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NEW RESOURCES
Oregon State University: New online guides will aid in identification of native bees in Pacific Northwest. “Pollinator enthusiasts and scientists have new online tools to identify native bees in the Pacific Northwest. The publicly available ‘keys’ resemble the field guides familiar to fans of fauna and flora but contain the extraordinary detail needed to identify bees, which are much harder to tell apart than plants, birds, mammals and reptiles, according to Jim Rivers of the Oregon State University College of Forestry.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
9to5Google: Google Domains and Squarespace saw new registrations drop following takeover. “Data spotted by Domain Name Wire and published by ICANN shows that new registrations of .com domains from Google Domains and Squarespace combined dropped by around 25% the month that Google Domains ceased sales, from over 250,000 in August 2023 to just shy of 190,000 in September 2023.”
Amateur Radio Daily: DLARC Continues to add Rich History of Ham Radio Content. “Kay Savetz (K6KJN), posted an update in the most recent issue of Zero Retires highlighting the continued stream of rich content and history being donated to the Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications (DLARC).”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Dominican Today: Google’s information on dollar to peso exchange rate is false, says Central Bank. “The Central Bank informed today that the exchange rate for the US dollar is quoted in the exchange market at 58.63 for sale and 58.31 for purchase. Likewise, it specifies that the information on the peso’s value concerning the dollar of RD$33.20, which appears in the Google search engine, is incorrect and whose correction has been requested by the bank to that technological company.” I checked and it looks like this has been fixed.
NPR: Election officials worry about the potential use of AI to spread misinformation. “NPR’s A Martinez talks with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes about the use of artificial intelligence to curb AI-manufactured threats to the integrity of the 2024 vote.”
New Zealand Herald: Taonga archival pictures of Aotearoa history returns to New Zealand ownership. “A taonga archive featuring thousands of images illustrating aspect of Māori life from the early 20th century will be repatriated into public ownership – thanks to a new deal between its foreign owner and the National Library of NZ.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
The Journal (Ireland): Senior Irish-based X employee files High Court case against Elon Musk. “A SENIOR IRELAND-BASED employee at X, formerly known as Twitter, is taking a High Court case against Elon Musk and the company over allegedly unfair disciplinary action. Aaron Rodericks, X’s co-lead of threat disruption, is initiating proceedings after a dispute last year that centred around Rodericks allegedly liking tweets that were critical of the company.”
Ars Technica: A “ridiculously weak” password causes disaster for Spain’s No. 2 mobile carrier . “Orange España, Spain’s second-biggest mobile operator, suffered a major outage on Wednesday after an unknown party obtained a ‘ridiculously weak’ password and used it to access an account for managing the global routing table that controls which networks deliver the company’s Internet traffic, researchers said.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
TechCrunch: Isomorphic inks deals with Eli Lilly and Novartis for drug discovery. “Isomorphic Labs, the London-based, drug discovery-focused spin-out of Google AI R&D division DeepMind, today announced that it’s entered into strategic partnerships with two pharmaceutical giants, Eli Lilly and Novartis, to apply AI to discover new medications to treat diseases.”
Lismore City News (Australia): National Library rewriting the script as history becomes clearer. “Up until now, anyone interested in looking at a handwritten letter in the 15 kilometres of boxes on shelves in Canberra would have to go to the building itself. The box would be taken off the shelf and brought to a desk for the actual bit of paper to be read. And readers wouldn’t be able to search through it without actually reading the thing.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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January 8, 2024 at 01:43AM
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