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Austin Kocher – Substack: “Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released updated detention statistics on Thursday, and we’ve already updated Detention Reports accordingly. The website now includes 184 facility reports based on ICE data from June 23, 2025, and July 21, 2025. Thanks to the valuable feedback of many users, we have already made improvements in …
Artificial Intelligence: Generative AI Use and Management at Federal Agencies (GAO) – “Recent growth in AI capabilities has spurred a corresponding rise in public interest. Developments in generative AI—which can create text, images, audio, video, and other content when prompted by a user—have revolutionized how the technology can be used in many industries. However, generative …
Free Law Project: “We’re thrilled to introduce the latest upgrade to CourtListener: transcripts for oral arguments! CourtListener already hosts the largest collection of oral argument audio online—over 3.2 million minutes (and counting). Now, thanks to our partnership with OpenAI, we’re making these recordings even more powerful. With today’s release, you can now search them, set …
The New York Times [no paywall]: “The Trump administration’s sweeping policy changes have been resisted with a wave of lawsuits. Hundreds have been filed by state attorneys and media organizations, physicians and nonprofits, migrants, international students, law firms and unions. Jump to a section – The dozens of lawsuits fall into these categories. Birthright citizenship …
Statement of Alan Butler, Executive Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). Hearing on “Protecting the Virtual You: Safeguarding Americans’ Online Data Before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, July 30, 2025. “Chair Blackburn, Ranking Member Klobuchar, and members of the Subcommittee, thank you for holding this hearing …
Cloudflare: “We are observing stealth crawling behavior from Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine. Although Perplexity initially crawls from their declared user agent, when they are presented with a network block, they appear to obscure their crawling identity in an attempt to circumvent the website’s preferences. We see continued evidence that Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their …
Above The Law: “After confessing the firm submitted a post-trial motion citing a non-existent case helpfully supplied by ChatGPT (Opens in a new window), Goldberg Segalla cut ties with partner Danielle Malaty. Presumably, the firm hoped that would be the end of it. But it seems that filing was just the amuse-bouche! Upon realizing that …
USAFacts: “The One Big Beautiful Bill, signed into law on July 4, is set to introduce a host of changes to everything from tax reform to government assistance programs to immigration and border policy. It introduces some brand-new policies and expands, restricts, or ends others. A number of these changes took effect the moment President …
“The Library of Congress has launched a significant upgrade to its Chronicling America website, the nation’s leading free resource for historical U.S. newspapers. The updated platform now integrates fully with the Library’s broader loc.gov digital collections, offering enhanced accessibility, modern design and powerful research tools across all devices. The redesigned interface introduces numerous user-focused improvements, …
Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden Discusses Her Career & Firing (CSPAN) Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden discussed her career, her firing by President Trump in May 2025, and the future of American libraries. This event took place at the American Librarian Association’s annual conference in Philadelphia.
