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Study: Field Drug Tests Generate Nearly 30,000 Bogus Arrests A Year

Field drug tests often seem to be more a triumph of imagination than a triumph of science. They’re cheap. Some popular tests run less than $3/per. That’s the literal selling point. When in doubt, a cop...

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Google Supports Oregon ‘Right To Repair’ Reform

Big tech companies have long attempted to monopolize repair options to boost their profits, whether we’re talking about tractors, phones, or game consoles. But in recent years companies like Apple and...

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 376: Beeper And The Power Of Protocols

Last month, we wrote about Apple’s nonsensical attack on Beeper, a universal messaging app that exemplifies many of the things we talk about here on Techdirt, like adversarial interoperability and the...

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My Comments To Attorney General Rob Bonta Regarding Common Sense Media’s...

Last week I noted that the improperly named Common Sense Media had submitted a very problematic and dangerous California ballot initiative that aims to hold social media companies liable should any...

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Colorado Journalist Says Fuck Prior Restraint, Dares Court To Keep Violating...

Most courts recognize prior restraint as a First Amendment violation. Most courts. Not all. And the lower you go on the judicial organization chart, the more likely you are to run into a judge who...

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Daily Deal: Headway Premium

Headway 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, summarized...

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Amazon Brand Spammers Are Getting Lazy, And Letting Failed ChatGPT Queries...

If you buy products on Amazon, you’re well aware of the Amazon brand spammers. These tend to be drop shippers or small (often Chinese) operations trying to sell knockoffs of whatever products might...

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Verizon, AT&T Face ‘High Priority’ EPA Inquiry Over Lead In Telecom Cables

While the telecom industry did manage to successfully defang U.S. consumer protection regulators for the better part of the last decade, they’re still facing some notable headwinds. Broadband growth...

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