Editor’s Note: The Pilgrim’s Reception Office in Santiago issued 530,987 Compostelas in 2025, its highest annual figure, and the Portuguese routes accounted for roughly 190,300 of them. Members of the ComplexDiscovery team walk the coastal one this month, from Matosinhos to Santiago, with the Variante Espiritual for the final stages.
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Editor’s Note: A court of last resort struck an institutional litigant’s brief this month over four citations that did not exist. Its most quotable line, that “every firm attorney who signed the brief bears some responsibility,” is real. Senior Judge Stephen H. Glickman wrote separately to urge a narrower reading, and to argue that existing…
Cyber Resilience Act reporting starts Sept. 11 on an unfinished platform
Editor’s Note: In six days the Cyber Resilience Act starts requiring manufacturers to report actively exploited vulnerabilities within 24 hours of becoming aware. The platform they must file through has no published web address.
ENISA updated its guidance Sept. 4, and the update is the story. No API at launch, so every filing against the…
A lawyer fed AI citations to his own regulator, and the tribunal struck him off
Editor’s Note: A disciplinary tribunal in London has removed a lawyer from the register of foreign lawyers over legal authorities that generative AI invented, and those authorities sat in his defense against the regulator prosecuting him. When the regulator’s counsel flagged the errors, he answered with an email he had also drafted using AI, and…
Europe’s draft cloud rule would put vendor ownership in the audit file
Editor’s Note: The Cloud and AI Development Act, a draft European regulation, asks a question many vendor questionnaires may not reach: who actually decides. Its audit annex would tell an auditor to collect the shareholders up to the ultimate owners, the cap table, the bodies that take strategic decisions, the majorities those decisions need, everyone…
Germany names Russia for the Leipzig drone, and keeps most of its evidence out of view
Editor’s Note: Germany’s Sept. 1 attribution of the Leipzig/Halle airport drone to Russia came with a consulate closure, a lease termination and a sanctions push, and with categories of evidence rather than the underlying material. The Federal Prosecutor General’s Aug. 6 release names no suspect, no state and no service. The ministers named the state…
Estonia scrambled jets over a drone no official has identified
Editor’s Note: Estonia woke eight counties before dawn Tuesday, put ground air defenses on alert and scrambled NATO fighter jets, and by 5:30 a.m. it was over. One drone had crossed the southeastern border. Nothing fell, nobody fired, and no Estonian official has said whose aircraft it was.
That last fact is where this story…
Berlin refused the ransom before the auction opened
Editor’s Note: Berlin’s government refused an extortion demand on Aug. 28, and a ransomware crew posted an auction afterward. On the data loss, the state has confirmed that data left one Senate department’s portfolio between Aug. 7 and Aug. 12 and that it cannot rule out personal or other non-public data among it. The remaining…
NIST wants comment on AI-drafted CSF profiles, and its guide never says authentication
Editor’s Note: NIST published a nine-page draft this month showing how a generative AI model can turn policy documents and personnel interview notes into a draft profile of an organization’s cybersecurity posture.
Nowhere in those nine pages does the word authentication appear.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology released the initial public draft of…
DOJ ties a quarter of TikTok’s $400 million COPPA settlement to vacating a 2019 decree
Editor’s Note: A quarter of the Justice Department’s announced $400 million TikTok settlement does not become due unless a judge first vacates a 2019 consent decree. The government filed the motion asking for exactly that on Aug. 21, and a hearing is calendared for Sept. 21 before U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II.
The…