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NEW RESOURCES
KC Studio: Missouri Remembers: New Website Features Artists in Missouri Through 1951. “Missouri Remembers currently features 323 artist entries with biographical narratives and links to exhibitions, awards and relationships with other artists, teachers, students, dealers, etc.”
UK Fundraising: Free-to-access Data Dashboard launches to help charities with their legacy strategies . “A free-to-use online Data Dashboard has been launched to provide UK charities with easy access to current legacy giving market trends and forecasts for the medium and long-term. Sharing key facts, figures and metrics, the Data Dashboard aims to help charities in their strategic decision-making when planning and investing in legacy fundraising within their organisations.”
Indiana University: Indiana Broadcast History Archive preserves the stories of the storytellers. “For residents of Indiana, names like Howard Caldwell, Ken Beckley, Barbara Boyd and Anne Ryder may ring a bell. They are among the many local broadcasters Hoosiers have welcomed into their living rooms over the years to deliver the day’s news from the warm glow of a television. At Indiana University Bloomington, a professor and an archivist teamed up to preserve Indiana’s history as told by the familiar faces and voices of local radio and television broadcasters.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
The Next Web: Tree-planting search engine Ecosia launches ‘green’ AI chatbot. “Ecosia admits that it does not yet have ‘oversight of the carbon emissions created by LLM-based genAI functions,’ since OpenAI does not openly share this information. However, initial testing indicates that the new GenAI function will increase CO2 emissions by 5%, Ecosia said, for which it will increase investment in solar power, regenerative agriculture, and other nature-based solutions.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
WIRED: Inside America’s School Internet Censorship Machine. “Thanks in large part to a two-decade-old federal anti-porn law, school districts across the US restrict what students see online using a patchwork of commercial web filters that block vast and often random swathes of the internet. Companies like GoGuardian and Blocksi—the two filters used in Albuquerque—govern students’ internet use in thousands of US school districts. As the national debate over school censorship focuses on controversial book-banning laws, a WIRED investigation reveals how these automated web filters can perpetuate dangerous censorship on an even greater scale.”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Fulton panel considers $10M tax break to Elon Musk’s X . “A Fulton County agency is considering granting a more than $10 million property tax break to the social network belonging to the world’s richest man — Elon Musk — an incentive for computers in an existing Atlanta data center that would create no new jobs.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
United Nations Institute for Training and Research: UNESCO And UN Satellite Centre Join Forces To Safeguard Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage With Geospatial Technologies . “In a groundbreaking initiative aimed at preserving Ukraine’s cultural legacy, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) through the United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have collaboratively developed a capacity-development training programme focusing on the utilisation of satellite imagery and data interpretation.”
SF Gate: Almost 100,000 Google employees are about to get a hard-fought $20. “Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit from 2016 that outlined the Bay Area tech giant’s strict confidentiality policies for workers. The suit helped launch a wave of employee activism in the industry, and has been litigated across seven years and thousands of pages of court documents. In the end, Google will pay out only $27 million, a drop in the bucket for such a titanic company — and just a fraction of that money will actually go to workers.”
Ars Technica: Gmail’s AI-powered spam detection is its biggest security upgrade in years. “The latest post on the Google Security blog details a new upgrade to Gmail’s spam filters that Google is calling ‘one of the largest defense upgrades in recent years.’ The upgrade comes in the form of a new text classification system called RETVec (Resilient & Efficient Text Vectorizer). Google says this can help understand ‘adversarial text manipulations’—these are emails full of special characters, emojis, typos, and other junk characters that previously were legible by humans but not easily understandable by machines.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
USC Viterbi School of Engineering: New 4-Year Construction Project To Create an Open Cybersecurity Testbed: SPHERE. “To foster innovative cybersecurity and privacy research and experimentation that leads to new defensive systems and protections, a team of researchers from ISI’s Networking and Cybersecurity Division and Northeastern University are constructing an open testbed called SPHERE: Security and Privacy Heterogeneous Environment for Reproducible Experimentation. The National Science Foundation recently awarded the ISI-led team with an $18 million Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure-1 award to fund the construction.”
University of Arizona: New wearable communication system offers potential to reduce digital health divide. “wearables currently require significant infrastructure – such as satellites or arrays of antennas that use cell signals – to transmit data, making many of those devices inaccessible to rural and under-resourced communities. A group of University of Arizona researchers has set out to change that with a wearable monitoring device system that can send health data up to 15 miles – much farther than Wi-Fi or Bluetooth systems can – without any significant infrastructure. Their device, they hope, will help make digital health access more equitable.”
Washington State University: Exposure to soft robots decreases human fears about working with them. “A Washington State University study found that watching videos of a soft robot working with a person at picking and placing tasks lowered the viewers’ safety concerns and feelings of job insecurity. This was true even when the soft robot was shown working in close proximity to the person. This finding shows soft robots hold a potential psychological advantage over rigid robots made of metal or other hard materials.” Good morning, Internet…
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December 7, 2023 at 06:31PM
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