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TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Search Engine Journal: Google Tests Longer Search Result Snippets Again. “Google seems to be testing longer search result snippets again. We saw this recently with Google Ads, some really long Google Ads descriptions and now we are seeing it with the organic/free listings.”
Associated Press: The year of social media soul-searching: Twitter dies, X and Threads are born and AI gets personal. “We lost Twitter and got X. We tried out Bluesky and Mastodon (well, some of us did). We fretted about AI bots and teen mental health. We cocooned in private chats and scrolled endlessly as we did in years past. For social media users, 2023 was a year of beginnings and endings, with some soul-searching in between. Here’s a look back at some of the biggest stories in social media in 2023 — and what to watch for next year.”
Route Fifty: After an action-packed year, 2024 will be another blockbuster year for AI. “Taylor Swift is Time magazine’s person of the year. Sam Altman is its CEO of the year. And 2023, according to the publication, is the year governments began taking artificial intelligence seriously. And indeed, it has been a banner year for executive orders and policies mandating the technology’s responsible use. State and local governments have issued their own guidelines and action plans, have dabbled with generative AI-driven pilot projects and instructed agencies to identify effective use cases.”
USEFUL STUFF
Larry Ferlazzo: This Week’s Free & Useful Artificial Intelligence Tools For The Classroom. “At least, for now, I’m going to make this a weekly feature which will highlight additions to THE BEST NEW – & FREE – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS THAT COULD BE USED IN THE CLASSROOM.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
CODART: Exhibiting Sustainably: M Leuven and Its Green Book. “In this second article in CODART’s series on sustainability in museums, we will be focusing on sustainability in exhibitions. What does it involve and how does it affect the curator’s work CODART spoke to Marjan Debaene of M Leuven, a museum with a comprehensive sustainability policy and a Green Book that it has developed to translate this policy into good practice.”
Internet Archive Blog: Public Domain Day 2024 Remix Contest: The Internet Archive is Looking For Creative Short Films Made By You!. “We are looking for filmmakers and artists of all levels to create and upload short films of 2–3 minutes to the Internet Archive to help us celebrate Public Domain Day at our celebrations on January 24 (in-person screening & party) & January 25 (virtual celebration), 2024! Our short film contest serves as a platform for filmmakers to explore, remix, and breathe new life into the timeless gems that have entered the public domain.”
Mother Jones: Is Dumping Twitter Your New Year’s Resolution?. “Most users have stayed. The site still hums with activity, and is still the closest thing to a place of centralized discourse. But the numbers show a substantial share have departed: some 15% of users left since Musk took over last October; ad revenue is down by 54% over the same period. Staying does feel bad. Logging on to send little tweets while knowing you are playing some sliver of a part in enabling a petulant billionaire, however minuscule and indirect, is at a minimum embarrassing.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
London Free Press: London ‘master con man’ outed after online event featuring Elon Musk. “Benjamin Zev co-hosted a virtual debate on the social media platform X featuring billionaire owner Elon Musk, would-be U.S. presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, alt-right radio broadcaster Alex Jones and other high-profile guests earlier this month…. Less than two weeks after co-hosting the largest-ever Twitter event, Zev disappeared from social media without a trace, leaving his wide-ranging network of lawyers, political insiders, journalists and entrepreneurs baffled. They would soon learn that Zev isn’t a lawyer, never worked for the Department of Justice and was lying about his real name.”
Ars Technica: Google agrees to settle Chrome incognito mode class action lawsuit. “Google has indicated that it is ready to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in 2020 over its Chrome browser’s Incognito mode. Arising in the Northern District of California, the lawsuit accused Google of continuing to ‘track, collect, and identify [users’] browsing data in real time’ even when they had opened a new Incognito window.”
TorrentFreak: Reckless DMCA Deindexing Pushes NASA’s Artemis Towards Black Hole. “The crew of Artemis 2 are preparing to become the first humans to fly to the moon since 1972. The Artemis program faces many challenges but allowing people to learn about the program should not be one of them. Targeting the word ‘Artemis’ no matter what the context, a reckless anti-piracy sweep has demanded Google deindexing against dozens of innocent platforms for simply trying to report on mankind’s quest for knowledge.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
New York Times: A.I. Can Make Art That Feels Human. Whose Fault Is That?. “A.I. cannot innovate. All it can produce are prompt-driven approximations and reconstitutions of preexisting materials. If you believe that culture is an imaginative human endeavor, then there should be nothing to fear, except that — what do you know? — a lot of humans have not been imagining anything more substantial.” This article is a gift link so you should be able to read it without paywall.
Hackaday: Generating 3D Scenes From Just One Image. “The LucidDreamer project ties a variety of functions into a pipeline that can take a source image (or generate one from a text prompt) and “lift” its content into 3D, creating highly-detailed Gaussian splats that look great and can even be navigated. Gaussian splatting is a method used to render NeRFs (Neural Radiance Fields), which are themselves a method of generating complex scenes from sparse 2D sources, and doing it quickly.” Good morning, Internet…
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December 29, 2023 at 06:32PM
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