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NEW RESOURCES
New Voice of Ukraine: Digital archive captures charms of Ukraine’s cultural heritage through collation of historic Xmas cards. “The team of snig.digital design bureau has created a project that has collected dozens of old postcards from Ukrainian illustrators of the past.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Anchorage Daily News: One year and $250,000 later, Alaska’s new spending database has not been launched. “Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration has missed a legal deadline to expand Alaska’s public spending database to some of its most heavily scrutinized state corporations, prompting a written complaint from the state senator who pushed the overhaul.”
USEFUL STUFF
Lifehacker: You Can Run a Generative AI Locally on Your Computer. “You may have already tested out generative AI engines such as ChatGPT and Google Bard. But while it’s popular to accesses these tools in the cloud, you can also install them locally on your own computer. There are some real benefits to doing so: It’s more private, of course, and you won’t get hit by any warnings about the AI being over capacity or unavailable. Also, it’s just kind of cool.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
New York Times: No Oversight: Inside a Boom-Time Start-Up Fraud and Its Unraveling. “After Manish Lachwani founded the Silicon Valley software start-up HeadSpin in 2015, he inflated the company’s revenue numbers by nearly fourfold and falsely claimed that firms including Apple and American Express were customers. He showed a profit where there were losses. He used HeadSpin’s cash to make risky trades on tech stocks. And he created fake invoices to cover it all up. What was especially breathtaking was how easily Mr. Lachwani, now 48, pulled all that off.”
Sul Ross State University: Archives of the Big Bend welcomes three new collections. “The Archives of the Big Bend is proud to share the news of three new collections available for viewing and research starting in the Spring of 2024. Over the last several months, the Archives acquired three sizeable donations, including Fort Davis National Historic Site’s entire microfilm collection, the John Gage Ketzle Collection and the Don Burgess Collection.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
US Government Accountability Office: Protecting American Research from Foreign Theft . “The United States is a global leader in science and technology. Part of our strength comes from the open exchange of ideas and collaboration among researchers, including across international borders. But some foreign governments are exploiting that openness to acquire U.S. research and technology, both legally and illegally. One of many potential targets is the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which employs about 1,400 researchers.”
The Hindu: City Police issue advisory on Google Map Scam. “The Greater Chennai City Police have issued an advisory on Google Map Scam to which a few people have already fallen prey and lost their money.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Public health agencies are using AI chatbots to ease workloads. Is it a good idea?. “Public health agencies may lose 130,000 workers by 2025. Low salaries, burnout, and other factors are driving employees away. Better funding, aligned to deal with the real risk of future pandemics, would help to keep programs running smoothly, but government investment in public health has historically followed a boom-and-bust cycle—and it looks like that will continue for the foreseeable future. As a result, health departments are looking for ways to do more with less. Increasingly they may be looking toward a problematic but perhaps effective solution: artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots.
University of Southern California: AI could help in the early diagnosis of autism, USC study finds. “Previous studies have shown it is possible to use technology to categorize autism from typically developing individuals, but it can be difficult to distinguish autism from other similar developmental disorders. For example, developmental coordination disorder — primarily a motor skills disorder — has features that overlap with autism. Children with autism spectrum disorder often have both motor and sensory deficits in addition to the social deficits that are the hallmark of the disorder.”
Washington Post: To get the public’s trust, open the database. “The article quoted Attorney General Merrick Garland as saying, ‘No law enforcement agency — including the Justice Department — can effectively do its work without the trust of the public.’ But the new database will be secret and not open to the public. So how can it help build public trust if the public can’t identify and see the records of law enforcement officers who have been reprimanded for misconduct? The database should be open to the public.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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December 24, 2023 at 02:31AM
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