Opinion: How to fix an internet of broken things
The massive distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack that paralyzed much of the web last week focused a bright spotlight on insecurities in the so-called…
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The Ground War Will Be Autonomous
"The kind of remotely operated weapons Sadowski is talking about likely wouldn’t fall under the proposed autonomous weapons ban, says Peter Asaro, Co-Found…
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Tesla’s Self-Driving Car Plan Seems Insane, But It Just Might Work
"Musk prefers the ask for forgiveness, rather than permission, approach. “It is a way of changing facts on the ground, and that’s what Tesla, and more disr…
Government Assessment of Innovation Shouldn’t Differ for Tech Companies
At the outset, it's not clear to me what Silicon Valley is and isn't — or why that matters. Companies like Google are often contrasted with companies li…
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Cybersecurity, Unscrupulous Diners, and Internet Stewardship
The extended DDoS attacks over the past few days that triggered widespread outages and Internet congestion are more than a mere annoyance. Rather, these instanc…
It probably wasn’t Russia who attacked the Internet today. That’s what’s scary.
As users of Twitter and many other services probably know, large parts of the Internet weren’t working Friday, thanks to a hacking attack on the Internet’s infr…
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Level 5 autonomous driving comes to all new Teslas
""This announcement is exciting because it's full of potential," said Bryant Walker Smith, professor at the University of South Carolina Scho…
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Taser Explores Concept of Drone Armed With Stun Gun for Police Use
"Like the bomb robot, such a product would raise fundamental questions about police use of force, said Elizabeth Joh, a professor at the University of Cali…
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Killer Machines and Sex Robots: Unraveling the Ethics of A.I.
"Science philosopher Peter Asaro presented the now de rigueur assessment of lethal autonomous weapons (LAWS), and the ethical and moral nightmares therein.…
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Tesla Says All Vehicles in Production Capable of Self-Driving
"“At some point they will flip a switch and the world will look different,” said Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina w…
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CIA-backed surveillance software was marketed in public schools wanting to monitor students' social media posts
""Discovering that Geofeedia was not only being used by social media sites to help police spy on activists of color was disturbing enough," said…
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Racial Disparities in Police 'Stingray' Surveillance, Mapped
"“We have to ask the question: ‘What are you doing with all that data?’,” says Malkia Cyril of the Center for Media Justice. “We don’t know—that’s part of…