CRS Legal Sidebar – LSB10633| Federal Employees and COVID-19 Vaccination Attestations: Immediate Takeaways August 6, 2021: “Executive Order 1399 established the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force (Task Force) to provide ongoing guidance to heads of executive agencies on government operation and employee safety during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.On July 29, 2021, the Task… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2021
Practice Innovations: The rise of “anywhere operations”
Thomson Reuters: “…Anywhere operations focus on using technology to deliver business services anywhere by employees who can work from anywhere. It wholly embraces remote technologies for digital work and is a digital first/remote first approach that, according to a report from Gartner Research, can make for more efficient operations and improve productivity. In fact, in… Continue Reading
MIT Technology Search Portal
INSTRUCTIONS before you search – 1. Put in a keyword related to a technology (not specific products) and click on search button on the search page 2. Use back button to perform another search 3. There is no spell-check. Please be careful with spelling 4. Advanced search: Please use “|” or “&” or “~” for… Continue Reading
Want a strong password? You’re probably still doing it the wrong way
ZDNet – Security agencies say that three random words can be a better approach than enforcing complexity to achieve account protection. Bad passwords are easy to remember, but also easy to guess and that can give an attacker access to your online accounts. That’s why the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has explained why… Continue Reading
How to Find the Hidden ‘Orphaned’ Files Eating Your Google Drive Storage
Life Hacker: “If your Google Drive is constantly, inexplicably overflowing, you maybe be among those users may be losing out on their storage space due to a glut of hidden, “orphaned” files. Files become orphaned when their parent directory is deleted but the file itself is not. For example, if you upload a document to… Continue Reading
Climate Change Laws of the World
“Access the Climate Change Laws of the World database here and search for legislation or litigation in your selected country or countries. The countries of the world are taking action domestically as well as through the negotiation of international agreements to address climate change. The Sabin Center and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment have collaborated to create… Continue Reading
Famed epidemiologist Larry Brilliant – The world is nowhere near the end of the pandemic
CNBC: “The pandemic is not coming to an end soon — given that only a small proportion of the world’s population has been vaccinated, said Larry Brilliant, a well-known epidemiologist. Brilliant, who was part of the WHO team that helped eradicate smallpox, said the delta variant is “maybe the most contagious virus” ever. The doctor… Continue Reading
Microsoft Word for Legal Professionals
Law Technology Today – Benefits of Word Processor Efficiency for Law Offices – Ultimate Tool for Creating Work Product: “As you know, legal services are typically document intensive and often, the service rendered is the document itself (estate planning documents, purchase contracts, leases, etc.). Even in practice areas where the document is not the final… Continue Reading
IPCC Sixth Assessment Report on Climate Change
AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis – “The Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report addresses the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding, and global and regional… Continue Reading
Does your iPhone or iPad have Pegasus spyware? Find out for free
CNET: “Every time there’s a report about an iPhone or iPad exploit being actively distributed and used, it’s unnerving. In July, it was revealed that security researchers discovered evidence of Pegasus spyware being used on the phones of journalists, politicians and activists. The spyware can be remotely installed on a target’s iPhone or iPad without the… Continue Reading
The state of data scientists: Overwhelmed and underfunded
TechRepublic: “Data science initiatives need a strategic makeover to break down silos, support long-term thinking and improve daily operations, according to a new survey. Three hundred data executives in the U.S. identified a wide range of problems in Domino Data Lab’s report, “Data Science Needs to Grow Up: The 2021 Domino Data Lab Maturity Index.… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 8, 2021
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 8, 2021 – Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, 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… Continue Reading
