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Citizen Lab is reporting that a member of the European Parliament's committee investigating spyware was himself hacked with Pegasus. The target was actively scrutinizing surveillance technology when the infection occurred — a detail that makes this less an irony and more a warning about how aggressively this software gets deployed against the people trying to regulate it.
Closer to the ground, Argentina has been pushing a bold experiment: allowing artificial intelligence systems to legally operate companies without human executives. But as Reuters reports, the practical and legal architecture required to make that work keeps pulling humans back into the picture. Liability, contracts, accountability — these are fundamentally human problems, and no decree changes that overnight.
And a piece worth your time from Works in Progress traces how Amsterdam essentially invented the professional fire department in the seventeenth century. What started as a catastrophic series of urban fires forced the city to rethink collective responsibility, insurance, and organized municipal response — systems we now take entirely for granted. History as infrastructure, essentially.
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