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The Trump administration is planning a major escalation in immigration enforcement, with officials like "Border Czar" Tom Homan promising "mass deportations" and a surge in arrests. To accommodate this, Immigration and C…
New Jersey and the Township of Roxbury have intensified their legal fight to block the conversion of a Morris County warehouse into an ICE detention facility, filing new court papers that argue the Department of Homeland…
Key April activities from the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), including a major policy victory where the European Commission abandoned a rule that threatened users' right to install any software on radio devices …
The Trump administration is considering new oversight for advanced AI models, including discussions of an executive order to create a government-industry working group and a process for reviewing models before their publ…
The author filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice and FBI after the agencies denied his Freedom of Information Act request for records explaining why FBI agents visited his home in 2020 to question him ab…
Airlines are a consistently unprofitable industry, with the sector as a whole destroying investor value and failing to cover its cost of capital since U.S. deregulation in 1978. It uses the 2026 collapse of Spirit Airlin…
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has criticized NHS England's reported plan to make most of its public source code repositories private by default, citing security concerns over AI vulnerability scanning. The F…
The article summarizes Day 2 of BugBash'26, featuring a talk by infrastructure expert Brian Potter on why buildings rarely collapse due to technical factors like simple structures, redundant load paths, and large safety …
In April 2026, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spending dropped dramatically to $130 million, an 88% decrease from the previous month and the lowest level of the year, attributed to leadership transitions,…
This article from O'Reilly Radar examines the challenge of governing autonomous AI systems, arguing that requiring synchronous approval for every decision creates brittle, slow architectures. Instead, it advocates for di…
New York's Senate Bill 7263 would prevent AI chatbots from generating responses that could be considered the unlicensed practice of professions like law or medicine, even if the chatbot does not claim to be a licensed pr…
After more than a decade of advocacy, the European Commission decided in January 2026 to abandon a provision in the EU Radio Equipment Directive that would have required manufacturers to block users from installing custo…
In the first quarter of 2026, government-directed Internet shutdowns were prominent, including prolonged nationwide blackouts in Uganda during its presidential election and in Iran, contrasting with no such shutdowns obs…
Google DeepMind has announced a partnership with the Republic of Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) to accelerate scientific breakthroughs using frontier AI, support local talent, and cultivate a thriving AI ecos…
Federal contracting records show that a stop work order was issued on the $313 million contract to convert a warehouse in Surprise, Arizona, into an ICE detention facility at least two days before Arizona Attorney Genera…
The Free Software Legal & Licensing Workshop (LLW) 2026 was held in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, gathering over 100 global legal, compliance, and policy experts to discuss the evolving legal landscape of Free Software. A…
An improperly redacted document from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has revealed that Rudiarius, LLC is a new company involved in Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Detention Reengineering Initiative,…
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday to block the conversion of a warehouse in Surprise, Arizona, into an immigration detention facility, making Arizona the fourth state to challenge th…
In a federal court filing, the Department of Homeland Security argued that converting a New Jersey warehouse into an immigration detention center does not require environmental review under the National Environmental Pol…
The article warns that doctors may use AI-powered recording tools to transcribe patient conversations without always disclosing this practice, raising significant privacy and security concerns. These tools often transmit…