Hacker News

MARCH 22, 2024

This is the first ever map of Australian law. Each point represents a unique law, regulation or case in the Open Australian Legal Corpus.

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Hacker News

MARCH 16, 2024

Just two weeks after the law went into effect, Seattleites had to contend with $26 coffees and $32 sandwiches.

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In a leap forward, the new law supports independent repair and improves … Continue reading "New EU law sets to make repair more affordable for selected products, campaigners push for widespread right to repair" On Thursday, EU lawmakers reached a deal on new repair rules.

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Hacker News

JANUARY 28, 2024

Welcome to the open review site for Mireille Hildebrandt’s Law for Computer Scientists, forthcoming Oxford University Press 2019.

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

SpaceX and Trader Joe’s — companies that, like Amazon, have repeatedly faced labor law violations from the federal agency — have recently made similar attacks that threaten national worker protections. This is just Amazon’s latest attempt to block union organizing […]

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

X, formerly known as Twitter, has filed a lawsuit alleging that a new California law requiring social networks to declare certain moderation practices is a violation of the company’s Constitutional right to free speech. AB 587 was signed into law a year ago.

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Hacker News

MAY 24, 2023

Indiana, Iowa, and Tennessee all passed state privacy laws, bringing the total number of states with a privacy law up to eight. No private right of action in any of those, which means it’s up to the states to enforce the laws. It’s been a big month for US data privacy.

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Hacker News

DECEMBER 30, 2023

City streets are the testing ground for hundreds of self-driving cars in California, despite safety concerns and gray areas surrounding traffic laws.

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Hacker News

JANUARY 4, 2024

An international law firm that works with companies affected by security incidents has experienced its own cyberattack that exposed the sensitive health information of hundreds of thousands of data breach victims.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Programming language for literate programming law specification - GitHub - CatalaLang/catala: Programming language for literate programming law specification

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO—Technical standards like fire and electrical codes developed by private organizations but incorporated into public law can be freely disseminated without any liability for copyright infringement, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. Tuesday’s ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S.

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Gate's Law: “Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a year and underestimate what they can achieve in ten years.” Here’s why it matters to you.

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Hacker News

JANUARY 27, 2023

Early in his career, Kevin Mitnick successfully hacked California law. As soon as I was settled, I looked in the Yellow Pages for the nearest law school, and spent the next few days and evenings there poring over the Welfare and Institutions Code, but without much hope. This was the Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles.

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Hacker News

OCTOBER 8, 2023

OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a statement in response to Senate Bill 478 (SB 478), a bill that he sponsored, being signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom.

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Flipboard

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

How law firms use AI to write blog posts efficiently, enhance content quality, and optimize their digital marketing strategies. The post How Law Firms Use AI To Write Blog Posts Efficiently appeared first on Above the Law.

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Rushed law will lose criminal sanction, but debate about its utility is fierce

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MARCH 10, 2024

We look at the past, present and uncertain future of Moore's Law, with some help from Gordon Moore himself

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Data Science Connect

JULY 29, 2023

A recent article on The Times of India sheds light on this groundbreaking initiative , highlighting how data scientists and law enforcement are teaming up to implement advanced facial recognition systems. Noida’s police force is now tapping into this cutting-edge technology to augment their crime-fighting capabilities.

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Hacker News

JUNE 6, 2023

Recently, there has been a stream of methods that tackle the issue of hyperparameter optimization, however, most of the methods do not exploit the scaling law property of learning curves. Our method dynamically decides which configurations to pause and train incrementally by making use of gray-box evaluations.

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Flipboard

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The post The IRS Will Use Artificial Intelligence To Help Pick Which Large Law Firms To Audit appeared first on Above the Law. The IRS has not elaborated, but the vague language could be intentional in order to put many others on notice.

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Hacker News

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Intel's CEO Pat Gelsinger says transistors now double every three years instead of two, which isn't exactly Moore's Law.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

One such critical area pertains to Intellectual Property (IP) laws. Given the massive amount of data processed and the autonomous decision-making capabilities of AI, it isn’t surprising that IP laws are getting increasingly involved. As technology advances, so must our understanding of related laws.

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Hacker News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

National governments want to keep their spyware options open in new media law.

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JULY 10, 2023

The law is a first step in regulating AI, but critics aren’t happy Last week, a law about AI and hiring went into effect in New York City, and …

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In July 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill that changed the law in the Sunshine State. In the U.S., different states legislate DNA collection in different ways.

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KDnuggets

AUGUST 7, 2019

Benford’s law is a little-known gem for data analytics. Learn about how this can be used for anomaly or fraud detection in scientific or technical publications.

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Flipboard

JUNE 15, 2023

Intellectual property law wasn’t written with AI in mind, so it isn’t clear who owns the images that emerge from prompts – or if the artists whose work was scraped to train AI models should be paid.

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Flipboard

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Copyright Office has ruled that illustrations in a new comic book that were created with the AI program Midjourney are not protected by copyright law, according to a letter issued by the Copyright Office.

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Hacker News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Moreover, if there are Canadian-based sites that are violating the law in terms of the content they host, they should absolutely face investigation and potential charges. The bill not only envisions the possibility of blocking lawful content or limiting access to those over 18, it expressly permits it.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

We introduce the Cambridge Law Corpus (CLC), a corpus for legal AI research. It consists of over 250 000 court cases from the UK. Most cases are from the 21st century, but the corpus includes cases as old as the 16th century. This paper presents the first release of the corpus, containing the raw text and meta-data.

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Dataconomy

AUGUST 4, 2022

The laws of cyber-warfare are being rewritten in Europe. The Russo-Ukrainian War is not limited to the hot conflict at fire zones of the front. It is possible to hear the echoes of war in the cyber world too. In our digital world, data is one of the most valuable.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The post AI’s Impact On The Future of Law: Will Lawyers Survive? appeared first on Above the Law. We suspect that many things we once thought impossible will be made possible by the new generation of AI.

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Hacker News

JUNE 5, 2023

The law, which voters approved in 2020, requires certain vehicle information to be shared with buyers and independent repair shops. Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell began enforcement on June 1.

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Hacker News

MAY 13, 2024

If you take or share photos of other people in Germany, you need to follow certain rules.

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Dataversity

APRIL 9, 2024

Kryder’s Law, named after Mark Kryder – the former SVP of research at Seagate Technology – is an observation comparable to Moore’s Law but specifically related to the area of magnetic disk storage. It posits that the density of information stored on magnetic disks is increasing exponentially, doubling approximately every 18 months.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Irish data regulator says platform put 13- to 17-year-old users’ accounts on default public setting, among other breaches TikTok has been fined €345m (£296m) for breaking EU data law in its handling of children’s accounts, including failing to shield underage users’ content from public view.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Help-wanted advertisements in New York will have to disclose proposed pay rates after a statewide salary transparency law goes into effect on Sunday

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