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Thursday, March 16, 2023

Touring Car Database, Underrepresented Composers, AustLit, More: Thursday ResearchBuzz, March 16, 2023

Touring Car Database, Underrepresented Composers, AustLit, More: Thursday ResearchBuzz, March 16, 2023
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TouringCars .net: TouringCars.Net launches comprehensive touring car database. “TouringCars.Net is today (14 March) announcing the launch of the Touring Car Database, featuring one of the internet’s most comprehensive sources of tin-top history and information. Data spanning more than four decades, 263 seasons, 4,066 races, 3,477 drivers, 2,438 qualifying sessions and over 30,000 photographs (and counting) is included in the comprehensive dataset.” I wasn’t sure what touring cars were so I looked it up. As I understand it, touring cars are modified road-ready cars, as opposed to F1 cars and suchlike which are designed for racing.

The Violin Channel: Boulanger Initiative Launches Database for Underrepresented Composers. “All accessible for free, the database comprises extensive details of over 8,000 works written by 1,200 women and gender-marginalized composers… The current catalog focuses on historical works and curated information from non-living composers, with plans to expand.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

University of Queensland: Australia’s largest literary database hits one million records. “The University of Queensland’s AustLit project, to catalogue and celebrate Australia’s literary history, this week officially marks one million records. The milestone makes AustLit the only national bibliography of its scale in the world.”

Tulane News: Tulane dean to release podcast on Anti-Racism and the Disciplines featuring leading Black scholars. “Tulane University School of Liberal Arts will release a new podcast miniseries, Anti-Racism and the Disciplines, that explores the complex histories of liberal arts majors with the aim of identifying more accurate and effective practices in higher education.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

Government of Canada: 1931 Census of Canada to be released on June 1, 2023. “On June 1, 2023, Canadians can expect to browse the digitized census images by geographic district and sub-district on the Library and Archives Canada (LAC) website. Following the initial release, LAC will work collaboratively with Ancestry® and FamilySearch International to create an advanced searchable database for Canadians and those with Canadian heritage who wish to look for their ancestors.”

Techdirt: Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Urbanity. “Last week, we had the first of our series of posts showcasing the winners in all six categories of the fifth annual public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1927, and the spotlight was on Best Remix winner Lucia. This week, we’re taking a look at the winner of the Best Visuals category: Urbanity by Government Name.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Krebs on Security: Two U.S. Men Charged in 2022 Hacking of DEA Portal. “Two U.S. men have been charged with hacking into a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) online portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases. Both are alleged to be part of a larger criminal organization that specializes in using fake emergency data requests from compromised police and government email accounts to publicly threaten and extort their victims.”

TechCrunch: Police shut down dark web crypto laundering service linked to FTX hack. “An international coalition of law enforcement agencies announced on Wednesday that it had taken down the popular dark web crypto laundering service ChipMixer, seizing more than $46 million in crypto and terabytes of server data. The service, for example, was used last year by the attacker who stole funds from the now failed crypto exchange FTX, as well as by several ransomware groups.”

York University: Consumer Privacy Protection Act could lead to fines for deceptive designs in apps and websites. “Canada’s proposed Consumer Privacy Protection Act (CPPA) prohibits online consent processes that are deceptive or misleading. Companies may face fines for breaking the act’s rules. This could be trouble for social media platforms, online shopping companies and other services that use deceptive user interface designs in their apps and websites.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

National Academies: Researchers Need to Rethink and Justify How and Why Race, Ethnicity, and Ancestry Labels Are Used in Genetics and Genomics Research, Says New Report. “Researchers and scientists who utilize genetic and genomic data should rethink and justify how and why they use race, ethnicity, and ancestry labels in their work, says a new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report.”

NewsWise: Machine learning helps researchers separate compostable from conventional plastic waste with ‘very high’ accuracy. “Researchers at University College London (UCL) have published a paper in Frontiers in Sustainability in which they used machine learning to automatically sort different types of compostable and biodegradable plastics and differentiate them from conventional plastics.”

Wired: Cars That Watch Their Drivers Could Reteach the World to Drive. “As more of those driver-facing sensors make their way inside vehicles, industry experts expect the implications to go well beyond their role in automated driving features. Through alerts, alarms, and nudges they could retrain the fatigued, smartphone-fiddling, infotainment system-scrolling drivers of 21st century highways to make them safer—or at least force them to drive differently to avoid nagging from a digital overseer.” Good morning, Internet…

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March 16, 2023 at 05:33PM
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023

National Library of Finland, National Library of Israel, Malta Film Commission, More: Wednesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, March 15, 2023

National Library of Finland, National Library of Israel, Malta Film Commission, More: Wednesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, March 15, 2023
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NEW RESOURCES

National Library of Finland: Dozens of online forums collected for the Finnish Web Archive. “Online forums and message boards have long been significant venues for special-interest discussion and debate. They have also played an important role in the emergence of Finnish online culture. The National Library of Finland has now collected 55 Finnish online forums as a part of national cultural heritage.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Haaretz: Deal Reached With Israeli Gov’t to Protect National Library’s Independence. “Israel’s education minister and the National Library of Israel have reached an agreement on the appointment of senior library officials, ending government efforts to undermine the institution’s independence.”

Times of Malta: Film commissioner IMDB page emptied following industry backlash. “Film commissioner Johann Grech’s IMDB page was temporarily wiped of its film and TV credits following criticism from industry insiders. In their place, five articles were added to Grech’s ‘Publicity’ section, the latest of which is Times of Malta’s story on the commissioner’s ‘completely unethical’ credits.”

CNBC: Google is bringing A.I. chat to Gmail and Docs. “Google is deepening its push into generative artificial intelligence, introducing features Tuesday that will let users create text in Gmail and Docs using the company’s AI technology.”

USEFUL STUFF

Wired: Make ChatGPT Work for You With These Browser Extensions . “Whether you’re using ChatGPT for free or paying for ChatGPT Plus ($20 a month), the impressiveness of its text-generating capabilities aren’t really matched by its interface, which sticks largely to the basics. That’s where third-party browser extensions come in: They can help you get easier access to ChatGPT from other websites, add missing features such as a chat exporter, and suggest better prompts for getting better answers out of the AI bot.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

George Mason University: NEH grant helps Mason, partners create digital archive of Civil War graffiti. “Working with R.B. Toth Associates LLC of Oakton, this grant will use a range of digital imaging technology and work processes to capture the graffiti on the walls of Historic Blenheim and the Graffiti House at Brandy Station, and develop a metadata schema that will allow for the digitization and contextualization of the graffiti. This schema will serve as a model for future digitization projects of images on vertical surfaces.”

TechCrunch: Google introduces Open Health Stack for developers. “Google announced a new open source program called Open Health Stack for developers to build health-related apps. These tools, unveiled at the company’s ‘The Check Up’ special event this week, include a Software Developer Kit (SDK) for Android and design guidelines for health apps.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Sky News: Disney wants Reddit and Google to reveal who leaked Marvel script. “Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania premiered last month, but not before dozens of pages of dialogue were posted online and revealed key story details. The 63-page transcript was shared as a Google Docs file on a Reddit community page dedicated to sharing and discussing leaks and rumours about Marvel films before they hit cinemas.”

Ars Technica: Botnet that knows your name and quotes your email is back with new tricks. “When Emotet has returned from previous breaks, it has brought new techniques designed to evade endpoint security products and to trick users into clicking on links or enabling dangerous macros in attached Microsoft Office documents. Last week’s resumption of activity was no different.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

MIT News: Python-based compiler achieves orders-of-magnitude speedups. “Codon compiles Python code to run more efficiently and effectively while allowing for customization and adaptation to various domains.” Good afternoon, Internet…

March 16, 2023 at 12:50AM
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Nuremberg Trials, Pinterest, GPT-4, More: Wednesday ResearchBuzz, March 15, 2023

Nuremberg Trials, Pinterest, GPT-4, More: Wednesday ResearchBuzz, March 15, 2023
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NEW RESOURCES

PR Newswire: Stanford Libraries launches Taube Archive of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 1945-46 (PRESS RELEASE). “The Taube Archive of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 1945-1946 (IMT) is now available as the result of a partnership between the Stanford Libraries and the Stanford Center for Human Rights and International Justice.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

NBC News: Senators seek answers from Pinterest following NBC News investigation. “Days after an NBC News investigation revealed how grown men on Pinterest openly create sex-themed image boards filled with pictures of little girls, the company says it has ‘dramatically’ increased its number of human content moderators. It also unveiled two new features enabling users to report content and accounts for a range of violations.”

Engadget: OpenAI’s new GPT-4 can understand both text and image inputs. “Hot on the heels of Google’s Workspace AI announcement Tuesday, and ahead of Thursday’s Microsoft Future of Work event, OpenAI has released the latest iteration of its generative pre-trained transformer system, GPT-4. Whereas the current generation GPT-3.5, which powers OpenAI’s wildly popular ChatGPT conversational bot, can only read and respond with text, the new and improved GPT-4 will be able to generate text on input images as well.”

How-To Geek: Google-Owned Waze Will Help You Find EV Chargers. “If you’re using Waze and you need to stop for a quick top-up, the app will now help you find charging stations within, or close to, your route.”

USEFUL STUFF

The Conversation: How to use free satellite data to monitor natural disasters and environmental changes . “I work with geospatial big data as a professor. Here’s a quick tour of where you can find satellite images, plus some free, fairly simple tools that anyone can use to create time-lapse animations from satellite images. For example, state and urban planners – or people considering a new home – can watch over time how rivers have moved, construction crept into wildland areas or a coastline eroded.”

Lifehacker: These Interactive Tools Reveal Your Home’s Future Flood, Heat, and Wind Risk. “The following three organizations use advanced technology and models to estimate the risk most homes have of flooding by taking climate change and sea-level rise into account. They’ve created free and user-friendly tools with the latest data to help you make informed decisions regarding your home’s risk, where to build or invest, how to prepare for future flooding, and how to adapt to the impacts of a changing climate.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

New York Times: 10 Ways GPT-4 Is Impressive but Still Flawed. “A new version of the technology that powers an A.I. chatbot that captivated the tech industry four months ago has improved on its predecessor. It is an expert on an array of subjects, even wowing doctors with its medical advice. It can describe images, and it’s close to telling jokes that are almost funny. But the long-rumored new artificial intelligence system, GPT-4, still has a few of the quirks and makes some of the same habitual mistakes that baffled researchers when that chatbot, ChatGPT, was introduced.”

Christianity Today: John Stott: ‘Evangelical Traditions Are Not Infallible’ . “The public will soon have access to a digital collection of hundreds of John Stott’s recorded sermons and transcripts spanning five decades.”

Ars Technica: Report: Microsoft cut a key AI ethics team. “An entire team responsible for making sure that Microsoft’s AI products are shipped with safeguards to mitigate social harms was cut during the company’s most recently layoff of 10,000 employees, Platformer reported.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Tom’s Guide: Look out! These AI-generated YouTube tutorials are spreading dangerous malware. “According to a new report(opens in new tab) from the no-code platform CloudSEK, there has been a 200-300% month-to-month increase since November of last year of YouTube videos containing malicious links in their descriptions. These links take unsuspecting users to fake sites where their devices are infected with the Vidar, RedLine, Raccoon and other info-stealing malware.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

NiemanLab: The Prison Newspaper Directory finds that the number of prison-based papers is growing. “The local newspaper industry has seen better days (though not so much in my lifetime). One growth spot, however, is where you might not expect it: Behind bars. According to the newly launched Prison Newspaper Directory by the Prison Journalism Project, there are 24 prison-based newspapers in 12 states. At least four of the papers were launched in the last year.”

TechCrunch: The AI revolution has outgrown the Turing Test: Introducing a new framework. “As AI becomes a transformative part of our technology landscape, a common vocabulary about the capabilities of each new tool and technique is essential. Common vocabularies create shared intellectual spaces allowing all stakeholders to accelerate understanding, increase adoption, facilitate collaboration, benchmark progress and drive innovation. So far, the most widely known tool for benchmarking AI is the Turing Test.” Good morning, Internet…

March 15, 2023 at 05:30PM
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023

National Diet Library Japan, Client-Side GPT-3, Pokémon Archives, More: Tuesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, March 14, 2023

National Diet Library Japan, Client-Side GPT-3, Pokémon Archives, More: Tuesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, March 14, 2023
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NEW RESOURCES

National Diet Library, Japan: 320,000 items from the National Diet Library Digital Collections have been made available via the Digitized Contents Transmission Service. “The National Diet Library has made roughly 320,000 items (ZIP: 45.7MB) from the National Diet Library Digital Collections newly available via the Digitized Contents Transmission Service, as detailed below.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Ars Technica: You can now run a GPT-3-level AI model on your laptop, phone, and Raspberry Pi. “Things are moving at lightning speed in AI Land. On Friday, a software developer named Georgi Gerganov created a tool called ‘llama.cpp’ that can run Meta’s new GPT-3-class AI large language model, LLaMA, locally on a Mac laptop. Soon thereafter, people worked out how to run LLaMA on Windows as well. Then someone showed it running on a Pixel 6 phone, and next came a Raspberry Pi (albeit running very slowly).”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

Kotaku: We’re Losing More Than We Realize When These Classic Pokémon Games Get Pulled. “The 3DS and Wii U eShops are two weeks away from shutting down on March 27 and taking digital access to the system’s library with them in the process. From a preservation standpoint, this is already a travesty, but for the Pokémon series, this is going to have a particularly devastating effect on the access and functionality of the entire franchise.”

Ars Technica: TikTok accused of mishandling sexual harassment allegations. “TikTok has been accused of mishandling allegations of sexual misconduct and harassment against a senior manager in London, highlighting longstanding concerns about the working culture at the fast-growing social media platform.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

United Nations: Myanmar: Social media companies must stand up to junta’s online terror campaign say UN experts. “Myanmar’s military junta is orchestrating an online campaign of terror, and weaponising social media platforms to crush democratic opposition, UN experts* said today.” The * looks a little odd but it just leads to a footnote listing sixteen experts by name.

Euractiv: France to regulate social media influencers. “The French government is set to present a plan to better regulate the commercial work of social media influencers to ensure they, as well as the consumers of their content, are better protected, Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire told Franceinfo on Monday.”

CNBC: SEC and Justice Department reportedly investigating SVB’s collapse, including insider stock sales. “The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department are investigating how Silicon Valley Bank became the second largest bank failure in U.S. history, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The probes, which are separate and in preliminary phases, include looking into stock sales that SVB executives’ conducted ahead of the tech-focused bank’s collapse, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

UConn Today: Pick a Card, Any Card: Undergrad Startup Combines Flashcards with Augmented Reality for Neurodivergent Students. “In traditional classrooms, young students might spend the day sitting still for extended periods while listening to teachers talk, sometimes too fast. It’s not a system that works for all, often leaving behind those who learn differently, such as neurodivergent students with conditions like dyslexia, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), or autism. Justin Nappi ’24 (CLAS) and Sudiksha Mallick ’23 (CLAS) hope to change that.”

BusinessWire: Cambridge Launches AI Research Ethics Policy (PRESS RELEASE). “The rules are set out in the first AI ethics policy from Cambridge University Press and apply to research papers, books and other scholarly works. They include a ban on AI being treated as an ‘author’ of academic papers and books published by Cambridge University Press.” Good afternoon, Internet…

March 15, 2023 at 12:38AM
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European Soil Health, Non-Idiomatic Choral Music of Black Composers, Kaurna Warra, More: Tuesday ResearchBuzz, March 14, 2023

European Soil Health, Non-Idiomatic Choral Music of Black Composers, Kaurna Warra, More: Tuesday ResearchBuzz, March 14, 2023
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NEW RESOURCES

EU Science Hub: A new tool maps the state of soil health across Europe. “EU-wide harmonised soil datasets and a novel methodology are among the main features of the soil health dashboard, a new tool of the EU Soil Observatory (EUSO), developed and run by the JRC. The dashboard supports the forthcoming European Commission proposal for a soil health law and indicators proposed by the Soil Mission of EU’s research and innovation programme Horizon Europe.”

New-to-me, via the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Beyond Elijah Rock: The Non-Idiomatic Choral Music of Black Composers. “Non-idiomatic, as it relates to black composers, refers to the original concert music that is not part of the traditional idiomatic canon associated with black musicians. That canon includes spirituals, gospel, jazz, hip-hop, and rap among others. There will be pieces that may be based on spirituals or gospel tunes but are, at their core, original songs similar to ones that use chorale tunes in cantatas and popular songs parodied in Renaissance masses.”

Cosmos: Kaurna online: new website to help people learn the language . “The just-established Kaurna Warra website has a host of resources for learning and teaching the language, including courses, guides, and a dictionary. The website also features educational videos, an online shop, and even a few games in Kaurna, like Wordle and Solitaire.” Kaurna is an Indigenous language of Australia that was almost wiped out in the 19th century.

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Ukrainska Pravda: “Losing battle for Bakhmut”: Russians launch new wave of fake news in social networks. “The Russian occupiers began to actively spread new disinformation in social networks and spread publications about Ukraine’s alleged defeat in Bakhmut and the decrease in the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine.”

USEFUL STUFF

MakeUseOf: The 6 Best Free XML Editors Online . “Whether you’re new to writing in XML and wanting to make sure that you haven’t produced any errors, or are an old hat with the language and want some tools to quickly clean up your code, there are a variety of online tools that can help. So, no matter why it is that you’re looking for an XML editor, know that there’s a free online XML editor that will work perfectly for you. Here are six of the very best to consider.” Heartily recommend CodeBeautify. It also has a JSON viewer and an HTML viewer; I use both constantly.

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

Times of Malta: Film commissioner Johann Grech’s IMDB portfolio ‘completely unethical’ . “Film insiders have questioned why Johann Grech is credited with 64 film productions on a popular online movie database when he is merely serving as Malta’s film commissioner. Grech has been linked to 64 productions on his IMDB page – an online database for the audio-visual industry – sparking accusations of unethical behaviour.”

New York Times: The Satisfaction of Viral Quitting. “TikTok is full of advice about what to do after quitting a job. Ms. Garcia is part of a different trend, one that predates TikTok, in which young people are posting mini dramas that draw millions of viewers. And in some cases, these very public videos can translate into new career opportunities, helping those who post them build their online personalities.”

PC Gamer: Put another notch on Google’s axe, Stadia’s switch to a licenced streaming platform is dead too. “In the midst of promoting a bundle of tools Google Cloud offers game publishers to support their live service games, reporter Stephen Totilo mentioned that the Stadia tech is no longer available to license.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Bloomberg: UK Probing TikTok’s Ownership, Security Minister Tugendhat Says. “The UK is carrying out an ‘important’ investigation into Chinese social media app TikTok, Security Minister Tom Tugendhat said, but he refused to be drawn on whether it would be banned from UK government mobile devices.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

The Verge: How a social network falls apart. “Twitter is in a period of decline. The site still functions, people are still using it, but there’s a familiar stink that lingers on the website. It reminds me of the twilight days of two other social media platforms I’ve used: LiveJournal and Tumblr — onetime vibrant communities that grew in popularity until everyone seemed to be using them, which then began a long, slow death.”

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Fake and Extremely Biased Twitter Content Decreased Between 2016-2020, But Top Influencers Were More Polarized. “On one hand, the amount of fake and extremely biased content decreased by 2020 compared to 2016, perhaps because of Twitter’s efforts to limit disinformation from going viral. The volume of tweets linking to disinformation websites dropped by half and the number of users sharing fake news dropped even more. On the other hand, users in 2020 were less likely to share information or interact with users who do not share their political beliefs than they were in 2016.”

ScienceDaily: A new and better way to create word lists. “Word lists are the basis of so much research in so many fields. Researchers have now developed an algorithm that can be applied to different languages and can expand word lists significantly better than others.” Good morning, Internet…

March 14, 2023 at 05:26PM
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Monday, March 13, 2023

Shigeru Miyamoto Interviews, Covid-19 Data Hub, Twitch, More: Monday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, March 13, 2023

Shigeru Miyamoto Interviews, Covid-19 Data Hub, Twitch, More: Monday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, March 13, 2023
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NEW RESOURCES

Nintendo Life: Random: Fan Compiles Archive Of Over 450 Interviews From Shigeru Miyamoto. “In what must have been an incredible effort, one person has managed to compile over 450 interviews, appearances, writings, and recordings of Shigeru Miyamoto between 1985 and today. SpriteCell has created The Shigeru Miyamoto Archive, a one-stop shop for all sorts of Shigeru Miyamoto chats, interviews, discussions, Direct appearances, E3 appearances — you name it. Every single item, where possible, has been documented, sourced, and sometimes even scanned in.” Mr. Miyamoto is considered one of the greatest video game creators of all time.

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Johns Hopkins University: Johns Hopkins Covid-19 Data Hub Ends After Three Years. “Johns Hopkins University & Medicine’s Coronavirus Resource Center ceased collecting and reporting COVID-19 data today—three years after the institution embarked on the unprecedented effort of publicly tracking and analyzing an unfolding pandemic in real time.” The end collection date was March 10.

Tubefilter: Twitch will permaban streamers who create, share, or promote deepfakes. “Twitch has updated its policies to explicitly ban ‘intentionally promoting, creating, or sharing’ deepfake NSFW images.”

USEFUL STUFF

MakeUseOf: A Beginner’s Guide to Video Aspect Ratios . “As a viewer, you may not always notice the difference in aspect ratios. However, as a content creator, it’s crucial to understand aspect ratios to produce high-quality video content. In this article, you will learn about aspect ratios in videos. We’ll explore some of the most popular aspect ratios used today and which ones to use in your projects.” Indexing this for me if nobody else.

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

MIT Technology Review: Meet the AI expert who says we should stop using AI so much. “In More than a Glitch, [Professor Meredith] Broussard argues that we are consistently too eager to apply artificial intelligence to social problems in inappropriate and damaging ways. Her central claim is that using technical tools to address social problems without considering race, gender, and ability can cause immense harm.”

Mashable: Fans of girl group Twice can now visit their own digital world on Roblox. “Fans of South Korean girl group Twice have a new digital hang out in Roblox. In celebration of their new EP Ready to Be, which drops on Friday, the group has collaborated with the global gaming platform to create ‘Twice Square.'”

BBC: TikTok users shrug at China fears: ‘It’s hard to care’. “TikTok has been banned on government networks and devices in the US, Canada and the European Union. But are the moves having any effect?”

SECURITY & LEGAL

WIRED: A Face Recognition Site Crawled the Web for Dead People’s Photos. “The company, which has trawled social media for images but now says it scrapes only publicly available sources, has been criticized for collecting images of children and accused of facilitating stalking and abuse. (Gobronidze, who took over PimEyes in January 2022, says that this criticism predates his tenure at PimEyes, and that the company’s policies have since changed.)”

RESEARCH & OPINION

SOAS University of London: Is disinformation during natural disasters an emerging vulnerability?. “Thanks to climate change, more natural disasters are coming, and they’re becoming more powerful and more impactful. The disaster-disinformation nexus offers unique conditions for powerful and frequent influence campaigns against communities at their most vulnerable. And while this hasn’t been a large problem yet, indicators of its coming abound.”

Hindustan Times: The custodial death of Indian history. “The custodial death of Indian history is all but certain. The funds or expertise required to preserve and manage archives will not be available on the required scale. A few high-profile archives will survive, but the bulk will perish. The only hope is to digitise all surviving records and make them freely available on a well-designed, user-friendly platform.” Good afternoon, Internet…

March 14, 2023 at 12:19AM
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Indigenous Languages of the Amazon, Scottish Football Association, Koo, More: Monday ResearchBuzz, March 13, 2023

Indigenous Languages of the Amazon, Scottish Football Association, Koo, More: Monday ResearchBuzz, March 13, 2023
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NEW RESOURCES

From EL PAÍS, and machine-translated from Spanish: Colombia builds its first digital archive of indigenous languages of the Amazon. “More than one hundred audios can now be consulted in a new archive of the digital library of the National University of Colombia, which seeks to preserve an extensive catalog with all the languages of the Amazon jungle.”

Scottish Football Association: Scottish FA celebrates 150th anniversary of the national game. “The new digital archive holds the earliest records of Scottish football, giving a glimpse into the origins of the game in Scotland through Scottish FA minute books and Scottish FA annuals. Over 5800 pages of Scottish FA minute books (1879–1969), and 900 pages of Scottish FA annuals (1875–1900) will be accessible in the archive.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Reuters: Twitter Rival Koo Integrates ChatGPT to Help Users Create Content. “Koo, an India-based social media app that aims to rival Twitter, has integrated OpenAI’s ChatGPT to help users more easily create posts, the company’s co-founder told Reuters.”

CNN: As Twitter failures go from bad to worse, users wonder how long it can stay online. “The service disruptions and random glitches highlight the larger tension for Twitter and its new owner. Musk has raced to slash staff, reportedly bringing the company’s headcount down from 7,500 employees to less than 2,000 now, in an urgent effort to cut costs for the company he purchased with a significant amount of debt. But in trying to cut his way to profitability, Musk risks making Twitter a less viable service.”

USEFUL STUFF

Make Tech Easier: 6 iPhone Apps to Make Your Photos Look Like Film. “The iPhone has made photography more accessible than ever before. With this prevalence in society, it raises the question, how do I get my photos to stand out? Film Photography seems to be the answer. Thanks to technology, there’s a whole range of applications designed to imitate this effect. The iPhone apps listed below will make your photos look like vintage film.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

Hold the Front Page: Local news archive launched with €676,000 grant disappears offline. “An online local newspaper archive launched with a €676,000 Google grant has disappeared without explanation….
The project was set up after securing funding from Google’s Digital News Innovation Fund in 2017, but now appears to have been scrapped by Archant’s new owner Newsquest.”

NBC News: Etsy warns sellers of delay in processing payments due to Silicon Valley Bank collapse. “Etsy is warning sellers that the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank on Friday is causing delays in processing payments, according to an email from the company shared with NBC News.”

The Hindu Business Line: National Film Heritage Mission ramping up digitisation and restoration of heritage films. “The Information & Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur last Saturday reviewed the progress made under the National Film Heritage Mission at National Film Archive of India. NFHM is tasked with preservation and digital restoration of heritage Indian films, in a bid to make them available to audiences worldwide.”

CNBC: Why ChatGPT and AI are taking over the cold call, according to Salesforce leader. “Generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT are changing the way that companies and salespeople are communicating with customers for the better, said Clara Shih, CEO of Salesforce’s Service Cloud business.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

The Register: China launches yet another crackdown on social media. “The Cyberspace Administration of China has continued its drive to clean up the internet, on Sunday taking aim at the behaviours of independently operated content producing accounts on sites like Weibo and WeChat, known as ‘self-media.'”

The Verge: WhatsApp says it will leave the UK rather than weaken encryption under Online Safety Bill. “The head of WhatsApp says the messaging app will depart the UK if it’s forced to weaken its encryption standards under the country’s upcoming Online Safety Bill.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

MIT News: A new method to boost the speed of online databases. “Researchers use machine learning to build faster and more efficient hash functions, which are a key component of databases.” Good morning, Internet…

March 13, 2023 at 05:32PM
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