Is the Supreme Court about to legalize SWATting?
Slouching from probable cause into mere officer suspicion The post Is the Supreme Court about to legalize SWATting? appeared first on Downsize DC.
Slouching from probable cause into mere officer suspicion The post Is the Supreme Court about to legalize SWATting? appeared first on Downsize DC.
By Gigi Sohn, Chair, EFF Board of Directors With the impending departure of longtime, renowned, and beloved Executive Director Cindy Cohn, EFF and leadership advisory firm Russell Reynolds Associates have developed a profile for her successor. While Cindy is irreplaceable, we hope that everyone who knows and loves EFF will help us find our next leader. First and foremost, we are looking for someone who’ll meet this pivotal moment in EFF’s history. As authoritarian surveillance creeps around […]
Chelsea Follett The debut of the robot butler NEO has drawn widespread ridicule. Unable to perform many chores without a remote human operator, the machine has become a target of social media backlash. Videos circulating online show the robot struggling with basic tasks, such as closing a dishwasher. , But don’t underestimate the potential of robotic housekeepers just yet. The technology is dawning at an opportune time. Consider the growing concerns about plummeting birth rates. Last year saw […]
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It’s unusual to be in the situation of reviewing a book no one will like. I don’t mean that literally; a handful of people will appreciate Paul Kingsnorth’s new book, Against the Machine, probably the same people who have followed his work for the past decade. Continue Reading…
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed new rules that would effectively end the public’s ability to challenge improperly granted patents at their source—the Patent Office itself. If these rules take effect, they will hand patent trolls exactly what they’ve been chasing for years: a way to keep bad patents alive and out of reach. People targeted with troll lawsuits will be left with almost no realistic or affordable way to defend themselves. We need EFF […]
We’re bringing Gemini’s state-of-the-art translation model to Google Translate for text, and more new features.
You can now use Circle to Search and Google Lens to detect scammy messages you receive on your phone.
A new NeurIPS 2025 paper shows how self-supervised learning imbues ViT with better image understanding than supervised learning The post Do Labels Make AI Blind? Self-Supervision Solves the Age-Old Binding Problem appeared first on Towards Data Science.
An overview of Google’s latest funding announcement for computer science education and the newest AI Quest.