this-week-in-techdirt-history:-september-13th-–-19th

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This Week in 2016 Colin Powell’s Email To Clinton About Personal Devices Shows Routing Around FOIA Is Business As Usual ACLU Launching Campaign To Have President Obama Pardon Snowden More Details On How Corporate Sovereignty Provisions, Like Those In TPP & TTIP, Are Dangerous Prenda’s Paul Hansmeier Loses His LawContinue Reading

Advanced AI Society joins the Linux Foundation, launches open verification ecosystem as Congress moves on agent security

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New York, NY, September 17th, 2026, TechnologyWire As bipartisan legislation demands verifiable agent controls, the Advanced AI Society releases the Proof-of-Control v1.0 draft for public comment and hosts “Who’s Watching the Machines?” event with Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust As bipartisan Congressional proposals demand continuous agent verification and third-party evaluation…Read MoreContinue Reading

sen.-hawley-invites-flock,-other-surveillance-tech-ceos-to-testify

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Each of the companies the senator listed produce AI-based automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras — which have been scrutinized on both sides of the aisle., Each of the companies the senator listed produce AI-based automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras — which have been scrutinized on both sides ofContinue Reading

An ‘impossible’ black hole merger may finally be solved thanks to Einstein’s relativity — but it raises an even bigger mystery

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Astronomers suspect that a never-before-seen variation of a space-time phenomenon could explain an “impossible” black hole merger that has puzzled experts for years. But if their theory is true, it creates an entirely new mystery to solve. On Nov. 23, 2023, both halves of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) — located in Washington andContinue Reading

NASA Awards SpaceX Three Crew Flights to Space Station

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Editor’s note: This feature was updated on Sept. 18, 2026, to add additional details on mission readiness dates. To continue regular crew transportation to the International Space Station, NASA has awarded SpaceX three additional missions through a contract modification. As part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contract, this change brings the totalContinue Reading

iCAUR V23 passes 100,000 global sales as SA demand grows

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Chinese electric vehicle newcomer iCAUR says its V23 has surpassed 100,000 global sales less than two years after its international launch, while the boxy SUV is also gaining traction in South Africa. Part of the Chery Group, iCAUR introduced the V23 locally on May 28 as it expanded the Chinese manufacturer’s presence in South Africa’sContinue Reading

ukraine’s-next-goal:-32-russian-airports-shut-down-daily-as-drone-campaign-escalates

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Ukraine‘s long-range drone campaign is creating an increasingly serious problem for Russia‘s commercial aviation system. As originally reported by the Wall Street Journal, aviation-security specialist Osprey Flight Solutions has recorded 993 temporary airport shutdown events in August alone, equivalent to 32 per day. It further estimates that approximately 16,000 UkrainianContinue Reading