this-week-in-techdirt-history:-september-20th-–-26th

This Week in 2016 Indian Court Says ‘Copyright Is Not An Inevitable, Divine, Or Natural Right’ And Photocopying Textbooks Is Fair Use Former UMG Exec: Major Label Music Should Cost More And DMCA Safe Harbors Should Be Destroyed Will The Washington Post Give Back Its Pulitzer And Stand Trial WithContinue Reading

systemrescue-13.00:-release-highlights

SystemRescue 13.00 Released with Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS and Many Useful Improvements. SystemRescue 13.00 is now available. This is a significant update to the popular Arch-based live Linux distribution that many of us use for system repair and data rescue tasks. If you work with broken systems, need to recoverContinue Reading

A federal court in Michigan has tossed out a pioneering antitrust lawsuit brought by the state of Michigan against four major oil and gas companies and their largest U.S. trade association that alleged a conspiracy to forestall the transition to renewable energy and electric vehicles in order to maintain market dominance of fossil fuels…Continue Reading

ubuntu’s-minimal-cloud-images-lost xxd –-by-accident

Another package went missing from Ubuntu 26.04 LTS’s minimal cloud images, this time xxd , a CLI tool for viewing files as hexadecimals. It’s the second time this has happened, following the accidental removal of curl I reported on in August. Both packages vanished for the same reason. When CanonicalContinue Reading