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The article is here; here’s the Introduction: The gravest contemporary threats to expressive freedom do not always take the form of…

On 6 July, at 12:01pm China Standard Time, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) launched a ballistic missile carrying a…

On July 9, the Seventh Circuit decided Barnett v. Raoul, upholding Illinois’ ban on AR-15 rifles.  Maybe it hadn’t received…

from the the-appearance-of-a-conflict-is-a-conflict dept This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. The rich and famous who filed into…

President Donald Trump might soon be getting a cash infusion for his “new” war in Iran.  On Wednesday, House Republicans…

In brief Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling on July 15—a 975-billion-parameter multimodal AI model trained from scratch, with full weights…

In May of this year, a federal judge ruled that Cook County, Illinois, is liable for constitutional violations when it…

In brief A hacker using the Shai-Hulud worm breached Suno in 2025 and leaked source code showing the platform scraped…

from the give-em-an-inch-and-they’ll-take-a-panopticon dept This is probably nothing more than another data point in a deluge, but it’s worth pointing…

Here’s yet another data point working against the notion that far-left, democratic socialism–friendly candidates are successfully courting the working class:…

In brief Eligible E*Trade customers can now trade spot Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana. Crypto trades are executed through Zero Hash,…

from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept The 2026 Microsoft Azure Architect & Administrator Exam Prep Bundle has 9 courses covering a wide…