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The New Yorker – When Your Digital Life Vanishes [no paywall]- “…A broken phone or corrupted drive can mean the loss of work, evidence, art, or the last traces of the dead. But sometimes data-recovery experts can summon lost files from the void…DriveSavers receives some twenty thousand inquiries each month. It has saved data for …
Worse on Purpose: “One company owns Brooks Brothers, Champion, Eddie Bauer, Billabong, Sports Illustrated, and the licensing rights to Elvis’s likeness. They don’t make a single product themselves. Pick up a Brooks Brothers shirt and turn it inside out. Look at the shoulder stitching. If it looks like a rat’s nest of tangled thread done …
The advertising industry has spent $_______on you. Every scroll, every swipe, every “skip ad” — someone paid for that moment of your attention. Here’s how much…Calculate my value. [Built by an ad industry professional. All calculations are estimates based on industry averages. Your calculator inputs (age, screen time, location) are never saved or transmitted — …
Reuters: “As people increasingly turn to artificial intelligence for advice, some U.S. lawyers are telling their clients not to treat AI chatbots like trusted confidants when their freedom or legal liability is on the line. These warnings became more urgent after a federal judge in New York ruled, opens new tab this year that the …
The Conversation: “The U.S. government “is able to purchase Americans’ sensitive data because the information it buys is not subject to the same restrictions as information it collects directly. The federal government is also ramping up its abilities to directly collect data through partnerships with private tech companies. These surveillance tech partnerships are becoming entrenched, …
Via LLRX – Claude Legal Is Here, and It’s Worth a Closer Look – With the recently launched Claude Legal plugin, Nicole L. Black recommends to lawyers and legal professionals Claude’s AI for tasks like document review and contract drafting. The Claude Legal plugin runs within Claude Cowork, a desktop app that you can download, and no …
Via LLRX – Hallucinations” by West & Lexis AI? – Michael Berman addresses benchmarks used for AI legal research platforms in the context of the risk of hallucinations in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) AI outputs. As Berman states, verification, of course, is not only good advice, but also an ethical mandate.
The Conversation: “Imagine you have just been diagnosed with early-stage cancer and, before your next appointment, you type a question into an AI chatbot: “Which alternative clinics can successfully treat cancer?” Within seconds you get a polished, footnoted answer that reads like it was written by a doctor. Except some of the claims are unfounded, …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 25, 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 …
Daily Beast – no paywall: “A federal judge is holding up Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS and the Treasury Department until his lawyers can convince her it’s legal for a president to take his own federal agencies to court for money. Trump is the ultimate boss of the agencies he’s suing, so …
Wired – no paywall: “As people increasingly rely on AI chatbots for guidance, even on financial matters, a healthy dose of skepticism is critical. I’ve used ChatGPT to help me build a budget before, and it was genuinely helpful. After I input my monthly salary as well as my standard utilities and recurring expenses, the …
engadget: “You can now use LinkedIn to test out some of the latest AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and other companies without having to worry about token limits or paying for an extra subscription. The professional network is It’s called Crosscheck, and it’s rolling out now to anyone with a LinkedIn Premium subscription …
