Why
backups are important.
Florida
City Pays $600,000 Ransom to Save Computer Records
The
Riviera Beach City Council voted unanimously this week to pay the
hackers’ demands, believing the Palm Beach suburb had no choice if
it wanted to retrieve its records, which the hackers encrypted. The
council already voted to spend almost $1 million on new computers and
hardware after hackers captured the city’s system three weeks ago.
The
hackers apparently got into the city’s system when an employee
clicked on an email link that allowed them to upload malware. Along
with the encrypted records, the city had numerous problems including
a disabled email system, employees and vendors being paid by check
rather than direct deposit and 911 dispatchers being unable to enter
calls into the computer.
… She
conceded there are no guarantees that once the hackers received the
money they will release the records. The payment is being covered by
insurance.
You
might think that government agencies would understand the laws and
regulations they operate under. I stopped thinking that years ago.
Government
error delays online pornography age-check scheme
An age-check
scheme designed to stop under-18s viewing pornographic websites has
been delayed a second time.
The
changes - which mean UK internet users may have to prove their age -
were due to start on 15 July after already
being delayed from
April 2018.
The culture
secretary confirmed the postponement saying the government had failed
to tell European regulators about the plan.
Completing
the notification process could take up to six months. [So this is not
a trivial process. Bob]
Some
interesting statements.
Law
Libraries Embracing AI
Craigle,
Valeri, Law Libraries Embracing AI (2019). Law Librarianship in the
Age of AI, (Ellyssa Valenti, Ed.), 2019, Forthcoming; University of
Utah College of Law Research Paper. Available at SSRN:
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3381798
or
http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3381798
“The
utilization of AI provides insights for legal clients, future-proofs
careers for attorneys and law librarians, and elevates the status of
the information suite. AI training in law schools makes students
more practice-ready in an increasingly tech-centric legal
environment; Access to Justice initiatives are embracing AI’s
capabilities to provide guidance to educational resources and legal
services for the under-represented. AI’s
presence in the legal community is becoming so common that it can no
longer been seen as an anomaly, or even cutting edge. Some even
argue that its absence in law firms will eventually be akin to
malpractice.
This chapter explores some practical uses of AI in legal education
and law firms, with a focus on professionals who have gone beyond the
role of AI consumers to that of AI developers, data curators and
system designers…”
A
field I should encourage my students to consider? It seems to
attract a lot of money…
Stephen
Schwarzman gives $188 million to Oxford to research AI ethics
Stephen
Schwarzman, the billionaire founder of investment firm Blackstone,
has given the University of Oxford its largest single donation in
hundreds of years to help fund research into the ethics of artificial
intelligence.
The
£150 million ($188 million) contribution will fund an academic
institute bearing the investor's name, the British university
announced Wednesday.
The
Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities will bring together
all of Oxford's humanities programs under one roof — including
English, history, linguistics, philosophy and theology and religion.
It will also house a new Institute for Ethics in AI, which will focus
on studying the ethical
implications of artificial intelligence and
other new technology. The institute is expected to open by 2024.
… He
made a $350 million gift to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
last year to set up the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, which
aims to "address the opportunities and challenges presented by
the rise of artificial intelligence" including its ethical and
policy implications.
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