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TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Android Police: YouTube’s new volume normalizer could be a blessing for your ears. “Audio normalizers aren’t certainly new. Many popular music streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music can already curb any sudden increase in loudness. There are even a few device-level apps available for your phone and computer to do exactly that. It now appears that YouTube is joining the list with its own solution to give its videos a more uniform volume for the sake of your ears.”
Engadget: ChatGPT’s Android app arrives in the last week of July. “When OpenAI released a ChatGPT app for the iPhone in May, it promised that Android users will get theirs soon. Now, the company has announced that ChatGPT for Android is rolling out to users sometime next week. Moreover, its Google Play listing is already up, and users can pre-register to get it as soon as it becomes available.”
USEFUL STUFF
How-To Geek: How to Use ChatGPT to Transform Writing Into Another Format. “While most people think of ChatGPT as a way to generate new text, one of its most powerful abilities is to transform existing text into another format. Whether this is text that you have written, or text from another source.” By “another format”, the writer means things like turning blog posts into scripts for YouTube videos, not creating different types of structured data.
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
San Francisco Standard: Diaries of Taiwan’s First President To Be Returned After Legal Battle With Stanford. “For nearly 18 years, 51 boxes of documents from former Taiwanese Presidents Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo have been stashed at Stanford University. The documents include diary entries revealing personal and diplomatic insights into some of the most notable global political events of the last century. But the question of who owns the historically valuable musings has been at the center of a decadelong legal battle involving the Taiwanese government, Chiang family members and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.”
Texas Monthly: “I Think He’s a Muslim at Heart”: Texas State Historical Association Leader Endorsed Obama Conspiracy Theory . ” The conflict pits [J.P.] Bryan—a deep-pocketed donor and honorary lifetime board member who was hired as TSHA executive director last fall—against board president Nancy Baker Jones and chief historian Walter Buenger. Both Jones and Buenger have charged Bryan with minimizing the role of slavery, racial violence, and white supremacy in Texas history. Hundreds of other members signed a petition that accuses him of using ‘divisive and racialized’ language.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
New York Times: At the Met, She Holds Court. At Home, She Held 71 Looted Antiquities.. “Shelby White has given the museum generous gifts and 33 years of service as a trustee. But investigators recently seized many of her ancient artifacts, including 17 that were on loan to the Met.”
Bleeping Computer: JumpCloud discloses breach by state-backed APT hacking group. “US-based enterprise software firm JumpCloud says a state-backed hacking group breached its systems almost one month ago as part of a highly targeted attack focused on a limited set of customers. The company discovered the incident on June 27, one week after the attackers breached its systems via a spear-phishing attack.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Tom’s Hardware: Bot Mess: AI-Generated Clickbait Will Hasten the Demise of Search and Web Publishing. “LLMs are text generators that use predictive algorithms to output whatever sequence of words responds to your prompt. They don’t have experiences to draw from; they only have the words of actual humans to take, so even if they get better at summarizing those words, they will never be a primary source of information, nor will they have a viewpoint to share.”
EdSurge: We Deleted More Than 5,000 Pages From Our College Website. Here’s Why.. “As educators, how can we possibly expect to increase our enrollments, promote the mission of our institutions, effectively communicate our academic offerings, and engage prospective (and current) college students inclusively with college websites that function more like online file cabinets? It is time to stop this foolishness.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
Notre Dame News: Researchers decipher the secrets of Benjamin Franklin’s paper money. “Benjamin Franklin may be best known as the creator of bifocals and the lightning rod, but a group of University of Notre Dame researchers suggest he should also be known for his innovative ways of making (literal) money. During his career, Franklin printed nearly 2,500,000 money notes for the American Colonies using what the researchers have identified as highly original techniques, as reported in a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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July 23, 2023 at 10:41PM
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