By ResearchBuzz on August 5, 2024• ( Leave a comment )
NEW RESOURCES
Calishat: See How Wikipedia Topics Are Shaking The News With A Wikipedia Seismograph. “By visually displaying the deviations from the seven-day moving average in a chart (which looks to me like a seismograph output) you can easily see peaks in the public’s interest in a topic. Of course, that knowledge isn’t very interesting unless you can also discover why the interest has peaked, so the WPS also includes a feature to let you create date-bounded Google News searches using the chart output. Let me show you how it works so you can try it yourself: Wikipedia Pageviews Seismograph is free to use, free of ads, and designed to be used on desktop.”
Providence Journal: Over 300,000 Rhode Islanders have unclaimed property. Here’s how to check if you’re one.. “More than 300,000 Rhode Islanders have unclaimed property being held for safe keeping by the state government. And starting this week, there is a new website to find it.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Stephen Wolfram: Yet More New Ideas and New Functions: Launching Version 14.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica. “Today we celebrate the arrival of the 36th (x.x) version of the Wolfram Language and Mathematica: Version 14.1. We’ve been doing this since 1986: continually inventing new ideas and implementing them in our larger and larger tower of technology. And it’s always very satisfying to be able to deliver our latest achievements to the world.”
CNN: Elon Musk files new lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman. “While the first lawsuit was filed in California state court, the new one was filed in federal court in Northern California and is nearly double in length. In contrast to the original suit, it includes claims that OpenAI is engaging in racketeering activity.”
USEFUL STUFF
Fast Company: Google’s web cache is going away. Here are 3 free replacements. Includes a bookmarklet! Yay! “After some sharp-eyed internet observers noticed its absence within Search earlier this year, Google confirmed it was indeed in the midst of retiring the feature. But fear not, my fellow web traveler, for you can still find a recently cached copy of almost any website without Google—if you know how.”
The Verge: How to find your oldest social media posts and delete them. “Maybe your Twitter takes from 10 years ago haven’t aged well, or there’s an ex-partner you’d rather not remember, or you’re heading for a job interview and don’t want your would-be employers to judge who you are now from your decades-old social media posts. Whatever the reason, you can find and delete ancient social media posts without too much difficulty using the web or mobile apps.”
AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD
Times of India: Tibetians condemn ban on language content by Chinese social media as cultural suppression. “The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy criticized Douyin, a social media platform, for banning Tibetan language content. This has affected Tibetan users’ ability to create content and earn a living. TCHRD’s Tenzin Dawa pointed out that the Chinese constitution permits minority groups to use their language, questioning the restrictions imposed on Tibetan language content.”
Channel News Asia: Malaysia mulls developing own social media platform for its citizens: Minister. “The Malaysian government is considering the proposal to develop a social media application specifically for its citizens, said Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil. He said this is because some social media application providers are profiting off Malaysians but fail to ensure user safety.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Irish Times: Fake online ads using Micheál Martin’s image believed to have originated in Belarus and Russia. “Fake online adverts using Tánaiste Micheál Martin’s image are believed to have originated in Belarus and Russia. The Fianna Fáil leader spoke about his efforts to learn the identity of those behind the adverts as he outlined Government plans to overhaul Ireland’s defamation laws.” A Tánaiste, as I understand it, is something like a deputy prime minister.
NBC News: Nebraska teen accused of derailing train, recording the crash and posting it online. “A Nebraska teenager has been charged with two felony counts of criminal mischief after he was accused of causing a train to derail, recording the crash and posting the video on YouTube, according to court records. The 17-year-old was charged in Lancaster County Juvenile Court on Wednesday, but prosecutors have filed a motion to have the case transferred to adult court.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Mother Jones: Thank God Google Pulled That Awful and Depressing AI Ad. “When I watched it, I was struck not by the obvious soullessness, but of the collective arrogance that went into making it. This was the outward expression of an industry that seemingly has no self-awareness of the considerable misgivings people have it, or simply doesn’t care. ‘Dear Sydney’ was as honest as it was bleak: This is what the people pushing AI like about AI. These are the people who watched Her but missed the point.”
National University of Singapore: What can social media images tell us about our impact on nature reserves?. “With increased tourism, it is crucial to monitor the movement of tourists to minimise their ecological impacts on particularly vulnerable species. To find a way to gain insights into how these green spaces are used by humans, NUS researchers, led by Associate Professor L. Roman Carrasco and PhD student Mr Timothy Yee Bing Lun from the Department of Biological Sciences under the NUS Faculty of Science, have developed a deep learning method to analyse social media images taken within protected areas to identify human activity distribution.” Good morning, Internet…
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