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NEW RESOURCES
Indiana Department of Education: Key Literacy Data Publicly Available for the First Time. “As Indiana continues to make historic investments in literacy, a new data visualization tool launched by the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) will empower educators, parents and families, community leaders and policymakers with the information needed to continue improving state and local literacy rates.”
Scientific Data: A bite force database of 654 insect species . “Here we present the insect bite force database with bite force measurements for 654 insect species covering 476 genera, 111 families, and 13 orders with body lengths ranging from 3.76 to 180.12 mm. In total we recorded 1906 bite force series from 1290 specimens, and, in addition, present basal head, body, and wing metrics. As such, the database will facilitate a wide range of studies on the characteristics, predictors, and macroevolution of bite force in the largest clade of the animal kingdom and may serve as a basis to further our understanding of macroevolutionary processes in relation to bite force across all biting metazoans.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
TechCrunch: YouTube cracks down on AI content that ‘realistically simulates’ deceased children or victims of crimes. “YouTube is updating its harassment and cyberbullying policies to clamp down on content that ‘realistically simulates’ deceased minors or victims of deadly or violent events describing their death. The Google-owned platform says it will begin striking such content starting on January 16.”
British Library: Restoring our services – an update. “As we begin a new year, I’m pleased to confirm that – as promised before Christmas – next Monday 15 January will see the return online of one of the most important datasets for researchers around the world: the main British Library catalogue of over 36 million records, including details of our printed books, journals, maps, music scores and rare books. Its absence from the internet has been perhaps the single most visible impact of the criminal cyber attack which took place at the end of October last year, and I want to acknowledge how difficult this has been for all our users.”
Interfax-Ukraine: Due to Russian aggression in Ukraine, 872 cultural heritage sites damaged – Culture Ministry. “As a result of full-scale Russian armed aggression in Ukraine, some 872 cultural heritage sites were damaged, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy said.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
StateScoop: Maryland governor announces major tech overhaul for state government, including AI order. “[Governor Wes] Moore and his IT secretary, Katie Savage, announced four new technology initiatives, including a statewide executive order on artificial intelligence, a new digital services team, a digital accessibility policy and a cybersecurity partnership with the Maryland Army National Guard. Through these initiatives, Moore said, the state is aiming to integrate AI ethically into state government work, bolster cyberdefense and improve residents’ access to state resources, particularly for those with disabilities.”
Gothamist: NY Gov. Hochul aims to take on mental health access, ‘addictive’ social media. “Gov. Kathy Hochul says she wants to improve access to mental health care, limit social media’s negative impact on teens and bolster slipping health outcomes for pregnant New Yorkers. Those are among the major health care priorities Hochul laid out for the upcoming legislative session in her State of the State address Tuesday.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
The Register: SEC Twitter hijacked to push fake news of hotly anticipated Bitcoin ETF approval. “The SEC today said its Twitter account was hijacked to wrongly claim it had approved a bunch of hotly anticipated Bitcoin ETFs, causing the cryptocurrency to spike and then slip in price.”
University of California Riverside: UCR outs security flaw in AI query models. “UC Riverside computer scientists have identified a security flaw in vision language artificial intelligence (AI) models that can allow bad actors to use AI for nefarious purposes, such as obtaining instructions on how to make bomb. When integrated with models like Google Bard and Chat GPT, vision language models allow users to make inquiries with both images and text.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Cornell Chronicle: ChatGPT ‘memorizes’ and spits out entire poems. “The study showed that ChatGPT, a large language model that generates text on demand, was capable of “memorizing” poems, especially famous ones commonly found online. The findings pose ethical questions about how ChatGPT and other proprietary artificial intelligence models are trained – likely using data scraped from the internet, researchers said.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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January 11, 2024 at 01:25AM
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