When I was at the FTC, we touched on how right of publicity laws might be a way to protect creators in our 2023 "Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Creative Economy" report. This will be a lawsuit to watch: www.ftc.gov/system/files...
Through Palantir software demos, public documentation, and Pentagon records, @carolinehaskins.bsky.social explains exactly how the US military uses Claude:
In other news, my forthcoming book with @fieldsmeyer.com --ON COURAGE, How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear -- is now available for pre-order.
We interviewed 100+ dissidents worldwide to craft a practical guide to personal courage under authoritarianism.
www.harpercollins.com/products/on-...
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
NEW: TransUnion and Experian, two of the three major credit bureaus, have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help since the Trump administration began dismantling the CFPB.
I pre-ordered "On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear" by my friend & former colleague @fieldsmeyer.com and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist @juliaangwin.com. At a time when courage needs to be found, the book gives everyone a map. www.harpercollins.com/products/on-...
And if you read the @mollytaft.com fertilizer story, there could be some serious knock on effects there too. Urea and ammonia need water, and oil/soot getting into a reservoir can’t be good. (Or in the transporting of pellets in open air) www.wired.com/story/trumps...
Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic
NEW: Federal judges have spent months ordering ICE to give detainees a chance for release in bond hearings.
Now, they're worried that the bond hearings themselves — conducted by Executive Branch immigration judges — are a farce.
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
![Excerpt from linked court filing: "Congress concerning issues of child safety, Mr. Sinha 71 wrote: “My understanding is that, prior
to the CSTF [Child Safety Task Force], we were recommending minors to potentially suspicious adults and vice versa in PYMK [People You May Know]. Closing that gap, which we did, was accomplished as part of the CSTF.” 72 PYMK (People You May Know) is a feature whereby Meta recommends users to other users. Meta formed the Child Safety Task Force (CSTF) in approximately June 2023, in response to a media expose highlighting serious child safety issues. 73 Apparently, only after the CSTF was formed did Meta discover it was recommending minors to suspicious adults. Although this information was shared amongst those helping to prepare Mr. Zuckerberg’s testimony, I have seen no evidence that either Mr. Zuckerberg or anyone else in the company ever disclosed to the public that Meta had recommended these potentially dangerous contacts."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ed25butifjy4ghyu4733ly4h/bafkreib77damr3fgh2bhid7zgflgfd3oyj45hzo2fa3lkvdl3qug2n4cbi)
I'm sorry I missed that Meta's "People You May Know" tool was apparently recommending "potentially suspicious adults" to minors and vice versa? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
JUST IN: Trump DOJ proposes surprise rule aiming to let Attorney General Pam Bondi suspend state bar investigations into alleged misconduct by DOJ lawyers. Very unclear if there'd be legal authority for the AG to intervene in this manner.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemi...
NEW
At 2.30am on Saturday morning Donald Trump announced he had decided to attack Iran
Two hours later, he shared a link suggesting Iran rigged the 2020 election
Here's why
www.wired.com/story/heres-...
The New York attorney general's office has ordered NYU Langone to resume gender affirming care for trans youth due to violating New York Human Rights law.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/n...
Bypass here.
archive.ph/4NboB
JUST IN: To stem the tide of violated orders, Judge Michael E. Farbiarz in NJ is now requiring ICE and the US attny's office to each submit declarations in every habeas case acknowledging no-transfer orders.
Warns that any violations start "closer to the last resort of possible criminal contempt."
Finally read the criminal complaint against the Milwaukee cop who abused his access to Flock LPR data to track his girlfriend and her ex. This was only discovered because the girlfriend looked up her plate number on www.haveibeenflocked.com!! incredible shit mkepdpio.org/wp-content/u...
NEW: On Friday night when OpenAI announced its Pentagon deal, people immediately challenged Sam Altman's claims. Why, they asked, would the DoD suddenly agree to red lines when it had clearly said it would never budge?
The answer, sources told me, is that it didn't.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
US gov will apparently give an update about what the deal is with the DoW/OpenAI contract and commercially acquired datasets (which is considered publicly avail info but “can be misused to cause substantial harm, embarrassment, and inconvenience to U.S. persons” per ODNI: dni.gov/files/ODNI/d...)
So I just got a statement from California AG Bonta's office:
"Paramount/Warner Bros is not a done deal. These two Hollywood titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny — the California Department of Justice has an open investigation, and we intend to be vigorous in our review"
openai in its jestermaxxing era
NEW: Jmail creator and general internet prankster Riley Walz is joining OpenAI, w/ @mzeff.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/openai...
"In the case of the YouTube streamer, Kalshi reports that its surveillance systems flagged the account based on “statistically anomalous” trading success. It also received concurrent tips from Kalshi users, who had flagged the unusual activities."
I'd curious to know more about this technology.
Melania AI shoutout — remember that her agent is somehow involved in all of this, as I reported in September www.wired.com/story/melani...
I learned that there's less protections around what's called "subscriber information," and that you can preview your own by checking the "Google Account" option on takeout.google.com (Mine includes my full name, date of birth, the phone number I use for 2FA, and when I last enrolled in 2FA--2017!)
NEW: One aspect of the Epstein Files I find fascinating is that they're a rare window into the inner-workings of a federal investigation, including how tech companies respond to government requests for information. We looked at some Google-related ones: www.wired.com/story/heres-...
The Epstein documents released weeks ago are full of university administrators, professors, and trustees. With students demanding transparency and accountability from their schools, academia faces a nationwide reckoning over how it courts and indulges deep-pocketed benefactors.
Gov. Ayotte says she got Noem to call off an ICE detention facility in Merrimack, New Hampshire.
good story from a fellow bates number enjoyer
