Day archives: June 25th, 2026

Prompt Injection: What Lawyers Considering Agentic AI

Via LLRX – Prompt Injection: What Lawyers Considering Agentic AI Must Know – AI agents can fail in too many ways to count. This article by Jerry Lawson focuses on one of the biggest vulnerabilities, prompt injection. However, because there are so many other ways agentic AI can fail, the final sections will also discuss ways to …

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

USPS won’t deliver mail ballots to states that don’t provide voter rolls

PBS – “Postmaster General David Steiner told a Senate committee Wednesday that, if a proposed rule is adopted, the U.S. Postal Service would withhold mail ballots from states that do not hand over to the federal government lists of people who have requested absentee or mail ballots. Watch Steiner’s remarks in the video player above. …

Subjects: Censorship, Congress, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

Book reviews are an endangered species

NeimanLab – “So this independent bookstore decided to start publishing its own. When The Washington Post’s management axed Book World in February, it wasn’t just one casualty among hundreds of layoffs; it was the latest high-profile death blow to a newspaper book review section in more than two decades of a thousand cuts. The AP …

Subjects: Education, Libraries

Trump administration is calling frozen embryos children

The Guardian “A document on an embryo adoption program may be marginal – but it marks an escalation in the pursuit of fetal personhood. The Trump administration quietly declared frozen embryos to be children last week. In a call for grant applications related to a nearly 20-year-old program meant to raise awareness about frozen embryo …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Who is hiring search

“Every month since 2011, Hacker News runs an “Ask HN: Who is hiring?” thread where each top-level comment is one job posting. Chart how often a language, tool or work-style shows up across those postings – a live read on what the tech job market actually asks for. Chart how often a language, tool or …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Persuadability and LLMs as Legal Decision Tools

Persuadability and LLMs as Legal Decision Tools. Oisin Suttle. School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University, Maynooth Ireland. David Lillis School of Computer Science University College Dublin Dublin Ireland  (2026). As Large Language Models (LLMs) are proposed as legal decision assistants, and even first-instance decision-makers, across a range of judicial and administrative contexts, it becomes essential …

Subjects: AI, Courts, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The AI Resist List

Actions Against the Empire of AI: “AI takes many forms. Like the word “transportation”, it refers to a collection of technologies as diverse and distinctive as bicycles to rockets. But today, one version of AI takes all the oxygen: large-scale, generative systems that power products like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT. These systems consume an unfathomable …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Economy, Education, Environmental Law, Financial System, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Scientist wins $100,000 prize for decoding birdsong

The Guardian: “A scientist who decoded the dictionary that a bird uses to communicate has won a $100,000 prize for making progress towards a world in which humans can talk to the animals – without being met with a blank response. Dr Julie Elie at the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded the 2026 Coller-Dolittle …

Subjects: Education

Voters Suffer from Dearth of Local News

Brennan Center: News Deserts Leave Voters Vulnerable to Election Misinformation. “In recent years, the local journalism ecosystem has shrunk dramatically amid the closure and consolidation of small local news outlets and the reduction in local coverage by larger outlets that remain. The absence of locally specific news has rendered many communities news deserts — areas …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media