It seems the government is putting all its eggs in the basket of a favorable, conclusive judicial interpretation of what ‘subject to the jurisdiction’...
The Supreme Court struggled Wednesday with how to treat President Trump's attempt to block children of illegal immigrants and short-term visitors from getting birthright U.S. citizenship, with the justices trying to stack his executive order up against more than a century of tradition.
Congress is offering parents a deal: Commit your family’s most sensitive data (such as IDs and biometrics) to app stores, and in exchange, we’ll make it slightly harder for your children to use TikTok. This sounds like a ridiculous deal that nobody would take — though it’s precisely what Congress is proposing with the App […]
Long before she became President Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, Casey Means was sounding the alarm about glyphosate, the main ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup. Means wrote about the toxicity of glyphosate and reiterated her worries during her recent Senate confirmation hearing, telling senators that she is “gravely concerned about the health impacts of […]
The AI-sentience conversation was recently elevated in the Anthropic-War Department controversy. Much of it centered on technology advancing faster than legislation can keep up, and when something can mirror human consciousness this well, there is a temptation to rely on it as if it were human. Yet one key element is missing: sentience. The deeper […]