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The New York Times Gift Article – “In an escalating cat-and-mouse game, job hunters are trying to fool A.I. into moving their applications to the top of the pile with embedded instructions…As companies increasingly turn to A.I. to sift through thousands of job applications, candidates are concealing instructions for chatbots within their résumés in hopes …
Lande, John, The Art of AI Prompting in Law and Dispute Resolution Practice (September 29, 2025). University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2025-46, 43 Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation (forthcoming November 2025), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5544018 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5544018 This short article offers a practical guide for using AI …
The New York Times Gift Article: “Cory Doctorow’s new book looks to offer comfort, and solutions, to the inescapable feeling that digital platforms have gotten worse. Over the course of a nearly four-decade career, Cory Doctorow has written 15 novels, four graphic novels, dozens of short stories, six nonfiction books, approximately 60,000 blog posts and …
arXiv: Threats to the sustainability of Community Notes on X. Zahra Arjmandi-Lari, Alexios Mantzarlis, Tom Stafford. October 1, 2025: “Community Notes are emerging as an important option for content moderation. The Community Notes system pioneered by Twitter, now known as X, uses a bridging algorithm to identify user-generated context with upvotes across political divides, supposedly …
404 Media: “Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE, 404 Media has learned. The app, called Eyes Up, differs from other banned apps such as ICEBlock which were designed to report sightings of ICE officials in real-time to warn local communities. Eyes Up, meanwhile, was …
Yale Budget Lab: Evaluating the Impact of AI on the Labor Market: Current State of Affairs. October 1, 2025 – Download the Data While the occupational mix is changing more quickly than it has in the past, it is not a large difference and predates the widespread introduction of AI in the workforce. Currently, measures …
“The Internet Archive has released a new resource guide to help libraries join in commemorating a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived by the Internet Archive and available for use via the Wayback Machine. This historic achievement represents a collective effort to preserve our shared digital history, and libraries have been at the heart …
HowToGeek: “Mozilla’s Firefox is one of the few non-Chromium browsers that exist these days, and it remains one of the most solid browser options out there. But that doesn’t mean that it’s not allowed to take a page or two from Chrome every so often. Now, it has just got a pretty useful Google feature …
JND Legal Administration: “The lawsuit alleges that Anthropic infringed copyrights by downloading datasets containing copyrighted books in violation of the federal Copyright Act. Anthropic denies all the allegations and denies that it did anything wrong. Anthropic argues that its use of the downloaded datasets was fair use. You can get more information about the lawsuit …
Beta News: “A new report from The Conference Board and ESGAUGE [The full report available from The Conference Board site] finds that 72 percent of S&P 500 companies now flag AI as a material risk in their public disclosures. That’s up from just 12 percent in 2023, underscoring how rapidly AI has moved from experimental …
Wired: “Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation. United States immigration authorities are moving to dramatically expand their social media surveillance, with plans to hire nearly 30 contractors to sift through posts, photos, and messages—raw material to be transformed …
NewsGuard: The United States has “unilaterally disarmed in the information wars,” dismantling key defenses against Russian, Chinese, and Iranian disinformation efforts, NewsGuard Co-CEO Gordon warns in an op-ed published in the Washington Post on Oct. 6. Crovitz argues that recent actions by the Trump administration — including the effective shutdown of the Foreign Malign Influence …
