Centre for Economic Policy Research: “There is an ongoing debate on the need for protection of creative works to ensure availability and distribution. This column exploits a change in copyright protection in the US to examine how copyright affects the digitisation and distribution of artworks over the internet. The authors find a strong increase in… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2023
Bosses mean it this time: Return to the office or get a new job!
Washington Post via MSN: “…The new pushes for in-person work mark a major shift as executives directly acknowledge the challenges with the model — in some cases saying productivity has declined, and citing fewer opportunities for spontaneous collaboration, mentorship and connection-building. Meanwhile, employers have new leverage as the labor market has cooled, leaving workers less… Continue Reading
Invasive species costing the world at least $423bn every year
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) – Assessment Report on Invasive Alien Species and their Control: “…Nearly 80% of the documented impacts of invasive alien species on nature’s contributions to people are also negative – especially through damage to food supplies – such as the impact of the European shore crab (Carcinus… Continue Reading
The Power of the Prompt: A Special Report on AI for In-House Counsel
Bloomberg Law: “Every couple of decades, technology grabs headlines and takes hold of the collective conversation with developments said to represent a giant leap for mankind. The telephone, electricity, television, personal computers, the internet, smartphones and—some say—artificial intelligence. AI has become a daily news fixture in a short amount of time, embedding itself as an… Continue Reading
Dead trees around the world are shocking scientists
Knowable Magazine: “Forests once deemed resilient are suffering surprising die-offs. To predict the fate of the world’s woods in the face of climate change, researchers need to understand how trees die… Some 14 European tree species, mostly beech and spruce, grow here, the subject of a long-term study led by plant ecologist and physiologist Ansgar… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 2, 2023
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 2, 2023 – 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… Continue Reading
Specific Steps to Take If You Receive a Threat
Attorney@Work: “Lawyers, their staff and even judges are vulnerable at courthouses, law offices and their homes. Here’s what to do if you receive a threat. America is a violent country, and lawyers have not been spared. In 2023, a Florida lawyer who represented medical office workers was killed by the opposing party, a plastic surgeon.… Continue Reading
IBM promised to back off facial recognition then signed a $69.8M contract to provide it
The Verge: “The company denies its new government deal enables ‘general purpose’ biometric surveillance. Human rights advocates disagree. IBM has returned to the facial recognition market — just three years after announcing it was abandoning work on the technology due to concerns about racial profiling, mass surveillance, and other human rights violations. In June 2020,… Continue Reading
COVID-19 Added to the list of Autoimmune Diseases
“The Autoimmune Registry has determined that biomarkers of immune system activity similar to those seen in many autoimmune and autoinflammatory diseases justify the inclusion of Long COVID on its list of diseases. [1,2,3] As many as 50% of people who contract COVID-19 develop the syndrome known as “Long COVID”, which appears to affect a person… Continue Reading
Corporate AI Legal Policies Race to Keep Up With Technology
Bloomberg Law News: “When ChatGPT burst onto the scene last year, in-house lawyers had to scramble to figure out how to govern the use of new generative AI tools, and decide who would take charge of those decisions. Topping their concerns: protecting confidential business and customer data, and establishing human backstops to safeguard against the… Continue Reading
Business Adopting AI Risk a ‘Trust Gap’ with Customers
Salesforce Report: “Businesses could soon face an AI trust gap with customers, according to a new survey of more than 14,000 consumers and business buyers across 25 countries. As brands increasingly adopt AI to increase efficiency and meet increasing customer expectations, nearly three quarters of their customers are concerned about unethical use of the technology.… Continue Reading
Pentagon launches ‘one-stop shop’ for declassified info about UFOs
NBC News: The Defense Department on Thursday unveiled a website that’s intended to serve as a clearinghouse for declassified information about unidentified aerial phenomena. The site, which is being billed as a “one-stop shop” for publicly available records about UFOs, is expected to shed light on the work of an office Congress created last year… Continue Reading
