Cork Butter Museum, Ohio Pharmacy Services, Bluesky, More: Wednesday ResearchBuzz, December 11, 2024
NEW RESOURCES
Irish Farmers Journal: Butter Museum to tackle food information deficit. “The Butter Museum has developed a range of resources for outreach and education which combine the old and the new … These resources include: - Schools’ activity worksheets designed by a primary school teacher.- 3D animations of collection items. -Digital collection of butter wrappers from creameries across the country.”
Ohio Board of Pharmacy: Ohio Board of Pharmacy Launches New Online Search Tool to Help Patients Find Accessible Pharmacy Services. This link goes to a PDF file. “Ohio Board of Pharmacy Executive Director Steven W. Schierholt announced today that Ohioans who have low vision, are hard of hearing, or require language translation services can now use a new online search tool to locate Ohio pharmacies that provide accessible services.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
TechCrunch: Bluesky teases paid subscription, Bluesky+, in new mockup. “Social networking startup and X competitor Bluesky is working on subscriptions. The company first announced plans to develop a new revenue stream based on the subscription model when detailing its $15 million Series A back in October. Now, mockups teasing the upcoming Bluesky subscription, along with a list of possible features, have been published to Bluesky’s GitHub.”
SFGate: ‘Polarization’ is Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year. “The Merriam-Webster entry for “polarization” reflects scientific and metaphorical definitions. It’s most commonly used to mean ‘causing strong disagreement between opposing factions or groupings.’ Merriam-Webster, which logs 100 million pageviews a month on its site, chooses its word of the year based on data, tracking a rise in search and usage.”
USEFUL STUFF
PC World: Best free password managers 2024: Online security doesn’t have to cost a thing. “While paid password managers offer nice extras, a free password manager still protects you from the risks of using weak passwords (or worse, using the same one everywhere). Instead of remembering all of your passwords and/or passkeys, you just need one to access a single, secure place where all of the rest are stored.”
AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD
NARA: National Archives To Award $2.4 Million For Historical Records Projects . “The National Archives has approved $2,434,000 in awards for 30 historical records projects in 21 states, American Samoa, and the District of Columbia. The National Archives grants program is carried out with the advice and recommendations of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).”
The Register: South Korean web giant Naver creates its own Linux distro. “Korean web giant Naver has gone into the operating system business, releasing its very own Linux distribution. Naver is often compared to Google, as started providing search and a web portal then sprawled into email, payment services, e-commerce, blogging, and public cloud services. Its search offering remains South Korea’s favorite, with market share that eclipses even the big G.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Engadget: Musicians demand music labels drop their Internet Archive lawsuit . “Musicians Tegan & Sara, Open Mike Eagle, Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill and more have signed a letter organized by Fight for the Future demanding music labels drop their lawsuit against the Internet Archive, the online library and nonprofit best known for the Wayback Machine.”
Tom’s Hardware: Alarming amount of Texas Instrument chips found in Russian-based weapons in Ukraine - Russian military using third parties to purchase U.S-made chips. “Despite strict sanctions imposed by the United States preventing semiconductor shipments to Russia, Russian weapons discovered on Ukrainian battlefields purportedly have an alarming amount of U.S.-manufactured chips inside. Bloomberg revealed a variety of records on how Russia has been able to purchase U.S.-based chips, unbeknownst to the U.S.-based chip makers themselves.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Poynter: Opinion | Can AI run with the bulls (and a pack of screaming toddlers)?. “A computer might be able to help a reporter come up with angles for a story, and even provide leads. But journalism - especially the kind you hear on the radio and in a wide variety of podcasts these days, produced by both public service and commercial media - hinges on verbal conversations with real people; in their homes, their workplaces or on the street, in addition to over Zoom or on the phone…. Without the interviews I did in the field, NotebookLM could not have produced that episode. Even with them, the artificial intelligence yielded little more than a collection of inflated bromides.”
Bloomberg: Secret to AI Profitability Is Hiring a Lot More Doctorates. “In the tiny kingdom of Bhutan, dozens of data experts perfect artificial intelligence models from offices framed by majestic Himalayan peaks. The employees at iMerit aren’t there to train AI in rudimentary tasks like recognizing ‘brown cat on a windowsill’ in an image. Instead, they’re teaching algorithms the anatomy of the human eye or how to detect changes in geospatial maps.”
ZDNet: OpenAI’s o1 lies more than any major AI model. Why that matters. “Apollo Research tested six frontier models for ‘in-context scheming’ - a model’s ability to take action they haven’t been given directly and then lie about it. After being told to achieve a certain goal “at all costs,” evaluators introduce contradictory information to see if the model will remove any restrictions in its path and deceive developers.” Good morning, Internet…
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