Here’s the kitchen sink for May 16, 2025 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 May 16, 2025 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

Court Held That an ESI Protocol Applied Only to ESI: As Michael Berman discusses on the EDRM blog, the dispute was over time frame for producing a privilege log; Court sided with the plaintiff that the 60-day time frame for ESI in the protocol didn’t apply to non-ESI and made them do it sooner.

VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them: Nobody believes that the new owners of VPN provider VPNSecure didn’t know about the lifetime subscriptions, including me. 🙄 Oh, and they canceled them, then let the users know about it. And, they won’t reactivate them; instead, they’re offering new, non-lifetime subscriptions. No wonder there have been 20 pages’ worth of one-star reviews on Trustpilot complaining about lifetime subscribers losing access to their VPN. 😁

Let’s Get Real About the Impact of AI on Jobs: This guy says the argument that AI will actually create more jobs is a “myth” and “delusional”. He adds: “As technologists, we need to get real about the impact of AI and be honest about the effects on peoples’ jobs and futures.” About time someone said it.

AI Index Report 2025: A Wake-Up Call for Cybersecurity and Legal Oversight: Rob Robinson is on fire this week! Here’s the first of three stories of his I’m covering, on the AI Index Report 2025, which reported 233 AI-related incidents involving cybersecurity failures last year, more than any previous year.

Research: Gen AI Makes People More Productive—and Less Motivated: People are more productive, but “intrinsic motivation dropped by an average of 11% and boredom increased by an average of 20%” in their studies. And that’s just for people who still have jobs after AI! 😉 This article discusses how to combat that.

European Union Launches Centralized Vulnerability Database to Strengthen Cybersecurity and Regulatory Alignment: Second article from Rob, this one on the European Vulnerability Database, or EUVD, which was created under the guidance of the NIS2 Directive. It “serves as a clearinghouse for vulnerability data sourced from a diverse range of contributors”, including Computer Security Incident Response Teams from across the EU, MITRE’s Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Program, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalogue, and various vendor-issued advisories. Nice.

Meta is making users who opted out of AI training opt out again, watchdog says: Privacy watchdog Noyb sent a cease-and-desist letter to Meta Wednesday, threatening to pursue a potentially billion-dollar class action to block Meta’s AI training, noting that Meta is giving EU users who already opted out of AI training in 2024 two weeks to opt out again or forever lose their opportunity to keep their data out of Meta’s models, as training data likely cannot be easily deleted. Ridiculous. 😡

Dario Amodei Warns of the Danger of Black Box AI that No One Understands: When it’s the Chief Scientist and CEO of Anthropic saying it, that’s meaningful – and scary. Ralph Losey discusses it on the EDRM blog.

EU Court Rebukes Von der Leyen Over Pfizer Texts in Transparency Ruling: Third article from Rob – this one discusses that the General Court of the European Union has ruled against the European Commission’s President, Ursula von der Leyen, over her lack of transparency regarding private text exchanges with Albert Bourla, Pfizer’s CEO, while negotiating a significant vaccine procurement during the COVID pandemic. So bad it’s been given a “gate” suffix: “Pfizergate”.

Google fixes high severity Chrome flaw with public exploit: A quick FYI to folks using Chrome: you’d better update it with the latest updates ASAP!

Waymo recalls more than 1,200 self-driving cars after minor crashes: No way! Who could have seen this coming? 😉 Apparently, they’ve been having “minor crashes with gates, chains, and other obstacles in the road.” Oopsie! 🤣

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for May 16, 2025! Back next week with another edition!

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