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NEW RESOURCES
Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury: New Resources Focus on Career and Technical Education. “The Tennessee Comptroller’s Office is releasing a new collection of short publications, infographics and an interactive data dashboard for career and technical education (CTE) in Tennessee. The collection includes briefs, infographics, and an interactive data dashboard.”
WITZ: State Launches First of Its Kind Vehicle Data Dashboard. “Roughly 6.5 million cars, trucks, motorcycles, and recreational vehicles are registered each year in the State of Indiana through the Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV). This tool allows users to see how many are powered by gas, diesel, and electric, among others. In 2018, there were 76,000 electric and electric hybrid vehicles in the state. That number increased to nearly 125,000 by 2022.”
EVENTS
British Library UK Web Archive Blog: RESAW 2023 Conference Report from the UK Web Archive. “2023 was the fifth RESAW conference. RESAW stands for Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials. It was established in 2012, aims to promote a collaborative European research infrastructure for the study of archived web materials and holds a conference every two years. The 2023 conference was held in Marseille from June 5-6 under the theme ‘Exploring the Archived Web During a Highly Transformative Age’.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
The Verge: Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else. “Reddit has sent messages to the mods of those subreddits saying they must ‘immediately correct’ their NSFW labeling, claiming each community ‘has not historically been considered NSFW nor would they under our current policies.’ If the designation isn’t corrected, any moderators involved in that decision will be removed.”
USEFUL STUFF
New York Times: Don’t Use A.I. to Cheat in School. It’s Better for Studying.. “It turns out, it’s easy to get caught cheating with generative A.I. because it is prone to making stuff up, a phenomena known as ‘hallucinating.’ But generative A.I. can also be used as a study assistant. Some tools make highlights in long research papers and even answer questions about the material. Others can assemble study aids, like quizzes and flashcards.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
CNBC: Twitter accuses Meta of stealing trade secrets for its new Threads app. “The letter from longtime Elon Musk attorney Alex Spiro alleged that Meta’s new Twitter clone was built by former Twitter employees ‘deliberately assigned’ to develop a ‘copycat’ app. Semafor was first to report on the letter. Spiro offered no concrete examples of Twitter employees using trade secrets to build the app, which notched millions of users within hours of its launch.”
California Department of Parks and Recreation: California State Parks Introduces what3words Tool. “what3words already covers the entire globe, so you can easily discover addresses for all 280 California state parks in its system, including all parks and campgrounds on the internal and public GIS. In addition, the official CA State Parks app, OuterSpatial, now displays what3words addresses for over 8,000 POIs in the State Park System, including campsites, trailheads, and picnic areas.”
BET: Google Mixed Up Images of Master P and Luther Vandross. “Google came under fire this week after the search engine seemingly mistook No Limit Records founder Master P for the late Luther Vandross. The error was discovered Wednesday, July 5, and left social media users pondering how such a mistake could take place.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Reuters: Chief of Russia’s Yandex faces court case for ‘LGBT propaganda’. “The chief executive of Nasdaq-listed internet company Yandex faces prosecution in a Russian court for alleged offences under the country’s so-called ‘LGBT propaganda’ law, a notice on the court’s website said on Wednesday. The move to prosecute Artem Savinovsky, for which no hearing date was listed, comes a day after a different court levied a 1 million rubles ($11,048) fine against an online film database owned by Yandex under the same law.”
Canadian Press: Quebec social media influencer charged for simulating crimes to gain attention. “An online-video creator who tried to gain popularity by simulating fake crimes has been arrested and charged with attempted public mischief, police in Gatineau, Que., said Thursday. Police in the western Quebec city said Anthony Gagne, 27, recorded himself pretending to commit crimes and posted the videos on social media platforms in an effort to attract a response from law enforcement.”
Ars Technica: Mastodon fixes critical “TootRoot” vulnerability allowing node hijacking. “The maintainers of the open source software that powers the Mastodon social network published a security update on Thursday that patches a critical vulnerability making it possible for hackers to backdoor the servers that push content to individual users.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
MIT News: MIT scientists build a system that can generate AI models for biology research. “BioAutoMATED, an open-source, automated machine-learning platform, aims to help democratize artificial intelligence for research labs.” Good morning, Internet…
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July 8, 2023 at 05:28PM
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