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| 07.07.2025 | Trump Signs ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ With Major Tax Breaks For US Chipmakers | US President Donald Trump. Image: The White House
US President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” was signed into law on July 4. While it didn’t impose a moratorium on state-level artificial intelligence laws as anticipated, it did include... |
| 22.12.2024 | Verisign получила патент на инструмент подбора доменных имён с помощью нейросети | Патентное и товарное ведомство США выдало Verisign патент под названием «Глубокая нейронная сеть для генерации доменных имен».
Патент выдан регистратуре общего домена верхнего уровня .com. Он описывает инструмент для подбора доступных для р... |
| 30.11.2024 | Verisign продлила контракт с ICANN на управление доменом .com на следующие 6 лет | Verisign объявила о продлении контракта с ICANN на эксплуатацию домена .com на следующие шесть лет. Контракт предусматривает повышение цены на домен на 7 % в последние четыре года продления контракта. Предыдущее повышение до $10,26 состояло... |
| 15.11.2024 | ICANN's New Rules: A Game Changer for Domain Auctions and Governance | The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has taken a bold step. New rules are now in place, shaking up the domain name landscape. These changes are not just tweaks; they are a complete overhaul of how domain names are... |
| 15.11.2024 | ICANN запретила частные аукционы и заявки на схожие домены | Совет директоров ICANN утвердил два новых запрета для второго этапа программы New gTLD. Теперь нельзя проводить частные аукционы на домены и подавать заявки на схожие домены.
Так, конкуренты не смогут договариваться о частных выплатах за от... |
| 13.08.2024 | Великобритания начала официальное расследование связей Amazon с ИИ-стартапом Anthropic | Британский антимонопольный регулятор подтвердил, что проводит официальное расследование по поводу связей Amazon с Anthropic, после того как Amazon недавно завершила инвестиции в стартап в области искусственного интеллекта в размере $4 млрд.... |
| 02.07.2024 | НКО в США обвинили Verisign в монополии в регистрации доменов .com | Американский проект экономических свобод, Фонд образования Demand Progress и Revolving Door Project обратились в Национальное управление телекоммуникаций и информации (NTIA) и Министерство юстиции (DOJ) с призывом прекратить монополию Veris... |
| 13.06.2024 | YouTube's Growing Influence in the Living Room Sparks Antitrust Concerns | In a digital age dominated by tech giants, YouTube's ascent as a powerhouse in the realm of home entertainment has raised red flags among tech and competition watchdog groups. These groups are now calling on the US Department of Justice to ... |
| 12.06.2024 | Watchdog Group Calls for Antitrust Probe into YouTube's Home Entertainment Dominance | By John Lopez
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| 12.06.2024 | YouTube critics ask US to probe video site's 'living room dominance' | Tech and competition watchdog groups have called on the US Department of Justice to probe YouTube, saying the video-streaming platform could enable Google and its parent company, Alphabet, to dominate home entertainment.
In a letter to Just... |
| 17.04.2023 | Крепкое печатное слово: об онлайн-библиотеках и авторском праве. Дайджест ко Дню книг | 23 апреля — Всемирный день книг и авторского права. А значит, и ещё одна памятная дата, важная для Хабра, потому что он сам — и большая книга, и книгохранилище, и собрание знаний и опыта сотен тысяч людей (я говорю только о тех, кто публико... |
| 15.12.2022 | Congress Is About To Make This Post Telling You When To Celebrate SCOTUS Justice Birthdays Illegal | The US Supreme Court has a big year ahead with lots of weighty matters to consider in 2023. But the seriousness of their job doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate each justice’s special day! If you would like to know when to fill your heart with ... |
| 18.01.2022 | How The SOPA Blackout Happened | “[Historical knowledge] gives understanding of how the present world came to be, and maybe more importantly, an appreciation that everything that is, never necessarily had to be” -from “History as Freedom” —Joe Costello, longtime political ... |
| 18.01.2022 | How The SOPA Blackout Happened | "[Historical knowledge] gives understanding of how the present world came to be, and maybe more importantly, an appreciation that everything that is, never necessarily had to be" -from "History as Freedom" —Joe Costello,... |
| 07.06.2019 | DIGIT Tech News Roundup: 7th of June 2019 | DIGIT’s Top Trending Stories Aberdeen Students use Video Tech to Recreate ‘Earliest Pictish Fort’
Students from the University of Aberdeen have recreated what one of the earliest known Pictish forts may have looked like in a 3D animation.
A... |
| 06.06.2019 | Online Tool Launched to Help Airline Passengers Avoid Facial Recognition | A tool has been launched by privacy rights groups to help travellers avoid the ‘invasive’ tech in US airports, amid growing concerns over the use of facial recognition technology.
A host of rights organisations, including Fight for the Futu... |
| 16.01.2018 | All Democrats and one Republican support net neutrality bill in Senate | Enlarge / Democrats vs. Republicans.
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| 13.12.2017 | A Republican lawmaker urges FCC to delay net neutrality repeal vote | Enlarge
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| 12.12.2017 | How Reddit and others “broke the Internet” to support net neutrality today | reader comments 201 with 117 posters participating
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| 11.07.2017 | How Companies Are Marking the Battle for the Net Protest | July 11, 2017 9 min read
This Wednesday, some of your favorite websites and apps might not load as quickly as usual -- if they load at all.
Before you express outrage (or throw your device across the room in frustration), take note: The com... |
| 07.07.2017 | Spotify, Google, Tons of Other Companies Will Protest to Save Net Neutrality | Name a website or service that's part of your everyday life—music, social media, porn, news—and a company providing it has probably joined the battle for net neutrality.
Spotify, Facebook, Google, and ThinkGeek announced Friday that they'd ... |
| 15.06.2017 | Netflix Has Rejoined the Fight for Net Neutrality | Netflix announced today that it will participate in the day of protest to preserve net neutrality.
On July 12, the video streaming company will join Amazon, Reddit, Pornhub, Imgur, and more to incorporate slowed-down or disrupted service to... |
| 14.06.2017 | Pornhub Will Show Its 75 Million Daily Visitors Why Net Neutrality Matters | "Hell hath no fury like the internet scorned," Evan Greer, campaign director of advocacy group Fight for the Future, told Motherboard in April. We should all shudder to think of the potential fury from an internet cut off from acc... |
| 07.06.2017 | Amazon, Kickstarter, Reddit, YC join ‘save net neutrality’ protest planned for July 12 | A day of protest over the FCC’s controversial proposal to eliminate net neutrality rules has been planned for July 12, with supporters of the online action including the likes of Amazon, Etsy, Github, Kickstarter, Reddit and Y Combinator.
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| 18.01.2017 | The day the internet stood still | Keep Watch Stay Free Campaign Contributor
This has been a collaboration featuring content from Access Now, Center for Democracy and Technology, Consumer Technology Association, Demand Progress, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Engine, Fight ... |
| 04.09.2014 | The 'Internet Slowdown' Is Coming: Tech Giants to Protest FCC's Net Neutrality Proposal | September 4, 2014 2 min read
On September 15, the Federal Communications Commission will stop taking public comments on its net neutrality proposal. The proposal would allow for the creation of Internet "fast lanes" to those with ... |
| 09.07.2014 | “Internet’s Own Boy”: The Life & Legacy of Aaron Swartz | Editor’s note: This post was originally published by our partners at bio.
Aaron Swartz started computer programming at a very young age. First it was a Star Wars trivia game he made with his brother, but soon it was more than just kid stuff... |
| 12.01.2014 | Aaron Swartz documentary clip reveals his thoughts on the 'spying program' & the NSA (video) | One year after the death of Aaron Swartz, a group of Internet activists joined up to protest against what they call “mass suspicionless surveillance.”
The effort, dubbed “the day we fight back,” sets out a number of ways for the general pub... |
| 17.10.2013 | This is Fight for the Future’s crowdsourced anti-NSA video (and it’s awesome) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Actress Evangeline Lilly narrates the newest effo... |
| 17.10.2013 | This is Fight for the Future’s crowdsourced anti-NSA video (and it’s awesome) | Actress Evangeline Lilly narrates the newest effort by Fight for the Future and Demand Progress to wake up the American public to what those organizations say is illegal surveillance by the NSA and other organizations with programs like Pri... |
| 03.10.2013 | Donate What You Want For The Important eBook On Internet Freedom At The Techdirt Insider Shop | Earlier this year, we wrote about constitutional lawyer Marvin Ammori’s excellent book On Internet Freedom, which highlights a variety of different battles concerning internet freedom — many of which we talk about here every day. If you rea... |
| 08.04.2013 | Advocacy groups call for ‘week of action’ to change the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
In the months since programmer and activist Aaron... |
| 31.01.2013 | Remembering Aaron Swartz: We need to take care of each other | For last one week one of the events that moved me deeply & clouded my heart with unknown sadness is unexpected death of internet and open-access activist Aaron Swartz. I never heard of Aaron until he took his life last week after relent... |
| 15.01.2013 | We need more people like Aaron Swartz | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
I spent much of the past few days thinking about ... |
| 15.01.2013 | We need more people like Aaron Swartz | I spent much of the past few days thinking about Aaron Swartz and what a loss we suffered when he took his own life last week.
His passing breaks my heart. I didn’t know him, though he was in my circle: I know many people who knew him well.... |
| 14.01.2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (Social Retail Summit, Twitter NYC Talk, Enterprise Tech Meetup, Tech Drinkup, Bronx Tech Meetup, Music Hackathon, Hardware Startup) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| 14.01.2013 | In Response To Aaron's Death: Don't Take Down, Build Up; Don't Attack, But Share | I’ve already written some basic thoughts on the death of Aaron Swartz, and I know that more will be forthcoming, but within the justifiable anger out in the world over this turn of events, there are some reports suggesting that DDoS attacks... |
| 12.01.2013 | Digital Activist Aaron Swartz Dead At 26 | Digital activist and early employee at Reddit, Aaron Swartz, committed suicide in New York on January 11. He was 26.
Swartz was a fiery proponent of Internet freedom and the founder of DemandProgress.org. He was a co-creator of the RSS 1.0 ... |
| 12.01.2013 | Web pioneer and activist Aaron Swartz dead at 26 | (Updated)
Aaron Swartz, a cofounder of Reddit, coinventor of RSS, and high-profile activist for open data, has committed suicide, according to MIT newspaper The Tech. He was 26.
The list of Swartz’s contributions to the Internet is long. At... |
| 07.09.2012 | MPAA Takes Demonoid Screenshots…. | Demonoid is gone, for the time being at least.
Last month the servers in the Ukraine were pulled offline and an investigation into the site’s alleged owners is ongoing in Mexico.
Demonoid’s admins have yet to release an official statement o... |
| 24.01.2012 | The MegaUpload Shutdown Hampers Innovation | Over the weekend there have been numerous reports on the fallout of the MegaUpload raids, many addressing the issue what it means for tech startups who just thought they were a bit safer when PIPA and SOPA got delayed.
Needless to say there... |
| 13.12.2011 | They Work For The Internet: Behind Silicon Alley All-Stars’ Marathon Coding Session at Tumblr to Fight Against Congress | DAVID KARP DOESN’T SEEM LIKELY FOR POLITICS. When the Tumblr founder and CEO explains what happened over the weekend, he speaks about it in his typically blazing conversational speed, a full paragraph at a time, with the intensity of someon... |
| 20.07.2011 | Start-Up News: Early Reddit Employee Faces Up to 35 Years in Jail for Downloading 4.8 Million Journal Articles | Mr. Swartz. (Photo: Facebook)
AARON SWARTZ ARRESTED. “Shocking news: Moments ago former Demand Progress Executive Director Aaron Swartz was indicted by the US government,” Demand Progress’s David Segal said in an email blast yesterday. “As ... |
| 19.07.2011 | Programmer accused of stealing 4 million documents in MIT hack | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
A 24-year-old programmer and online political act... |
| 19.07.2011 | Feds Charge Aaron Swartz With Felony Hacking… For Downloading A Ton Of Academic Research | Well, the big story making the rounds today has been the charges filed against Aaron Swartz by US prosecutors for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act — a law that is all too often been abused by the feds to attack people they don’t l... |
| 19.07.2011 | Demand Progress Founder Arrested for Downloading Academic Articles | Aaron Schwartz, the founder of Demand Progress and former employee of Reddit was arrested today for downloading too many academic articles.
Demand Progress, a group dedicated to fighting Internet censorship, reports:
“Moments ago, Aaron Swa... |
| 18.07.2011 | Senator Gillibrand Thinks PROTECT IP Is About The Internet Kill Switch | Last week, we wrote about how Rep. Anna Eshoo (whose district covers much of Silicon Valley) is apparently so incredibly out of touch on what PROTECT IP is about (despite it having a huge impact on the economy of her district) that she thou... |
| 10.06.2011 | MPAA Attacks Demand Progress With Ridiculous & Unsubstantiated Claims | Demand Progress is an online activist group that runs campaigns to get lots of people involved on political issues that impact the internet, innovation and free speech. You can see the list of campaigns that it’s working on currently, and y... |
| 18.11.2010 | Senate Committee Passes Bill To Quash Pirate Websites | As was demonstrated earlier this year, taking the domains of suspected sites has proven to be a highly effective tool to shut down sites that are considered illegal. In September, a group of U.S. senators proposed legislation to make this a... |
| 28.09.2010 | Tim Berners-Lee Comes Out Against COICA Censorship Bill; Shouldn't You? | We’ve already discussed what a dreadful bill the “Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act,” (COICA) bill would be. It’s an effort to censor the internet without due process. As we recently discussed, similar laws in the past woul... |