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NEW RESOURCES
State of Montana: More Newspaper Pages Available Through MTHS Library & Archives. “Two newspaper digitization projects will improve and expand access to historical Montana newspapers, which is one of the most used collections at the Montana Historical Society (MTHS). This latest project through the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) makes more than 100,000 pages available online for free and includes newspapers from towns on or near reservations in Montana.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
The Verge: Twitch will ban people pretending to be naked. “Twitch is changing its sexual content policies again, this time to prohibit implied nudity on the platform. The platform already prohibits nudity, but Twitch’s new attire policy, which goes into effect today, also doesn’t allow streamers to ‘imply or suggest that they are fully or partially nude,’ chief customer trust officer Angela Hession says in a blog post.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
The Guardian: Chief executive of collapsed crypto fund HyperVerse does not appear to exist. “A chief executive officer whose claimed qualifications appear to have no basis in fact was used to promote the HyperVerse crypto fund, alongside celebrity messages of support, as part of a push to recruit new investors into the scheme.”
Politico: A New Kind of AI Copy Can Fully Replicate Famous People. The Law Is Powerless.. “Both [Martin] Seligman and [Esther] Perel eventually decided to accept the bots rather than challenge their existence. But if they’d wanted to shut down their digital replicas, it’s not clear they would have had a way to do it. Training AI on copyrighted works isn’t actually illegal. If the real Martin had wanted to block access to the fake one — a replica trained on his own thinking, using his own words, to produce all-new answers — it’s not clear he could have done anything about it.”
PC Magazine: Camera Companies Fight AI-Generated Images With ‘Verify’ Watermark Tech. “Camera companies are looking to fight the rise of AI-generated images by embedding digital signatures in the photos. Nikon, for instance, plans to start offering mirrorless cameras with authentication technology built in for photojournalists and other professional photographers. The technology will embed tamper-resistant digital signatures, including the date and time a photo was taken as well as its location and the photographer, Nikkei Asia reports.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
SF Gate: ‘Utterly hammered’: Interest in Jeffrey Epstein list crashed Bay Area nonprofit’s site. “The documents, unsealed Wednesday afternoon as part of a December court order, are expected to include hundreds of names — including those of accusers and some public figures. A viral link to the unsealed documents goes to CourtListener.com, an archive of court data run by the Oakland-based nonprofit Free Law Project. But when SFGATE checked the site, it appeared as if the crush of visitors had overwhelmed it.”
CTV News: Police issue investment scam warning after fake Elon Musk videos circulate online. “South Simcoe police issued a cautionary alert after two reported incidents involving fraudulent ads on YouTube and other social media platforms featuring billionaire Elon Musk offering investments starting at $250.”
Reuters: Google faces March 2025 trial in Texas’ antitrust lawsuit. ” A U.S. judge has scheduled a March 2025 trial in a lawsuit lodged by Texas and other states accusing Alphabet’s Google of abusing its market dominance for advertising technology systems.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
ERR: Anti-propaganda site finds subtle Russia-leaning messages in mainstream media. “Anti-disinformation site Propastop has looked at three articles which appeared in serious media publications over the Christmas break and which have embedded within them messages which could aid in perpetuating Russia’s narrative in relation to its invasion of Ukraine. Propastop says the narratives contained the articles in question may reflect an underlying strategy by Russia aimed at shaping international opinions and decisions, particularly on military aid to Ukraine.”
Dartmouth University: Geisel Professor Harnesses AI to Act Like a Patient. “Created by a team led by Thomas Thesen, associate professor of medical education at Geisel School of Medicine and director of the Neuroscience-Informed Learning and Education Lab, the AI Patient Actor app helps second-year medical school students practice interacting with patients and sharpens their diagnostic and interpersonal skills.”
Ars Technica: ChatGPT bombs test on diagnosing kids’ medical cases with 83% error rate. “ChatGPT is still no House, MD. While the chatty AI bot has previously underwhelmed with its attempts to diagnose challenging medical cases—with an accuracy rate of 39 percent in an analysis last year—a study out this week in JAMA Pediatrics suggests the fourth version of the large language model is especially bad with kids. It had an accuracy rate of just 17 percent when diagnosing pediatric medical cases.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
Tom’s Hardware: Oldest known version of DOS unearthed – MS-DOS ancestor 86-DOS version 0.1 C is now available on the Internet Archive. “An incredibly early release of 86-DOS has been found, imaged, and shared on the Internet Archive. The disk appears to be an original release of version 0.1 C of 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products (1980) and includes several utilities, along with a game. Moreover, according to the disk label, what we see is just the eleventh disk off the duplication line. This is an important finding, as 86-DOS is a direct ancestor of PC DOS and MS-DOS.” Good morning, Internet…
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January 4, 2024 at 06:31PM
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