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16 Feb 2022, 4:35 pm
[Exploring new frontiers in content moderation for tech-enabled speech] The post Cybertoonz returns appeared first on Reason.com. [read post]
5 Jan 2022, 5:03 pm
[Episode 388 of the Cyberlaw Podcast] Among the good things about coming back from Christmas break are all the deep analyses that news outlets save up to publish over the holidays – especially those they can report from countries where celebrating Christmas isn't that big a deal. At least that's how I account for the recent flood of deep media dives on China technology issues. Megan Stifel takes us through a few. The first is a Washington Post article on China taking the tools it… [read post]
13 Dec 2021, 5:26 am
[Canada will "impose costs" on ransomware gangs] Canadian spy agency targeted foreign hackers to 'impose a cost' for cybercrime - National | Globalnews.ca The post Cybertoonz 5 appeared first on Reason.com. [read post]
21 Nov 2021, 11:47 am
[AI bias meets press bias] My fourth effort at cartoon cyber commentary grows out of an endless project I'm doing on AI bias -- and the biases of the people who keep doing stories and studies about it. Many thanks to the free Clipart Library for some of the art and to ComicLife software for the parts that look good. (And if you think I should have found a way to get rid of the checkerboard background, you're right.) The post Cybertoonz 4 appeared first on Reason.com. [read post]
7 Nov 2021, 7:29 am
[An homage to xkcd] For this edition of Cybertoonz, I thought I'd do the art myself. Which is how I discovered that, embarrassingly, I can't even draw stick figures as well as xkcd's Randall Munroe. Luckily, Munroe has authorized reproduction of his cartoons with credit, so I cheerfully admit that I've reproduced and then tweaked this brilliant xkcd cartoon. In fact, that's the point. [read post]
15 May 2023, 5:56 pm
[Episode 457 of the Cyberlaw Podcast] Maury Shenk opens this episode with an exploration of three efforts to overcome notable gaps in the performance of large language AI models. OpenAI has developed a tool meant to address the models' lack of explainability. It uses, naturally, another large language model to identify what makes individual neurons fire the way they do. Maury is skeptical that this is a path forward, but it's nice to see someone trying. Another effort, Anthropic's… [read post]
26 Feb 2018, 2:36 pm
Today's news roundup begins with Maury Shenk and Brian Egan offering their views about the Supreme Court oral argument in the Microsoft Ireland case. We highlight some of the questions that may tip the Justices' hand. Brian and I dig into the Dems' reply memo on the Carter Page FISA application. I'm mostly unshocked by the outcome of the dueling memos, though I find one sentence of the application utterly implausible. I also foresee a possible merging of the Clinton-Obama… [read post]
27 Nov 2013, 2:49 pm
Stewart Baker, former general counsel of the NSA, is quoted as saying one should not worry that the program [read post]
25 Mar 2022, 9:30 pm
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Harvard University, will discuss her book Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley [read post]
1 Jun 2015, 1:55 pm
Justices Daniel Kolkey, Earl Johnson, Andrea Hoch, Coleman Blease, Jim Humes, Peter Siggins, Therese Stewart [read post]
5 Jun 2023, 3:26 pm
[Episode 461 of the Cyberlaw Podcast] This episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast kicks off with a spirited debate over AI regulation. Mark MacCarthy dismisses AI researchers' recent call for attention to the existential risks posed by AI; he thinks it's a sci-fi distraction from the real issues that need regulation – copyright, privacy, fraud, and competition. I'm utterly flummoxed by the determination on the left to insist that existential threats are not worth discussing, at… [read post]
11 May 2023, 6:35 am
The willingness of Lina Khan's FTC to pursue untested—and sometimes unlikely—legal theories has been the subject of much sober commentary. But really, what fun is sober commentary? So here's the Cybertoonz take on the FTC's new litigation strategy. And, again, many thanks to Bing's Image Creator, which draws way better than I do. The post Cybertoonz goes to the FTC appeared first on Reason.com. [read post]
3 Apr 2023, 4:16 pm
[Episode 451 of the Cyberlaw Podcast] Dmitri Alperovitch joins the Cyberlaw Podcast to discuss the state of semiconductor decoupling between China and the West. It's a broad movement, fed by both sides. China has announced that it's investigating Micron to see if its memory chips should still be allowed into China's supply chain (spoiler: almost certainly not). Japan has tightened up its chip-making export control rules, aligning them with U.S. and Dutch restrictions, all with… [read post]
27 Mar 2023, 4:35 pm
[Episode 450 of the Cyberlaw Podcast] The Capitol Hill hearings featuring TikTok's CEO lead off episode 450 of the Cyberlaw Podcast. The CEO handled the endless stream of Congressional accusations and suspicion about as well as could have been expected. And it did him as little good as a cynic would have expected. Jim Dempsey and Mark MacCarthy think Congress is moving toward action on Chinese IT products – probably in the form of the bipartisan Restricting the Emergence of Security… [read post]
6 Feb 2023, 4:21 pm
[Episode 441 of the Cyberlaw Podcast] This episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast is dominated by stories about possible cybersecurity regulation. David Kris points us first to an article by the leaders of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Administration (CISA) in Foreign Affairs. Jen Easterly and Eric Goldstein seem to take a tough line on "Why Companies Must Build Safety Into Tech Products." But for all the tough language, one word, "regulation," is entirely missing from… [read post]
23 Jan 2023, 4:55 pm
[Episode 439 of the Cyberlaw Podcast] We kick off a jam-packed episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast by flagging the news that ransomware revenue fell substantially in 2022. There is lots of room for error in that Chainalysis finding, Nick Weaver notes, but the size of the drop is large. Among the reasons to think it might also be real is a growing resistance to paying ransom on the part of companies and their insurers, who are especially concerned about liability for payments to sanctioned ransomware… [read post]
15 Nov 2022, 12:01 pm
[Episode 430 of the Cyberlaw Podcast] We open this episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast by considering the (still evolving) results of the 2022 federal election. Adam Klein and I trade thoughts on what Congress will do. Adam sees two years in which the Senate does a lot of nominations, the House does a lot of investigations, and neither does much legislation. Which could leave renewal of a critically important intelligence authority, Section 702 of FISA, out in the cold. As supporters… [read post]
1 Nov 2022, 7:14 am
[Episode 428 of the Cyberlaw Podcast] You heard it on the Cyberlaw Podcast first, as we did a mashup of the week's top stories: Nate Jones commenting on Elon Musk's expected troubles running Twitter at a profit and Jordan Schneider noting the U.S. government's creeping, halting moves to constrain TikTok's sway in the U.S. market. Since Twitter has never made a lot of money, even before it was carrying loads of new debt, and since pushing TikTok out of the U.S. market is going to… [read post]
24 Oct 2022, 6:51 pm
[Episode 427 of the Cyberlaw Podcast] This episode features Nick Weaver, Dave Aitel and I exploring a Pro Publica story (and forthcoming book) on the FBI's difficulties in seeking to become the nation's principal resource on cybercrime and cybersecurity. We end up concluding that, for all its strengths, the bureau's structural weaknesses in addressing cybersecurity are going to thwart its ambitions for years to come. Speaking of being thwarted for years, the effort to decouple U.S.… [read post]
12 Oct 2022, 3:37 am
[Episode 425 of the Cyberlaw Podcast Looks at the White House "AI Bill of Rights"] It's been a jam-packed week of cyberlaw news, but the big debate of the episode is triggered by the White House blueprint for an AI 'bill of rights'. I've just released a long post about the campaign to end "AI bias" in general, and the blueprint in particular. In my view, the bill of rights will end up imposing racial and gender (not to mention intersex!) quotas on a vast swath… [read post]
