Special
Operations is shifting to Techie Operations. My library reading
list.
Hackers
will be the weapon of choice for governments in 2020
… Indeed,
as a new crop of books expertly explain, cyber capabilities are
expanding and transforming the old game of statecraft. The Russians
are playing right alongside the Americans, Chinese, Iranians, North
Koreans, and others in using hackers to shape history and try to bend
geopolitics to their will.
“Over
two decades, the international arena of digital competition has
become ever more aggressive,” writes Ben Buchanan, a professor at
Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, in his upcoming
The
Hacker and the State. “The United States and its allies can no
longer dominate the field the way they once did. Devastating cyber
attacks and data breaches animate the fierce struggle among states.”
… Meanwhile,
Sandworm,
a new book by journalist Andy Greenberg, zeroes in on multiple
interrelated Russian hacking groups responsible not only for the
sprawling campaign against the Olympics but for an impossibly long
list of headline-making hacks.
… Hacker
States,
an upcoming book by the British academics Luca Follis and Adam Fish,
distinguishes between the different dimensions of destruction.
Whether or not a hack achieves a specific technical goal—malware
installed, account taken over, data breached—it can undermine
public confidence and democracy.
A
first. Should employers be required to tell applicants about the
law?
Illinois
says you should know if AI is grading your online job interviews
Artificial
intelligence is increasingly playing a role in companies’ hiring
decisions. Algorithms help target ads about new positions, sort
through resumes, and even analyze applicants’ facial expressions
during video job interviews. But these systems are opaque,
and we often have no idea how artificial intelligence-based systems
are sorting, scoring, and ranking our applications.
… A
new Illinois law — one of the first of its kind in the US — is
supposed to provide job candidates a bit more insight into how these
unregulated tools actually operate. But it’s unlikely the
legislation will change much for applicants. That’s because it
only applies to a limited type of AI, and it doesn’t ask much of
the companies deploying it.
Set
to take effect January 1, 2020, the state’s Artificial Intelligence
Video Interview Act has three primary
requirements.
First, companies must notify applicants that artificial intelligence
will be used to consider applicants’ “fitness” for a position.
Those companies must also explain how their AI works and what
“general types of characteristics” it considers when evaluating
candidates. In addition to requiring applicants’ consent to use
AI, the law also includes two provisions meant to protect their
privacy: It limits who can view an applicant’s recorded video
interview to those “whose expertise or technology is necessary”
and requires that companies delete any video that an applicant
submits within a month of their request.
Interesting
reading.
The
Decade in Legal Tech: The 10 Most Significant Developments
LawSites
– Robert Ambrogi –
“In
legal technology, it was a decade of tumult and upheaval, bringing
changes that will forever transform the practice of law and the
delivery of legal services. Feisty startups took on established
behemoths. The cloud dropped rain on legacy products. Mobile tech
untethered lawyers. Clients demanded efficiency and transparency.
Robots arrived to take over our jobs. “Alternative” became a
label for new kinds of legal services providers. An expanding
justice gap fueled efforts at ethics reform. Investment dollars
began to pour in. Data got big.
Every
year, I write a year-end wrap-up of the most significant developments
in legal technology. But as we reach the end of a decade, I decided
to look back on the most significant developments of the past 10
years. Looking back, it may well have been the most tumultuous
decade ever in changing how legal services are delivered. (Here are
my prior years’ lists of the most important developments: For
several years now, I’ve closed out the year with a round-up of the
10 most important legal developments 2018,
2016,
2015,
2014,
2013.
In 2017, I bypassed the list to focus on a single overarching
development, The
Year of Women in Legal Tech.)…”
The
pursuit of freebies!
Movies,
Music, and Books That Enter the Public Domain in 2020
Gizmodo:
“[January 1, 2020] isn’t just a day to nurse your hangover from
New Year’s Eve—it’s also a day to celebrate the public domain.
Movies, books, music, and more from 1924 are all entering the public
domain today, meaning that you’re free to download, upload, and
share these titles however you see fit. And it’s completely legal.
Some titles from 1924, like the movie The
Thief of Baghdad,
already entered the public domain because there were stricter rules
about registering copyright before the 1970s. If a copyright holder
forgot to renew a copyright or put a mandatory copyright notice on
their work, it could slip into the public domain accidentally. But
there are plenty of other works that finally lose their
copyright-protected status on January 1, 2020, like classic movies
from silent-era comedians Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. There are
also books from Thomas Mann and E. M. Forster, and an English
translation of We
by
Yevgeny Zamyatin, a pioneering dystopian science fiction novel from
the Soviet Union.
Even George Gershwin’s song “Rhapsody
in Blue,”
one of the most famous songs of the 20th century, finally becomes
public domain today. While the list below, inspired by the work of
Duke Law’s Center
For the Study of the Public Domain and
the Public
Domain Review,
may not be comprehensive, it’s a good place to start.
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