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In brief Meta plans to cut 10% of its workforce, or roughly 8,000 employees, according to the New York Times.…

On Monday, I wrote about an unusual situation at the Supreme Court: even though Kannon Shanmugam  of Paul Weiss was…

A review of Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs by Antony Beevor; 384 pages; Weidenfeld & Nicolson (March 2026)In the…

In brief U.S. Army soldier Gannon Ken Van Dyke was charged with five federal crimes, including commodities fraud and unlawful…

EFF filed an amicus brief for the second time in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, arguing…

from the ctrl-alt-speech dept Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and…

In February, The New York Times reported that FBI Director Kash Patel had assigned rotating SWAT teams to guard his girlfriend,…

In brief Anthropic’s shares are trading at $1 trillion on secondary platforms like Forge Global, overtaking OpenAI which sits at…

Over the last week, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been defending his proposed budget…

In brief Google unveiled the AI-powered Maps Imagery Grounding on Wednesday at Cloud Next. The tool lets filmmakers generate AI…

Lizzie O’Shea is an Australian lawyer, author, and the founder and chair of Digital Rights Watch, which advocates for freedom,…