LLRX
Independent web journal on law, technology, KM, and legal research, published by Sabrina I. Pacifici since 1996.
The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 8
The Trump administration has launched a sweeping assault on America’s scientific enterprise, slashing federal STEM staff, terminating thousands of research grants, and reshaping vaccine policy. Federal workforce data show a net loss of 4,224 Ph.D.-level scientists, while NIH funding announcements dropped from 756 in 2024 to just 14 in early 2026, cutting billions in research dollars. Judicial intervention halted the administration’s attempt to overhaul CDC vaccine recommendations, and climate‑science guidance was removed from a key judicial manual. Simultaneously, new hiring rules politicize the 2‑million‑person civil service, threatening merit‑based governance.
Pete Recommends – Weekly Highlights on Cyber Security Issues, March 28, 2026
The weekly highlights expose a surge in cyber‑security threats: WebinarTV covertly records Zoom webinars and repurposes them as AI‑generated podcasts; the FCC has banned all new foreign‑made routers, reshaping the U.S. hardware market; a novel CAPTCHA‑based scam is delivering malware;...
Pete Recommends – Weekly Highlights on Cyber Security Issues, March 14, 2026
The weekly roundup highlights a surge in retirement‑fraud victims facing six‑figure tax bills after illegal IRA withdrawals, while new privacy tech like Deveillance’s Spectre I aims to block AI‑driven microphone eavesdropping. Major tech firms are grappling with AI policy tensions: Microsoft,...
What the Science Says About Hallucinations in Legal Research
A growing body of academic research shows that AI hallucinations in legal research are both common and systematic, with general‑purpose models like GPT‑4 fabricating or mischaracterizing authority in over half of pure‑question queries. Specialized, retrieval‑augmented tools such as Lexis+ AI and...
AI Prompting for Legal Professionals
The article outlines how legal professionals can harness generative AI by treating prompts like legal questions, emphasizing that vague inputs produce useless outputs. It introduces the 7 Ps Framework—persona, product, prompt, purpose, prime, privacy, and polish—as a systematic method for crafting...