Smithsonian Magazine: “Think you could spot a deepfake? The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York, has a new exhibition that will put your skills to the test, according to Gothamist’s Jennifer Vanasco. “Deepfake: Unstable Evidence on Screen” looks at the technology of deepfakes—deceptive videos created using artificial intelligence and machine learning—and how… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: February 2022
How law firm librarians are reinventing themselves
Reuters: “…Once easily pigeonholed within a firm – they were the people who worked in the library – their roles now spill over into IT, marketing, business development, client services and beyond. Need a new database to track deals? Competitive intelligence? ESG expertise? Melding research and tech skills, a law librarian might be the go-to… Continue Reading
The Dangers of Password Recycling and How to Mitigate the Risks
MakeUseOf: “As tempting as it sounds, re-using old passwords for multiple accounts can expose you to potential data breaches and cyberattacks. Creating complex and undecipherable passwords with a proper balance of alphanumeric characters can be a real struggle at times. Therefore, we are all guilty of recycling our old passwords. While password managers exist for… Continue Reading
4 Free Ways to Add a Watermark to PDFs Online
Make Use Of: “The Portable Document Format (PDF) was released in 1993 by Adobe Inc and has grown to become one of the most popular document formats available. PDF files are generally considered to be safer, but did you know that you can further secure your PDF file by adding a watermark? In this article,… Continue Reading
A Cheese by Any Other Name: The Legal Challenge over “Gruyere”
In Custodia Legis: “On December 15, 2021, the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia upheld an administrative decision finding that, in the United States, “gruyere” is a generic term for a type of cheese, and therefore ineligible for legal protection through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Gruyère is a geographic… Continue Reading
83% of employees continue accessing old employer’s accounts
Help Net Security: “In a recent study, Beyond Identity gathered responses from former employees across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland and found 83% of employees admitted to maintaining continued access to accounts from a previous employer. The cybersecurity threat this poses is coupled with the fact that 56% of these employees said… Continue Reading
Is Reddit a better search engine than Google?
Fast Company: “A new story anticipating the decline and fall of Google Search comes out about every month, but a blog post Tuesday, called “Google Search is Dying” by the blogger DKB was different. The blog shot up to the top of Hacker News on Tuesday, and is already the 11th most upvoted post on… Continue Reading
Trump’s Presidential Records Act Violations: Short- and Long-Term Solutions
Lawfare: “…As in various other situations in which Trump has flouted well-established laws and norms that typically constrain the president, his apparent brazen disregard of the PRA [Presidential Records Act] presents two sets of questions: First, what are available mechanisms for accountability against a president who violates these rules? And second, what future reforms would… Continue Reading
Global Plastics Outlook
OECD: “Economic Drivers, Environmental Impacts and Policy Options – While plastics are extremely useful materials for modern society, plastics production and waste generation continue to increase with worsening environmental impacts despite international, national and local policy responses, as well as industry commitments. The urgent need to make the lifecycle of plastics more circular calls for… Continue Reading
Pompeii: Rebirth of Italy’s dead city that nearly died again
AP: “In a few horrible hours, Pompeii was turned from a vibrant city into an ash-embalmed wasteland, smothered by a furious volcanic eruption in A.D. 79. Then in this century, the excavated Roman city appeared alarmingly close to a second death, assailed by decades of neglect, mismanagement and scant systematic maintenance of the heavily visited… Continue Reading
Financial Reporting and Consumer Behavior
Noh, Suzie and Noh, Suzie and So, Eric C. and Zhu, Christina, Financial Reporting and Consumer Behavior (September 28, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3932590 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3932590 – “We show that financial reporting spurs consumer behavior. Using granular GPS data, we show that foot-traffic to firms’ commerce locations significantly increases in the days following their earnings… Continue Reading
A Zero-Carbon Grid Could Prevent Future Blackouts, Study Finds
Yale Environment 360: “A year after a severe winter storm caused widespread blackouts in Texas, the state’s power grid remains vulnerable to extreme cold. But recent research suggests that moving to 100 percent renewable electricity could help prevent future outages, in Texas and elsewhere. For the study, Stanford researchers modeled grid stability in 2050 in… Continue Reading
