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Tracking hallucination marketing claims from legal tech vendors

Via LLRX Tracking hallucination marketing claims from legal tech vendors – Damien Charlotin tracks the claims made by some LegalTech vendors in the past and today with respect to how they handle hallucinations from their offerings. Charlotin is relying on internet-based written marketing material, trying to highlight the changes in how these products are and …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

DOJ Finds Loophole to Pay January 6th Rioters

Raw America: “The Trump administration’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” may be dead, but the effort to pay Trump’s allies with taxpayer dollars is very much alive. After Republican lawmakers threatened to sink an ICE funding bill if the slush fund moved forward, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Congress the Justice Department wouldn’t proceed with …

Subjects: Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

FBI Director killed Epstein case after review of less than 7% of investigation files

Below the Beltway – “Internal communications from the Department of Justice reveal that the decision to close the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein was made after a narrowly focused review of less than 7% of the case files, centered entirely on photo and video evidence. FBI Director Kash Patel tasked agents in March 2025 to “determine …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Legal Research, Legislation

Consumer protection agency deletes thousands of pages as Trump administration seeks to dismantle it

The Guardian – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau deleted at least 2,200 webpages from its website last month, a move advocates say is part of the Trump administration’s latest effort to dismantle the federal consumer finance watchdog. The removed content was all published before Trump’s second term, and includes press releases, consumer advisories, congressional testimonies, …

Subjects: E-Government, Economy, Financial System, Legal Research

Social Security benefit cuts could average $500 a month for retirees if trust fund runs dry

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget: “Social Security’s retirement program provides benefits for 63 million Americans, including retirees, spouses, and dependents. Yet we have known for 42 years that, without changes, Social Security would become insolvent. And for the last 16 years, the cost of Social Security’s retirement program has exceeded its cash income, forcing …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Financial System

LLRX May 2026 Issue – Articles and Columns

LLRX https://www.llrx.com Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health and the Rule of Law – Part 9 – Sabrina I. Pacifici Tracking hallucination marketing claims from legal tech vendors. Damien Charlotin Deep Coverage – Right now the dominant AI strategy in law is using AI to replace or augment human labor on work …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Congress, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Medicine

Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health and the Rule of Law – Part 9

Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health and the Rule of Law – Part 9 – This article is the ninth in a series by Sabrina I. Pacifici focused on the Trump administration’s unrelenting policy of attacking science, healthcare, public health, and the rule of law. The cornerstone of this series are topical highlights …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Congress, E-Records, Environmental Law, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Medicine

Trump Order Removes Job Protections From Federal Workers

The New York Times: “President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that strips job protections from nearly 8,000 federal workers who are in policy-making roles, making it easier for the administration to fire them. The Trump administration previously estimated that as many as 50,000 federal workers could lose job protections under this new policy. …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research

China-Linked Spies Are Reportedly Using Job Platform Scams to Harvest Intel

Gizmodo: “A joint public warning issued by “Five Eyes,” an alliance between the intelligence agencies of five anglophone countries including the U.K. and U.S., says China-linked spies are using job boards to pry classified information or other secrets out of its targets. The report claims China’s military intelligence operation is finding people in places like …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Economy, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

Most faceswap apps in Apple and Google stores could be used to make deepfake nudes

Indicator: “”Seventy percent of the “face swapping” apps available in Apple’s and Google’s app stores allowed the generation of nonconsensual deepfake nudes, according to a working paper by researchers at Cornell and Georgetown. The apps market themselves as playful AI editing tools that can edit a photo to replace someone’s face with that of another …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Privacy