FT.com – read free: “Deloitte is rolling out a generative artificial intelligence chatbot to 75,000 employees across Europe and the Middle East to create power point presentations and write emails and code in an attempt to boost productivity. The Big Four accounting and consulting firm first launched the internal tool, called “PairD”, in the UK… Continue Reading
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NIST Identifies Types of Cyberattacks That Manipulate Behavior of AI Systems
NIST: “Adversaries can deliberately confuse or even “poison” artificial intelligence (AI) systems to make them malfunction — and there’s no foolproof defense that their developers can employ. Computer scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their collaborators identify these and other vulnerabilities of AI and machine learning (ML) in a new… Continue Reading
The Perfect Webpage
The Verge – How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same….Google controls around 90 percent of the search market, by some measures, so it’s too valuable a referral source to just leave up to luck. Search engine optimization — or SEO, the practice of… Continue Reading
Special counsel probe uncovers new details about Trump’s inaction on Jan. 6
ABC News: “Special counsel Jack Smith’s team has uncovered previously undisclosed details about former President Donald Trump’s refusal to help stop the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol three years ago as he sat watching TV inside the White House, according to sources familiar with what Smith’s team has learned during its Jan. 6 probe.… Continue Reading
Skipping School: America’s Hidden Education Crisis
ProPublica – Absenteeism has nearly doubled since the pandemic. “With state and federal governments largely abdicating any role in getting kids back into classrooms, some schools have turned to private companies for a reimagined version of the truant officer…Absenteeism underlies much of what has beset young people in recent years, including falling school achievement, deteriorating… Continue Reading
2024 Report on the State of the US Legal Market
“Thomson Reuters, a global content and technology company, and the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession at Georgetown Law today released the 2024 Report on the State of the US Legal Market. The report notes fundamental shifts in the market threaten to upend traditional law firm business models, even as the law firm market… Continue Reading
Supreme Court now allows public to sign up for email notifications of court filings
@lawrencehurley, Supreme Court Reporter for @NBCNews: “The Supreme Court’s docket system contains information about cases, both pending and decided, that have been filed at the Court. The docket provided here contains complete information regarding the status of cases filed since the beginning of the 2001 Term. Users can search for the docket in a particular… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 6, 2024
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 6, 2024– 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 the increasingly complex and… Continue Reading
#MeToo & The Courts: The Impact of Social Movements on Federal Judicial Decisionmaking
T. Li, Carol and Martinez, Veronica Root and Hall, Matthew, #MeToo & The Courts: The Impact of Social Movements on Federal Judicial Decisionmaking (November 29, 2023). Washington and Lee Law Review, Forthcoming, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2023-70, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4648666 – “In late 2017, the #MeToo movement swept… Continue Reading
Media Report Card January 2024
The Connors Institute Media Report Card January 2024 – This report has two lists, and the methodology used for both – [you are no doubt reading media on both] – “The Connors List of Trustworthy Sources – It is important for Americans to maintain a healthy media diet that offers an accurate account of the… Continue Reading
Hortus Eystettensis
Open Culture – The Beautifully Illustrated Book of Plants That Changed Botanical Art Overnight (1613). “If you made it big in seventeenth-century Bavaria, you showed it by creating a garden with all the plants in the known world. That’s what Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt did, anyway, and he wasn’t about to let… Continue Reading
AI gadgets will be hot in 2024. You don’t need one.
Washington Post [read free]: “For the past decade, tech companies have chased a dream: Invent a gadget to replace the smartphone. That’s why companies have created computers for your face and wrist, talking speakers for your living room and virtual reality goggles. And while lots of people love Apple Watches, Alexa speakers or Meta Quest… Continue Reading
