“What are you prepared to do?”

The question snarled by Sean Connery’s Jimmy Malone to Kevin Costner’s Eliot Ness in a cramped Chicago church pew is the moral fulcrum of David Mamet’s The Untouchables. Ness has the law on his side. He has a badge and a gun. He has a court order. And none of it matters, because Al Capone treats the legal system as furnit...

There’s a club in DC that may or may not exist whose members are guys who do things with stuff. They might be called The Cockroaches—if they exist, of course. Why did they choose that name? Because they’re the ones who survive anything, including a nuclear holocaust. They have the jobs you don’t know about, what some people call the deep state. And there’s a pol...

Bill Ackman wants to buy Universal Music Group. And if you spend any time thinking about how music actually works—how songs are made, how careers develop, how fragile the economics already are—...

The latest AI fraud story—where Murphy Campbell’s voice is cloned and her recordings are falsely claimed—has triggered a familiar reflex: Why didn’t the artist register? Why wasn’t the system able to detect it? It’s the artist’s fault...

Every now and then you see one of those cases that makes you say which idiot thought it was a good idea to litigate this catastrophe rather than settle?

Two juries—on opposite sides of the country—have now said something the tech industry has spent years denying.

Their business model is not neutral.  Which, of course, leaves the question of which ex...