On May 22, Universal Music Group and TikTok announced a new multi-year global licensing agreement with “expanded AI protections” for UMG’s artists and songwriters. The press release uses the phrase “human artistry” twice. TikTok will remove unauthorized AI-generated music from its platform. Attribution systems will be improved. Taylor Swift’s voice is safe. Drake’s voice is safe. Kendrick Lamar’s voice is…

Amazon’s Bee is a $49.99 wristband that records your conversations, transcribes them in the cloud, and generates summaries, reminders, and to-do lists. It requires access to your location, photos, contacts, calendar, notifications, and — if you choose — your health data. Amazon promises the audio is deleted after transcription. They promise only you can access your data. They promise end-to-end…

California has 760,000 people who identify as Native American. More than any other state. Its schools count 24,822 Native American students. The actual number may be 156,000. That’s a 90 percent undercount. Not a rounding error. Not a data gap. Ninety percent of Native American students in the largest state in the country, invisible in the system that’s supposed to…

In 2006, Elon Musk published “The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan.” The fourth paragraph contained his thesis: “the overarching purpose of Tesla Motors (and the reason I am funding the company) is to help expedite the move from a mine-and-burn hydrocarbon economy towards a solar electric economy, which I believe to be the primary, but not exclusive, sustainable solution.” Solar…

On May 19, 2026, two things happened. The TAKE IT DOWN Act’s enforcement deadline arrived. Signed into law exactly one year earlier, the bill requires platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate imagery — including AI-generated deepfakes — within 48 hours of a valid takedown request. The FTC can now fine platforms $53,088 per violation. Chairman Andrew Ferguson sent formal warning letters…

The vulnerability scanner ran first. Then the legitimate scan ran second. The results looked normal. Clean bill of health. Green checkmarks. The scanner found no threats because the scanner was the threat. Between late February and May 2026, a group calling itself TeamPCP — also tracked as UNC6780, PCPcat, ShellForce, DeadCatx3 — executed twenty waves of supply chain attacks against…

Wyoming has 62 state legislators. One of them is an enrolled tribal member. Rep. Ivan Posey, Eastern Shoshone, represents House District 33. The district stretches across Fremont County — Fort Washakie, Ethete, Arapahoe, and non-tribal communities like Crowheart, Hudson, and Atlantic City. Ranchers, farmers, middle-class workers, tribal members. One district. One seat. Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray wants that…

SpaceX filed its S-1 today. The document is hundreds of pages of legal disclosure filed under penalty of perjury, and it contains things Elon Musk has never said at Davos. xAI lost $6.4 billion in 2025. Revenue was $3.2 billion. The gap between those numbers is the size of a small country’s GDP. In Q1 2026 alone, the AI segment…

CISA — the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — exists for one reason: to tell everyone else how to secure their systems. They publish the guidelines. They run the advisories. They are the federal government’s answer to the question who watches the network? On November 13, 2025, a contractor working for Nightwing — a government services firm based in Dulles,…

Today Google announced it’s bringing deepfake detection to Chrome and Search. OpenAI announced it’s joining the C2PA provenance standard and integrating Google’s SynthID watermarking into its products. Both companies framed this as making AI-generated content easier to identify. The announcements sound responsible. The math doesn’t. Here’s what the detection tools do: they check whether an image was made by Google…