IT Trends :: Thursday, September 28, 2006

  • 09/27/06

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Students Rebel Against Database Designed to Thwart Plagiarists

Hmm, it takes some high schoolers to rebel against Turnitin.com. The for-profit service checks student work against a database of more than 22 million papers written by students around the world, as well as online sources and electronic archives of journals. The students argue that they do not want to let Turnitin automatically add their work product to its massive database. It d'es seem to be an infringement of their intellectual properties. Worth watching…

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Net Neutrality Fight Moves to Pennsylvania Legislature

Woo hoo! We’re winning the Net Neutrality fight at the federal level. Oops, where there’s money to be made, there’s cash to push the fight into state houses now. What a nightmare. This time around, video franchising, or letting telecom companies sell cable, is the big prize…

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Lessons from the Facebook Riots

Facebook takes available data from all users, aggregates it, and then lets others see an aggregation of everything a user d'es on the site. Response: A revolution by users who saw their privacy threatened. Of course, it’s hard to imagine a reasonable expectation of privacy in a social space like Facebook, so what gives?...

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Spam + Blogs = Trouble

So, you set up a blog and create an algorithm to populate it with the same kind of nonsense we see in some of our e-mail spam. The words draw people in on searches, and enough visit and then click through on the commercial ads at the side, that the “splog” (that’s “Spam Blog”) is making you money…

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    Report: Cloud Certifications Bring Biggest Salary Payoff

    It pays to be conversant in cloud, according to a new study from Skillsoft The company's annual IT skills and salary survey report found that the top three certifications resulting in the highest payoffs salarywise are for skills in the cloud, specifically related to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Nutanix.

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    IBM Releases Granite 3.0 Family of Advanced AI Models

    IBM has introduced its most advanced family of AI models to date, Granite 3.0, at its annual TechXchange event. The new models were developed to provide a combination of performance, flexibility, and autonomy that outperforms or matches similarly sized models from leading providers on a range of benchmarks.

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    California AI Watermarking Bill Garners OpenAI Support

    ChatGPT creator OpenAI is backing a California bill that would require tech companies to label AI-generated content in the form of a digital "watermark." The proposed legislation, known as the "California Digital Content Provenance Standards" (AB 3211), aims to ensure transparency in digital media by identifying content created through artificial intelligence. This requirement would apply to a broad range of AI-generated material, from harmless memes to deepfakes that could be used to spread misinformation about political candidates.

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    Delightful Progress: Kuali's Legacy of Community and Leadership

    CEO Joel Dehlin updates us on Kuali today, and how it has thrived as a software company that succeeds in the tech marketplace while maintaining the community values envisioned in higher education years ago.