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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

Confirmed Data Terminations and Removals

Confirmed Data Terminations and Removals Known as Dearly Departed Datasets for Halloween 2025 – Last updated 12/1/2025 – This page memorializes the federal datasets and variables, as well as select data tools, that have been terminated or removed in 2025. This list does not include routine changes and terminations of datasets, but rather strives to …

Subjects: Censorship, E-Government, E-Records, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

AI In Finance and Banking, November 30, 2025

Via LLRX – AI In Finance and Banking, November 30, 2025 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research

Teaching Legal Research in the Generative AI Era – Parts 1 & 2

Via LLRX – Teaching Legal Research in the Generative AI Era: When Source Blindness and Source Erasure Collide (Part 1) and Teaching Legal Research in the Generative AI Era: When Source Blindness and Source Erasure Collide (Part 2) Four Part Series by Tanya Thomas [forthcoming] – Part 1 examines how we’re training a generation of lawyers who rarely …

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

Annual List by Tom Whitwell – 52 things I learned in 2025

52 things I learned in 2025 –  – [a small selection from the list] In 2023, Nigeria had a million more births than the whole of Europe – Our World in Data, via Charles Onyango-Obbo] Childhood peanut allergies are falling dramatically, perhaps because advice to avoid peanuts was reversed. [Simar Bajaj] The serial killer epidemic …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Education, Environmental Law, Food and Nutrition, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research

6 ways to repurpose an old iPhone

How to Geek: “If you have an older iPhone lying around your house collecting dust, you may be sitting on a (digital) gold mine. Even if you moved on to the latest iPhone model, a spare phone can come in handy in unexpected ways.Any old, functioning device can be used in many different ways, so …

Subjects: Internet