On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) that purports to deprive states of the ability to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) – t…
Back in 2011, as Nevada was developing regulations for automated driving, there was debate about whether vehicles should have a special external signal to indic…
Berlin, April 28, 2025 - Epicenter.works, the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv), and Stanford Professor Barba…
For those of you who are interested in domain names issues I have made this piece available on my SSRN page. It addresses the interface between registration of…
A friend just informed me of this conference starting Sunday in Munich. Sorry for the late notice, but it’s interesting nonetheless. DLD Conference DLD (Digit…
From a new white paper on the IBM website: "Until now, only the U.S. patent office has been allowed to review patent applications and determine whether or…
In April of 2006, Wired News editor Kevin Poulsen sued the United States Customs and Border Patrol under the Freedom of Information Act. Poulsen won the case, a…
I've been busily working on finishing my new podcast and will have more to say about it very soon... We'll be launching it on the 23rd so stay tuned. I…
David Loenhardt in the Times today: "$1.2 trillion would pay for an unprecedented public health campaign — a doubling of cancer research funding, treatment…
The January 2007 issue of Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) has an article entitled “The Patent Holder’s Dilemma: Buy, Sell, or Tr…
The International Relations Center has launched a new video as part of its Global Good Neighbor Initiative. From the description on the web site: "Mutual r…
I am very pleased to announce the Hearsay Culture schedule through mid-May. Also, I think that I have solved my tech glitches [thanks to Lauren, Kent, Ben and…
This month's Reason contains an excellent article entitled, "The Pinpoint Search: How super-accurate surveillance technology threatens our privacy.&quo…
Yesterday, Circuit Judge Diana Gribbon Motz issued an interesting opinion on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth…
I've already gone on record opposing "net neutrality" legislation, (see "What's Wrong With Net Neutrality," http://www.cioinsight.co…