Day archives: December 29th, 2025

Lawyers Caught Misusing AI Fuel Emerging Legal Education Sector

Bloomberg Law [no paywall]: “When a federal judge asked California solo practitioner William Becker Jr. to explain why a motion seemed to be riddled with AI-hallucinated citations, he knew what he needed to do. Becker, representing a defendant in a case involving former NFL punter Chris Kluwe, informed the judge that he’d taken “affirmative steps” …

Subjects: AI, Courts, Education, Legal Research

ChatGPT’s year-end review knows way too much. How to fix your privacy settings.

Washington Post [no paywall] – A clickable guide to the complicated privacy settings for ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini and Meta AI. ChatGPT has been pushing its own year-end review like Spotify Wrapped. “Your year with ChatGPT” describes what you asked the bot in poems and pictures. It also reveals a giant hole in your privacy. …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, E-Commerce, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Marketing, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

The Department of Justice May Not Survive Pam Bondi

The New Republic: “At her confirmation hearing in January, Attorney General Pam Bondi tried to reassure senators about the job she would do as the nation’s top federal law-enforcement officer. Her “overriding objective,” Bondi said, would be to “return the Department of Justice to its core mission of keeping Americans safe and vigorously enforcing the …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Courts, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back

The Atlantic Gift Article – The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble. “…The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments make up the Civil War and Reconstruction amendments. The Thirteenth abolished slavery except as punishment for a crime, but America needed to do more to prevent the resurgence of the slave-owning South’s caste-based society. The Fourteenth …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

Some Audiobooks Are Outselling Hardcovers

Wall Street Journal and free via MSN: “During what has been a challenging year for publishers, audiobooks remain a relative bright spot. In some cases, the success of the audio version is about audiences getting to hear the story straight from its celebrity author. In others, it is about the drama and suspense of a …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Libraries

The text file that runs the internet

The Verge: “For three decades, a tiny text file has kept the internet from chaos. This text file has no particular legal or technical authority, and it’s not even particularly complicated. It represents a handshake deal between some of the earliest pioneers of the internet to respect each other’s wishes and build the internet in …

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