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Years of Climate Action Demolished in Days

The Crucial Years – Hands off…the future. So many ways to wreck an economy, and Trump is trying them all…”Mark Gongloff and Elaine He at Bloomberg produced a remarkable timeline [no paywall] the other day showing in enormous detail how the Trump administration had, in a matter of weeks, undone twenty years worth of efforts …

Subjects: Climate Change, Economy, Environmental Law, Financial System, Government Documents

Artificial Intelligence and Aggregate Litigation

Wilf-Townsend, Daniel, Artificial Intelligence and Aggregate Litigation (March 01, 2025). 103 Wash. U. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2026), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5163640 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5163640 – The era of AI litigation has begun, and it is already clear that the class action will have a distinctive role to play. AI-powered tools are often valuable because they …

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

Major publishers call on the US government to ‘Stop AI Theft’

The Verge – “Hundreds of publishers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Verge parent company Vox Media, are running an ad campaign this week urging the government to protect content from AI. The campaign, called Support Responsible AI, is run by the News/Media Alliance trade association and consists of …

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

DOGE Moves From Secure, Reliable Tape Archives to Hackable Digital Records

404 Media – “The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced Monday that the General Services Administration converted 14,000 magnetic to digital records, and claimed the process saved a million dollars a year. The problem is, magnetic tapes are regarded by storage and archivist professionals as being a stable, reliable, and safe medium for long-term data …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Government, E-Records, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

How to avoid CC’ing the Atlantic editor-in-chief in your messages

MacWorld – Autocompleting addresses and address suggestions are powerful shortcuts that can easily bite you. You are likely not planning a military action in another country, but the accidental inclusion of unintended invitees to a group text, email, or other discussion could still prove a problem—from embarrassment to losing friends, causing a family rift, or …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Social Media

This New Setting Hides Your Recent Safari Searches on iPhone

Lifehacker: “If your iPhone is running iOS 18.4, you might have noticed some significant new features, like AI-powered Priority Notifications and seven brand-new emojis. However, one change in particular might be a bit controversial: Safari’s Search feature now shows a list of your most recent searches every time you search for something new. Useful? Maybe. …

Subjects: Internet, Privacy

How actual ‘fake news’ caused a market whiplash

CNN: “An errant post on X may have just shaken the stock market, showing how influential — and unreliable — the social media platform can be. Unsourced “headlines” about a potential “90-day pause in tariffs” sent markets into a state of turbulence Monday morning as investors sought any indication of a reprieve from the Trump …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Internet, Social Media

Digital hygiene

karpathy – “Every now and then I get reminded about the vast fraud apparatus of the internet, re-invigorating my pursuit of basic digital hygiene around privacy/security of day to day computing. The sketchiness starts with major tech companies who are incentivized to build comprehensive profiles of you, to monetize it directly for advertising, or sell …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, ID Theft, Internet, Privacy