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Bills, hearings, enforcement actions and the rules being written for software and silicon, covered by The Silicon Ledger.
A September 2026 threat report from Anthropic reveals that hostile state actors and militant groups have leveraged the company's Claude AI model to develop weapons systems, conduct military targeting, and build surveillance infrastructure.
An FBI investigation has led to the arrest of a Customs and Border Protection supervisor in Maine who allegedly stole Intel 14th Generation processors, RAM, and hard drives from Department of Homeland Security computers and sold them through Newegg's trade-in program.
A crowdsourced documentation effort has identified dozens of instances where Sony explicitly uses ownership terminology when describing digital games, directly contradicting the company's legal argument that consumers shouldn't reasonably expect to own their purchases.
A three-judge appellate panel has struck down the Department of Energy's use of emergency powers to keep a Michigan coal plant operating, finding no legitimate crisis to justify the intervention.
A lawyer in New Mexico has been held in contempt of court and referred to a disciplinary board after filing a brief containing fabricated witness testimony generated by ChatGPT, raising questions about attorney responsibility when using AI tools.
Sam Altman has indicated the company may be open to slowing work on its most powerful systems, potentially in coordination with rival labs, as OpenAI navigates competing pressures between safety concerns and engineering velocity.
The EU's Cyber Resilience Act moves from theory to practice this year, with vulnerability reporting due to ENISA in September and full compliance required by December 2027. OpenSSF convened industry practitioners to explain what the regulation demands and how open source projects can prepare.
The FCC has granted conditional approval to Asus for its next-generation Wi-Fi 8 routers, positioning the Taiwanese manufacturer to compete in the emerging standard while TP-Link remains sidelined by regulatory concerns.
