NEW RESOURCES
United Against Book Bans: New Free Book Résumé Resource. "Created in partnership with dozens of publishers and with information provided by publishers, librarians, and School Library Journal, Unite Against Book Bans book résumés are easy-to-print documents designed to help support readers' access to books that are targeted by censors. Each book résumé summarizes the book's significance and educational value, including a synopsis, reviews from professional journals, awards, accolades, and more. Where possible, the book résumés also include information about how a title has been successfully retained in school districts and libraries after a demand to censor the book."
KNBC: Newly launched website aims to combat anti-Asian hate with data, links to resources . "The newly released Asian Resource Hub provides data on anti-Asian discrimination, information on resources for those who have been subjected to racism and tips on how to intervene if you see someone victimized by hate. In addition to English, the new website is also available in Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese."
Argonne National Laboratory: Argonne upgrade lets data portal users "get NERDE" about economic resilience. "NERDE data includes statistics regarding local economic distress, employment and gross domestic product, local industry clusters, climate risk and innovation. The platform provides this information for more than 3,000 counties and for every economic development district in the United States."
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
VentureBeat: Google expands BigQuery with Gemini, brings vector support to cloud databases. "Google has been busy in 2024 thus far, with multiple updates of its Gemini large language model (LLM) that haven't all quite gone according to plan. Today Google announced that it is bringing the power of its Gemini models to its BigQuery analytics service, alongside new function updates for AI data preparation and retrieval augmented generation (RAG)."
9to5 Google: Photomath is officially Google's latest app on the Play Store. "In May of 2022, Google announced that it was acquiring a math solver app called Photomath. The deal closed last year after regulatory review, but Google only just brought the application under its Play Store publisher account today. Photomath lets you take a picture of a math equation, including word problems, to get step-by-step explanations of how to solve."
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Austin Monitor: As Council prepped public support, local Google workers learned of layoffs . "Some private-sector workplace drama took place in real time during Thursday's City Council meeting, with a group of local Google workers learning they'd lost their jobs while commenting on a proposed city resolution intended to support their cause."
Reuters: Chile partially pulls Google data center permit, seeks tougher environmental checks . "A Chilean environmental court partially reversed a permit allowing Google to build a data center in the country on Tuesday, asking the U.S. company to revise its application to take into account the effects of climate change."
SECURITY & LEGAL
CNBC: Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman over contract breach. "Elon Musk is suing Microsoft-backed OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, among others, alleging they abandoned the company's founding mission to develop artificial intelligence 'for the benefit of humanity broadly.'"
France24: Another Ukraine: a disinformation platform run by an exiled Ukrainian oligarch in Russia. "Viktor Medvedchuk, a Ukrainian oligarch who is close to Vladimir Putin, found refuge in Russia after leaving Ukraine, where he faces treason charges. He runs a Russian-language portal pushing Kremlin narratives on Ukraine and the war, but his latest foray into disinformation has run into its own challenges."
Euractiv: Italian parliamentarians commit to defunding disinformation. "Prominent Italian parliamentarians committed on Thursday (29 February) to 'strengthening the immunity system' of their society by making sure that global brands stop advertising with media outlets that spread disinformation."
RESEARCH & OPINION
The City: We Asked an AI to Map Our Stories Across NYC. "An opportunity arrived to better understand our coverage when we received an archive of past stories as computer files as part of a migration to a new website last year. We decided to run an experiment and find the locations of all of our stories onto New York City's geographic landscape.... So we asked OpenAI's ChatGPT to read all of our story files and tell us where each story took place."
Temple University: Swipe left or right: New study examines social anxiety in adolescents. "In the age of social media, judgment from our peers has become increasingly prevalent. At the swipe of a finger, a person can reveal whether they accept or reject you. And this response can be a source of stress for some. The third most common mental health disorder, social anxiety typically develops during adolescence, with 90% of cases occurring before the age of 23. Symptoms rise dramatically in early adolescence and often wax and wane over time. When the illness persists into mid-adolescence, there's increased severity and greater risk for other mental health problems." Good morning, Internet...
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