Here’s the kitchen sink for October 31, 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 October 31, 2025 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 494 AI hallucination cases and counting! As I discussed in this post, here’s what’s causing all these AI hallucinations and how to fix it, IMHO.

Also, the 2H 2025 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey, conducted by ComplexDiscovery and Rob Robinson is still going on! Please consider participating here!

New image-generating AIs are being used for fake expense reports: The launch of new image-generation models by top AI groups such as OpenAI and Google in recent months has sparked an influx of AI-generated receipts submitted internally within companies, according to leading expense software platforms. Receipts included wrinkles in paper, detailed itemization that matched real-life menus, and signatures. Sigh.

When Must a Motion to Compel Be Filed? – Part 4: The answer, according to Michael Berman on the EDRM blog covering the case Feit Electric Co., Inc. v. CFL Technologies, is sooner than this. The District Judge overruled objections, upholding the finding that CFLT’s motion to compel was untimely, which made denial of it – Feit accompli! 🤣

AI-powered search engines rely on “less popular” sources, researchers find: Interesting research project, showing that AI search engines tend to cite less popular websites and ones that wouldn’t even appear in the Top 100 links listed in an “organic” Google search. Does that mean they’re worse? Not necessarily.

Identity Theft Resource Center 2025 Consumer Impact Report: Financial & Emotional Impacts Rise Across the Board; AI is Seen as a Threat: High-level findings from the ITRC’s 2025 Consumer Impact Report, available here. Approximately 25 percent of the total number of general consumer respondents answered “Yes” when asked if they had “seriously considered self-harm as a way of dealing with your identity theft, fraud or scam.” Yikes!

Robin AI listed for distressed sale nine months after making the Sunday Times 100 Tech list: According to Caroline Hill on Legal IT Insider, “its listing on an insolvency marketplace has been seen first hand”. Reportedly, “this year they have lost around £11m”, which is (dare I say) rockin’ Robin.

Google’s New ‘Quantum Echoes Algorithm’ and My Last Article, ‘Quantum Echo’: On the EDRM blog, Ralph Losey echoes his previous article title starting with “Quantum Echo”, by noting that “[o]n October 22, 2025, Google announced that its Willow quantum chip had achieved a breakthrough using new software called—believe it or not—Quantum Echoes.” Ralph says, “you’re welcome, Google”. 😊

Grammarly changes its name to Superhuman – and its mission to AI wrangler: Is it a good idea to change a name that is so widely recognized as Grammarly? We’ll see. Apparently, the AI writing tool isn’t going away – it’s being joined by a suite of new tools, including an AI assistant (Superhuman Go) that can turn assistants on and off as needed. It may take a “superhuman” effort to get people used to the new name.

Our Fingers Can’t Keep Up With AI: Ernie Svenson (aka, “Ernie the Attorney”) says he has dictated 182,000 words at 120 words per minute in the last 28 weeks! This “because Wispr Flow finally made [voice-to-text dictation] effortless. It didn’t just replace typing. It removed the friction between my thoughts and the screen.” Guess who’s got two thumbs and is gonna be trying Wispr Flow? This guy.

“AI will kill, but people will grow accustomed to that”.: On Project Counsel Media, Stephen Rinzle covers an article where Waymo’s co-CEO said at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 that she thinks society will accept a death potentially caused by a self-driving vehicle – because they will reduce “waymo” traffic fatalities than they cause (OK, even I know that was bad). Rinzle, noting the oddity of the smiling speakers in the article’s picture given the topic, doesn’t seem to trust Google (Waymo’s parent company) to be transparent about how many crashes involve Waymo vehicles. We’ll see.

How neighbors could spy on smart homes: Apparently, someone in an adjacent apartment could learn personal details about a household without breaking their encryption by monitoring the wireless traffic of nearby smart devices to “infer what people are doing, when they are home, and even which room they are in”. That’s a real Halloween horror story! 😬

Infostealer Logs Expose 183M Credentials: Strategic Implications for Cybersecurity: Rob Robinson covers a story where a massive dataset containing credentials from over 183 million accounts has been added to the Have I Been Pwned breach notification platform. While 91% of a sample of 94,000 credentials had already appeared in previous breaches, 16.4 million email addresses represent genuinely new exposures – reflecting the continuous, pervasive threat of credential-harvesting malware operating across the internet.​

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for October 31, 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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