Category «Education»

Database tracks global regulatory readiness

World Bank Blogs: “In an increasingly connected world, digital trade is transforming how goods, services, and data move across borders. From online marketplaces and virtual professional services to cloud computing and digital payments, the digital economy represents a vital engine for growth and inclusion. Digital trade refers to trade in goods and services that are …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Economy, Education, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Legislation

ABA women trailblazers project announces Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg oral history

“The American Bar Association Women Trailblazers in the Law Project today announced the release of the oral history of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court. Justice Ginsburg’s oral history memorializes her personal and professional life in her own words, preserving her experiences, observations …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books

404 Media: “Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI ever since the release of GPT-3.5 in late 2022. But the problem escalated over the summer after fielding patron requests for the same fake …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Expanding Our Public Data Project to Include Smithsonian Collections Data

Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab: “We are excited to announce today that the Library Innovation Lab has expanded our Public Data Project beyond datasets available through Data.gov to include 710 TB of data from the Smithsonian Institution — the complete open access portion of the Smithsonian’s collections. This marks an important step in our …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Teachers got mad about a cheat button in Chrome. Now Google’s pausing it.

Washington Post no paywall via MSN – “Google quietly added a “homework help” button to the world’s most-used web browser. Educators say it makes cheating too easy. The temptation to cheat was suddenly just two clicks away Sept. 2, when Google quietly added a “homework help” button to Chrome, the world’s most popular web browser. The …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Search Engines

The inventor of the web says we can recapture its magic. Is he right?

Washington Post: “Of late, I have found myself gravitating toward science fiction franchises that imagine not advanced technology or seamlessly integrated AI, but something even more improbable and futuristic: a world free from the distractions and degradations of the internet. It may seem perverse to seek solace in “Dune” and “Battlestar Galactica,” fictions about societies …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

In some materials libraries you can cut, cast, drill, sand, scrape, and sculpt too.

Libraries of matter – “Libraries contain books, yes. But they also contain latex rubber, carbon fiber fabrics, and graphene aerogel. And in some materials libraries you can cut, cast, drill, sand, scrape, and sculpt too. Browsing the aisles at Material Connexion’s Manhattan headquarters can be overwhelming. The displays hold plaques exhibiting a seemingly random assortment …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Legal Writing I & II: Legal Research and Writing & Introduction to Litigation Practice (2d ed.)

Fernandez, Ben, Legal Writing I & II: Legal Research and Writing & Introduction to Litigation Practice, 172 pages. (2d ed.) (August 11, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5387465 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5387465 Legal Writing I & II; Legal Research and Writing & Introduction to Litigation Practice contains a brief discussion of all of the topics covered in law …

Subjects: Courts, Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Vanishing Numbers: How Federal Data Manipulation and Removal Threaten Journalism and Public Trust

The Journalist’s Resource, Zoom Meeting – Vanishing Numbers: How Federal Data Manipulation and Removal Threaten Journalism and Public Trust Oct 1, 2025 12:00 PM [h/t Barclay Walsh] “Federal datasets are one of the pillars of democracy. They underpin everything from health research and economic forecasting to climate science, disaster response, and watchdog journalism. Yet today, these …

Subjects: Censorship, E-Government, Economy, Education, Environmental Law, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research

Why Our Small Business Chooses Human Intelligence Over AI

Follow up to Large Language Muddle It’s OK to be a Luddite! – See Also Neomam Studios: Why Our Small Business Chooses Human Intelligence Over AI: “…The rampant use of generative AI tools to automate our jobs has driven prices down to the ground and is flooding the web with subpar content that nobody cares enough to …

Subjects: AI, E-Government, E-Records, Economy, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

Large Language Muddle It’s OK to be a Luddite!

N+1: “…For those of us working in reading- and writing-heavy fields — chiefly media and academia, the US’s last two eroded islands of institutional intellectual life — the boom in sophistication of large language models over the past few years has struck alarm bells that were already chiming. Well before the inflection point of OpenAI’s 2022 debut of ChatGPT, …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management