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The war on stream-ripping sites waged by the music industry continues. And, as with any war, there is collateral damage. Now, as we've said for some time, this is an entirely unnecessary war ...

For a few years now, New Jersey cops have enjoyed additional privacy protections that aren't made available to other residents of the state. The reason is "Daniel's Law." Th ...

The following is republished from the excellent Pessimist's Archive, with permission. The Oxford Dictionary just added "brainrot" as its newest official word--a cynical, but tongue ...

Kash Patel -- Trump's pick to head the FBI -- is not the sort of person who should be allowed to head the FBI. While he does have some experience as a federal prosecutor, he's ...

The censors are making a big push on the new version of "KOSPA," which is the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) merged with a problematic privacy bill (hence the "P"). Over the weekend, Senator Marsha ...

SpaceX's Starlink service can be an absolute game changer for those completely out of range of broadband access. Getting several hundred megabits per second in the middle of nowhere is a decid ...

We're past the halfway point of our Kickstarter campaign for One Billion Users, a new competitive card game about building the biggest and best social media network. We're very excited ...

Valve's Steam PC gaming storefront appears to be on a bit of a pro-consumer kick as of late and I like it. We recently discussed the platform's update to its purchase process, which now ...

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To anyone who listened to the oral arguments in the DC Circuit regarding the TikTok ban bill, it perhaps wasn't a huge surprise that the DC Circuit today ruled to uphold the ban, but the resu ...