Two computer scientists have cast more doubt on the accuracy of risk assessment tools. After comparing predictions made by a group of untrained adults to those of the risk assessment software COMPAS, authors found that the software “is no more accurate or fair than predictions made...
Legal teams can play a major role in helping clients reduce vulnerabilities, minimize consequences, and hasten responses to cyber attacks, but doing so requires a focus around the changing nature of the underlying risk. Let’s take three areas where lawyers play crucial counseling roles: liability...
In 2015, federal judge Leo Sorokin of Boston started a pilot program he had been envisioning for years. He called it RISE—Repair, Invest, Succeed, Emerge. RISE offered a rare second chance for adult defendants convicted of serious federal crimes to avoid prison, reports the American...
On January 12, the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas closed its doors for another year. Each CES raises a new set of technology themes, ranging from robots to smart fridges — and this year, the winner was voice technologies. Such technologies, while...
A team of officers swarmed a home in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday with the goal of arresting Shayla Lynette Towles Pierce on an outstanding warrant. The early morning raid kicked off a horrific firefight that killed U.S. deputy marshal Christopher Hill, wounded two officers and left...
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh replaced police commissioner Kevin Davis on Friday, citing the need to get a handle on Baltimore’s record levels of violence, the Baltimore Sun reports. Deputy Commissioner Darryl DeSousa, the top commander in the police department’s patrol bureau, is taking Davis’ place,...