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Ah, Denuvo. It's been several years since we checked in on this once vaunted DRM tool that billed itself as undefeatable. The end of PC gaming piracy was said to be at hand, at least for any ...

Not this again. For many years now there have been a series of ongoing lawsuits between E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump, involving a variety of issues, but mainly whether or not he sexually assaul ...

Maybe this isn't just another vindictive prosecution by the Trump administration. But we're going to need a lot more evidence to the contrary to abandon this conjecture: The FBI searche ...

Linux and UNIX operating systems have become increasingly popular in commercial computing environments. Due to their rapid growth in today's businesses, Linux/UNIX administrators have also be ...

Back in early 2025, DOGE bros Justin Fox and Nate Cavanaugh were handed multiple government roles with a simple mandate: go find the woke stuff and kill it. Fox and Cavanaugh had zero relevant expe ...

In late 2023, I wrote a feature for The Verge exploring the FCC's attempt to stop race and class discrimination in broadband deployment. For decades, big telecoms have not only refus ...

By now you likely have caught wind of GameStop, the video game and collectables retailer, announcing a bid to buy eBay. Perhaps you heard of this, as I did, because of GameStop's CEO, Ryan Co ...

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Utah has a long track record of short-sighted internet policymaking, but the latest example really does take things to a new level of stupid. As of yesterday, Utah's "Online Age Verific ...

The cops never change. Only the tech toys do. That's the upshot of this report from the Institute for Justice, which has been tracking what cops have been tracking now that they have always-o ...