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PERA Remains a Serious Threat to Efforts Against Bad Patents

by Katharine Trendacosta
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Published on 10/9/2025

As all things old are new again, a bill that would make obtaining bad patents easier and harder to challenge is being considered in the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) would reverse over a decade of progress...

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Independent journalists must be protected from ICE attacks

Freedom of the Press Foundation
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Published on 10/8/2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Press freedom advocates were pleasantly surprised when police in Broadview, Illinois, announced plans to investigate federal immigration officers’ shooting of a local CBS News journalist with pepper balls, and when the Illinois...

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Two years of genocide

Shaimaa Eid in Gaza
Declassified UK
Published on 10/8/2025

Two years have passed since a war that neither ceasefires nor international resolutions have managed to end. Two years of fire, hunger, and slow death, endured by Palestinians in Gaza as they faced genocide head on. Since the very start, journalists...

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California Targets Tractor Supply's Tricky Tracking

by Hayley Tsukayama
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Published on 10/7/2025

The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) issued a record fine earlier this month to Tractor Supply, the country’s self-proclaimed largest “rural lifestyle” retailer, for apparently ducking its responsibilities under the California Consumer Pri...

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