Via LLRX – Is A Crypto Collapse Inevitable? – Jerry Lawson and Elizabeth Southerland identify technical reasons why the crypto bubble is bursting, including the fact that theoretically unbreakable encryption schemes like those underpinning blockchain have proven to be less than impermeable in practice, as users of Coinbase discovered upon losing fortunes. Attackers go after the weakest… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2023
ChatGPT and Generative AI in Legal, Corporate & Tax Markets
Thomson Reuters 2023 Future of Professionals: ChatGPT and Generative AI in Legal, Corporate & Tax Markets, June 2023 [24 pages, PDF]: “As generative AI started taking hold, the Thomson Reuters Institute has begun to catalog and measure generative AI usage and attitudes in the legal and tax industries. The first report examined generative AI within… Continue Reading
Data Act: Commission welcomes political agreement on rules for a fair and innovative data economy
European Commission: “The Commission welcomes the political agreement reached today between the European Parliament and the Council of the EU, on the European Data Act, proposed by the Commission in February 2022. Today, the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution fuels exponential growth with projected data volume set to skyrocket in the coming years. A significant… Continue Reading
Global income deciles
Kanishka B. Narayan et al. “present a consistent dataset of income distributions across 190 countries from 1958 to 2015 measured in terms of net income.” Where net income statistics were unavailable, the authors imputed the deciles from consumption data or the country’s Gini coefficient. Their paper also provides a comparison of their dataset to the… Continue Reading
Planned in Plain Sight: A Review of the Intelligence Failures in Advance of January 6th, 2021
“U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a new report detailing the results of his investigation examining intelligence failures by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) in the lead-up to the attack on… Continue Reading
Thomson Reuters to acquire Casetext
Deck – Strategic Purchase Accelerates Generative AI Capability – Build and Expands Addressable Market Potential, June 27, 2023. “Casetext is a leading provider of AI powered tools that empower legal professionals to work more efficiently and provide higher-quality representation to their clients: Casetext launched CoCounsel, a Generative AI powered legal AI assistant, on March 1,… Continue Reading
Video Game Law
Lemley, Mark A. and Maitra, Sonali, Video Game Law (June 1, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4466453 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4466453 “This is the complete text of Video Game Law: An Open Access Casebook, the first law school casebook to cover video game law. It includes chapters on the history of video games, copyright, patents, trademarks, the right… Continue Reading
The Dobbs Divide
Five Thirty Eight – “Percentage change in the number of abortions per month, compared to the average monthly abortions before Dobbs (April and May 2022), through March 2023 by state: “New estimates provided exclusively to FiveThirtyEight by #WeCount — a national research project led by the Society of Family Planning, a nonprofit that supports research… Continue Reading
Z-Library Releases Tor-Enabled Desktop Launcher to Improve ‘Accessibility
TF: “Pirate ebook repository Z-Library has released a dedicated desktop application that should make it easier to access the site going forward. The service is at the center of a criminal crackdown and has lost hundreds of domain names, which in part triggered the development of this new software. Over the years, Z-Library established itself… Continue Reading
Prime Voice AI
Beta – Prime Voice AI “The most realistic Text to Speech and Voice Cloning software. ElevenLabs brings the most compelling, rich and lifelike voices to creators and publishers seeking the ultimate tools for storytelling.” Continue Reading
5 Novel RSS Reader Apps to Change How You Get News Feeds and Updates
Make Use Of: “From AI summaries and ChatGPT queries of your RSS feeds to minimalist and privacy-friendly apps, you need to check out these cool new RSS readers. When it comes to RSS readers, the conversation usually boils down to Feedly vs. Flipboard. But there are several other new options worth checking out, as they… Continue Reading
Maps Distort How We See the World
Unchartered Territories: “Maps twist our perception of the world. Countries closer to the equator—which happen to be poorer —seem smaller than they are. This is because the world is a 3D sphere, but maps are 2D projections on a plane. That means distortion. So we develop a poor intuition for comparative region sizes. The biggest… Continue Reading
