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NEW RESOURCES
Rolling Stone: The Internet Archive Now Hosts One of the World’s Biggest Collections of Rap Mixtapes. “LEGENDARY MIXTAPE PLATFORM DatPiff has uploaded the entirety of its over 366,420-project catalog to the internet archive. Last March, the service which calls itself ‘The Authority In Mixtapes’ experienced a server crash that put their canonical library of free music in peril.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
New York Times: TikTok Quietly Curtails Data Tool Used by Critics. “TikTok has quietly restricted one of its few tools to help measure the popularity of trends on the video app, after the tool’s results were used by researchers and lawmakers to scrutinize content on the site related to geopolitics and the Israel-Hamas war.”
Associated Press: Yellen says 100,000 firms have joined a business database aimed at unmasking shell company owners. “Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has announced that 100,000 businesses have signed up for a new database of that collects ownership information intended to help unmask shell company owners.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
National Guard: Georgia Guard Unit to Document US Central Command Operations. “The Marietta-based 161st Military History Detachment held a ceremony Jan. 7 as the unit prepared to depart for a mobilization to the U.S. Army Central Command area of responsibility. Their mission will be to collect primary source material necessary for historians to write the Army’s official history of operations in the area. Their collection portfolio would include documents, oral interviews, photographs and physical artifacts.”
BBC: International Bomber Command Centre gets National Lottery funding . “The International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) near Lincoln has been awarded £231,000 funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund…. The funding will be used in several areas including creating a new archive which the IBCC has said will ‘protect and preserve the heritage of the post-war era’.”
This next article isn’t for y’all, this is for whatever graduate student finds this dusty blog archive somewhere two hundred years down the line when I am long dead and forgotten. Posterity, if you want one article to summarize what it’s like to be a woman on the Internet in Century 21, here you go. I hope you get an A in your class. Ask-A-Manager: men are hitting on my scheduling bot because it has a woman’s name. “All it does is schedule meetings, and it’s not nearly to the level of an AI chat bot or anything. Any parts of an email that it receives that don’t seem related to scheduling just get ignored by the program. The emails show up in my inbox and I review them to make sure everything got added to my calendar correctly. However, this complete lack of personal-type interaction has not stopped several of the men (not usually the actual owners of the client businesses) it is scheduling appointments with from asking it out on dates.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
University of Oregon: State’s three 3 largest universities form joint cybersecurity center. “Cybersecurity experts from the state’s three largest research universities have joined together to launch the Oregon Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, with the goal of improving Oregon’s resilience to cyberattacks. The center will be run jointly by the University of Oregon, Oregon State University and Portland State University, which will host the center. It was created by the passage of House Bill 2049, which was signed into law by Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek in July.”
WIRED: Rumble Is Part of an ‘Active and Ongoing’ SEC Investigation. “Rumble, the so-called free speech alternative to YouTube, is the subject of an investigation by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), according to the company and a letter from the SEC.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Georgia Tech: Finding a Better Way to Use Cameras to Reduce Crime. “Areas of a middle Georgia city have experienced a 20% reduction in crime after deploying a system of mobile cameras guided by an algorithm developed by Georgia Tech researchers. The system is being piloted in Warner Robins, Georgia. It uses artificial intelligence to sift through years of historical crime data to predict where future crimes are likely to happen, and by placing cameras that can read license plates in those areas, a three-month test period shows the community has been able to prevent some of those crimes.”
Televisual: Vaudeville teams with Google on 3D Sound Objects. “Sound design and audio post house, Vaudeville, is working with Google to build 3D audio models and creative sound design for the launch of the recently released Immersive Audio Model and Formats (IAMF) specification. The IAMF specification is a royalty-free license, released through the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), that will enable developers to create immersive audio applications, content and experiences across a myriad of devices and platforms – from broadcasting to XR.”
Harvard Business Review: Is GenAI’s Impact on Productivity Overblown?. “Amid all the hype, there is reason to question whether these tools will have the transformative effects on company-wide productivity that some predict. One reason to take a slower approach is that assessments of productivity typically focus on the task level — summarizing a document, completing a slide deck, or answering a customer call, for example — and how individuals might use and benefit from LLMs. Using such findings to draw broad conclusions about firm-level performance could prove costly.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
North Carolina State University: New Soft Robots Roll Like Tires, Spin Like Tops and Orbit Like Moons. “Researchers have developed a new soft robot design that engages in three simultaneous behaviors: rolling forward, spinning like a record,and following a path that orbits around a central point. The device, which operates without human or computer control, holds promise for developing soft robotic technologies that can be used to navigate and map unknown environments.” Good morning, Internet…
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January 9, 2024 at 06:51PM
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