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“Robert B. Hubbell: On Monday [August 18, 2025], Trump contradicted a provision of the US Constitution that has remained unchanged since its effective date in 1788. Article I, Section 4, Clause 1 states: The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; …
“Today, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced a new statistics and data visualization page that includes statistics and graphics on key elements of the capital markets, such as initial public offerings, exempt offerings, corporate bond offerings, reporting issuers, municipal advisors, transfer agents, and household participation in the capital markets. The webpage provides statistics presented in …
PCMag – Installing a VPN isn’t the end of the story. To truly secure your connection, you need to dive into pro-level settings—like kill switches and LAN protection—that take your privacy to the next level. You might think that installing and connecting to a VPN is all you need for better privacy or bypassing geographical …
Carbon Brief: “A “critical assessment” report commissioned by the Trump administration to justify a rollback of US climate regulations contains at least 100 false or misleading statements, according to a Carbon Brief factcheck involving dozens of leading climate scientists. The 140-page report – “A critical review of impacts of greenhouse gas emissions on the US …
Democracy Docket: “The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is escalating its effort to pressure states to hand over sensitive voter data, including by threatening legal action, according to letters from a top department official obtained by Democracy Docket. It’s the latest step in the Trump administration’s ongoing quest to obtain state voting information to bolster …
Kiwix is a non-profit organization and a free and open-source software project dedicated to providing offline access to free educational content. The name “Kiwix” is a play on the word “Wiki” as it represented our initial goal of making Wikipedia accessible offline. Kiwix is an offline reader for online content like Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, or …
AI In Finance and Banking, August 16, 2025 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 16, 2025 – 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 …
The New York Times: “Boris Epshteyn, a personal lawyer for President Trump, connected two firms — Kirkland & Ellis and Skadden Arps — to the Commerce Department. Two of the law firms that reached deals with President Trump this year to avoid punitive executive orders were connected in recent months with the Commerce Department about …
Death of the Billable Hour: Legal’s $900B AI Repricing – Ethan Batraski. Aug 12, 2025. “The legal industry’s last great inefficiency is ending. How AI-native firms will replace billable hours with outcome-based pricing at scale. The legal industry represents one of the last great market inefficiencies in the modern economy. While every other sector discovered …
Wired – no paywall – “Named for its developer, an undergrad who took leave from UChicago to become a DOGE affiliate, a new AI tool automates the review of federal regulations and flags rules it thinks can be eliminated. Efforts to gut regulation across the US government using AI are well underway. On Wednesday, the …
AI Agents and the Law. Mark O. Riedl, Deven R. Desai. arXiv – AAAI Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society As AI becomes more “agentic,” it faces technical and socio-legal issues it must address if it is to fulfill its promise of increased economic productivity and efficiency. This paper uses technical and legal perspectives to …
