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Blue OS Museum

Hacker News - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 1:23pm

Article URL: https://blueosmuseum.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40392211

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The Power of the Marginal (2006)

Hacker News - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 1:20pm

Article URL: https://paulgraham.com/marginal.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40392169

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Caring Isn't Enough

Hacker News - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 1:17pm
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EFF Urges Ninth Circuit to Hold Montana’s TikTok Ban Unconstitutional

EFF - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 1:02pm

Montana’s TikTok ban violates the First Amendment, EFF and others told the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a friend-of-the-court brief and urged the court to affirm a trial court’s holding from December 2023 to that effect.

Montana’s ban (which EFF and others opposed) prohibits TikTok from operating anywhere within the state and imposes financial penalties on TikTok or any mobile application store that allows users to access TikTok. The district court recognized that Montana’s law “bans TikTok outright and, in doing so, it limits constitutionally protected First Amendment speech,” and blocked Montana’s ban from going into effect. Last year, EFF—along with the ACLU, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Reason Foundation, and the Center for Democracy and Technology—filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of TikTok and Montana TikTok users’ challenge to this law at the trial court level.

As the brief explains, Montana’s TikTok ban is a prior restraint on speech that prohibits Montana TikTok users—and TikTok itself—from posting on the platform. The law also prohibits TikTok’s ability to make decisions about curating its platform.

Prior restraints such as Montana’s ban are presumptively unconstitutional. For a court to uphold a prior restraint, the First Amendment requires it to satisfy the most exacting scrutiny. The prior restraint must be necessary to further an urgent interest of the highest magnitude, and the narrowest possible way for the government to accomplish its precise interest. Montana’s TikTok ban fails to meet this demanding standard.

Even if the ban is not a prior restraint, the brief illustrates that it would still violate the First Amendment. Montana’s law is a “total ban” on speech: it completely forecloses TikTok users’ speech with respect to the entire medium of expression that is TikTok. As a result, Montana’s ban is subject to an exacting tailoring requirement: it must target and eliminate “no more than the exact source of the ‘evil’ it seeks to remedy.” Montana’s law is undeniably overbroad and fails to satisfy this scrutiny.

This appeal is happening in the immediate aftermath of President Biden signing into law federal legislation that effectively bans TikTok in its current form, by requiring TikTok to divest of any Chinese ownership within 270 days. This federal law raises many of the same First Amendment concerns as Montana’s.

It’s important that the Ninth Circuit take this opportunity to make clear that the First Amendment requires the government to satisfy a very demanding standard before it can impose these types of extreme restrictions on Americans’ speech.

Save Up to $200 Off a New Wi-Fi-Connected Grill This Memorial Day - CNET

CNET Feed - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 12:49pm
Did you know that you can get a grill with a Wi-Fi connection and app control? Now you can, and you can save up to $200 on one as well.
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VW and Renault End Talks To Develop Affordable EV

SlashDot - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 12:46pm
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User Outcry as Slack Scrapes Customer Data for AI Model Training

Security Week - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 12:43pm

Slack reveals it has been training AI/ML models on customer data, including messages, files and usage information. It's opt-in by default.

The post User Outcry as Slack Scrapes Customer Data for AI Model Training appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Eudora for Windows Source Code

Hacker News - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 12:36pm
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