New Database Quantifies What the Country Needs To Meet Its Big Clean Energy Goals – Wind and sun may be nearly infinite resources. But the materials needed to build wind turbines and solar panels are not always common. Take the rare earth metals—neodymium, dysprosium, and praseodymium—for example. Chances are those names are just as unfamiliar… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2023
AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, Judge Says in Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause
Hollywood Reporter: “More than 100 days into the writers strike, fears have kept mounting over the possibility of studios deploying generative artificial intelligence to completely pen scripts. But intellectual property law has long said that copyrights are only granted to works created by humans, and that doesn’t look like it’s changing anytime soon. A federal… Continue Reading
Firms’ Back Offices Brace for Generative AI Impact
Law.com: “…While firms’ focus for now remains on how generative AI will change the delivery of legal services, its impact could be far broader. After all, law firms’ back-office functions won’t be immune from the technology’s disruptive potential. To be sure, exactly how generative AI developments will bolster—or threaten—non-legal jobs is still an open question.… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 19, 2023
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 19, 2023 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex… Continue Reading
How Geology Shapes History
Library of Congress, By M. Amelia Raines, Reference Librarian, Geography and Map Division: “Many of the most important cities in the eastern United States owe much of their history to a geological phenomenon which began 250 million years ago. The results of the processes which shaped the Earth itself can be seen on modern maps… Continue Reading
ScholarTurbo
Use ChatGPT to chat with PDFs. ScholarTurbo empowers you to unleash the capabilities of ChatGPT for PDFs. Upload any PDF and start asking questions about it. Paid users get access to GPT-4, while free users utilize GPT-3.5, and use is limited to 100 questions per day, and 3 PDFs per day. Continue Reading
The future of work is AI-enhanced and remote
Computer World – “Two of the biggest unresolved questions in business this year are whether remote work is here to stay and how AI will affect jobs. We’re starting to get some clues about the answers. Some claim the pandemic is over and it’s time for employees to return to the office; others argue that… Continue Reading
How to Upgrade Your PC or Laptop Wi-Fi
Wired: “You don’t necessarily need a new computer to enjoy the latest Wi-Fi speeds. Adding Wi-Fi 6 compatibility to an old PC or Wi-Fi 6E connectivity to your laptop can be easy and relatively affordable. By squeezing more life from your computer, you can avoid adding to the ewaste problem and save yourself a bundle… Continue Reading
AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs
ArXiv – An Empirical Study & Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs, 22 Jul 2023: “For nearly two decades, CAPTCHAs have been widely used as a means of protection against bots. Throughout the years, as their use grew, techniques to defeat or bypass CAPTCHAs have continued to improve. Meanwhile, CAPTCHAs have also evolved in terms of sophistication… Continue Reading
How to Lie with Infographics: A Case Study in Immigration Misinformation
Austin Kocher: “A new infographic posted on social media by Families of New York makes a series of false, incomplete, or just plain incomprehensible claims about asylum seekers. Let’s take a closer look at the growing problem of immigration misinformation, understand what this infographic gets wrong, and set the record straight. Sections in today’s article:… Continue Reading
Beware the Emergence of Shadow AI
Tech Policy Press: “The enthusiasm for generative AI systems has taken the world by storm. Organizations of all sorts– including businesses, governments, and nonprofit organizations– are excited about its applications, while regulators and policymakers show varying levels of desire to regulate and govern it. Old hands in the field of cybersecurity and governance, risk &… Continue Reading
Environmental users abandoned Twitter after Musk takeover
Trends in Ecology, Environmental users abandoned Twitter after Musk takeover. Published: August 15, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.07.002 – “In our sample of 380,000 environmentally oriented users, nearly 50% became inactive on Twitter after it was sold in October 2022, a rate much higher than a control sample. Given Twitter’s importance for public communication, our finding has… Continue Reading
