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NEW RESOURCES
Queen Mary University of London: The Alice Sound: Immerse yourself in Wonderland. “Queen Mary University and The London Symphony Orchestra launch collection of learning resources exploring the sound world of Alice’s adventures in Wonderland and Through the looking-glass.”
CSIRO (Australia): Ground truth: CSIRO launches national data and information tool for soil. “Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, has launched a new tool that will help Australia sustainably manage a critical natural resource which sustains lives and livelihoods. Now live and available for use, the Australian National Soil Information System (ANSIS) brings together soil data from across Australia, connecting multiple data sources to provide access to nationally consistent soil data and information.”
India Today: Just launched: India’s best colleges now a click away. “Tracking over 2,000 colleges across 14 streams, our new website includes six years’ worth of ranking data, comparing colleges on over 100 attributes that have been grouped into five categories: Intake Quality & Governance, Academic Excellence, Infrastructure & Living Experience, Personality & Leadership Development, and Placement & Career Progression.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Bloomberg: Who’s Visiting the White House? The Logs Include 300,000 Names and Are Still Incomplete. “The records detail more than 300,000 visitors from January 2021 through February 2023, including lawmakers such as West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, whose vote Biden was seeking for legislation, and business titans like JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon. However, a Bloomberg News analysis of the data found duplications, anomalies and missing names.”
TechCrunch: TikTok’s Family Pairing tool now gives parents personalized control over the content their teens see. “TikTok is bringing its content filtering tool to its Family Pairing offering, which lets parents link their account to their teen’s to enable content and privacy settings, the company announced on Tuesday. Content filtering allows users to filter out videos with words or hashtags they don’t want to see in their For You or Following feeds.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
WIRED: Meet the AI Protest Group Campaigning Against Human Extinction. “One month before our talk, [Joep] Meindertsma stopped going to work. He had become so consumed by the idea that AI is going to destroy human civilization that he was struggling to think of anything else. He had to do something, he felt, to avert disaster. Soon after, he launched Pause AI, a grassroots protest group that campaigns for, as its name suggests, a halt to the development of AI. And since then, he has amassed a small band of followers who have held protests in Brussels, London, San Francisco and Melbourne.”
Musicradar: Amadeus Code’s new AI API can generate royalty-free music based on non-musical text prompts, and Roland has signed up to use it. “Best known for its songwriting assistant app, which can create new chord patterns, melodies, bass and drum parts based on existing songs, Amadeus Code’s new API is designed ‘to enable the development of services using large music data sets by individuals and businesses’. All music generated by MusicTGA-HR is copyright-free.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Reuters: US to spend $42 billion to make internet access universal by 2030. “The White House on Monday divvied up $42 billion among the nation’s 50 states and U.S. territories to make access to high-speed broadband universal by 2030, as it launched a new publicity campaign for President Joe Biden’s economic policies.”
Money Control (India): Google appeals against NCLAT order upholding Rs 1,338 crore anti-trust penalty. “Tech major Google has filed an appeal in the Supreme Court, challenging the order of National Company Law Appellate Tribunal’s (NCLAT) order upholding Rs 1,338 crore penalty for anti-trust violations.”
Engadget: Clop ransomware gang obtained personal data of 45,000 New York City students in MOVEit hack . “The New York City Department of Education has become the latest organization to disclose it had private data stolen as part of the far-reaching MOVEit file transfer software hack. In an email sent to parents on Sunday, the agency said the personal information of approximately 45,000 students, including in some cases social security numbers and birth dates, had recently been compromised.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Mashable: The solution to Twitter’s downfall isn’t five Twitter clones. “The allure of social media lies in its promise to connect us with others – for community, for fun, for fame, for money, for power. But all these new platforms are just created by the same dude in a different font, and they each continue to create new challenges for our own sense of self online.”
Axios: Social media news consumption slows globally. “Social media has shrunk as a source for news, mostly due to Facebook’s global pullback from news. Why it matters: Growth in news consumption on vertical video platforms like TikTok and Instagram has not grown fast enough to offset the reduction in news consumption on Facebook globally.” Good morning, Internet…
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June 28, 2023 at 05:31PM
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