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What if Charity Shouldn’t Be Optimized?
The recent trend in philanthropy has been to look for the most bang for your buck. Maybe you don’t have to.
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Fannie and Freddie, the Big Mortgage Backers, Face Climate Risks
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which backstop most U.S. mortgages, know floods and fires are a growing problem. But little action has been taken.
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TikTok Creators React to Legal Ruling on U.S. Ban
The social media service was flooded with videos on Friday after a panel of judges upheld a law that could shutter the app in the United States.
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Fighting Over a ‘Flawless’ Campaign
Leaders of the Trump and Harris campaigns met this week to talk tactics. It wasn’t pretty.
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How Alarmed Harris Staffers Went Rogue to Reach Black and Latino Voters
Worried that the campaign was neglecting voters of color in Philadelphia and other battleground cities, organizers secretly gathered at a Dunkin’ Donuts and elsewhere to get out the vote.
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How Trump Targeted Undecided Voters Without Breaking the Bank
The Trump team had a huge financial disadvantage. It made up for it with a strategy that allowed it to narrow the focus of its ad dollars.
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Public Urged to Encrypt Mobile Phone Messaging and Calls
On December 4, 2024, four of the five members of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing group (the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand) law enforcement and cyber security agencies (Agencies) published a joint guide for network engineers, defenders of communications infrastructure and organizations with on-premises enterprise equipment (the Guide). The Agencies strongly encourage applying the…
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Attempt to Predict Person’s Date of Death with Artificial Intelligence
Launched in July 2024, Death Clock is an application that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to predict when its users will die. Death Clock trained its AI model using over 1,200 life expectancy studies. It then uses the answers from a questionnaire about the user’s physical health, like diet and exercise, to calculate each user’s date…
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November’s Notable Cases and Events in E-Discovery
[Editor’s Note: This article was first published December 4, 2024, and EDRM is grateful to Tom Paskowitz of our Trusted Partner, Sidley, for permission to republish. The opinions and positions are those of the author.]…By: EDRM – Electronic Discovery Reference Model
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Industrials Regulatory News and Trends – December 2024
In late November, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decertified 10 class actions that had accused Nissan of selling cars and SUVs with defective automatic emergency braking systems. The court found it improper under federal rules of procedure to let drivers of 14 Nissan models sue collectively under the laws of…
