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Notre Dame: Study of higher education during COVID-19 shutdowns shows certain subjects can be better taught online. “Online learning worked especially well for reasoning-based subjects such as mathematics, where students could pause lectures, rewatch examples and practice problems at their own pace. In contrast, courses such as English that…

MediaPost: Google Begins Displaying Ads In ‘AI Mode’. “Google has begun displaying ads in AI Mode, the company’s AI search engine, placing them at the bottom of the responses on the page. Ad results labelled with the sponsored tag resemble the organic link cards that serve up above.”

Mashable: ‘Spicy’ AI chatbot and image generator left millions of photos exposed. “Secret Desires, an erotic chatbot and AI image generator, left cloud storage containers of photos, women’s names, and other personal information like workplaces and universities, vulnerable, according to 404 Media.”

Ars Technica: Microsoft makes Zork I, II, and III open source under MIT License. “Zork, the classic text-based adventure game of incalculable influence, has been made available under the MIT License, along with the sequels Zork II and Zork III.”

University of Southern California: Study: Disadvantaged neighborhoods face barriers to access cultural institutions. “Less educated and lower income neighborhoods are consistently farther away from cultural institutions – such as elite universities, museums, and theaters – that can help advance one’s social mobility, according to a new study from the…

PR Newswire: HKMU launches the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature & the “Beyond Distance: Half a Lifelong Friendship of Eileen Chang, Stephen Soong, and Mae Fong Soong” Exhibition (PRESS RELEASE). “To preserve these valuable documents and support relevant research, HKMU’s School of Arts and Social Sciences and the University Library…

Gizmodo: OpenAI Introduces ‘ChatGPT for Teachers’ to Further Destroy the Minds of Our Youth. “Educators across the country have expressed concern about how AI will impact the classroom, encouraging kids to vibe their way to passing grades instead of actually learning. So OpenAI has decided to fight fire with…

Singapore Management University: SMU to Build Open Legal Database with Support from Ministry of Law. “Housed at SMU’s Centre for Digital Law, the three-year project will compile and release machine-readable datasets containing key statistical information about Singapore court decisions, statutes, legal scholarship, and court structures.”

TechCrunch: Rising data center electricity use risks blackouts during winter storms. “The explosive growth of data centers could threaten the stability of the electrical grid this winter, according to an industry overseer. Across North America, demand for electricity this winter is expected to be 2.5% higher than last year…

Cowboy State Daily: Wyoming Archaeologists Cheer Utah Woman’s Sentencing For Vandalizing Petroglyphs . “A woman was sentenced Monday to pay nearly $15,000 in restitution and serve 12 months of probation after being convicted of defacing petroglyphs at a historic site in southern Utah. Daniela Ganassim Ericksen of Ivins, Utah, was…