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.
- FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Airlines praised the AI tool, but the air traffic controllers’ union wasn’t involved.
- Russia strikes hospital in central Kyiv after SpaceX system falters again 🔥🔥🔥Volodymyr Zelenskyy says speed restrictions on Starshield system made it harder for Ukraine to shoot down drones ...
- EXCLUSIVE: How a Vitol trader's ties to JD Vance helped land a prized Venezuela oil contract 🔥🔥A week before the United States invaded Venezuela in January and captured its authoritarian leader, US Vice President J.D. Vance flew in Air Force Two for a visit to Montana's Yellowstone Club, an ult...
- Exclusive | Democrats Order Musk to Preserve Records Over Ukraine Starlink Access 🔥Senators say SpaceX satellite restrictions jeopardized Kyiv’s military operations amid a barrage of Russian strikes.
- What we know about the global Microsoft outage 🔥Microsoft has said the outage was not caused by a cyber-security incident, but efforts to fix the issues have so far been largely unsuccessful.
- Nigel Farage’s security paid for by Reform UK despite claim over £5m gift 🔥Exclusive: Sources reveal party is covering costs – raising fresh questions about leader’s explanation for billionaire’s gift ...
- Live Updates: FAA Declares Nationwide Ground Stop of Flights 🔥The F.A.A. grounded all flights nationwide, citing “extraordinary circumstances” and “reasons of safety.”
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.
- Democrats Have a New Center. The Old One Isn’t Taking It Well. 🔥🔥Beneath the fierce debate over who deserves credit for Democrats’ historic victory lies a far bigger story: The emergence of a new political center that could reshape the party for decades.
- NEWS: Vance’s Political Future in Trouble, Cabinet Secretaries Knife Each Other, Alaska Flips Blue, Schumer Challenged, Inflation Grows 🔥🔥Good morning.
- Five Questions with Mississippi Voting Rights Lawyer Amir Badat 🔥The election in Mississippi was not supposed to be a nail-biter.
- Congress Fights Back...Against Congress Congressional Republicans threaten their own institutions to protect Trump ...
- It Is Time For Democrats To Cross The Rubicon Of Appropriations De-fund Trump’s War And Cut Defense Spending. Both Will Make The USA Safer.
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.
- ‘Bring Back THE Boss’: Nvidia Employees Petition for Jensen Huang’s Return† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥An internal post urging the board to consider employee sentiment about Nvidia’s former CEO has drawn more than 1,600 comments, the majority in full support of reinstalling him.
- Artificial Intelligence Legislation Tracker† 🔥There is growing momentum for AI regulation. How will Congress act?
- OpenAI is betting a data center rebrand will make you hate them less 🔥They’d really like you to call them “compute campuses” now.
- What the ‘AI Torture Chamber’ Debate Got Wrong About the Research 🔥Interpretability experiments are often misrepresented to make broader arguments about the rights or experiences of models, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
- The Scandal Is Bigger Than Jensen Huang 🔥No business executive should have so much political power that they can’t be held to account.
- 🤕 Medicare's AI Experiment | EFFector 38.20 🔥When we need medical care, we expect decisions about our treatment to be made by our doctors, not a tech company's algorithm. But in January, the federal government launched a program that uses AI to ...
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.
- NEPA Litigation: What the Record Shows† 🔥🔥Congress is again considering how federal courts should review environmental decisions under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The bill at the cente ...
- The End of Software Copyright† The vast majority of coders and software companies today use AI-generated code or employ programmers who do; surveys suggest that nearly 90% of coders ar ...
- The Person Familiar with the Existing Work (PFEW) in Pelham II: A Workable Copyright Standard? The Court of Justice’s ruling in Pelham II (Case C-590/23) requires national courts to assess whether a new creation co ...
- Hikma v. Amarin: How the Patent/Copyright Palette Fostered Generic Competition Defendants in intellectual-property (IP) cases can be liable for not only direct infringement but also assisting others in infringement. For the past sev ...
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.
- Emergent Representations of Program Semantics in Language Models Trained on Programs 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥We present evidence that language models (LMs) of code can learn to represent the formal semantics of programs, despite being trained only to perform next-token prediction. Specifically, we train a Tr...
- Reward-Driven Collider Physics Challenges for Self-Improving Agentic AI via Reinforcement Learning 🔥🔥🔥ArXiv link for Reward-Driven Collider Physics Challenges for Self-Improving Agentic AI via Reinforcement Learning ...
- What does it mean to understand language? 🔥ArXiv link for What does it mean to understand language?
- Privacy Preference Controls for Agentic Systems 🔥ArXiv link for Privacy Preference Controls for Agentic Systems ...
- On the Origin of Algorithmic Progress in AI: Evidence from Language Model Pre-Training 🔥ArXiv link for On the Origin of Algorithmic Progress in AI: Evidence from Language Model Pre-Training ...
- Large Language Model Explainability for Planning Lunar Rover Trajectories under Uncertainty 🔥ArXiv link for Large Language Model Explainability for Planning Lunar Rover Trajectories under Uncertainty ...
- Where LLM Agents Get Stuck Debugging Databases: Access More Than Reasoning 🔥Large language model (LLM) coding agents are increasingly asked not only to write code but to debug running systems from live runtime data. We report a field observation of one such agent (Claude Code) as it diagnosed eight database incidents in a production message-dispatch engine. In every incident whose root cause depended on runtime concurrency, the agent announced a cause, shipped a fix, and later walked it back, and each wrong guess cost a deploy-and-observe cycle. Mapping each incident to what the agent lacked, we find that access to production state was the most pervasive bottleneck. The missing access included live lock views, untruncated deadlock reports, read-only execution, and an explicit environment context. An access gap was present in all five concurrency-dependent incidents: alone in one, and in four combined with a reasoning error such as anchoring on an early cause, incomplete exploration of the configuration, or a misreading of the code's transaction semantics. The three incidents that did not depend on concurrency needed nothing beyond what the agent already had. Within the incidents, the agent's wrong hypotheses were consistent with the evidence it could see; they were not fabrications. We argue that the next step for production-debugging agents is a forensics layer that gives the agent the access it lacks inside existing security controls. Such a layer would combine a safe interrogation API, a lock-and-deadlock flight recorder, and a production replay harness.
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)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (promoted)
- °。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. (@legalminimum.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Danny Miller (@danielmilleresq.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (promoted)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Free Law Project ⚖ (@free.law) (relegated)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (relegated)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.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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