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Do we absorb information better on paper, rather than screens?

Via LLRX – Do we absorb information better on paper, rather than screens? It depends on the screen. Erik D Reichle, Professor of cognitive psychology, Macquarie University and Lili Yu, Senior Lecturer, Cognitive Psychology, Macquarie University ask us to acknowledge the critical fact that reading might appear to be an easy task, but this impression is …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 23, 2026

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 23, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media, Transportation

SolarWinds Hack Was More Humiliating for the Government Than We Thought

Gizmodo: “The SolarWinds attack in 2020 was a humiliating all-out assault on U.S. government cybersecurity, and it’s likely that one key reason it’s not more famous is that we still know very little about what the hackers achieved. But we now have a few more crumbs to work with, because new revelations from Bloomberg have …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

Thousands of journalists’ data exposed to dark web

Proton Blog: “Journalists have always operated in the crosshairs. They investigate the powerful, protect confidential sources, and publish uncomfortable truths. Today the threats they face are evolving, with political pressure and surveillance coming not only from authoritarian regimes but also from backsliding liberal democracies. Bad actors can use hacks and data breaches to disrupt their …

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

An Automatic Personalized End-to-End Legal Summarization System

An Automatic Personalized End-to-End Legal Summarization System. Xu, Huihui. University of Pittsburgh ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2026. 32672122. Personalized legal summarization for individuals’ interests allows legal professionals and the general public to understand the complex legal reasoning. The lengthy legal case opinions can be hard for readers to peruse and find information of interest. Summarizing legal opinions …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Ocean Census project discovers 1,121 new species of ocean life around the world in one year

ABC.net.au: “An alliance of marine scientists has discovered more than 1,121 new species of sea creatures around the globe since April 2025. This marks a 54 per cent increase in the number of species discovered annually, but experts warn undiscovered species might go extinct before they are identified and catalogued…Thousands of previously unknown species have …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law

DOJ Scrubbed its Website of Documents Related to January 6th Crimes

Follow up to $1.8 Billion Fund Could Funnel Money to Trump Allies, Decoding Fox News – The DOJ website now shows a blank page. Links to documents have been eliminated. I posted real time reporting throughout January 6, 2021 and identified a number of sources to access government documents specific to the event. These documents are …

Subjects: Censorship, Copyright, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation

Access to Justice in the Age of AI: Evidence from U.S. Federal Courts

Shah, Anand and Levy, Joshua, Access to Justice in the Age of AI: Evidence from U.S. Federal Courts (March 20, 2026). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6766859 – This paper studies how generative AI has reshaped entry into the federal civil court system. Drawing on administrative records covering more than 4.5 million non-prisoner federal civil court cases from …

Subjects: AI, Courts, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

How the Library of Congress is using both AI and volunteers to unlock public broadcasting history

NextGov/FCW: “Public broadcasting has a long history of capturing important moments in American life. It preserved voices from the civil rights movement, debates over war and foreign policy, regional arts coverage and local public affairs programs that reflected the people and places shaping the nation. But many of those moments have also been hard to …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Minters breaks the big law silence: AI is eating graduate jobs

Financial Review: “MinterEllison has become the first major Australian law firm to admit out loud a growing fear across the world: artificial intelligence-led automation may hurt lawyer numbers, and graduates will be hit first. Minters has cut its graduate cohort for 2025-26 by almost a third from the previous year, to 72, partly because artificial …

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

Judge rules Trump White House must comply with Presidential Records Act

Citizens for Ethics: “A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction today requiring Trump administration officials to follow the Presidential Records Act and preserve text messages, including Signal messages, pertaining to its work, in response to a motion filed and argued by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington on behalf of the Freedom of the …

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

Beyond Plastics Tracked Starbucks’ ‘Widely Recyclable’ Plastic Cups.

Beyond Plastics – None Ended Up at a Recycling Facility: “A three-month national investigation by Beyond Plastics found that not a single tracked Starbucks cold-beverage cup ended up at a recycling facility — even when the cups were placed in clearly marked recycling bins inside Starbucks stores. As detailed in the new report, titled “Tracking …

Subjects: Energy, Environmental Law, Food and Nutrition