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NEW RESOURCES
University of Utah: New Resource Launched For Utah Entrepreneurs. “The Utah Founders website is now live, and it lists resources to help founders launch a company anywhere in Utah. Resources include incubators, coworking spaces, funding opportunities, government agencies, university programs and more.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
KSL News Radio: Utah’s social media child protection law put on hold. “Utah’s new social media law has been put on hold. The Utah Social Media Regulation Act, designed to focus on child protection on online platforms, won’t take effect until October 1st. It was originally scheduled to take effect on March 1, 2024.”
TechCrunch: Google Chrome gains AI features, including a writing helper, theme creator, and tab organizer. “Google’s Chrome web browser is getting an infusion of AI technology in the latest release. The company announced today it’s soon adding a trio of new AI-powered features to Chrome for Mac and Windows, including a way to smartly organize your tabs, customize your theme, and get help when writing things on the web — like forum posts, online reviews, and more.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Korea JoongAng Daily: Korea begs citizens to stop eating fried toothpicks for viral trend. “The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety warned citizens against eating toothpicks made of starch as they are ‘not food’ and not safe for consumption, after videos of people eating fried toothpicks went viral online.”
Pune Pulse: Kayani Bakery Cyber Scam: Several duped due to fake website & Google listing. “In order to pull off a significant con, cybercriminals are said to have imitated the famous Kayani Bakery in Pune’s website and made a phony Google listing under the bakery’s name. Individuals who have been using the phony website and the mobile phone numbers listed on Google listings to place online orders for different Kayani Bakery products have been losing thousands of rupees.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Reuters: Google settles AI-related chip patent lawsuit that sought $1.67 billion. “Google on Wednesday reached a settlement in a patent infringement lawsuit over chips that power the company’s artificial-intelligence technology, according to a filing in Massachusetts federal court.”
CNN: Republican AGs back Texas and Florida social media regulations at US Supreme Court. “Social media companies should be treated as utilities such as telephone or telegraph companies, a group of states led by Republican attorneys general told the US Supreme Court on Monday. In a friend-of-the-court brief, 19 states and the state legislature of Arizona wrote that the Supreme Court should uphold laws passed by Texas and Florida that restrict companies including Meta, YouTube, X and others from moderating the content that their users post online.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
London School of Economics and Political Science: How refugee sector organizations represent refugees on Instagram, and why this matters for humanitarian communication. “Sites and platforms like Instagram play key roles in shaping public understandings of issues and events, while also providing ways for a host of messengers—be they laypeople, influencers, or professional voices—to quickly reach and curate their target audiences at scale. Yet this raises political questions about how messengers represent marginalized groups, and what they aim to achieve by doing so.”
Bloomberg: Google DeepMind Scientists in Talks to Leave and Form AI Startup. “A pair of scientists at Google DeepMind, the Alphabet Inc. artificial intelligence division, have been talking with investors about forming an AI startup in Paris, according to people familiar with the conversations.”
Northern Arizona University: How well does American AI understand Korean slang?. “Can an AI tool developed by an American engineer accurately assess meanings and nuances in other, unrelated languages? That’s at the heart of research that Scott Jarvis, applied linguistics professor at NAU, is tackling with funding from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Minerva Initiative.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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January 25, 2024 at 01:13AM
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