Kelly Lum, better known in hacking circles as Aloria, passed away on Sunday.Aloria was a veteran of the cybersecurity community, especially the one in New York, her home for many years. The Twitter ac...
[photo1]Will KnightWhen rumors began swirling last month about the Chinese search giant Baidu working on a chatbot to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT, it seemed like the perfect move. Baidu has invested heavil...
[photo1]A few weeks ago, I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, the "Thinking Like a Lawyer" podcast produced by Above the Law. Everyone should listen to the podcast, not just because the ban...
On Thursday, the European Commission unveiled the Net-Zero Industry Act, a much-anticipated proposal aiming at boosting the EU's green tech production amidst an increasingly intense global race.The ne...
Microsoft on Tuesday profiled software for sale in online forums that makes it easy for criminals to deploy phishing campaigns that successfully compromise accounts, even when they're protected by the...
[photo1]Jonathan Stray Gillian Hadfield Social media, news, music, shopping, and other sites all rely on recommender systems: algorithms that personalize what each individual user sees. These systems...
"Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app," Twitter CEO Elon Musk said last October, just weeks before assuming control of the platform.In tweets, Musk mused that he "could be...
Sam Bankman-Fried (Photo by Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)The case of Sam Bankman-Fried has been a fascinating one for the legal industry. Sure, the collapse of FT...
As the U.S. government continues to rein in the crypto industry with a spate of regulations, other places are emerging as new hubs for the virtual asset industry. On Monday, Hong Kong proposed rules t...
When it comes to investing in innovation, certain industries have flourished over others. Those that haven't are now facing a do or die situation to keep up with the demands of a modern society, the e...
Lyft finally started charging riders wait time fees in December, but drivers are complaining those fees aren't making it into their wallets. At least, not yet.Lyft's wait time fees, or the charges tha...
French startup Brigad just raised a new $30 million funding round (EUR28 million) as well as more than $5 million in debt. The company operates a marketplace for restaurants, caterers, private clinics...
[photo1]The vast majority of law firm rankings depend on revenue, profits, and prestige, and here at Above the Law, we've covered just about every one of them. Now comes a new global Biglaw ranking th...
[photo1]Emily HundIn July 2021, singer Olivia Rodrigo visited the White House as part of a campaign to encourage young people to get vaccinated. The visit consisted of a series of meticulously planned...
[photo1]Emily MullinIn March 2020, as a mysterious respiratory virus was sweeping the globe, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee tracked down some of the first known Covid...
[photo1]Legal teams are assessing their needs in a post-pandemic environment and looking for ways to improve their prospects.To understand this dynamic, our friends at OpenText commissioned an anonymo...
There's no denying that the robotics startup world has taken a hit during the ongoing economic downturn. Recent numbers prove what we've all suspected for some time. But two things are true: 1) The lu...
[photo1]As more millennials join the partnership ranks, we want to know how unique -- or not -- the generation's outlook on law firm life truly is.
Do shared generational attitudes transcend the pa...
[photo1]The year has just started, but we are already seeing some major developments in the IP world. From eve-of-trial settlements in a number of pending Texas cases, to announcements of major cross-...
Brendan Wallace's ambition is beginning to seem almost limitless. The L.A.-based venture firm that Wallace and cofounder Brad Greiwe launched less than seven years ago already has $3.2 billion in asse...