Scott Greenfield comments on a ruling previously noted on this site: In an underappreciated ruling, District of Columbia Judge Amit Mehta ruled that the multinational law firm Covington & Burling must comply with an SEC subpoena requiring the firm to give up the names of clients, publicly-traded corporations, in order for the SEC to investigate whether…
Category: Misc
Announce: New category on PogoWasRight
Given the explosion of news and analyses concerning artificial intelligence, a category for the topic has now been added to PogowasRight.org. Items from 2023 have the category added. For earlier articles, use the site’s search function for “Artificial Intelligence.”
Only a handful of hackers are responsible for all email extortion attacks
Lewis Maddison reports: A remarkably small number of cybercriminals are reportedly responsible for all the world’s email extortion attempts, new research has claimed. Security firm Barracuda Networks, in partnership with Columbia University, looked at over 300,000 emails in a one-year period that the company’s AI detectors had flagged as extortion attacks, and found that the…
No, Save the Children Foundation: you CANNOT just help yourself to money from my account.
I donate to a number of charities each month via auto-deductions from accounts. I’ve never had a problem with any of the non-profits I’ve donated to until Save the Children Federation did something that I found so unacceptable that I totally canceled my donations to them. This post is about what they did and how…