TorrentFreak – Cloudflare Starts Blocking Pirate Sites For UK Users – That’s a Pretty Big Deal

Jul 152025
 

Internet service providers BT, Virgin Media, Sky, TalkTalk, EE, and Plusnet account for the majority of the UK’s residential internet market and as a result, blocking injunctions previously obtained at the High Court often list these companies as respondents.
These so-called “no fault’ injunctions stopped being adversarial a long time ago; ISPs indicate in advance they won’t contest a blocking order against various pirate sites, and typically that’s good enough for the Court to issue an order with which they subsequently comply.
For more than 15 years, this has led to blocking being carried out as close to users as possible, with ISPs’ individual blocking measures doing the heavy lifting. A new wave of blocking targeting around…

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Deeplinks – Despite Supreme Court Setback, EFF Fights On Against Online Age Mandates

Jul 152025
 

The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton did not end the legal debate over age-verification mandates for websites. Instead, it’s a limited decision: the court’s legal reasoning only applies to age restrictions on sexual materials that minors do not have a legal right to access. Although the ruling reverses decades of First Amendment protections for adults to access lawful speech online, the decision does not allow states or the federal government to impose broader age-verification mandates on social media, general audience websites, or app stores.
At EFF, we continue to fight age-verification mandates in the many other contexts in which we see them throughout the country and the world. These “age gates” remain…

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jwz – ICE agents brandish rifles, drive through protesters in S.F.

Jul 082025
 

Mission Local: The clash started at 11:18 a.m. on Tuesday when around 10 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, almost all with faces covered, tried to enter the courthouse at 100 Montgomery St. to escort other agents already inside who had a young immigrant man in custody. ICE has been routinely arresting asylum-seekers following their immigration hearings, and anti-ICE protesters had gathered at the courthouse that morning, as they said they’ve been doing every Tuesday. […] Protesters tried to grab the man in handcuffs and pull him away from officers, but were tossed back by the ICE agents. As police pulled the man back into a waiting black SUV and began driving away, protesters jumped onto…

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Techdirt. – ICE Using Repurposed Border Facial Recognition Tech To ID Protesters, Activists, And Migrants On US Streets

Jul 072025
 

The Trump Administration’s constant escalation of its mass deportation programs now means ICE, CBP, and other federal agencies must come up with thousands of arrests a day. This never had anything to do with removing criminals from the country and, even if you once believed that might be the case, an unending string of raids by ICE has clearly demonstrated this is all about removing as many non-whites from the US as possible.
Keeping up with the administration’s body count demands means ICE has been forced to pull out all the stops. Fortunately for ICE, the administration is pitching in with the PULL ALL THE STOPS process, flooding the Los Angeles area with thousands of military…

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Techdirt. – DOGE Cuts Turned A Predicted Disaster Into A Deadly Reality In Texas

Jul 072025
 

On Thursday, literally the day before flash flooding devastated Texas, the Texas Observer published an article warning that “Trump’s DOGE Cuts Are a Texas-Sized Disaster,” explaining how cuts to both the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) would likely lead to disaster for Texas.
Twenty-four hours later, those predictions came true with horrifying precision. And as with so many tragic situations, rather than examining how their own policies contributed to the death toll, Republican politicians are talking about prayers, as if that’s the only thing that can be done. Texas’s Governor Abbott announced a day of prayer, claiming that “prayer works.” Speaker of the House Mike Johnson claimed that “all…

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Ballot Access News – President Trump Says New Political Parties are Bad for Society

Jul 072025
 

On June 6, President Trump wrote, “The one thing Third Parties are good for is the creation of Complete and Total Disruption and Chaos, and we have enough of that with the Radical Left Democrats.”
The ability of the people to form new parties is the essence of a free society.  In 1990 the United States signed the Document of the Copenhagen Meeting, part of the Helsinki Accords process.  We promised to “respect the right of individuals and groups to establish, in full freedom, their own political parties or other political organizations and provide such political parties and organizations with the necessary legal guarantees to enable them to compete with each other on a basis of equal…

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The Register – AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them aren’t AI at all

Jul 012025
 

More fiction than science

Analysis  IT consultancy Gartner predicts that more than 40 percent of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by the end of 2027 due to rising costs, unclear business value, or insufficient risk controls.…

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INDY Week – Raleigh Scraps Six Forks Road Widening Project

Jul 012025
 

It was a project more than 10 years in the making, but today, the Raleigh City Council voted unanimously to scrap planned improvements to the Six Forks Road corridor.  Two successful municipal transportation bonds—one on voters’ ballots in 2013 and one in 2017—were supposed to have paid for the improvements that, in 2020, were given a price tag of $31.3 million. But by 2024, the project’s budget had ballooned to $119 million, and after spending the last year attempting to re-scope the project, the council ultimately decided at its meeting Tuesday afternoon that it is unfeasible. The city already spent more than $9 million on the project, according to city staff.  “This was a corridor project of…

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Deeplinks – Georgia Court Rules for Transparency over Private Police Foundation

Jun 272025
 

A Georgia court has decided that private non-profit Atlanta Police Foundation (APF) must comply with public records requests under the Georgia Open Records Act for some of its functions on behalf of the Atlanta Police Department. This is a major win for transparency in the state. 
 The lawsuit was brought last year by the Atlanta Community Press Collective (ACPC) and Electronic Frontier Alliance member Lucy Parsons Labs (LPL). It concerns the APF’s refusal to disclose records about its role as the leaser and manager of the site of so-called Cop City, the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center at the heart of a years-long battle that pitted local social and environmental movements against the APF. We’ve previously written…

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World Socialist Web Site (en) – How the New York Times launders Zionist slanders against children’s content creator Ms. Rachel

Jun 242025
 

To her credit, Rachel Accurso has used her Instagram presence to oppose the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, and its impact on children in particular.

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jwz – Wayland screenshots

Jun 242025
 

To dip my toes into the oncoming clusterpocalypse that is Wayland, I thought I’d try something “simple”… Let’s see if there’s some way to make XScreenSaver hacks able to grab and manipulate screenshots under XWayland. Here is what I have learned so far: Words mean nothing: a “window manager” is now called a “compositor”, and a “graphical desktop environment” is now called a “shell”. Wayland is not a window system, it is a collection of hundreds or thousands of “extensions” that any given “compositor” (window manager) may or may not implement, à la carte, meaning there are actually dozens or hundreds of “Waylands”, and it’s amazing that anything works at all. There’s…

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World Socialist Web Site (en) – Nationwide protests multiply against fascist ICE raids and military deployment in Los Angeles

Jun 102025
 

The peaceful character of Monday’s protest have not prevented police from instigating violence as they have in previous days.

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TorrentFreak – ICANN’s DNS Blocking Report Presents Three Key Recommendations

Jun 102025
 

In 2006 alone, Russia-based AllOfMP3 reportedly banked $30 million from sales of an unauthorized music product for which the major labels received no payment.
The unlikely stage for the industry’s response to global sales of cheap, unlicensed DRM-free music, was Denmark. Under pressure from industry group IFPI, ISP Tele2 blocked AllofMP3’s domain, an event that will soon celebrate its 20th anniversary.
While never likely to threaten the site’s overall traffic, the Danish block was at once symbolic and historic. Nineteen years later, Denmark has almost 2,800 domains on its current blocklist, a figure that’s easily eclipsed by the tens of thousands of domains and subdomains blocked globally every month, largely without report or fanfare.
ICANN Publishes DNS Blocking Report
The…

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jwz – Waymo is a Cop

Jun 102025
 

Waymo Pauses Service in Downtown LA Neighborhood Where They’re Getting Lit on Fire: The fact that Waymos need to use video cameras that are constantly recording their surroundings in order to function means that police have begun to look at them as sources of surveillance footage. […] The fact is that police have begun to look at anything with a camera as a source of surveillance that they are entitled to for whatever reasons they choose. So even though driverless cars nominally have nothing to do with law enforcement, police are treating them as though they are their own roving surveillance cameras. Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously,…

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Deeplinks – San Diegans Push Back on Flock ALPR Surveillance

Jun 032025
 

Approaching San Diego’s first annual review of the city’s controversial Flock Safety contract, a local coalition is calling on the city council to roll back this dangerous and costly automated license plate reader (ALPR) program.
The TRUST Coalition—a grassroots alliance including Electronic Frontier Alliance members Tech Workers Coalition San Diego and techLEAD—has rallied to stop the unchecked spread of ALPRs in San Diego. We’ve previously covered the coalition’s fight for surveillance oversight, a local effort kicked off by a “smart streetlight” surveillance program five years ago. 
In 2024, San Diego installed hundreds of AI-assisted ALPR cameras throughout the city to document what cars are driving where and when, then making that data accessible for 30 days.
ALPRs like Flock’s…

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Ars Technica – Uncertainty loomed as FDA advisors met to discuss this year’s COVID shot

May 232025
 

Expert advisors for the Food and Drug Administration met Thursday to discuss which virus strain this year’s updated COVID-19 vaccines should target. The advisors have been meeting around this time each year for such a strain selection, a routine decision in the process of updating the life-saving vaccines.
But this year’s meeting was awkward and even a little tense. Earlier this week, new FDA leaders under health secretary and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a sweeping new framework that would restrict access to the shots, making them available only to people 65 and older and those with medical conditions that put them at risk of severe illness. For updated COVID-19 vaccines to be approved for…

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World Socialist Web Site (en) – The demoralized pessimism of Chris Hedges’ “New Dark Age”

May 202025
 

Chris Hedges transfers blame for the crimes of the Israeli-Zionist state and capitalist imperialism to the entire human race. Gaza, he proclaims, proves the futility of any belief in human progress.

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