Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 10, 2025

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 10, 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 complex …

Subjects: Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine, Privacy

Airlines Are Collecting Your Data And Selling It To ICE

The Lever [no paywall] – “A massive aviation industry clearinghouse that processes data for 12 billion passenger flights per year is selling that information to the Trump administration amid the White House’s new immigration crackdown, according to documents reviewed by The Lever. The data — including “full flight itineraries, passenger name records, and financial details, …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Economy, Privacy, Transportation

How to Make Your iPhone as Secure as Possible

How to Geek: Two-Factor Authentication iCloud Private Relay Advanced Data Protection Stolen Device Protection Lockdown Mode Other Key Habits to Improve Your iPhone Security Summary: Two-factor authentication adds an extra layer of security to protect your iCloud account, while iCloud Private Relay safeguards your privacy when browsing online with Apple’s Safari browser.C onsider enabling Advanced …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Privacy

AI Models Embrace Humanlike Reasoning

IEEE Spectrum – “Researchers are pushing beyond chain-of-thought prompting to new cognitive techniques. Since OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in 2022, AI companies have been locked in a race to build increasingly gigantic models, causing companies to invest huge sums in building data centers. But toward the end of last year, there were rumblings that the …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The Littler Annual Employer Survey Report

The Littler Annual Employer Survey Report, May 25, 2025 – “It has been a turbulent start to 2025 as U.S. employers scramble to adapt to new executive orders, sweeping changes at federal agencies and a growing patchwork of workplace regulations at the state and local levels. To understand how businesses are navigating these disruptions, Littler …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Economy, Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Trump fires Librarian of Congress

The Hill: “President Donald Trump fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden on Thursday, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill.  Hayden was the first woman and the first African American to be Librarian of Congress. A spokesperson for the library told The Hill in an email that “Tonight, the White House informed …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Artificial Intelligence and Law – An Overview of Recent Technological Changes in Large Language Models and Law

Surden, Harry, Artificial Intelligence and Law – An Overview of Recent Technological Changes in Large Language Models and Law (February 12, 2025). 96 Colorado Law Review pp. 376 – 411 (2025), U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 25-8, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5135305 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5135305 “This article, based upon a keynote address by …

Subjects: AI, Courts, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Measuring the Rapidly Increasing Use of Artificial Intelligence in Legal Scholarship

Conklin, Michael and Houston, Christopher, Measuring the Rapidly Increasing Use of Artificial Intelligence in Legal Scholarship (March 23, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5190385 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5190385 “The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has had a profound impact on nearly every industry, including legal academia. As AI-driven tools like ChatGPT become more prevalent, they raise critical …

Subjects: AI, Knowledge Management, Legal Research