Welcome to the peer-powered, weekend summary edition of the Law Technology Digest! Using PinHawk's patented advanced big data analytics, this summary contains the best of the best from the week. These are the stories that you, our readers, found most interesting and informative from the week. Enjoy.
'Usually it's the Japanese with the approaches to lean or knowledge sharing that we want to replicate. But with this new research from the Technical University of Munich, this German approach to knowledge management will be one to study. "The amount of data generated annually has grown year-over-year since 2010. In fact, it is estimated that 90% of the world's data was generated in the last two years alone. In the space of 13 years, this figure has increased by an estimated 60x from just 2 zettabytes in 2010." This German KM approach is called simply "Papierkorb." It is ideal in dealing with the flood of information in the last few years. Using papierkorb is a simply yet effective approach to managing this modern day dilemma of information overload. This lengthy post (complete with multiple mini infographs) by Hannsjorgen Weber is worth reading and sharing. See more at REAL KM: New KM research from Technical University of Munich
'Benj Edwards would seem to share some views in common with Joe Patrice, when he writes, "People are more like AI language models than you might think." I found this post on "human language models" interesting. Benj writes, "Human prompt engineering is an ancient art form dating at least back to Aristotle's time, and it also became widely popular through books published in the modern era before the advent of computers." Have you prompted your humans today? Be sure to read more at ars technica: The fine art of human prompt engineering: How to talk to a person like ChatGPT
'The title summarizes the problem - attitude. Unless you are like my 94 year old mother, with no computer, no cell phone, no email and no online accounts, you ARE vulnerable to cybercriminals. We all need to do better. Read more at HELPNETSECURITY: 76% of consumers don't see themselves as cybercrime targets
'Those of you in the European Union and Switzerland are already aware of the unbundling of Teams from Office, but now Microsoft is bringing it to the rest of us. The post notes, "The unbundling is a win for other team communication apps like Slack and videoconferencing apps like Zoom, both of which predate Teams but haven't had the benefits of the Office apps' huge established user base." Listen to the dulcet sounds of Neil Sedaka as you read more at ars technica: Microsoft splits up the Teams and Office apps worldwide, following EU split
'It seems CoPilot is good enough or safe enough for the US Congress. They have "set a strict ban on congressional staffers' use of Microsoft's Copilot generative AI assistant." The post goes on to note: "The Microsoft Copilot application has been deemed by the Office of Cybersecurity to be a risk to users due to the threat of leaking House data to non-House approved cloud services." In the second post, Emad Mostaque is out at StabilityAI, resigning his position. The company, valued at $1 billion, has had issues with its investors and a series of legal battles. Read more at: Silicon: US Congress Bans Use Of Microsoft AI Copilot - Report ars technica: StabilityAI chief resigns, raising doubts about AI start-up's future
'I might sum this post up by saying six easy ways to find out if you have your organizations security permissions set properly. "People have access to way too much data. The average employee can access 17 million files on their first day of work. When you can't see and control who has access to sensitive data, one compromised user or malicious insider can inflict untold damage. Most of the permissions granted are also not used and considered high risk, meaning sensitive data is exposed to people who don't need it." 17 million files! I wonder, if in some law firms, that number is much larger given unrestrive document management system permissions.Read more at BLEEPING COMPUTER: 6 Prompts You Don't Want Employees Putting in Microsoft Copilot
'"Today we are announcing two important updates for users of Copilot for Microsoft 365. First, we are bringing priority access to the GPT-4 Turbo model to work with both web and work data. We will also be removing limits on the number and length of conversations while increasing file uploads. Second, later this month we are bringing expanded image generation capabilities in Microsoft Designer to users of Copilot for Microsoft 365, including priority access during peak times." Read more at Microsoft 365 Blog: Bringing the latest capabilities to Copilot for Microsoft 365 customers
'I was not familiar with the appreciative inquiry concept developed by David Cooperrider and Suresh Srivastva. It seems it is a five-step process: Definition - deciding what to study is critical in moving humans in a positive direction Discovery - discovering and appreciating best experiences Dream - imagining the ideal - how it would be if those valued experiences happened most of the time Design - defining the dream more clearly and discussing steps towards realizing it Destiny - implementing wide ranging actions, improvisation, learning, and adjustments Have any of the KM pinions used this with their attorneys? Read more at REAL KM: Learning to use Appreciative Inquiry
'Megan Reitz and John Higgins have an interesting post on team dynamics and artificial intelligence. They start out with the pros and cons of AI meeting note takers. They warn, "If people outsource their listening wholesale to the technology, skipping the work of thinking through for themselves the key messages, then meetings may be efficient, but understanding and commitment to act might well be lacking." The more interesting part gets into "Speaking truth to power," on who speaks and gets heard and what gets said and heard. I particularly like the analytics that showed a venture capital executive spoke for 80% of a pitch, "too much, given the aim of the meeting was to hear about the potential investment in detail." There is much more to unpack in this article, so be sure to read more at Harvard Business Review: How AI Features Can Change Team Dynamics
Usually it's the Japanese with the approaches to lean or knowledge sharing that we want to replicate. But with this new research from the Technical University of Munich, this German approach to knowledge management will be one to study. "The amount of data generated annually has grown year-over-year since 2010. In fact, it is estimated that 90% of the world's data was generated in the last two years alone. In the space of 13 years, this figure has increased by an estimated 60x from just 2 zettabytes in 2010." This German KM approach is called simply "Papierkorb." It is ideal in dealing with the flood of information in the last few years. Using papierkorb is a simply yet effective approach to managing this modern day dilemma of information overload. This lengthy post (complete with multiple mini infographs) by Hannsjorgen Weber is worth reading and sharing. See more at REAL KM: 
Benj Edwards would seem to share some views in common with Joe Patrice, when he writes, "People are more like AI language models than you might think." I found this post on "human language models" interesting. Benj writes, "Human prompt engineering is an ancient art form dating at least back to Aristotle's time, and it also became widely popular through books published in the modern era before the advent of computers." Have you prompted your humans today? Be sure to read more at ars technica: 
The title summarizes the problem - attitude. Unless you are like my 94 year old mother, with no computer, no cell phone, no email and no online accounts, you ARE vulnerable to cybercriminals. We all need to do better. Read more at HELPNETSECURITY: 
Those of you in the European Union and Switzerland are already aware of the unbundling of Teams from Office, but now Microsoft is bringing it to the rest of us. The post notes, "The unbundling is a win for other team communication apps like Slack and videoconferencing apps like Zoom, both of which predate Teams but haven't had the benefits of the Office apps' huge established user base." Listen to the dulcet sounds of 
It seems CoPilot is good enough or safe enough for the US Congress. They have "set a strict ban on congressional staffers' use of Microsoft's Copilot generative AI assistant." The post goes on to note: "The Microsoft Copilot application has been deemed by the Office of Cybersecurity to be a risk to users due to the threat of leaking House data to non-House approved cloud services."
I might sum this post up by saying six easy ways to find out if you have your organizations security permissions set properly. "People have access to way too much data. The average employee can access 17 million files on their first day of work. When you can't see and control who has access to sensitive data, one compromised user or malicious insider can inflict untold damage. Most of the permissions granted are also not used and considered high risk, meaning sensitive data is exposed to people who don't need it." 17 million files! I wonder, if in some law firms, that number is much larger given unrestrive document management system permissions.Read more at BLEEPING COMPUTER: 
"Today we are announcing two important updates for users of Copilot for Microsoft 365. First, we are bringing priority access to the GPT-4 Turbo model to work with both web and work data. We will also be removing limits on the number and length of conversations while increasing file uploads. Second, later this month we are bringing expanded image generation capabilities in Microsoft Designer to users of Copilot for Microsoft 365, including priority access during peak times." Read more at Microsoft 365 Blog: 
I was not familiar with the appreciative inquiry concept developed by David Cooperrider and Suresh Srivastva. It seems it is a five-step process:
Megan Reitz and John Higgins have an interesting post on team dynamics and artificial intelligence. They start out with the pros and cons of AI meeting note takers. They warn, "If people outsource their listening wholesale to the technology, skipping the work of thinking through for themselves the key messages, then meetings may be efficient, but understanding and commitment to act might well be lacking." The more interesting part gets into "Speaking truth to power," on who speaks and gets heard and what gets said and heard. I particularly like the analytics that showed a venture capital executive spoke for 80% of a pitch, "too much, given the aim of the meeting was to hear about the potential investment in detail." There is much more to unpack in this article, so be sure to read more at Harvard Business Review: