AcrGIS Living Atlas
https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis/imagery/new-pretrained-models-available-may-2022/
Archive of ‘information literacy’ category
Getting the most out of Wikibase4Lib
Getting the most out of Wikibase4Lib
Jim Hahn, Timothy Ryan Mendenhall, Esther Jackson
Monday May 23, 2022 | 9am-12pm EDT | Hayes Hall, University at Buffalo | Conference Website
Workshop Summary
This three hour session will provide an introduction to getting Wikibase, the software that powers Wikidata, configured on your local machine by way of Docker Desktop. The session includes an accessible and newbie friendly introduction to using Docker on your laptop, followed by a necessary (though not overly technical) delineation of the unique technology stack that makes up the Wikibase linked data system.
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digital transcripts
categories: badges, e-learning, educational technology, information literacy, information technology
The Pandemic Has Increased Interest in Digital Transcripts. Will They Displace Degrees?
Proponents of digital credential systems argue that giving students ownership over a digital wallet of what they’ve learned that includes a broader and more reflective range of personal achievements could help them better communicate with future employers, if hiring managers start to take them seriously.
Germany China move from Windows to Linux
After Germany, China Now Wants To Ditch Windows & Run Linux On 50 Million PCs!
It’s a big win for the open-source community!
https://fossbytes.com/china-wants-to-run-linux-on-50-million-pcs/
While this is a big win for Linux and open-source software, it’s bad news for laptop/PC manufacturers like Dell, HP, etc., and software companies like Adobe and Microsoft, except Lenovo and Kingsoft. While manufacturers will be driven into the corner to become “foreign” companies, homegrown companies like Lenovo, Huawei, and Kingsoft might see rapid market growth in the forthcoming years.
fake news society schools
this infographic from the European Association for Viewers Interests which took me on a tour of ten types of misleading news—propaganda, clickbait, sponsored content, satire and hoax, error, partisan, conspiracy theory, pseudoscience, misinformation and bogus information.
- recognize our own biases
- “nonsense detectors
- we examine and analyze the authority of the original source
- we should triangulate the information
Student Privacy and Security Risks
Student Privacy and Pandemics: Understanding and Reducing Privacy and Security Risks
the Platform Transparency and Accountability Act
Meta, TikTok and YouTube may finally have to start sharing data with researchers
A Senate hearing this week and a new law in Europe show how “transparency” advocates are winning
the Platform Transparency and Accountability Act, was introduced in December by (an ever-so-slightly) bipartisan group of senators.
“YouTube, TikTok, Telegram, and Snapchat represent some of the largest and most influential platforms in the United States, and they provide almost no functional transparency into their systems. And as a result, they avoid nearly all of the scrutiny and criticism that comes with it.”
When we do hear about what happens inside a tech company, it’s often because a Frances Haugen-type employee decides to leak it.
Cruz expressed great confusion about why he got relatively few new Twitter followers in the days before Elon Musk said he was going to buy it, but then got many more after the acquisition was announced.
The actual explanation is that Musk has lots of conservative fans, they flocked back to the platform when they heard he was buying it, and from there Twitter’s recommendation algorithms kicked into gear.
As usual, though, Europe is much further ahead of us. The Digital Services Act, which regulators reached an agreement on in April, includes provisions that would require big platforms to share data with qualified researchers. The law is expected to go into effect by next year. And so even if Congress dithers after today, transparency is coming to platforms one way or another. Here’s hoping it can begin to answer some very important questions.
deep fake detection
New method detects deepfake videos with up to 99% accuracy
Two-pronged technique detects manipulated facial expressions and identity swaps
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2022/05/03/new-method-detects-deepfake-videos-99-accuracy
India privacy
https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/india-orders-vpn-companies-to-collect-and-hand-over-user-data/
A new government order will force virtual private networks to store user data for five years or longer.
The directive isn’t limited to VPN providers. Data centers and cloud service providers are both listed under the same provision. The companies will have to keep customer information even after the customer has canceled their subscription or account.
India has a history of applying a heavy hand to online activity.
In April, India banned 22 YouTube channels. In 2021, Facebook, Google Twitter ended a tense stand-off with the Indian government when they largely complied with the government’s expanded control over social media content in the country. In 2020, the country banned over 200 Chinese apps, including TikTok, and ultimately banned 9,849 social media URLs.