Accurately assessing property values is essential for ensuring that localities have the revenue to support public services like schools, roads, and law enforcement. However, traditional assessment methods face a litany…
By Will Rinehart | September 29, 2025
Once again, a software upgrade gone wrong has brought core communications capacities to their knees, this time with fatal consequences. On September 18, a network software update at Australian telecommunications…
By Bronwyn Howell | September 26, 2025
It’s an enervating time to be alive. There are silver linings, such as his widow’s eulogy, but the death of Charlie Kirk spawned a grotesque debate about his past statements…
By Jim Harper | September 25, 2025
Sometimes high-profile political plaintiffs that sue media entities over allegedly biased actions are fortunate to have government agencies flex their regulatory muscles in ways aligning with their lawsuits. Two examples…
By Clay Calvert | September 24, 2025
Artificial intelligence is becoming emotionally intelligent. Systems now generate responses often perceived as warmer, more compassionate, and more attentive than those of human professionals – including doctors, teachers, or even…
By John Bailey | September 23, 2025
The Australian eSafety Commissioner recently released regulatory guidance to support social media firms ahead of the country’s world-leading legislation being enforced in December, which is intended to prevent those under…
| September 19, 2025
At Politico’s AI and Tech Summit earlier this week, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) renewed his call for a federal moratorium on state AI laws, citing the growing patchwork of local…
By Daniel Lyons | September 18, 2025
“Attention youth: We interrupt your social media experience to bring you this government-compelled, state-sanctioned message to help you ‘understand the impact of social media on the developing brain and the…
By Clay Calvert | September 17, 2025
National traumas can reveal our best instincts—and our worst. The assassination of Charlie Kirk, who was gunned down while engaging in political debate on a college campus, has done both.…
By Mark Jamison | September 16, 2025
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination last week, numerous public school teachers took to social media not to condemn the horrific act of violence, but to laud it or otherwise denigrate Kirk…
By Clay Calvert | September 16, 2025
When Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC)—the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturer—reports a 34 percent increase in August revenue, it’s more than just corporate success; it’s evidence of a fundamental economic…
By Shane Tews | September 15, 2025
In late August, the Congressional Research Service released a discussion paper identifying issues for the 119th Congress to address regarding the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program. BEAD is…
By Bronwyn Howell | September 12, 2025
By reducing traditional barriers of content creation, the AI revolution holds the potential to unleash an explosion in creative expression. It also increases the societal risks associated with the spread…
By Daniel Lyons | September 11, 2025
On August 6, the secretive China Manned Space Agency successfully tested a mockup of its Lanyue lunar lander. In a rare official statement, the agency explained that the lander will…
By Will Rinehart | September 10, 2025
The US Supreme Court concluded in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton that the government can force adults to disclose personal, age-verifying information to access sexual content they have a First…
By Clay Calvert | September 9, 2025