Editor’s Note: A defunct airline’s corporate correspondence is up for sale, and the fight over it reads like a discovery dispute. Spirit Airlines proposes to sell Google enterprise data for $10 million to train AI, and the asset schedule it filed in August listed about 100 million emails and 500 million Microsoft Teams items alongside
Editor’s Note: Zohar Pinhasi, owner of Florida ransomware-recovery firm MonsterCloud, was arraigned Oct. 7 in Brooklyn on federal charges that he told clients he had proprietary decryption tools while secretly paying their attackers. The U.S. Attorney’s Office told BleepingComputer he pleaded not guilty, and the charges are allegations. The case reaches past the fraud counts.
Editor’s Note: September’s 193 preliminary HSR transactions closed fiscal 2026 at 2,555, the Premerger Notification Program’s largest annual total since fiscal 2022 and 27.4 percent above fiscal 2025’s finalized count. The month itself cooled, falling 28.8 percent from August and 4.0 percent below September 2025. The cause appears to lie less in the economy, which
Editor’s Note: Agents the Wikimedia Foundation believes OpenAI operates made unapproved sandbox edits, made citation-tool changes the Foundation believes were potentially malicious, tried without success to use a hosted Etherpad as a data proxy and sent heavy traffic that may have contributed to a May outage of the Wikidata Query Service. The Foundation found no
Editor’s Note: A persistent patient code and a detailed clinical record were enough, in the Garante’s view, to keep health data identifiable. Italy’s data protection authority has fined IQVIA Solutions Italy 7 million euros after finding that records from about 1 million family-doctor patients, which the company treated as anonymous, remained personal data. France’s CNIL
Editor’s Note: ComplexDiscovery OÜ is publishing a three-term Oxford-style tutorial that asks whether, beyond awareness and credibility, marketing drives revenue in eDiscovery and legal technology. The question lands as B2B buyers report ranking their shortlists before they speak to a seller, according to 6sense’s 2025 survey of nearly 4,000 buyers.
For practitioners, the stakes are
Editor’s Note: An artificial intelligence cyber defender that teaches itself to put the red cross emblem on decoy files likely leaves its state responsible for breaching international humanitarian law, even if no operator chose the tactic. That is the conclusion of one of three new scenarios in the Cyber Law Toolkit’s 2026 update, announced Sept.
Editor’s Note: TransPerfect Legal launched an in-country eDiscovery offering in Riyadh in September that includes Relativity Server, in a country Relativity’s cloud region table, as published Oct. 2, does not list. Relativity’s written policy allows new Server matters after Jan. 1, 2028, only with the company’s written permission where its cloud platform, Relativity aiR, is
Editor’s Note: Ransomware and supplier compromises, not the DDoS attacks that make up most of the count, are where the ENISA Threat Landscape 2026 places the short-term impact, while cyberespionage remains the agency’s longer-term concern. The EU cybersecurity agency analyzed 8,257 incidents from 2025 and found financially motivated attacks remained the most impactful threat in
Editor’s Note: A cell tower standing in Russian footage of Nove, which a pro-war Russian blogger said Ukrainian video had shown destroyed a day earlier, was enough for him to mock the Sept. 29 Russian claim as anything but fresh. That small check anchors a wider week drawn from four Institute for the Study of
September brought a different kind of reading for ComplexDiscovery.
ComplexDiscovery’s staff spent much of the month walking the Camino Portugués Coastal Route from Matosinhos to Santiago de Compostela. The walk kept raising a question that matters to anyone who works with evidence, information and records:
How does anyone know that?
Two ComplexDiscovery pieces mark the
Editor’s Note: Three ComplexDiscovery walkers finished the Camino Portugués Coastal Route in September, about 167 miles from Matosinhos to Santiago de Compostela, and reported from the trail through a LinkedIn series that asked one question at every stop: how does anyone know that? The answers, drawn together here stage by stage with the Sept. 7
Editor’s Note: August 2026 delivered 271 HSR reported transactions, the highest monthly count of fiscal 2026 and a 41.9% gain over the 191 finalized for August 2025. With one month left, fiscal 2026 stands at 2,362 preliminary transactions, already the largest fiscal-year count since fiscal 2022. The harder question is what comes next. Filings can
Editor’s Note: Putin told the world on Sept. 1 that Russian forces had taken Svyatohirsk. Six days later, Brig. Gen. Andriy Biletskyi walked across the town’s bridge on camera, unhelmeted, and told Russia’s leadership to take off their clown noses. Between those moments, four Institute for the Study of War assessments, a Kyiv Post fact
Editor’s Note: Two Boston University law professors have given policymakers something the AI slop argument has lacked: a test with edges. Jessica Silbey and Woodrow Hartzog provisionally define slop as machine output produced with little exertion that shifts the burden onto recipients and erodes the domain it lands in. The test turns on effort, imposition
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.
What the route offers, beyond