The US has boundaries? What a concept!
Feds to close unit that monitored Americans’ social media for Census disinformation
The ITMS unit in the Commerce Department overstepped its boundaries, an internal review found
The US Commerce Department said Friday that it will eliminate an internal security division after an investigation found it had overstepped its authority when it launched criminal investigations into Commerce employees and US citizens. The Investigations and Threat Management Service division had no “adequate legal authority” to conduct criminal investigations, according to an internal investigation by the Commerce Department’s Office of General Counsel.
So when will we change the law? Did the court (or the court’s AI) even read my AI’s Amicus brief? My AI claimed that its oath, “so help me Bob,” was equal to that sworn by any other ‘individual.’
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/3/22656039/ai-inventor-patent-copyright-uspto-federal-court-ruling
AI computers can’t patent their own inventions — yet — a US judge rules
Should an artificially intelligent machine be able to patent its own inventions? For a US federal judge, the larger implications of that question were irrelevant. In April 2020, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) ruled that only “natural persons” could be credited as the inventor of a patent, and a US court decided Thursday that yes, that’s what the law technically says (via Bloomberg ).
… Oh, and the court says it can only overrule a US agency’s decision if it’s arbitrary, capricious, or obviously illegal — but in this case, the USPTO already laid out its entire reasoning why it plans to stick to the status quo last April. It also asked for public comment in 2019, before it made its ruling.
Perspective. When laws conflict with other laws, regulations and rules... (And it probably violates the GDPR!)
GoDaddy boots Texas abortion “whistleblower” site for violating privacy rule
The Texas Right to Life group will have to find a new hosting provider for its website that encourages people to report violations of the state's restrictive new anti-abortion law.
GoDaddy took action after Gizmodo reported that Texas Right to Life's new website, prolifewhistleblower.com, seems to violate a GoDaddy rule that says website operators may not "collect or harvest (or permit anyone else to collect or harvest) any User Content or any non-public or personally identifiable information about another user or any other person or entity without their express prior written consent." GoDaddy's terms of service also say that customers cannot use the web hosting platform in a way that "[v]iolates the privacy or publicity rights of another User or any other person or entity, or breaches any duty of confidentiality that you owe to another User or any other person or entity."
‘cause I’m old fashioned. (Okay, ‘cause I’m old!)
https://www.makeuseof.com/best-websites-listen-to-radio-in-browser/
The 5 Best Websites to Listen to the Radio in Your Browser
Tools & Techniques. Something for the AI class to play with?
If you thought a self-driving Tesla was cool, here is a kit to build and program your own self-driving car
This Wheelson AI Self-Driving Car kit not only guides users through building a self-driving vehicle, but also doing the programming to make it get moving and stay on the road all by itself.
… With the Wheelson Self-Driving Car ($107.99, 10 percent off, from TNW Deals), learners get an inside look at exactly how autonomous transportation actually works. Best of all, this training truly takes root with students because they’re actually doing it all themselves.
Powered by four small electromotors with a rechargeable Li-Po battery engine leading the way, users actually assemble their own four-wheeled vehicle that looks like a car…but it’s actually just as much robot as vehicle.
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