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…
Joe Gandelman has an interesting post today on the evolving voice of the Blogosphere, triggered by the recent coverage of Jill Carroll's kidnapping and rele…
Amartya Sen has a piece on Slate talking about the limitations of Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" thesis. In fact, it's an essay drawn…
Trusted Computing Between Closed and Open Architectures. Audio version of a talk at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, March 7,…
Defending the cultural relevance of watching sports is the metaphorical equivalent of washing the greenpeace bumper sticker on your Hummer H2 with gasoline spra…
Well? Okay. It has a free version. I signed up for it. And it seems to work from a usability perspective. Is it me, or is Musicane an...enigmatic name? http:/…
Professor Benkler recently gave an excellent talk on peer production as a new paradigm for generating information in networked environments. He identified sever…
Bruce Sterlings rant at SXSW is highly enjoyable and contains tons of observations worth a second thought! Get it here.…
Katrina Vanden Heuvel has a good piece in the Washington Post today entitled "Update Our Insults: New Names to Call" (March 26, 2006; Page B03). It b…
From Craig Biddle's Introduction to the new journal The Objective Standard: "Altruism is not good for one’s life. If accepted and practiced consistent…
Mozilla's Firefox is a great, multiplatform, open-source web browser. It has fine-grained image control built in; with the open-source extension NoScript ad…
So what’s going on with the DMCA and cell-phone unlocking? Just yesterday Jennifer Granick gave testimony before the Copyright Office in which she explained wh…
Memory fades quickly, but many will nonetheless remember that back in 2004 the EU hit Microsoft with a $ 613 million dollar antitrust fine. The basic problem?…