We stopped surveillance, except we didn’t.
https://pogowasright.org/controversial-fisa-spying-law-expired-this-week-the-spying-will-continue/
Controversial FISA spying law expired this week. The spying will continue.
On June 12, Jon Brodkin reported:
Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is set to expire at midnight tonight after Congress failed to pass an extension of the controversial spying law. But that doesn’t mean the government’s spying powers will disappear.
Surveillance under Section 702 of FISA “operates under yearlong certifications approved by the FISA Court,” the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law explained this week. The current certification will remain in place until March 2027 under the yearlong certification issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on March 17, 2026.
“In order to pressure members to accept a bill without meaningful reforms, surveillance hawks are claiming that Section 702 surveillance will ‘go dark’ on June 12 if Congress hasn’t renewed the law,” the Brennan Center said. “Contrary to that claim, Congress planned for potential lapses and made very clear that Section 702 surveillance may continue under existing certifications even if the statute sunsets. Members must not be fearmongered into passing a reauthorization without protecting Americans from warrantless government access to their private communications.”
Read more at Ars Technica.
Read EFF’s coverage: Victory! 702 has Expired!
I’m glad that someone is thinking…
THE PROFESSION OF ARMS IN AN AI-ENABLED WORLD
This article explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to reshape multiple aspects of military practice—tempo, teaming, and decision cycles—and how that may affect the profession of arms. Drawing on contemporary Australian and international military doctrine, recent conflicts, and academic literature, it reassesses four professional dimensions in an AI context: expertise; ethics and accountability; identity and culture; and self-regulation. The article argues that while AI may disrupt aspects of the character of war, it does not alter its fundamental nature: war remains a human endeavour. Military professionals must now integrate technical fluency with traditional judgement, maintain ethical accountability amid algorithmic opacity, preserve trust and cohesion within hybrid human–machine teams, and lead in testing and establishing doctrinal and moral boundaries for AI use. It contends that adapting to AI is not merely a technical challenge but a test for the profession itself. The enduring values of Defence (service, courage, respect, integrity, excellence) remain essential and must evolve to guide the profession through this period of rapid technological change. Ultimately, the article asserts that the profession of arms must shape, not be shaped by, the rise of AI.
Someone should have done this long ago.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2026/sig_dsa/sig_dsa/12/
Survey of AI Hallucinations and Mitigation
The rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence into organizational and societal contexts has intensified concerns about the reliability and trustworthiness of AI-generated outputs. Among these, the phenomenon commonly termed 'hallucination' remains widely discussed yet inconsistently defined across disciplines. This paper presents a structured survey of AI hallucinations, synthesizing prior research to clarify their evolving definitions, underlying causes, and implications for Information Systems. Complementing this analysis, a bibliometric study of ACM publications from 1995 to 2025 reveals a sharp increase in mitigation-focused research alongside the rise of large language models. We further examine domain-specific implications across healthcare, law, finance, art, and information systems, showing how hallucinations function as both risks and, in some contexts, sources of creative value. Overall, we position AI hallucinations as socio-technical phenomena with direct implications for trust, decision-making, and governance, and provide a foundation for their evaluation, mitigation, and responsible deployment.
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft a-gley.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/ukraine-iran-and-the-strains-on-russian-and-american-power/
Ukraine, Iran, and the strains on Russian and American power
Ukraine and Iran may prove the nemeses of Russian and American ambitions. In February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin assumed he would quickly decapitate and defeat Ukraine in a “special military operation.” In February 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump assumed the same in his “excursion” against Iran. Ukraine does not control a vital global choke point like the Strait of Hormuz. It cannot hold the United States and the world to ransom. But, like Iran, Ukraine has denied a superpower an easy victory and imposed significant costs on it.
(Related) Or in plain language…
https://prospect.org/2026/06/11/trump-putin-when-delusional-idiots-go-to-war/
Trump and Putin: When Delusional Idiots Go to War
