TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Android Police: Here's what Google killed in 2023. "At this point, Google is infamous for quickly and prematurely killing beloved projects and products. The highest profile loss right at the beginning of the year was certainly Stadia, the company's game streaming service that launched just in 2019. After not gaining as much momentum as the company likely hoped it would, it quickly decided to reduce spending and ultimately shut it down. But Stadia is not the only product killed in 2023, and with Google Podcasts officially on the way out, we already know what's coming in 2024."
TechCrunch: GitHub makes Copilot Chat generally available, letting devs ask questions about code. "Earlier this year, GitHub rolled out Copilot Chat, a ChatGPT-like programming-centric chatbot for organizations subscribed to Copilot for Business. Copilot Chat more recently came to individual Copilot customers — those paying $10 per month — in beta. And now, GitHub's launching Chat in general availability for all users."
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
New York Times: When Being a Spokeswoman Attracts Leering Internet Trolls. "In the summer of 2020, seemingly overnight, one small but vocal corner of the internet fixed its gaze upon [Milana] Vayntrub and began referring to her by a new name: Mommy Milkers, a reference to her breasts. En masse, people spammed the comment sections of AT&T's social-media posts with lewd declarations and emojis of glasses of milk. The jeering became inescapable for Vayntrub, bleeding into the comments of her personal social-media accounts."
Hackaday: The Gopher Revival Is Upon Us. "A maxim for anyone writing a web page in the mid 1990s was that it was good practice to bring the whole thing (including graphics) in at around 30 kB in size. It was a time when the protocol still had some pretence of efficient information delivery, when information was self-published, before huge corporations brought everything under their umbrellas. Recently, this idea of the small web has been experiencing something of a quiet comeback."
Global Cycling Network: The best Strava art of 2023. "2023 has been a big year for Strava art, with world records coming and going, and an ever-eclectic array of animals, logos, and everything in between. For the uninitiated, Strava art is what happens when the GPS map of a ride takes on a shape of its own, occasionally by accident but usually by design – and increasingly by ever-more audacious, detailed, and artistic design."
SECURITY & LEGAL
UK Defence Journal: UK exposes Russia for attempted political interference. "The UK and international partners have called out the Russian Intelligence Services for a campaign of malicious cyber activity attempting to interfere in UK politics and democratic processes."
Associated Press: Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen says he unwittingly sent AI-generated fake legal cases to his attorney. "Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's onetime personal lawyer and fixer, says he unwittingly passed along to his attorney bogus artificial intelligence-generated legal case citations he got online before they were submitted to a judge."
Sky News: Chloe Macdermott: Google and Amazon told to act after woman's death following suicide pact. "Google and Amazon must do more after a British woman made a suicide pact with two people she met online and used the internet to buy poison, a coroner has said. Chloe Macdermott, 43, died in May 2021 after buying a lethal substance from the US on Amazon."
RESEARCH & OPINION
Varsity: Cambridge AI centre welcomes Google as first partner. "The University of Cambridge's newly established Centre for Human-Inspired AI (CHIA) has unveiled a long-term research agreement with Google, including an unrestricted grant to support endeavours in responsible AI, health care and sustainability. The agreement will make the technology giant the first funding partner for the University's Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence."
TechXplore: Can large language models detect sarcasm?. "Juliann Zhou, a researcher at New York University, recently carried out a study aimed at assessing the performance of two LLMs trained to detect human sarcasm, which entails conveying ideas by ironically stating the exact opposite of what one is trying to say. Her findings, posted on the preprint server arXiv, helped her to delineate features and algorithmic components that could enhance the sarcasm detection capabilities of both AI agents and robots."
PsyPost: Gender and personality traits influence cryptocurrency investment decisions. "A study in Norway has found that less than 1 in 10 Norwegians are willing to invest in cryptocurrencies. However, the likelihood of investing is more than double in men compared to women. Additionally, those open to investing in cryptocurrency tend to exhibit lower levels of agreeableness and conscientiousness, but higher levels of openness to experience and financial overconfidence. The study was published in Psychology & Marketing."
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
Mashable: NASA rover posts glorious GIF of a Martian day. "NASA regularly posts highly impressive GIFs of glimpses beyond our own atmosphere, and this week, it's another beauty from Mars. On Thursday, the space agency's Curiosity rover posted two animated images showing the six-wheeled vehicle's view of the Martian landscape over 12 hours. It's essentially the representation of one Martian day, from sunrise to sunset, with Curiosity capturing its own shadow in the foreground." Good morning, Internet...
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