Day archives: December 2nd, 2025

LLRX November 2025 Articles and Columns

LLRX November 2025 Articles and Columns The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 5 – The fifth in a series of articles by Sabrina I. Pacifici documenting what government resources, data and datasets been taken offline, censored or otherwise altered to block access and significantly …

Subjects: Censorship, Congress, Courts, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Education, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

The Atlantic – Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize – “The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process. After three years of doing essentially nothing to address the rise of generative AI, colleges are now scrambling to do too much. …

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

The Economic Consequences of the Second Trump Administration: A Preliminary Assessment

Center for Economic Policy Research: The Economic Consequences of the Second Trump Administration: A Preliminary Assessment, 2nd Edition 315 pages. See John Coates [Harvard Law School] chapter, The Rule of Law, begins on page 33 and includes an addendum on rule of law developments from April to September, starting at page 46. …At the President’s direction, …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Congress, Courts, Economy, Financial System, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation

OSoMeNet – tool that helps visualize content diffusion patterns on social media platforms

OSoMeNet is a tool that visualizes information spreading and sharing patterns on multiple social media platforms. How does OSoMeNet work? OSoMeNet uses search APIs provided by social media platforms (e.g. Bluesky and Mastodon) to generate diffusion and co-occurrence networks. The networks are visualized using Helios Web. Helios Web is a web-based library developed by Filipi …

Subjects: E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines, Social Media

‘Sloppy’ Code and Accessibility Issues: The Trouble With Trump’s Silicon Valley-Inspired Web Design Project

NOTUS – “For the low price of $1 million, you can apply for a new card that comes with exclusive perks and is marketed with a sleek website featuring an animated bald eagle standing before sunlit mountains. It has all the markings of a website selling a luxury travel credit card. But it’s not. It’s …

Subjects: AI, E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer

Forbes – “Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your RCS and SMS texts are no longer private. As reported by Android Authority, “Google is rolling out Android …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

This photo-organizing app is so good it made me ditch Lightroom’s library

MakeUseOf: “…digiKam is a free, open-source app that’s available on Windows, macOS, and Linux. No monthly fees, no paywalled features, no cloud lock-in, just free software that actually works. It doesn’t force your photos into a predetermined structure like Lightroom’s collections model. Instead, digiKam works alongside your existing folder structure. Your photos can be stored …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Knowledge Management

Not ready for the bench: LLM legal interpretation is unstable and out of step with human judgments

Not ready for the bench: LLM legal interpretation is unstable and out of step with human judgments (Purushothama, Waldon, Schneider, 2025): “Legal interpretation frequently involves assessing how a legal text, as understood by an órdinary’ speaker of the language, applies to the set of facts characterizing a legal dispute in the U.S. judicial system. Recent …

Subjects: AI, Courts, Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

It’s their job to keep AI from destroying everything

The Verge – Spoiler: the nine-person team works for Anthropic – “…Nearly every major AI company has some kind of safety team that’s responsible for mitigating direct, obvious harms like AI systems being used for scams or bioweapons. The goal of the societal impacts team — which does not have a direct analog at OpenAI, …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research