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The Government Told Courts It Could Easily Refund Unlawful Tariffs. Now It Says It Can’t.
When companies sued to block Trump’s IEEPA tariffs last year, one of the key arguments they made was obvious: if these tariffs turn out to be illegal, we’ll never get our money back. We need an in...

If You’re Going To Defend AI And Whine About Its Critics, You Should Probably Be Honest About Its Actual Harms
I think this recent post by AI industry CEO Matt Shumer is worth a read. In it, he basically explains how quickly LLMs (large language models) are evolving to supplant many developers and programmers...

Rethinking And Refreshing Techdirt’s Weekend Posts: We Want Your Feedback
For many years now we’ve had two regular posts that come out on the weekends: our This Week In Techdirt History posts on Saturdays, and our Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week posts on Sun...

This Week In Techdirt History: March 1st – 7th
Five Years Ago This week in 2021, while AT&T was apparently committed to being comically hypocritical about Section 230, Utah was prematurely trying to dance on 230’s grave with a new and extremely ...

Iceland Foods Finally Surrenders In Trademark Fight With Iceland, The Country
The ten year war over Iceland is over and Iceland has come out the victor. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, be prepared to listen to a whole bunch of stupid. In 2016, we wrote about Icela...

We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI
About a year and a half ago, I wrote about my kid’s experience with an AI checker tool that was pre-installed on a school-issued Chromebook. The assignment had been to write an essay about Kurt Vonn...

Utah’s Proposal To Tax Online Pornography Is A Civil Liberties Disaster Waiting To Happen
Republican lawmakers in Utah have long been on the cutting edge of shitty policymaking when it comes to regulating the internet. The latest chapter in that legacy is a proposed tax on porn and adult c...

Anthropic’s Statement To The ‘Department Of War’ Reads Like A Hostage Note Written In Business Casual
We’ve been covering the ongoing saga of the Trump administration’s attempt to destroy Anthropic for the sin of having modest ethical guidelines around its AI technology. The short version: Anthrop...

Daily Deal: The Ultimate Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows License + Windows 11 Pro Bundle
Microsoft Office 2021 Professional is the perfect choice for any professional who needs to handle data and documents. It comes with many new features that will make you more productive in every stage ...

Oregon Federal Judge Says ICE’s Warrantless Arrests Are Illegal
ICE has been telling itself all it needs to do is write its own paperwork and it can do whatever it wants. Memos — passed around secretively and publicly acknowledged by no one but whistleblowers �...