FBI director admits they rarely have probable cause for using NSA collections(techdirt.com)

348 points by repelsteeltje 2 years ago | 94 comments

Techdirt article on FBI Director Wray admitting the agency rarely has probable cause when performing backdoor searches of NSA Section 702 collections.

State Governments Can’t Resist the Siren Song of Censorship(techdirt.com)

79 points by rntn 3 years ago | 73 comments

Google’s Plan to DRM the Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For(techdirt.com)

887 points by g0xA52A2A 3 years ago | 296 comments

Techdirt opinion piece by Mike Masnick criticizing Google's Web Environment Integrity proposal as DRM for the web and a betrayal of its open-web values.

CA Supreme Court Concludes No Reason to Generate Precedent on Geofence Warrants(techdirt.com)

25 points by rntn 3 years ago | 0 comments

Techdirt has been deleted from Bing and DuckDuckGo [fixed](techdirt.com)

189 points by lehi 3 years ago | 142 comments

Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped(techdirt.com)

309 points by cdrnsf 3 months ago | 118 comments

Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over(newyorker.com)

468 points by FinnLobsien 1 year ago | 801 comments

New Yorker column by Kyle Chayka on Mark Zuckerberg's testimony at Meta's antitrust trial arguing that social media platforms are no longer what they used to be.

Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight(torrentfreak.com)

392 points by askl 6 months ago | 395 comments

TorrentFreak article reporting Spotify and major labels won a $322M default judgment and domain-suspension injunction against Anna's Archive operators.

I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music(coryd.dev)

463 points by cdme 3 years ago | 353 comments

Blog post by Cory Dransfeldt arguing he wants to stream his own collected music library rather than use catalogue-based streaming services.

I don't like passkeys(hawksley.dev)

676 points by ethanhawksley 1 month ago | 665 comments

A personal blog post by Ethan Hawksley explaining why he dislikes passkeys and the tech industry's push to make users adopt them.

To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell(myteslaexperience.com)

340 points by lleims 1 year ago | 391 comments

A personal blog post recounting a buyer's problems with a new Tesla Model 3 bought in October 2024, including onboard computer failures and battery drain.

Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says(arstechnica.com)

452 points by coloneltcb 1 year ago | 153 comments

Ars Technica article on music labels' copyright lawsuit against the Internet Archive over digitized 78 rpm records, with a sound historian warning of consequences.