You can vote at 16, but the government decides your internet bedtime until you're 18. Make it make sense.

DHS just confirmed the plan to roll out a facial recognition app for local cops to scan peoples' faces to verify their immigration status. Agency said this is related to the 287(g) program; more than a thousand local and regional police departments are part of that www.404media.co/ices-plan-to...

New: the FCC is trying to ban burner phones by forcing all telecoms to store ID information on all new and renewing customers. That includes a government issued ID number. Massive privacy-impacting change “We never thought that would happen here,” the ACLU says www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to...

A piece of good news in the middle of the darkness we live in: "SpaceX will not gain accelerated access to potentially billions more dollars through passive investment funds that automatically purchase shares of S&P 500 companies." arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

On the Tech Policy Press podcast, Justin Hendrix spoke to Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian about his "owners not renters" thesis: that the central AI question isn't open vs. closed, but whether we own AI or lease it from a handful of companies with their own incentives. Plus: his experience with Mythos.

“Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong they have to be to not be useful.” Usually treated as a technical question, in my new article in the Modern Law Review, I argue it is also a legal one. doi.org/10.1111/1468...

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

New: we sued ICE for its $2 million spyware contract. The agency is redacting everything. We've started getting docs from our lawsuit. While we have hundreds more to go, ICE is withholding why it bought spyware to remotely break into encrypted messaging apps www.404media.co/we-sued-ice-...

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Join us online for IALS event Computational Communications and Freedom of Speech 19/05/26. Speakers include: Jennifer Petersen, @usc.edu, @bernardkeenan.bsky.social, UCL, Claudy Op den Kamp, @bournemouthuni.bsky.social Free to attend, booking required: tinyurl.com/2234xrn3 @sas-news.bsky.social

Well, it happened. A client disregarded my advice about using generative AI and guess what? It gave them bad advice AND the judge ruled that by using it, Client waived confidentiality and ordered us to turn a bunch of private stuff over. STOP USING GENERATIVE AI FOR LEGAL THINGS. I BEG YOU.

Ofcom has issued its final guidance on OSA technology notices following the consultation. I am really pleased that my joint consultation response with Micheál Ó Floinn and @bernardkeenan.bsky.social was cited and led to changes. I have written a bit about it here: open.substack.com/pub/issuesin...

Like clockwork ... "Surveillance Tools Intended for Border Control Are Being Used Against Americans. U.S. citizens are being monitored and punished with technology meant to battle illegal immigration." reason.com/2026/05/06/s...

Not surprisingly, "nearly 30% of researchers in red states self-censor" www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

Good - possibly time for a resignation www.theguardian.com/education/20...

quite interesting (if very partial) interview from the NSA Deputy Director during the Snowden affair. he says the quiet part out loud — that people didn’t understand how the FISA law relates to technology was itself an NSA capability www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/n...

Inside Palantir, people are finally waking up to the fact that they might actually be the bad guys Great reporting once again from @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/palant...

when your main qualification for the job is the provocative message it sends to democracies around the world

Google marks all Gemini-created text with its SynthID text watermarking system. They have released public detectors for media. They have not for text, and they have not publicly said why they haven't. Regulators and legislators should ask them.

it's everything you loved about 1918, with added stupidity

It will be the law of the jungle. Market analysts are already predicting that rich countries will outbid poor countries for scarce oil and gas supplies. This means energy famine for the Global South. Link: www.ft.com/content/6ca1...

Our new piece, collectively authored by the Editorial Board of @econsocjournal.bsky.social, reflecting on the state today. @campolis.bsky.social Link to the full piece below:

Very pleased to see a former student has published his Llm dissertation - and won a prize for it too. Congratulations Adalberto! lawreview.lse.ac.uk/articles/10....

A senior figure who worked a lot with the CPS during Starmer's tenure told me he was a good DPP on the law and strategic direction, but that the actual *management* of the organisation was almost entirely outsourced to a deputy. That was a more significant observation than I realised at the time.

Simply put. A must-read piece on the Supreme Court's upcoming oral arguments on global human rights litigation in U.S. courts. by the legendary Harold Hongju Koh, former State Department Legal Adviser, former Dean Yale Law School Cisco’s Real Stakes: Digitally Aiding and Abetting Mass Atrocities

Apparently being a narrow waisted coeliac ginger has mysterious advantages www.thetimes.com/article/b522...

INBOX: Amid rising tendons between Trump and Pope Leo, the administration has abruptly canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone, ending a relationship dating back to the first arrivals of Cuban exiles in South Florida.

mainstream conservative views on the US president now split two ways: 'chosen by Christ' or 'antichrist'

This paper represents a small but deeply impressive and genuinely important achievement by the much maligned British state in what is probably the most important global issue of our era. Hear me out ( 🧵) 1/ www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-eva...

Really interesting piece of work - and conclusions broadly the same as our new exploratory study on adoption of models in the cybercrime underground (don’t panic - yet) arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29545

Can someone out there please count up all the CPAC speakers who ranted about George Soros funding left wing causes? Be sure to take breaks and stretch every hour or two.

what an idiot

When the UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese published her report Anatomy of a Genocide in March 2024, she was lionised by some and demonised by the Trump government. She describes what happened next www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...

The human condition

"Dress your age not your shoe size" - baffling statement for Europeans

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Iran’s Fars News Agency says all tankers passing through Hormuz have been stopped after Israel’s ‘ceasefire breach’.

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They will not remove him. They are not the self-sacrificing kind.

hot take: i think the move in the direction of a more explicitly extortion based international order is bad actually. I also do not especially relish the idea of re-boning up on mercantilism

Interested in researching AI and judicial decision making? @brianbarryirl.bsky.social at Trinity College Dublin has two funded PhD vacancies (one in law, one in social sciences).

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.