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Europe has spent the better part of a decade talking about digital sovereignty. Regulations have flowed freely — GDPR, the Data Act, the AI Act, NIS2. What hasn't flowed as f...

The Software Apocalypse That Isn’t: Why Salesforce and Microsoft Are Betting Billions That AI Won’t Kill Their Cash Cows

The pitch is seductive: artificial intelligence will write all the code, replace all the developers, and render the traditional software sales model obsolete within a few yea...

Brussels Blinks: How Washington Strong-Armed Europe Into Gutting Its Own Digital Rulebook

The European Union spent years building what it called the most ambitious digital regulatory framework on the planet. The Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act wer...

Britain’s Citizens’ Panel Tells Government: We Don’t Trust You With Digital ID

A government-commissioned citizens' panel in the United Kingdom has delivered a verdict that should unsettle anyone pushing for centralized digital identity systems: the publ...

The Gutting of the CFPB: Inside the Trump Administration’s Plan to Reduce America’s Consumer Watchdog to a Skeleton Crew

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency created in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis to stand between Wall Street and ordinary Americans, is being hollo...

Sweden Traded Tablets for Textbooks — and the Rest of Europe Is Watching

Stockholm — For years, Sweden was the poster child of classroom digitization. Tablets in kindergarten. Laptops for every student. A national conviction that screens were the...

Europe’s $100 Billion Bet: Can the Continent Break Free From American and Chinese Tech Dominance?

Europe has a dependency problem. Not on oil. Not on rare earth minerals. On software, cloud infrastructure, and the digital plumbing that runs virtually every government agen...

The Seven-Second Theft: How Every Phone Notification Hijacks Your Brain — and What the Smartest People Are Doing About It

Your phone just buzzed. Maybe it was a text. Maybe a promotional email from a retailer you bought socks from three years ago. Maybe a breaking news alert about something that...

The Courtroom Has Eyes: How AI-Powered Smart Glasses Are Testing the Boundaries of Justice and Privacy

A man walks into a Philadelphia courtroom wearing a pair of Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses. He sits quietly in the gallery. No one notices anything unusual — the glasses look lik...

Apple Bows to Britain’s Age-Check Mandate — and America Is Watching Closely

Apple has begun enforcing device-level age verification for users in the United Kingdom, a move that could reshape how minors interact with smartphones worldwide. The change,...

The Billion-Dollar Bet: How Polymarket Is Forcing Washington Into an Existential Fight Over the Future of Prediction Markets

A platform where anyone can wager real money on whether a ceasefire will hold, whether a president will be impeached, or whether a hurricane will make landfall — that's Polym...

The Supreme Court Just Rewrote the Rules for ISP Liability in Online Piracy — And the Music Industry Is Reeling

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday handed internet service providers a significant victory, ruling unanimously that Cox Communications cannot be held vicariously liable for th...

When the Machines Take Over the Office: Nobel Laureates, Billionaires, and the Coming Age of Mass Leisure

A Nobel Prize-winning economist now agrees with two of the world's most prominent technologists: artificial intelligence is going to eliminate most human jobs, and it's going...

The Quiet Fortune Built on Your Frustration: How Companies Turned Bad Customer Service Into a Business Model

You've been on hold for 47 minutes. The chatbot keeps looping you back to the same FAQ page. The cancel button doesn't exist — or if it does, it's buried six menus deep. You'...

The Great Unplugging: How Oregon’s Cell Phone Ban Turned Schools Into Places Kids Actually Talk to Each Other

Something unexpected happened in Oregon's public schools this year. Students started talking. Not texting, not scrolling, not sneaking glances at notifications under their de...

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