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…
This morning the Register of Copyrights addressed the House SubCommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property for an annual oversight hearing. I f…
The bills are HR 2735 and S 2138. Thanks to Erin Murphy for the cites.…
For the last ten years I attended the Moers New Jazz Festival on Whitsun. Besides being a lot of fun, this event always managed to puzzle me intellectually and…
Joi Ito offers a Sandbox where you can experiment with editing a webpage, using a Wiki style edit system.…
A bill currently before Congress would force automakers to reveal diagnostic codes for automobiles, Wired reports. As a Slashdot reader writes, Congress "…
The most shocking part of the accusations against Chalabi are not that he allegedly betrayed the United States by passing on our secrets to Iran, but that someo…
A Washington Post story raises serious questions about the President's ability to run a country, especially one that has gone to war. But it also raises an…
Australian IT quotes Jennifer Granick's take on software in this report on AusCERT 2004.…
The labels on the bags come from a U.S. supplier. Apparently, the reference was originally to the president of the company, but has been interpreted to mean th…
My friend Kwaku Andoh points me to Daniel Okrent's piece in the Times on Sunday on the subject of the Times' disturbing reporting pre-Iraq War. Okrent…
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Bob Geldof denies rumors that he and Bono are putting together a Live-Aid II. The 1985 original event raised 60 million pounds with simultaneous concerts in Br…