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How the infrastructure law funds — and mandates — AI and automated tech (Kate Kaye, Protocol)

Now that the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act has been signed into law, billions of dollars will flow toward an array of technologies intended...

Can Twitter warnings actually curb hate speech? A new study says yes (Issie Lapowsky, Protocol)

Twitter in May said it would begin prompting users who are about to tweet something nasty to either revise or delete the message before sending. The...

Online shopping scams are rampant. Are Washington’s fixes enough? (Issie Lapowsky, Protocol)

The pandemic has been prime time for online scammers. Since January of last year, Americans have lost more than half a billion dollars to...

Cloud wars: Four tech giants vow to take the military into the cloud (Tom Krazit, Protocol)

At some point in the near future, many years after it was first thought to be a good idea, the U.S. Department of Defense...

The infrastructure law just gave a boost to controversial driver-monitoring AI tech companies (Kate Kaye, Protocol)

Tech vendors including Affectiva and Visteon call it "interior sensing." The European Commission will make it mandatory in cars, vans, trucks and buses next...

Italy air force F-35B makes first time landing on Italian carrier (Tom Kington, Defense News)

An Italian Air Force F-35B has landed for the first time on the Cavour, the Italian Navy’s aircraft carrier, joining a Navy F-35B on...

Will the annual defense authorization bill get passed this year? (Leo Shane III, Joe Gould, Defense News)

If Congress is going to pass the annual defense authorization bill for a 61st consecutive year — and that’s a big if — it’s going to...

If the Russian military crashes through a forest, will NATO hear a sound? (John R. Deni, Defense News)

Russian military forces have massed on the border with Ukraine as well as in Russian-occupied Crimea. Tens of thousands of Russian troops, armored forces and elite...

Energy firm Bulb set to go into administration (BBC News)

Bulb Energy, which has 1.7 million customers, has announced that the firm will be put into administration. Energy firm Bulb set to go into administration...

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