Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — a controversial law that allows warrantless surveillance on “foreign” targets — is set to expire on April 19th. The GOP, led by Speaker Mike Johnson, failed to move the bill forward the last three times, but I guess fourth time’s the charm.
Speaking to the University of Chicago’s Federalist Society chapter, Judge John Bush of the 6th Circuit opined on how AI could bolster originalism, a judicial philosophy that attempts to interpret the Constitution as the 18th century founders would have.
He was also pretty bullish on how AI will advance legal corpus linguistics, something I can only describe as “Scalia but with search engines.” In 2022, Nicole Wetsman wrote about how it played a huge role in overturning the mask mandate.
Per Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press, a witness in the ongoing Sam Bankman-Fried trial had to spell out “D-O-G-E” in response to a question from a prosecutor. It doesn’t look like there were any follow-up questions about a cryptocurrency based on a meme. It’s probably for the best.
Seeing faceless, anonymous nation-state hackers go on Reddit to do promo for the Navy is giving me some feelings. Feelings like: confusion, concern, amusement, vague embarrassment over my amusement, and more confusion.
Unrelated: It’s been almost 10 years since Chelsea Manning, a military intelligence analyst, was convicted and sentenced to prison for leaking classified material to the press.
