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NEW RESOURCES
Westfair Business Journal: New virtual museum of ceramic art has Armonk connection . “The Museum of Ceramic Art – New York (MoCA/NY) has launched … a virtual museum dedicated to fostering the appreciation, understanding and enjoyment of ceramics. MoCA/NY is designed to provide visitors with an enriching, immersive online experience through its interactive Ceramic World Destinations Map (CWD) and Explore Editorial Blog.”
The Herald News (Massachusetts): Decades worth of Fall River newspapers are now free online. Here’s how to uncover history.. “The library’s reference department has been quietly uploading decades worth of Herald News pages online — complete copies of every page, every story, every ad, with all the text searchable. In the past week, the library’s latest batch of editions came online… digitized by Advantage Archives. It comes to more than 310,000 pages of Fall River and national history from 1926 to 1968.”
EVENTS
Fordham News: Hackers Use AI to Improve English, Says NSA Official. “From ‘hacktivists’ backed by foreign governments to the advantages and perils of artificial intelligence, National Security Agency (NSA) Director of Cybersecurity Rob Joyce highlighted three areas of focus in the cybersecurity field at the 10th International Conference on Cybersecurity, held at Fordham on Jan. 9.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
TechCrunch: X removes support for NFT profile pictures. “On Tuesday, Elon Musk’s X wrote about a grand vision for the company in 2024, which includes launching peer-to-peer payments and more AI-powered tools. Amid all this, the company silently removed a feature for paid subscribers. They’re no longer able to set an NFT as a profile picture.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Print: Pablo Delcan’s Non-A.I. Art Generator Goes Viral. “Last month he tried something new and rather radical: he created the very first non-A.I. Generative art model, which he titled Prompt-Brush. The ask was simple and straightforward: Declan invited illustration prompts from his audience and then went about creating what was requested.”
Kotaku: Why Video Game Voice Actors Don’t Love The New SAG-AFTRA Deal. “After months of speculation from voice actors concerned with how their voices could be co-opted by AI, and recent announcements from companies like Ubisoft and Tencent that they’ll use NVIDIA’s new AI tools to provide voices for NPCs, the Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) announced what it calls a ‘groundbreaking’ new deal with an AI tech company. Unsurprisingly, the deal is far more complicated than SAG-AFTRA makes it seem—and it also appears to have been made without consulting voice actors themselves.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
ABC News (Australia): Online safety regulator lashes X, formerly Twitter, over failure to police hate. “The social media platform X – formerly Twitter – has put Australian users at greater risk since Elon Musk took over, according to Australia’s eSafety commissioner.”
Politico: Taiwan bombarded with cyberattacks ahead of election. “Taiwan faces a deluge of cyberattacks days before a critical presidential election with experts blaming China for an unprecedented and increasingly sophisticated level of interference. The Jan. 13 election is the first real security test of 2024 — one of the biggest years for democratic elections in history — and underlines the rising cyber threat posed by China.”
The Guardian: AI fuelling dating and social media fraud, EU police agency says . “Artificial intelligence, combined with wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, is fuelling a boom in fraud on dating and social media apps, officials at Europol have said. Speaking to the Guardian, the agency’s top financial crime experts said scripts generated by artificial intelligence enable criminals to target multiple victims at once.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
The Ohio State University: Researchers developing AI to make the internet more accessible. “In an effort to make the internet more accessible for people with disabilities, researchers at The Ohio State University have begun developing an artificial intelligence agent that could complete complex tasks on any website using simple language commands.”
Penn State: $1.1M NSF grant to fund statewide cyberinfrastructure project. “Researchers at the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS), together with collaborators at other institutions within Pennsylvania, have been awarded approximately $1.1 million in funding under the U.S. National Science Foundation Campus Cyberinfrastructure program to develop a commonwealth-wide secure network and related cyberinfrastructure to interconnect Pennsylvania colleges and universities.”
Purdue University: Purdue forestry professor cultivates cyberinfrastructure for collaborative forestry research. “‘The utmost hurdle for the global community to conduct forestry and forest ecology studies, at a global scale especially, is lack of data. This has been a prominent problem for decades,’ said Jingjing Liang, associate professor of quantitative forest ecology at Purdue University. Now, Liang and Rajesh Kalyanam, a senior research scientist at Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, have launched a project to create the world’s largest metaverse in forestry research.” Good morning, Internet…
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January 11, 2024 at 06:31PM
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