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AI Systems Out-Persuade Expert Humans, Including Professional Canvassers And World Championship Debaters

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AI systems out-persuade expert humans, AI systems out-persuade expert humans. Panic?

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Trump Officials Want To Use Human Rights Aid To Advocate For White South Africans And Right-Wing Causes In Europe

Techdirt7w7 weeks agoHN Covered by210 min read

Technical Difficulties, US Dept of State: The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, and more ›

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Above the Law, Diary of a Fat Slob ›

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Administration Admits It’s Canceling Federal Grants For Purely Political Reasons

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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him, DOE Admits in Court It Canceled Grants Based on Whether a State Voted Blue, and more ›

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Judge Rejects Google’s Attempt To DMCA Its Way Out Of Being Scraped

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H, Google v. SerpApi: The Court Granted Our Motion to Dismiss

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Daily Deal: ExamsDigest for CompTIA, AWS, Microsoft & More

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Protester Charged With Destroying Property After Giving CBP Agents His GrapheneOS ‘Duress’ Mode Passcode

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Electronic Frontier Foundation, US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system, and more ›

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Court Partially Reverses Trump Attacks On Law That Tried To Make Sure Broadband Deployment Isn’t Racist

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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

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Trump Fires Court-Appointed US Attorney One Hour After Appointment, Immediately Gets Sued

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COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF Case No. 2:26 -cv-02566 MUNGER, TOLLES & OLSON LLP 350 South Grand Avenue, Fiftieth Floor Los Angeles, California 90071 -3426 (213)..., Trump Administration Fires U.S. Attorney Minutes After His Appointment

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DOJ Withdraws NY Times Subpoenas After Judge Notices It Never Bothered To Follow The Rules For Subpoenaing Reporters

Techdirt8w8 weeks ago4 min read

Government withdraws subpoenas of 3 reporters for The New York Times after admitting legal errors, Trump’s DOJ says it will withdraw subpoenas targeting NY Times reporters

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Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Live At TrustCon 2026

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OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident, Security incident disclosure — July 2026, and more ›

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Election Commission Says Musk Likely Broke The Law By Paying Voters. Will Anyone Do Anything About It?

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Daily Deal: The Complete Raspberry Pi And Alexa A-Z Bundle

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Administration Accelerating Immigration Hearings To Ensure Migrants Miss New Court Dates

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Immigration courts are using a new tactic to speed up deportations, Deportation Orders Soar in NYC as Trump ‘Mega Master’ Hearings Accelerate

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Brendan Carr Lobs More Empty Threats At ABC For Not Airing Trump’s Election Fraud Lies

Techdirt8w8 weeks ago3 min read

After Trump Threat, FCC Chairman Says ABC’s Decision Not To Carry POTUS Speech Likely To Be Raised In Early Review Of Broadcast Licenses

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Caleb Williams, George Gervin, An ‘Iceman’ Trademark And Insulated Boots…Oh My?

Techdirt8w8 weeks ago4 min read

QB Williams' attempt to trademark 'Iceman' denied

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“Digital Colonialism”: U.S. Demands To Access Africans’ Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns

Techdirt8w8 weeks ago15 min read

“Digital Colonialism”: U.S. Demands to Access Africans’ Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns, Technical Difficulties, and more ›

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The FTC’s National Nanny Returns: AI Edition

Techdirt8w8 weeks ago5 min read

25-332 Trump v. Slaughter (06/29/2026) - 25-332_qn12.pdf

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