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NEW RESOURCES
Google Blog: Stitched Into Memory: the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt comes online. “Launching today, Stitched into Memory: The UK AIDS Memorial Quilt Collection is a collaboration between the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt Partnership and Google Arts & Culture. This is the first time the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt has been displayed online for the world to see, alongside oral histories and archive materials that celebrate the people remembered on the quilts. More than 40 quilts have been photographed using Google Arts & Culture’s Art Camera, a custom made camera for digitising artworks in ultra high resolution.”
Local Journalism Initiative: Rural women’s shelters get support from online policy database. “A new online policy database aims to build capacity for rural women’s shelters in Canada. The Shelter Pulse project is a collaboration between Rural Development Network (RDN) and the Mountain Rose Centre in Rocky Mountain House which will create a centralized bank of shelter policies. Shelters and family violence services in rural areas are often resource-strapped, and the database will allow users to search and download current policy documents without having to take staff away from front-line work to update and develop their own policies.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
BBC: Rizz named word of the year 2023 by Oxford University Press. “Are you good at chatting up or flirting with potential partners? If so, you may already have rizz, even if you didn’t know it. The Oxford word of the year, internet slang for romantic appeal or charm, is mostly used by young people. It was one of eight words on a shortlist, all chosen to reflect the mood, ethos or preoccupations of 2023.”
Bing Blog: Microsoft Copilot is now generally available. “Since Microsoft Copilot (formerly Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise) launched in preview in February, people around the world have embraced it as their everyday AI companion. It’s been used to generate billions of prompts and responses, helping people be more creative and productive in their lives. We’re excited to keep this momentum going by announcing that Copilot is now generally available and no longer in preview.”
USEFUL STUFF
Make Tech Easier: 6 Amazing Note-Taking Alternatives to Evernote. “Evernote has become an industry leader in note-taking apps. However, it is not everyone’s cup of tea and has a few severe limitations. If you are looking for an Evernote alternative that offers all of the same features (or more), check out these fantastic note-taking apps that all serve as alternatives to Evernote.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
South China Morning Post: TikTok owner ByteDance joins generative AI frenzy with service for chatbot development, memo says. “ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, is working on an open platform that will allow users to create their own chatbots, as the company races to catch up in generative artificial intelligence (AI) amid fierce competition that kicked off with last year’s launch of ChatGPT. The ‘bot development platform’ will be launched as a public beta by the end of the month, according to an internal memo seen by the Post.”
TVP World: Baltics, Poland, and Ukraine collaborate in UNESCO bid for Gulag-era birch bark letters. “Cultural institutions representing the Baltic States, Poland, and Ukraine have collaboratively submitted a collective proposal to UNESCO’s international ‘Memory of the World’ registry. This joint effort advocates for the inclusion of letters penned on birch bark during the years 1940-1965 from the Siberian Gulag.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
WIRED: How to Not Get Hacked by a QR Code . “Quishing is an amalgamation of ‘QR code’ and ‘phishing’ —where malicious actors ‘fish’ (often over email) for private information and personal details. If we didn’t already have enough to worry about, now we need to be on guard against quishing. The good news is that the security practices you hopefully already have in place should serve you well here too.”
TechCrunch: 23andMe says hackers accessed ‘significant number’ of files about users’ ancestry. “In a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission published Friday, the company said that, based on its investigation into the incident, it had determined that hackers had accessed 0.1% of its customer base. According to the company’s most recent annual earnings report, 23andMe has ‘more than 14 million customers worldwide,’ which means 0.1% is around 14,000.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Google DeepMind Adds Nearly 400,000 New Compounds to Berkeley Lab’s Materials Project. “The Materials Project, an open-access database founded at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) in 2011, computes the properties of both known and predicted materials…. Now, Google DeepMind – Google’s artificial intelligence lab – is contributing nearly 400,000 new compounds to the Materials Project, expanding the amount of information researchers can draw upon. The dataset includes how the atoms of a material are arranged (the crystal structure) and how stable it is (formation energy).” Good afternoon, Internet…
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December 5, 2023 at 01:43AM
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