Criminal or Whistleblower? The hacker behind the Football Leaks scandal, Rui Pinto, a 34 year old Portuguese national, currently faces 377 charges for blowing the lid off the tax fraud, corruption and other wrongdoing in the $3 billion European soccer business. One club alone, Manchester City, faced over 100 counts of financial misconduct as a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Law firms getting breached is, unfortunately, no longer big news. Law firms Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Loeb & Loeb and Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher all reported breaches to the California attorney general in July. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner also reported a breach recently. All of these are very large firms. Imagine […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While legislators in a variety of countries are trying very hard to ban encryption, vulnerabilities in existing encryption implementations are surfacing. While none of the proposed encryption bans are laws yet in the U.S., it doesn’t mean that people aren’t trying. More importantly, companies have for years thought that security by obscurity is a good […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Remember when we used to say seeing is believing. Or hearing. Well not any more. Want to hear Johnny Cash sing Barbie Girl? With amazing fidelity? It is available on YouTube. Only problem is that the Barbie song came out after Cash was diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease and had stopped performing. Also, this recording […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]OpenAI and Meta Both Sued for Copyright Infringement Over AI Tools Even though the courts, with minor exception, are technologically uneducated, they are going to have to make some very important decisions. Law.com is reporting that OpenAI is being sued by book authors, including comedian Sarah Silverman over misappropriation of their copyrighted works to be […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Everyone is in love with Large Language Model AIs, but they are far from perfect. Someone suggested that ChatGPT is “mansplaining as a service” (MaaS). While perhaps it is a somewhat pejorative term (to either the GPTs or men), it is fairly accurate. A couple of months ago a professor at UCLA asked ChatGPT to […]
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