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Bloomberg Law [no paywall]: “When a federal judge asked California solo practitioner William Becker Jr. to explain why a motion seemed to be riddled with AI-hallucinated citations, he knew what he needed to do. Becker, representing a defendant in a case involving former NFL punter Chris Kluwe, informed the judge that he’d taken “affirmative steps” …
The New Republic: “At her confirmation hearing in January, Attorney General Pam Bondi tried to reassure senators about the job she would do as the nation’s top federal law-enforcement officer. Her “overriding objective,” Bondi said, would be to “return the Department of Justice to its core mission of keeping Americans safe and vigorously enforcing the …
ABA Task Force on Law and Artificial Intelligence Addressing the Legal Challenges of AI Year 2 Report on the Impact of AI on the Practice of Law, December 2025. This report focuses on the future of AI and the law. One of the most high-profile and transformative developments of our time, complex and multi-faceted AI …
The Atlantic Gift Article – The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble. “…The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments make up the Civil War and Reconstruction amendments. The Thirteenth abolished slavery except as punishment for a crime, but America needed to do more to prevent the resurgence of the slave-owning South’s caste-based society. The Fourteenth …
The Verge: “For three decades, a tiny text file has kept the internet from chaos. This text file has no particular legal or technical authority, and it’s not even particularly complicated. It represents a handshake deal between some of the earliest pioneers of the internet to respect each other’s wishes and build the internet in …
404 Media: “I am standing on the corner of Harris Road and Young Street outside of the Crossroads Business Park in Bakersfield, California, looking up at a Flock surveillance camera bolted high above a traffic signal. On my phone, I am watching myself in real time as the camera records and livestreams me—without any password …
copyrightlately: “From Nancy Drew to Animal Crackers to The Maltese Falcon, 1930’s greatest works enter the U.S. public domain on January 1, 2026. Expect celebration, confusion, and at least one Betty Boop slasher film. Sorry in advance…I’ve listed over 150 notable works entering the public domain at the end of this article. But as always, …
Wired [no paywall]: “Privacy may be dead, but civilians are turning conventional wisdom on its head by surveilling the cops as much as the cops surveil them. The Department of Homeland Security secretary has spent 2025 trying to convince the American public that identifying roving bands of masked federal agents is “doxing”—and that revealing these …
The New York Times Gift Article: “The Supreme Court’s Accepting an argument from a law professor that no party to the case had made, the Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a stinging loss that could lead to more aggressive tactics. The Supreme Court’s refusal on Tuesday to let the Trump administration deploy National Guard …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 28, 2025 – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 22, 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 …
Washington Post [no paywall]: “Explore the ways animals and plants protect human health and what’s at stake when species are endangered. This reporting was supported by the Pulitzer Center and is helping to rewrite the story of the big, bad wolf, with a surprise twist. Studies have found that wolves in the Midwest and Canada …
EFF – We Built You a Resource Hub to Fight Back. “Age verification laws are proliferating fast across the United States and around the world, creating a dangerous and confusing tangle of rules about what we’re all allowed to see and do online. Though these mandates claim to protect children, in practice they create harmful censorship …
