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NEW RESOURCES
The Map Room has launched a page for map-related books coming out in 2024. From the page: “Here are the map, cartography and geospatial-related books that, to my knowledge, have been published or are scheduled to be published in 2024. This page will be updated throughout the year as I receive new information. Which is to say that this information is subject to change and often in flux (publishers reschedule books all the time).”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
AFP: Elon Musk’s X tells watchdog it has shed 1,000 ‘safety’ staff. “Elon Musk’s X has shed more than 1,000 staff globally from teams responsible for stopping abusive content online, according to new figures released Thursday by Australia’s online watchdog. Australia’s eSafety Commission said these ‘deep cuts’ and the reinstatement of thousands of banned accounts had created a ‘perfect storm’ for the spread of harmful content.”
Search Engine Land: YouTube rolls out new Shorts editing tools. “YouTube video layouts can now be edited when converting long-form clips into Shorts. The new editing feature, compatible with all Remix tools, is currently accessible only on iOS but will be rolled out to Android in the near future.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Mint: China’s Weibo blocks trending hashtag on ‘Taiwan election’ amid voting. “China’s Weibo social media platform on Saturday blocked a hashtag on the Taiwan presidential election after it became one of the site’s top-trending topics following polls opening on the self-ruled island, AFP reported.”
Kyiv Post: Ancient Graffiti to be Digitized in Kyiv’s St. Sophia. “The National Conservation Area ‘St. Sophia of Kyiv’ has launched a project to digitally document the graffiti array of the eleventh and early eighteenth centuries. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy in Telegram, Ukrinform reports.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Ars Technica: Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say. “For the third time in less than a year, film studios with copyright infringement complaints against a cable Internet provider are trying to force Reddit to share information about users who have discussed piracy on the site.”
IEEE Spectrum: How Tech Automated the January 6 Investigations: Three years on, databases, not tipsters, are generating more criminal charges. “Josh Coker’s Facebook page doesn’t show any MAGA memes or Trump quotes. He wasn’t live-streaming on 6 January 2021, and no one has ever stepped forward to identify him as one of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol that day. But on 10 October last year, the Department of Justice charged Coker, who lives in Oregon, Ohio, with five counts connected to the failed insurrection. The FBI was able to identify Coker and gather information about his actions using only location data from his phone and image-recognition technologies.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
TechCrunch: Google to help build the first subsea cable directly connecting South America with Asia-Pacific. “Google is set to build a new subsea cable connecting Chile with Australia, via French Polynesia — the first such cable to directly connect South America with Asia-Pacific.”
University of Copenhagen: New study pinpoints the weaknesses in AI. “ChatGPT and other solutions built on Machine Learning are surging. But even the most successful algorithms have limitations. As the first in the world researchers from University of Copenhagen has proven mathematically that apart from simple problems it is not possible to create algorithms for AI that will always be stable.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
Publishers Weekly: North Carolina’s Firestorm Books Offers Free Books Banned in Florida . “Firestorm Books, a collectively-owned radical bookstore in Asheville, N.C., has acquired 22,500 copies of 46 children’s books that were banned from the Duval County Public School system in Florida. Under a campaign named ‘Banned Books Back!,’ the bookstore plans to distribute these books to children and families across the United States, starting with Florida.” The bookstore is fundraising for shipping costs. Good morning, Internet…
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January 14, 2024 at 01:11AM
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