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NEW RESOURCES
Friends of Football (New Zealand): READ: New Zealand’s national Soccer News magazine from fifty years ago. “Fifty years ago, New Zealand football fans followed the sport through various publications, including the national monthly magazine Soccer News. Published and edited by Wellington-based John Ewan, the magazine covered the national team, national competitions such as the Rothmans Soccer League and the Chatham Cup… The publication has been converted to digital format by Friends of Football as part of an ongoing project to preserve the heritage of the game in New Zealand.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
TechCrunch: Google pulls Binance, other global crypto apps from India store. “Google pulled many crypto exchanges, including Binance and Kraken, from its Play Store in India on Saturday in what is the latest blow to the world’s second largest internet market’s already dwindling web3 dream. The ban comes two weeks after these global crypto exchanges were flagged for operating ‘illegally’ in the South Asian market.”
The Verge: Google removes 17 features from Google Assistant. “Several ‘underutilized’ Google Assistant features will soon be joining the infamous Google graveyard — such as the ability to use your voice to send an email, video, or audio messages — as the search giant introduces changes it says will make the feature easier to use. The company is also changing how the microphone works in the Google app and Pixel Search bar.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
WIRED: Scammy AI-Generated Book Rewrites Are Flooding Amazon. “When AI researcher Melanie Mitchell published Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans in 2019, she set out to clarify AI’s impact. A few years later, ChatGPT set off a new AI boom—with a side effect that caught her off guard. An AI-generated imitation of her book appeared on Amazon, in an apparent scheme to profit off her work. It looks like another example of the ecommerce giant’s ongoing problem with a glut of low-quality AI-generated ebooks.”
Yale School of Management: A New Course Prepares Students for a Workplace Transformed by AI. “Large Language Models: Theory and Application debuted this fall. Taught by Kyle Jensen, the Shanna and Eric Bass ’05 Director of Entrepreneurial Programs, and K. Sudhir, the James L. Frank ’32 Professor Private Enterprise and Management and professor of marketing, the course aims to equip students with the fundamentals of how large language models (LLMs) work and explore their far-reaching impact in the marketplace.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
StateScoop: Nonprofit behind FTC complaint about automated fraud-detection software hopes for more responsible AI use. “The group behind the recent Federal Trade Commission complaint against Thomson Reuters’ automated public-benefit fraud detection software — which is used by 42 state governments — hopes the filing will bring about more responsible use of artificial intelligence by governments and the vendors they contract.”
CBC: Toronto Public Library storing returned books at 12 trailers off site in wake of cyberattack. “The Toronto Public Library says it is storing returned books at 12 trailers off site following an October cyberattack. The books are being stored securely and have yet to be checked in, the library said in an email on Thursday.”
Fightful: NJPW Issues Copyright Strike Against…..NJPW. “New Japan Pro-Wrestling strikes again. NJPW is notorious for issues copyright strikes from users who upload their videos on YouTube and social media platforms and their latest victim is one of the biggest platforms in the world of wrestling. NJPW.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
BBC: Our fingerprints may not be unique, claims AI. “There is a belief that each fingerprint on one person’s hand is completely unique but that is now being challenged by research from Columbia University. A team at the US university trained an AI tool to examine 60,000 fingerprints to see if it could work out which ones belonged to the same individual. The researchers claim the technology could identify, with 75-90% accuracy, whether prints from different fingers came from one person.”
Los Angeles Times: Opinion: I bought a flip phone and tried to get by without my smartphone. Here’s how that went. “When they were little, my sons loved to play a game in which they would hide under the covers while I wondered aloud, ‘Where is he?’ Then they would throw off the blankets and yell, ‘Here I am! I was here the whole time.’ How much of their lives have I missed while looking at my screen? Every year, I see kids get phones and disappear into them. I don’t want that to happen to mine. I don’t want that to have happened to me. So I quit. And now I have this flip phone.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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January 15, 2024 at 01:52AM
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