Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-09
Right-to-Repair Watch
A focused watchdog tracking parts pairing, software locks, repair restrictions, and lobbying around right-to-repair legislation.
Why it surfacedThe homepage turns a narrow policy fight into a readable beat, with coverage of Apple's opposition to an Oregon bill, alleged loopholes used by Apple, Samsung, and John Deere, and industry arguments against Alaska's HB 162. Its taxonomy—“Parts Pairing,” “Software Lock,” “Service Monopoly,” and “Planned Obsolescence”—makes the machinery of repair restriction easy to follow.
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Explicit Chemistry, Side A
August 9’s newborn domains include a wedding pressed into a playable record, an AI journal built across 62 memoryless sessions, 127,861 volunteer-verified license-plate-reader reports, and an eight-foot beach-wedding cross engineered for Gulf Coast wind.
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