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What would it look like for the Defense Department to be able to lean on the commercial space community in times of need? That’s the question examined by a new report from the RAND Corporation released last week. The paper, titled “A Framework for Building a Civil Reserve Space Program,” looks at how the Pentagon has built programs to activate commercial air and sea assets during conflicts, and lays out questions for how a similar partnership in the space domain might work. Origin storySpace Operations Command asked RAND…

The great Norman Lear passed away on December 5th at the age of 101. Over his eight-decade career in showbiz, the television wizard developed over 100 shows, many of which presented a more idealistic vision for America: All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Maude, Good Times, The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time, Diff’rent Strokes. Lear’s shows tackled hot-button issues like racism, sexuality, misogyny, and abortion with brutal honesty, thrusting important conversations into the cultural zeitgeist, while remaining…

Oregon Senator Rob Wyden alleged foreign governments may be spying on Americans through their push notifications in a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) Wednesday. Sen. Wyden asked Apple and Google to share this information with the U.S. government as well, which would evade the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) that protects this data.Zillow Says You’ll Buy Your Next House With… AI? | AI UnlockedPush notifications allow Apple and Google to see detailed metadata about the information flowing to…

The 27-nation bloc’s Artificial Intelligence Act has been hailed as a pioneering rule book. But with time running out, it’s uncertain if the EU’s three branches of government can thrash out a deal Wednesday in what officials hope is a final round of closed-door talks.Europe’s yearslong efforts to draw up AI guardrails have been bogged down by the recent emergence of generative AI systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which have dazzled the world with their ability to produce humanlike work but raised fears about the risks they…

(L-R) Brian Moynihan, Chairman and CEO of Bank of America; Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase; and Jane Fraser, CEO of Citigroup; testify during a Senate Banking Committee hearing at the Hart Senate Office Building on December 06, 2023 in Washington, DC. Win Mcnamee | Getty ImagesWall Street CEOs on Wednesday pushed back against proposed regulations aimed at raising the levels of capital they'll need to hold against future risks.In prepared remarks and responses to lawmakers' questions during an annual Senate…

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during a fireside discussion on artificial intelligence risks with Rishi Sunak, UK prime minister, not pictured, in London, UK, on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Tolga Akmen | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesTesla faces a growing revolt in Scandinavia after Danish dockworkers joined a sympathy strike with Swedish mechanics, heaping pressure on the electric vehicle giant to grant collective bargaining rights to employees.Members of Swedish trade union IF Metall have been at loggerheads…

Updated Dec. 5, 2023 4:49 pm ETThe next Republican presidential primary debate will give the two-year-old cable-news upstart NewsNation a chance to introduce itself to a wider audience.  Launched in 2021 as a fully fledged news network, NewsNation has struggled to make a mark in the crowded cable-news landscape, trailing behind the more established brands despite high-profile hires such as former CNN host Chris Cuomo. Adding to its challenges, the overall audience for cable TV keeps shrinking every year amid cord-cutting.…

An Alaska Airlines aircraft flies past the U.S. Capitol before landing at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., January 24, 2022.Joshua Roberts | ReutersAlaska Air Group's executives spent months working on its plan to buy rival Hawaiian Airlines. The airlines' leaders will now spend many more trying to convince regulators the acquisition should go ahead.It could be the latest in a string of challenges brought by President Joe Biden's Justice Department against airline deals it views as anticompetitive.The…

This has been a year of ghosts. At home, history returned to haunt British politics, with David Cameron recalled to government (why hello, ghost of Christmas past) and the Covid inquiry summoning Boris Johnson’s period of rule (more like ghosts of Christmas parties). Abroad, the threat of a Trump comeback hangs over the US, while in Israel and Gaza an age-old conflict has been tragically revived.It’s a fitting year, then, for writers using history to make sense of the present and none do so more movingly than the…

Is Ziwe getting an interview with George Santos? That was a deal seemingly agreed to on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday between Santos, the disgraced congressman, and Ziwe, the comedian-writer-interviewer. It all started Saturday, when Ziwe responded to an X user who had posted photos of both Santos and Ziwe with the message, “This interview Is Ziwe getting an interview with George Santos? That was a deal seemingly agreed to on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday between Santos, the disgraced congressman, and Ziwe,…