Outside the Beltway

An ongoing discussion.

Even in font selection, it would seem.

Ask a simple question, be surprised at the results.

There are 800 or so of them in the United States alone. Where the hell did they come from?

The search giant lost a major court battle. What’s next?

We’re about to test the limits of existing copyright law.

Some of these have been piling up for a while.

Anticompetitive practices in one of the most competitive of markets.

A growing scourge may be next to impossible to stop.

The Justice Department claims the search giant abused its power.

As much as we complain about them, they’ve become indispensable for most of us.

The US intelligence community and Silicon Valley are warning of a major threat.

Some predict a fundamental restructuring of the economy.

The future is here, whether we like it or not.

The controversial AI has some interesting programming quirks.

ChatGPT is just the latest example of a perverse phenomenon.

But did he ever really have it?

Another grim—and substantially avoidable—milestone.

The pandemic forced the spread of useful technology.

One of the great annoyances of the Internet is slowly going away.

Huge swaths of the country are underserved.

He probably lacks the legal authority. And business interests in is state will fight hard against him.

There are legitimate ethical and liberty questions but they’re outweighed by the benefits.

Our enemies are getting more brazen and sophisticated in their cyber warfare.