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Futurism: “The world’s best AI training data is setting on a shelf.” Traditionally, books have been good for two things: reading, and looking nice on a shelf. But AI companies are interested in neither. To those building large language models, books are nothing more than fodder to be devoured en masse before being spit out …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 25, 2026 – On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this …
CRS In Focus Report – The Department of Justice Proposed Rule to Restore Firearms Rights to “Prohibited Persons.” July 24, 2026, Dave S. Sidhu, Legislative Attorney; Jordan B. Cohen, Analyst in Firearms Policy – The Gun Control Act (GCA) categorically prohibits certain classes of individuals, including individuals convicted of felony offenses, from possessing, receiving, shipping, …
Via LLRX – It’s Not the AI. It’s the Lawyer: We Don’t Have a Hallucination Problem, We Have a Serious Ethics Problem – Government information librarian Charlie Amiot makes a strong case for the misinterpretation of the cause of hallucinations in the legal work product. Amiot argues that If you happen to be someone who has a …
Neal Stephenson: “Because I am known to write using a fountain pen on paper, a number of people have pointed me to this post and its underlying research. I won’t rehash what is said in those sources, but the gist of it is that when you write things down by hand you’re recruiting more of …
Calishat – “Peabody Search, named after Mr. Peabody and his Wayback Machine. He could set his time machine to go to a particular year and place, and that’s what this tool does as well (though it’s restricted to US states.) Peabody Search walks you through the process of setting the query, selecting the years, choosing …
States Newsroom – D.C. Bureau. Coverage of Congress, the White House and U.S. Supreme Court with an intentional focus on how news developments will affect the states. [h/t Pete Weiss] Stateline – Issues and trends that cross state lines.
Cybernews: “Border control can check your phone without legal justification, and digital rights groups aren’t happy about it. If you’re entering the US, border control agents can manually search your phone without a warrant or individualized suspicion. In short, if someone is acting suspiciously or the officer just doesn’t like the look of a person, …
Tree.fm: “People around the world recorded the sounds of their forests, so you can escape into nature, and unwind wherever you are. Take a breath and soak in the forest sounds as they breathe with life and beauty! And while you are here, why not help to grow what keeps us alive? Climate change and …
Reuters Institute: “From metadata to AI detectors, several organisations are aiming to provide evidence of whether a piece of content was AI-generated. It’s not an easy task. Accusations of AI use in writing can grow beyond mere social media grumbling and have real impacts for the humans whose work is brought into question. This is …
CRS Report, The U.S. Court of Appeals: Background and Circuit Splits from 2025, R49042. 07/23/2026: “The U.S. Courts of Appeals frequently act as the final arbiters of questions of law within their respective jurisdictions. Although the Supreme Court of the United States sits at the pinnacle of the American judicial system and acts as the …
The Atlantic – Gift Article: “For nearly five months, Donald Trump and his Cabinet have been misleading the American people about the war in Iran. When the president makes statements about the war, they are full of wishful thinking, hyperbole, and outright lies. He has devoted a full address to the topic only once—a rambling …