Day archives: January 13th, 2025

Special Counsel Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted in Election Case

The New York Times – gift article “…The Justice Department delivered the 137-page volume [link provided by DOJ – https://www.justice.gov/storage/Report-of-Special-Counsel-Smith-Volume-1-January-2025.pdf]— representing half of Mr. Smith’s overall final report, with the volume about Mr. Trump’s other federal case, accusing him of mishandling classified documents, still confidential — to Congress just after midnight on Tuesday. The former …

Subjects: Congress, Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

California wildfires map

The Los Angeles Times has this amazing interactive map, based on real-time open data provided by CalFire and the Geospatial Multi-Agency Coordination. See also Analysing satellite imagery of the Jan 2025 Southern California wildfires: “3.9 micron data from the GOES-16 East and GOES-18 West satellites on the January 2025 Southern California fires. We download the …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law, Housing, Transportation

Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks

The Register: “Apple last year deployed a mechanism for identifying landmarks and places of interest in images stored in the Photos application on its customers iOS and macOS devices and enabled it by default, seemingly without explicit consent. Apple customers have only just begun to notice. The feature, known as Enhanced Visual Search, was called …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Open Port Chronicle: What Port 80 Revealed About The Internet

“At RedHunt Labs, we conduct extensive internet-wide studies as part of Project Resonance to stay ahead of the evolving cyberspace and enhance our Attack Surface Management (ASM) platform. This blog highlights our recent research, where we analyzed billions of IP addresses to check for port 80 open, uncovering fascinating insights. The internet is massive – …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

AI Is Like Tinkerbell: It Only Works If We Believe in It Keep clapping. Louder

Futurism – “There’s no limit to the promise of artificial intelligence. Or at least, there’s no limit to the promises that the powerful make about AI. We’re told by tech companies and their investors that AI has the capacity to transform everything, making us more productive workers and more efficient learners — before eventually making …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Inside the Black Box of Predictive Travel Surveillance

Wired – “Behind the scenes, companies and governments are feeding a trove of data about international travelers into opaque AI tools that aim to predict who’s safe—and who’s a threat… In Europe, at least four technology companies—Idemia, SITA, Travizory, and WCC—offer governments around the world software that uses algorithms on traveler data to profile passengers. …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, E-Records, Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy, Transportation

Strict Scrutiny

“A podcast about the United States Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it. Hosted by three badass constitutional law professors– Leah Litman, Kate Shaw, and Melissa Murray– Strict Scrutiny provides in-depth, accessible, and irreverent analysis of the Supreme Court and its cases, culture, and personalities. Each week, Leah, Kate, and Melissa break down …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Congress, Copyright, Courts, Education, Government Documents, Legal Research

Geospatial search for OpenStreetMap

Spot allows you to search for relations between entities in OpenStreetMap. Spot can analyse your prompt for entities, their relations and location and display the matching results on a map.

Subjects: Internet, Legal Research, Search Engines, Transportation

Search the BIRLS Database

“Department of Veterans Affairs (the VA). It provides an index to basic biographical information on more than 18 million deceased American veterans who received some sort of veterans benefits in their lifetime, including health care, disability or life insurance policies, educational benefits (the GI Bill), mortgage assistance (VA loans), and more. The BIRLS database includes …

Subjects: Defense, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Search Engines

ABA Free Legal Answers surpasses 400k inquiries; nearly 100,000 pro bono hours served

ABA: “Free Legal Answers, the virtual legal advice clinic sponsored by the American Bar Association, hit a major milestone, crossing the 400,000-mark in the total number of questions handled since the program’s inception in 2016. The program’s more than 15,000 attorneys registered nationally to volunteer performed over 16,500 hours of pro bono service in 2024, …

Subjects: Legal Research

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