Massachusetts prosecutors run on dial-up-era software

I asked all 11 Massachusetts DAs for their case data. Six million charges came back. The system holding them is "obsolete" — and its replacement is being bought right now, in silence.

18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It

Lawyers blame IT, family emergencies, their own poor judgment, their assistants, illness, and more.

Mass. court hears lawsuit alleging Meta designed apps to be addictive to kids

The lawsuit alleges that Meta did this to make a profit and that its actions affected hundreds of thousands of teenagers in Massachusetts.

Pro Se Plaintiff Caught Hiding Prompt Injections In Court Filings; Responds By Hiding More

There have now been dozens of stories of bad lawyers using AI results in filings, most of which show up in the form of fake case citations. That’s old hat at this point. But how about prompt …

Attorney General Mayes Joins 44 States in Demanding Tech Companies End Predatory AI Interactions with Kids | Attorney General's Office

PHOENIX – Attorney General Kris Mayes today joined a bipartisan coalition of 44 state attorneys general warning major artificial intelligence companies to stop hurting kids.

Mozilla’s response to proposed remedies in U.S. v. Google | The Mozilla Blog

Last week the Department of Justice and some state attorneys general filed revised proposed remedies in the U.S. v. Google LLC search case. If the proposed

Class-action suit claims Otter AI secretly records private work conversations

The suit claims the popular service may be recording and processing millions of users' private conversations without consent.

Massachusetts’ AI program is more than meets the eye

The Shoestring found that the state has been testing at least 40 government use cases for AI, though it remains tight-lipped about most of them.

Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case

When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.

Complaint and Request for Investigation: Unlicensed Practice of Medicine and Mental Health Provider Impersonation on Character-Based Generative AI Platforms · Consumer Federation of America

A broad coalition of consumer protection, digital rights, labor, disability, and democracy advocacy organizations led by CFA filed a formal request for investigation today calling on state and federal regulators to investigate and enforce their laws against AI companies facilitating and promoting unfair, unlicensed, and deceptive chatbots that pose as mental health professionals.

Meta must face Massachusetts lawsuit over youth social media addiction, court rules

State’s top court alleges company deliberately designed features of platforms like Instagram to addict young users

Lawyers Caught Citing AI-Hallucinated Cases Call It a 'Cautionary Tale'

The attorneys filed court documents referencing eight non-existent cases, then admitted it was a "hallucination" by an AI tool.

Freefall 4399 July 13, 2026

TRANSCRIPT Sam: Telling the computer what I want to have done. It makes my job easy. I don't know how it works. I don't know what I'm actually doing. Sam: I've always assumed the other guys know what they're doing. If they're using A.I. as well... this could be a problem. Sam: It makes it too obvious that almost nobody knows what they're actually doing. That destroys one of the illusions societies are built on.

Seeing like a software company

The big idea of James C. Scott’s Seeing Like A State can be expressed in three points:

Bill C-22’s Groundhog Day: Why the Government’s Dismissal of Signal, Apple and the U.S. Congress Concerns Runs Back the Disastrous Online News Act Playbook - Michael Geist

Secure messaging service Signal yesterday became the latest company to warn that Bill C-22, the lawful access bill, could force it to leave the Canadian market rather than comply with provisions it says would compromise its end-to-end encryption and create new cybersecurity risks. Signal vice-president Udbhav Tiwari told the Globe and Mail that the company “would rather pull out of the country than be compelled to compromise on the privacy promises we have made to our users.” The comments are part of a steady stream of similar warnings from Apple, Meta, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the Cybersecurity Advisors Network, and the chairs of the U.S. House Judiciary and Foreign Affairs Committees. Despite growing concern, the government’s response has been to launch a misleading social media campaign and repeatedly insist that the experts and companies are mistaken.