NEW RESOURCES
RTE: New website to track media ownership in Ireland amid concentration concerns. "A new website that will track the ownership of media organisations in Ireland is to be launched today. The Media Ownership Monitor (MOM) Ireland will also highlight the connections between media outlets and individuals and institutions."
Yale News: Yale vows new actions to address past ties to slavery, issues apology, book. "Yale University's ongoing work to understand its history and connections to slavery continued today with announcements of new commitments and actions and a formal apology in response to the findings of a scholarly, peer-reviewed book, 'Yale and Slavery: A History,' authored by Yale Professor David W. Blight with the Yale and Slavery Research Project."
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
How-To Geek: DuckDuckGo Browser Reveals Its Unique Device-Syncing Feature. "The DuckDuckGo browser can now sync bookmarks, passwords, and Email Protection preferences between devices. But, unlike Chrome and other competitors, DuckDuckGo's device syncing doesn't require an account."
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Time Extension: Archivists Set Out To Save Old Japanese Magazine Type-In Games. "If you've been following Time Extension for a while, you've probably come across our coverage of the website Gaming Alexandria — the small preservation hub run by a group of video game history enthusiasts that recently managed to preserve the entire library of games that were released for the Gakken Compact Vision TV Boy. The website... has recently caught our attention again for its valiant efforts to catalog and preserve as many as old Japanese type-in programs as possible."
The Register: Google open sources file-identifying Magika AI for malware hunters and others. "Basically, if someone uploads a .JPG to your online service, you want to be sure it's a JPEG image and not some script masquerading as one, which could later bite you in the ass. Enter Magika, which uses a trained model to rapidly identify file types from file data, and it's an approach the Big G thinks works well enough to use in production. Magika is, we're told, used by Gmail, Google Drive, Chrome's Safe Browsing, and VirusTotal to properly identify and route data for further processing."
Boing Boing: AI screw-up results in man being fined $400 for scratching his head. "Tim Hansen was surprised to be issued a $400 citation for using his mobile phone while driving when he was actually just scratching his head. As seen above, Hansen was photographed by a police camera system called Monocam that misread the situation. Coincidentally, Hansen is an engineer who happens to work on machine learning systems that analyze images."
SECURITY & LEGAL
GhanaWeb: Ghana's Labour Act helped laid-off Twitter Africa staff to secure payoff - Agency. "A group of young Africans in the newly opened Twitter Africa office in Accra were among the victims of a layoff that they described as arbitrarily done. They invoked Ghanian laws on redundancy and dragged the company (now known as X) to court with the view to enforce their rights and demand their due by way of compensation. After a long-drawn legal process, the agency that represented the staff, Agency Seven Seven, announced that it had led successful negotiations to get a fair settlement for the group."
NBC News: Murder suspect paid $120,000 to his lawyer who relied on Google during trial. "The judge's decision was stunning, but so were the allegations. After the 2014 murder trial of a New York man accused of killing his wife, the judge wrote that the defendant's lawyer was so unprepared and inexperienced that he relied on Google for help with forensics and pulled questions directly from an Australian web page, 'DNA for Defence Lawyers.'"
Ars Technica: USPTO says AI models can't hold patents. "On Tuesday, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published guidance on inventorship for AI-assisted inventions, clarifying that while AI systems can play a role in the creative process, only natural persons (human beings) who make significant contributions to the conception of an invention can be named as inventors. It also rules out using AI models to churn out patent ideas without significant human input."
RESEARCH & OPINION
The Ohio State University: Imageomics poised to enable new understanding of life. "Imageomics is a new interdisciplinary scientific field focused on using machine learning tools to understand the biology of organisms, particularly biological traits, from images.... Those images can come from camera traps, satellites, drones – even the vacation photos that tourists take of animals like zebras and whales, said [Tanya] Berger-Wolf, who is director of the Imageomics Institute at Ohio State, funded by the National Science Foundation."
University of Michigan: Widely used AI tool for early sepsis detection may be cribbing doctors' suspicions. "Proprietary artificial intelligence software designed to be an early warning system for sepsis can't differentiate high and low risk patients before they receive treatments, according to a new study from the University of Michigan."
BGR: Thanks to OpenAI, it's never been clearer that Sundar Pichai is Google's Steve Ballmer. "It's not just OpenAI, by the way, that brings this realization about Google's uninspiring leadership into stark relief. And you don't even have to look all that hard to see the signs. Arguments wrapped in November, for example, in the search monopoly case against Google (which still has an 83% market share as of January). At the same time, Google Search is an increasingly garbage-filled hellscape of everything from Reddit, Quora, and Forbes posts — as well as People Also Ask questions and other automated nonsense — that make it harder than ever to find the damn thing you searched for in the first place." Good morning, Internet...
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