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This Law School Could Teach Supreme Court Justices About Accountability

[photo1]Canada is known for many things. Maple syrup. Ok, that's one thing, but they're working on it. Judging by Toronto Law's stance on accepting money that may create an appearance of impropriety, ...

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Sep 2023

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X-Ray tech uncovers how Pompeii's fleeing residents met their end

It's been nearly 2,000 years since Vesuvius' eruption buried the vibrant Roman city of Pompeii under a deadly blanket of ash.The eerie ruins and the famous casts of Pompeii represent an invaluable win...

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Aug 2023

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Age of Empires and live ants used to test theoretical ideas on combat

Anyone who has played a real-time strategy game probably ponders this question when preparing for a fight: Is it better to have a huge number of relatively weak units or a smaller number of extremely ...

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Aug 2023

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Black Hair, Big Law (Part II): The Harshest Critics Of Black Attorneys' Hair

[photo1]Ed. note: This is the latest installment in a series of posts on motherhood in the legal profession, in partnership with our friends at MothersEsquire. Welcome Angela Mackie-Rutledge back to o...

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Aug 2023

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Meta's "massively multilingual" AI model translates up to 100 languages, speech or text

On Tuesday, Meta announced SeamlessM4T, a multimodal AI model for speech and text translations. As a neural network that can process both text and audio, it can perform text-to-speech, speech-to-text,...

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Aug 2023

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Political polarization toned down through anonymous online chats

Political polarization in the US has become a major issue, as Republicans and Democrats increasingly inhabit separate realities on topics as diverse as election results and infectious diseases. An act...

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Aug 2023

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Security News This Week: US Energy Firm Targeted With Malicious QR Codes in Mass Phishing Attack

Lily Hay Newman[photo1]At the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas last weekend, thousands of hackers competed in a red-team challenge to find flaws in generative AI chat platforms and help better ...

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Aug 2023

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A Clever Honeypot Tricked Hackers Into Revealing Their Secrets

Matt Burgess[photo1]For the past three years, hapless cybercriminals trying to steal data or deploy malware have been stumbling upon a virtual machine hosted in the United States. Like countless other...

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Aug 2023

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Next-gen OSDP was supposed to make it harder to break in to secure facilities. It failed.

Researchers have discovered a suite of vulnerabilities that largely break a next-generation protocol that was designed to prevent the hacking of access control systems used at secure facilities on US ...

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Aug 2023

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AI researchers claim 93% accuracy in detecting keystrokes over Zoom audio

By recording keystrokes and training a deep learning model, three researchers claim to have achieved upwards of 90 percent accuracy in interpreting remote keystrokes, based on the sound profiles of in...

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Aug 2023

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Researchers claim US-registered cloud host facilitated state-backed cyberattacks

A little-known cloud company provided web hosting and internet services to more than two dozen different state-sponsored hacking groups and commercial spyware operators, according to researchers at cy...

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Aug 2023

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GPT-3 aces tests of reasoning by analogy

Large language models are a class of AI algorithm that relies on a high number computational nodes and an equally large number of connections among them. They can be trained to perform a variety of fu...

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Jul 2023

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Content Repurposing: A Strategic Approach for Lawyers

[photo1]Content repurposing is an underutilized strategy in the legal profession, yet it holds immense potential for boosting your firm's online presence. This approach involves taking existing conten...

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Jul 2023

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How Appealing Weekly Roundup

(Image via Getty)Ed. Note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman's How Appealing blog, the Web's first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories...

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Jul 2023

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Tick bites can cause meat allergies--up to 450,000 people in US may be affectedvar abtest_1957268 = new ABTest(1957268, 'click');

A little over a decade ago, researchers discovered that bites from lone star ticks could cause some people to develop a food allergy to meat and meat products--an allergic condition called alpha-gal s...

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'Embryo Models' Challenge the Legal, Ethical, and Biological Concepts of an 'Embryo'

Philip Ball[photo1]In April, researchers in China reported that they had initiated pregnancies in monkeys through a procedure seemingly much like in vitro fertilization (IVF), in which embryos created...

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DART asteroid impact created a 10,000-kilometer debris field of boulders

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) mission was a success from the perspective of planetary defense, as it successfully shifted the orbit of an asteroid. But the mission had a scientific eleme...

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This robot squad could be the next big thing in lunar exploration

Solitary lunar rovers have been invaluable to our efforts exploring the Moon. But a group of scientists led by ETH Zurich is now looking at sending an entire squad of robots that collaborate and compl...

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Jul 2023

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Lawyer Figures Out ChatGPT Made Up Fake Cases In His Brief On Day Of Hearing

[photo1]The highly publicized misfortune of Steven Schwartz and Peter LoDuca may have just saved another lawyer from the same fate. MAYBE. Schwartz infamously used ChatGPT to conduct legal research to...

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Jun 2023

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Russia-backed hackers unleash new USB-based malware on Ukraine's military

Hackers working for Russia's Federal Security Service have mounted multiple cyberattacks that used USB-based malware to steal large amounts of data from Ukrainian targets for use in its ongoing invasi...

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Jun 2023