Here’s the kitchen sink for October 11, 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 October 11, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

Seven Grammar and Language Red Flags to Help You Spot Scam Emails and Texts: Some of these you know, but some you may not. Kindly check them out (you’ll see what I did there when you read it).

Microsoft Roadmap: September 2024 – Classic Purview eDiscovery EoL EoY!: I mentioned Greg Buckles’ latest Microsoft update in this morning’s post, but it bears repeating here: the Classic Purview portal will be retired END OF THE YEAR and the new Portal is still in preview mode and there’s a known navigation bug. Yeesh. 😐

California Takes the Lead in AI Regulation with New Transparency and Accountability Laws: Even with California governor Gavin Newsom’s veto of SB 1047, the AI regulation in California just keeps coming. Rob Robinson covers the gamut of activity on his excellent ComplexDiscovery blog.

Google Brings Ads To AI Search Summaries: Of course they do – they only made $305.63 billion last year. 😐

Legal Professionals Should Embrace Generative AI Now and Join a New Era of Co-Intelligence: Judge Ralph Artigliere not only encourages legal professionals to embrace generative AI, but he has also used generative AI tools daily for the past two years! Forget “Be Like Mike”, Be like Ralph! 🙂

As Attackers Embrace AI, Every Organization Should Do These 5 Things: Of course, legal professionals aren’t the only ones (hopefully) embracing generative AI – cyber attackers are doing so too. The last two – Implement Multi-Factor Authentication and Zero-Trust Network Access AND Patch Software and Applications Regularly are especially important.

Hurricane Deepfakes Flood Social Media: According to Forbes, one of the most viral images—a young girl stranded in floodwaters clutching a drenched puppy—has garnered over a million views on X alone. Of course, there are scams too. I wish I could say I was surprised, but… 😐

AI startup Writer, currently fundraising at a $1.9 billion valuation, launches new model to compete with OpenAI: The approximate training cost for the new AI model was just $700,000 compared with estimates of $4.6 million for a similarly sized OpenAI model. With that kind of ROI, we’re going to see many more AI models. 😉

“Boilerplate” Objections Are Generally Condemned; Except When They’re Not: Another example of the famous “it depends” caveat popular with lawyers – there’s always a case that bucks the trend. Michael Berman covers this one on the EDRM blog.

EU Court Ruling Limits Meta’s Use of Personal Data for Advertising: Max Schrems is at it again! The Austrian activist, lawyer, and author who became known for campaigns against Facebook for its privacy violations that took down both the Safe Harbor and Privacy Shield, has obtained a ruling that from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) that information about a person’s sexual orientation, or any other sensitive data, obtained outside a platform cannot be utilized for personalized advertising without explicit consent and adherence to GDPR mandates (wow, that’s a long sentence!). Rob Robinson covers it here. Did you know that Schrems decided to write his law school term paper on Facebook’s lack of awareness of European privacy law, after being surprised by what the company’s privacy lawyer said to his class on the subject? That’s a presentation they wish they could have back! 😀

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for October 11, 2024! Back next week with another edition!

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