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A new Bluesky-based feed reader combines blog flows of selected developers. Currently following: Tim Bray, Simon Willison, Techdirt, Manton Reece and Cory Doctorow. It's an extension of blogrolls. More info: devs.feediverse.org

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 27/09/2026

Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights. jvns.ca

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 14/09/2026

Elon Musk’s SLAPP Threat Over ‘Space Lasers’ Doc Sort Of Admits The ‘Space Lasers’ Part.

Elon Musk’s SLAPP Threat Over ‘Space Lasers’ Doc Sort Of Admits The ‘Space Lasers’ Part

By now, calling Elon Musk a “free speech absolutist” is a joke. We have so many stories of him suppressing speech, or threatening, or suing people for their speech. At this point, anyon…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 14/09/2026

Reflecting Pool Contractors: Alleged ‘Vandalism’ Was Just Our Own Botched Repair Job.

Reflecting Pool Contractors: Alleged ‘Vandalism’ Was Just Our Own Botched Repair Job

The truth continues to come out, and not via Truth Social. Everything former Olympian David Hearn might need to pursue a malicious prosecution lawsuit against the Trump DOJ has been leaking more st…

Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 14/09/2026

Trump Told Supporters To “Cheat Like Hell.” The NY Times Went With “A Bit Tired Of Politics.”.

Trump Told Supporters To “Cheat Like Hell.” The NY Times Went With “A Bit Tired Of Politics.”

By now it’s old hat to point out that the mainstream media bends over backwards to pretend that Donald Trump is a “normal” president. The number of times you could point to the co…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 14/09/2026

Streaming TV Prices Rising Faster Than Cable Ever Did.

Streaming TV Prices Rising Faster Than Cable Ever Did

Now that streaming subscriber growth has slowed, we’ve noted repeatedly how the streaming TV sector is falling into all of the bad habits that ultimately doomed traditional cable TV. That has …

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 12/09/2026

This Week In Techdirt History: September 6th – 12th.

This Week In Techdirt History: September 6th – 12th

This Week in 2016 Warner Bros. Issuing Takedowns For Its Own Site Is No Laughing Matter Roger Ailes Hires Peter Thiel’s Favorite Lawyer To Threaten NY Mag For Its Stories About Him ICE Denies…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 12/09/2026

Microsoft Slaps Hours Limits On Xbox Game Pass Cloud Gaming.

Microsoft Slaps Hours Limits On Xbox Game Pass Cloud Gaming

There’s enshittification, and then there’s enshittification. Allow me to give you an example of each. For what we’ll call enshittification classic, there’s Xbox’s Game…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 12/09/2026

Pro-Cop Red States Latest To Kick Flock To The Curb.

Pro-Cop Red States Latest To Kick Flock To The Curb

Whatever wasn’t already going poorly for Flock Safety is just going to keep getting worse. Data collected by privacy activist group Secure Justice pointed out what Flock already knows: it&#82…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 11/09/2026

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Duty Of Careful What You Wish For.

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Duty Of Careful What You Wish For

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation’s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, …

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 11/09/2026

DHS Claimed It Had Found 16,000 Illegal Voters In Nevada. Now It’s Admitting It’s Less Than 200.

DHS Claimed It Had Found 16,000 Illegal Voters In Nevada. Now It’s Admitting It’s Less Than 200.

As we move closer to mid-term elections, the Trump administration continues to lie about election integrity, sowing the seeds for bullshit “rigged election” claims should the GOP fail t…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 11/09/2026

Since 9/11, Fear Has Driven Our Politics. Don’t Let It Drive The Next 25 Years.

Since 9/11, Fear Has Driven Our Politics. Don’t Let It Drive The Next 25 Years.

Twenty-five years ago today I was woken up by a phone call from a close friend, who, like me, grew up in New York and, like me, was now living in California. She told me that something horrible had…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 11/09/2026

Musk’s Robotaxis Under Investigation For Dodging Safety Standards.

Musk’s Robotaxis Under Investigation For Dodging Safety Standards

It says nothing good about America how easily Elon Musk convinced the press and public he was a supergenius engineer who could cobble together complicated rocket machinery wearing coveralls in his …

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 11/09/2026

White House Website Briefly Hosted Racist Tetris Clone Game Until The Tetris People Complained.

White House Website Briefly Hosted Racist Tetris Clone Game Until The Tetris People Complained

Pick your favorite zombie movie or television show and you’ll eventually be confronted with dialogue justifying the killing of the zombies with the idea that they are no longer human. “…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 10/09/2026

Judge Demands Answers From DOJ For Refusing To Dismiss Reflecting Pool Case With Prejudice.

Judge Demands Answers From DOJ For Refusing To Dismiss Reflecting Pool Case With Prejudice

There are multiple things this administration is incapable of doing: winning wars, curbing inflation, not acting like Nazis, wearing shoes that fit them, etc. But if there’s one thing it&#821…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 10/09/2026

Lawmakers Ask Lutnick To Blacklist Appin, The Hack-For-Hire Firm That Threatens Almost Anyone Who Prints Its Name.

Lawmakers Ask Lutnick To Blacklist Appin, The Hack-For-Hire Firm That Threatens Almost Anyone Who Prints Its Name

Remember Appin? It’s the Indian “hack for hire” company that got so upset about Reuters’ giant investigation — which detailed how Appin grew into a “leading cyberespio…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 10/09/2026

Jimmy Kimmel Won’t Air James Talarico Interview On ABC For Fear Of FCC Reprisal.

Jimmy Kimmel Won’t Air James Talarico Interview On ABC For Fear Of FCC Reprisal

Comedian Jimmy Kimmel‘s planned Thursday interview with Texas Senatorial hopeful James Talarico didn’t air on ABC broadcast TV because network lawyers were worried about Trump …

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 10/09/2026

DHS Feeding Citizens’ Bank Records To Predictive Policing Units To Find Drivers To Pull Over.

DHS Feeding Citizens’ Bank Records To Predictive Policing Units To Find Drivers To Pull Over

Every government does stuff because it can, not because it needs to. But this current administration has been far more opportunistic than most, doing constitutional recon in areas of unsettled law …

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 10/09/2026

Automakers Pressure Congress To Ban Chinese EVs To ‘Protect Privacy’.

Automakers Pressure Congress To Ban Chinese EVs To ‘Protect Privacy’

If you enjoy badly written bipartisan protectionist tech legislation designed primarily to coddle giant U.S. companies under the xenophobia-tinged breathless pretense of privacy and national securi…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 10/09/2026

1 Of 2 Children Dead In PA Confirmed To Be From Measles.

1 Of 2 Children Dead In PA Confirmed To Be From Measles

I want to start this whole thing off with a disclaimer. Nothing in this post should be misconstrued as gloating, as being pleased, or as having a connotation that is anything beyond sadness and the…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 09/09/2026

AI Agents Are Not Going “Rogue,” But Recent Developments Lead Increasingly-Concerned Researchers To Call For AI Slow Down.

AI Agents Are Not Going “Rogue,” But Recent Developments Lead Increasingly-Concerned Researchers To Call For AI Slow Down

For the last few months, there has been much talk of AI agents going “rogue”. This is another of those unhelpful anthropomorphisms that are great for clickbait headlines, but which obscure a multit…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 09/09/2026

DOJ Fired Prosecutor, Blocked Assault Charges Against ICE Officer Following Minneapolis Shooting.

DOJ Fired Prosecutor, Blocked Assault Charges Against ICE Officer Following Minneapolis Shooting

Let’s start out with the obvious (and obviously heartbreaking): this is not related to the multiple times ICE officers have murdered people. Those officers still remain at large and the DOJ a…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 09/09/2026

Judge: Losing Your First Amendment Rights Is No Longer “Irreparable” If You Take Almost Three Months To Sue.

Judge: Losing Your First Amendment Rights Is No Longer “Irreparable” If You Take Almost Three Months To Sue

Here we go again: another case where it’s easy to cheer a court ruling against Elon Musk, and unfortunately easy to miss the much more important underlying point — which the judge clearly did…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 09/09/2026

Daily Deal: InfoSec4TC Projects Hub.

Daily Deal: InfoSec4TC Projects Hub

InfoSec4TC Projects Hub is the missing link between cybersecurity theory and real-world practice. Instead of watching more lectures, you’ll step directly into simulated corporate environments…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 09/09/2026

ICE Officer Hit With Federal Charges After Successfully Dodging Minnesota’s Attempt To Extradite Him On Assault Charges.

ICE Officer Hit With Federal Charges After Successfully Dodging Minnesota’s Attempt To Extradite Him On Assault Charges

One of the natural side effects of flooding the zone with hastily hired, poorly trained immigration enforcement officers is an increase in violence and rights violations. Christian Castro may not h…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 09/09/2026

Fake Consumer Group Using AI To Generate Fake Support For Paramount Merger.

Fake Consumer Group Using AI To Generate Fake Support For Paramount Merger

In addition to the $111 billion Paramount/Warner Bros merger just being foundationally bad for creatives, labor, and consumers, the Ellison family-owned company’s executives just keep demonst…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 09/09/2026

Reporting Indicates RFK Jr. Directly Intervened To Keep PA Deaths Off CDC Measles Report.

Reporting Indicates RFK Jr. Directly Intervened To Keep PA Deaths Off CDC Measles Report

The measles outbreak, that began in America nearly two years ago, has only increased in velocity. We recently talked about the deaths of two children in Pennsylvania who both died while infected wi…

Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 08/09/2026

Some Tech Companies Have Privately Pushed Back On ICE Subpoenas. They Should All Do More.

Some Tech Companies Have Privately Pushed Back On ICE Subpoenas. They Should All Do More.

In a handful of known cases, large social media companies have privately pushed back against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) subpoenas when the agency tried to unmask anonymous users who …

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 08/09/2026

Cool Cool Cool: Hegseth’s DoD Is Running A Secret Network Of Online Influencers.

Cool Cool Cool: Hegseth’s DoD Is Running A Secret Network Of Online Influencers

It would be nice to go a day or two (or three-day weekend!) without being apprised of some new awfulness from this administration. Since that’s not going to happen, let’s check in with …

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 08/09/2026

The DOJ’s AI Fair Use Brief Is Correct, But From A DOJ That Has No Credibility.

The DOJ’s AI Fair Use Brief Is Correct, But From A DOJ That Has No Credibility

I am never asking the monkey’s paw for a federal government that defends fair use again. For decades on Techdirt, I’ve talked about the absolute necessity of strong fair use, and have b…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 08/09/2026

ICE’s Vetting Standards Are So Low It Can’t Even Be Bothered To Verify The Identities Of New Hires.

ICE’s Vetting Standards Are So Low It Can’t Even Be Bothered To Verify The Identities Of New Hires

A whistleblower report delivered to the DHS Office of the Inspector General makes it clear ICE is willing to hire pretty much anyone who applies for the job. Keeping up appearances (and by “a…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 08/09/2026

Paramount Caught Using ‘Astroturf’ Group To Drum Up Fake Support For Merger.

Paramount Caught Using ‘Astroturf’ Group To Drum Up Fake Support For Merger

We’ve well established how the $111 billion Paramount and Warner Brothers merger is terrible for labor, creatives, consumers, and markets. But the kind of behaviors Paramount leadership have …

Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 05/09/2026

This Week In Techdirt History: August 30th – September 5th.

This Week In Techdirt History: August 30th – September 5th

This Week in 2016 UK Gov’t Report: Facebook, Twitter, And Google Are Pretty Much Unrepentant Terrorist Supporters New Zealand Court Grants Kim Dotcom’s Request To Have Extradition Heari…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 05/09/2026

Take-Two’s Leak Burying DMCA Attempts Snared GameStop & Gaming Journalist That Did Nothing Wrong.

Take-Two’s Leak Burying DMCA Attempts Snared GameStop & Gaming Journalist That Did Nothing Wrong

I have mostly stayed away from the whole saga surrounding the drip-drip leaks of Grand Theft Auto 6 content prior to the big reveal on Netflix because, frankly, I am quite wary of giving companies …

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 04/09/2026

RFK Jr. Wants Your Medical Records.

RFK Jr. Wants Your Medical Records

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. You might assume that what you tell a doctor stays between you, your physician and per…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 04/09/2026

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: License To Spill. www.techdirt.com

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 04/09/2026

Some Parents Are Treating Suing Social Media As A Get Rich Quick Scheme.

Some Parents Are Treating Suing Social Media As A Get Rich Quick Scheme

There is a flood of lawsuits against social media, from a variety of different parties, all claiming some kind of harm. Would you feel differently about some of those lawsuits if you found out the …

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 04/09/2026

Cop Shops Keep On Dropping Flock Like It’s Hot.

Cop Shops Keep On Dropping Flock Like It’s Hot

You have to know you’re fucking up when your largest and best-paying customer base is increasingly noping out of contract renewals. That more than anything is probably what provoked ALPR make…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 04/09/2026

Tom Cruise Parrots Paramount’s Empty Merger Promises Because He Loves His ‘Hollywood Family’.

Tom Cruise Parrots Paramount’s Empty Merger Promises Because He Loves His ‘Hollywood Family’

Just so we’re clear: pre-merger promises (especially in the media and telecom sectors) are absolutely worthless. There’s fifty years of indisputable evidence that all of the “syne…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 04/09/2026

Court Tells HHS To Stop Using AI To Cite Fake Studies, Or Willfully Misinterpret Others In Grant Solicitations.

Court Tells HHS To Stop Using AI To Cite Fake Studies, Or Willfully Misinterpret Others In Grant Solicitations

To quote the opening line from the court opinion that this post is based upon, “Millions of American teenagers have sex.” This post is has nothing to do with whether that sort of thing …

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 03/09/2026

Colorado Sees First Lawsuit Under ‘Right To Repair’ Law.

Colorado Sees First Lawsuit Under ‘Right To Repair’ Law

At this point all fifty states have considered passing “right to repair” law aimed at making it easier and cheaper for consumers (and independent repair shops) to repair their tech. Tha…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 03/09/2026

Working With ICE Is So Toxic, ICE Is Now Offering Liability Insurance To Local Police Officers.

Working With ICE Is So Toxic, ICE Is Now Offering Liability Insurance To Local Police Officers

If you’re worried about the bad optics of working with ICE, the federal government is here to help subsidize your recovery from mass deportation conjunctivitis. If you’re worried about …

Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 03/09/2026

Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.

Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it “age” verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we&#821…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 03/09/2026

DOJ Issues Memo Saying There’s Nothing Illegal About The Military Arresting Migrants.

DOJ Issues Memo Saying There’s Nothing Illegal About The Military Arresting Migrants

A little more than a year ago, the Trump administration pushed a novel legal theory in order to juice its migrant arrest stats. It was a two-part process. First, the administration unilaterally dec…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 03/09/2026

Apple, Google Pathetically Buckle To Trump’s Dim And Lazy Effort To Rename Lake Ontario.

Apple, Google Pathetically Buckle To Trump’s Dim And Lazy Effort To Rename Lake Ontario

When we look back at this time and history words like “courage,” “integrity,” and “ethics” aren’t words you’re going to be associating with U.S. tech…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 03/09/2026

Sony Tells Courts Any ‘Reasonable Customer’ Knows Digital Purchases Are Actually Licenses.

Sony Tells Courts Any ‘Reasonable Customer’ Knows Digital Purchases Are Actually Licenses

Sony’s ability to generate anger lately is pretty impressive. After the company announced that there would be no more physical media versions of games made starting in 2027, to the resounding…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 02/09/2026

Meta’s $17 Billion Settlement Is A Bad Deal For Teens And All Social Media Users.

Meta’s $17 Billion Settlement Is A Bad Deal For Teens And All Social Media Users

Meta’s settlement with 52 state attorneys general is a bad deal for all internet users, and especially for teens. That’s what we said the day the settlement was announced. In this post, w…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 02/09/2026

ICE Finalizes Stun Glove Purchase, Claims There’s No Other Way To Handle ‘Violent’ Migrants.

ICE Finalizes Stun Glove Purchase, Claims There’s No Other Way To Handle ‘Violent’ Migrants

This was inevitable. ICE has billions of new money to spend, zero shame, and not a single adult in a leadership position capable (or willing!) to talk the agency off the ledge. ICE decided the neat…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 02/09/2026

Whistleblower: USPS Defied A Court Injunction To Build An Untested, Undocumented Ballot-Blocking System. Its ...

Whistleblower: USPS Defied A Court Injunction To Build An Untested, Undocumented Ballot-Blocking System. Its Own Staff Call The Process “A Shit Show.”

Even as Donald Trump regularly uses mail-in ballots himself, he has decided that mail-in ballots are a system by which voting fraud occurs. To be quite clear, this is bullshit. There is astoundingl…

Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 02/09/2026

Flock-Stalking, Nazi-Saluting Deputy Given Top Cop Honors Before Hastily Retiring Ahead Of Criminal Charges.

Flock-Stalking, Nazi-Saluting Deputy Given Top Cop Honors Before Hastily Retiring Ahead Of Criminal Charges

Law enforcement is often self-selecting. If you like the things you’ve seen cops get away with (violence, brutality, open racism, multiple rights violations, etc.), you’ll probably like…

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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 02/09/2026

GOP Begs Supreme Court To Let It Flood Airwaves With Cheap Midterm Propaganda.

GOP Begs Supreme Court To Let It Flood Airwaves With Cheap Midterm Propaganda

Back in June, the Supreme Court ruled 6–3 in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission that federal limits on coordinated expenditures by political parties violate the…

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