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NEW RESOURCES
NASA: Google’s ‘A Passage of Water’ Brings NASA’s Water Data to Life. “As part of the long-standing partnership between NASA and Google, NASA worked with Google Arts & Culture and artist Yiyun Kang to create an interactive digital experience around global freshwater resources titled ‘A Passage of Water.’ This immersive experience leverages data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites and new high-resolution data from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission to illustrate how climate change is impacting Earth’s water cycle.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
US Patent and Trademark Office: USPTO’s new trademark search system to launch November 30. “To provide a modernized search experience that can adapt to the needs of the trademark community, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will be launching our cloud-based trademark search system on Thursday, November 30. This launch is the culmination of an eight-month partnership with our stakeholders. The new system provides a more stable search environment with a simplified search interface that also supports complex searching for advanced users.”
Reuters: Walmart says it is not advertising on social platform X. “Walmart said on Friday it is not advertising on social media platform X, one of the latest brands to say it has dropped the Elon Musk-owned site. ‘We aren’t advertising on X as we’ve found other platforms to better reach our customers,’ a Walmart spokesperson said.”
TechCrunch: Bluesky rolls out automated moderation tools, plus user and moderation lists. “Bluesky, the startup aiming to build a decentralized social network to take on Twitter/X, says it has begun deploying new safety tooling to help moderate content on the network through automation. Although still in private beta, the company has already made headlines for issues around content moderation in recent months after it initially didn’t ban a member making death threats, and later didn’t catch that some people were creating accounts with racial slurs in their usernames.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
TechRadar: EVE Online players are creating the first ‘AI empire’ guided by Chat GPT-4. “Just when you thought the sci-fi sandbox MMO couldn’t get more interesting after EVE Online was rocked to the core by a single player, pilots joined forces to create the Neural Nexus, an AI-led player corporation. This decision was made with a clear goal in mind. Firstly, it will reduce the reliance on a single leader as AI will now be available to all the corporation players at any time of the day. It also means that the AI leader will keep a clear and consistent vision for what the corporation should be, as well as give new dynamic role-playing opportunities for its members.”
Peninsula Daily News: Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe gets grant to digitize collections. “The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe has received a $14,536 grant from the Office of the Secretary of State to find previously undigitized items from their collections, digitize them and add them to The House of Seven Generations Online Museum. The Washington Digital Heritage grant is among the 13 given local libraries in 2023. A total of $152,476 was awarded by the Office of the Secretary of State, which oversees the Washington State Library and the Washington State Archives, announced in late September.”
Washington Post: News outlets turn to Reddit as Musk’s X descends into chaos. “As Twitter continues to decline as a place to post news, media companies have been seeking out alternative platforms to promote their work, and more are turning to Reddit. But by promoting the article in a prominent snark subreddit, Business Insider’s Reddit account has raised questions about how media companies should navigate a new social media landscape dominated by freewheeling, self-policed groups.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
The Verge: Federal judge vows to investigate Google for intentionally destroying chats. “Judge James Donato is overseeing Epic v. Google, a case that could determine the future of the Android app store — but testimony in this case may have more repercussions for Google too. On Friday, Judge Donato vowed to investigate Google for intentionally and systematically suppressing evidence, calling the company’s conduct ‘a frontal assault on the fair administration of justice.'”
Associated Press: Brazilian city enacts an ordinance that was secretly written by ChatGPT. “City lawmakers in Brazil have enacted what appears to be the nation’s first legislation written entirely by artificial intelligence — even if they didn’t know it at the time. The experimental ordinance was passed in October in the southern city of Porto Alegre and city councilman Ramiro Rosário revealed this week that it was written by a chatbot, sparking objections and raising questions about the role of artificial intelligence in public policy.”
New York Times: Inside U.S. Efforts to Untangle an A.I. Giant’s Ties to China. “American spy agencies have warned about the Emirati firm G42 and its work with large Chinese companies that U.S. officials consider security threats.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
North Carolina State University: To Help Autonomous Vehicles Make Moral Decisions, Researchers Ditch the ‘Trolley Problem’. “Researchers have developed a new experiment to better understand what people view as moral and immoral decisions related to driving vehicles, with the goal of collecting data to train autonomous vehicles how to make ‘good’ decisions. The work is designed to capture a more realistic array of moral challenges in traffic than the widely discussed life-and-death scenario inspired by the so-called ‘trolley problem.'”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
State of Michigan: Gov. Whitmer Launches Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential . “Today, Governor Gretchen Whitmer officially launched operation of the Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential, or MiLEAP. The new department, established by executive order in July, is tasked with improving outcomes from preschool through postsecondary so anyone can ‘make it in Michigan’ with a solid education and a path to a good-paying job.” Good morning, Internet…
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December 2, 2023 at 06:31PM
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