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NEW RESOURCES
Magnetic Magazine: Reddit User Built A Database Of 10k+ Music Production Plugins So You Can Snag Them When They’re Cheap.. “Discover AudioBazooka.com, a unique database tracking 10,000+ audio plugins.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
WIRED: How to Use Discord’s ‘Family Center’ Safety Settings for Your Kids. “The popular messaging platform launched new parental controls for keeping tabs on teens. Here’s what the tools do (and don’t) include.”
Associated Press: Biden administration can resume contact with social-media platforms ‘until further orders’: appeals court. “A federal appeals court Friday temporarily paused a lower court’s order limiting executive branch officials’ communications with social-media companies about controversial online posts. Biden administration lawyers had asked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans to stay the preliminary injunction issued on July 4 by U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty. Doughty himself had rejected a request to put his order on hold pending appeal.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Gilroy Dispatch: Google’s Gilroy farm plans to sell trees to the public. “The 40-acre piece of land is owned by Google, the Silicon Valley tech giant that purchased the Gilroy property in 2019 with the goal of growing trees in an environmentally sound way for its future and current campuses. But Google, in an era of remote work and a shifting economy, has lately reevaluated its real estate portfolio, shedding office spaces in the northern end of the county. As a result, the 15,000 trees growing in Gilroy—including coast live oak, alder, willow, California maple and more—won’t all end up at a Google project as originally intended.”
New York Times: ‘Not for Machines to Harvest’: Data Revolts Break Out Against A.I.. “Fed up with A.I. companies consuming online content without consent, fan fiction writers, actors, social media companies and news organizations are among those rebelling.”
Radio Prague: Pop legend Karel Gott speaks from beyond the grave using AI. “To celebrate Czech Radio’s centenary, its creative team wanted to highlight not only its vast historical archives, but also its future. And so the idea was born for Gott Forever, a project to recreate the speaking voice of Karel Gott, who passed away in 2019, using artificial intelligence. I spoke to Czech Radio’s creative producer Lukáš Sapík to find out more about the project, and started by asking: why an AI-generated voice?”
SECURITY & LEGAL
TorrentFreak: Internet Archive Targets Book DRM Removal Tool With DMCA Takedown. “The Internet Archive has taken the rather unusual step of sending a DMCA notice to protect the copyrights of book publishers and authors. The non-profit organization asked GitHub to remove a tool that can strip DRM from books in its library. The protective move is likely motivated by the ongoing legal troubles between the Archive and book publishers.”
Washington Post: Twitter didn’t pay privacy assessor after Musk takeover, court docs show. “House Republicans seized on allegations in the complaint that the FTC attempted to influence Ernst & Young, an independent auditor Twitter hired to assess its compliance with the order. Yet the complaint — and Republican committee members — omitted key details from that deposition, which paints a stark picture of the chaos and upheaval at Twitter during Musk’s takeover.”
Vicksburg Post: Social media video leads to arrest of Warren County woman for destroying crops . “One person is in custody following a July 3 social media video showing a black Nissan sedan doing donuts in a Warren County field.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
The Conversation: Transportation apps can help people with disabilities navigate public transit but accessibility lags behind. “Many people with disabilities rely on public transit as many do not have a driver’s licence. Planning trips, getting to and from transit stops successfully and navigating transit systems is important. My research has shown that smartphone app technology can encourage inclusion by helping people with disabilities better navigate transport systems.”
University of York: University marks launch of new Government guide on video games. “The University of York has marked the launch of a new government framework aimed at improving understanding of the impacts of video games at an event in partnership with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).”
UC Davis: Bringing COVID-19 Data into Focus . “Using an approach based on computer vision technology, researchers can work back from COVID-19 mortality data to see how infection rates changed on the day a lockdown or similar measure was introduced. The approach could be generally useful in future epidemics and pandemics. The work is published July 14 in Science Advances.” Good morning, Internet…
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July 16, 2023 at 05:31PM
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