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NEW RESOURCES
Boston University School of Public Health: New Excess Mortality Estimates Show Increases in US Rural Mortality during Second Year of COVID-19 Pandemic. “This excess mortality data is now publicly available for researchers and the broader public to view in a first-of-its-kind online database and interactive tool that the researchers created to serve as a resource for people to further examine the social, structural, and policy drivers of excess mortality during the pandemic.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Gizmodo: Two Weeks After Moderators Blacked Out Reddit, Traffic Is Going Back to Normal. “While Reddit’s recent moderator-led protests against the company’s new API pricing have been loud, dramatic, and sympathetic to most, they don’t seem to have affected traffic to the social media platform in a significant way, according to new data.”
Mashable: Twitter API changes crush @PossumEveryHour and other good bots. “Another day, another Twitter apocalypse. This time Elon Musk’s company is purging some of the most popular automated accounts from its platform. Little by little over the past few weeks, API access was suspended for a huge cluster of Twitter’s most beloved bots. The suspensions were revealed when Twitter accounts that normally post automated pictures or memes suddenly posted on the site that they are being forced to shut down.”
TechCrunch: YouTube integrates AI-powered dubbing tool. “YouTube is currently testing a new tool that will help creators automatically dub their videos into other languages using AI, the company announced Thursday at VidCon. YouTube teamed up with AI-powered dubbing service Aloud, which is part of Google’s in-house incubator Area 120.”
USEFUL STUFF
ZDNet: Chatbot showdown: ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Bing Chat put to a real-world test. “The University of California, Berkeley students and faculty created a way for you to compare your favorite chatbot’s LLMs against each other. Here’s how.”
New York Times: How to Turn Your Chatbot Into a Life Coach. “Last week, I walked you through how to turn A.I. into a personal shopper to speed up product research. Now let’s ask A.I. to try something more ambitious: Helping us set goals and organize our lives to achieve them. Chatbots like ChatGPT and Bard, it turns out, are actually pretty good at these tasks. I’ll walk you through prompting a chatbot to create an action plan and help you form new habits, including adding your goals into your calendar and to-do list.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
The Railway Hub: The National Railway Museum receives funding to record history of LGBTQ+ railway workers . “The National Railway Museum has been granted funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to research the contributions of railway workers from the LGBTQ+ community to the industry for the first time.”
Reuters: Sidelined from academia, India’s Dalits archive caste history. “Vijay Surwade may have worked as a bank manager by day – but for five decades he spent his evenings building one of the world’s biggest archives dedicated to India’s pioneering Dalit rights campaigner BR Ambedkar.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Bleeping Computer: CISA orders agencies to patch iPhone bugs abused in spyware attacks. “Today, CISA ordered federal agencies to patch recently patched security vulnerabilities exploited as zero-days to deploy Triangulation spyware on iPhones via iMessage zero-click exploits.”
The Register: Google bug bounties inch closer to Microsoft’s payouts. “Bug hunters who found security holes in Google — and also responsibly disclosed details of those flaws to the Chocolate Factory — earned more than $12 million in bounty rewards in 2022, marking a record year for the corporation’s Vulnerability Reward Programs (VRPs) in terms of payouts and number of vulnerabilities found and fixed.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
University of Glasgow: New Video Game Uses The Power Of Minoritised Ethnic Voices To Tell The Story Of A Sustainable Scotland. “Set in the Western Scottish Highlands in 2045, SEvEN features the ‘voices’ of seven Minoritised Ethnic people. Players interact with seven narratives and mini-games, based on real-life climate actions led by Minoritised Ethnic-led organisations and initiatives across Scotland.”
Open Access: A guide to sharing open healthcare data under the General Data Protection Regulation. “Sharing healthcare data is increasingly essential for developing data-driven improvements in patient care at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). However, it is also very challenging under the strict privacy legislation of the European Union (EU). Therefore, we explored four successful open ICU healthcare databases to determine how open healthcare data can be shared appropriately in the EU.” Good morning, Internet…
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June 26, 2023 at 05:29PM
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