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January 09, 2026

X’s half-assed attempt to paywall Grok doesn’t block free image editing

Faced with a ban in the United Kingdom, X pushes flawed fix to CSAM problem. ...

January 09, 2026

Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS

Italy fines Cloudflare 14M euros for not blocking pirate sites on 1.1.1.1 DNS service. ...

January 09, 2026

Wi-Fi advocates get win from FCC with vote to allow higher-power devices

FCC says new category of devices "can operate outdoors and at higher power." ...

January 08, 2026

Grok assumes users seeking images of underage girls have “good intent”

Expert explains how simple it could be to tweak Grok to block CSAM outputs. ...

January 07, 2026

Warner Bros. sticks with Netflix merger, calls Paramount’s $108B bid “illusory”

Larry Ellison pledged $40B, but "he didn’t raise the price," Warner chair says. ...

January 07, 2026

Letting prisons jam contraband phones is a bad idea, phone companies tell FCC

"Jamming will block all communications," including 911 calls, CTIA tells FCC. ...

Tech Article

January 06, 2026

Europe’s drone-filled vision for the future of war

Last spring, 3,000 British soldiers of the 4th Light Brigade, also known as the Black Rats, descended upon the damp forests of Estonia’s eastern...

Tech Article

January 06, 2026

Ørsted seeks injunction against US government over project freeze

Trump administration had suspended Danish group’s work on major wind farm off coast of Rhode Island. ...

January 06, 2026

Appeals court agrees that Congress blocked cuts to research costs

The Trump admin can't arbitrarily set university reimbursements to a low flat rate. ...

January 06, 2026

News orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more.

OpenAI's loss in privacy fight could lead to sharing even more deleted chats. ...

January 06, 2026

The nation’s strictest privacy law just took effect, to data brokers’ chagrin

Californians can now submit demands requiring 500 brokers to delete their data. ...

January 05, 2026

Anna’s Archive loses .org domain, says suspension likely unrelated to Spotify piracy

"We don't believe this has to do with our Spotify backup," Anna's Archive says. ...

Policy Articles

X’s half-assed attempt to paywall Grok doesn’t block free image editing

Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS

Wi-Fi advocates get win from FCC with vote to allow higher-power devices

Grok assumes users seeking images of underage girls have “good intent”

Warner Bros. sticks with Netflix merger, calls Paramount’s $108B bid “illusory”

Letting prisons jam contraband phones is a bad idea, phone companies tell FCC

Europe’s drone-filled vision for the future of war

Ørsted seeks injunction against US government over project freeze

Appeals court agrees that Congress blocked cuts to research costs

News orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more.

The nation’s strictest privacy law just took effect, to data brokers’ chagrin

Anna’s Archive loses .org domain, says suspension likely unrelated to Spotify piracy