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NEW RESOURCES
Natural Resources Defense Council: New Database of Federal Grants for Food Waste. “ReFED’s analysis shows that an annual investment of $18 billion can reduce food waste across the food system by more than 21 million tons each year and generate $78 billion in annual net financial benefit. Capital from public, private, and philanthropic sources is needed. The federal government has long funded food loss and waste solutions, and over the past year it has made unprecedented investments in the space. To help potential applicants find and understand these crucial federal grant opportunities, ReFED and NRDC partnered to create a database of grants that could be used to fund food waste reduction work.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Search Engine Journal: Google Expands Sensitive Events Policy To Limit Exploitation Of Emergencies. “As per the updated policy, a sensitive event is defined as an unforeseen or unexpected situation that poses a significant risk to Google’s ability to provide high-quality, relevant information while reducing insensitive content in prominent and monetized features. Sensitive events include those with major social, cultural, or political impact such as civil emergencies, natural disasters, public health crises, terrorism, conflict, or mass violence.”
The Verge: Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees. “Turns out Google’s postpandemic reckoning didn’t just hit the Google Hardware team responsible for Pixel, Nest, and Fitbit products — it’s taken similarly sized bites out of Google’s core engineering and Google Assistant teams too. Google just confirmed to The Verge that it’s eliminated ‘a few hundred’ roles in each of these divisions, meaning Google has confirmed layoffs of around a thousand employees on Wednesday alone, if we use a reasonable definition of ‘few’.”
Reuters: US FBI, SEC join probe of fake social media post from regulator. “U.S. authorities including the Federal Bureau of Investigation are probing a fake post made on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s account on X, an SEC spokesperson said on Wednesday after the incident roiled the already volatile bitcoin market.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
The National (Scotland): Google ‘fixes’ map error after cars get stuck on central Edinburgh staircase. “GOOGLE has fixed a bug that told drivers to head down a set of stairs in central Edinburgh. The news comes after two cars became stuck on the same steps off Leith Walk at the foot of Calton Hill, Edinburgh Live reported.”
Variety: AI-Generated George Carlin Drops Comedy Special That Daughter Speaks Out Against: ‘No Machine Will Ever Replace His Genius’. “More than 15 years after his death, stand-up comedian George Carlin has been brought back to life in an artificial intelligence-generated special called ‘George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead.’ The hour-long special, which dropped on Tuesday, comes from Dudesy, a comedy AI that hosts a podcast and YouTube show with ‘Mad TV’ alum Will Sasso and podcaster Chad Kultgen.” The headline should be something like “AI Imitating George Carlin Drops Comedy Special.”
Engadget: Amazon won’t support AirPlay or Chromecast, but will adopt Matter Casting instead. “Amazon is the first big company to add support for the Matter open casting standard, it announced at CES 2024 in Las Vegas. Matter Casting is an open protocol that lets you send videos and related content from an app to a hardware device, just like Apple AirPlay and Google Chromecast. The feature just launched for the Prime Video app and will allow casting to various Amazon hardware devices.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Bloomberg: US Prosecutors’ Message for Whistleblowers: Let’s Make a Deal. “The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced a new pilot program, aimed at enticing tips from employees at private companies, financial institutions and investment funds that expose corruption and white collar crime.” Why am I mentioning this in ResearchBuzz? Because as far as I can tell the tech industry runs more and more on money and less and less on innovation.
404 Media: Deepfaked Celebrity Ads Promoting Medicare Scams Run Rampant on YouTube. “Shoddy AI clones of celebrities including Joe Rogan, Taylor Swift, Steve Harvey, Ice Cube, Andrew Tate, Oprah, and The Rock are hawking Medicare and Medicaid scams to millions of people on YouTube with seemingly little intervention from Google. Ads connected to this scam have been viewed more than 195 million times on YouTube according to a playlist of more than 1,600 videos compiled by a tipster who shared them with 404 Media.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
Radio Prague International: World’s oldest wooden object soon to be on display in Czechia. “A 7,000-year-old well found in Czechia’s Pardubice region six years ago will soon be on display as part of an archaeological exhibition at the Museum of East Bohemia. The wooden well, which has been in the care of restorers for the last few years, is, according to analyses, the oldest wooden man-made object in the world.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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January 12, 2024 at 01:48AM
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