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TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Wolfram Blog: The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica. “Version 1.0 had 554 built-in functions; in Version 14.0 there are 6602. And behind each of those functions is a story. Sometimes it’s a story of creating a superalgorithm that encapsulates decades of algorithmic development. Sometimes it’s a story of painstakingly curating data that’s never been assembled before. Sometimes it’s a story of drilling down to the essence of something to invent new approaches and new functions that can capture it. And from all these pieces we’ve been steadily building the coherent whole that is today’s Wolfram Language.”
The Verge: Google will now let EU users select which services share their data, thanks to the DMA. “Google just announced a change for users in Europe that will let them decide exactly how much data-sharing they’re comfortable with. The new policy, which the company said was in response to the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), allows users to opt out of data sharing across all, some, or none of a select number of Google’s services. The services listed include YouTube, Search, ad services, Google Play, Chrome, Google Shopping, and Google Maps.”
Rolling Stone: Twitter’s Scammy Advertisers Are Getting Wrecked by Community Notes . “Musk needs these bottom-of-the-barrel advertisers, because paid user subscriptions likely aren’t making much money — plus he’s now paying some blue-check creators who reap significant engagement on their posts. But there’s another app feature, much touted by Musk as a counterweight to the misinformation that continues to run rampant on the site, which undercuts the deceptive promises made in many garbage ads: Community Notes. Fact-checkers have increasingly weaponized the tool to point out potential scams and bogus bargains.”
Decrypt: GameStop Bails on Crypto Gaming, Killing NFT Marketplace. “GameStop is getting out of the NFT business. About a year and a half after launching its NFT marketplace, publicly-traded video game retailer GameStop is saying goodbye to its platform, which supports gaming NFTs and other collectibles across Immutable X and Loopring, both Ethereum scaling networks.”
USEFUL STUFF
MakeUseOf: How to View, Edit, and Add Metadata to a Photo. “Metadata can provide descriptive information about a photo, such as its caption, title, author, how the image was taken, and legal information. Also, if you publish some of your work online, the metadata offers information regarding usage rights and acts as proof of ownership. So, how can you add metadata to your photos?”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Inside the Games: Olympic athletes can upload photos and videos to social media, but not live or AI. “The International Olympic Committee (IOC) guidelines allow accredited athletes to post audio and video recordings of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and the Gangwon 2024 Youth Olympic Games (YOG) of up to two minutes per post.”
Boing Boing: Twitter account shares screenshots of games that don’t exist. “Although the people who run it are shrouded in mystery, its mission is clear: it accepts submissions from artists of all stripes, as long as the art in question can be reasonably passed off as a video game- a video game that doesn’t exist, specifically.”
Tedium: What Was ISDN? . “In 2025, British Telecom plans to shut off its ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) and PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) services entirely, in favor of modern technologies like Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).”
SECURITY & LEGAL
WIRED: US School Shooter Emergency Plans Exposed in a Highly Sensitive Database Leak. “Thousands of emergency planning documents from US schools—including their safety procedures for active shooter emergencies—were leaked in a trove of more than 4 million records that were inadvertently made public. Last month, security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered 800 gigabytes of files and logs linked to school software provider Raptor Technologies.”
Cowboy State Daily: Radical Change To Wyoming Public Notice Law Would Put State Database Over Newspaper. “For more than a century, Wyoming’s public records law has mandated that all legally required governmental public notices must be printed in a local newspaper of record. The drafted legislation would change that requirement by instead creating a centralized electronic notice system in Wyoming that would be maintained by the Secretary of State’s office.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
The Atlantic: ChatGPT’s FarmVille Moment. “When Facebook invited developers to build tools on top of the Facebook platform in 2007, the company was experiencing fantastical growth and had seemingly limitless revenue potential. OpenAI is inviting developers in 2024 to build tools that could themselves become lawsuit targets. OpenAI has created a moderation system to weed out GPTs that violate its brand guidelines and usage policies, but there is a pretty wide gap between OpenAI’s position on acceptable GPT uses and the position of potential litigants. And meanwhile, the direct revenue potential for developers is still an aspirational promise, to be revisited sometime in the first quarter.”
Wall Street Journal: What if You Never Had to Charge Your Gadgets Again?. “Now, companies including Ambient Photonics and Exeger are offering solar cells of this kind, known as a ‘dye-sensitized solar cell.’ They are lightweight, bendable, made from common materials, and can be manufactured cheaply, in a type of printing process.” Good morning, Internet…
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January 15, 2024 at 06:37PM
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