MakeUseOf: “If you’ve come across a language you can’t identify, it might drive you crazy until you figure out what it is. Even if you don’t speak multiple languages, it’s useful to know what a language is just by looking at it. Let’s look at some language finder services to help you identify which language… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: November 2022
Department of Energy computer systems target of relentless cyberattacks
“Cyber attackers successfully compromised the security of U.S. Department of Energy computer systems more than 150 times between 2010 and 2014, according to a review of federal records obtained by USA TODAY. Incident reports submitted by federal officials and contractors since late 2010 to the Energy Department’s Joint Cybersecurity Coordination Center shows a near-consistent barrage… Continue Reading
What Are the Pros and Cons of Data Redundancy?
MakeUseOf: “Data redundancy is like a two-edged sword. On the one hand, it can enhance your application; on the other hand, it can distort it. This raises concerns about implementing data redundancy in database management. Understanding data redundancy helps you maximize its benefits and mitigate its risks for healthy database management, which is why you… Continue Reading
Red flag laws and the Colorado LGBTQ club shooting – questions over whether state’s protection order could have prevented tragedy
Via LLRX: Red flag laws and the Colorado LGBTQ club shooting – questions over whether state’s protection order could have prevented tragedy. Professor Alex McCourt, an expert on gun laws at Johns Hopkins University, explain show red flag laws are supposed to work – and why they weren’t triggered in this case. Continue Reading
Zero-Emission Vehicles Factbook, November 2022
“This special report, Zero-Emission Vehicles Factbook, November 2022, has been produced by BloombergNEF in cooperation with the Accelerating to Zero Coalition and in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies, to coincide with COP27, the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference. Since the last Conference of the Parties in 2021, global momentum towards zero-emissions road transport has continued… Continue Reading
EFF’s Atlas of Surveillance Database Now Documents 10,000+ Police Tech Programs
EFF: “This week, EFF’s Atlas of Surveillance project hit a bittersweet milestone. With this project, we are creating a searchable and mappable repository of which law enforcement agencies in the U.S. use surveillance technologies such as body-worn cameras, drones, automated license plate readers, and face recognition. It’s one of the most ambitious projects we’ve ever… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 19, 2022
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 19, 2022 – Privacy and cybersecurity 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… Continue Reading
Legal document assembly system for introducing law students with legal drafting
Marković, M., Gostojić, S. Legal document assembly system for introducing law students with legal drafting. Artif Intell Law (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10506-022-09339-2 – “In this paper, we present a method for introducing law students to the writing of legal documents. The method uses a machine-readable representation of the legal knowledge to support document assembly and to help… Continue Reading
Are You Ready for Workplace Brain Scanning
IEEE Spectrum: “Get ready: Neurotechnology is coming to the workplace. Neural sensors are now reliable and affordable enough to support commercial pilot projects that extract productivity-enhancing data from workers’ brains. These projects aren’t confined to specialized workplaces; they’re also happening in offices, factories, farms, and airports. The companies and people behind these neurotech devices are… Continue Reading
How the pandemic ended America’s bad romance with work
Washington Post Opinion / Helaine Olen: “In February 2020, few would have predicted the wave of dissatisfaction that was about to roll over the American workplace. The United States, it was common to say, was a nation of workaholics — and we seemed to like it that way. Our professional lives had taken on the… Continue Reading
App Tracking Protection Beta is Now Available to All Android Users
Via DuckDuckGo: App Tracking Protection is now open for all Android users. It’s a beta feature in DuckDuckGo for Android that helps block 3rd-party trackers in your apps, even when you’re not using them. New since the waitlist beta launch: you can see what personal data trackers are typically trying to collect before we block… Continue Reading
How the forest dies
Washington Post: “The Amazon is going dry. In one parched corner, a desperate wait for water is only just beginning. For years, scientists have been warning that the Amazon is speeding toward a tipping point — the moment when deforestation and global warming would trigger an irreversible cascade of climatic forces, killing large swaths of… Continue Reading
