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NEW RESOURCES
Radio World: Australia Marks a Century of Radio Broadcasting. “The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia is reflection on Australian radio’s first century with ‘Radio 100,’ an online exhibit telling 100 years of radio history in the country in five chapters over 100 days.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Sydney Morning Herald: ‘Sombre occasion’: X reprimanded after Voice referendum. “X has had its status as a signature to the Australian code of practice on disinformation and misinformation revoked following a complaint that it didn’t allow the reporting of misinformation during the Voice to parliament referendum.”
USEFUL STUFF
WIRED: How to Make Your Web Searches More Secure and Private. “There are ways to increase your privacy on Google’s platforms, like using privacy-focused browsers, privacy-focused alternatives to Google Maps, auto-deleting your web history after a certain time period, or simply limiting the amount of data the company collects in the first place by opting out of features like web-based email and location awareness. (And you should know that using your browser’s incognito mode isn’t as sneaky as you think it is.) If you’re serious about getting off the data collection grid, there’s a bevy of other privacy focused search options at your disposal. So if you want to use a search engine that doesn’t keep track of your queries, serve your data to advertisers, or change your search results based on what it thinks you’ll like, you’ve got some options.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Guam Daily Post: Humanities Guåhan to archive and digitize resource center. “Humanities Guåhan received an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities Pacific Islands Cultural Initiative to fund the coestablishment of the Pacific Islands Humanities Network. This funding will go toward developing a new digital resource center to preserve and enhance accessibility to valuable educational and cultural resources related to Guåhan, Micronesia and the broader Pacific region, according to Humanities Guåhan.”
Asia One: Mongolia urges Russia, other nations to return cultural artefacts. “Mongolia on Monday (Nov 20) called for more support from Russia, Britain and other countries to repatriate hundreds of cultural artefacts, some dating back over two millennia. Key artefacts include a letter from Mongolia’s first prime minister declaring independence from China’s Manchu dynasty, currently held at the British Library in London, the Mongolian government said in a statement.”
BBC: The job sharing apps that feel like online dating. “The idea behind Switzerland-based WeJobShare is that instead of having to find a friend or colleague to share a job with, you can instead match up with a complete stranger, and therefore considerably increase the pool of potential candidates.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Echo Ekhi’s Blog: I’m Declaring War Against “What If” Videos: Project Copy-Knight. “They are very easy to make: pick a fanfic, copy all the text into a text-to-speech generator, mix the resulting audio file with some generic art from the fandom as the background, give it a snappy title like ‘What if Deku had the Power of Ten Rings’, photoshop an attention-grabbing thumbnail, dump it onto YouTube and get thousands of views…. In short, an industry has emerged from the systematic copyright theft of fanfiction, for profit.”
CBS News: Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa hacked by Iranian-backed cyber group. “The Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa said on Saturday that one of their booster stations had been hacked by an Iranian-backed cyber group. Matthew Mottes, the chairman of the board of directors for the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa, confirmed to KDKA-TV that the cyber group, known as Cyber Av3ngers, took control of one of the stations. An alarm went off as soon as the hack had occurred.”
TorrentFreak: Rightsholders Reported Five Million Unique ‘Pirate’ Domain Names to Google. “Over the past several years, copyright holders have asked Google to remove URLs from five million unique domains. These include blatant pirate sites such as The Pirate Bay, but also legal streaming services such as Netflix and Disney+. What stands out most is that a tiny fraction of all domains are responsible for the majority of the trouble.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Tech Xplore: Creating artistic collages using reinforcement learning. “Researchers at Seoul National University have recently tried to train an artificial intelligence (AI) agent to create collages (i.e., artworks created by sticking various pieces of materials together), reproducing renowned artworks and other images. Their proposed model was introduced in a paper pre-printed on arXiv and presented at ICCV 2023 in October.”
The Hill: Science is littered with zombie studies. Here’s how to stop their spread.. “Since 1980, more than 40,000 scientific publications have been retracted. They either contained errors, were based on outdated knowledge or were outright frauds. Identifying these inaccuracies is how science is supposed to work. Finding and correcting publications — and keeping the scholarly record up to date — is part of the process. Yet these zombie publications continue to be cited and used, unwittingly, to support new arguments. Why? Almost always it’s because nobody noticed they had been retracted.”
University of Reading: Machines meet museums: Report unpacks AI in heritage sector. “Nearly a quarter of UK heritage organisations are using artificial intelligence (AI) tools, according to a recent survey commissioned by The National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF). The rise of AI in the heritage research led to the NLHF commissioning Dr Mathilde Pavis, of the University of Reading, to conduct research unpacking emerging uses of AI across museums, galleries, libraries and archives, and support the heritage sector in planning for the AI revolution.” Good morning, Internet…
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November 27, 2023 at 06:31PM
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