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Russia is making an aggressive move in orbit. Four Russian spacecraft have maneuvered uncomfortably close to a commercial radar satellite supplying intelligence to Ukraine, and the US Space Force says it can only watch. The satellites are burning significant fuel to maintain proximity — a deliberate, costly signal that so-called quasi-civilian targets are no longer off the table in space.
Closer to home, a quieter but genuinely important question is getting some attention online. Should we be gatekeeping certain online spaces by age, or by demonstrated ability? The argument goes that some age restrictions are really just proxies for skill or judgment — and that flipping the model might produce better outcomes for everyone, young and old alike. It's a deceptively simple reframe with real policy implications.
And in the world of legal technology, a new piece argues that AI tools serving lawyers are stumbling not because of raw intelligence, but because of orchestration failures. When AI systems lack proper legal ontologies — structured frameworks for understanding how legal concepts relate — they misroute tasks and produce unreliable results. The law, it turns out, has a logic all its own, and today's models aren't quite fluent in it yet.
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