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In a day full of terrible Supreme Court rulings there was one bit of good news: in their FCC v. Consumers' Research ruling, the court rejected a bid by radical right wing Republicans to destr ...

Last week we noted how the Trump administration had cooked up a half-assed wireless phone company. Even calling it a phone company is generous: It's basically a licensing agreement and a lazy ...

Well, RFK Jr.'s reconstructed Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), just concluded its first day of meetings in Atlanta. This was over the objection of GOP Senator Bill Cassidy ...

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For years, we've written about the concept of "soft corruption," which is the idea that there are certain actions that may not mean the full definition of corrupt practices in the legal sense, but ...

Within days of each other, two federal judges in the same district reached completely opposite conclusions about AI training on copyrighted works. Judge William Alsup said it's likely fair us ...

To call the administration's "worst of the worst" claims a ruse is to give this administration too much credit. It's not clever enough to run a con. Going after criminals wa ...

Splunk is a powerful data platform used to gather information from multiple sources and index it for efficient access. You can then use collected data to create visualizations, analytics, and a var ...

While dozens of AI copyright lawsuits wind their way through courts nationwide, Judge William Alsup's ruling this week in Bartz v. Anthropic stands out -- not just because it's from one ...

So you may have seen that Elon Musk's long-hyped Robotaxis have finally "launched" in Austin. And it's going just about how you'd expect if you're familiar with ...