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RFK Jr. Talks About How Great A Job He’s Doing Managing The Measles Outbreak Cases of measles in American continue to rise. As of June 5th of this year, the official case count in the… https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/10/rfk-jr-talks-about-how-great-a-job-hes-doing-managing-the-measles-outbreak/

Pulte Appointment Underscores Need To Reform Section 702 Spying President Trump’s highly politicized appointment of an entirely unqualified acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI)… https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/09/pulte-appointment-underscores-need-to-reform-section-702-spying/

California’s AB 412 Still Demands AI Developers Do The Impossible California lawmakers are again considering A.B. 412, a bill that would require AI developers to identify and disclose copyrighted… https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/10/californias-ab-412-still-demands-ai-developers-do-the-impossible/

LAPD Apparently Has Its Own Internal Cop Gang Problem The more things change, the more they remain the same. That could be said of anywhere in this country, now that the Trump administration is trying to… https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/10/lapd-apparently-has-its-own-internal-cop-gang-problem/

Supreme Court Surprisingly Backs FCC Effort To Punish AT&T, Verizon For Spying On Public Location Data On one hand, the Trump administration wants to destroy… https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/10/supreme-court-surprisingly-backs-fcc-effort-to-punish-att-verizon-for-spying-on-public-location-data/

Trump Attempts To EO America Into Mimicking Denmark’s Vaccination Schedules Back in January of this year, RFK Jr. clearly strong armed the CDC into changing the childhood vaccination… https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/09/trump-attempts-to-eo-america-into-mimicking-denmarks-vaccination-schedules/

Techdirt Podcast Episode 452: How To Stop Good Companies From Going Bad Support us on Patreon » The concept of "enshittification" has helped illuminate why companies and their products so… https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/09/techdirt-podcast-episode-452-how-to-stop-good-companies-from-going-bad/

Daily Deal: The 2026 Data Engineering Bundle featuring Databricks The 2026 Data Engineering Bundle has 7 online courses designed to help learners build skills that align directly with industry… https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/10/daily-deal-the-2026-data-engineering-bundle-featuring-databricks/

Beneath The Enshittification, Something Amazing Is Growing Last month Terry Godier published a great essay on his website about "the boring internet…... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/10/beneath-the-enshittification-something-amazing-is-growing/

ICE Wants To Hand Out Its Unproven Facial Recognition Tech To Thousands Of Cops The Trump administration has thrown billions at purging non-white people from this country. Most of… https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/10/ice-wants-to-hand-out-its-unproven-facial-recognition-tech-to-thousands-of-cops/

Cases of measles in American continue to rise. As of June 5th of this year, the official case count in the country stood at 2,030 confirmed cases. In 2025's record breaking year for measles cases, the most we'd had in 3 decades, there were 2,288 confirmed cases. We're going to speed right past that number in 2026, given that we're nearly there already and we're only half way through the year.

President Trump’s highly politicized appointment of an entirely unqualified acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) underscores why the government’s warrantless mass spying power must be reformed. Congress now faces a deadline of Friday, June 12 to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, an unconstitutional program rife with problems, loopholes, and compliance issues. Section 702 allows the National Security Agency to collect communications from targets overseas – including communications with Americans in the U.S.

The more things change, the more they remain the same. That could be said of anywhere in this country, now that the Trump administration is trying to turn the clock back to 1940, if not 1840. But it's especially true in Los Angeles, where law enforcement agencies have apparently learned nothing, despite being the ignition source of two riots. The…

California lawmakers are again considering A.B. 412, a bill that would require AI developers to identify and disclose copyrighted works used to train generative AI systems. The problem this year is the same as last year: it’s practically impossible to comply with this law. The bill demands information that often does not exist, and cannot realistically be obtained. …

Back in January of this year, RFK Jr. clearly strong armed the CDC into changing the childhood vaccination schedules in America to mimic those of Denmark. The public messaging was crafted to sound as reasonable as possible and amounted to a claim that America was going to revise vaccination schedules to match those of another successful, industrialized, peer country. There were a couple of problems with the move.

The 2026 Data Engineering Bundle has 7 online courses designed to help learners build skills that align directly with industry expectations. The focus is on practical tools and languages used by data professionals: Python for programming, Pandas and NumPy for data manipulation, foundational certification prep and specialized work with Databricks, an industry-standard platform for data engineering and analytics workflows. The content is on-demand, self-paced and designed to be revisited as learners build proficiency over time.

On one hand, the Trump administration wants to destroy most corporate oversight, consumer protection, labor rights, and regulatory autonomy. On the other hand, the administration very much wants to abuse government power and wield regulatory oversight in all sorts of terrible ways that censor speech, stifle journalism, and enable corrupt cronyism. I've long noted how FCC boss Brendan Carr in particular personifies this inconsistency.

Support us on Patreon » The concept of "enshittification" has helped illuminate why companies and their products so often get worse over time, but the causes of this process are complex and multifaceted. In his new book Incorruptible, author Eric Ries presents a related but contrasting take on how good companies go bad, and how to build companies that resist the process.

The Trump administration has thrown billions at purging non-white people from this country. Most of that has ended up in the hands of ICE, which has -- in turn -- thrown hundreds of millions at a number of private companies offering bespoke and/or off-the-shelf surveillance solutions. The slide down the slippery slope began less than six months after Trump took office in 2025, with the DHS repurposing tech used at border crossings for deployment as far inland as ICE, CBP, etc.

Last month Terry Godier published a great essay on his website about "the boring internet," discussing how the internet that many of us grew up with, the wonderful, empowering, exciting internet that moved power to the edges of the network rather than the center, is still there. It's just hidden beneath enshittified commercial layers put there by companies seeking to extract more and more from you.