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NEW RESOURCES
Daily Maverick: Things we found in the fire – New knowledge rises from the ashes of UCT’s burned Jagger Library. “When the University of Cape Town’s Jagger Library was immolated by a runaway fire in 2021, Sindi-Leigh McBride and Julia Rensing took proactive steps. Instead of only lamenting this priceless loss, they curated a book celebrating the immortal spirit of academic endeavour. Lost Libraries, Burnt Archives involves 22 artists, writers and academics.” The book is available as a free download.
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Google Scholar Blog: 2023 Scholar Metrics Released. “Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Today, we are releasing the 2023 version of Scholar Metrics. This release covers articles published in 2018–2022 and includes citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar as of July 2023.”
Ars Technica: Unity’s visionOS support has started to roll out—here’s how it works. “Starting today, some developers can use the popular software Unity to make apps and games for Apple’s upcoming Vision Pro headset. A partnership between Unity and Apple was first announced during Apple’s WWDC 2023 keynote last month, in the same segment the Vision Pro and visionOS were introduced.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
New York Times: Google Tests A.I. Tool That Is Able to Write News Articles. “The product, pitched as a helpmate for journalists, has been demonstrated for executives at The New York Times, The Washington Post and News Corp, which owns The Wall Street Journal.”
SecurityWeek: Famed Hacker Kevin Mitnick Dead at 59. “Kevin Mitnick, a hacker who famously served time in prison for various computer and communications-related crimes, has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 59. SecurityWeek sources have confirmed Mitnick’s passing, which was first reported in an obituary posted at Dignity Memorial, a Las Vegas funeral home.”
Canada Newswire: Massive Private Collection of 19th-century Ephemera Finds a Home at Letterform Archive (PRESS RELEASE). “Letterform Archive announces a significant addition to its trove of graphic design with the acquisition of over 26,000 uniquely colorful and innovative items from the Richard Sheaff ephemera collection.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
FTC: FTC challenges deceptive claims and “selfie” news and reviews for alcohol treatment product . “… according to the FTC, defendants Rejuvica LLC and corporate officers Kyle Armstrong and Kyle Dilger made numerous unsubstantiated representations and falsely claimed to have clinical proof that didn’t really exist, in violation of both the Opioid Addiction Recovery Fraud Prevention Act and the FTC Act. What’s more, the complaint alleges they made deceptive use of endorsements – both by having paid endorsers make TV appearances designed to look like independent news stories, but that were actually paid advertising and by creating a phony ‘review’ website.”
The Hill: Judicial panel issues pause on ruling limiting Biden communications with social media firms. “A three-judge appeals court panel on Friday issued a brief pause of a lower court ruling that limited the Biden administration’s communication with social media companies over free speech concerns.”
Hackernoon: Russia and Ukraine Launch Fresh DDoS Offensives: A Look Into Crowdsourced Cyber Warfare. “Russian crowdsourced DDoS attacks are mounting against Ukraine and NATO members’ critical infrastructure. Ukrainian hackers are unleashing similar attacks on Russian invaders. While the damage so far seems limited, the danger for both sides is increasing.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
NiemanLab: Google News Initiative grants in Africa and the Middle East yield mixed results, study finds. “Innovation — in newsrooms and elsewhere — takes more than a new idea. It requires transforming that idea into value for the organization… A new study investigates reasons that one-year grants supplied by Google News Initiative in Africa and the Middle East resulted in a number of projects that fall short of that definition, instead producing ‘minimum viable products’ that were under-realized versions of the original ideas.”
University of Chicago: Human-aware A.I. helps accelerate scientific discoveries, new research shows. “Anew study explores how artificial intelligence can not only better predict new scientific discoveries, but also to usefully expand them. The researchers, who published their work in Nature Human Behaviour, built models that could predict human inferences and the scientists who will make them.”
Wall Street Journal: Here’s How Twitter Could Become Irrelevant. “This isn’t a prophecy of imminent doom for Musk’s $44 billion gamble. Much would have to go right for Zuckerberberg, and wrong for his rival, for Twitter to fade from the scene. If they persist, though, the trends driving Threads’s success—a mix of network effects, Musk’s self-inflicted wounds, and the potential allure of a platform with a different vibe—could coalesce into a diminished future for the 17-year-old microblogging service.” Good morning, Internet…
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July 21, 2023 at 05:30PM
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