Social Security benefit cuts could average $500 a month for retirees if trust fund runs dry

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget: “Social Security’s retirement program provides benefits for 63 million Americans, including retirees, spouses, and dependents. Yet we have known for 42 years that, without changes, Social Security would become insolvent. And for the last 16 years, the cost of Social Security’s retirement program has exceeded its cash income, forcing …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Financial System

LLRX May 2026 Issue – Articles and Columns

LLRX https://www.llrx.com Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health and the Rule of Law – Part 9 – Sabrina I. Pacifici Tracking hallucination marketing claims from legal tech vendors. Damien Charlotin Deep Coverage – Right now the dominant AI strategy in law is using AI to replace or augment human labor on work …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Congress, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Medicine

Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health and the Rule of Law – Part 9

Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health and the Rule of Law – Part 9 – This article is the ninth in a series by Sabrina I. Pacifici focused on the Trump administration’s unrelenting policy of attacking science, healthcare, public health, and the rule of law. The cornerstone of this series are topical highlights …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Congress, E-Records, Environmental Law, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Medicine

Trump Order Removes Job Protections From Federal Workers

The New York Times: “President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that strips job protections from nearly 8,000 federal workers who are in policy-making roles, making it easier for the administration to fire them. The Trump administration previously estimated that as many as 50,000 federal workers could lose job protections under this new policy. …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research

China-Linked Spies Are Reportedly Using Job Platform Scams to Harvest Intel

Gizmodo: “A joint public warning issued by “Five Eyes,” an alliance between the intelligence agencies of five anglophone countries including the U.K. and U.S., says China-linked spies are using job boards to pry classified information or other secrets out of its targets. The report claims China’s military intelligence operation is finding people in places like …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Economy, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

Most faceswap apps in Apple and Google stores could be used to make deepfake nudes

Indicator: “”Seventy percent of the “face swapping” apps available in Apple’s and Google’s app stores allowed the generation of nonconsensual deepfake nudes, according to a working paper by researchers at Cornell and Georgetown. The apps market themselves as playful AI editing tools that can edit a photo to replace someone’s face with that of another …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Privacy

Retired Federal Judges Unite Against Trump

Raw America – “Scores of retired federal judges are now waging war against Trump in the courts, filing briefs challenging his administration. And they’re not pulling any punches. In Florida, a federal judge took a motion from 35 former federal judges so seriously that she ordered the Trump administration to respond to their request to …

Subjects: Censorship, Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

White House Seeks to Impose Political Test on Billions in Federal Grants

The New York Times: “The White House is seeking to exert more control over billions of dollars in annual government grants, aiming to restrict a vast swath of funding — in health, housing, science and transportation — so that it primarily serves the purposes and organizations politically aligned with President Trump. While the administration says …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Economy, Education, Financial System, Health Care

Law Professors Prefer AI Over Peer Answers

Reuters: “Law professors overwhelmingly preferred answers drafted by AI over ones written by fellow professors, a new Stanford Law School study found, suggesting that the technology is ​capable of legal reasoning and that law students may benefit from AI ‌tutoring. Professors from 14 U.S. law schools developed a list of 40 questions representative of those …

Subjects: AI, Education

UK media websites given power to block Google using their articles in AI search

The Guardian: “Watchdog makes ruling on search summaries after publishers complain about drop in click-through traffic and revenue. Online publishers and news organisations are now able to block their content from appearing in Google’s AI summaries in UK search results, the British competition watchdog has announced.The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the new requirement …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Government Documents, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines