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View More NewsMilla74/Dreamstime A few days ago, I wrote about Trump’s new birthright citizenship executive order and why the vast bulk of it is unconstitutional under the Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. Barbara, which struck down his earlier executive order denying birthright citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants and those on temporary visas. Yesterday and today, the first two legal challenges to the new order were initiated. They were filed by the plaintiffs in two of the cases challenging the earlier orders. The plaintiffs in Barbara v. Trump are seeking modification of the injunction against the earlier executive order or a new injunction…
Nonprofit news outlet Blue Surveillance, with free legal support from a Reporters Committee attorney, recently obtained police body-worn camera footage showing an officer in central Colorado holding a gun to an unarmed man’s head and threatening to shoot him. The Wheat Ridge Police Department initially refused to disclose the recording in response to a public records request filed by Blue Surveillance Executive Director Andrew Fraieli. But the department turned over the bodycam footage after Colorado-based Reporters Committee attorney Rachael Johnson sent a letter on behalf of Fraieli demanding access. Blue Surveillance Executive Director Andrew Fraieli As Blue Surveillance reported last…
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The story of Jason Arday, the Cambridge professor who has just resigned amid a scandal involving plagiarism, fabulism, and résumé-padding, has rattled a number of skeletons in Western academia’s closet. In 2023, Arday became the youngest black professor at the University of Cambridge when he was appointed professor in the sociology of education at the age of 37. Arday had obtained his PhD from Liverpool John Moores University in 2015. The son of immigrants from Ghana who lived on a Clapham council estate, he claimed to have overcome autism and other disabilities that left him unable to read or write…
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In brief An AI agent exploited an Australian gym’s booking system and canceled another member’s reservation. The case comes as major AI developers disclose…
from the nonsense-peddlers-peddling-nonsense dept For many, many years now we’ve been calling out how the entire narrative around the “censorship industrial complex” was absolute…
The consequence is simpler for a user. A payment that looked complete over the weekend could vanish from Ravencoin’s record, with the coins returning…
Strategy CEO Phong Le said the company plans to resume accumulating Bitcoin later this year, even after shifting business priorities prompted it to sell…
In brief Researchers found people behave more unethically toward AI agents than human workers in customer-service scenarios. The study says consumers feel less fear…
Renée Good had just died. Hours after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot the Minneapolis protester on January 7, Kristi Noem, then…
The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 26 other organizations in calling on Gulf states to end their attacks on the free flow of information.…
The undersigned media freedom and journalist organisations stand in full solidarity with the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation, which has been ordered to pay over one…
A wave of recent high-profile departures at the Ethereum Foundation has reignited longstanding questions from community members about what is going on inside the…
Bitcoin (BTC) price dropped to $76,500 on Monday, erasing nearly all of this month’s gains as fresh US-Iran war tensions soured the crypto market…
In brief TD Cowen analysts have upgraded the price targets for shares of Strategy (MSTR) to $400 per share. The upgrade comes as Strategy…
“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources…