The Invisible Burden of the Cloud Plymouth Township’s demand for 43 concessions from a proposed 2 million-square-foot data center is not merely a local skirmish over zoning. It represents a far more significant, quiet rebellion brewing Read More
The Hypocrisy of Google’s Data Frontier Last week, a US court handed Google a loss against SerpApi, a company that scrapes Google’s search results. Google immediately stated its intent to appeal, reaffirming its Read More
The American Exception to Platform Liability The US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals’ recent decision to block a Texas law requiring platforms to police “harmful” content does more than just reinforce Section 230; it solidifies an Read More
The Peril of Imperfect Digital Forensics A single, errant underscore has a real-world cost: 18 months of a man’s life, unjustly taken. Brandon Klayme, a resident of Nova Scotia, spent over a year and a Read More
The Quiet Enactment of Digital Borders A recent FCC public notice, seemingly a bureaucratic footnote, announced that SpaceX’s Starlink routers are exempt from a ban on foreign-made network equipment. The Trump administration’s decision, Read More
The Algorithm as Global Distributor and Exploiter An artist’s deeply personal comic, shared millions of times and known globally as the ‘Running Away Balloon’ meme, is now at the heart of a lawsuit against Read More
The Illusion of Press Freedom Victory A federal judge’s sharp questioning forced the US Department of Justice to withdraw demands for phone records and grand jury testimony from New York Times reporters yesterday. This Read More
The Quiet Erosion of Regulatory Science The official endorsement by an FDA-organized committee to remove manufacturing restrictions on certain peptides for human use marks a concerning inflection point, not for the peptides themselves, but for Read More
The Algorithmic Kingmaker in Bucharest November 2024 will be remembered in Romania not for its predictable presidential outcome, but for the sudden, inexplicable surge of Calin Georgescu, a politician whose fringe views suddenly found an audience Read More
The immediate legal victory celebrated by US antitrust enforcers masks a far more complex, and potentially damaging, strategic reality for traditional media companies. A stipulation filed this week will delay the $111 billion proposed acquisition of Read More