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EVENTS
Wyoming State Library: Practical Applications of AI in Libraries Webinar on February 6. “Are you curious about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help you with your library work? The Practical Applications of AI in Libraries webinar will give participants the opportunity to hear practical ways Wyoming librarians are already using AI to streamline their library tasks, including creating their monthly newsletter, generating web copy, cataloging, and carrying out technical services.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
CNBC: Supreme Court rejects appeal by Elon Musk’s X on disclosing federal surveillance. “The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal by the social media giant X challenging a ban on the company disclosing federal surveillance of Americans and foreign nationals using the service.”
Search Engine Journal: Google Gives Cookie Reprieve To Select Sites Through New Trials. “Google Chrome is restricting third-party cookie access for 1% of users as of January 4. Google expects to gradually ramp up the percentage of affected Chrome browsers, reaching 100% of users globally by Q3 2024. Recognizing the need for a smooth transition, Google is allowing websites and businesses to request additional time to migrate away from third-party cookie dependencies for non-advertising use cases.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
The Verge: The Perfect Webpage. “How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same.” A long, well-done read that made me very depressed.
New York Times: Dark Corners of the Web Offer a Glimpse at A.I.’s Nefarious Future. “In the hands of anonymous internet users, A.I. tools can create waves of harassing and racist material. It’s already happening on the anonymous message board 4chan.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
404 Media: Inside a $20 Million Coinbase Phishing Ring. “Ricardo’s story is but a small cog of a massive cybercrime machine. The domain that duped Ricardo was used by a hacking crew that has stolen more than $20 million from more than 500 Coinbase users, many of them in the U.S., according to recently unsealed court records. Last month, the Secret Service quietly arrested Chirag Tomar, a 30-year-old Indian man in the Northern District of Georgia, who is allegedly part of the scheme. It’s not clear if Tomar was the man Ricardo spoke to on the phone.”
The Guardian: HyperVerse crypto promoter ‘Bitcoin Rodney’ arrested and charged in US. “Rodney Burton, who goes by the name ‘Bitcoin Rodney’, was arrested in Florida on Friday and remains in custody pending transfer to Maryland, where the charges were laid. He has been charged with operating and conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business.”
Australian Associated Press: Thousands of extremists posts removed from social media. “More than 2500 violent or extremist social media posts have been removed from online platforms following requests by the federal government in the past six months. Figures from the Department of Home Affairs have revealed the government agency referred 3052 posts to platforms to be removed between July 1 and December 21.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
IEEE Spectrum: Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem: Experiments with Midjourney and DALL-E 3 show a copyright minefield. “The degree to which large language models (LLMs) might ‘memorize’ some of their training inputs has long been a question, raised by scholars including Google DeepMind’s Nicholas Carlini and the first author of this article (Gary Marcus). Recent empirical work has shown that LLMs are in some instances capable of reproducing, or reproducing with minor changes, substantial chunks of text that appear in their training sets.”
Nature: How we remember the dead by their digital afterlives. “Many of us will have turned to the Internet to grieve and remember the dead — by posting messages on the Facebook walls of departed friends, for instance. Yet, we should give more thought to how the dead and dying themselves exert agency over their online presence, argues US sociologist Timothy Recuber in The Digital Departed.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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January 9, 2024 at 01:45AM
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