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Senior English Judge Warns That Lawyers Who Use AI Must Check Their Legal Citations Thoroughly – Or Face ‘Severe Sanction’

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One of the legitimate criticisms of large language models, generative AI, and chatbots is that they produce hallucinations –- output that is plausible but wrong. That’s a problem in all domains, but arguably it’s a particularly serious one in the field of law. Hallucinated citations undermine the entire edifice of common law, which is based on precedent, as expressed in previous court decisions. This isn’t a new problem: back in May 2023 Techdir…Artificial Intelligence · London Read Article

Migrant Children Are Being Added To A Criminal DNA Database Just Because

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Each day adds another layer of fucked-upness to this country’s anti-immigration efforts. We, as a nation, are now involved daily in extrajudicial renditioning of migrants to countries they’ve never lived in. We’re all implicated in nearly daily rejections of court orders and any remaining shred of human decency. We’re treating human beings like trash to be discarded, whether it’s mothers seeking abortions or migrants just hoping to find somewher…Laredo, Texas · Laredo Read Article

Texas Lawmakers Walk Back Campus Free Speech Law Because It’s Letting Too Many Pro-Palestinian Students Protest

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It would be too kind to say the irony is lost on Republican lawmakers. They would have to be capable of comprehending and acknowledging their own hypocrisy to even begin to recognize the irony. That's why these lawmakers are so unconcerned with the long-term destruction they're causing. It's all worth it if it results in…Austin, Texas · Austin Read Article

Daily Deal: The Complete MATLAB Programming Master Class

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MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creating of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages. That's all well and good, but it means nothing if you don't have a firm grasp of the data types used within MATLAB. In the Complete MATLAB Programming Master Class, you'll…Read Article

Meta Busted Spying on Android Users In Extremely Creepy New Way, Then Lies About It

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Ah, the daily joys of living in a country that's literally too corrupt to pass even a baseline privacy law for the internet-era.Meta has once again been busted playing fast and loose with consumer privacy. Security researchers last week discovered that Meta and Russia's Yandex have been embedding tracking code into millions of websites in…Meta · Russia Read Article

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Outrage For The Machine

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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation's Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. In this week's round-up of the latest news in online…Read Article

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Texas Lawmakers Walk Back Campus Free Speech Law Because It’s Letting Too Many Pro-Palestinian Students Protest

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