6.2 billion purchase of Tegna. It’s part of the generational Republ…

Court Blocks Republican Push To (Further) Dominate And Destroy Local Broadcast News
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