Justice Namaste writes: Staffers at Believer magazine—the prestigious literary magazine that has been in the news over the past month or two after their former editor-in-chief Joshua Wolf Shenk resigned after exposing his genitals during a work call—are claiming that a public record request put in by Motherboard was used to intimidate them and gain access to their personal correspondence. […] The…
Category: Misc
The Not-So-Hidden FTC Guidance on Organizational Use of Artificial Intelligence, and European Commission’s Proposed Artificial Intelligence Regulation
James A. Sherer, Nichole Sterling, and Stanton Burke of BakerHostetler write: Our last AI post on this blog, the New (if Decidedly Not ‘Final’) Frontier of Artificial Intelligence Regulation, touched on both the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) April 19, 2021, AI guidance and the European Commission’s proposed AI Regulation. The FTC’s 2021 guidance referenced, in large part, the FTC’s…
How often do ransomware attacks lead to suicide?
It started as a simple statement on Twitter: “What’s upsetting is there’s been many suicides as a result of ransomware. ” The assertion surprised me, and I asked, “Where are you seeing/reading reports of suicides as a result of ransomware attack(s)? Can you point me to some specific reports/links/whatever? Thanks.” After an exchange of tweets,…
Reflections by Joe Cadillic on Blogging for the Past 13 Years and How America Has Changed
If you have not caught on by now that I have great admiration for Joe Cadillic, you’ve been asleep. I’ve never met Joe in person or seen him, and we could pass each other on the street without knowing each other, but in Joe, I recognize a kindred spirit and someone, who, like me, remembers…