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Last year you might recall how Elon Musk’s dodgy DOGE bros illegally stole vast troves of government datasets. Some of these random, unqualified assholes stole data simply using USB drives. B…
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Among the dated and dumb business concepts exposed as folly during the COVID-19 pandemic was the traditional Hollywood film release window, which originally involved a 90 day gap between the time a…
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Despite already enjoying a voting majority, the GOP has simply flat out refused to appoint any new Democratic Commissioners to the nation’s top media and telecom regulator, the FCC. They̵…
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For years I’ve noted that while Elon Musk’s low-Earth-orbit (LEO) Starlink satellite broadband system can be very useful for people with no other options (war zones, RVs, boats, rural Americans), t…
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Israeli spy outfit Discover-Tech spied on internet users through a sprawling network of dodgy online ads that it used to track, surveil, and geolocate internet users. In some instances simply havi…
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One cornerstone of Elon Musk’s fraud-packed SpaceX IPO prospectus includes the claim that they’ll extremely quickly (as in a year or two) boost Starlink subscriber totals from 13 millio…
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Recently, reports emerged that LG TVs are sniffing around your local network, and even listening to your local environment, even when the TV is purportedly “off.” Some of those voice commands…
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For more than a generation, U.S. media academics have warned anybody who’d listen that the death of your local newspaper and the steady consolidation of local TV broadcasters was creating either “n…
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Ideally, I think it makes sense to open up the U.S. market to Chinese goods (AI, EVs, robots), but have functional and well-funded regulators that police all labor, competition, environmental, priv…
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I recently noted how California’s being told by the Trump administration that it can’t enforce any of its own telecom consumer protection laws if it wants to receive $1.4 billion dollars Congress a…