NEW RESOURCES
Hoodline: Bay Area Hospital Safety Sins Exposed In New Chronicle Database. “A new database from the San Francisco Chronicle is pulling back the curtain on hospital safety problems across California, giving Bay Area patients a clearer look at where things have gone wrong inside local medical facilities. The searchable tool compiles state inspection narratives and deficiency reports into a single interface, highlighting specific sentences that may describe patient harm.”
NEW RESOURCES
Hoodline: Bay Area Hospital Safety Sins Exposed In New Chronicle Database. “A new database from the San Francisco Chronicle is pulling back the curtain on hospital safety problems across California, giving Bay Area patients a clearer look at where things have gone wrong inside local medical facilities. The searchable tool compiles state inspection narratives and deficiency reports into a single interface, highlighting specific sentences that may describe patient harm.”
CKRM: Sask. angler builds lake database to simplify access for outdoors enthusiasts. “What do you do when the lake you’re driving five hours to visit has no information online? If you’re Matthew Siemens, you build a website to fix it yourself. The former Saskatoon resident, who now lives in Prince Albert, combined his love of the outdoors with his tech background to create an interactive map that compiles lake-related information — including yearly fish-stocking guides — to help anglers plan their seasons.”
EVENTS
Tom’s Hardware: ‘LeBron James of Excel spreadsheets’ celebrates 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championships win — beat 256 other spreadsheet whizzes to claim the $60,000 first prize in Las Vegas tournament. “The 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championships final in Las Vegas has been won by Irishman Diarmuid Early. Bestowed with the nickname ‘the LeBron James of Excel spreadsheets,’ it might not therefore be the most surprising victory. However, Early had to beat 256 other eager and dedicated spreadsheet heads to win the trophy, and secure the prize pot of $60,000.”
AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD
New York Times: She Fell in Love With ChatGPT. Then She Ghosted It.. This link goes to a gift article. “The 29-year-old woman who created the ‘MyBoyfriendIsAI’ community on Reddit isn’t dating (or sexting) her A.I. boyfriend anymore. She found something more fulfilling.”
Techdirt: Larian Studios The Latest To Face Backlash Over Use of AI To Make Games. “Larian Studios is not unknown. They don’t need any hype. Larian is the studio that produces the Divinity series, not to mention the team that made Baldur’s Gate 3, one of the most awarded and best-selling games of 2023. And the studio’s next Divinity game will also make some limited use of AI and machine learning, prompting a backlash from some.”
Library of Congress: Understanding AI at the Library: An Interview with Kurt Lemai-Nguyen. “In this interview, 2025 Library of Congress Junior Fellow Kurt Lemai-Nguyen reflects on his experience working to support understanding AI at the Library in the Library’s Digital Strategy Directorate. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Gizmodo: Pentagon Adds Grok-Derived Products to Something Called the ‘AI Arsenal’. “The Pentagon is now armed to the teeth with ‘frontier AI systems, based on the Grok family of models,’ according to a press release issued Monday. Are you trembling now, ISIS? Does the word “Grok” send a chill down your spines, Tren De Aragua?”
BBC: Amazon blocks 1,800 job applications from suspected North Korean agents. “A top Amazon executive has said the US technology giant has blocked more than 1,800 job applications from suspected North Korean agents. North Koreans tried to apply for remote working IT jobs using stolen or fake identities, Amazon’s chief security officer Stephen Schmidt said in a LinkedIn post.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
University of Maine: UMaine researcher aims to open the ‘black box’ of AI, putting users back in control . “From interpreting a medical scan to sorting family photos, artificial intelligence (AI) makes snap judgments users often trust blindly. Chaofan Chen, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Maine, aims to change that by creating AI systems that explain their results and learn from the people who use them.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
How-To Geek: 52 years later, UNIX V4 has been rediscovered and digitized. “For decades, there were no known copies of UNIX Fourth Edition, with only some source code and manuals surviving to the present day. That changed when a nine-track tape reel containing UNIX V4 was discovered in a storage room at the University of Utah’s Kahlert School of Computing. The tape was delivered to the Computer History Museum, and has now been digitized and uploaded to the Internet Archive.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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