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Austria's privacy regulator finds that Microsoft violated EU law by illegally tracking students through its Microsoft 365 Education software (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/microsoft-violated-eu-law-austria

Microsoft violated EU law in handling of kids’ data, Austrian privacy regulator finds
Austria's data protection authority ruled that Microsoft illegally tracked students using its education software by failing to give them access to their data and using cookies without consent.

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.

"A new bill renames the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 and would make its legal protections retroactive after its lapse."
Sen. Peters tries another approach to extend expired cyber threat information-sharing law
https://cyberscoop.com/gary-peters-cyb

Sen. Peters tries another approach to extend expired cyber threat information-sharing law
A new bill renames the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 and would make its legal protections retroactive after its lapse.

"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.

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.”

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.

Rectifying Power-law $F(R)$ Gravity and Starobinsky Inflation Deformations in View of ACT
S. D. Odintsov, V. K. Oikonomou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06251 https://

Rectifying Power-law $F(R)$ Gravity and Starobinsky Inflation Deformations in View of ACT
In this work we aim to provide a consistent theoretical framework that revives the power-law $F(R)$ gravity inflation framework in the Jordan frame. It is known in the literature that the power-law $F(R)$ gravity inflation of the form $F(R)=R+βR^n$ is non-viable and produces a power-law evolution. We demonstrate that the standard approach in power-law $F(R)$ gravity inflation is flawed for many reasons and we introduce a new framework which elevates the role of power-law $F(R)$ gravity inflati…

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

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs a bill that will require web browsers to add settings that allow residents to opt out of third-party data collection (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/california-signs-law-opt-out-browsers

California enacts law giving consumers ability to universally opt out of data sharing
The California Consumer Privacy Act, signed in 2018, gave Californians the right to send opt-out signals, but major browsers have not had to make opt-outs simple to use.

Gotta love how often people who are above the law say that no one is above the law...

NewtonBench: Benchmarking Generalizable Scientific Law Discovery in LLM Agents
Tianshi Zheng, Kelvin Kiu-Wai Tam, Newt Hue-Nam K. Nguyen, Baixuan Xu, Zhaowei Wang, Jiayang Cheng, Hong Ting Tsang, Weiqi Wang, Jiaxin Bai, Tianqing Fang, Yangqiu Song, Ginny Y. Wong, Simon See
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07172

NewtonBench: Benchmarking Generalizable Scientific Law Discovery in LLM Agents
Large language models are emerging as powerful tools for scientific law discovery, a foundational challenge in AI-driven science. However, existing benchmarks for this task suffer from a fundamental methodological trilemma, forcing a trade-off between scientific relevance, scalability, and resistance to memorization. Furthermore, they oversimplify discovery as static function fitting, failing to capture the authentic scientific process of uncovering embedded laws through the interactive explora…

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/politics/williams-and-connolly-law-firm-hack-chinese-hackers-suspected
US law firm with major political clients hacked in spying spree linked to China

US law firm with major political clients hacked in spying spree linked to China
Suspected Chinese government-backed hackers have breached computer systems of US law firm Williams & Connolly, which has represented some of America’s most powerful politicians, as part of a larger spying campaign against multiple law firms, according to a letter the firm sent clients and a source familiar with the hack.

Chinese companies and bosses to face major fines over cybersecurity incidents https://therecord.media/china-cybersecurity-law-update-penalties-companies-executives

Burger King's parent company has come under fire for allegedly using copyright law to suppress a researcher who uncovered serious security flaws in its drive-through ordering technology.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/s…

Burger King accused of silencing security researcher with copyright claim
Burger King's parent company has come under fire for allegedly using copyright law to suppress a researcher who uncovered serious security flaws in its drive-through ...

Justice Sotomayor on fire in her Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo dissent.
@…
#law #lawfedi

3-INT defensive TSSAA football performance among Ponce Law Nashville Boys Athlete of Week choices https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/high-school/2025/09/08/tennessee-high-school-football-ponce-law-nashville/8597668…

California bans declawing cats under new law
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-10-09/cat-declawing-bill

California bans declawing cats under new law
California bans cat declawing under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, making the practice illegal except for medical necessity.

*Today*, anarchists are legally barred from US naturalization.
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 405(b) of this Act, no person shall hereafter be naturalized as a citizen of the United States—
(1) who advocates or teaches, or who is a member of or affiliated with any organization that advocates or teaches, opposition to all organized government; or
Think about that. Think about that for a minute. Today, in 2025, the US bars anarchists from becoming naturalized citizens.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1424

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.”

Audits Under Resource, Data, and Access Constraints: Scaling Laws For Less Discriminatory Alternatives
Sarah H. Cen, Salil Goyal, Zaynah Javed, Ananya Karthik, Percy Liang, Daniel E. Ho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05627

Audits Under Resource, Data, and Access Constraints: Scaling Laws For Less Discriminatory Alternatives
AI audits play a critical role in AI accountability and safety. One branch of the law for which AI audits are particularly salient is anti-discrimination law. Several areas of anti-discrimination law implicate the "less discriminatory alternative" (LDA) requirement, in which a protocol (e.g., model) is defensible if no less discriminatory protocol that achieves comparable performance can be found with a reasonable amount of effort. Notably, the burden of proving an LDA exists typically falls on…

Self-similar rupture of thin films of power-law fluid
Michael C Dallaston, Steven A Kedda, Scott W McCue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05383 https://arxiv.org…

Self-similar rupture of thin films of power-law fluid
Models that describe Newtonian liquid films evolving due to the competing effects of surface tension and attractive intermolecular or van der Waals forces are known to rupture in finite time in a self-similar manner. We extend the computation of similarity solutions to non-Newtonian power-law liquid films. The bifurcation diagram, indexed by power law exponent $n$, has a highly nontrivial structure with branches merging via a snaking bifurcation around $n=1$. A countably infinite number of solu…

NY AG steps into legal fight over abortion pills, shield law | The Texas Tribune
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/08/exas-new-york-abortion-pill-access-lawsuit-shield-law/

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…

Power Law Plateau Inflation and Primary Gravitational Waves in the light of ACT
Abolhassan Mohammadi, Yogesh, Anzhong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06544

Power Law Plateau Inflation and Primary Gravitational Waves in the light of ACT
We investigate Power-Law Plateau (PLP) inflation in standard gravity and its consistency with ACT DR6 data. While many inflationary models, including the Starobinsky inflation, are disfavored by ACT observations, the PLP potential remains viable across a broad range of its parameters. Then, the dynamics of the reheating phase are investigated, where we mainly focus on the reheating temperature and its relationship with the inflationary phase and primordial gravitational waves. Incorporating the…

A Scaling Law for the Orbital Architecture of Planetary Systems Formed by Gravitational Scattering and Collisions
Eiichiro Kokubo, Haruka Hoshino, Yuji Matsumoto, Re'em Sari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06738

A Scaling Law for the Orbital Architecture of Planetary Systems Formed by Gravitational Scattering and Collisions
In the standard formation models of terrestrial planets in the solar system and close-in super-Earths in non-resonant orbits recently discovered by exoplanet observations, planets are formed by giant impacts of protoplanets or planetary embryos after the dispersal of protoplanetary disk gas in the final stage. This study aims to theoretically clarify a fundamental scaling law for the orbital architecture of planetary systems formed by giant impacts. In the giant impact stage, protoplanets gravi…

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.

Recovery of the second law in fully quantum thermodynamics
Naoto Shiraishi, Ryuji Takagi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05642 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.05642

Recovery of the second law in fully quantum thermodynamics
Quantum thermodynamics investigates how robust the second law of thermodynamics serves as the unique fundamental law in the small quantum world. To tackle this problem, the quantum coherence constitutes a major difficulty of investigations, which provides severe constraints hindering the recovery of a single thermodynamic potential. Here we solve this long-standing problem of quantum information theory by revealing that the state convertibility under thermal operations is fully characterized by…

"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.

Trump uses tariff threat to undermine the rule of law in Brazil. For those who still treat Trump tariffs as some kind of economic policy: the US has a trade surplus with Brazil.
https://www.euronews.com/2025/07/10/trump-

Trump threatens Brazil with 50% tariff, demands Bolsonaro trial ends
Brazil’s prosecutor-general has filed charges against former President Jair Bolsonaro for attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat.

Recursive Hierarchical Networks and the Law of Functional Evolution: A Universal Framework for Complex Systems
Hui Li, Yanxin Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05567 https://…

Recursive Hierarchical Networks and the Law of Functional Evolution: A Universal Framework for Complex Systems
Understanding and predicting the evolution of across complex systems remains a fundamental challenge due to the absence of unified and computationally testable frameworks. Here we propose the Recursive Hierarchical Network(RHN), conceptualizing evolution as recursive encapsulation along a trajectory of node $\to$ module $\to$ system $\to$ new node, governed by gradual accumulation and abrupt transition. Theoretically, we formalize and prove the law of functional evolution, revealing an irrevers…

I donated again to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Due to the dire threats to the USA from the current administration and the Republican party I am double up on my donations to protect us from those threats to our way of life.
https://www.splcenter.org/
We still have so much racism injustice for the …

SPLC | Apathy Is Not An Option
The Southern Poverty Law Center is dedicated to creating a world where Black and Brown communities are represented and respected by our democracy.

Sturgeon’s law remains my biggest reassurance against LLM world takeover. As far as I can tell, that law is as solid as gravity. Humans on average not giving a shit IS the training material poison pill.
yes, I have just looked at random GitHub code again, why do you ask

When social opprobrium fails to stuff a turd like Charlie Kirk into some powerless far corner of society where he can’t hurt people, that’s when a turd like Kirk gets shot.
When democracy and the law fail to reign in corporate greed and harm and cruelty, that’s when you get a Luigi.
When the press and civil society fail to stop a rising authoritarian, that’s when you get WWII.
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Cosmology, Decoherence and the Second Law
Sebastian Cespedes, Senarath de Alwis, Fernando Quevedo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07077 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Cosmology, Decoherence and the Second Law
We consider quantum decoherence and entropy increase in early universe cosmology. We first study decoherence in a discrete bipartite quantum system for which a single qubit gets entangled with an environment and the entropy increase is correlated with the decay of the off-diagonal terms of the reduced density matrix. We compare this system with continuous systems relevant for cosmology for which there is a natural external intervention, corresponding to the time-dependent separation between the…

Oura, the smart wearable ring I've been wearing for several years, entered into a business agreement with Palantir.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/09/smart-ring-maker-ouras-ceo-addresses-recent-backlash-says-fut…

Smart ring maker Oura's CEO addresses recent backlash, says future is a 'cloud of wearables' | TechCrunch
Oura CEO Tom Hale is trying to set the record straight about the smart ring maker's partnership with the Department of Defense (DoD) and data miner Palantir, which is used by defense, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies in the United States and elsewhere.

GW250114 - testing Hawking’s Area Law and the Kerr Nature of Black Holes: #GravitationalWaves, the project is cracking black hole mysteries at an astounding pace -> thread https://scicomm.xyz/@LIGO/115180908174298237

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

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

General large deviations and functional iterated logarithm law for multivalued McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations
Lingyan Cheng, Wei Liu, Huijie Qiao, Fengwu Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07001

General large deviations and functional iterated logarithm law for multivalued McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations
In this paper, we present sufficient conditions and criteria to establish general large and moderate deviation principles for multivalued McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations (SDEs in short) by means of the weak convergence approach, under non-Lipschit assumptions on the coefficents of the equations. Furthermore, by applying the large deviation estimates we obtain the functional iterated logarithm law for the solutions of multivalued McKean-Vlasov SDEs.

Electrical and thermal magnetotransport and the Wiedemann-Franz law in semimetals with electron-electron scattering
Keigo Takahashi, Hiroyasu Matsuura, Hideaki Maebashi, Masao Ogata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07229

Electrical and thermal magnetotransport and the Wiedemann-Franz law in semimetals with electron-electron scattering
We study the electrical and thermal transport properties and the violation of the Wiedemann-Franz (WF) law of two-carrier semimetals using exact treatments of the Boltzmann equation with the impurity and electron-electron scatterings in a magnetic field. For comparison, we also study those in the case of Baber scattering: a single-carrier system with an impurity scattering and phenomenological momentum-dissipative electron-electron scattering. In both systems, the longitudinal and transverse WF…

Outside of inaugurations or other specific special events, I don’t think guard has ever been deputized before.
“Republican Gov. [of TN] Bill Lee, who supports the effort, has said the [National Guard] troops will be deputized by the U.S. Marshals Service to ‘play a critical support role’ for local law enforcement, though that role hasn’t been precisely defined yet.”

I hold deep contempt for the adult, powerful, wealthy politicians who saw the opportunity to single out four children in the entire state of #Utah and keep them from enjoying their sport.
This is a story that radicalized me, and whenever I'm reminded by the bullies gloating over the pain of literal children, I'm going to share it again.

Specification Tests for the Error--Law in Vector Multiplicative Errors Models
\v{S}\'arka Hudecov\'a, Simos G. Meintanis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06732 https://…

Specification Tests for the Error--Law in Vector Multiplicative Errors Models
We suggest specification tests for the error distribution in vector multiplicative error models (vMEM). The test statistic is formulated as a weighted integrated distance between the parametric estimator of the Laplace transform of the null distribution and its empirical counterpart computed from the residuals. Asymptotic results are obtained under both the null and alternative hypotheses. If the Laplace transform of the null distribution is not available in closed form, we propose a test stati…

Mutual entropy and thermal area law in C*-algebraic quantum lattice systems
Hajime Moriya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05823 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.05823…

Mutual entropy and thermal area law in C*-algebraic quantum lattice systems
We present a general definition of quantum mutual entropy for infinitely extended quantum spin and fermion lattice systems. Using this, we establish a thermal area law in these infinitely extended quantum systems. The proof is based on the local thermodynamical stability (LTS), a variational principle in terms of the conditional free energy. Our thermal area law in quasi-local C*-systems applies to general interactions with well-defined surface energies. We also examine the quantum mutual entro…

After Big Tech implemented a blackout on political advertising in the EU following a new law, the European Commission says it's in talks with Big Tech (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-political-ad-rules-google-meta-microsoft-big-…

Backlash as new EU political ad rules kick in
Politicians and campaigners fear that an advertising law designed to improve transparency could stifle it.

Civil (common) law countries like the (non-)binding obligations of Kyoto (Paris) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988325005468 @…

Jesus, we are such a broken country. https://www.newsweek.com/police-believe-cdc-shooter-thought-covid-vaccine-made-him-sick-report-2111117

Color me confused - I see that el cheeto's dog, Lindsey Halligan, is listed as a lawyer in Virginia.
Yet, when go to the Virginia bar website and search for her in their lists of Virginia attorneys I get zero hits.
Huh?
The page below says that she is a member of the Virginia Bar, but the Virginia Bar seems not to know who she is?
Am I fat fingering something on the Virginia bar's attorney search site?

Lindsey Halligan - Civil Rights, Criminal Defense Lawyer | Lexinter Law Directory
Lindsey Halligan, attorney and political appointee, became Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia in 2025 under Donald Trump.

Speaking up against the actions of the rich and powerful, or openly resisting them, has always come with dangers, can we turn that tide now?
https://euobserver.com/Rule of Law/arefa5c374

Court attacks and defunding NGOs: a growing pattern of silencing protest in Europe
This week, Greenpeace had its first hearing in a Dutch court to use the EU’s new protections against these types of spurious lawsuits to shut down free speech – the first time this EU law will be put into action.

Apple plans to update its Declared Age Range API and launch new APIs "later this year" to verify the ages of Apple Account users in Texas from January 1, 2026 (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/796760/apple

Here’s how Apple is locking down iPhones to comply with Texas’ age verification law
Starting next year, Texas will require companies like Apple and Google to verify the ages of people that use their app stores.

Father in law: Why does my Windows 10 computer keep saying that I have to upgrade to Windows 11 when it doesn't even support Windows 11? My laptop is doing it as well.
Me: Ah, I have some bad news.
(No I will not be advocating a switch to Linux because I don't want to be his IT support. I could possibly be persuaded if the switch was his idea.)

Common Law is the irritable gut of jurisprudence. Change my mind.

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.

A Visual Breakdown of the Trump Birthday Letter to Epstein (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-jeffrey-epstein-letter-birthday-book-analysis-0bbeeaf6?st=1zfheN
http://www.memeorandum.com/250908/p126#a250908p126

EU law to protect journalists from spyware takes effect https://therecord.media/eu-law-to-protect-journalists-from-spyware-takes-effect

On the third law of black hole mechanics for supersymmetric black holes
Aidan M. McSharry, Harvey S. Reall
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06870 https://…

On the third law of black hole mechanics for supersymmetric black holes
Recently it has been shown that the third law of black hole mechanics can be violated: an exactly extremal Reissner-Nordstrom black hole can form in finite time in gravitational collapse of matter with a large charge to mass ratio. However, it has also been proved that this cannot happen if the matter satisfies a ``supersymmetric'' lower bound on its energy in terms of its charge. This paper proves an analogous result for black holes with a negative cosmological constant. The result states that…

Trump orders federal law enforcement to patrol DC after Stephen Miller claims crime in capital ‘more violent than Baghdad’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-federal-law-enforcement-dc-crime-b2804113.html

New York-based Crosby, a law firm that uses AI to help speed up the contracts process, raised a $20M Series A co-led by Index Ventures, BCV, and Elad Gil (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/crosby-ai-law-firm-raises-20-million

Crosby, 'AI Law Firm' Working With Startups Like Cursor, Raises $20 Million
The Series A from Index Ventures and Bain Capital Ventures will help lawyer turned founder Ryan Daniels expand how his year-old startup can use AI to speed up contract reviews.

Before a law enforcement crackdown hobbled it in 2021,
"the Base" established itself as one of the most active neo-Nazi accelerationist groups
— a term for groups that seek to hasten societal collapse by violent means.
Now the Base has rebuilt, to the extent that last year it earned a spot on the European Union list of sanctioned terrorist groups.
A sudden burst of activity in Ukraine has renewed suspicions that the Base and its leader,
Rinaldo Nazzaro,…

Neo-Nazi group with US links may be backed by Russian intelligence
Before a law enforcement crackdown hobbled it in 2021, the Base established itself as one of the most active neo-Nazi accelerationist groups — a term for groups that seek to hasten societal collapse by violent means.Now the Base has rebuilt, to the extent that last year it earned a spot on the Europ...

Trump is rushing to build his ballroom. A review process could take years. (Jonathan Edwards/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/10/trump-ballroom-white-house-oversight-commission-law/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250810/p47#a250810p47

Develop-Fair Use for Artificial Intelligence: A Sino-U.S. Copyright Law Comparison Based on the Ultraman, Bartz v. Anthropic, and Kadrey v. Meta Cases
Chanhou Lou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07365

Develop-Fair Use for Artificial Intelligence: A Sino-U.S. Copyright Law Comparison Based on the Ultraman, Bartz v. Anthropic, and Kadrey v. Meta Cases
Traditional fair use can no longer respond to the challenges posed by generative AI. Drawing on a comparative analysis of China's Ultraman and the U.S. cases Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta, this article proposes "Develop-Fair Use" (DFU). DFU treats AI fair use (AIFU) not as a fixed exception but as a dynamic tool of judicial balancing that shifts analysis from closed scenarios to an evaluative rule for open-ended contexts. The judicial focus moves from formal classification of facts to a…

The pearl-clutching centrist crowd likes to imagine that shaming and shunning are the slippery slope that leads to political violence.
They have it backwards.
Shaming and shunning are the •alternative• to political violence. So is meaningful democracy. So is a free press that remains steadfastly grounded in reality. So is a judiciary that applies the law, however flawed, with actual judgement and justice.
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Incredible...
"The White House says it was informed of the operation, almost certainly because of the proximity of the huge US airbase at al-Udeid, just outside Doha.
But this means that Donald Trump had a chance to say no to Israel but chose to give a green light instead.
Israeli media says the operation involved 15 Israeli fighter jets, firing 10 munitions against a single target."

Israel carries out strike on senior Hamas leaders in Qatari capital
Qatar says the strike is a "blatant violation" of international law, while Hamas says its negotiating team was targeted in the attack.

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…

So, el trombino anaranjado wants to use the US military to do law enforcement against anything that he labels as a terrorist organization.
Apart from the violation of US Federal law and the enormous power that can come from aiming the US military at anything el-presidente slaps a label on, we certainly have a very large, well funded terrorist organization in the US: ICE. It's leaders - named Miller and Noem - should be taken into custody immediately.
Consider if el-cheeto we…

Renewal of cyber information-sharing law must mind the gap, senator says https://therecord.media/cisa-2015-renewal-peters-bill-gap-in-liability-protections

Nancy Mace freaks out as she's questioned about taking credit for a law she voted against - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/nancy-mace-freaks-out-as-shes-questioned-about-taking-credit-for-a-law-she-voted-against/

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.

The US supreme court agreed on Tuesday to decide the legality of Trump’s sweeping global tariffs,
setting up a major test of one of the Republican president’s boldest assertions of executive power that has been central to his economic and trade agenda.
The justices took up the justice department’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that
Trump overstepped his authority in imposing most of his tariffs under a federal law meant for emergencies.
The court acted swiftly aft…

After Big Tech implemented a blackout on political advertising in the EU following a new law, the European Commission says it is in talks with Big Tech (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-political-ad-rules-google-meta-microsoft-big-tec…

Backlash as new EU political ad rules kick in
Politicians and campaigners fear that an advertising law designed to improve transparency could stifle it.

Trump orders federal law enforcement to patrol DC (Regina Zilbermints/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5442446-trump-federal-law-enforcement-dc/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p156#a250807p156

I have no sympathy whatsoever for the Hamas people killed in Qatar. However it illustrates Trump doesn't really care about negotiations with Hamas or Qatar as the country where they take place. Also he confirms international law is meaningless for him.This will further hurt the US position in world politics.
#usa

House Republicans who voted to pass Donald Trump’s tax bill last week
💥know it’s going to slash the federal Medicaid program by $1 trillion
🔥and kick millions of people off of their health care.
But that sounds bad.
And people already hate this law.
So instead of saying that,
Republicans are trying out a new way of talking about the bill they all voted for:
👉They just pretend they voted to increase Medicaid spending!

The GOP’s New Lie After Cutting $1 Trillion From Medicaid: We Gave It More Money!
“We are increasing Medicaid expenditures by $200 billion,” Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-Pa.) falsely said of Trump’s tax law, which will strip health care from millions.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law banning excessively loud ads on streaming platforms like Netflix, the first such law in the US, modeled on a 2010 law (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/06/d

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…

AI Governance in Higher Education: A course design exploring regulatory, ethical and practical considerations
Zsolt Alm\'asi (P\'azm\'any P\'eter Catholic University, Hungary), Hannah Bleher (University of Bonn, Germany), Johannes Bleher (University of Hohenheim, Germany), Rozanne Tuesday Flores (Bukidnon State University, Philippines), Guo Xuanyang (Southwest University of Political Science and Law, China), Pawe{\l} Pujszo (College of Europe, Natolin, Poland), Rapha\&q…

AI Governance in Higher Education: A course design exploring regulatory, ethical and practical considerations
As artificial intelligence (AI) systems permeate critical sectors, the need for professionals who can address ethical, legal and governance challenges has become urgent. Current AI ethics education remains fragmented, often siloed by discipline and disconnected from practice. This paper synthesizes literature and regulatory developments to propose a modular, interdisciplinary curriculum that integrates technical foundations with ethics, law and policy. We highlight recurring operational failure…

Major US law firm says hackers broke into attorneys’ emails accounts https://therecord.media/us-law-firm-hackers-breached-email

Trump Administration Bones The Johnson Amendment - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/07/trump-administration-bones-the-johnson-amendment/

California enacts law giving consumers ability to universally opt out of data sharing https://therecord.media/california-signs-law-opt-out-browsers

FOIA docs: Illinois news entities operating 120 outlets are receiving a combined $4M in 2025 state tax credits under a new law for employing local journalists (John Volk/Local News Initiative)
https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.e…

Illinois Newsrooms Receive $4 Million from State
Forty Illinois local news entities operating 120 outlets are receiving $4 million in state tax credits under a new law designed to encourage the retention and hiring of journalists, according to documents released this week.

EvenUp, which makes AI tools for personal injury law firms, raised a $150M Series E led by Bessemer at a $2B valuation, bringing its total funding to $385M (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/10/07/exclusi

Exclusive: EvenUp raises $150 million Series E at $2 billion valuation as AI reshapes personal injury law
After getting rejected at least 3 times by Y Combinator, the founders of EvenUp have become legal tech leaders.

Supreme Court: Law Somehow More Fake Than Ever Before (Madiba K. Dennie/Balls and Strikes)
https://ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump-v-slaughter-laws-are-fake/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p83#a250909p83

""This timidity has become the norm for Congress, in areas far beyond this law. Legislators have voluntarily surrendered their power to the president and frequently act not as the heart of the American government but as a rubber stamp for one man""
'Alarming': Congress scolded by NYT editorial board after confirming 'founders' fears' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/congress-trump/

Kash Patel knowingly broke law when firing top officials, lawsuit alleges (MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/kash-patel-fbi-lawsuit-firings-illegal-rcna230368
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p106#a250910p106

This Kansas Law Requires Doctors to Lie About Abortion
https://jessica.substack.com/p/this-kansas-law-requires-doctors

The Trump administration is warning Harvard University that it could take over its patents,
worth hundreds of millions of dollars,
if a review finds the university hasn’t complied with federal law,
an escalation of the continuing negotiations between the White House and America’s oldest university. 
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sent a letter to Harvard President Alan Garber on Friday, telling him the administration planned to do a thorough review of all patents h…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law banning excessively loud ads on streaming platforms like Netflix, the first such law in the US, modeled on a 2010 law (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/06/d

Justice Dept. Whistle-Blower Warns of Trump Administration's Assault on the Law (Devlin Barrett/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/us/politics/trump-bove-reuveni-whistleblower-doj-deportations.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VU8.OQ1h.-tR38hLIyzIs&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p78#a250710p78

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2025/10/omb-deletes-reference-law-guaranteeing-backpay-furloughed-feds-shutdown-guidance/408645/

⭐️German federal police will soon be allowed to shoot down unmanned aerial vehicles,
interior minister Alexander Dobrindt said on Wednesday,
after a spate of drone sightings believed to be Russian efforts to spy and intimidate.
Unveiling a draft law, Dobrindt said police would be authorised “to take state-of-the-art technical action against drone threats,
for example with electromagnetic pulses, jamming, GPS interference, but also with physical means”.
…

Prosecutors say the evidence against a man accused of starting what became the Pacific Palisades fire includes a ChatGPT-generated image of a burning city (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-08/palisades-fire-arrest

la-me-palisades-fire-cause
Authorities will announce an arrest in connection with the devastating Palisades fire, law enforcement sources said, and are expected to announce a cause of the blaze.

Antifeminist women's summit: 'The kitchen is where the real revolution starts' (Rachael Fugardi/Southern Poverty Law Center)
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/turning-point-usa-young-women-leadership-summit-agenda/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p89#a250710p89

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.

Trump secretly signed a directive to the Pentagon
to begin using military force against certain Latin American drug cartels that his administration has deemed terrorist organizations.
It signals Trump’s continued willingness to use military forces to carry out what has primarily been considered a law enforcement responsibility
The decision is the most aggressive step so far in the administration’s escalating campaign against the cartels.

Trump Directs Military to Target Foreign Drug Cartels
The president has ordered the Pentagon to use the armed forces to carry out what in the past was considered law enforcement.

New York Attorney General Letitia James today issued the following statement after she was indicted by the U.S. Attorney’s office of the Eastern District of Virginia. 
“This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.
He is forcing federal law enforcement agencies to do his bidding,
all because I did my job as the New York State Attorney General.  
“These charges are baseless,
and the president’s own publi…

Attorney General Letitia James Issues Statement on Donald Trump’s Weaponization of the Department of Justice
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today issued the following statement after she was indicted by the U.S. Attorney’s office of the Eastern

The Internet Watch Foundation identified 1,286 AI-generated videos of child sexual abuse so far in 2025 globally, up from just two in the first half of 2024 (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/technology/ai-csam-child-sexu…

A.I.-Generated Images of Child Sexual Abuse Are Flooding the Internet
Organizations that track the material are reporting a surge in A.I. images and videos, which are threatening to overwhelm law enforcement.

New York Attorney General Letitia James today issued the following statement after she was indicted by the U.S. Attorney’s office of the Eastern District of Virginia. 
“This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.
He is forcing federal law enforcement agencies to do his bidding,
all because I did my job as the New York State Attorney General.  
“These charges are baseless,
and the president’s own publi…

Attorney General Letitia James Issues Statement on Donald Trump’s Weaponization of the Department of Justice
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today issued the following statement after she was indicted by the U.S. Attorney’s office of the Eastern

Trump has moved to boost production of fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal.
This lawsuit is the latest legal action against the administration
amid its assault on clean energy policy and related funding and programs across the country.
The lawsuit filed in Rhode Island by the Rhode Island AFL-CIO labor organization and others
— including the public interest law center Rhode Island Center for Justice and the nonprofit Solar United Neighbors
— detailed …

Trump has moved to boost production of fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal.
This lawsuit is the latest legal action against the administration
amid its assault on clean energy policy and related funding and programs across the country.
The lawsuit filed in Rhode Island by the Rhode Island AFL-CIO labor organization and others
— including the public interest law center Rhode Island Center for Justice and the nonprofit Solar United Neighbors
— detailed …

Groups sue EPA over canceled $7 billion solar program intended to help poorer Americans
The program was affiliated with another $20 billion in green funding also terminated under Trump.

Scaling up AI requires staggering amounts of power and water
— especially when considering that many areas are already dealing with strained grids or drought conditions.
Even when optimized, a single hyperscale facility can draw as muchpower as a mid-sized city
and millions of gallons of water annually.
Professor Romany Webb, deputy director of Columbia University's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, explained the challenge:
"Data centers are incred…

New map and research expose disturbing side effects of AI industry boom: 'There are going to be challenges'
As part of the latest wave of Big Tech's spending on AI, Google announced a $9 billion investment to build a new data center campus in Virginia.