Trumplicans ‘Successfully’ Kill Program That Helped Poor Americans Afford...
The FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), part of the 2021 infrastructure bill, provided 23+ million low-income households a $30 broadband discount every month. But the roughly 60 million...
View ArticleTrump Threatens To Sue ProPublica For Reporting On Payouts To Witnesses In...
ProPublica has quite a scoop of a story, highlighting how various witnesses and potential witnesses in the long list of lawsuits Donald Trump is facing, suddenly, coincidentally, seem to be getting...
View ArticleDaily Deal: Headway Premium
Headway Premium is the revolutionary app designed to help you turn personal growth into a habit. With a lifetime subscription, you get unlimited access to a huge number of non-fiction bestsellers,...
View ArticleNSO Malware Discovered On The Phones Of Critics Of Putin And His Allies
Here’s yet more unsurprising news about Israeli malware developer NSO Group and its preferred customers. More phones infected by NSO’s flagship Pegasus malware have been discovered by Citizen Lab...
View ArticleDonald Trump, Who Initially Pushed To Ban TikTok, Now Campaigning On TikTok
This was entirely predictable, but it’s still worth calling out. Donald Trump, who started the whole “we should ban TikTok” idea before changing his mind as soon as Joe Biden decided it was a good idea...
View ArticleTechdirt Podcast Episode 393: The Importance Of Section 230 For Online...
At the latest committee hearing about its repeal bill, Congress finally deigned to bring in one witness who spoke in defense of Section 230. Engine Executive Director Kate Tummarello got a little bit...
View ArticleDear Google: If You’re Going To Let Google News Suck, Just Let It Die Instead
Depending on just how often you use Google News, you may have noticed that Google News was down recently. Down hard. No, it wasn’t just you; Google News suffered a pretty sizable outage this morning,...
View ArticleIt’s The 21st Century And County Sheriffs Are Still A Law Unto Themselves
The Wild West we all imagine contains two forms of law: the brave people who’ve decided to be sheriffs. And the vigilantes who perform frontier justice when not cashing in bounties while ignoring the...
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