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NEW RESOURCES
Harvard University, Peabody Museum: Harvard’s Peabody Museum Shares 32,000 Newly Digitized Historic Photos of Kalahari Desert Indigenous Peoples. “The collection of photographic and written records, created by the Laurence K. and Lorna J. Marshall family, documents how Indigenous peoples of the Kalahari Desert region—primarily the Ju/’hoansi, G/ui, and Naro—lived prior to extended contact with the Western world.”
Lifehacker: Amazon Is Offering AI Classes for Free. “In a blog post on Monday, Amazon announced ‘AI Ready,’ the company’s new initiative to give two million people access to free AI skills training by 2025. In total, the company is offering eight new classes, for free, for varying experience levels and purposes. In addition, AI Ready aims to offer a new generative AI course to more than 50,000 high school and university students.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Google Blog: Visit the new Chrome Web Store. “Inspired by our Material You design language, the new store has fresh color palettes, updated card styles and improved icon legibility that all better complement Chrome’s overall look. You’ll also see new extension categories, like AI-powered and shopping extensions, and ones that are more tailored to your interests based on what you’ve previously downloaded.”
Search Engine Roundtable: New Reports: Google Search Getting Dates Wrong Again. “I am seeing some new reports, some publicly, and some not, of Google Search getting the dates they display in the Google Search results wrong. This is a common issue that Google has struggled with over the years but recently seemed to have been getting better at.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Engadget: Google admits YouTube’s war on ad blockers is resulting in ‘suboptimal viewing’ experiences. “Based on the code found by some YCombinator and Reddit posters, YouTube has implemented an anti-adblocker mechanism that’s causing the delays. We did find the snippet of code cited in those threads, but it’s not quite clear what it does. In a statement that Google has provided Android Authority, it admitted that it has implemented a system that’s meant to urge viewers to uninstall their ad blockers. The company said that users who have ad blockers installed ‘may experience suboptimal viewing’ no matter what browser they choose to use.”
Rolling Stone: How This Viral TikTok Trend Became Linked to a ‘Sex Cult’. “A MARKETING GROUP behind one of the most successful TikTok ad campaigns of all time is drawing scrutiny for its alleged ties to NXIVM, the so-called ‘sex cult’ once led by Keith Raniere in upstate New York.” I’m imagining someone reading that headline and summary 100 years from now, blinking, shaking their head slightly to clear it, and reading it again. Yes, it really is that weird at the moment.
CNN: Elon Musk is now boosting the ‘Pizzagate’ conspiracy theory. “Elon Musk on Monday boosted the dangerous, years-old ‘Pizzagate’ conspiracy theory in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, just days after being roundly criticized and facing an advertiser exodus following his embrace of an antisemitic conspiracy theory.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Europol: Europol sets up OSINT taskforce to support investigations into war crimes committed in Ukraine. “A new Operational Taskforce (OTF) has been set up by Europol to assist ongoing investigations into core international crimes committed in Ukraine following the invasion of the country by Russian armed forces in February 2022. This Taskforce aims to help identify suspects and their involvement in war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide crimes committed in Ukraine through the collection and analysis of open source intelligence (OSINT).”
The Guardian: X sues watchdog group Media Matters after report on ads next to Nazi posts. “Social media platform X on Monday sued media watchdog group Media Matters, alleging the organization defamed the platform after it published a report that said ads for major brands had appeared next to posts touting Nazism.”
Bloomberg: Trump’s Truth Social Parent Company Sues 20 Media Outlets. “The company behind former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social wants $1.5 billion in damages from news organizations which reported that the platform had lost $73 million. Lawyers for Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. said in a lawsuit filed Monday in state court in Sarasota County, Florida, that the number was ‘an utter fabrication’ and accused 20 news outlets of a ‘deliberate, malicious, and coordinated attack’ against Truth Social.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Stony Brook University: AI Model for Creating Optical Illusions Wins Demo Award at CVPR 2023. “In June of 2023, Stony Brook’s Ph.D. students Ryan Burgert, Kanchana Ranasinghe, and Xiang Li, along with Prof. Michael Ryoo … greatly advanced the role of AI in art by using the technology to create stunning optical illusions. The team showcased their project, titled ‘Diffusion Illusions: Hiding Images in Plain Sight,’ at CVPR 2023, where they won the Demo Award for their contributions to the field.”
University of Florida: Study reveals bias in AI tools when diagnosing women’s health issue. “Machine learning algorithms designed to diagnose a common infection that affects women showed a diagnostic bias among ethnic groups, University of Florida researchers found.” Good morning, Internet…
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November 22, 2023 at 06:31PM
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