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The Download: the US digital rights crackdown, and AI companionship (technologyreview.com)

2026-01-19 | by Charlotte Jee | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: ai companionship, chatbots, companionship

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Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU's roll-back of digital rights (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-19 | get Artificial → | tags: big tech, commission, digital

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Minnesota wants to win a war of attrition (theverge.com)

2026-01-17 | by Sarah Jeong | get Nuclear reactors → | tags: cities, city, minneapolis

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Netflix's expanded Sony deal includes streaming rights to the Legend of Zelda movie (engadget.com)

2026-01-15 | get The Legend of Zelda → | tags: deal, films, netflix

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Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales on where the name comes from (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-01-15 | get Wikipedia → | tags: approach, approach external, bbc responsible

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Critics pan spyware maker NSO’s transparency claims amid its push to enter US market (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-08 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | get Spyware → | tags: rights, spyware, transparency

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Stingless Bees From the Amazon Granted Legal Rights in World First (slashdot.org)

2025-12-29 | by Posted | get Stingless Bees → | tags: affirms essential, amazon, bees

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The Environmental and Human Rights Costs of China’s Clean Energy Investments Abroad (wired.com)

2025-12-27 | by Nicholas Kusnetz | get Solar panels → | tags: battery, battery factories, chinese

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Copy of Grand Theft Auto that runs in a web browser gets taken down by DMCA — Take Two says DOS Zone infringed company’s intellectual property rights despite disclaimers and requirement to own original copy of title for full game (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-26 | by Jowi Morales | get Grand Theft Auto → | tags: city, game, online

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Judge Hints Vizio TV Buyers May Have Rights To Source Code Licensed Under GPL (slashdot.org)

2025-12-18 | get Vizio TV → | tags: code, leal, source

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The inside story of the effort to build the world’s first octopus farm, animal rights activists be damned (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-18 | get Aquarium → | tags: aquaculture, aquaculture way, balancing

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The inside story of the effort to build the world’s first octopus farm—animal rights activists be damned (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-18 | get Aquarium → | tags: aquaculture, aquaculture way, balancing

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Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-18 | by Thomas Claburn | get Vizio TV → | tags: code, leal, legal

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Trump Orders States Not to Protect Children From Predatory AI (futurism.com)

2025-12-14 | by Joe Wilkins | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: kids, order, rights

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Ron DeSantis Proposes AI Bill of Rights as Trump Says He’ll Kill State AI Laws (gizmodo.com)

2025-12-08 | get AI Bill of Rights → | tags: ai laws, ai rights, desantis

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Maker of ICE-Tracking App Says Trump Officials Violated Free-Speech Rights (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2025-12-08 | get ICE Tracking App → | tags: app platform, apple, apple dropped

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The unexpected history of those oh-so annoying internet popup ads (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2025-12-07 | get Display Ad → | tags: approach, approach external, bbc responsible

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The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-05 | get Carbon Capture Technology → | tags: competitiveness, csddd, new window

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The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library (slashdot.org)

2025-12-03 | get Library DVD → | tags: access, access titles, altogether

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Norway wealth fund to vote for human rights report at Microsoft, against Nadella (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-30 | get Microsoft Report → | tags: fund, fund said, house

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Apple again sued over alleged conflict mineral issues in Congo and Rwanda (9to5mac.com)

2025-11-26 | by Marcus Mendes | get Conflict minerals → | tags: apple, illegal, iradvocates

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Attorneys general are fighting for states’ rights to regulate AI (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-11-25 | get AI Regulation → | tags: ability, ability states, administration

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Activists are simulating ICE raids in GTA and Fortnite to teach immigrant rights (techspot.com)

2025-11-22 | get Simulated Raid → | tags: activism, activism emerging, activists

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Warner signs AI music licensing deal with Udio (engadget.com)

2025-11-19 | get Music licensing → | tags: artists, creation, music

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A New ‘Star Trek’ Comic Gives Uhura the Full Spotlight (gizmodo.com)

2025-11-17 | get Communication Device → | tags: black, black history, civil

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Opinion | AI Is a Tool, Not a Soul (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2025-11-13 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: beings, beings rights, chatbots

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Reddit mod jailed for sharing movie sex scenes in rare “moral rights” verdict (arstechnica.com)

2025-11-11 | tags: danish, klammerefyr, moral

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AI Has Sent Copyright Laws Into Chaos. What You Need to Know About Your Rights Online (cnet.com)

2025-11-11 | by See Full Bio | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: copyright, copyrighted, fair

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Unexpected things that are people (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-10 | by Ben Goldhaber | get Smartphones → | tags: legal, property, rights

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Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race (gizmodo.com)

2025-11-07 | get Data Warehouse → | tags: eat hotdog, flirt, flirt isn