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TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Library of Congress: Celebrating 5 Years of By the People. “By the People (BtP), the Library of Congress crowdsourced transcription program, is taking a moment this winter to look back on how we’ve grown and celebrate our 5th year! As we’ve shared in earlier birthday celebrations, BtP was originally incubated in 2018 by the LC Labs team and was designed to engage volunteers by inviting them to explore and transcribe documents from the Library’s digital collections.”
Washington Post: Elon Musk promised an anti-‘woke’ chatbot. It’s not going as planned.. “Two weeks after the Dec. 8 launch of Grok to paid subscribers of X, formerly Twitter, Musk is fielding complaints from the political right that the chatbot gives liberal responses to questions about diversity programs, transgender rights and inequality.”
Medium: Exploring emerging technologies: an update on our Product & AI Studio. “This summer, the American Journalism Project launched our new Product & AI Studio, a new program to explore the smart application of emerging technologies in local journalism…. Today, we’re excited to share an update on the progress the Product & AI Studio has made so far.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Search Engine Journal: Santa Tracker 2023: Google Vs. Microsoft, Bing, AWS, And NORAD. “Are you looking for examples of interactive content for brands? Or festive content that creatively promotes logistics and call center management? Say hello to Santa Tracker 2023. This article explores Google’s approach to interactive content experiences vs. the official 2023 NORAD Santa Tracker powered by Microsoft, Bing, Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Zillow.”
Malta Today: Electoral Office to scan all Malta buildings in Google-type mapping. “The electoral office is to carry out a €900,000 geo-mapping of Malta’s building units, in a Google-type photographic survey using low-emission cars. The Electoral Office said it wants to consolidate its records of addresses with spatially accurate points that also reflect the rapidly changing streetscapes of Malta.”
The Verge: Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content. “This latest clash over moderation comes after The Atlantic reported on Substack publications with ‘overt Nazi symbols’ in their logos, several from prominent white nationalists, and other posts on Substack supporting those views. McKenzie’s response explains that absent an incitement to violence, Substack’s ‘decentralized approach to content moderation’ response to that material is to publish it, monetize it, and continue to take a cut of the profits.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Europol: Action against digital skimming reveals 443 compromised online merchants. “Europol, law enforcement authorities from 17 countries and the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) have joined forces with the private sector partners, including Group-IB and Sansec, to fight digital skimming attacks. With the support of national Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRT), the two-month action has enabled Europol and its partners to notify 443 online merchants that their customers’ credit card or payment card data had been compromised.”
Association of Health Care Journalists: Court rules California can share firearm owner data with researchers. “A California appeals court in November overturned a ruling that barred the state from sharing the personal information of registered gun owners for research purposes. The ruling, which overturned a San Diego Superior Court decision that such data-sharing violates privacy, was a win for the state’s firearm researchers, particularly the Firearm Violence Research Center based at UC Davis.”
Techdirt: Utah’s Top Court Says Government Can’t Portray Refusals To Unlock Phones As Incriminatory. “There’s been plenty of courtroom discussion about Fifth Amendment rights surrounding compelled decryption in recent years. Encryption is on by default on most devices these days. Law enforcement seems to believe all it needs is a warrant to compel decryption. Courts aren’t so sure.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
XDA Developers: Why LLMs like ChatGPT and Google Bard are bad at math. “When it comes to large language models (LLM), you might think they’re a silver bullet to most of your problems. You can have it plan your day or ask it almost anything, knowing it will do its utmost best to give you a comprehensive answer. However, there’s one thing you should never rely on an LLM for, and that’s math. To be clear, LLMs can be trained on large mathematical datasets to recognize patterns and, with smaller numbers, get close to real answers. Even then, though, you’re better off just using a calculator.”
Ethan Zuckerman: How Big is YouTube?. “I’ll write at some length in the future about what we can learn from a true random sample of YouTube videos. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the idea of ‘the quotidian web’, learning from the bottom half of the long tail of user-generated media so we can understand what most creators are doing with these tools, not just from the most successful influencers. But I’m going to limit myself to the question that started this blog post: how big is YouTube?”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
GamesRadar: After 23 years, developer reveals he snuck a cheat code past Sony that turns a cult-classic horror game into a godsend for retro enthusiasts. “Argonaut Games’ cult classic survival horror FPS Alien Resurrection has been hiding a secret for 23 years: it contains a cheat code that lets you play backup disks on PS1 without having to mod the hardware at all.” Good morning, Internet…
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December 25, 2023 at 06:31PM
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