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.
- Opinion | This Is One of the Hardest Jobs in America. Millions Are Doing It Alone. (Gift Article) 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Behind closed doors, millions of Americans are stepping into one of the hardest roles they’ll ever take on: caring for their aging parents.
- Blanche Stares Down Confirmation Hurdle: Lingering G.O.P. Doubts 🔥🔥🔥🔥Key Republicans on the Judiciary Committee could push for concessions from Todd Blanche, in line to be attorney general, though they did not appear in revolt.
- June heatwave killed up to 440 people a day in England and Wales, data suggests 🔥🔥🔥Extreme temperatures in May and June led to about 2,700 lost lives in total with climate crisis adding 3C to 4C ...
- Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears 🔥🔥Timing of Devon switchoff ‘could not be worse’, says board, as members face an estimated £2m in lost revenue ...
- Jayson Conner, 48, and Jeffrey Newman, 58, Die; Gave Thousands of Backpacks to Those in Need (Gift Article) 🔥🔥The couple, who died within a few days of each other, provided needed supplies, like socks and wet wipes, to people living on New York City’s streets.
- Britain’s cars and SUVs are growing bigger – but there is a way to stop this deadly ‘carspreading’ | Christian Wolmar 🔥Larger vehicles crowd our roads and are far more dangerous to pedestrians. Let’s curb them before they do even more damage, says says transport commentator Christian Wolmar ...
- An artist brought 'I.C.E. pops' to a Texas campus. The show was shut down in days 🔥The Trump administration's executive orders have meant that administrators are questioning what art can — and can't — be seen on campus.
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.
- Lindsey knew better. He chose worse. 🔥🔥Lindsey Graham was a lonely and unprincipled man who betrayed his country for power and his decency for attention.
- Week Seven in 250 to 250 🔥🔥This was the seventh week of videos from the 250 to 250 Project that we’re producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
- July 12, 2026 🔥🔥The United States is currently in the grip of an outbreak of the Cyclospora parasite, which causes severe diarrhea and has sickened more than 3,000 people across the U.S.
- Important Update: Graham's Death Creates Major Issues for Republicans, McConnell Proof of Life, Large-scale Iran Bombing, and More 🔥Good afternoon, everyone.
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 417. 🔥… NYT: “Sen.
- Major Good News Update!—And How Lindsey Graham's Death has Frozen the GOP-led Senate 🔥Good morning, everyone, and happy Sunday.
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.
- University of Chicago Law to ban phones, laptops in classroom for first-year students in new AI plan† 🔥🔥🔥University of Chicago Law School announced it will ban phones and laptops in the classroom for first-year students in its new AI strategy.
- Apple Claims OpenAI Stole Trade Secrets In New Lawsuit† 🔥🔥Apple alleges OpenAI improperly obtained trade secrets tied to the iPhone maker’s hardware development through former Apple employees as the AI company expands into consumer devices.
- Apple Sues OpenAI, Accusing It of Stealing Company Secrets (Gift Article)† 🔥🔥The two companies struck a deal in 2024 to offer A.I. services on Apple devices, but their partnership has soured.
- Apple Is Suing OpenAI for Allegedly Stealing Hardware Secrets† 🔥The iPhone-maker claims OpenAI encouraged poached employees to bring over confidential presentations, secret prototypes, and key supplier details.
- Apple files lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing ChatGPT maker of stealing trade secrets 🔥Apple on Friday accused OpenAI of stealing trade secrets as it seeks to build its own hardware for ChatGPT, a major rupture in a partnership between the iPhone maker and the artificial intelligence co...
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.
- The Timing of Federal Civil Appeals: The Basic Rules and How I Teach Them to Law Students† 🔥This article examines the law governing timing of federal civil appeals and explains how the relevant rules and case law can be taught to law students. Drawing ...
- Applying a Cost-benefit Analysis to Geofence Searches † The pervasive quality of digital information poses challenges to traditional Fourth Amendment doctrine regulating law enforcement searches. Modern doctrin ...
- "Abuse of Speechifying": Crafting the Politics/Law Divide in the Supreme Court's First Decade† What actions are too "political" for a Supreme Court justice? This question has been the subject of intense debate since the beginning of the republic ...
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.
- Automatically Attacking Software Reverse Engineering AI Agents 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Software tools for reverse engineering executable binary files, such as Ghidra, enable malware analysts to safely conduct robust static analysis without having access to original source code. Coupled ...
- Algorithmic Collusion by Large Language Models† We conduct experiments with algorithmic pricing agents based on Large Language Models (LLMs). In oligopoly settings, LLM-based pricing agents quickly and autonomously reach supracompetitive prices and...
- ConRad: Efficient Conformal Prediction for Radiomics† Radiomic features derived from medical images and segmentation masks are used to support decision making in clinical imaging pipelines. In practice, these features are often computed from predicted masks, but segmentation models can be overconfident or poorly calibrated, making derived measurements appear more reliable than they are. Conformal prediction (CP) provides distribution-free prediction intervals with finite-sample marginal coverage guarantees, but black-box intervals for segmentation-derived radiomics can be inefficient because they ignore test-time information about image appearance, mask geometry, and segmentation uncertainty. We propose ConRad, a conformal framework for scalar radiomic targets that uses covariates derived from the predicted mask, input image, predicted radiomics, and boundary uncertainty to construct adaptive intervals while maintaining coverage. Across five 2D medical imaging datasets and 171 retained radiomic targets, we show that ConRad improves featur ...
- Oyster-II: Reinforcement Learning for Constructive Safety Alignment in Large Language Models† Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse applications, yet ensuring their simultaneous safety, helpfulness, and trustworthiness remains a persistent challenge. Conventional refusal-oriented alignment strategies mitigate harmful content generation but systematically fail to serve legitimate user needs, often withholding information that could safely and constructively address the underlying intent of sensitive queries. Building upon the constructive safety paradigm pioneered by Oyster-I, which moves beyond blanket refusal toward thoughtful, response-oriented safety alignment, we identify two critical limitations of its Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT)-based scheme: insufficient safety generalization to out-of-distribution scenarios and a phenomenon we term safety chain-of-thought (CoT) over-generalization, wherein safety-oriented reasoning patterns are excessively applied to benign queries, degrading helpfulness and user experience. To address these limitations, we propose Oyster-II, a reinforcement learning (RL)-based constructive safety alignment framework that adopts a Zero-RL paradigm combined with a multi-stage reinforcement learning strategy.Evaluated across extensive benchmarks, Oyster-II comprehensively surpasses both Qwen3-14B and its predecessor Oyster-I on safety dimensions, achieving cross-scale performance comparable to Qwen3-Max and Qwen3.5-397B.
- VEXAIoT: Autonomous IoT Vulnerability EXploitation using AI Agents Internet of Things (IoT) systems are inherently vulnerable due to constrained hardware, outdated firmware, and insecure default configurations, creating a need for scalable and adaptive security testing approaches. While recent adoptions of Large Language Model (LLM) agents have demonstrated promis…
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)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Leon English (@leonenglish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Legal Carnet (@legalclaret.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social)
- Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
- Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.bsky.social)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com) (relegated)
- Anna O. Law (@unlawfulentries.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Heba Gowayed هبة جويد (@hebagowayed.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.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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