NEW RESOURCES
The Guardian: Archaeologists reveal life stories of hundreds of people from medieval Cambridge. "Archaeologists at Cambridge University have reconstructed the 'biographies' of hundreds of the city's ordinary medieval residents by examining their skeletons in detail, using a wealth of scientific data to fill out the life stories of poor or disadvantaged people whose names were never recorded."
EVENTS
Library of Congress: Join Us on 12/7 for Human Rights Day: Science Literacy and the Law. "We hope you can join us on December 7th at 3 p.m., via Zoom, for our Human Rights Day celebration.... Dr. Sarah Cooper will provide this year's lecture on scientific literacy and the law. Science helps the law to understand the world in which legal policy, including human rights standards like the right to a fair and public trial, must operate. Yet, it is widely recognized that law and science approach the world in different ways: law must provide finality and stability, whereas science is encouraged to embrace new ideas so that we can better understand the natural world."
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Anime News Network: Toho Archive Accepts Unclaimed Film Masters After Tokyo Laboratory Shuts Down. "Tokyo Laboratory (Tokyo Genzōsho, or Togen) announced on Thursday that the TOHO Archive will now take over the management of all of Tokyo Laboratory's remaining unclaimed film masters, instead of the masters being destroyed. Tokyo Laboratory shut down on Thursday after 68 years of operation."
New York Times: Advertisers Say They Do Not Plan to Return to X After Musk's Comments. "At least half a dozen marketing agencies said the brands they represent were standing firm against advertising on X, while others said they had advised advertisers to stop posting anything on the platform. Some temporary spending pauses that advertisers have enacted in recent weeks against X are likely to turn into permanent freezes, they added, with Mr. Musk's comments giving them no incentive to return."
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Viet Nam News: New media art pioneers aim to create digital archive. "With a desire to experiment with technology and explore the capability of the human voice, two artists have developed a surreal art-technology project Voice Gems – a generative system and voice archive that transforms human voices into digital gems."
Hollywood Reporter: The Rise of AI-Powered Stars: Big Money and Risks. "As the Hollywood guilds grapple with the potential for generative AI to transform film and TV production, tech firms are using the power of celebrities to introduce the underlying technology to the masses. 'There's a huge possible business there and I think that's what YouTube and the music companies see, for better or for worse,' says Gavin Purcell, the former executive producer of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon who now hosts the AI for Humans podcast. 'The Facebook's and the YouTubes are trying to get people onboarded with what they see as the next UGC, user generated content world, which is this AI stuff.'"
SECURITY & LEGAL
Vice: ChatGPT Can Reveal Personal Information From Real People, Google Researchers Show. "Previous work has already shown that image generators can be forced to generate examples from their training data—including copyrighted works—and an early OpenAI LLM produced contact information belonging to a researcher. But Google's new research shows that ChatGPT, which is a massively popular consumer app with millions of users, can also be made to do this. Worryingly, some of the extracted training data contained identifying information from real people, including names, email addresses, and phone numbers."
FedScoop: DHS releases commercial generative AI guidance and is experimenting with building its own models. "The Department of Homeland Security is leaning into the use of generative artificial intelligence by issuing new guidance on how its workforce should use commercial applications of the technology and experimenting with building its own models, the department's top IT official told FedScoop."
Associated Press: Congressmen ask DOJ to investigate water utility hack, warning it could happen anywhere. "Three members of Congress have asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate how foreign hackers breached a water authority near Pittsburgh, prompting the nation's top cyberdefense agency to warn other water and sewage-treatment utilities that they may be vulnerable."
RESEARCH & OPINION
University of Sydney: Sydney researchers discover hidden structure in networks like Twitter. "Researchers at the University of Sydney have discovered new structural relationships in complex networks, such as X (formerly Twitter) and political blogs, that could help explain the digital flow of information."
Ars Technica: New "Stable Video Diffusion" AI model can animate any still image. "On Tuesday, Stability AI released Stable Video Diffusion, a new free AI research tool that can turn any still image into a short video—with mixed results. It's an open-weights preview of two AI models that use a technique called image-to-video, and it can run locally on a machine with an Nvidia GPU."
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
Music Radar: This web app randomly samples thousands of YouTube videos to create a playable grid of loops, giving you endless sonic inspiration. "Built by Technology Greg, Sonic Garbage pulls over 3000 randomly generated YouTube audio snippets into a colour-coded grid and sorts them by 'audio energy' (volume?) or length, giving you a playable set of randomized samples that is tons of fun to mess around with. Sure, the majority of them may not sound great, but play around for a few minutes and it's remarkably easy to stumble on combinations of loops that fit together just right and create something unexpectedly musical." It really is, I tried it. It was amazing to me how much random audio actually made half-decent samples. Good morning, Internet...
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