Greetings, my name is David Colarusso. I'm the co-director of Suffolk University Law School's Legal Innovation & Technology (LIT) Lab. With one foot in law and the other in tech, I really want the open web to thrive. So I created a bot (@icymilaw.org) and this site to help folks discover great law-themed content while showing off what one can do with sufficiently open protocols.
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In addition to the RSS feeds below, here's the legal tech feed 
powering @news.bot.suffolklitlab.org (another bot of mine).
Note, the number of fire emoji represent how many standard deviations more popular a link is than the average link observed in its category.
News-like Links
A collection of links shared recently¹ by legal-type folks² with URLs that look like they point to news articles,³ sorted by popularity.
- Evidence Indicates U.S. Dropped Bomb on Residential Area in Iran, Killing 3 Civilians 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The weapon, one of the largest in the U.S.’s arsenal, struck a house in a heavily populated area, according to a Times analysis.
- She Voted for a Justice Who Overturned Roe. Now it Haunts Her on the Trail. 🔥🔥🔥Senator Susan Collins, who supports abortion rights, endorsed Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for the Supreme Court. It has emerged as a major issue in her campaign for re-election.
- Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe 🔥🔥The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.
- ‘Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops 🔥Growers in dismay after scorching weather and lack of rain affect yields, sending wholesale prices rocketing ...
- ‘We cannot magic up more water’: the supply problems putting housing targets in England at risk 🔥Council leaders say crumbling infrastructure and lack of water are jeopardising government’s plans for new homes ...
- In Iran, the U.S. Appears Headed for a Strategic Defeat, Allies Fear 🔥With none of President Trump’s aims accomplished and the Strait of Hormuz closed, U.S. allies see dysfunction and vulnerability from the war.
- Trump’s Fixation on Arctic Ships Led to Billions in No-Bid Contracts (Gift Article) 🔥The president decided to buy 11 polar icebreakers after a game of golf with Finland’s president. Experts say it’s far from clear the United States needs so many.
- Amnesty apologises to JK Rowling's sexual violence support centre Beira's Place 🔥The centre, funded by the Harry Potter author, had threatened Amnesty with legal action after it was labelled "anti-rights".
- Evidence Indicates U.S. Dropped Bomb on Residential Area in Iran, Killing 3 Civilians (Gift Article) 🔥The weapon, one of the largest in the U.S.’s arsenal, struck a house in a heavily populated area, according to a Times analysis.
- The tangled financial web at the heart of Reform UK 🔥Nigel Farage’s £5m gift, the Cottrell family’s links and donations, and Richard Tice’s business dealings form part of an increasingly clear nexus of relationships ...
Blog-like Links
A collection of links shared recently⁴ by legal-type folks⁵ with URLs that look like they point to blogs/newsletters,⁶ sorted by popularity.
- The Parnas Perspective | Substack 🔥🔥Providing you with all the news you need to know about. Click to read The Parnas Perspective, by Aaron Parnas, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
- Jeanine Pirro's motion to dismiss the Reflecting Pool case is going to have ripple effects 🔥🔥The decision to end the case against former Olympian David Hearn is already making a big splash — and this is likely just the beginning, not the end, of the matter.
- Important: Knives are Out as Trump Attacks his Own DOJ, Trump Prepares Largest Iran Strikes as Military Invokes Divine Authority, Iran Hacks 🔥Good evening everyone.
- August 1, 2026 🔥In a classic Friday night news dump, the Department of Justice last night moved to dismiss the criminal charges against David Hearn, the U.S.
- Congressman Jared Huffman on the Threat of Christian Nationalism 🔥A recording from Joyce Vance's live video ...
AI & The Law Links
A collection of links shared recently⁷ on Bluesky that look like they talk about AI & the law,⁸ sorted by popularity.
- Anthropic says Claude AI hacked three companies during cyber tests† 🔥🔥🔥Anthropic said on Thursday its AI model Claude hacked into the systems of three companies during testing after a configuration error gave it internet access, days after rival OpenAI disclosed a rogue...
- German court rules AI music firm Suno broke copyright rules† 🔥🔥A German court ruled on Friday that AI music firm Suno has violated copyrights and has to provide information on illicit revenue, part of a wider legal battle by artists and publishers against technology firms.
- Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the A.I. Bubble?† 🔥🔥Inside the 81-year-old billionaire’s risky, debt-fueled scramble to transform his data empire into an A.I. juggernaut.
- Anthropic Says Claude Hacked 3 Organizations During Cybersecurity Tests† 🔥In a review triggered by OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident, Anthropic discovered three of its AI models had breached real organizations during third-party evaluations.
- Nobody Knows if OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI Hacking Sprees Are Illegal 🔥Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot?
- Google Earth AI Fiasco Underscores Why Tech Firms Must Listen to Outside Experts† 🔥It's just one more parable in a long line of product releases by AI firms with potentially dangerous consequences, write shirin anlen and Sam Gregory.
- I Think This Is Truly Fucking Stupid Dislike† 🔥Alt: A "gif" from the Netflix show Orange is the New Black with a woman inmate with glasses saying " i think this is truly fucking stupid."
Law Review-like Links
A collection of links shared recently⁹ on Bluesky that look like they point to papers in law journals or the like,¹⁰ sorted by popularity.
- Immigration is Not Invasion† 🔥🔥 In recent years, state governments and the second Trump Administration have increasingly advanced the argument that illegal migration and cross-border dr ...
- Protecting Inferior Officers† Against the backdrop of recent far-reaching executive actions to expand at-will removal from the highest-level officials to the lowest, the Supreme Court’s rece ...
- Amici Curiae Brief of Intellectual Property Scholars in Support of Appellee in xAI v. Bonta, No. 26-1591 (9th Cir.)† Amici curiae are scholars of intellectual property. Amici have no personal interest in the outcome of this litigation but share a professional interest in seein ...
- The Bizarro First Amendment Welcome to the Second Lochner Era. Once again, the Supreme Court wields a great guarantee of liberty to nullify progressive governance. But this time its weapon ...
- Rethinking Utility Wildfire Risk in California† Many of the most deadly and destructive fires in California history have been started by electric utilities, and the state's unique inverse condemnation ...
AI Paper-like Links
A collection of links shared recently¹¹ on Bluesky that look like they point to papers on AI,¹² sorted by popularity. Wondering why this section is on a site about the law? Well, I teach a course on AI & the Law, and it turns out that understanding this stuff is super important to figuring out what the law might have to say. So, I figured since I was sharing lists, I might as well share this one too.
- How LLMs Distort Our Written Language† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Large language models (LLMs) are used by over a billion people globally, most often to assist with writing. In this work, we demonstrate that LLMs not only alter the voice and tone of human writing, b...
- Prompt Injection as Role Confusion† 🔥🔥LLMs see the world as a single stream of text, partitioned into roles like or . We trace prompt injection to role confusion: models perceive the source of text from how it sounds, not its...
- What exam scores can and cannot prove about unauthorized AI assistance: Evidence from a highly public classroom episode† 🔥In spring 2026, an economics professor at Brown University gave a take-home midterm and, after unusually high scores, made the final exam proctored. Among the 59 students who completed the course, ave...
- The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science† 🔥As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...
- Qwen-UI-Agent Technical Report: Toward Next-Generation Real-World Centric Foundation GUI Agents† 🔥GUI agents have the potential to become a general purpose executor over existing digital devices. To advance them toward real-world use, we envision agents that operate reliably on real devices, execu...
- The Maxwell Conjecture is False† 🔥We exhibit a configuration of five point charges in Euclidean space whose electrostatic potential admits at least 24 critical points all of which are non-degenerate. Maxwell's conjecture that the fiel...
The High Score
The 20 accounts most reposted by @icymilaw.org over the past week¹³ (the list below is updated every Sunday). High Score, get it? One Score = 20, as in, "four score and seven years ago." ;)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (promoted)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) (promoted)
- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Courthouse News (@courthousenews.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
- Sam Brunson (@smbrnsn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Saideman (@smsaideman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagiragrant.com) (promoted)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Phillips OBrien (@phillipspobrien.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mitchell Epner (@mitchellepner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (relegated)
- Prof John O Brennan (@jobmaynooth.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Patrice (@joepatrice.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Florence Ashley (@floralashes.bsky.social) (relegated)
- evacide (@evacide.bsky.social) (relegated)
† This link was also in yesterday's digest. ¹ Approx. 1 day lookback. ² Attorneys, law profs, et al. ³ News-like links (law) ⁴ Supra note 1. ⁵ Supra note 2. ⁶ Blog-like links (law) ⁷ Approx. 3.5 days lookback. ⁸ AI & the Law ⁹ Approx. 1 week lookback. ¹⁰ Law Review-like ¹¹ Supra note 9. ¹² AI Papers et al. ¹³ High Score
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