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Via #LLRX @psuPete Recommends Weekly highlights on #cybersecurity issues, 1/24/26 5 highlights from this week: #AI Fools Itself: Top #Chatbots Don’t Recognize AI-Generated #Videos; #FBI #WashingtonPost Investigation Shows How Your #Printer Can Snitch on You; #SCOTUS to Hear Case on 'Geofence’ #Warrants; Confusion and fear send people to #Reddit for #cybersecurity advice; and AI-Powered #Surveillance in #Schools. #privacy #law #legalresearch #cybercrime #lawenforcement https://www.llrx.com/2026/01/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-january-24-2026/

N-gated Hacker News Jan 5

In a Hard-Hitting #exposé that reads like an ad for enable-JavaScript-dot-com, we're lectured on the secret handshake club of legal research tools 🕵️‍♂️✨. Spoiler alert: you're not getting in without #cookies 🍪, so don't forget to bring a snack to this riveting non-clickbait adventure.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/gatekeepers-of-law-inside-the-westlaw #LegalResearch #Secrets #JavaScript #NonClickbait #HackerNews #ngated

Gatekeepers of Law: Inside the Westlaw and LexisNexis Duopoly

Ever since a spate of mergers in the 1990s, Westlaw and LexisNexis have dominated legal research. And that might be why searching legal cases is so costly, even in the age of AI.

BIG by Matt Stoller

beSpacific Dec 31

#House #Judiciary Committee on 12/31/25 released full #deposition #transcript of former #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith, offering most detailed public account yet of Smith’s rationale 4 prosecuting #DonaldTrump #Jan6 #insurrection rebutting #Republican #GOP #maga claims that investigations were politically motivated. #law #legal #government #democracy #legalresearch #Congress #constitution #violence #indictments #grandjury https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/2025-12/Smith-Depo-Transcript_Redacted-w-Errata.pdf See Also 8hrs video testimony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR-bhPzQYUE

beSpacific Dec 14

Via #LLRX @psuPete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, Dec 13, 2025 - Five highlights from this week: Your Boss Has More Ways Than Ever to Monitor What You’re Doing at Work; How to break free from #smart #TV #ads and #tracking; Every #Legal Team Needs to See This #LLM #Leak; U.S. Plans to Scrutinize #Foreign #Tourists #SocialMedia #History; and A New #Anonymous #Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code. #privacy #law #legalresearch https://www.llrx.com/2025/12/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-december-13-2025/

The Max Planck Foundation Dec 12

@mpfpr welcomed Fellows from the ITLOS–Nippon Foundation Programme on Dispute Settlement under UNCLOS for a discussion series on #LawoftheSea 🌊, #LegalResearch ⚖️, and writing in Heidelberg📍.

More▶️ https://www.mpfpr.de/2025/12/12/discussion-series-on-law-of-the-sea-and-legal-research-and-writing/

Discussion Series on Law of the Sea and Legal Research and Writing – Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law

The Max Planck Foundation Nov 7

🔵 Select articles from Volume 28 of the Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law #UNYB are now available online as advance publications, ahead of the full volume.

See➡️ https://www.mpfpr.de/2025/11/07/advance-publication-volume-28-of-the-max-planck-yearbook-of-united-nations-law-unyb-now-available-online/

#HumanRights #UN #publicinternationallaw #UnitedNations #Völkerrecht #law #PIL #internationallaw
#UN #UNYB #Diplomacy#Internationallawmaking #HumanRights #legalresearch #InternationalLawCommission
#InternationalCourtofJustice #MaxPlanckLaw #lawofthesea #ITLOS