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BoingBoing – “Boing Boing’s publisher Jason Weisberger recently jailbroke his Amazon Kindle because he doesn’t like being told what he can and can’t do with the hardware he owns. I feel the same way. But I feel even saltier about companies ‘selling me‘ digital content and then f****** with that purchase. Sure, sometimes changes to …
iSeeCars.com: “Buying a used car can be a stressful process, with questions about everything from a car’s accident history to its maintenance and care. If you’re buying a new vehicle from a dealership, you can be pretty confident it’s not a stolen car or one that has suffered a total loss from flood or accident …
Ars Technica is doing a three-part series on the history of the internet; here’s part one, which covers ARPANET, IMPs, TCP/IP, RFCs, DNS, CompuServe, etc. “It was the first time that autocomplete had ruined someone’s day. ”In a very real sense, the Internet, this marvelous worldwide digital communications network that you’re using right now, was …
Democracy Docket: “One of the most alarming developments in the second Trump administration is agencies’ apparent defiance of court orders barring them from implementing illegal executive orders. As agencies including the State Department have ignored, evaded or slow-walked judicial decrees, courts have issued increasingly stronger warnings that compliance with their orders is not optional, and …
CRS Report – Legal Authority for the President to Impose Tariffs Under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). April 7, 2025. The International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA, 50 U.S.C. §§ 1701 et seq.) gives the President broad authorities to address declared emergencies concerning certain “unusual and extraordinary” threats to national security, foreign policy, …
Waldon, Brandon and Schneider, Nathan and Wilcox, Ethan and Zeldes, Amir and Tobia, Kevin, Large Language Models for Legal Interpretation? Don’t Take Their Word for It (February 03, 2025). Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 114 (forthcoming), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5123124 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5123124 “Recent breakthroughs in statistical language modeling have impacted countless domains, including the law. Chatbot …
Pew Research Center: “U.S. stock markets have been on a roll since late October, with shares trading at or near record highs. But the booming markets are likely to benefit White families more than families from other racial and ethnic groups. That’s because White families are the most likely to own publicly traded stocks, either …
The New York Times – [no paywall] “Geo Group, a private prison firm that makes digital tools to track immigrants, becomes one of the Trump administration’s big business winners as its tech is increasingly used in deportations…The use of Geo Group’s technology has made the company one of the Trump administration’s big business winners so …
Update via Just Security – “This public resource tracks legal challenges to Trump administration actions. The Tracker is part of the Collection: Just Security’s Coverage of the Trump Administration’s Executive Actions. Readers may also be interested in signing up for our free Early Edition roundup of news and our end-of-day newsletter with Just Security articles …
Search Engine Journal: “Google recently filed a new patent for a way to provide search results based on a user’s browsing and email history. The patent outlines a new way to search within the context of a search engine, within an email interface, and through a voice-based assistant (referred to in the patent as a …
Follow up to Trump Using Another Executive Order to Take Revenge on Law Firms – The Daily Beast [unpaywalled]: “..Epshteyn has worked for Trump since 2016 and is a polarizing figure—even by the standards of Trumpland. He worked briefly for the firm Milbank LLP after graduating from law school but has never tried a case, according …
“The European Commission is giving some of its US-bound staff burner phones and basic laptops to avoid cybersecurity risks, the Financial Times reported. Brussels typically reserves such measures for trips to Ukraine and China over fears of Russian or Chinese government espionage. Worries about American spying are the latest sign of worsening transatlantic ties in …
