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Election Day is still over three months away, but more than one-third of the seats in the House of Representatives…

In brief Claude Opus 5 “one-shotted” a first-person shooter game with a prompt so simple, and results so impressive, people…

I have written about bilateral judicial reform: how can Congress and the Supreme Court work together to reform the institution? In a…

In brief Zcash has activated the Ironwood network upgrade, replacing the Orchard shielded pool with a new private pool. The…

This time last year, I felt a sense of great accomplishment. The Third Edition of the Heritage Guide to the…

In brief Morgan Stanley launched spot Ethereum and Solana exchange-traded products under the ticker symbols MSSE and MSOL. Both funds…

Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week’s newsletter includes stories on:  A new lawsuit challenging…

In brief Apple traded at roughly 79% on Polymarket to finish July as the world’s largest company, while Nvidia fell…

from the 30-days-of-wtf dept For a long time, cell site simulators, a.k.a. “Stingrays” made headlines on nearly a daily basis.…

The FBI office in charge of maintaining the terrorist watch list is seeking an artificial intelligence system for pre-crime policing,…

In brief The United States announced a ceasefire with Iran yesterday, but markets aren’t optimistic it will last. The odds…

The concept of “surveillance pricing” is just one part of a much larger problem and business model: corporations maximizing their…