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NEW RESOURCES
Northern Times: Historic objects open up stories for new Highland museum platform. “A new website provides a platform for people to learn about everything from archaeology and ancient stones, clans and Jacobites, the impact of world wars and everyday life to complex colonial histories alongside stories of historic Highlands people. The learning hub, known as Museum of the Highlands, centres around an interactive timeline, allowing users to discover over 350 objects from 3 billion BC to the present day.”
Keystone Edge: With a new digital archive, The Mattress Factory stays true to its ‘for artists, by artists’ mission. “Nestled in Pittsburgh’s charming and historic Mexican War Streets sits the Mattress Factory. This groundbreaking institution, housed in — you guessed it — a former mattress factory, was created by artists, for artists. In that spirit, the institution continues to evolve when the situation calls for it. Two of those transformations happened in recent years.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
WordPress: Reblogging Gets a Refresh. “Reblogging is a way to show appreciation for another creator’s work while also providing your own audience with a valuable piece of news, work of art, or thought-provoking opinion. We recently made a few significant improvements to the experience of reblogging to make it more customizable for you while also ensuring the original creator gets the credit they deserve.”
How-To Geek: Mozilla Thunderbird’s Next Big Update Is Now in Beta. “Mozilla has ramped up development on the Thunderbird email client over the past two years. The Thunderbird 102 update arrived last year with many improvements, and now the next major release is available for beta testing.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Associated Press: Can a chatbot preach a good sermon? Hundreds attend church service generated by ChatGPT to find out. “The artificial intelligence chatbot asked the believers in the fully packed St. Paul’s church in the Bavarian town of Fuerth to rise from the pews and praise the Lord. The ChatGPT chatbot, personified by an avatar of a bearded Black man on a huge screen above the altar, then began preaching to the more than 300 people who had shown up on Friday morning for an experimental Lutheran church service almost entirely generated by AI.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
CISA: U.S. and International Partners Release Comprehensive Cyber Advisory on LockBit Ransomware. “This joint advisory is a comprehensive resource with common tools; exploitations; and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by LockBit affiliates, along with recommended mitigations for organizations to reduce the likelihood and impact of future ransomware incidents.”
Bloomberg: Twitter Sued by Music Firms Seeking $250 Million for Songs. “The National Music Publishers’ Association sued Twitter Inc. Wednesday, alleging it violates the copyright of songwriters by using their music on its platform without permission. Twitter is one of the only major social media platforms that doesn’t pay music rights to holders for licenses to their work.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Bangor University: Bangor University’s New Open-Source App Facilitates Research Into Regional And Minority Languages. “A new open-source app has been launched which will facilitate the way researchers collect data on bilingual populations who speak a minority/minoritized or regional language as well as a majority language. Developed by the Language Attitudes research team at Bangor University, School of Arts, Culture and Language, the app offers a one-stop-shop for four different types of data collection tools that are commonly used in bilingual research.”
University of Arkansas: Local Newspaper Coverage Improves Information About Public Companies. “A new study, to be published in Review of Accounting Studies, shows that local newspaper coverage significantly improved the general information about public companies, as measured by lower stock volatility and more accurate forecasts by financial analysts. Conversely, when local newspaper coverage declined, stock volatility, information asymmetry and illiquidity increased, the researchers found.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
Times-Union: Time capsule containing historic documents found in base of Schuyler statue. “City workers uncovered a copper-colored box within the statue’s circular base matching descriptions of a time capsule from news articles when the statue was first put in place in 1925, David Galin, the mayor’s chief of staff, said in an email Saturday afternoon.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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June 17, 2023 at 12:24AM
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