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NEW RESOURCES
Digital NC: Fruits of Labor World Cultural Center Shares Labor Organizing Materials. “Fruit of Labor World Cultural Center is located in Raleigh, NC but there work goes far beyond Raleigh. The digitized materials reflects the organizing efforts of national, local and sub-local chapters of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America labor union.”
Nature: A database of hourly wind speed and modeled generation for US wind plants based on three meteorological models. “PLUSWIND provides wind speeds and estimated generation on an hourly basis at almost all wind plants across the contiguous United States from 2018–2021. The repository contains wind speeds and generation based on three different meteorological models: ERA5, MERRA2, and HRRR. Data are publicly accessible in simple csv files. Modeled generation is compared to regional and plant records, which highlights model biases and errors and how they differ by model, across regions, and across time frames.”
Interfax-Ukraine: NACP launches open database of foreign components in Russian and Iranian weapons. “The National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) is launching the world’s first open database of foreign components used by the Russian Federation and Iran in unmanned aerial vehicles, missiles, electronic warfare systems and other types of weapons and military equipment, the NACP website reported.” The site is available in Ukrainian, English, and Russian.
EVENTS
Internet Archive Blog: Weird Tales from the Public Domain: Freeing Culture from Corporate Captivity. “Join us for a virtual celebration at 10am PT / 1pm ET on January 25, 2024, with an amazing lineup of academics, librarians, musicians, artists and advocates coming together to help illuminate the significance of this new class of works entering the public domain!”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
VentureBeat: Runway ML is partnering with Getty Images on new AI video models for Hollywood and advertising. “Runway ML, the New York City video AI startup backed by Google and Nvidia, continues to entrench itself in the marketplace of the future. Today, the company announced it is partnering with Getty Images, one of the largest repositories of paid stock imagery and editorial imagery in the world, to develop a new generative AI video model: Runway Getty Images Model (RGM).”
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SECURITY & LEGAL
Reuters: Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications -US senator. “Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps’ push notifications, a U.S. senator warned on Wednesday. In a letter to the Department of Justice, Senator Ron Wyden said foreign officials were demanding the data from Alphabet’s Google and Apple. Although details were sparse, the letter lays out yet another path by which governments can track smartphones.”
TechCrunch: Millions of patient scans and health records spilling online thanks to decades-old protocol bug. “Thousands of exposed servers are spilling the medical records and personal health information of millions of patients due to security weaknesses in a decades-old industry standard designed for storing and sharing medical images, researchers have warned.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Cornell University: Newly released open-source platform cuts costs for running AI. “Cornell researchers have released a new, open-source platform called Cascade that can run artificial intelligence (AI) models in a way that slashes expenses and energy costs while dramatically improving performance. Cascade is designed for settings like smart traffic intersections, medical diagnostics, equipment servicing using augmented reality, digital agriculture, smart power grids and automatic product inspection during manufacturing – situations where AI models must react within a fraction of a second.”
University of Southern California: New report combines social work and artificial intelligence to address racial bias in housing for people experiencing homelessness. “Racial inequities and the impacts of systemic bias are starkly evident in the population of people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles, but a new report details a proposed method of collaboration between human and technological systems that could eliminate racial bias in housing allocation.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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December 9, 2023 at 01:05AM
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