New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder(eff.org)

273 points by healsdata 1 year ago | 90 comments

Judge's Investigation into Patent Troll Results in Criminal Referrals(eff.org)

90 points by croes 1 year ago | 10 comments

Lawmakers want to ban VPNs(eff.org)

561 points by gslin 11 months ago | 320 comments

EFF Deeplinks article by Rindala Alajaji criticizing lawmakers' proposals to ban or restrict VPNs as technically uninformed.

Senate Vote Tomorrow Could Give Helping Hand to Patent Trolls(eff.org)

208 points by speckx 2 years ago | 45 comments

Axon’s Draft One is designed to defy transparency(eff.org)

240 points by zdw 1 year ago | 157 comments

Platforms Must Stop Unjustified Takedowns of Posts by and About Palestinians(eff.org)

18 points by gslin 2 years ago | 0 comments

US Patent Office proposes rule to make it much harder to kill bad patents(techdirt.com)

487 points by berkeleyjunk 3 years ago | 68 comments

Techdirt article by Mike Masnick criticizing a USPTO proposed rule that would make it harder to challenge bad patents through inter partes review.

IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax prep giants(washingtonpost.com)

693 points by elicash 3 years ago | 349 comments

Washington Post article reporting that the IRS is testing a prototype free government e-filing system that could compete with commercial tax preparation companies.

Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal(nytimes.com)

557 points by jbegley 1 month ago | 409 comments

New York Times article on a federal judge ruling that the Trump administration's blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal; the capture shows a captcha page.

America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back(molsonhart.com)

521 points by putzdown 1 year ago | 697 comments

Blog post by Molson Hart arguing that the April 2025 US tariffs underestimate how hard it is to bring manufacturing back to America.

IRS to begin trial of its own free tax-filing system(nytimes.com)

606 points by thelastgallon 2 years ago | 261 comments

New York Times article about the IRS beginning a pilot of its own free online tax-filing system; the capture shows a CAPTCHA page.

Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules(reason.com)

773 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 385 comments

Reason article reporting that the D.C. Circuit ruled police cannot hold seized property indefinitely after an arrest, calling it unconstitutional.