Courts, regulators and attackers are deciding what technology means for practice while we're still in school. This page tracks the week's news, the court decisions, and what's been written about the work happening at Suffolk.
AI, privacy, cybersecurity, IP and legal tech, from the outlets that cover them. Each headline and description is the outlet's own; click through for the story. Refreshed twice a day.
ConnectWise has shut down customer access to its Cloud Backup service (formerly SkyKick Cloud Backup) after hackers accessed application identities and compromised Microsoft 365 tenants.…
While voluntary, the document marks the federal government’s most detailed cybersecurity guidance for securing sandbox environments during AI model tests.
Researchers warn that hackers could soon exploit a maximum-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-103849) affecting Magento and Adobe Commerce, potentially allowing them to execute arbitrary PHP code on store servers.…
The AI labs can’t scrape this data, which is kind of the point.
Researchers said the first known attack by Armory Castle, also known as UNC5221, occurred almost seven weeks ago. The threat group previously compromised Ivanti and Citrix customers.
Cybersecurity giant Proofpoint says it will acquire Miami-based data visibility and security company Varonis in an all-cash transaction worth $6.3 billion.
The shocking arrest of a well-known ransomware negotiator reveals the critical need for vendor program oversight.
Russian authorities have reportedly detained three suspected members of the DataSuckers hacking group following a cyberattack on a popular restaurant chain that exposed vast amounts of customer information.
Chariot Claims, a legal tech company that matches consumers to mass arbitration and class action cases and pairs them with law firms, has raised $10 million in Series A funding, it announced Thursday. Silverton Partners…
As agents escape containment and access external systems, responsibility remains human. Accountability, however, is much less settled.
Today, I’m talking with Benn Jordan, musician, YouTuber, researcher, and investigative journalist. You might know Benn from those first two titles — he’s got a prolific discography of experimental music dating back…
Barry Steinhardt, a lifelong privacy champion and an early leader in the battle for digital civil liberties who served as EFF’s president in 1998-99, died last week at age 73. A Connecticut native, Steinhardt led the…
Microsoft has fully launched itself into the legal vertical with Copilot for Legal, an AI-powered venture with over 20 skills that overlap with plenty of...
OpenAI is facing a new wave of lawsuits from eight US states that accuse the company of harming children and misleading customers about the safety of ChatGPT, as reported earlier by Reuters. The lawsuits, filed…
The United Kingdom has issued economic sanctions against Cryptomus, a chameleonic cryptocurrency platform that experts say serves as a major conduit for payments related to ransomware, narcotics, darknet markets, fraud…
Microsoft today issued updates to fix more than 1,400 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. Today's epic patch batch dwarfs September's record of nearly 1,000 fixes, which was…
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM — The Future of Privacy Forum, a global non-profit focused on data protection, AI, and emerging technologies, today announced the recipients of its 2026 Awards honoring outstanding contributions to…
Co-authored by Carisma De Anda, Youth Policy Research Contractor On October 2, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) submitted comments in response to the Vermont Office of the Attorney General’s (the Office’s) rulemaking…
Opinions where the court had to decide something about the technology itself. Gathered from CourtListener every week and screened before anything lands here. Each one links to the full opinion.
The court addressed the implications of filings that contained areas likely produced by artificial intelligence.
The court suspended the individual for submitting a brief containing AI hallucinations and false statements.
The court addressed the issue of fabricated citations created by generative AI in legal memoranda.
The court sanctioned the use of artificial intelligence in appellate filings.
The court sanctioned an attorney for submitting fabricated citations.
The court fined the complainant for hallucinations by ChatGPT or a similar artificial intelligence program.
The court addressed the defendant's use of artificial intelligence in his legal briefing.
The court addressed the use of AI in training geospatial models and its implications for copyright.
The court relied on an AI video rendering as evidence in the case.
The court considered surveillance video from a system that used AI facial recognition technology as evidence.
The court ruled on the admissibility of machine-generated monitoring data as evidence.
The court discussed the implications of hallucinations created by generative AI in the context of evidence.
The court required certification on the use of generative artificial intelligence in drafting.
The court engaged with the use of a risk assessment tool in the context of detention.
The court addressed the comparison of fingerprints using an automated system.
The court discussed the evaluation of a defendant using a risk assessment tool.
The court addressed the regulation of automatic, algorithmic determinations of worker eligibility.
The court considered the use of a pretrial risk assessment tool in the adjudication process.
The court affirmed the use of statistical instruments as risk assessment tools in the decision-making process.
The court ruled on the policy regarding the collection of biometric information.
The court ruled that the practice violated the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act.
The court addressed the admissibility of evidence obtained through facial recognition software.
The court evaluated whether written consent was obtained under the Biometric Information Privacy Act.
The court examined issues related to biometric profiling and behavioral surveillance.
The court found that Gunnar violated the Biometric Information Privacy Act.
The court addressed concerns over invasion of privacy related to facial recognition.
The court ruled that Miles is entitled to relief after the use of Facial Recognition Technology in the investigation.
Two databases, each built around one question.
Every decision where a court found that a filing leaned on AI-fabricated material. More than two thousand of them so far, and the count moves most weeks.
Public AI policies from 180 law schools, sorted by the question each one answers. Curated by our own dean, who takes corrections at a suffolk.edu address.
Coverage of legal innovation at Suffolk, and the pieces we've written ourselves.
LITSA's build competition is the lead photograph, captioned to the organization by name.
Sam Darkwa and Ben Westervelt on the first build competition. Seven teams, two tracks, one evening.
The LIT Center and AWS ran a generative AI hackathon at the Seaport office.
preLaw's annual list.
Every first-year student now completes an AI learning track.
Students negotiate against bots modeled on experienced attorneys, in text or voice.
Twenty-four credits, and the first of its kind in the country.
Law and business students prototype against access problems in a day.
National Jurist's ranking, the second time Suffolk took the top spot.
The design challenge run remotely through the pandemic year.
The eviction-moratorium reporting that put Suffolk's mobile smartforms in front of a national audience.
International recognition for the Lab's access-to-justice work.
The first of the National Jurist top rankings.
Where this field gets discussed. Short on purpose.
A network of lawyers who build their own tools. Invite only, with a public Substack.
Twenty years of legal technology reporting, and where a lot of this field's news lands first.
What the Lab is shipping, written by the people shipping it. Document assembly, court forms, teaching notes.
Our own journal. Student run, open to anyone, and a write-on route that carries academic credit.
The Center's own page, including what the concentration and the Lab are doing this year.