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…
Tom Friedman laments the "pacifist" EU's decision to sell arms to China. He might also lament our own decision to sell arms--including F-16s--to…
A new study reminds us how we should be extremely careful in interpreting supposed genetic predispositions: How long a man's second finger is relative to h…
So here is another potential example of an application of P2P systems that might even be helpful from the music industry's perspective.…
Time magazine quotes CIS Director Jennifer Granick in this short piece about information security.…
BBC reports on the killing of a 19-year-old Asian man, allegedly because of his race. Mubarek was battered to death by known racist Robert Stewart at Feltham Y…
This second-grade class in Nishiki has only three children. The school will close in 2007. (Photo: Anthony Faiola/Wash. Post) A baby bust in Japan is emptying…
I recently learned about a very cool music website called Magnatune.com. It's really a record lable but, in its words, it's "not evil". Magn…
Kal Penn ("Kumar") will star in upcoming Superman movie! Oh, wait: the fine print--he'll play Lex Luthor's genius sidekick. Ah, South Asian…
Indicare has an interesting article> written by Natali Helberger about the advantages and limitations of labeling requirements as an answer to DRM. Such labe…
Sony Ericsson introduces a new walkman, which includes a camera, a phone, an MP3 (and AAC format) music player, and a game machine. All in a pretty nice looki…
In Roper v. Simmons, Justice O'Connor, even while agreeing with Justice Scalia on the outcome, chides him for refusing to review foreign views of the subjec…
In Roper v. Simmons, today's 5-4 decision outlawing the juvenile death penalty, Justice Stevens begins his concurrence with a direct hit at Justice Scalia (…