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In brief Meta introduced Brain2Qwerty v2, a non-invasive AI system that decodes brain activity into text. The model achieved 61%…
The Illinois legislature recently passed House Bill 5511, which imposes a sweeping, device-level age-gating framework across nearly all internet-enabled hardware,…
from the why-limit-yourself-to-$1.8-billion dept It just wasn’t enough to pardon hundreds of people who raided the Capitol building to overturn…
Over the past year and a half, Trump administration officials have gone after protestors—and even apps—critical of the government’s immigration…
Journalist Michael Balter had been covering the Croton-Harmon Union Free School District for several months when school officials went silent…
In brief Galaxy Digital has cut its odds of the CLARITY Act passing in 2026 to 50%, down from 60%…
You have an expectation of privacy in location data that reveals your movements in the physical world, and even short-term…
The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a far-reaching decision on the constitutionality of a law enforcement tool that allows police…
In brief California signed a deal with Anthropic giving all state agencies and local governments access to the Claude AI…
from the like-a-fish-in-water dept A month ago, I wrote that the Supreme Court’s six conservative Justices have exactly one consistent…
On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it’s worth asking: What was the American Revolution actually about? We…
In brief BitMine added another $43 million in Ethereum to its balance sheet last week, despite falling prices. The firm…