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NEW RESOURCES
Nevada Today (University of Nevada Reno): 130 years of student news: from ‘The Student Record’ to ‘The Nevada Sagebrush’. “The University of Nevada, Reno was founded on Oct. 12, 1874, and just 19 years later, on Oct. 19, 1893, the students of the University published the first edition of a student-run newspaper, which they called The Student Record.”
Polity: Groundbreaking expansion of digital collection of historical magazines . “Online research group Sabinet has announced the expansion of a digitized collection of almost 50 000 rare, historical, and out-of-copyright magazines for South African and sub-Saharan African readers.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Search Engine Journal: Google Bard’s Latest Update Enhances Understanding Of YouTube Videos. “Google Bard’s latest update gives the conversational AI chatbot the ability to help users better understand YouTube video content. While the enhancement promises to be useful in many settings, I decided to put Google Bard’s ‘understanding’ capabilities to the test.”
Bloomberg: Russia ‘Spits’ on EU Sanctions in Escalating Propaganda Battle. “The European Union promised to shut down the flow of Vladimir Putin’s propaganda after Russia invaded Ukraine, slapping sanctions on state-backed media RT and Sputnik days after the attack. Nearly two years into the war, the Kremlin appears to have the last laugh.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
PC Magazine: Microsoft Rate Hikes for Bing Use May Put This Google Alternative Out of Business. “Running a green search engine can be a mean business, one where Google’s dominance of the search market is just the start of the possible challenges In an interview at the Web Summit conference here, Ecosia CEO Christian Kroll unpacked a variety of obstacles threatening his search nonprofit, which plows all of its income into tree-planting campaigns.”
Fierce Telecom: Google Fiber appoints first growth officer – here’s her plan. “[Melani] Griffith was Google Fiber’s VP of customer engagement for five years, and last week became its first-ever chief growth officer. In an announcement the company said the new role will be responsible for overseeing the entire customer lifespan from brand and marketing, sales, digital, customer service and public relations.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
New York Times: U.S. Case Details Binance’s Knowledge About Criminal Users. “…despite regular warnings from some of its own employees that some transactions on Binance.com were violating anti-money-laundering laws, the firm was reluctant to cut them off. Those allegations, which were made public on Tuesday in a sweeping federal case against Binance and Mr. Zhao, show how thoroughly he and his deputies understood that criminals were using their trading platform — and how little they did to stop them.”
BBC: Mizzy: TikTok prankster detained for posting videos without consent. “TikTok prankster Mizzy has been sentenced to 18 weeks’ detention in a young offender institution. The 19-year-old, whose real name is Bacari-Bronze O’Garro, was found guilty of two counts of breaching a criminal behaviour order. The court order banned him from sharing videos of people without their approval. He was found to have ‘deliberately flouted’ the order ‘within hours’ of it being passed in May.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Santa Clara University: Revealing an Unseen History. “In 2022, [Professor Lee] Panich and a team of faculty, students, and Muwekma Ohlone representatives began adapting that Google Earth tour into a more comprehensive augmented reality (AR) experience that will allow the thousands of people who visit SCU every year to explore Indigenous stories around our campus in real-time, directly on their phones. The GPS-driven AR tour is planned to highlight roughly 20 stops.”
Scientific American: When It Comes to AI Models, Bigger Isn’t Always Better. “In broad strokes, bigger AI tends to be more capable AI. Ever larger LLMs and increasingly massive training datasets have resulted in chatbots that can pass university exams and even entrance tests for medical schools. Yet there are drawbacks to all this growth: As models have gotten bigger, they’ve also become more unwieldy, energy-hungry and difficult to run and build. Smaller models and datasets could help solve this issue. That’s why AI developers, even at some of the largest tech companies, have begun to revisit and reassess miniaturized AI models.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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November 24, 2023 at 01:37AM
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