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Episode 272 of the "So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast," hosted by FIRE's Nico Perrino. This episode covers topics including shouting down speakers, free speech at UCLA, heckling, AI, doxxing, and cancel culture. The p…
ArXiv, a major open-access repository for academic preprints, has announced a new policy imposing a one-year ban on authors who submit papers containing obvious AI-generated content, such as hallucinated references or me…
This article is a behind-the-scenes look at how a story about ICE using Palantir to track 20 million people on iPhones was reported. The journalist, Joseph, explains he gathered information by speaking to four conference…
The Mayo Clinic is using "Ambient Listening" technology to record patient interactions with nurses in emergency rooms, with the data processed by AI. The recording system is opt-out rather than opt-in, meaning some patie…
In the 51st episode of the Software Freedom Podcast, the FSFE discusses challenges for Free and Open Source Software in public administration with guests from the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS), f…
Contracts obtained through a public records request reveal that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) included a detainee labor program in task orders for two warehouse detention facilities in Maryland and Arizo…
The current debate over AI alignment is conducted primarily by researchers and tech leaders, while the people whose lives and jobs will be most affected by AI are excluded from the design process. It criticizes both "doo…
Senator Joseph McCarthy rose to national prominence in 1950 by exploiting Cold War fears, using unsubstantiated accusations of communist infiltration to fuel the Second Red Scare. As chairman of the Senate Permanent Subc…
The article explains that RF coexistence testing is becoming critical due to increasing spectrum congestion from over 30 billion devices and expanding cellular bands, which threatens wireless reliability. It highlights r…
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has advanced a nationwide solicitation to place 330 employees in commercial co-working spaces across 90 locations, with a targeted start date of June 1, 2026. Despite th…
According to federal leasing documents, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is seeking a new law enforcement facility near Stewart International Airport in Newburgh, N.Y., with requirements including a sally p…
According to a November report from the International Telecommunication Union, nearly 30 percent of the global population—over 2 billion people—still lack Internet access. To address this, the IEEE Future Networks’ Conne…
New Jersey and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have reached a temporary agreement that halts major conversion work at a proposed detention warehouse in Roxbury while the federal government completes an add…
The Trump administration's Department of Justice issued subpoenas to The Wall Street Journal to find a leaker, and the FBI is reportedly investigating journalist Sarah Fitzpatrick for critical coverage of FBI Director Ka…
A recent congressional hearing revealed bipartisan agreement that free speech is essential in higher education, though Republicans and Democrats identified different threats to it. Republicans focused on threats from uni…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security plans to deploy 1,570 iris scanning devices to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) locations nationwide under a no-bid contract with Bi2 Technologies. The system will allow …
The U.S. Senate's rush to regulate AI chatbots through bills like the GUARD Act is harmful because it imposes heavy-handed restrictions that violate First Amendment rights. It criticizes the bill's age verification and c…
The article argues that the traditional 90-day responsible disclosure window for security vulnerabilities is obsolete because large language models (LLMs) have drastically accelerated both bug discovery and exploit devel…
According to a New York Post article published on May 7, 2026, the UCLA School of Law is facing a free-speech crisis after student protesters disrupted a Federalist Society lecture by Department of Homeland Security Gene…
The Department of Justice indicted former FBI Director James Comey for a social media post using the numbers "86 47," which prosecutors interpreted as a death threat against President Trump. It argues the case is a polit…