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TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Brookings Institution: The Brookings Sanctions Tracker. “The current edition of the tracker was published Wednesday, July 19, 2023. It now covers sanctions from the onset of the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014 through June 26, 2023, for selected countries. Given the rapidly evolving situation, this spreadsheet will be periodically updated.”
The Big Screen Cinema Guide: Find Open Caption Movies Easily With Our New Advanced Search Tool!. “You now have the ability to search for Open Caption presentations anywhere in the United States using our Open Caption Presentations search! At the time of this article’s writing, there are 47 movies being shown with Open Captions at 632 movie theaters around the United States. You can search by movie or by theater, and see the dates for which Open Caption presentations are being shown for that movie/theater.”
The Register: Google tightens Play Store dev rules while becoming more blockchain tolerant . “Google, citing trust and safety concerns, has issued updated policies for those distributing Android apps through the Play Store. Chief among these is that some developers will have to provide more identification to comply with the expanded Play Console Requirements policy.”
TechCrunch: Wix’s new tool can create entire websites from prompts. “The company’s new AI Site Generator tool, announced today, will let Wix users describe their intent and generate a website complete with a homepage, inner pages and text and images — as well as business-specific sections for events, bookings and more.” What could POSSIBLY go wrong.
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
PD&R: Creating the National Zoning Atlas. “On April 1, 2023, at a session of the National Planning Conference in Philadelphia, panelists described efforts to create a National Zoning Atlas that already is beginning to centralize and organize every zoning code in the nation. The purpose of the atlas is to offer insight into zoning’s effects and democratize land use decisionmaking through comprehensive, digitized, and user-friendly zoning information.”
Ars Technica: OpenAI, Google will watermark AI-generated content to hinder deepfakes, misinfo. “Seven companies—including OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon, Anthropic, and Inflection—have committed to developing tech to clearly watermark AI-generated content. That will help make it safer to share AI-generated text, video, audio, and images without misleading others about the authenticity of that content, the Biden administration hopes.” And in the meantime? While you design labels as the Internet is overrun with ad-chasing shit?
SwissInfo: Swiss National Library starts collecting Wikipedia articles. “The Swiss National Library is building a digital collection of Wikipedia articles related to Switzerland. The articles are to be permanently archived for future generations and made freely available online.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Dairy Herd Management: New Farmland Bill Would Create a Public Database for Foreign Land Ownership. “Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) introduced a new bipartisan bill, the Farmland Security Act of 2023, seeking to further boost transparency in foreign ownership of U.S. farmland.”
The Hill: Diller confirms plans for legal action over AI publishing . “Media titan Barry Diller confirmed Sunday he and a group of ‘leading publishers’ plan to take legal action regarding the use of published works in training artificial intelligence (AI) systems.”
TechRadar: Thousands of Docker container images could be leaking security secrets. “A report from RWTH Aachen University in Germany analyzed more than 330,000 Docker Hub images, as well as thousands of private registries. The results showed 8.5% of the material hosting sensitive data, which could include private keys, or API secrets. As a result, online platforms and its users could be targeted by cybercriminals. In total, more than 52,000 private keys, and more than 3,100 unique API secrets were found exposed.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
University of Pittsburgh: New AI Tool Beats Standard Approaches for Detecting Heart Attacks. “A new machine learning model uses electrocardiogram (ECG) readings to diagnose and classify heart attacks faster and more accurately than current approaches, according to a study led by University of Pittsburgh researchers that published today in Nature Medicine.”
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory: Humidity – not just light – causes color degradation in historical paintings, researchers discover. “When you look at a painting in a museum, the colors that you see are likely less bright than they were originally, something that had previously been attributed mainly to light exposure. Now, researchers have discovered a new cause of color degradation: humidity.” Good morning, Internet…
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July 23, 2023 at 05:27PM
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