A California court of appeal has eviscerated statutory privacy protections that prevent providers from disclosing the content of user communications. On July 23, the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth District…
U.S. intelligence officials said Monday they were confident that Iran was responsible for the hack of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, casting the cyber intrusion as part of a brazen and broader effort by…
-(1).jpg?sfvrsn=b5920d9b_5 "The Hacking of the Trump Campaign Is 2016 All Over Again")
How much is different from 2016, and will the institutions that stumbled then—the press, the intelligence community, and the campaigns—do any better this time around? It’s several months before a presidential election,…
Large language models like ChatGPT cannot learn independently or acquire new skills, meaning they pose no existential threat to humanity. ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) cannot learn independently or acquire…
Orion Brown started Black Travel Box to serve Black female travelers who find hotel lotions and shampoos inadequate. Randel Bennett co-founded the insurance startup Sigo Seguros for underserved Spanish-speaking drivers. Bill Shufelt…
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Charting a path forward for trust and safety in domain name registries and registrars. In recent years, policymakers across the globe have laid down rules and regulations for content providers to establish a framework that balances…
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The key advantage of liability is that it directly addresses the core policy problem of frontier AI. In a recent Lawfare article, Matthew van der Merwe, Ketan Ramakrishnan, and Markus Anderljung (VRA) argue that tort…
U.S. lawmakers’ focus on AI models raises significant, even urgent, First Amendment questions—at least when applied to LLMs. In Moody v. NetChoice, LLC, a Supreme Court majority went out of its way to…
An eye-opening report describes a cyber crime supply chain with connections to Chinese organized crime, illegal online gambling, money laundering, human trafficking, and even sponsorships with European sports teams. Infoblox, the security…
The era of overbroad facial challenges to tech regulation is over. The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Moody v. NetChoice was, for many a court watcher, something of a disappointment. The Court did not,…
