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NEW RESOURCES
The Lane Report: New Kentucky Proud website helps consumers find Kentucky farm products. “Consumers can search for members by business and product categories or by a list of specific products. A variety of filter and sort options provides consumers with additional ways to tailor their searches and locate a wide range of local businesses and products.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
The Verge: Google’s ‘smart chips’ now let you view third-party app data inside Google Docs. “Third-party integrations from Atlassian, Figma, and others gives collaborators an easy way to check the status of work from multiple sources.”
USEFUL STUFF
Digital Inspiration: How to Transcribe Audio and Video Attachments in Gmail. “Learn how to automatically transcribe audio and video files in Gmail messages with the help of OpenAI speech recognition API and Google Apps Script.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Washington Post: Cash-strapped Taliban selling tickets to ruins of Buddhas it blew up. “In 2001, Taliban founder Mohammad Omar declared the Buddhas false gods and announced plans to destroy them. Ignoring pleas from around the world, Taliban fighters detonated explosives and fired antiaircraft guns to smash the immense sixth-century reliefs to pieces…. With the group now back in power, Bamian holds new symbolic and economic importance to the cash-strapped region: Officials see the Buddha remnants as a potentially lucrative source of revenue and are working to draw tourism around the site.”
The Wrap: ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Costumes Highlight Slew of Film Academy Museum Acquisitions. “Included among the additions are costumes from the most recent Best Picture Oscar winner ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’; more than 600 rare silent film posters; personal film collections and film-related materials from producer Gale Anne Hurd, director Harold Ramis, filmmaker Gregg Araki and film scholar Kevin Brownlow; conceptual art for ‘E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial’; and more than 150 hand-painted animation artworks dating back to 1932, donated by Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw.”
Nigerian Tribune: UN Coordinator laments digital platforms’ misuse to subvert science, spread hate speeches. “The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Mathias Schmale on Thursday, lamented the misuse of digital platforms to subvert science and spread disinformation and hate speeches to billions of people.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
The Register: Data leak at major law firm sets Australia’s government and elites scrambling . “HWL Ebsworth is the kind of big-end-of-town law firm that attracts governments and large corporates as clients. Those clients are now scrambling to understand if their data has leaked. Australia’s federal government has reportedly established a task force to determine the extent of its exposure – which is thought to include some sensitive military material.”
Bleeping Computer: Iowa’s largest school district confirms ransomware attack, data theft. “Des Moines Public Schools, Iowa’s largest school district, confirmed today that a ransomware attack was behind an incident that forced it to take all networked systems offline on January 9, 2023. While the school district also received a ransom demand following the attack from an unnamed ransomware group, the ransom has not been paid.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
University of Oxford: AI could help detect unregulated sources of air pollution in South Asia, new project shows . “A collaboration between the University of Oxford and Lahore University of Management Sciences has combined the power of artificial intelligence with remote satellite imagery to help tackle the problem of unregulated brick kilns across South Asia. These kilns are a major source of air pollution, a key contributor to climate change, and notorious for people trafficking and modern-day slavery.”
Scientific Data: A proposed FAIR approach for disseminating geospatial information system maps. “We present a draft Minimum Information About Geospatial Information System (MIAGIS) standard for facilitating public deposition of geospatial information system (GIS) datasets that follows the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) principles.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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June 22, 2023 at 12:38AM
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