Here’s the kitchen sink for April 12, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week – with another brand-new meme from Gates Dogfish!
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Here is the kitchen sink for April 12, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:
ComplexDiscovery Launches Spring 2024 Business Confidence Survey for eDiscovery, Cybersecurity, and Information Governance Professionals: Time for Rob Robinson’s quarterly business confidence survey on ComplexDiscovery! I encourage you to participate – the more that do, the more interesting the results will be!
27 of the best AI and ChatGPT courses you can take online for free: I haven’t checked any of these out yet, but I sure am going to do so! May report on a couple of them when I do.
Elon Musk predicts superhuman AI will be smarter than people next year: It probably already knows more than he does about how not to ruin an iconic brand. 😉
One Form of a Custodial Data Map: Unlike an organizational data map (which is a key component to a sound information governance program), a custodial data map is used to track all the data sources of potential custodians in the case and can help with scope negotiations. Michael Berman shares his version in an Excel file accessible via this blog post on the EDRM blog.
Texas is replacing thousands of human exam graders with AI: The Texas Education Agency (TEA) is expecting the system to save $15–20 million per year by reducing the need for temporary human scorers, with plans to hire under 2,000 graders this year compared to the 6,000 required in 2023. Hmmm, maybe it is taking our jobs. Ruh-roh! 😮 Hat tip to Donna Medrek for this story.
5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030: I checked – this article wasn’t published on April 1st. 😀 Jeffrey Tumlin, SFMTA’s director of transportation, said: “We have a technical debt that stretches back many decades.” No kidding. 😮 Part of the reason I covered this is that I’ll bet many of you aren’t old enough to even know what 5.25-inch floppy disks are!
AT&T: Data breach affects 73 million or 51 million customers. No, we won’t explain.: In a mandatory filing with the Maine Attorney General’s office, the telecommunications company said 51.2 million account holders were affected. On its corporate website, AT&T put the number at 73 million. If you’re no longer with AT&T, you’re not safe – 65.4 million of the affected customers are former customers. The “gift” that keeps on giving. 🙁
Shifting Left in eDiscovery: Embracing Secure-by-Design and AI for Enhanced Cybersecurity: I covered an article discussing eDiscovery by design in a “Kitchen Sink” a few weeks ago, now Rob Robinson has one regarding secure-by-design. The idea is to incorporate eDiscovery and/or security considerations into the product development cycle from the beginning. Great idea and long overdue.
The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails: Bob Ambrogi covers five of the most momentous legal tech fails of the last 10 years in his excellent LawSites blog. I covered two of them – ROSS and Gavelytics – on this blog. BTW, congrats to Bob for 250 episodes of his LawNext Podcast!
Digital Forensics: The Good, the Bad, and the AI-Generated: Terrific blog post on the ACEDS blog about how AI will affect digital forensics from Zach Roush at Sensei Enterprises.
Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for April 12, 2024! Back next week with another edition!
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