EVENTS
North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: State Archives to Host Virtual Program on Lives of the Enslaved Laborers Who Built the North Carolina State Capitol. "The men who built our state's most iconic building, although they were enslaved, left a legacy for all North Carolinians. Their contribution to the construction of the State Capitol during the 1830s has been researched by a team of historians who will present their initial findings during an upcoming virtual Lunch & Learn program hosted by the State Archives."
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Sky News: OpenAI gives first look at Sora, an AI tool which creates video from just a line of text. "OpenAI's newest AI model renders videos from prompts which they say 'accurately interpret props and generate compelling characters that express vibrant emotions'. But the tool has been met with scepticism and concern it could be misused."
Reuters: Russia's Yandex Reports Full-Year Revenue Jump, Spinoff in Focus. "Russian search engine giant Yandex on Thursday reported a 53% jump in full-year revenue to 800.1 billion roubles ($8.72 billion), driven by organic growth across the business, from search and advertising to e-commerce and ride-hailing. Yandex's Nasdaq-listed and Dutch-registered parent, Yandex NV, last week agreed to spin off some assets in a cash and shares deal worth $5.2 billion, a far cry from the company's value before Moscow sent its army into Ukraine in February 2022."
Search Engine Roundtable: Microsoft Pulls Back Flighting Deep Search. "Microsoft has stopped fully testing Bing Deep Search in the wild, saying they stopped 'flighting' it for searchers. Now Bing Deep Search is in some sort of 'shadow flight' to a very limited number of users."
USEFUL STUFF
Space.com : How to photograph a solar eclipse with a smartphone 2024 — 8 tips from an expert. "Gone are the days when people tried to use point-and-shoot cameras — these days, it's either a smartphone or a DSLR/mirrorless camera. 'Smartphones are going to be the way most people capture this eclipse and that's fine—they will work very well,' said Alan Dyer, solar eclipse photographer and author of How to photograph the solar eclipse, in an interview with Space.com. 'Even if you just hold it up and shoot on auto exposure, you'll probably get a good shot.'"
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Mashable: How TikTok became Gen-Z's travel advisor . "TikTok is awash with lifestyle recommendations, encompassing everything from skincare to fashion. When it comes to travel, this is no different. For young people, TikTok has become the ultimate travel guide. New research can back this up. Tripit conducted a survey of 1,000 Americans, finding that the vast majority of young travelers scour TikTok and Instagram for this purpose: 69 percent of Gen-Z and millennial respondents said they find travel inspiration on social media. Of this, 44 percent said they use TikTok specifically."
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: UWM project will document the work of Wisconsin's first Black architect. "[Alonzo Robinson Jr.]'s career spanned over four decades and included public buildings, churches and projects for members of Milwaukee's African American community. Several notable buildings include Mr. Perkins Restaurant at Atkinson Drive and North 20th St.; the Kosciuszko Park Community Center; and the downtown Milwaukee Fire Department headquarters at 7th and Wells, which was renamed in 2021 to honor Alonzo Robinson's role as designer of the building."
E&E News: Beer, luck and robots: How scientists rescued a map to Earth's past. "Like a great many scientific discoveries, this one begins over beers. That's how economist Andreas Madestam first heard about a treasure trove of old pictures — nearly 2 million of them, taken by pilots and photographers flying over what remained of the British Empire and other members of the British Commonwealth in the aftermath of World War II. The aerial photos, collected mainly between 1946 and 1991, might not sell for much at a pawn shop. But to scientists, they offer untold potential — as they can provide a rare glimpse of the planet in the decades before advanced satellites began circling the globe."
SECURITY & LEGAL
ABC News: US disrupts Russian hacking campaign that infiltrated home, small business routers: DOJ. "The FBI announced Thursday it successfully disrupted a Russian GRU-led hacking campaign that infiltrated more than a thousand home and small business routers that were used to carry out cyber operations against countries around the world, including in the U.S."
WMNF: Florida Senators support a revised bill to keep kids off social media. "The Florida Senate on Thursday revamped a bill aimed at keeping children under age 16 off social media, as a debate continued about the proposal's constitutionality and whether it would infringe on parental rights."
RESEARCH & OPINION
WIRED: I Stopped Using Passwords. It's Great—and a Total Mess. "For the past month, I've been converting as many of my accounts as possible—around a dozen for now—to use passkeys and start the move away from the password for good. Spoiler: When passkeys work seamlessly, it's a glimpse of a more secure future for millions, if not billions, of people, and a reinvention of how we sign in to websites and services. But getting there for every account across the internet is still likely to prove a minefield and take some time."
MIT News: MIT researchers remotely map crops, field by field. "MIT engineers have developed a method to quickly and accurately label and map crop types without requiring in-person assessments of every single farm. The team's method uses a combination of Google Street View images, machine learning, and satellite data to automatically determine the crops grown throughout a region, from one fraction of an acre to the next. The researchers used the technique to automatically generate the first nationwide crop map of Thailand — a smallholder country where small, independent farms make up the predominant form of agriculture." Good morning, Internet...
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