Do legal briefs by chatbots count as "unauthorized practice of law"? Daniel Kalish examines how century-old licensing laws could apply to AI companies.

There’s been a fascinating story brewing in software development which has exploded into my social timelines in the last few days. A creative suite called ArtCraft has been making headlines i…

The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.

Deep in a Norwegian fjord, TidalX AI's journey began with a "fish run" racetrack, where engineers tracked salmon to gather data and build the AI models that they hoped would revolutionize aquaculture....

It matters that it isn’t you.

A newly established ransomware gang appears to have hacked Trump Mobile, resulting in the exposure of personal data for 3,615 customers.

AI systems tend to focus on the person speaking – but the listener plays just as big a part in communication.

Dozens of Israeli-Palestinian peace groups have spent decades building dialogue and reconciliation. But which of them can turn grassroots action into real change?

A US appeals court upheld a ruling that AI legal research company Ross Intelligence's training of its AI model didn't amount to "fair use."

Copyright law in the US only applies to human-made creations, but AI characters like Tung Tung Tung Sahur are challenging that

Exclusive: MPs, charities and rights group warn that accuracy should not be sacrificed for speed in ‘life and death’ asylum decisions

On May 6, 2026, the privacy commissioners of Canada, Alberta, British Columbia and Quebec issued a joint report of findings into their three-year investigation of OpenAI’s compliance with privacy law ...

EFF Presents: A Field Guide to Police Surveillance

Meta's buzzy new AI agent comes with some major privacy risks — not just for users, but anybody on the periphery of its users' lives.

A Florida woman is now facing a second-degree felony charge after telling Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude about her violent ideas.

A new book explains the perils of turning to AI for developing relationships and meeting our intimacy needs.

Ukraine is one of the few European countries where porn production is illegal. As lawmakers weigh decriminalizing the industry to help refill a war-drained budget, anti-porn activists are worried.

In this episode of Future Knowledge, Alexis Durante-Tierney and Helen Vogelsong-Donahue, hosts of the Born Digital podcast, explore how growing up under constant surveillance may be changing the wa...

As AI becomes more integrated into everyday life, people are increasingly turning to these systems for advice on high-stakes issues like health and personal finances. As reliance on AI grows, it’s bec...

Sustainability robotics sees the environment as more than inspiration

6 October, 2026

(it shouldn’t have to)

My agents got my act together and got me out of the house more, but my digital world has moved inward.

Patricia Nilsson, author of the new book Guilty Pleasure, talks to Dazed about the ‘masturbatory business model’ of the internet, how everything got pornified, and how this is altering our brains

On “Optimal Violence” and Trickle-Up Retribution

What Ada Lovelace can teach us as we develop artificial intelligence.

I talk with computational linguist Emily M. Bender, co-author of the influential 2021 “stochastic parrots” paper, about why AI industry leaders can’t stop seething over the term.

A review of Adam Becker’s book

Dirtbag dept.

The unstated disagreement that underpins safety debates

The historian and journalist on a presidency that’s both greedier and more ambitious than the first version

A hit 1983 movie illustrates what computer scientists have long known: If you give an AI agent a goal but don’t control what it can and can’t do, you shouldn’t be surprised by what it does.

Our report developing an understanding of abuse on dating platforms in order to support interventions from policymakers and dating platforms

The rise of open source self-driving systems like openpilot have made it easy for anyone to run custom tech to control your car.

Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert

Cloudflare, Google, and Proton were among the "dominant" infrastructure providers to sites dedicated to hosting abusive content, the study found.

The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."

Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out.

Collects and categorises symbols, with automated analysis for law enforcement and community workers.

Government enforcers have the laws and the experience to control A.I.

OpenAI didn’t tell Australia about the hack for weeks — raising serious questions about how it handles rogue AI incidents

The notion that ideas have lifecycles has many antecedents.

Three takeaways from the Pro-Human Assembly in D.C. and what it revealed about the growing movement

“Writing is thinking, and thinking is the ultimate solitary act. No matter the tech, at some point, you’re still just solo with a page trying to fill it.”