Cante Alentejano, Public Domain Game Jam, HandBrake, More: Tuesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, December
NEW RESOURCES
The Portugal News: Taking Alentejo music digital. “Launched earlier this year, the Cante Digital Archive seeks to preserve the memories of those associated with the ‘Cante Alentejano’, a patrimony of UNESCO.” Cante Alentejano is a type of Portuguese music featuring vocals but no instruments.
EVENTS
Techdirt: It’s Time To Get Ready For The Public Domain Game Jam. “We’ve been running these game jams ever since 2019, when new works began entering the public domain in the US for the first time in over two decades, as a way to highlight the creativity that comes from a robust and growing public domain. Starting on January 1st, 2025, we’ll be doing it again to celebrate works from 1929 that are finally losing their copyright protection after nearly a century.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
How-To Geek: The Handbrake Video Converter Just Got a Big Update. “HandBrake, the free and open-source video converter and encoder, has released a new update. HandBrake 1.9 has improved support for Intel hardware, VP9 video, disc sources, and much more.”
Mashable: Roblox’s new Party feature makes Discord obsolete. “Since its founding, the gaming platform Roblox had a considerable drawback: Friends who wanted to play the same game together couldn’t do so easily…. Roblox announced Monday that those days are in the past with the launch of its new Party feature, which allows friends to gather, select a game, and arrive in the server together. Users 13 and older can also chat with each other while playing.”
AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD
Gizmodo: Artists Stick It to ‘AI Overlords’ and Leak OpenAI’s Sora Video Generator. “For a short time on Tuesday, a group of pissed-off artists shared a tool that allowed anyone to use OpenAI’s officially unreleased Sora AI model, which takes text prompts and turns them into videos.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
The Register: Bluesky too opaque about user figures for Euro watchdogs. “The Bluesky social network is not yet big enough to be considered ‘Very Large Online Platform’ subject to special obligations under Europe’s Digital Services Act (DSA) - but it’s already having trouble complying with the law.”
ABC News (Australia): ChatGPT, Meta and Google generative AI should be designated ‘high-risk’ under new laws, bipartisan committee recommends. “A dedicated artificial intelligence (AI) act should be created that can regulate the most high-risk technologies, a bipartisan committee has agreed. It also accused tech giants of stealing from Australian creators, and urged the government to develop a scheme to ensure fair remuneration when creative work is used by AI tools.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Cornell Chronicle: New process can curb fraud in rural online data collection. “A new protocol can detect and remove fake data created by bots and humans attempting to enroll in online research studies, in order to prevent biased results and unwarranted payments to bad actors - the first such protocol specifically designed for data collected in rural communities.”
Georgia Tech: Minority English Dialects Vulnerable to Automatic Speech Recognition Inaccuracy. “The Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models that power voice assistants like Amazon Alexa may have difficulty transcribing English speakers with minority dialects. A study by Georgia Tech and Stanford researchers compared the transcribing performance of leading ASR models for people using Standard American English (SAE) and three minority dialects - African American Vernacular English (AAVE), Spanglish, and Chicano English.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
North Carolina State University: Researchers Demonstrate Self-Assembling Electronics. “Researchers have demonstrated a new technique for self-assembling electronic devices. The proof-of-concept work was used to create diodes and transistors, and paves the way for self-assembling more complex electronic devices without relying on existing computer chip manufacturing techniques.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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