Category «AI»

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 25, 2026

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: We Don’t Really Know How A.I. Works. That’s a Problem; Online Betting Is Fueling a Wave of Bankruptcies Among Young Americans; Anthropic’s Mythos Model Is Being Accessed by Unauthorized Users; Google unleashes even more AI security agents to fight crime; and Sam Altman’s Creepy Eyeball-Scanning Company Gets in Bed With Zoom and Tinder.

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Subjects: AI, Big Data, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Healthcare, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

Seeing Is Believing: Visualizing Legal Research

This article by Hannah Rosborough, winner of the 2026 Schulich School of Law Teaching Excellence Award, provides an overview of some visual aids for teaching legal research that she has developed over the past few years. Rosborough shares these based on positive student feedback and with the hope that others might find them useful in their own teaching or training.

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Subjects: AI, KM, Legal Education, Legal Research, Legal Research Training, Legal Technology, Search Strategies

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 18, 2026

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors; They See Your Photos; Agencies fall short on documenting AI acquisition best practices, GAO says; US Government Fails to Unmask Reddit User: Privacy Legal Battle; and A new cybercrime platform called ATHR can harvest credentials via fully automated voice phishing attacks that use both human operators and AI agents for the social engineering phase.

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Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 11, 2026

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: As the Federal Government Rushes Toward AI, Here Are Three Cautionary Tales; Combating cybercrime and fraud: A unified approach; Signal messages on an iPhone have been harvested despite app security; Anthropic Says Its Latest AI Model Is Too Powerful to Be Released; and Cybersecurity Alert: Criminals Are Now Using Emojis to Avoid Detection.

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Subjects: AI, Criminal Law, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Email Security, Financial System, Privacy

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 4, 2026

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts; Beware Dr. Chatbot: Privacy laws don’t protect health care data from AI; This new scam could trick you into downloading malware; Wireless Router Ratings & Reviews; and Report: Voice-Based Phishing Surges to New Heights.

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Subjects: AI, Computer Security, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Healthcare, Internet Trends, Privacy, Technology Trends

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 28, 2026

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts; Tech issues continue to haunt 911 systems; Wireless Router Ratings & Reviews; OMB’s AI guidance falls short on privacy, watchdog says; and the FBI Director Got Hacked By Iran. Now He’s Offering $10 Million to Catch Them – In Iran.

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Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Technology Trends

AI in Discovery: Some Tools Are Ready. Others Are Not.

Generative AI is coming for legal work, whether lawyers like it or not, and much of what it brings will be genuinely useful. Discovery, though, is a different conversation. Jerry Lawson discuses why technology-assisted review (TAR), the old, reliable workhorse, should remain a critical component of your organizations’ privileged document access management.

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Subjects: AI, Courts & Technology, Information Management, KM, Legal Research, Legal Technology
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