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Tyreek Hill accused of multiple instances of domestic violence in court filings by estranged wife

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/tyreek-

California Central Coast elected officials, nonprofit organizers, and immigrant rights advocates are preparing for an incoming increase in immigration enforcement
following recent developments at the federal level, including the U.S. Supreme Court decision to lift restrictions in the region,
and billions of dollars that will soon be available to fund more detention centers, officers, and ICE enforcement operations.
On Monday, the Supreme Court granted the Trump administrati…

Central Coast Leaders Prepare for Surge in Federal Immigration Response
Elected officials and organizers are speaking out against the incoming increase in enforcement and ICE funding.

from my link log —
UK High Court to lawyers: cut the ChatGPT or else.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/07/uk-high-court-to-lawyers-cut-the-chatgpt-or-else/
saved 2025-06-08

UK — High Court to lawyers: cut the ChatGPT or else
US lawyers have spent the past two years filing briefs full of citations to nonexistent cases — because a chatbot made them up. You’d think these intelligent and educated people would know better t…

Effective Training Data Synthesis for Improving MLLM Chart Understanding
Yuwei Yang, Zeyu Zhang, Yunzhong Hou, Zhuowan Li, Gaowen Liu, Ali Payani, Yuan-Sen Ting, Liang Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06492

Effective Training Data Synthesis for Improving MLLM Chart Understanding
Being able to effectively read scientific plots, or chart understanding, is a central part toward building effective agents for science. However, existing multimodal large language models (MLLMs), especially open-source ones, are still falling behind with a typical success rate of 30%-50% on challenging benchmarks. Previous studies on fine-tuning MLLMs with synthetic charts are often restricted by their inadequate similarity to the real charts, which could compromise model training and performa…

A judge rules Don Lemon's lawsuit against Elon Musk and X can proceed to trial, after Musk canceled a $1.5M/year exclusive X content deal with Lemon in 2024 (Alex Welch/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/don-lemon-elon-musk-x-lawsuit-moving-to-tria…

Don Lemon's Lawsuit Against Elon Musk Can Go to Trial Following Pivotal Court Ruling
Former CNN journalist Don Lemon's lawsuit against Elon Musk and the Tesla CEO's social media platform X will be allowed to go to trial.

Story links:
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/former-whatsapp-security-boss-sues-meta-for-systemic-cybersecurity-failures/
https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/09/in-court-filing-google-concedes-the-open-web-is-in-rapid-decline/

After seeing a workshop using a crappy pseudo/proprietary forensic web capture toolkit for law enforcement, I was disappointed by the lack of open source tooling to have a sane forensic collection for web capture. Following a discussion with @… he did an implementation to add web forensic acquisition in

Federal courts step up security following major hack of electronic filing system (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/07/federal-court-filing-system-pacer-hack-security-lawmaker-response-00498563
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p140#a250807p140

The IRS said in a new court filing that clergy and houses of worship should be allowed to make political endorsements,
-- abandoning an 71-year-old tax policy that banned the mixing of religion and politics.

Nonprofits should be allowed to make political endorsements and not lose their tax exemption,
the IRS said in the court filing.
Religious congregations, the filing said, are like families and communication between them should not be deemed “participation” in a ca…

IRS: Churches should be allowed to make political endorsements
Since 1954, the IRS has banned nonprofits — including congregations — from participating in political campaigns. The agency now says political endorsements by churches should be allowed.

In a September 5 filing in the US v. Google ad tech trial, Google said "the open web is already in rapid decline", contradicting Google's recent statements (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-open-web-is-in-r…

New Google Court Doc: Open Web Is In Rapid Decline
Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, said in May that web publishing is not dying. Nick Fox, VP of Search at Google, said in May that the web is thriving. But in a court document filed by Google on late Fri