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Google confirms hackers gained access to law enforcement portal
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-confirms-hackers-gained-access-to-law-enforcement-portal/

Google confirms hackers gained access to law enforcement portal
Google has confirmed that hackers created a fraudulent account in its Law Enforcement Request System (LERS) platform that law enforcement uses to submit official data requests to the company

law_firm: Lazega law firm network
Multiplex network with 3 edge types representing relationships (coworkers, friendship, advice) between partners and associates of a corporate law firm. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 71 nodes and 2571 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://net…

LA-based MarqVision, which uses AI to monitor marketplaces for counterfeits, raised a $48M Series B led by Peak XV Partners, bringing its total funding to ~$90M (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/15/harvard-law-to-ai-marqvisi…

Harvard Law to AI: MarqVision lands $48M to combat brand abuse | TechCrunch
This LA-based startup raised $48M to tackle brand abuse

> By the time we got to the first Q&A, Apple's lawyers had already wasted half of our time.
https://formularsumo.co.uk/blog/2025/apple-vs-the-law/

400-yard TSSAA football passing night among Ponce Law Nashville area Boys Athlete of Week choices https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/high-school/2025/09/14/tennessee-high-school-football-ponce-law-athlete-of-…

“Public reports indicate that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is pushing senior Department of Defense (DoD) officials to increase operational coordination in law enforcement activities,”
reads the letter, which TNR obtained.
It warns that this “continues to erode the line between defense activities and law enforcement.”
The defense secretary surely will throw this letter in the garbage.
But, as hopeless as the prospects for real congressional oversight look …

“Alarming”: Trump’s Threat of Troops in Cities Just Got Much Scarier
Top Democrats are demanding that the Pentagon release documentation of internal conversations about future militarization of domestic law enforcement.

Law Firms That Settled With Trump Are Pressed to Help on Trade Deals (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/us/politics/trump-law-firms-trade-deals.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p29#a250814p29

MAGA Desperate To Prove Superman Isn’t an Immigrant but the Law Is Clear | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-07-11/maga-desperate-prove-superman-isnt-immigrant-law-clear

Report Says UK is Lagging Behind in the Transition to Sustainable Diets, Outlines Four Solutions https://vegconomist.com/politics-law/report-uk-lagging-behind-sustainable-diets-solutions/

Report Says UK is Lagging Behind in the Transition to Sustainable Diets, Outlines Four Solutions - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
ProVeg UK says the country is currently lagging behind other European nations when it comes to promoting healthy, climate-friendly food.

Accenture plans to acquire Australian cybersecurity company CyberCX from private equity firm BGH Capital; the deal reportedly values CyberCX at more than AU$1B (Mark Anderson/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-tel…

Accenture Acquires Australian Cybersecurity Firm CyberCX
Accenture Plc is buying Australian cybersecurity firm CyberCX, its largest acquisition to date in the sector that will boost operations in the Asia-Pacific region.

https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html

Now that the weekend is over, check out today's Metacurity for the top infosec developments you might have missed, including
--Suspected Chinese hackers breach top telco law firm,
--13 Romanians busted for phishing attacks on UK revenue & customs office,
--Hacker shares racist and antisemitic posts on Elmo's X account,
--Flaw can trigger train emergency break,
--DoJ tries to recoup Trump boosters' stolen crypto,
--Google Gemini for Workspace…

Suspected Chinese hackers breach top telco law firm
13 Romanians busted for phishing UK revenue & customs office, Hacker shares racist & antisemitic posts on Elmo's X account, Flaw can trigger train emergency break, DoJ tries to recoup Trump boosters' stolen crypto, Google Gemini for Workspace flaw enables malicious instructions, much more

My comment on police frisks in the Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/15/dc-police-ice-national-guard-laws-rights/?commentID=04c04578-4c41-4ba4-a32d-3d43c909df96

As Trump takes over D.C.’s police, here’s what law enforcement can and cannot do
With federal and local officers on D.C.’s streets, here’s what to know about what law enforcement agencies can legally order you to do — and what they can’t.

Students in the Pacific Islands are reshaping global climate law by taking on the International Court of Justice to hold nations accountable for their actions. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

How a Group of Students in the Pacific Islands Reshaped Global Climate Law
They watched climate change ravage their home countries as rich, polluting nations did nothing. Then they had an idea.

Restoring Law and Order in Memphis (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restoring-law-and-order-in-memphis/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250915/p148#a250915p148

Exclusive: How the Trump Administration is Breaking the Law and Wasting Taxpayer Dollars with Giant Banners of Donald Trump - MeidasTouch News
https://meidasnews.com/news/exclusive-how-the-trump-administration-is-breaking-the-law-and-wasting-taxpayer-dollars-with-giant-banners-of-donald-trump

SCOTUS rejects NetChoice's emergency appeal to block a Mississippi law that requires age verification and parental consent for teens to join social networks (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/us…

Supreme Court Allows Mississippi Law on Children’s Use of Social Media, for Now
A trade group representing sites like Facebook and X said the law ran afoul of the First Amendment.

Swiss government looks to undercut privacy tech, stoking fears of mass surveillance
The Swiss government could soon require service providers with more than 5,000 users to collect government-issued identification, retain subscriber data for six months and, in many cases, disable encryption.
🇨🇭 https://

Swiss government looks to undercut privacy tech, stoking fears of mass surveillance
Swiss-based providers of secure email, VPNs and other digital services say a pending government proposal would be catastrophic to their ability to protect the privacy of users.

Finland bans Russians, Belarusians from buying property over security concerns: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/finland-bans-russians-belarusians-from.html

A Dual Quaternion Control Law for Formation Control of Multiple 3-D Rigid Bodies
Chunfeng Cui, Liqun Qi, Hao Chen, Xiangke Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10519 https://

A Dual Quaternion Control Law for Formation Control of Multiple 3-D Rigid Bodies
This paper studies the integrated position and attitude control problem for multi-agent systems of 3D rigid bodies. While the state-of-the-art method in [Olfati-Saber and Murray, 2004] established the theoretical foundation for rigid-body formation control, it requires all agents to asymptotically converge to identical positions and attitudes, limiting its applicability in scenarios where distinct desired relative configurations must be maintained. In this paper, we develop a novel dual-quatern…

California lawmakers pass bill banning law enforcement officers from covering their faces
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-12/bill-banning-masks-on-law-enforcement-officers-passes-state-legislature

California lawmakers pass bill banning law enforcement officers from covering their faces
The California Legislature on Thursday passed a pair of bills to prohibit on-duty law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents, from masking their faces and requires them to identify themselves.

Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence https://openbuddhism.org/library/videos/2022/elodie-emery-wandrille-lanos-present-buddhism-the-unspeakable-truth/

On the density of singular SDEs with fractional noise and applications to McKean-Vlasov equations
Lukas Anzeletti, Lucio Galeati, Alexandre Richard, Etienne Tanr\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11900

On the density of singular SDEs with fractional noise and applications to McKean-Vlasov equations
We investigate properties of the (conditional) law of the solution to SDEs driven by fractional Brownian noise with a singular, possibly distributional, drift. Our results on the law are twofold: i) we quantify the spatial regularity of the law, while keeping track of integrability in time, and ii) we prove that it has a density with Gaussian tails. Then the former result is used to establish novel results on existence and uniqueness of solutions to McKean-Vlasov equations of convolutional type.

another reason concrete is better than cameras. there are real solutions to traffic violence without making excuses for mass surveillance
https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oakland-san-francisco-ice-license-plate-readers/

SF, Oakland cops illegally funneled license plate data to feds
SF and Oakland police appear to have repeatedly broken state law by sharing data from license plate cameras with federal agencies. OPD fulfilled a request related to an ICE investigation on one occasion.

There’s gonna be an open space on Python and complex applications tomorrow at 10am in room 223 224:
“Is Python suitable for writing maintanable (complex) software?”
I’ll try to be there & as far as I am concerned, Betteridge's Law of Headlines doesn’t apply! #EuroPython

Mamdani was out in Forest Hills yesterday. My sister-in-law and a bunch of other folks got to see him, but I didn't get to (venue was full).
Meanwhile Grace Meng showed up to our shindig yesterday, which was cool, but I still would've rather had Mamdani!

Comcast sues to invalidate a Washington state law that taxes online ad services, set to take effect in October; major ad industry groups also oppose the law (Wendy Davis/MediaPost)
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/408…

Comcast Sues Over Washington State Tax On Digital Ads
Comcast has sued to invalidate a new Washington state law that imposes a tax on online advertising services such as creating and placing digital ads, analyzing their performance and planning online campaigns.

Two things can be true, even if they seem in opposition.
Hitler's race law was based on Jim Crow. Lebensraum was a direct translation of Manifest Destiny to Europe. The genocide of indigenous Americans was the inspiration and roadmap for the Holocaust. Red Summer was a genocide event. Chinese exclusion was a genocide event. The genocide of indigenous Americans continued, and the Dakota Access Pipeline is an example of that continuance.
And... Trumpian fascism is new phase of America that's markedly different than anything that anyone alive had ever experienced. Trump was inspired by Hitler's speeches and read them regularly. He admires Hitler and tries to emulate him. The language he used during his first campaign were developed by Neonazi groups like Aryan Brotherhood working with the KKK. His image was shaped by white and Christian nationalists, as is his platform today. He is a new and more dangerous kind of monster. The death camps are new. The scale of what's happening is new. The concentration of power is new.
These can both be true, and are.
#USPol

Using Large Language Models for Legal Decision-Making in Austrian Value-Added Tax Law: An Experimental Study
Marina Luketina, Andrea Benkel, Christoph G. Schuetz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08468

Using Large Language Models for Legal Decision-Making in Austrian Value-Added Tax Law: An Experimental Study
This paper provides an experimental evaluation of the capability of large language models (LLMs) to assist in legal decision-making within the framework of Austrian and European Union value-added tax (VAT) law. In tax consulting practice, clients often describe cases in natural language, making LLMs a prime candidate for supporting automated decision-making and reducing the workload of tax professionals. Given the requirement for legally grounded and well-justified analyses, the propensity of L…

Oakland police illegally shared license plate data with ICE https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oakland-san-francisco-ice-license-plate-readers/

SF, Oakland cops illegally funneled license plate data to feds
SF and Oakland police appear to have repeatedly broken state law by sharing data from license plate cameras with federal agencies. OPD fulfilled a request related to an ICE investigation on one occasion.

European policymakers are edging towards a decision that could force technology firms to scan encrypted messages in a bid to tackle child abuse material, reviving a debate that cuts to the heart of online privacy and security.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2…

EU moves closer to controversial ‘Chat Control’ law
European policymakers are edging towards a decision that could force technology firms to scan encrypted messages in a bid to tackle child abuse material, reviving ...

Supreme Court Allows Mississippi Social Media Age Verification Law for Now (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-14/supreme-court-allows-mississippi-social-media-age-verification-law-for-now
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p82#a250814p82

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protest-safely-surveillance-digital-privacy/

A post from the archive 📫:
Monopoly
#law #musings

Horrifying how #ALEC's lies are hurting so many people in many ways.
#NaturalGas is dirty, dangerous and damaging.
Dirty: toxic air around gas wells, toxic fumes from burning it
Dangerous: gas explosions, frequently associated with injuries and deaths, as well as destruction of propert…

Louisiana is the latest state to greenwash gas
A new state law that redefines natural gas as a “green” energy source was adapted from language written by a right-wing think tank.

Disentangling Boltzmann brains, the time-asymmetry of memory, the H theorem, and the second law
David Wolpert, Carlo Rovelli, Jordan Scharnhorst
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10959

Disentangling Boltzmann brains, the time-asymmetry of memory, the H theorem, and the second law
Are you, with your perceptions, memories and observational data, a Boltzmann brain, i.e., a statistical fluctuation out of the thermal equilibrium of the universe? Arguments are given in the literature for and against taking this hypothesis seriously. Complicating these analyses have been the many subtle - and very often implicit - entanglements between related arguments that have been given for the past hypothesis, the second law, and even Bayesian inference of the reliability of experimental …

This is awesome! 🤩
From: @…
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114851881549053554

Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP Brothers-in-law use construction knowledge to compete against Comcast in Michigan. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/two-guys-hated-using-comcast-so-they-built-their-own-fiber-isp/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

In Brazil, the rule of law clearly and unambiguously classified the coup as a #coup and put Jair #Bolsonaro behind bars for 27 years.
Why didn't the #UnitedStates manage to do the same when the then and …

I'm definitely late to the party, but I just learned that the permittivity of free space (from Coulomb's Law and capacitance) and the permeability of free space (from magnetism and inductance) are related to the speed of light:
c = 1 / sqrt(ɛ0 * μ0)
My mind is blown!

"France’s top court strikes down pesticide clause in farming law"
#France #Pesticides
ht…

France’s top court strikes down pesticide clause in farming law
Critics called the decision a win for democracy and the planet. Some lawmakers have already vowed to push for a full repeal in the coming months.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Ant Law:
🎵 Nikumaroro (alternate take)
#AntLaw
https://open.spotify.com/track/72kDDVdj5uDBOa4LDwEypf

An Analysis of the Riemann Problem for a $2 \times 2$ System of Keyfitz-Kranzer Type Balance Laws With a Time-Dependent Source Term
Josh Culver, Aubrey Ayres, Evan Halloran, Ryan Lin, Emily Peng, Charis Tsikkou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10347

An Analysis of the Riemann Problem for a $2 \times 2$ System of Keyfitz-Kranzer Type Balance Laws With a Time-Dependent Source Term
We consider a system consisting of one conservation law and one balance law with a time-dependent source term, and provide a comprehensive analysis of Riemann solutions, including the non-classical overcompressive delta shocks. The minimal yet representative structure of the system captures essential features of transport under density constraints and, despite its simplicity, serves as a versatile prototype for crowd-limited transport processes across diverse contexts, including biological aggr…

(Bruce) Sterling's Corollary to Clarke's Law:
Any sufficiently advanced garbage is indistinguishable from magic.

Neural Scaling Laws for Deep Regression
Tilen Cadez, Kyoung-Min Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10000 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10000

Neural Scaling Laws for Deep Regression
Neural scaling laws--power-law relationships between generalization errors and characteristics of deep learning models--are vital tools for developing reliable models while managing limited resources. Although the success of large language models highlights the importance of these laws, their application to deep regression models remains largely unexplored. Here, we empirically investigate neural scaling laws in deep regression using a parameter estimation model for twisted van der Waals magnet…

Robust inference under Benford's law
Lucio Barabesi, Andrea Cerioli, Andrea Cerasa, Domenico Perrotta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08650 https://

Robust inference under Benford's law
We address the task of identifying anomalous observations by analyzing digits under the lens of Benford's law. Motivated by the crucial objective of providing reliable statistical analysis of customs declarations, we answer one major and still open question: How can we detect the behavior of operators who are aware of the prevalence of the Benford's pattern in the digits of regular observations and try to manipulate their data in such a way that the same pattern also holds after data fabricatio…

Two things on this:
1 - To protect people from deepfakes has merit and is very, very needed. Urgently, even.
2 - Every single time people tried to use copyright law to do stuff copyright law is not intended to do, the results were catastrophic. No problems were solved that way, and new problems were created.
Stop it. Just stop.

Fired DOJ employee could face prison for throwing sandwich at officer
After his arrest, Charles Dunn allegedly told one of the officers: “I did it. I threw a sandwich.”

“If you touch any law enforcement officer, we will come after you,” Bondi posted on X Thursday.
“This is an example of the Deep State we have been up against for seven months as we work to refocus DOJ.”

Fired DOJ employee could face prison for throwing sandwich at officer
Police allege that the man approached law enforcement officers, including Metro Transit Police and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, and began yelling obscenities.

The harsh reality is that the Rule of Law is dead in the USA.
#usa

The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US
The rule of law presupposes that there are rules that provide a consistent, repeatable, and knowable set of outcomes. That’s no longer the case.

ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court #fascism

ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court
ICE attorneys fighting to deport immigrants are able to obscure their identities — no masks required.

Reddit says it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them "view certain mature content", in order to comply with the country's Online Safety Act (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Reddit’s UK users must now prove they’re 18 to view adult content
Reddit hires company to verify user age with selfie or photo of government ID.

CBO: $500 billion Medicare cut possible over next decade
https://thehill.com/business/budget/5454945-trump-tax-law-medicare-sequestration/

Ich hab einen Forschungsartikel gelesen, mit Gewinn: https://metadaten.community/t/measuring-bibliometric-coverage-of-german-law-journals/864

"…once…alien lawfully enters…becomes invested w/…rights guaranteed by…Constitution to all…Such rights include…1st &…6th Amendments &…due process clause of…14th Amendment. None…acknowledges any distinction between citizens & resident aliens. They extend…inalienable privileges to all 'persons'…"
- Justice Frank Murphy, scotus concurring opinion, Bridges v. Wixon (1945) [

BRIDGES v. WIXON, District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Measurement-based quantum computation with variable-range interacting systems
Debkanta Ghosh, Keshav Das Agarwal, Pritam Halder, Aditi Sen De
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11909

Measurement-based quantum computation with variable-range interacting systems
We demonstrate that weighted graph states (WGS) generated via variable-range interacting Ising spin systems where the interaction strength decays with distance as a power law, characterized by the fall-off rate, can successfully implement single- and two-qubit gates with fidelity exceeding classical limits by performing suitable measurements. In the regime of truly long-range interactions (small fall-off rate), optimizing over local unitary operations, while retaining the local measurement sche…

The Law-Following AI Framework: Legal Foundations and Technical Constraints. Legal Analogues for AI Actorship and technical feasibility of Law Alignment
Katalina Hernandez Delgado
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08009

The Law-Following AI Framework: Legal Foundations and Technical Constraints. Legal Analogues for AI Actorship and technical feasibility of Law Alignment
This paper critically evaluates the "Law-Following AI" (LFAI) framework proposed by O'Keefe et al. (2025), which seeks to embed legal compliance as a superordinate design objective for advanced AI agents and enable them to bear legal duties without acquiring the full rights of legal persons. Through comparative legal analysis, we identify current constructs of legal actors without full personhood, showing that the necessary infrastructure already exists. We then interrogate the framework's clai…

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/politics/chinese-hackers-suspected-law-firm-hack Chinese hackers hacked into the most powerful telecom and communications law firm in DC and maybe the world. Founded by former FCC chairman and true gentleman Dick Wiley.

Chinese hackers suspected in breach of powerful DC law firm
Suspected Chinese hackers have broken into the email accounts of attorneys and advisers at a powerful Washington, DC, law firm in an apparent intelligence-gathering operation, the firm, Wiley Rein, told clients this week in a memo reviewed by CNN.

I would definitely advise anyone working to resolve our current predicament not do or say anything which might be viewed as criminal, unless you actually intend to play an active role in a war.
ICE and CBP agents as well as any military or local law enforcers are operating under the color of law based in part on a declaration of emergency by POTUS asserting that we are in a de facto war. They are choosing involvement in a war. Legitimate military targets.

TechNadu (@technadu@infosec.exchange)
Attached: 1 image 🚨 Targeted doxing of ICE officers by Antifa-aligned groups (Portland) 🧩 Summary: • Names, photos, & addresses of ICE agents + families leaked online • DHS: assaults on officers up 700% • FBI offering $50K after gunfire during CA child-rescue ops • Doxed info may be used by gangs (e.g., MS-13, Tren de Aragua) This isn't hacktivism—it’s real-world targeting via online exposure⚠️. 🔗 Full story: https://www.technadu.com/deportation-fuels-doxing-ic…

Ukrainian startup says its drones could work on their own by year’s end, thanks to AI: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/ukrainian-startup-says-its-drones.html

The Justice Department is accelerating its efforts to undo decades of civil service protections intended to insulate the work of law enforcement officials from political interference.
A new batch of more than 20 career employees at the department and its component agencies were fired on Friday,
including the attorney general’s own ethics adviser, Joseph W. Tirrell.
Others who were dismissed included a handful of senior officials at the U.S. Marshals Service, as well as pros…

Dismissals at Justice Dept. Would Bypass Civil Service and Whistle-Blower Laws
In court filings and dismissal letters, the Justice Department’s political leadership claims sweeping authority to fire career law enforcement officials without cause.

law_firm: Lazega law firm network
Multiplex network with 3 edge types representing relationships (coworkers, friendship, advice) between partners and associates of a corporate law firm. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 71 nodes and 2571 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://net…

The GAO launches a probe into USAGM for potential overreach; sources say congressional staffers warned Kari Lake that she illegally used appropriated funds (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/14/kari-lake-voa-cuts-lawsu…

Kari Lake defends VOA cuts in court after warnings from Capitol Hill
As Trump lieutenant tells a federal judge she is following the law in dismantling the VOA, emails obtained by The Washington Post show staff on Capitol Hill warned her about overstepping.

"What Scotland’s Ecocide Law Means for the Environment and You"
#Scotland #Environment
https://happyeconews.com/…

What Scotland’s Ecocide Law Means for the Environment and You | Happy Eco News
Scotland’s ecocide law would make severe harm to nature a criminal offense. If passed, people could face prison and companies massive fines. It aims to fill gaps in current laws, strengthen accountability, and align Scotland with international environmental standards. The bill may be voted on by 2025.

Students in the Pacific Islands are reshaping global climate law by demanding accountability from powerful nations through the International Court of Justice. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

How a Group of Students in the Pacific Islands Reshaped Global Climate Law
They watched climate change ravage their home countries as rich, polluting nations did nothing. Then they had an idea.

Non-Decaying Solutions to the 2D Dissipative Quasi-Geostrophic Equations
David M. Ambrose, Ryan Aschoff, Elaine Cozzi, James P. Kelliher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10254 https:/…

Non-Decaying Solutions to the 2D Dissipative Quasi-Geostrophic Equations
We consider the surface quasi-geostrophic equation in two spatial dimensions, with subcritical diffusion (i.e. with fractional diffusion of order $2α$ for $α>\frac{1}{2}$.) We establish existence of solutions without assuming either decay at spatial infinity or spatial periodicity. One obstacle is that for $L^{\infty}$ data, the constitutive law may not be applicable, as Riesz transforms are unbounded. However, for $L^{\infty}$ initial data for which the constitutive law does converge, we dem…

Bondi Fires Her Personal Ethics Chief as DOJ Purge Continues (Ben Penn/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/bondi-fires-her-personal-ethics-chief-as-doj-purge-continues
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p53#a250713p53

The “masses” behave predictably—when the violent, aggressive mob takes to the streets, they get scared, hide, and cower. But as in the 1930s, they misjudge the situation. Even if they escape the riots now, they will certainly have to pay the price, losing everything they are and have, when the mob acts according to the principle of chaos and the law of violence.
There is no hiding from the mob and fascists, only resistance!

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[1/2]:
- Slaves to the Law of Large Numbers: An Asymptotic Equipartition Property for Perplexity in Genera...
Tyler Bell, Avinash Mudireddy, Ivan Johnson-Eversoll, Soura Dasgupta, Raghu Mudumbai

AI Agents and the Law
Mark O. Riedl, Deven R. Desai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08544 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08544…

AI Agents and the Law
As AI becomes more "agentic," it faces technical and socio-legal issues it must address if it is to fulfill its promise of increased economic productivity and efficiency. This paper uses technical and legal perspectives to explain how things change when AI systems start being able to directly execute tasks on behalf of a user. We show how technical conceptions of agents track some, but not all, socio-legal conceptions of agency. That is, both computer science and the law recognize the problems …

Sources: US FTC is probing if Ticketmaster does enough to stop bots from illegal resales, focusing on its compliance with a law against automated ticket resales (Josh Sisco/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

FTC Probes Whether Ticketmaster Does Enough to Stop Resale Bots
Live Nation Inc.’s Ticketmaster is being probed by the US Federal Trade Commission over whether it’s done enough to keep bots from illegally reselling tickets on its platform.

Utah Supreme Court rejects emergency stay in redistricting case, Utah legislature must draw new maps - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=152043

Trump’s all-out assault on immigrant communities and the rule of law
escalated to new heights when federal agents beat and arrested
David Huerta, a prominent labor leader and president of the Service Employees International Union
– United Service Workers (West),
while Huerta and others were observing an ICE raid in Los Angeles, CA, on June 6.
Huerta was released from federal custody, but he is still being charged with felony conspiracy to impede an officer,

EXCLUSIVE: David Huerta, union leader beaten & arrested at ICE raid, speaks out
In his first public interview since he was beaten and arrested by federal agents in June, David Huerta, president of the Service Employees International Union - United Service Workers (West), speaks about the status of his case and the roles unions must play in the fight against fascism.

law_firm: Lazega law firm network
Multiplex network with 3 edge types representing relationships (coworkers, friendship, advice) between partners and associates of a corporate law firm. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 71 nodes and 2571 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://net…

China says Nvidia was found in violation of antitrust regulations in a preliminary investigation, in a brief statement without further details (Edwin Chan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-15/china-find…

The Roberts Court Has Applied the Unitary Executive Branch Doctrine Consistently Across Administrations - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=151606

A judge rejects Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement over concerns that class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes that will be forced on authors (Annelise Levy/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthropic-ju…

Anthropic Judge Rejects $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement (1)
The federal judge overseeing Anthropic PBC’s proposed $1.5 billion copyright settlement is concerned class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes that will be forced “down the throat of authors.”

Protected Grounds and the System of Non-Discrimination Law in the Context of Algorithmic Decision-Making and Artificial Intelligence
Janneke Gerards, Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08837

Protected Grounds and the System of Non-Discrimination Law in the Context of Algorithmic Decision-Making and Artificial Intelligence
Algorithmic decision-making and similar types of artificial intelligence (AI) may lead to improvements in all sectors of society, but can also have discriminatory effects. While current non-discrimination law offers people some protection, algorithmic decision-making presents the law with several challenges. For instance, algorithms can generate new categories of people based on seemingly innocuous characteristics, such as web browser preference or apartment number, or more complicated categori…

A gun rights lobbying group is suing the U.S. Postal Service
in a bid to overturn its nearly 100-year-old ban on mailing handguns,
arguing that the law wasn’t contemplated when the country’s founders drafted the 2nd Amendment in the U.S. Constitution https://reut.rs/3IvxVzF

An election law expert weighs in on Trump's effort to reshape our democracy : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/10/nx-s1-5536528/an-election-law-expert-weighs-in-on-trumps-effort-to-reshape-our-democracy

law_firm: Lazega law firm network
Multiplex network with 3 edge types representing relationships (coworkers, friendship, advice) between partners and associates of a corporate law firm. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 71 nodes and 2571 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://net…

The Los Angeles field office director for the Department of Homeland Security
testified on Monday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers
desperately needed the help of military personnel in carrying out arrests.
The question is whether Donald Trump‘s deployment of armed forces goes against U.S. law that generally prohibits the president from using the military to police domestic affairs.
Ernesto Santacruz Jr. testified at the start of a three-day trial in S…

Trial to start over National Guard deployment to Los Angeles
A federal judge in San Francisco will hear arguments on whether military troops deployed this summer by the Trump administration to Los Angeles violated a federal law that bars troops from conducting law enforcement duties within the country. Judge Charles Breyer will decide whether the Posse Comitatus Act, an 1878 law that prevents the president from using the military as a domestic police force, was violated by the 4,700 California National Guard members and Marines sent following protests. T…

Restoring Law and Order in the District of Columbia (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/restoring-law-and-order-in-the-district-of-columbia/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p114#a250811p114

Texas’ Newest Abortion Law Allows $100,000 Rewards for Snitching on Pregnant Women - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2025/09/12/texas-new-abortion-law-women-child-protection-act-bounty-hunter-reward-hb-7/

California SB 243, which would mandate safety protocols for AI companion chatbots, has passed the State Assembly and Senate and now heads to Gov. Newsom's desk (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/11/a-ca

A California bill that would regulate AI companion chatbots is close to becoming law | TechCrunch
SB 243 passed the California Senate on Thursday and heads to Gov. Newsom's desk. If SB 243 is enacted, California would become the first state to require operators to implement safety protocols for AI companions and hold companies legally accountable if their chatbots fail to meet those standards.

Switzerland proposes regulations forcing service providers to collect user IDs and disable encryption, threatening its status as a haven for privacy tech firms (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/switzerland-digital-privacy-law-proton-priv…

Swiss government looks to undercut privacy tech, stoking fears of mass surveillance
Switzerland-based providers of secure email, VPNs and other digital services say a pending government proposal would be catastrophic to their ability to protect the privacy of users.

law_firm: Lazega law firm network
Multiplex network with 3 edge types representing relationships (coworkers, friendship, advice) between partners and associates of a corporate law firm. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 71 nodes and 2571 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://net…

ICE and CBP Law Enforcement Dodge Literal Bullets from Rioters While Rescuing at Least 10 Migrant Children During Operations at Two Marijuana Grow Sites in California (Department of Homeland Security)
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/11/ice-and-cbp-law-enforcement-dodge-literal-bullets-rioters-while-rescuing-least-10
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p109#a250711p109

Some of the country’s largest law firms have declined to represent clients challenging the Trump administration,
more than a dozen attorneys and nonprofit leaders told ProPublica,
while others have sought to avoid any clients that Trump might perceive as his enemies.
That includes both clients willing to pay the firms’ steep rates,
and those who receive free representation.
Big Law firms are also refusing to take on legal work involving environmental protectio…

Trump’s War on Big Law Means It’s Harder to Challenge the Administration
Some of America’s largest law firms are refusing to take pro bono and paid legal work from groups that seek to hold the government to account on issues like environmental protection, LGBTQ+ rights and police accountability.

Trump’s tax law includes a $40,000 SALT cap. Here’s who qualifies.
The new GOP tax law quadruples how much people can deduct in state and local taxes off their federal returns, offering significant relief to high earners in many Democratic-led states by partially undoing a big change in President Donald Trump’s 2017 law.

That 2017 law, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, limited the deduction to $10,000 a year, imposing a cap for the first time as a way of reducing the bill’s overall cos…

Trump’s tax law includes a $40,000 SALT cap. Here’s who qualifies.
The changes were secured by congressional Republicans who represent high-tax states.

Seventh Circuit Shuts Down Indiana’s Unconstitutional Police Buffer Zone Law | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/11/seventh-circuit-shuts-down-indianas-unconstitutional-police-buffer-zone-law/

The Law Firms' Deals With Trump Are Looking Worse and Worse (Ankush Khardori/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/07/10/trump-law-firms-deals-mess-column-00445259
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p12#a250710p12

A judge rejects Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement over concerns that class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes that will be forced on authors (Annelise Levy/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthropic-ju…

Anthropic Judge Rejects $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement (1)
The federal judge overseeing Anthropic PBC’s proposed $1.5 billion copyright settlement is concerned class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes that will be forced “down the throat of authors.”

I hope he's wrong: "It's going to spread from city to city, and then to the suburbs, and then to rural areas, until Trump feels like he has complete authority over local law enforcement"
'These are dangerous times': Lawyer reveals Trump's plan behind his D.C. takeover bid - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/these-are-dangerous-times-lawyer-warns-trump-escalating-fight-with-law-enforcement/

Donald Trump, un-constrained by law or decency,
claimed the right to grant
“total authorization” to federal immigration agents to arrest people by "whatever means necessary "
Trump said he’s told the administrators to
“instruct all ICE, Homeland Security, or any other Law Enforcement Officer who is on the receiving end of thrown rocks, bricks, or any other form of assault, to stop their car, and arrest these SLIMEBALLS, using whatever means is necessary to d…

A Texas law enacted in June, inspired by the crippling 2021 winter storm, lets the state's grid operator cut off electricity to data centers in an emergency (Caroline O'Donovan/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/…

Memories of deadly winter blackouts haunt the Texas data center boom
A newly passed law in Texas requires emergency shutoff switches for data centers, including the massive $500 billion AI supercomputer backed by President Trump.

Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/florida-sues-huge-porn-sites-including-xvideos-and-bang-…

Florida Sues Huge Porn Sites Including XVideos and Bang Bros Over Age Verification Law
The lawsuit alleges XVideos, Bang Bros, XNXX, Girls Gone Wild and TrafficFactory are in violation of Florida's law that requires adult platforms to verify visitors are over 18.

The University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law school has
💥paused a full-tuition scholarship program named for its first Black graduate
❌ and plans to close its office of “equal opportunity and engagement” this month.
The changes come as m Donald Trump’s administration pushes for an end to diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at universities nationwide.
⭐️The White House has threatened to pull federal funding from those that do not comply.
Penn Carey Law in 2021 …

Penn’s law school pauses scholarship honoring its first Black female graduate, plans to close equal opportunity office
Penn’s law school pauses scholarship honoring its first Black female graduate, plans to close equal opportunity office. Alumni expressed concern.

Missouri governor repeals paid sick leave law approved last year by voters | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/missouri-governor-repeals-paid-sick-leave-law-approved-last-year-by-voters

Trump’s newly signed tax and spending law, eviscerated Biden-era incentives for clean technologies such as wind and solar power.
Now Democrats aim to flip the usual partisan energy debate
by portraying Republicans as the party of electricity shortages and rising prices.
Their targets would include the moderate Republicans who spent months urging Congress to preserve the Biden tax breaks because of their projected economic gains for GOP-held districts
— only to fold a…

A federal judge in San Francisco
will consider evidence and hear arguments on whether
the Trump administration violated federal law when it deployed national guard soldiers and US marines to Los Angeles
after protests over immigration raids this summer.
The Trump administration federalized California national guard members
and sent them to the second-largest US city
over the objections of the California governor, Gavin Newsom, and city leaders,
after…