Even law firms get attacked. Techies, send this to your legal department. Lawyers, send this to your techies.
https://www.databreaches.net/ransomware-surges-what-law-firms-need-to-know/
Ransomware Surges: What Law Firms Need to Know
Ted Kobus, a partner at BakerHostetler was interviewed this week in a podcast on ransomware. Ted had this to say, among other things:
Ted Kobus: So approximately 25% of the incidents we worked on in 2019 involved ransomware. We love to talk about how 2020 is the year that you fill in the blank. But in reality, 2020 really is the year of ransomware and it’s when it really blew up. We are still crunching the numbers but my guess is approximately 35% to 40% of our matters involve ransomware this year. On top of that, we are likely to work on 1,700 incidents this year, which is a 70% increase over last year, that’s a lot of ransomware. Late last year, we joked on our team about ransomware Thursday because a lot of ransomware matters would come in on Thursdays. Now, we’re seeing one to five new matters every day of the week.
Listen to the whole podcast or read the transcript on Legal Talk Network.
Replacing lawyers with software.
TIME Names Two Legaltech Startups As Among The 100 Best Inventions Of 2020
TIME has named two legal technology startups as among the 100 Best Inventions of 2020: the bankruptcy startup Upsolve and the consumer arbitration platform FairShake.
Regarding Upsolve, the publication cited its free nonprofit tool for helping people avoid the high cost of personal bankruptcy.
“Upsolve’s software fixes that, helping users complete the complex legal paperwork so that they can file for bankruptcy without hiring a lawyer,” TIME said.
… As to FairShake, TIME said it helps consumers seek restitution after a big company rips them off or mistreats them.
“FairShake makes battling the big guys easy, with a free service that automates the process of filing an arbitration claim,” TIME said.
(Ditto)
Google proposes applying AI to patent application generation and categorization
Google asserts that the patent industry stands to benefit from AI and machine learning models like BERT, a natural language processing algorithm that attained state-of-the-art results when it was released in 2018. In a whitepaper published today, the tech giant outlines a methodology to train a BERT model on over 100 million patent publications from the U.S. and other countries using open-source tooling, which can then be used to determine the novelty of patents and generate classifications to assist with categorization.
Unbiased initial research.
https://www.makeuseof.com/google-unfiltered-search-results/
6 Ways To Get Unfiltered Google Search Results
Google uses the information it collects about you to make your search results more accurate and relevant. But by shaping the content you see to match your perceived interests, it also places you in a “filter bubble." This means you may miss out on useful sites that Google's algorithms deem less suitable for you.
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