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NEW RESOURCES
Wyoming Tribune Eagle: WDE website will make local school curricula accessible to all. “The Wyoming Department of Education unveiled a new website Tuesday that will make public school curricula from districts across the state easily accessible from a central location. The website, called ‘curriculum transparency,’ is intended to make it easier for people to access the materials schoolchildren use. The program is entirely optional.”
California Privacy Protection Agency: California Launches privacy.ca.gov, a Website Dedicated to Privacy Information. “The California Privacy Protection Agency has just launched a new resource dedicated to informing Californians about their privacy rights. The website, https://privacy.ca.gov is designed to be a central resource to help Californians understand their rights, including protections under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and the actions they may take on a host of privacy concerns.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Sacramento Bee: California state worker pay database updated with 2023 wages, overtime for civil servants. “The Sacramento Bee’s State Worker pay database has been updated with data for 2023. The state paid roughly 266,000 civil service employees a total of about $24.4 billion in the 2023 calendar year, according to updated pay data from the State Controller’s Office. That includes full-time, part-time and intermittent workers, and excludes employees at the California State University and the University of California.”
Kaggle: Publish your models on Kaggle Models. “You’ve likely seen our growing Models effort, allowing Kagglers to find and use all the best open models easily and quickly. But of course Kaggle is more about using resources like models or datasets – our community is founded on ideals of sharing and collaborating. So I am delighted to say that the team has hit a fantastic milestone, and starting today, anyone can now share and publish their models on Kaggle Models.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
The Hill: OpenAI bans developer of Dean Phillips bot, its first known political restriction. “ChatGPT creator OpenAI banned the developer of a bot imitating Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Dean Phillips (Minn), the company’s first known restriction on using its artificial intelligence (AI) tools by a political campaign or committee.”
BBC: Ugandan internet propaganda network exposed by the BBC. “A BBC investigation has uncovered a network of fake social media accounts in Uganda. Under false identities, they spread pro-government messaging and target critics with threats. But who are the people behind it?”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Los Angeles Daily News: Hackers post gory videos on Discord groups at UC Irvine, causing mental trauma. “Hackers last week attacked Discord online groups used by students, instructors and alumni at UC Irvine, posting gory videos of human and animal mutilation that reportedly sent some viewers to the hospital and caused a lot of ‘vomiting and tears.'”
Associated Press: YouTuber accused topping 150 mph on his motorcycle on Colorado interstate wanted on multiple charges. “[Rendon] Dietzmann, who is known as Gixxer Brah on YouTube, has posted multiple similar videos from different parts of the country. He is wanted on charges of menacing, engaging in a speed contest, reckless endangerment, reckless driving, speeding 40 mph (64 kph) over the limit, engaging in an exhibition of speed and driving without license plates attached.”
CNN: Explicit, AI-generated Taylor Swift images spread quickly on social media. “The fake images of Taylor Swift were predominantly circulating on social media site X, previously known as Twitter. The photos – which show the singer in sexually suggestive and explicit positions – were viewed tens of millions of times before being removed from social platforms. But nothing on the internet is truly gone forever, and they will undoubtedly continue to be shared on other, less regulated channels.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
University of Waterloo: Using AI to empower art therapy patients. “Researchers have created a new AI-assisted digital art tool designed to help art therapy patients better express themselves while maintaining the efficacy of the process. The tool, dubbed DeepThInk, was designed by computer science researchers at the University of Waterloo and the Southern University of Science and Technology in collaboration with art therapists. DeepThInk grew out of the challenges the therapists faced when the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to conduct their work virtually.”
Schneier on Security: Don’t Talk to People Like They’re Chatbots.
“The other direction these chatbots may take us is even more disturbing: into a world where our conversations with them result in our treating our fellow human beings with the apathy, disrespect, and incivility we more typically show machines.” I’m nice to chatbots! There is no immediate way to tell if you’re talking to a meat person or an AI person online, so to me it seems the correct thing to do is assume they’re all meat until told otherwise.
University at Buffalo: Study links social media use to increased inflammation over time. “A University at Buffalo social scientist has extended a line of research that has already suggested an association between social media use and inflammation with a rigorous new study that showed that same association over time.” Good morning, Internet…
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January 26, 2024 at 06:31PM
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