The full list of US universities at risk of losing state department funding over DEI support

The Guardian – State department proposes excluding 38 institutions from Diplomacy Lab partnership including Harvard and Yale: “More than three dozen universities including Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Duke have their participation in a federal research partnership on the chopping block after the state department proposed to suspend them over their diversity, equity and inclusion hiring …

Subjects: Legal Research

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 29, 2025 

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 29, 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 …

Subjects: Congress, Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Defense, Privacy, Social Media, Transportation

Bird-Friendly Laws: Reducing Collisions in Major U.S. Cities

In Custodia Legis – “As the month of November ends, so does the annual fall migration season for birds in North America. According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the adult breeding bird population in the United States and Canada has been reduced by almost 3 billion since 1970, a nearly 30% decline. Although the actual impact is …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law, Legal Research

Use this free open-source app to track everywhere you’ve been without giving Google a thing

Make Use Of: “… Dawarich…is an open-source tool that replicates the features I enjoyed in Google Timeline while giving me full control over where my data lives. I can run it on my own computer, on a small home server, or in a private cloud environment. There are no ads and no hidden data collection. …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

100 Notable Books of 2025

The New York Times: “Each January, the editors and critics at the Book Review begin sifting through thousands of new books. By February, we’re meeting regularly to debate and discuss the standouts. All of us are passionate readers, but our tastes don’t necessarily overlap, so the conversations are lively! By September, we’re winnowing down our …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Libraries, Search Engines

Washington Post Analysis Shows We Are Talking Too Much And Getting Questionable Advice From LLMs

Above the Law – Stephen Embry – And It May All Be Discoverable: It’s incumbent on all of us to do all we can to make ordinary people aware of the dangers. The jury is still out on how much and how soon GenAI will impact the legal profession, as I pointed out in a …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines

Crumbling Under Pressure: PropensityBench Reveals AI’s Weaknesses

Scale.com: “AI models are now being used in more high-stakes settings, and not every situation goes according to plan. When a model’s safe approach starts to fail, will it stay on the safe path or reach for a harmful shortcut that works instead? Understanding how models behave in those pressure moments is one of the …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Education, Knowledge Management

Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge

Popular Information: “One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or characters. Hargett suggested that libraries that made such books available to children were violating federal and state law. Some libraries have closed for days …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Legal Research, Libraries

Why you shouldn’t count on humans to prevent AI hiring bias

No Thoughts Just AI: Biased LLM Hiring Recommendations Alter Human Decision Making and Limit Human Autonomy. Kyra Wilson, Mattea Sim, Anna-Maria Gueorguieva1, Aylin Caliskan. Proceedings of the Eighth AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES2025): “Despite bias in artificial intelligence (AI) being a risk of their use in hiring systems, there is no large-scale …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Civil Liberties, E-Records, Economy, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet

Bloomberg – no paywall: AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner | Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures. “Recipe bloggers say AI-generated summaries and recipes are distorting how people find cooking advice online, damaging their businesses and potentially ruining holiday dinners. …

Subjects: AI, Food and Nutrition