Editor’s Note: NATO’s members have spent a decade answering the question the 2014 Wales Summit left open: what does it mean, in practice, that international law applies in cyberspace? A new CCDCOE analysis by Agnes Kasper and Karine Veersalu compiles the answers and finds 27 of 32 allies now on the record, individually or through…

Editor’s Note: Two prominent voices in technology-assisted review have staked out a position on a question federal courts are only beginning to confront: whether the prompts attorneys feed to generative AI review tools must be shared with the other side. Tara Emory and Maura Grossman argue in a paper forthcoming in the Columbia Science and…

Editor’s Note: Two decades after George Socha and Tom Gelbmann sketched the boxes and arrows that became the common language of electronic discovery, the EDRM community has redrawn the diagram and asked the profession to grade its work. Public comment on EDRM 2.0 opened on June 30 and runs through July 30, 2026, creating a…

Editor’s Note: Newsroom leadership rarely gets the deliberate practice it demands, and ComplexDiscovery OÜ built this tutorial to give it some. The second installment of The ComplexDiscovery Tutorial, following a first edition on cybersecurity, governance and eDiscovery, runs 21 contestable propositions about how newsrooms are led across three terms and reproduces three of them in…

Editor’s Note: Europe’s AI Act rewrite has cleared its final political hurdle, but it is not yet fully operative. On June 29, the Council of the EU gave final approval to the digital omnibus, confirming delayed high-risk AI deadlines of Dec. 2, 2027, for standalone Annex III systems and Aug. 2, 2028, for high-risk AI…

Editor’s Note: A slow front line and an accelerating propaganda machine made the last week of June 2026 a study in divergence. On the stretch’s final reporting day, neither side registered a confirmed advance, according to the daily assessments of the Institute for the Study of War, yet the Kremlin worked to sell a story…

Editor’s Note: Russian intelligence operators have quietly raised the stakes on encrypted messaging. In a June 26 update to a March advisory, the FBI and CISA reported that the actors behind an ongoing Signal phishing campaign now coax targets into surrendering their backup recovery key, the credential that decrypts an account’s backed-up message archive. Encryption…