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Four years years ago AT&T, a company that, for years, cheapened out on upgrading its broadband lines to fiber, effectively stopped selling DSL. While that's understandable given the limitations ...

Confidential informants (CI) are considered useful to law enforcement investigations, so society is just expected to bear the burden of criminal acts committed by informants in (dubious) furtheranc ...

It's been the biggest year for elections in human history: 2024 is a "super-cycle" year in which 3.7 billion eligible voters in 72 countries had the chance to go the polls. These are also ...

You ain't seen nothing yet regarding how some MAGA politicians are going to harass and attack journalists. This week, it was revealed that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (who already has a ...

ShotSpotter spent a few years feeling really sure its tech was capable of detecting gunshots. It felt so confident it didn't mind (allegedly) fudging detection data to help cops secure crimin ...

Project Management is global. This is one of those professions similar to being an accountant, where your skills and talents can be applied to any industry in any place. The 10-course Complete PMP ...

Here on Techdirt, we write a lot about content moderation and even did a whole big series of content moderation case studies. However, here's an interesting one that involves Techdirt itself ...

As we recently noted, the Biden FCC has announced that it is finally "taking a look at" broadband usage caps. We've noted for decades how such limits are completely artificial, technically unnecess ...

Here we go again. Another cop given a free pass on brutality because established law had yet to inform Deputy Vincent Castoro that body-slamming a 13-year-old weighing less than 120 lbs. to the gro ...

Of all the kinds of stupid that exist out there, certainly it's the predictable stupid that is the most frustrating. And of all the kinds of predictable stupid that exist, one of the most pre ...