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‘We Didn’t Do This Perfectly’: American Fork Police Chief’s Understatement Now Anchors A Civil Rights Lawsuit By Reckless Ben’s Helpers

We’ve been covering a bunch of stories related to the saga of “Reckless” Ben Schneider and Bricks & Minifigs (“BAM”), which began with a series of videos Schneider produced about his increasingly more extreme attempts to get back the Lego sets that someone had given to a BAM franchise on a consignment deal, and which...

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Daily Deal: Soundfreaq Sound Spot II Bluetooth Speaker

The Soundfreaq Sound Spot II combines wireless audio performance, ambient lighting, and relaxing sound features in a compact design built for modern lifestyles. Featuring a Bamboo and White finish with eco-friendly materials, this Bluetooth speaker complements bedrooms, offices, living rooms, and personal spaces while delivering both style and functionality. Engineered with a custom-designed audio driver,...

Canadian YouTuber Visited By Cops After Building Mock Flock To Track Cop Cars

If most cops had a sense of irony, they wouldn’t be cops. By that I mean that there’s little in the job that attracts people with tons of self-awareness or a finely developed sense of humor. Both of those traits generally contain a sense of irony. And since most cops don’t have that, this is...

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Whoops: Grok Bot Spills Tech CEO’s Bank Data In Public Slack

Shane Mac, a tech entrepreneur and CEO of the software developer XMTP Labs, decided to connect Grok Bot to his personal bank account. Like many people who attach undercooked big tech agentic AI agents to their personal accounts without reading the instructions (see: Muse’s rough last few weeks), it didn’t go well. Mac soon found...

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is n00bdragon with a comment about Florida's age-gating law and its esoteric definition of addiction: Is anyone else bothered by this incredibly strange definition of “addiction”? Is YMCA soccer addicting if 10% of a youth soccer team (one player) plays soccer for more than two...

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

This Week In Techdirt History: October 11th – 17th

This Week in 2016 NBC Delayed Story About Trump's Access Hollywood Recording Over Fear That He Might Sue Media, Politics & The Death Of Intellectual Honesty Media Bias And The Death Of Intellectual Honesty, Doubling Down Facebook Wants To Bring Controversial Zero Rated 'Free Basics' Service To The States Who's On (The) Second (Circuit)… And...

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MLB Plans To Play Stupid Games With Its Website Again In Upcoming Lockout

Back in the much simpler times of 2021, we wrote about some of the games Major League Baseball decided to play as part of a brief owner's lockout of players while both sides negotiated a collective bargaining agreement. This included essentially scrubbing the MLB website of all pictures of current players, stories about current players,...

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MLB Plans To Play Stupid Games With Its Website Again In Upcoming Lockout

Something Else To Look Forward To: AI Worms

Back in the early days of the Internet – 1988 to be precise – the self-replicating computer program known as the Morris worm spread across the network and shut down thousands of online VAX and Sun computers. It was a good example of software not going rogue, but doing exactly what its creator had intended...

Something Else To Look Forward To: AI Worms