• The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 5 – The fifth in a series by Sabrina I. Pacifici focuses once again on government resources, data and datasets that been taken offline, censored or otherwise altered to block access. As these data are no longer updated, the value and relevance to researchers decreases rapidly. These data operationalize critical work performed by federal government agencies and in concert with academic institutions and research institutions. The scope of this censorship has wiped out taxpayer funded research across all subject matters, which until this administration, was openly posted on e-government sites for further exploration and enhancement by both the public and private sectors.
• Teaching Legal Research in the Generative AI Era: When Source Blindness and Source Erasure Collide (Part 1) and Teaching Legal Research in the Generative AI Era: When Source Blindness and Source Erasure Collide (Part 2) Four Part Series by Tanya Thomas [forthcoming] – Part 1 examines how we’re training a generation of lawyers who rarely engage with the raw materials of their profession, and are increasingly consuming only processed, pre-digested, AI-synthesized versions like the mechanically separated chicken parts that go into chicken nuggets. Part 2 highlights how research used to encompass finding sources, evaluating them, synthesizing insights across multiple authorities, and reaching conclusions based on that synthesis. Now however, it means asking questions and accepting answers. Students have become consumers of information rather than investigators of it. They don’t develop the iterative thinking that characterizes skilled research—trying a search, evaluating results, refining the query, following unexpected leads, discovering connections, recognizing gaps, circling back to fill them. They simply ask and receive.
• Drone Resources 2025 – This article by Marcus P. Zillman includes links to a range of guides for current and future drone pilots interested in photography, medicine, civil security, real estate, and e-commerce, and also includes product reviews and buying guides.
• The Grief You Can’t Name – How Change and Transformation Influence You – When organizations ask people to change how they work, they’re not just asking them to learn new procedures. They’re asking them to grieve what made them valuable, release what gave them pride, and trust that something on the other side of that loss will be worth it. Kevin Novak describes how organizations pour billions into change management while ignoring the psychological truth underneath: regardless of the situation, when confronted with organizational change, humans go through the same grief cycle first identified by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Her book, On Death and Dying, published in 1969, introduced the concept of the Five Stages of Grief. Those five stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Her intent wasn’t an application to organizational change or transformation, or even a recognition of how we all go through stages when confronted with any personal or professional change. However, Novak states that ongoing research and his company’s study of the human factor, demonstrate her model’s applicability. Understanding these stages can help inform individuals facing change as much as for how leaders approach transformation.
• The Law Firm Pyramid Rollover – Heather Suttie is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading authorities on legal market strategy and management of legal services firms. In this article she addresses how artificial intelligence, pricing, and transience of the legal service sector’s workforce will cause the traditional law firm pyramid structure to rollover like an upending iceberg. The result? By 2030, global legal services will operate much differently than they do now.
• The Imminent AI Bubble Crash (and Why It Won’t Matter in the Long Run) – This article examines why today’s AI boom resembles the dot-com bubble—soaring valuations, unprofitable companies, copy-cat entrants, and heavy speculation driven in part by infrastructure providers themselves. Drawing parallels from 1999 to now, Jerry Lawson argues that although an AI correction is inevitable, it won’t derail the long-term transformation AI will bring. The bubble will burst—but the technology will endure, and the real winners will emerge in the next wave.
• All government shutdowns disrupt science − in 2025, the consequences extend far beyond a lapse in funding – The government shutdown will continue until Congress can pass a bill reopening it. Kenny Evans details how U.S. science always suffers during government shutdowns. Funding lapses send government scientists home without pay. Federal agencies suspend new grant opportunities, place expert review panels on hold, and stop collecting and analyzing critical public datasets that tell.
• AI In Finance and Banking, November 30, 2025 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and as available, indicate links to alternate free versions. Six highlights from this post: AI agents for cash management in payment systems; The state of AI in 2025: Agents, innovation, and transformation; Human-AI Collaboration with ChatGPT: A Systematic Review of Implications for Finance, Law, and Healthcare; AI in Finance and Information Overload; Artificial Intelligence, Competition, and Welfare; and Despite AI adoption surge, finance leaders’ data governance confidence drops.
• Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 29, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: Is Your Android TV Streaming Box Part of a Botnet?; FCC Corrects Course, Outlines Improved Cybersecurity Measures; Social data puts user passwords at risk in unexpected ways; Homeland Security Is Reportedly Probing Bitcoin Mining Giant Bitmain for National Security Reasons; and Senator urges CBP to quit using tech to track and detain ‘suspicious’ drivers.
• Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 22, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: WhatsApp Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers; The internet isn’t free: Shutdowns, surveillance and algorithmic risks; GAO: ‘Digital footprints’ endanger the nation, military and personnel; Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship; and Unremovable AppCloud on Samsung Phones Sparks Privacy Fears.
• AI In Finance and Banking, November 15, 2025 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and as available, indicate links to alternate free versions. Six highlights from this post: The Price of Intelligence: How Should Socially-minded Firms Price and Deploy AI?; The use of artificial intelligence for policy purposes; How Technology Is Reshaping Finance; How Financial Firms Can Modernize Legacy Systems Without Disrupting Core Operations; Central banks and other supervisory and regulatory authorities need to “raise their game” both as observers of the effects of artificial intelligence on the economy; How banks are laying the foundation for agentic AI; and Gemini Deep Research comes to Google Finance, backed by prediction market data.
• Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 15, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: Don’t Get Tricked by Fake Amazon Reviews This Black Friday; Meta makes billions from scam ads on Facebook, Instagram: Report; Digital IDs: The Future of Identity Documents; New Google Lawsuit May End Massive Text Phishing Operations; and Google Drive Will Use AI To Turn Lengthy PDFs Into Short Audio Summaries.
• Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 8, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: Google says Search AI Mode will know everything about you; Google flags new wave of online scams fueled by AI fakes and holiday hustles; Washington Post says it is among victims of cyber breach tied to Oracle software; and Enterprises are not prepared for a world of malicious AI agents.
• Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 1, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: Cut Through GenAI Confusion: Eight Definitive Reads; AI Glossary – Artificial Intelligence Term Guide 2025; AI Incident Database; and Wi-Fi can accurately identify people, even if they aren’t carrying a phone or computer.

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