Here’s the kitchen sink for September 26, 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 September 26, 2025 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 398 AI hallucination cases and counting! As I discussed in this post, there’s a site that is tracking AI hallucination cases, so I am showing an updated total weekly here.

Associates’ Dissatisfaction With Firm Tech: What We Have Here Is A Failure To Communicate: The subtitle to this article by Stephen Embry covering the American Lawyer survey of midlevel associates at large law firms says it all: “It’s a sad state of affairs when firms are making millions in profits and partners are taking home so much money, but they can’t spring for better technology for associates to get their work done.” Indeed.

European Aviation Grounded by Cyberattack as Single Point of Failure Cripples Systems: You can usually count on Rob Robinson for at least one cyberattack story each week. This week, he has two. This one discusses what happened when Collins Aerospace acknowledged a “cyber-related disruption” which led to “airport staff frantically scribbling baggage tags by hand while thousands of passengers faced mounting delays.” Yikes!

Rules Matter – So Does the Duty to Cooperate – “Quick Peek” Showed Production Failures: Michael Berman discusses this case on the EDRM blog, where parties agreed to let Plaintiffs’ counsel conduct a “quick peek” (which led to Plaintiffs’ counsel identifying “several binders and other records responsive to Plaintiffs’ discovery requests that Defendants had not produced”. Inexplicably, Defendant continued to disagree with Plaintiffs on whether they had produced everything. Sanctions followed.

The AI Lie That Legal Tech Companies Are Selling…: Agree completely with Ryan McKeen here (in fact, I said essentially the same thing here last year). AI won’t lead to less work – it will just change what you do and how productive you are.

Nearly everything you’ve heard about AI and job cuts is wrong – here’s why: While I agree that there are misperceptions about AI and job cuts, I wouldn’t go so far as to say “nearly everything” being said about it is wrong. One thing that I do agree with is that “Rumors of 50% AI-related job cuts are greatly exaggerated.” Embracing AI and becoming an AI leader is the best way to protect yourself.

Jaguar Land Rover Cyberattack: IT/OT Breach Shuts Plants and Shakes UK Supply Chains: The other cyberattack Rob Robinson covered this week – so bad, that “Jaguar Land Rover has officially extended its factory production shutdown until at least October 1, 2025”. Wow.

Microsoft’s new Windows AI Labs lets you try experimental features first – how to opt-in: Intriguing, especially (for me, at least) since the program starts with Microsoft Paint (which I use all the time to resize and edit images for this blog). Others reportedly to follow. I’m going to check it out (and maybe write about it). 😊

The 2 ChatGPT Prompts to Keep Your Law Firm Visible in the AI Era: Interesting article about using AI to analyze visibility and website conversion for your website. The two very detailed prompts are written for a law firm website but could easily be adapted to any business with an online presence.

Dear ChatGPT: Words Matter: Another terrific article from Stephen Embry, where he discusses how he ran one of his posts through one of the public LLMs for comment and it suggested he get rid of the term “hot mess”. Once again, his subtitle says it all: “Don’t let LLMs hijack your style for the sake of expediency.” Couldn’t agree more. I’m sure that the LLMs would probably tell me to get rid of “See what I did there?” if I let them. In an era of AI, a person’s writing style is what differentiates them from everyone (and every algorithm) out there.

Your coworkers are sick of your AI workslop: See what I did there? 😉 I put this article after the style one to say that “AI-generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task” is another problem with too much trust in AI. Don’t be that person.

Predicting DDoS attacks: How deep learning could give defenders an early warning: Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aren’t discussed as much as other cyberattacks, but they can be just as disruptive. The use of long short-term memory (LSTM) on historical data, a type of deep learning algorithm designed to recognize patterns in sequential data, can help. That’s the long and the short of it. 🤣

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for September 26, 2025! Back next week with another edition!

So, what do you think? Which story is your favorite one? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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