Netflix To Buy Warner Bros For $82.7 Billion, But Trump FCC, DOJ Could Intervene For All The Wong Reasons So Netflix has announced that it’s buying Warner Brothers Discovery (including HBO) for a whopping $82.7 billion. As we’ve well covered, it’s the latest in a long series of pointless Warner mergers stretching back to the 2001 AOL acquisition, which all resulted in oodles of chaos, price hikes, layoffs, and generally a steady erosion in […]
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Netflix To Buy Warner Bros For $82.7 Billion, But Trump FCC, DOJ Could Intervene For All The Wrong Reasons
So Netflix has announced that it’s buying Warner Brothers Discovery (including HBO) for a whopping $82.7 billion. As we’ve well covered...
Techdirt Podcast Episode 439: The Resonant Computing Manifesto Support us on Patreon » Earlier today, we joined in announcing the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call for restoring a culture of technology that empowers users and enriches their lives. The manifesto was created by a group led by Alex Komoroske, and today Alex joins the podcast for a deeper dive into what “resonant computing” means […]
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Techdirt Podcast Episode 439: The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Support us on Patreon » Earlier today, we joined in announcing the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call for restoring a culture of technology...
Radicalized Anti-AI Activist Should Be A Wake Up Call For Doomer Rhetoric A cofounder of a Bay Area “Stop AI” activist group abandoned its commitment to nonviolence, assaulted another member, and made statements that left the group worried he might obtain a weapon to use against AI researchers. The threats prompted OpenAI to lock down its San Francisco offices a few weeks ago. In researching this movement, I […]
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Radicalized Anti-AI Activist Should Be A Wake Up Call For Doomer Rhetoric
A cofounder of a Bay Area “Stop AI” activist group abandoned its commitment to nonviolence, assaulted another member, and made statements that ...
Colorado Judge Says ICE Can’t Arrest People Without A Warrant The Trump administration is so sure it can get away with anything that it’s willing to try anything. That misapprehension of the situation has resulted in at least 200 rulings against the administration’s anti-immigrant efforts. Still, the regime persists with its attempts to brute force constitutional rights out of existence. Like it or not, MAGA […]
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Colorado Judge Says ICE Can’t Arrest People Without A Warrant
The Trump administration is so sure it can get away with anything that it’s willing to try anything. That misapprehension of the situation ha...
Daily Deal: The Complete Raspberry Pi And Alexa A-Z Bundle Learn Raspberry Pi and start building Amazon Alexa projects with The Complete Raspberry Pi and Alexa A-Z Bundle. Catered for all levels, these project-based courses will get you up and running with the basics of Pi, before escalating to full projects. Before you know it, you’ll be building a gaming system to play old Nintendo, […]
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Daily Deal: The Complete Raspberry Pi And Alexa A-Z Bundle
Learn Raspberry Pi and start building Amazon Alexa projects with The Complete Raspberry Pi and Alexa A-Z Bundle. Catered for all levels, these proj...
Bring Back Innovation That Empowers, Rather Than Extracts: The Resonant Computing Manifesto Everyone’s pissed at the tech industry. And for good reason. The term enshittification is super popular for many valid reasons. Companies that used to provide real value, are now focused on extracting more value from users, rather than improving their products and services. People used to be excited by new innovations. There was a time […]
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Bring Back Innovation That Empowers, Rather Than Extracts: The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Everyone’s pissed at the tech industry. And for good reason. The term enshittification is super popular for many valid reasons. Companies tha...
John Oliver Auction Raises $1.5 Million For Public Broadcasting Not that long ago, John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight did a good bit on why public broadcasting is important. The segment features a lot of insight from Penn State media professor Victor Pickard, whose work on the (many) problems with modern consolidated U.S. corporate media has always been essential reading: But Oliver also walked the […]
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John Oliver Auction Raises $1.5 Million For Public Broadcasting
Not that long ago, John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight did a good bit on why public broadcasting is important. The segment features a lot of insi...
ACIP Meets To Decide If More Newborns Need To Catch Hepatitis B ACIP is meeting this week, which means we all get to clench our sphincters as we await whatever small, medium, or large sized horrors will come out of this panel of clowns. It wasn’t always this way. ACIP, and the larger CDC, used to be the world standard when it came to government bodies dedicated […]
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ACIP Meets To Decide If More Newborns Need To Catch Hepatitis B
ACIP is meeting this week, which means we all get to clench our sphincters as we await whatever small, medium, or large sized horrors will come out...
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Stuck In The Middleware With Youth 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, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online […]
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Stuck In The Middleware With Youth
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation’s Ben Whitelaw. Su...
Like Apple, Google’s AI News Tech Misinterprets Stories, Generates Gibberish Headlines Despite all the recent hype about “AI,” the technology still struggles with very basic things and remains prone to significant errors. Which makes it maybe not the best idea to rush the nascent technology into widespread adoption in industries prone to all sorts of deep-rooted problems already (like say, health insurance, or journalism). We’ve already […]
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Like Apple, Google’s AI News Tech Misinterprets Stories, Generates Gibberish Headlines
Despite all the recent hype about “AI,” the technology still struggles with very basic things and remains prone to significant errors. ...