European Parliamentary Research Service: “…Cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have enabled the production of highly realistic videos that manipulate how people look, and the things that they appear to say or do. These fabrications are commonly referred to as ‘deepfakes’. The Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) commissioned a study to examine… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2021
Why we should build for wildlife as well as people
BBC Future – “From green roofs to bee bricks and hedgehog drawers, there are plenty of ways to make sterile buildings more accommodating to nature….Part of the problem is that human civilisation, so dependent on built infrastructure, has colonised swathes of land once home to wildlife. While just 1% of the planet’s habitable land is… Continue Reading
Global Research Council Conference Report 2021
“A conference on Responsible Research Assessment was held with the support of the Global Research Council from 23 to 27 November 2020. This report presents the context for the conference, some key analytics and the main discussion outcomes…The conference brought together the perspectives of 45 international speakers from across all 5 GRC regions and captured… Continue Reading
Not a single federal agency received an ‘A’ in a new Senate cybersecurity report card
Popular Science: “On Tuesday, members from the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee released a bipartisan report [PDF] that states that seven out of the eight federal agencies they reviewed still have not met the basic cybersecurity standards needed to protect the sensitive data they stored and maintained. The report was led by… Continue Reading
2021 ABA Profile of the Legal Profession
ABA Journal: “The COVID-19 pandemic prompted one-third of older lawyers to change their retirement plans, according to the 2021 ABA Profile of the Legal Profession released Thursday. Of those attorneys, 53% said the public health crisis caused them to delay their retirement and the other 47% said the pandemic spurred them to hasten their retirement.… Continue Reading
Former Harvard Law Dean Who Wants Government to Save the News Business
Washington Monthly – “In an interview, Martha Minow argues the constitution doesn’t merely allow government to keep journalism outlets afloat, but requires it…In her new book, Saving the News: Why the Constitution Calls for Government Action to Preserve Freedom of Speech, Harvard Law professor (and former dean) Martha Minow argues that government policies to keep… Continue Reading
The voices of women in tech are still being erased
MIT Technology Review: “TikTok’s decision to use a woman’s voice without her permission is only one recent example of a problem that some mistakenly think we’ve moved past… When we think of women in computing, we often think about how, both literally and figuratively, they have been silenced more often than they’ve been listened to.… Continue Reading
Challenges Faced by Employees with Disabilities amid the Return to In-Person Work
Bill of Health – by Doron Dorfman, Associate Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law: “…calls for getting back to the office raise particular quandaries for employees with disabilities, many of whom have disproportionally borne the brunt of pandemic layoffs. First, there are those who started a new job remotely during the pandemic and… Continue Reading
The Knowledge Work Demand Index
Braintrust: “Enterprises are facing an unprecedented talent gap, but are they relying on an old approach to solve it? The demand for knowledge workers is surging. COVID-19 pushed businesses to accelerate their digital transformations by as much as 6 years in the United States. Knowledge workers are driving this innovation for enterprises. In order to… Continue Reading
You Don’t Really Own the Digital Movies You Buy
The New York Times Wirecutter: “As the entertainment industry shifts its distribution strategy to let people buy or rent movies closer to—or simultaneously with—their release in theaters, you may find yourself amassing a larger digital library than you’ve had in the past. But when you buy a movie from a digital service like Amazon Prime… Continue Reading
How to increase the time you have to unsend an email
Verge: “Clicking on ‘Undo’ can save you from a lot of grief – If you’ve ever hit “Send” on a Gmail email and regretted it ten seconds later, you’ll know how handy — even necessary — a delayed send function can be. It could be the sudden realization that you accidentally hit “Reply all,” or… Continue Reading
The Difference Between Delta, Delta Plus, and Lambda
Lifehacker: “Delta Plus, a variant of a variant, is the latest strain of the COVID-causing coronavirus to hit the news. (A previously-known variant, Lambda, is also making headlines today.) Still, so far, there’s nothing to panic more about: Delta is scary enough. What’s the difference between Delta and Delta Plus? Delta is the more-transmissible strain… Continue Reading
