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…
ACRA sued Lexmark alleging violations of California Business and Professions Code §17500 (unlawful to disseminate untrue or misleading statements) and §17200 (p…
The House just unanimously passed a 'Motion to Instruct' conferees to attach 4 year sunsets to sections 206, 215 and the Lone Wolf Provision of the Inte…
Mark Russinovich's blog is getting a lot of attention from Sony lately and for good reason. Russinovich, chief architect at Winternals Software LP, discove…
The New York Times reports the death of British author John Fowles. It may seem a bit macabre, but the Times' obituaries are often excellent articles in th…
Larry Lessig was interviewed in Foreign Policy about the row over control of the Internet. One exchange I thought was interesting: 'FP: Are the biggest ch…
Who remembers Morton Downey Jr.? For a time his antics seemed to be an anachronism. Now, however, his spirit seems to haunt all of us. Partisanship has come…
I understand Hollywood's concern over lost revenue from file-sharing of movies. But this seems perhaps a bit draconian? The New York Times reports that &q…
The DirecTV litigation machinery continues to turn with the company now having sued over 25,000 individuals. Although the DTV has been accused of using “litiga…
Can you imagine dating in the days before Google? How would you find out anything about your counterpart? I wish I could take credit for the idea, but I have…
The last (and first) time I blogged, I thought I was taking a semi-clever jab at the whole blogging establishment. But not only did certain other people expres…
I don't have any links to post in line with my text, so hopefully my native wit will suffice to entertain you. Whoever "you" are. Anyway, things…
I was struck by a quote in this story in the NY Times on the shutting down of Grokster. According to the chairman and chief executive of the National Music Publ…