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NEW RESOURCES
Scientific Data: The European Tertiary Education Register, the reference dataset on European Higher Education Institutions . “ETER provides data on nearly 3,500 HEIs in about 40 European countries, including descriptive information, geographical information, students and graduates (with various breakdowns), revenues and expenditures, personnel, and research activities; as of March 2023, data cover the years from 2011–2020.” I turned this into a European version of Super Edu Search, which allows you to browse universities by country/city and search their Web space via Google. You can use it at https://calishat.com/static/superedu/ .
The Map Room: History of Cartography Project’s Fourth Volume Now Available Online. “The History of Cartography Project’s fourth volume, Cartography in the European Enlightenment, is now available online for free download in PDF format. This book, edited by Matthew Edney and Mary Sponberg Pedley, came out in hardcover in the depths of the pandemic; free online access a few years after publication follows the precedent of previous volumes in the series.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Search Engine Journal: Microsoft Launches Free AI Training With Professional Certificate. “The course provides an introduction to AI and issues around responsible AI. It’s offered in English, with several other languages to follow in the coming months. Completing the course will grant you a professional certificate in generative AI from Microsoft, which you can display on your LinkedIn profile. Additional resources include a trainer toolkit with AI content for educators and a free AI skills challenge on Microsoft Learn. The challenge teaches essential AI skills using Microsoft technology.”
Engadget: Twitch is finally adding Stories and a feed for discovering new streamers to watch . “It’s probably safe to say no one could have predicted that LinkedIn would add Stories before Twitch, but here we are. Nearly eight years after Instagram lifted the feature from Snapchat, Twitch announced Saturday that its own users will be able to begin recording Stories starting later this year.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
The Verge: Who killed Google Reader?. “Google’s bad reputation for killing and abandoning products started with Reader and has only gotten worse over time. But the real tragedy of Reader was that it had all the signs of being something big, and Google just couldn’t see it. Desperate to play catch-up to Facebook and Twitter, the company shut down one of its most prescient projects; you can see in Reader shades of everything from Twitter to the newsletter boom to the rising social web.” Ten years later and I’m still mad.
ThePrint (India): Army warns veterans against posting ‘false narratives’ on social media, says pensions could be withheld. “Taking exception to the conduct of some ex-servicemen on social media, the Indian Army has warned of withholding or withdrawing pensions besides possible registration of police cases, ThePrint has learnt.”
KOSU: Metro Library to capture Oklahoma City’s future history with film cameras. “Recapturing OKC, a new special collection at the Metropolitan Library System, will feature snapshots of a current Oklahoma City for future Oklahomans. The idea of the new collection came after a donation, this one not just of books, but of the cameras. Judie Matthews, special collections librarian, said the department wasn’t quite sure what to do with the cameras. Then, she had an idea.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Bleeping Computer: Snappy: A tool to detect rogue WiFi access points on open networks. “Cybersecurity researchers have released a new tool called ‘Snappy’ that can help detect fake or rogue WiFi access points that attempts to steal data from unsuspecting people. Attackers can create fake access points in supermarkets, coffee shops, and malls that impersonate real ones already established at the location. This is done to trick users into connecting to the rogue access points and relay sensitive data through the attackers’ devices.”
Scholarly Kitchen: Why Does the U.S. Copyright Office Require Libraries to Lie to Users about Their Fair Use Rights? They Won’t Say.. “What should be clear to any attentive reader is that the fair use doctrine outlined in section 107 covers many kinds of use that would fall outside the category of “private study, scholarship, or research.” So is it really the case that when you make a copy of an in-copyright document at Kinko’s, you have the full spectrum of fair use rights – but if you copy (or receive a copy of) the same document in a library your fair use rights are significantly more restricted?”
BBC: TikTok and Title 42 rumours fuel human smuggling at the US border. “The clandestine nature of the industry means that there are no reliable statistics on how many migrants find their smugglers on social media, or which posts are genuine or not. Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, an associate professor at George Mason University who researches smuggling organisations, said that social media allows criminals to create a constant ‘sense of urgency’ among migrants.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Newswise: Do Paper Calendars Help Us Plan Better Than Digital Calendars?. “The popularity of digital calendars over paper calendars has grown significantly due to instant access to appointments, meetings and dates. But which type of calendar leads to higher efficiency? Jay Yang, assistant professor of marketing at Cal State Fullerton, published a study on how paper versus mobile calendars can influence everyday planning and plan fulfillment.”
Cornell Chronicle: Dashcam images reveal where police are deployed. “Using a deep learning computer model and a dataset containing millions of dashboard camera images from New York City rideshare drivers, Cornell Tech researchers were able to see which neighborhoods had the highest numbers of New York Police Department marked vehicles, a possible indication of deployment patterns.” Good morning, Internet…
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July 10, 2023 at 05:28PM
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