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Friday, 5 June 2026
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Google Defeats “Negligent Digital Architecture” Claim–Starr™ v. Google
According to her website (sorry, no link love here), Katherine Starr™ is a 2-time Olympian (she swam on Great Britain…
Thursday, 4 June 2026
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Dashlane explains how attackers managed to download encrypted password vaults
By targeting large numbers of users, attackers increased their chances of success.
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PATH to boost AI training and career opportunities for industry-aligned jobs
MIT RAISE and Georgia State University announce an initiative to connect universities, community colleges, industry, and…
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‘Less Hype, More Application’ Is the Promise of This June 17 Legal AI Conference, Live In L.A. Or Virtual
A few months ago, I wrote about the new partnership between Masters AI Legal, the newly launched division of The Masters…
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NSF renews support for MIT-led AI and physics institute, expanding a new model for discovery
IAIFI enters its second phase with increased funding, broader ambitions, and a growing community at the frontier of AI a…
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Can a Legal AI Platform Be Powerful, Fun and Free All at the Same Time? Lavern Surely Thinks So.
Somebody once told Antti Innanen that he had built a veggie burger dressed up to look like real meat. He thought it was …
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Bride of the Token Cost Panic
A few weeks ago I ran the numbers on the token cost panic. I took the scariest figure in legal AI, the finding that agen…
Wednesday, 3 June 2026
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Teaching AI agents to ask better questions by playing “Battleship”
MIT researchers use the classic game as a test bed for AI agents, finding a small AI model can outperform the biggest on…
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Tod Machover receives George Peabody Medal for contributions to music and technology
The George Peabody Medal is the highest honor bestowed by the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.
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Can't make sense of Dashlane's vault theft notification? You're not alone.
Security advisory leaves out key details. Dashlane maintains complete silence.
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Consulting Firm Harbor Acquires CE Global Partners, Expanding Its HR and Payroll Advisory Capabilities
Harbor, a global professional and technology services firm focused on the legal industry, has acquired CE Global Partner…
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Foundation 365, Litera’s AI-Powered CRM Platform for Law Firms, Is Now Available within Microsoft 365
Foundation 365, Litera’s AI-powered CRM platform for law firms, is now available across Microsoft 365, including O…
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MIT researchers teach AI models to interpret charts
The new ChartNet training dataset could improve the accuracy of vision-language models that help analyze business trends…
Tuesday, 2 June 2026
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Context Is Everything: CEO Neil Araujo on iManage’s AI Strategy
Neil Araujo, the CEO and cofounder of iManage, was last on this podcast almost exactly two years ago. In the dog years o…
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Context Is Everything: CEO Neil Araujo on iManage's AI Strategy
Neil Araujo , the CEO and cofounder of iManage , was last on this podcast almost exactly two years ago . In the dog year…
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Universal Migrator Launches New Website Built for Migration Experts
Universal Migrator has launched a brand-new website designed to make legal data migrations easier to research, explain, …
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Ironclad Founder Jason Boehmig Joins OpenAI To Develop Products for the Legal Sector
The legal industry is turning into a battleground for the two dominant frontier AI companies. Less than a month ago, Ant…
Monday, 1 June 2026
Dozens of Red Hat packages backdoored through its official NPM channel
Anyone who has downloaded affected Red Hat packages should investigate immediately.
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The Flight Simulator for Lawyers: Abdi Shayesteh and Jeanine Conley Daves on AI, Deliberate Practice, and the Future of Legal Training
This week on The Geek in Review, we talk with Abdi Shayesteh , CEO of AltaClaro , and Jeanine Conley Daves , Littler&rsq…
Sunday, 31 May 2026
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Seventh Circuit Limits Email Service to Chinese SAD Scheme Defendants–Kangol v. Hangzhou Silk
There have been thousands of SAD Scheme cases in the Northern District of Illinois, but this extensive litigation activi…
Friday, 29 May 2026
Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled
The botnet was reportedly tied to a Russia-based residential proxy network.
Thursday, 28 May 2026
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Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code
Undisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app output.
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Florida Supreme Court Tackles AI Hallucinations with New Rule Applicable to All State Courts
Aiming to curtail the glut of court filings containing hallucinated legal citations, the Florida Supreme Court today iss…
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Media Advisory: MIT to establish regional quantum hub
With $25 million investment from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, MIT to build a new shared-use facility to serve as a…
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Aiming To Provide Members with Affordable AI Tools, Illinois Bar Partners with SimpleDocs for Contract Review
For Illinois attorneys who are curious about trying artificial intelligence for contract review, now is their chance to …
Wednesday, 27 May 2026
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Darrow, the ‘AI Lab for Legal Risk,’ Launches a Platform to Let Plaintiffs’ Firms Manage Litigation Like an Investment Portfolio
The legal system has a blind spot, often failing to recognize risk until a lawsuit is filed. By that point, it is too la…
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In Banning AI, Is Berkeley Law Shortchanging Its Students — and Endangering their Future Clients?
UC Berkeley School of Law has adopted one of the most restrictive student AI policies of any top law school, barring the…
Tuesday, 26 May 2026
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Ahead of June 10 Shareholder Vote, Union Investor Renews Push for Thomson Reuters to Assess Human Rights Impact of Its Products Used By ICE
Last month, I wrote about the pushback by employees, shareholders and others against Thomson Reuters over its contracts …
Monday, 25 May 2026
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Ryan McClead on Writing With Claude and What AI Agents Mean for Legal Work
This week on The Geek in Review, we talk with Ryan McClead of Sente Advisors about his new book on AI agents, written in…