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The FTC has banned noncompete agreements

Illustration by The Verge | Photo via Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission has voted to ban noncompete agreements nationwide, saying that they are an “unfair method of competition.” Noncompete agreements — which attempt to prevent employees from working for or starting

Speaking Freely: Obioma Okonkwo

This interview has been edited for clarity and length.* Obioma Okonkwo is a lawyer and human rights advocate. She is currently the Head of Legal at Media Rights Agenda (MRA) , a non-governmental organization based in Nigeria whose focus is to promote and defend freedom of

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Screen Printing 101: EFF's Spring Speakeasy at Babylon Burning

At least twice each year, we invite current EFF members to gather with fellow internet freedom supporters and to meet the people behind your favorite digital civil liberties organization. For this year’s Bay Area based members, we had the opportunity to take over Babylon

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Congress takes on TikTok, privacy, and AI

Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge The TikTok ban appears to be for real this time . (Technically, “the TikTok ban or divesture but hopefully divesture” is probably more accurate, but everybody’s just calling it a ban.) Only a few weeks ago, all momentum for the ban seemed gone.

Microsoft launches Phi-3, its smallest AI model yet

Illustration: The Verge Microsoft launched the next version of its lightweight AI model Phi-3 Mini, the first of three small models the company plans to release. Phi-3 Mini measures 3.8 billion parameters and is trained on a data set that is smaller relative to large

Podcast Episode: Right to Repair Catches the Car

If you buy something—a refrigerator, a car, a tractor, a wheelchair, or a phone—but you can't have the information or parts to fix or modify it, is it really yours? The right to repair movement is based on the belief that you should have the right to use and fix your stuff as

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