NEW RESOURCES
Wilson Center: Reintroducing the Saddam Hussein Regime Collection of the Conflict Records Research Center. "Michael Brill introduces the new collection of documents, The Saddam Files. These records, donated by Steve Coll, are a subset of the materials once held at the Conflict Records Research Center."
Election Law Blog: "Public Rights Project Launches National Election Protection Hub to Defend 200+ Officials Under Unprecedented Attack in 2024". "The Election Protection Hub will serve as a central resource for local election officials—including clerks, registrars, recorders, and other election administrators and partners—offering them direct legal services and litigation support, so that they can do their jobs to administer free and fair elections ahead of the 2024 presidential election."
KUT: Exclusive: Ken Paxton impeachment records reveal fights over witness testimony and alleged bullying. "The Texas Newsroom filed a public records request for all documents files with the Court of Impeachment. In response, the Texas Senate released hundreds of pages of previously-unreleased documents that pull back the curtain on the proceedings, revealing behind-the-scenes fights between Paxton's defense team and the prosecution. They also show more about who was made to testify under oath — and who wasn't. To ensure a full and transparent public record of the historic impeachment trial, the first to take place in Texas in nearly half a century, The Texas Newsroom is publishing the document trove in its entirety."
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Digital NC: Over 10 Years of Perquimans Weekly Issues Added to DigitalNC!. "Thanks to our partners, Perquimans County Library and Pettigrew Regional Library, as well as funding from the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), a massive batch of The Perquimans Weekly adds 10+ years worth of issues to DigitalNC! This batch expands our current holdings to include the years: 1989 to 1992 and 2010 to 2020."
9to5 Google: Google Maps adds 'Glanceable directions while navigating' setting. "With glanceable directions, Google Maps will show where to turn and a live ETA directly on your device's lockscreen. The Android app will use regular system notifications, while Google Maps on the iPhone will leverage high-profile Live Activities."
Bloomberg: Google Left in 'Terrible Bind' by Pulling AI Feature After Right-Wing Backlash. "Rather than hold off on releasing a flawed image generator, Google attempted a Band-Aid solution. When Google launched the tool, it included a technical fix to reduce bias in its outputs, according to two people with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be identified discussing private information. But Google did so without fully anticipating all the ways the tool could misfire, the people said, and without being transparent about its approach."
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
TechCrunch: Former Twitter engineers are building Particle, an AI-powered news reader. "A team led by former Twitter engineers is rethinking how AI can be used to help people process news and information. Particle.news, which entered into private beta over the weekend, is a new startup offering a personalized, 'multi-perspective' news reading experience that not only leverages AI to summarize the news, but also aims to do so in a way that fairly compensates authors and publishers — or so is the claim."
The Verge: From Eliza to ChatGPT: why people spent 60 years building chatbots. "ChatGPT and the current revolution in AI chatbots is really only the latest version of this trend, which extends all the way back to the 1960s. That's when Joseph Weizenbaum, a professor at MIT, built a chatbot named Eliza. Weizenbaum wrote in an academic journal in 1966 that Eliza 'makes certain kinds of natural language conversation between man and computer possible.' He set up the bot to act as a therapist, a vessel into which people could pour their problems and thoughts."
Search Engine Journal: Google Confirms That Filetype Search Operator's Missing. "Google's filetype search operator went missing early Wednesday morning. Other search operators continue to function. SearchLiaison responds that it must be a bug."
SECURITY & LEGAL
Reuters: Sam Bankman-Fried urges lenient sentence, citing FTX fund recovery. "Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyer urged a judge on Tuesday to impose a lenient sentence for the FTX founder's conviction for stealing $8 billion from customers of the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, arguing clients would get most of their funds back. In a sentencing submission, Bankman-Fried's lawyer Marc Mukasey told U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan that a guidelines range between 5-1/4 and 6-1/2 years would be an appropriate prison term."
RESEARCH & OPINION
Fordham News: Just Like Humans, AI Has Biases. Two Fordham Professors Received Nearly $500K to Study Them.. "Ruhul Amin, Ph.D., and Mohamed Rahouti, Ph.D., assistant professors of computer and information science at Fordham, were awarded a $493,000 grant from the Qatar Research, Development and Innovation Council to study and improve the biases of artificial intelligence."
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
WBUR: Act meow: Cat pics will pay your fines at Worcester's libraries. "Don't let fees keep you away from the library next month. You can avoid them thanks to a new initiative from a few self-proclaimed 'cat people.' All next month, patrons can clear their damaged or lost library fines by visiting the library with an image of a cat. Any cat." Good morning, Internet...
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