Accurate, Focused Research on Law, Technology and Knowledge Discovery With Daily Postings Since 2002
The Cambridge University Press & Assessment Handbook of the Law, Ethics and Policy of Artificial Intelligence (2025), edited by Nathalie Smuha, KU Leuven – is a comprehensive 600-page resource that brings together 30+ leading scholars across law, ethics, philosophy, and AI policy [Open Access – PDF and HTML]. It’s structured into three parts: AI, Ethics & …
Wired no paywall: “First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech….Back in 2022, Cory Doctorow coined the term “enshittification” to describe a cycle that has played out again and again in the online economy. Entrepreneurs start off making high-minded promises to …
Mark Magazine #66 February/March 2017 – “Contemporary warriors are retreating more and more from the battle field and exchange guns for computers like the one this article is written with. But unlike me, these warriors are sitting in maximum security installations like bunkers. Therefore, hitting a bunker is a military jackpot, eliminating drone pilots, cyber …
Atlantic Council: “As its adversaries wage an information war, the United States is retreating from the front lines. Washington has dismantled key programs for countering foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI), such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Foreign Influence Task Force. This leaves a dangerous vacuum in the US national defense posture. If left …
CRS – In January 27, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order directing the Department of Defense to develop and implement a homeland missile defense architecture to defend against “ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles, and other next-generation aerial attacks from peer, near-peer, and rogue adversaries.” On May 20, 2025, President Trump asserted that …
Wired no paywall: “Consumer-grade AI tools have supercharged Russian-aligned disinformation as pictures, videos, QR codes, and fake websites have proliferated. A pro-Russia disinformation campaign is leveraging consumer artificial intelligence tools to fuel a “content explosion” focused on exacerbating existing tensions around global elections, Ukraine, and immigration, among other controversial issues, according to new research published …
Washington Post gift article: “A Washington Post review found that in at least seven major departments or agencies, DOGE secured the power to view records that experts say could benefit Musk’s businesses for years. For months, Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service plumbed the federal government’s information systems, scouring arcane internal records that the billionaire said …
The Pentagon Pizza Orders Conspiracy Theory Explainer. The bigger the crisis and the more time government staffers are stuck in their offices, the more pizza they eat. At least that’s what the internet thinks according to the “Pizza Meter” theory, which some believe could even predict the beginning of a possible World War III. The …
“Artificial intelligence and defense are becoming increasingly intertwined, especially in the US. OpenAI this week announced a $200 million Pentagon contract as part of a project to bring “advanced AI tools to [US] public servants.” In December, the ChatGPT-maker said it was working with the military tech company Anduril, while rival Anthropic is collaborating with …
The New York Times – no paywall: “Several hundred soldiers were deployed to the streets of Los Angeles on Sunday, as demonstrations against President Trump’s immigration crackdown raged for a third day. The troops were members of the California National Guard, called in by the president against the wishes of Gov. Gavin Newsom. Not since …
404 Media: “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) are researching an incredibly wild virtual reality technology that would allow TSA agents to use VR goggles and haptic feedback gloves to allow them to pat down and feel airline passengers at security checkpoints without actually touching them. The agency calls this …
Jacob Harris, DOGE Track: “We are now several months into the second Trump presidency. It’s been hard keeping track of all that is being damaged and lost within the federal government. Emboldened by Musk and the absence of oversight, the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) has been rampaging through agencies to subvert their security, …
