The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

The New York Times Gift Article: “Rulings with no explanation or reasoning, like the sparse paragraph from that February night, have become routine. The emergency docket is now a central legacy of the court led by Chief Justice Roberts.” How dramatically will that legacy change our legal system and our country? Only the Shadow knows…Just after …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Courts, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Recommended Books

We Don’t Really Know How A.I. Works. That’s a Problem

The New York Times: “For us to trust it on certain subjects, researchers in the growing field of interpretability might need to learn how to open the black box of its brain… A.I. system is to ask the model to explain itself. If a therapy language model tells you that you should take antidepressants, you …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Education, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

How to actually recycle electronics, beauty empties, toys, and more tricky items in 2026

Mashable: “…Perhaps you’ve Googled “how to recycle insert item here” just to be given some vague instructions like “Check locally.” If you did check locally, you probably learned that most municipal recycling programs max out at trash-like recyclables. This isn’t because recycling everything else is impossible on a technical level — it often just costs …

Subjects: Environmental Law, Internet

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is preparing banks to collect citizenship data

CNBC:” Banks in the U.S. may not like the idea of being forced to collect citizenship data on customers, but Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says they better be prepared for the task. “If Treasury and the banking regulators say it’s their job, it’s their job,” Bessent told CNBC’s Sara Eisen at the Invest in America …

Subjects: Censorship, Congress, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy

AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

Forbes: “When Shanna Johnson was winding down cielo24, the transcription and captioning company she ran as CEO, she discovered an unexpected asset: its operational exhaust—the digital leftovers that pile up across years of work and collaboration. To close the company out, she worked with SimpleClosure, a startup that specializes in helping companies wind down. SimpleClosure …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Internet, Legal Research, Search Engines, Social Media

The hidden ROI of AI: What leaders should actually measure

Fortune: “The promise of AI seems almost unlimited. Organizations worldwide are expanding access, investing heavily, and launching pilots at speed. Despite this optimism, the reality is more complex: the hardest work is moving AI pilots into production and measuring success beyond immediate financial returns. Deloitte has seen this dynamic first-hand: broad access is necessary, but …

Subjects: AI, Data Governance, Education, Intellectual Property, Knowledge Management, Marketing

Trump Administration Takes Steps to Refund $166 Billion in Tariffs

The New York Times, Gift Article: Trump Administration Takes Steps to Refund $166 Billion in Tariffs. “…When President Trump unveiled his sprawling global tariffs last spring, he boasted that they would generate windfall profits and “make America wealthy again.” But after suffering a significant Supreme Court defeat, Mr. Trump is about to pay the money …

Subjects: Courts, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research

Prediction markets are breaking the news and becoming their own beat

NeimanLab: “Depending on whom you ask, prediction markets are either: A dangerous, unregulated form of gambling that allows for degenerate betting on real events, unfettered by the economic and legal rules that keep stock markets and sports betting in check, creating an opportunity for corruption and insider trading on a scale we have never seen …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs: The Arguments That Shaped America, Now Freely Available

Internet Archive Blogs: “Thanks to a generous gift of materials from the Wolf Law Library at the William & Mary Law School, and the Internet Archive’s mission to digitize and provide universal access to knowledge, we are pleased to share more than 125,000 U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs. These materials which span nearly two …

Subjects: Courts, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 18, 2026

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 18, 2026 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: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media