Schneier and Cindy Cohn trace how the post-9/11 shift from targeted wiretaps to bulk collection outgrew its terrorism justification and became routine law-enforcement tooling, fed largely by private data brokers, Flock plate readers, and the ad-surveillance business model. Their argument: the legal and technical architecture should be dismantled, not reformed at the margins.
The Supreme Court declined to revive the executive order restricting mail-in voting, leaving current state rules in place for the November midterms. Trump responded by attacking the justices by name.
Ben Thompson reads OpenAI's ad numbers as proof the ChatGPT ad business is working, and argues Amazon buying placement there solves Amazon's own chatbot-discovery problem rather than competing with it. Also: Walmart finally accepting Apple Pay, a case study in how expensive it is to fight the status quo.
Mozilla's State of Open Source AI report puts the capability gap between US frontier models and the best Chinese open-weights models at 4.4 months, with Kimi K3 three index points behind Fable 5 at 30 percent of the price. Mozilla's CTO says closed models earn their premium only on expert professional work, heavy retrieval, and long context, so the buy decision should be per-workload.