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Budget Bill Takes WiFi & Citizen Spectrum Away and Hands It to Wireless Carriers (techdirt.com)

a week ago | WarOnPrivacy | techdirt.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Why isn't data in motion universally measured in bits?

a week ago | WarOnPrivacy | ycombinator.com | newest

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Surprise: Minnesota Killer Used Data Brokers to Target and Murder Politicians (techdirt.com)

3 weeks ago | WarOnPrivacy | techdirt.com | frontpage

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Let's Be Clear: The Rioting in LA Is by the Cops, Not the Protestors (techdirt.com)

4 weeks ago | WarOnPrivacy | techdirt.com | frontpage

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American Utopian Communities of the 20th Century (defunct and active) (wikipedia.org)

a month ago | WarOnPrivacy | wikipedia.org | newest

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The FCC Must Reject Efforts to Lock Up Public Airwaves (techdirt.com)

a month ago | WarOnPrivacy | techdirt.com | newest

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What Your Brain Looks Like When You Solve a Problem (gizmodo.com)

a month ago | WarOnPrivacy | gizmodo.com | frontpage

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Lost States Quarters (2020) (csnmint.com)

2 months ago | WarOnPrivacy | csnmint.com | newest

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Yahoo to give to a fund for Chinese dissidents, decades after exposing user data (technologyreview.com)

3 months ago | WarOnPrivacy | technologyreview.com | newest

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New Port Richey council OKs police agreement with ICE (tampabay.com)

3 months ago | WarOnPrivacy | tampabay.com | frontpage

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New Plan for Acquiring Greenland Is US-Funded UBI for Its Residents (gizmodo.com)

3 months ago | WarOnPrivacy | gizmodo.com | frontpage

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SciOp torrents: download, seed erased US Gov sites and datasets (sciop.net)

3 months ago | WarOnPrivacy | sciop.net | best

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Revolving Door: Ex FCC Boss Ajit Pai Promoted to Top Wireless Industry Lobbyist (techdirt.com)

4 months ago | WarOnPrivacy | techdirt.com | frontpage

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Tracking the Economic Impact of the Trade War (taxfoundation.org)

4 months ago | WarOnPrivacy | taxfoundation.org | newest

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AERA just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled (aera.net)

4 months ago | WarOnPrivacy | aera.net | newest

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$10 DIY project can help detect when police are trying to track your phone (androidauthority.com)

4 months ago | WarOnPrivacy | androidauthority.com | newest

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Apollo 15 postal covers incident (wikipedia.org)

4 months ago | WarOnPrivacy | wikipedia.org | newest

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The Center for US Army Lessons Learned (2007) (thisamericanlife.org)

5 months ago | WarOnPrivacy | thisamericanlife.org | newest

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eBay UK Global Shipping Program Cost to US Jumps, Due to Tariff Changes (valueaddedresource.net)

5 months ago | WarOnPrivacy | valueaddedresource.net | newest

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The GOP Tries to Break Gmail by Court Order (techdirt.com)

5 months ago | WarOnPrivacy | techdirt.com | newest

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Lowest Temperature Each Year for Places in United States (currentresults.com)

7 months ago | WarOnPrivacy | currentresults.com | newest

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Florida Woman Arrested for Saying Delay, Deny, Depose to Her Ins Company (gizmodo.com)

7 months ago | WarOnPrivacy | gizmodo.com | newest

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Microsoft pushes full-screen ads for Copilot+ PCs on Windows 10 users (arstechnica.com)

8 months ago | WarOnPrivacy | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Philippines endures its fourth typhoon in ten days (yaleclimateconnections.org)

8 months ago | WarOnPrivacy | yaleclimateconnections.org | newest

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They made a public Rolodex of our faces. Here’s how I tried to get out (washingtonpost.com)

8 months ago | WarOnPrivacy | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Beijing–Washington Hotline (wikipedia.org)

9 months ago | WarOnPrivacy | wikipedia.org | newest

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The Hindenburg’s Interior (rarehistoricalphotos.com)

10 months ago | WarOnPrivacy | rarehistoricalphotos.com | best

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David Boies' Baseless Lawsuit Blames Meta Because Kids Like Instagram Too Much (techdirt.com)

10 months ago | WarOnPrivacy | techdirt.com | newest

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[flagged] Low Earth Orbit Satellites Cause Environmental Harm Regulators Didnt Prepare For (techdirt.com)

11 months ago | WarOnPrivacy | techdirt.com | frontpage

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The Kids Online Safety Act and the Tyranny of Laziness (techdirt.com)

12 months ago | WarOnPrivacy | techdirt.com | frontpage

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Schumer Advances KOSA: Congress's Latest 'But Think of the Children' Crusade (techdirt.com)

12 months ago | WarOnPrivacy | techdirt.com | newest

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Congress Wants to Let Private Companies Own the Law (techdirt.com)

12 months ago | WarOnPrivacy | techdirt.com | best

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McColo (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | WarOnPrivacy | wikipedia.org | newest

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Photo editors get lazy in the heat (billmckibben.substack.com)

a year ago | WarOnPrivacy | substack.com | newest

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FBI Stats Show Crime Still Declining, Despite the Assertions of Alarmists and (techdirt.com)

a year ago | WarOnPrivacy | techdirt.com | frontpage

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Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments (techdirt.com)

a year ago | WarOnPrivacy | techdirt.com | best

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We Looked at All Recent Evidence on Mobile Phone Bans in Schools: What We Found (techdirt.com)

a year ago | WarOnPrivacy | techdirt.com | newest

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Forecasters predict an extremely active 2024 Atlantic hurricane season (yaleclimateconnections.org)

a year ago | WarOnPrivacy | yaleclimateconnections.org | newest

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Warner Bros. Discovery Disappears Games People Already Purchased (techdirt.com)

a year ago | WarOnPrivacy | techdirt.com | best

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Copilot pane as annoying as Clippy may pop up in Windows 11 (theregister.com)

a year ago | WarOnPrivacy | theregister.com | newest

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Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows why (technologyreview.com)

a year ago | WarOnPrivacy | technologyreview.com | frontpage

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[dupe] Self-checkout is a failed experiment, and stores are backpedaling (gizmodo.com)

a year ago | WarOnPrivacy | gizmodo.com | best

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Microsoft wants to automatically launch Copilot AI on some Windows 11 devices (theverge.com)

a year ago | WarOnPrivacy | theverge.com | newest

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Google pulls up the ladder on open internet, pushes unconstitutional regulation (techdirt.com)

a year ago | WarOnPrivacy | techdirt.com | best

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Harvard stole farmland in Brazil for years Now they're trying to walk away(2022) (hkspublications.org)

a year ago | WarOnPrivacy | hkspublications.org | frontpage

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High likelihood hundreds of CT state troopers falsified thous of traffic tickets (ctinsider.com)

a year ago | WarOnPrivacy | ctinsider.com | newest

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Media Falls for Another Fake TikTok Challenge, Creating yet Another Moral Panic (techdirt.com)

a year ago | WarOnPrivacy | techdirt.com | newest

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Florida Man Blames 'Wokeness' for Fragile Insurance Market (gizmodo.com)

a year ago | WarOnPrivacy | gizmodo.com | newest

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Your Large Vehicle Is Going to Kill Someone in a Crash (jalopnik.com)

a year ago | WarOnPrivacy | jalopnik.com | frontpage

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Clippy is back as a ChatGPT-powered AI assistant for Windows 11 (bgr.com)

2 years ago | WarOnPrivacy | bgr.com | newest

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It's About to Be Much Harder for Rural Alaskans to Get Their Weather Forecast (gizmodo.com)

2 years ago | WarOnPrivacy | gizmodo.com | frontpage

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All You Do Is Lose: Utah Anti-Drag Moratorium Struck Down as Unconstitutional (techdirt.com)

2 years ago | WarOnPrivacy | techdirt.com | newest

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TV in the '70s (1979) (washingtonpost.com)

2 years ago | WarOnPrivacy | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Andor's Cast Really Hated Those Prison Scenes (gizmodo.com)

2 years ago | WarOnPrivacy | gizmodo.com | newest

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Utah Transfer of Public Lands Act (2012) (wikipedia.org)

2 years ago | WarOnPrivacy | wikipedia.org | newest

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Montana’s New Anti-Climate Law May Be the Most Aggressive in the Nation (insideclimatenews.org)

2 years ago | WarOnPrivacy | insideclimatenews.org | frontpage

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Biden Nominates Legacy Entertainment Industry Copyright Enforcer As New IP Czar (techdirt.com)

2 years ago | WarOnPrivacy | techdirt.com | frontpage

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At great expense, railroad bypassed first black-founded town in the U.S.(2010) (illinois.edu)

2 years ago | WarOnPrivacy | illinois.edu | frontpage

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State-controlled media gain Twitter followers after quiet platform policy change (dfrlab.org)

2 years ago | WarOnPrivacy | dfrlab.org | best

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Cities Keep Building Luxury Apartments Almost No One Can Afford (bloomberg.com)

2 years ago | WarOnPrivacy | bloomberg.com | newest

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Florida Apologizes After 4:45 A.M. Emergency Alert Test (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | WarOnPrivacy | nytimes.com | newest

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Full List of China's Unofficial Police Stations Around the World (dupe, sorry) (newsweek.com)

2 years ago | WarOnPrivacy | newsweek.com | frontpage

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Sen. Josh Hawley wants to create a legal age to be allowed on social media (nbcnews.com)

2 years ago | WarOnPrivacy | nbcnews.com | newest

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Android 14 may help tackle annoying carrier bloatware (androidcentral.com)

2 years ago | WarOnPrivacy | androidcentral.com | frontpage

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MD Law Requires People W/ Sleep Apnea to Report Diagnosis to Driving Authorities (nbcwashington.com)

2 years ago | WarOnPrivacy | nbcwashington.com | frontpage

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Feds Accused of Issuing 'Licenses to Steal' as Moving Company Scams Rise (newsweek.com)

2 years ago | WarOnPrivacy | newsweek.com | frontpage

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Downtowns are lifeless. It’s a once-in-a-generation chance to revive them (washingtonpost.com)

2 years ago | WarOnPrivacy | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

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Editorial: Enough is enough. Confirm Sohn to FCC, restore net neutrality (mercurynews.com)

2 years ago | WarOnPrivacy | mercurynews.com | newest

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Wiota 16 Terabyte Ultra High-Speed SSD Ext Hard Drive Up to 1000Mb/S – $69.98 (amazon.com)

2 years ago | WarOnPrivacy | amazon.com | newest

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eBay, Etsy and other marketplaces on brink of having to disclose seller details (eseller365.com)

2 years ago | WarOnPrivacy | eseller365.com | best