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March 23, 2023

University of Illinois Chicago: New UIC early learning website focuses on kindergarten readiness

University of Illinois Chicago: New UIC early learning website focuses on kindergarten readiness. “The focus of The Ready Child is on pre-K families and teachers and is broken down into three sections, including The Ready Child, where people can learn about the five areas of kindergarten readiness; The Ready Family, where family members can find resources needed to help their child succeed; and the Ready School, where teachers and child care providers can build on the strengths children bring to the classroom.”

March 23, 2023

Georgetown Unversity: Georgetown and UNHCR Collaborate on Big Data and Forced Displacement Project

Georgetown University: Georgetown and UNHCR Collaborate on Big Data and Forced Displacement Project. “Georgetown and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have formed a new partnership to blend traditional and new forms of data to better understand and predict mass movements of forcibly displaced populations.”

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March 23, 2023

Classical Music: The Lark Ascending: brand new skylark recordings project

Classical Music: The Lark Ascending: brand new skylark recordings project . “”[The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society] has joined forces with the Wildlife Sound Recording Society (WSRS) and the British Library’s Wildlife and Environmental Sounds collection to gather examples of the song of the skylark – the bird whose exuberant, melodious singing inspired the composer’s much-loved piece The Lark Ascending.”

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March 23, 2023

Cornell Chronicle: Lawmakers struggle to differentiate AI and human emails

Cornell Chronicle: Lawmakers struggle to differentiate AI and human emails. “A field experiment investigating how the natural language model GPT-3, the predecessor to the most recently released model, might be used to generate constituent email messages showed that legislators were only slightly less likely to respond to AI-generated messages (15.4%) than human-generated (17.3%).”

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March 23, 2023

Bleeping Computer: Dole discloses employee data breach after ransomware attack

Bleeping Computer: Dole discloses employee data breach after ransomware attack. “Fresh produce giant Dole Food Company has confirmed threat actors behind a February ransomware attack have accessed the information of an undisclosed number of employees. Dole employs around 38,000 people worldwide, providing fresh fruits and vegetables to customers in more than 75 countries.”

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March 23, 2023

Bradford Telegraph and Argus: Significant textile archive goes online thanks to year-long project

Bradford Telegraph and Argus: Significant textile archive goes online thanks to year-long project. “ONE of the most significant woven textile archives in the UK is now available online thanks to a year-long collaboration. Called Weaving the Web, it means that the historic Sunny Bank Mills Archive can now be viewed in 3D on the web.”

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March 23, 2023

PBS News Hour: What it means to be Iraqi, 20 years after the U.S. invasion

PBS News Hour: What it means to be Iraqi, 20 years after the U.S. invasion. “The 2003 invasion of Iraq is a memory forever etched in the minds of millions of Iraqis who were living in and outside the country at the time. Years of war, followed by continued instability in the country, has cost generations time and trauma. In Ruptured Domesticity, a digital archive, Iraqi researcher Sana Murrani has collected the memories of Iraqis living inside and outside the country during the times of war.”

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March 23, 2023

The Verge: Google and Microsoft’s chatbots are already citing one another in a misinformation shitshow

The Verge: Google and Microsoft’s chatbots are already citing one another in a misinformation shitshow. “Microsoft’s Bing said Google’s Bard had been shut down after it misread a story citing a tweet sourced from a joke. It’s not a good sign for the future of online misinformation.”

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March 23, 2023

Ars Technica: Are Roblox’s new AI coding and art tools the future of game development?

Ars Technica: Are Roblox’s new AI coding and art tools the future of game development?. “At the Game Developers Conference Monday, Roblox rolled out a new set of AI tools designed to let the company’s millions of player-creators create usable game code and in-game 2D surfaces using nothing but simple text descriptions.”

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March 23, 2023

BBC: How Elon Musk’s tweets unleashed a wave of hate

BBC: How Elon Musk’s tweets unleashed a wave of hate. “There have been hundreds of posts, many including misogynistic slurs and abusive language. There have also been threatening messages, including depictions of kidnap and hanging.”

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March 23, 2023

University of Kentucky: UK’s Brent Seales launches global competition to decipher Herculaneum scrolls

University of Kentucky: UK’s Brent Seales launches global competition to decipher Herculaneum scrolls. “Brent Seales, a computer science professor at the University of Kentucky, is leading a global competition to read the charred scrolls after demonstrating that an artificial intelligence program (AI) can successfully extract letters and symbols from X-ray images of the unrolled papyri (EduceLab-scrolls).”

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March 23, 2023

WIRED: The Scorched-Earth Tactics of Iran’s Cyber Army

WIRED: The Scorched-Earth Tactics of Iran’s Cyber Army. “Within its borders, the Iranian regime controls its population through one of the world’s toughest internet filtering systems, physical crackdowns, and mass arrests carried out with impunity. However, the IRI is vulnerable beyond its physical and virtual borders, as the regime struggles to contain the discourse and silence dissidents. To combat opposition narratives in the West and among VPN-armed domestic activists online, the IRI cyber army deploys multifaceted, devious, and sometimes clumsy tactics.”

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March 23, 2023

AFP: Across globe, women battle ‘gendered disinformation’

AFP: Across globe, women battle ‘gendered disinformation’. “Researchers say ‘gendered disinformation’ — when sexism and misogyny intersect with online falsehoods — has relentlessly targeted women around the world, tarnishing their reputations, undermining their credibility and, in many cases, upending their careers.”

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University of Illinois Chicago: New UIC early learning website focuses on kindergarten readiness

Georgetown Unversity: Georgetown and UNHCR Collaborate on Big Data and Forced Displacement Project

Cornell Chronicle: Lawmakers struggle to differentiate AI and human emails

Bleeping Computer: Dole discloses employee data breach after ransomware attack

Bradford Telegraph and Argus: Significant textile archive goes online thanks to year-long project

PBS News Hour: What it means to be Iraqi, 20 years after the U.S. invasion

The Verge: Google and Microsoft’s chatbots are already citing one another in a misinformation shitshow

University of Kentucky: UK’s Brent Seales launches global competition to decipher Herculaneum scrolls

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