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NEW RESOURCES
RIHousing: Rhode Island’s new affordable housing online database now available. “The online searchable database, which went live in June, includes information on low-income rental units across the state, including contact information for developments, application information as available, and information relative to key populations a development may serve, such as residents who are elderly or disabled, or families impacted by domestic violence.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Search Engine Land: Google confirms related search operator is going away. “Google is removing support for the related search operator, a special search command where Google can tell you what other websites are related to another site.” As Danny Sullivan notes, it hasn’t worked well for ages.
Stanford Daily: Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract at least three papers . “Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne will resign effective Aug. 31 according to communications released by the University Wednesday morning. He will also retract or issue lengthy corrections to five widely cited papers for which he was principal author after a Stanford-sponsored investigation found ‘manipulation of research data.'”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
James Madison University: Furious Flower Poetry Center hosts more than 20 scholars and poets to create an open-access curriculum. “The Furious Flower Poetry Center, in partnership with the Furious Flower Advisory Board, hosted more than 20 scholars and poets at James Madison University in June to create an open-access curriculum for incorporating Black poetry into classrooms of all ages and levels. These pedagogical materials will be distributed to educators nationwide for free to encourage further engagement with Black poetry.”
Stuff New Zealand: Google Maps sends Sky Waka seekers to ‘wrong side of mountain’. “A Google Maps glitch reportedly sent ‘hundreds’ of vehicles seeking Ruapehu’s Sky Waka gondola ride to the remote Tukino ski field on the eastern side of the mountain.While no mishaps were reported, the Tukino operators say their website makes it clear the skifield should only be accessed by high-clearance, four-wheel drive vehicles with chains aboard.”
Rest of World: The AI startup outperforming Google Translate in Ethiopian languages. “Asmelash Teka Hadgu is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Lesan, a Berlin-based startup developing machine translation products for Ethiopian languages. Founded in 2019, Lesan has launched translation tools for Amharic and Tigrinya, which it says outperform Google Translate in terms of quality. The startup’s use of offline print resources to create a new benchmark data set for languages from the Horn of Africa has been key to its success.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Ars Technica: Typo leaks millions of US military emails to Mali web operator. “Millions of US military emails have been misdirected to Mali through a ‘typo leak’ that has exposed highly sensitive information, including diplomatic documents, tax returns, passwords, and the travel details of top officers. Despite repeated warnings over a decade, a steady flow of email traffic continues to the .ML domain, the country identifier for Mali, as a result of people mistyping .MIL, the suffix to all US military email addresses.”
Bleeping Computer: Ukraine takes down massive bot farm, seizes 150,000 SIM cards. “The Cyber Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine dismantled another massive bot farm linked to more than 100 individuals after searches at almost two dozen locations. The bots were used to push Russian propaganda justifying Russia’s war in Ukraine, to disseminate illegal content and personal information, and in various other fraudulent activities.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
MIT: The world needs a global AI observatory — here’s why. “The world already has a model in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Established in 1988 by the United Nations with member countries from around the world, the IPCC provides governments with scientific information they can use to develop climate policies. A comparable body for AI would provide a reliable basis of data, models, and interpretation to guide policy and broader decision-making about AI.”
UNSW Sydney: AI reveals hidden traits about our planet’s flora to help save species. “In a world-first, scientists from UNSW and Botanic Gardens of Sydney have trained AI to unlock data from millions of plant specimens kept in herbaria around the world, to study and combat the impacts of climate change on flora.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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July 21, 2023 at 12:40AM
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