On April 8th, 2026 with 47 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Drive: Farmers have been fighting John Deere for years over the right to repair their equipment, and this week,...
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On April 5th, 2026 with 28 comments
One crime ring scammed 2,000 elderly people of more than $27 million between 2021 and 2023 using tech support/bank impersonation/refund scams. "Victims were in...
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On April 3rd, 2026 with 46 comments
A Rome court ruled that several Netflix price hikes in Italy were unlawful because the company's contracts didn't adequately explain or justify future pricing...
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On March 31st, 2026 with 99 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The Trump administration on Monday issued a long-awaited proposed rule to open up retirement plans to...
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On March 23rd, 2026 with 57 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Senators Adam Schiff (D-CA) and John Curtis (R-UT) introduced (PDF) a bill on Monday that could prevent...
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On March 21st, 2026 with 27 comments
"Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper," writes EFF senior policy analyst Joe Mullin.
"That's
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On March 19th, 2026 with 81 comments
Longtime Slashdot reader UnknowingFool writes: Rapper Afroman, born Joseph Edgar Foreman, famous for his 2000 hit "Because I Got High", has won a defamation...
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On March 19th, 2026 with 72 comments
Walmart has secured patents for systems that use machine learning to forecast demand and automate pricing decisions, "pushing the U.S. retail behemoth into a...
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On March 18th, 2026 with 114 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The FBI has resumed purchasing reams of Americans' data and location histories to aid federal...
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On March 17th, 2026 with 65 comments
Arizona has filed criminal charges against Kalshi, accusing it of operating an illegal gambling business. "Kalshi may brand itself as a 'prediction market,'...
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On March 17th, 2026 with 120 comments
Residents in rural Ohio are pushing a constitutional amendment to ban large data centers over 25 megawatts, citing concerns about energy use, water...
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On March 13th, 2026 with 81 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Pitchfork: Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Justice and Live Nation reached a settlement in the DOJ's...
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On March 13th, 2026 with 22 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Milan prosecutors have requested trial for Amazon's European unit and four of its managers over alleged tax...
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On March 7th, 2026 with 47 comments
Indonesia will ban children under 16 from having accounts on major social media platforms as part of a government push to protect minors from harmful content,...
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On March 6th, 2026 with 166 comments
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a filing on Friday that it currently cannot process billions in tariff refunds because its import-processing...
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On March 5th, 2026 with 49 comments
An anti-corruption group has filed a lawsuit (PDF) against Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi over the deal that transferred TikTok's U.S. operations...
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On March 3rd, 2026 with 39 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: Users of Meta's AI smart glasses in Europe may be unknowingly sharing intimate video and sensitive financial...
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On March 2nd, 2026 with 182 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBC.ca: The B.C. government says this Sunday will be the last time British Columbians have to change their clocks. The...
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On February 26th, 2026 with 17 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: It might look like something from the early days of the internet, with its aggressively grey color scheme and rectangles...
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On February 21st, 2026 with 49 comments
Over 240,000 Americans volunteered for Peace Corps projects in 142 countries since the program began more than half a century ago.
But now the agency is...
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On February 20th, 2026 with 228 comments
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down on Friday President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs that he pursued under a law meant for use in national emergencies,...
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On February 19th, 2026 with 55 comments
The U.S. State Department is reportedly developing a site called freedom.gov that would let users in Europe and elsewhere access content restricted under local...
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On February 15th, 2026 with 58 comments
While serving his 25-year prison sentence, "convicted former cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried on Tuesday requested a new federal trial," reports...
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On January 27th, 2026 with 126 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Science.org: Some 10,109 doctoral-trained experts in science and related fields left their jobs last year as President...
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On January 27th, 2026 with 13 comments
Amazon has agreed to pay $309 million and provide additional remedies in a class-action settlement over claims that customers were wrongly denied refunds after...
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On January 23rd, 2026 with 188 comments
California became the first U.S. state to join the World Health Organization's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), one day after the U.S....
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On January 22nd, 2026 with 23 comments
An expanded class-action lawsuit filed last Friday alleges that a member of Nvidia's data strategy team directly contacted Anna's Archive -- the sprawling...
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On January 19th, 2026 with 32 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: NVIDIA executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel...
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On January 19th, 2026 with 53 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): Lawmakers in Washington are once again focusing on kids, screens, and mental...
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On January 19th, 2026 with 36 comments
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC:
Led by Texas and New Hampshire, U.S. states across the national map, both red and blue in political...
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