A federal judge in Washington yesterday ordered the Interior Department to shut down most of its employees' Internet access and some of its public Web sites after concluding that the agency has failed to fix computer security problems that threaten...

Critics of the Diebold touch-screen voting machines turned their attention Wednesday from the machines themselves to the computers that will tally the final vote, saying the outcome is so easy to manipulate that even a monkey could do it. And...

Kyra Wilson, Aylin Caliskan, Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, Nov 13, 2024

The topic of AI-based recruitment and hiring has been discussed here before and research continues apace. This item (13 page PDF), despite the characterization in GeekWire, is a fairly narrow study. It looks at three text-embedding models based on Mistral-7B-v0.1, and tests for gender and racial bias on applications containing name and position only, and name and position and some content (the paper discusses removing the name but does do it). The interesting bit is that intersectional bias (ie., combining gender and race) is not merely a combination of the separate biases; while separate biases exaggerated the discrimination, "intersectional results, on the other hand, do correspond more strongly to real-world discrimination in resume screening." Via Lisa Marie Blaschke, who in turn credits Audrey Watters.

Vinay K. Chaudhri, The Hechinger Report, Nov 13, 2024

This is an idea straight from the 50s but expect to see more of the same as companies wrestle with how to make their publications relevant in the age of AI. Vinay K. Chaudhri beghins with a reaffirmation of the importance of textbooks (as "a carefully curated body of knowledge... nearly 100 percent accurate... (and) the view of an expert educator"). Needed now, though, is "authoring textbooks so that their concepts can be read as computer code." How? Back to the 50s - a controlled vocabulary. "Textbooks, using the discipline of knowledge engineering, can support the curation, preservation and learning of all forms of human knowledge." Next up? I guess it would have to be the unification of the sciences.

Jared Cooney Horvath, Nov 13, 2024

Obviously you can't simply cite some PISA scores to show that 'ed tech is failing'. Minimally, it may well be that schools today are teaching less of what PISA is testing (eg. computer and information literacy). Additionally, there is a drift in what PISA tests for one year to the next (they don't test against curricula, they test against what PISA test designers believe a 15-year old should know, independently of curricula). There are additional factors, such as the pandemic, but not just that, also war and political change. And a final challenge is that most 15-year olds aren't actually taught using ed tech.

ITS has recently polled State agency developers for their ideas for a more collaborative eDG site that will better serve...

You may remember Gilbert Lee when he was a web designer for Utah.gov. He left us to design for Northrop Grumman and now has his own successful firm PlainSimple Design, LLC at www.plainsimple.org. Gilbert has just volunteered to organize the Salt Lake City Weblogger Meetup. He encourages SLC bloggers to come out and meet others doing the same. The first meeting is Wednesday, September 15 at 7:00 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1104 East 2100 South (Cafe), Salt Lake City.

Arkansas has joined the growing number of states syndicating agency produced headlines for its citizenry using RSS. The Arkansas Government eNewsRoom is a news portal featuring a RSS 0.91 feed that indexes news releases in PDF format.

I recently came across a social media post that puts solar energy in an interesting perspective: energy that everyone can possibly harness. This not only applies to most of the planet, but provides a very simple way to visualize a way forward to providing everyone with needed energy. Sunlight is ... [continued]

The post Can The Sun Become A Form of Universal Basic Income? appeared first on CleanTechnica.

The installed solar capacity of the global PV industry is poised for another round of rapid growth, with or without an assist from the US.

The post Global Installed Solar Capacity To Blow Past 2 Terawatts, USA Or Not appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Colombia’s EV market is booming. As I said a couple months ago, we’re not only seeing significant YoY (year over year) growth (as we are in several other markets, including Costa Rica, Uruguay, Mexico, and Brazil), but we’re also looking at “bursts” of demand that lead to significant MoM (month ... [continued]

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They Hyundai IONIQ 5 and Hyundai IONIQ 6 are two of my favorite electric vehicles. The IONIQ 9 is a coming much larger EV from Hyundai for those who need more space, or at least feel like they need more space. The problem: we don’t really know what the IONIQ ... [continued]

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2024年11月7日付けの米・ワシントンポスト紙のブログ記事で、生成AIツール“Ask The Post AI”の公開について発表されています。

発表によると、これは、ユーザーが入力した質問に対して、同紙の2016年以降のニュース記事を基に、大規模言語モデル（LLM）を用いて生成された回答を表示するツールです。回答には、生成に当たって参照された記事へのリンクが示されます。

The Washington Post Launches “Ask The Post AI,” a New Search Experience（Washington Post, 2024/11/7）
https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2024/11/07/washington-post-launches-ask-post-ai-new-search-experience/

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SurveyMonkey, a widely used platform for creating surveys and forms, has expanded its social sharing capabilities to include WhatsApp. This addition allows users to share their surveys and forms directly with WhatsApp contacts and groups, aiming to simplify the distribution process. WhatsApp joins SurveyMonkey’s existing social sharing options, which include LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, and Microsoft Teams. With over 2 billion active users globally, WhatsApp is recognized as one of the most popular messaging apps. SurveyMonkey customers in over 130 countries, speaking 56 different languages, can now leverage this integration to share surveys and forms through a platform that… [Continue Reading]

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While Google has yet to confirm a Google search ranking update, we have seen tremendous volatility in the Google Search results this month. Google did, however, confirm it can downgrade sections of content that are starkly different from the main content. We also posted an update on the helpful content update. Finally, Google did say a new Google update is coming soon.

It slipped my mind and I forgot to post the Google Webmaster Report at the beginning of the month, so here it is, the November Google Webmaster Report.

Google said the sitelinks search box is going away soon. Google tested showing the full recipe in the search results, which was upsetting. Google rolled out AI Overviews to a 100+ countries, added new AI Overview features and much more. Google also launched AI features in local search and maps.

Finally, the DOJ said they may break up Google but that was before Trump won the election. Google ad revenue was way up again this past quarter. And Google replaced Prabhakar Raghavan with Nick Fox.

If you missed the last recap, it is at the October 2024 Google Webmaster Report.

Here are the important stories for the past month:

Google Updates

• Election 2024 Google Search Ranking Update ð>ð'
• Halloween 2024 Google Search Ranking Update ð'>>
• Google Search Ranking Volatility Again On October 26th & 27th & 23rd & 24th
• Google Search Ranking Volatility Continues October 19th & 20th
• Google Search Ranking Volatility Again Heats Up (October 15th)
• Google Search Ranking Volatility Rumbling Again October 10th
• Record-Breaking Google Search Ranking Volatility Continues Into October
• Google Search Downgrading Rankings Of Content Starkly Different From Main Content
• Google: Search Ranking Update Coming Soon But HCU Victims May Not Recover
• Report: 22% Of Sites Hit By Google's Helpful Content Update Are Up 20%+

• Google Search Console Partial Data Reports With Dotted Lines
• Google Search Console Performance Report Showing Almost No Data Today

• Did Google Hit Fortune Recommends With A Search Penalty Over Site Reputation Abuse?
• Google AI Overviews Not Linking To Sites Hit By Helpful Content Update
• Google: Doubtful You'd See Big Ranking Drop Over Core Web Vitals Issues
• Google: Having Different Links On Mobile vs Desktop Pages Can Slow Crawl
• Google Proposes New Shipping Data Schema Including Type ShippingService
• Google Warning On JavaScript-Generated Product Markup
• Google Updates URL Structure, Favicon & Adds Google Trends Docs
• Google Clarified Support For Robots.txt Fields With Tiny Change
• Google Drops Support For Noarchive Meta Tag Directive
• Google Merchant Listings Adds Certification Markup Support
• Google To Host Creator Summit At GooglePlex Later This Month

• Google Sitelinks Search Box Going Away Next Month
• Google Tests Quick View Button For Recipes That Keep You On Google
• Google Tests Dropping Results Count After Moving It Under Search Tools
• Google Search Tests Verified Labels For Product Results
• Google Tests Frequently Saved Label On Search Result Snippets
• Google Menu Highlights Search Carousel
• Google Search Entity Trust Scores From APIVoid & ScamAdviser
• Google Search Snippet With Mentioned Products Carousel
• Google Other People Search Box
• Google Search People's Insights For Unprofessional Medical Advice
• Expandable Google Knowledge Panels On Desktop Search
• Google Search Tests List Articles
• Google Search Tests Top Links Title For Sitelinks?
• Google Search Tests Replacing Google Logo With Super G Logo

• Google AI Overviews Rolling Out To 100+ Countries & Billion+ Users
• Google AI Overview Ads, New Link Format, AI Organized Search Results & More
• Google AI Overviews Highlight Feature Expands AI Responses
• Google Generative AI Snippets Throughout Search Results
• Google Shopping "Researched with AI - Experimental" Answer

• Google AI Answers In Google Maps: Things To Do, Review Summaries & About This Place
• Google Local Service Ads To Soon Require Google Business Profile
• Google Business Profiles Learn Something Specific Question Box
• Google Business Profiles Removes Health Insurance Accepted
• Google Tests Discover More Places & Explore Places Nearby
• Google Business Profiles Testing Reviews Within Photo Carousels
• Google Business Profiles: Answer Questions About Your Inventory
• Google Drag & Drop Reorder Your Restaurant Menu Items

• DOJ May Breakup Google As Remedy To Monopoly Ruling
• Google Ad Revenue Up 10% - With Biggest Ad Revenue Quarter Ever
• Nick Fox New Lead Of Google Search; Replaced Prabhakar Raghavan

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Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered an ingenious new way to recycle Lithium Ion batteries, and it’s so simple that even your mum could do it. Maybe. The problem with battery recycling has always been that it’s rather cumbersome. Traditional methods involve breaking down batteries into their constituent parts, then extracting the valuable materials such as lithium, cobalt, and nickel. The process works, but it’s not exactly what you’d call efficient, and it can be quite costly....

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Google has just announced a new virtual shopping experience for search which lets you try on apparel virtually using some AI cleverness. Users in the US (only, at first) will be able to try out an item of clothing from a catalog if it has a ‘Try On’ badge on it in search. The service is starting with a limited number of brands including Anthropologie, Everlane, H&M and LOFT, and a limited repertoire of AI generated lady’s tops.  Virtual shopping...

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The Honda Motocompacto has to be one of the weirdest e-bikes we’ve ever seen. It’s not just the strange skinny shape, it’s also the fact that it doesn’t appear to offer any real advantage over an electric scooter except a rudimentary seat. Just 3.7 inches wide, it’s made out of aluminum and plastic, and boasts a max speed of 12 mph and a range of 15 miles per 3 hour charge. While we may scoff at the quirky design, there’s...

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