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In brief Nvidia, Carnegie Mellon, and UC Berkeley have released ENPIRE, a framework that lets AI coding agents run the…
From yesterday’s decision in Commonwealth v. Brown, written by Justice Kevin Dougherty, joined by Justices Sallie Updyke Mundy, Kevin Brobson,…
In brief Trace Finance raised a $32 million Series A round led by CoinFund, with backing from Coinbase Ventures, Haun…
from the have-we-tried-being-less-evil? dept The US military has engaged in extrajudicial killings via drone strikes since it was first shown…
Russian propagandists asserted in March 2022 that the U.S. was funding bioweapons laboratories in Ukraine as a justification for their…
In brief GLAAD says AI systems are already causing disproportionate harm to LGBTQ people through bias, misinformation, and discrimination. The…
Eugene Volokh is the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the Gary T. Schwartz…
New York, June 17, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Mozambican authorities to return the equipment of prominent investigative…
In brief Allbirds, the footwear company, has sold its shoe business and rebranded as Smartbird, an AI infrastructure provider. Nadia…
from the stop-your-spying dept On Friday, the government’s Section 702 surveillance authority lapsed! It may be temporary, but it’s still…
President Donald Trump’s mercurial nature has been on display at the G7 summit in France this week. On Tuesday, Trump…
In brief Rodney Burton pleaded guilty to conspiring to run an unlicensed money-transmitting business tied to an alleged $1.8 billion…