current
.au: "Children and teenagers under 16 to be banned from
social media* after parliament passes world-first laws ...
The new rules won't come into force for another year to
allow social media companies time to comply. ..."
— [abc][28/11/2024].
See the
'Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024'
[.gov.au][29/11/2024].
There will be foot dragging but there is very little doubt that
if the s.m.-companies make an effort in proportion to their vast wealth
then they can make a pretty good (if not 100% perfect) job of it –
they know everything about you.
Several other countries including the UK are considering similar bans, e.g.,
[bbc][20/11/2024]. .
*including #Facebook, #Instagram, #Snapchat, #TikTok. #u16.
[Also search for: social media psychology]
in the BIB.
.au: "ChatGPT, Meta and Google generative AI should be designated 'high-risk' under new laws, bipartisan [parliamentary] committee recommends ... Senators said their interactions with AI developers 'only intensified' their concerns about how the models were operating. ... also determined multinational tech companies operating in Australia had committed 'unprecedented theft' from creative workers. ..." — [abc][26/11/2024].
I implemented a new version of my Computer-Science and Bioinformatics Bibliography, [here], after Monash University closed down its users.monash.edu.au/ web-server, including the original Bibliography, in late 2024. Monash University does that kind of thing from time to time.
- "Gene-level alignment of single cell trajectories informs the progression of in vitro T cell differentiation", D. Sumanaweera, et al, Nature Methods, September 2024, [doi:10.1038/s41592-024-02378-4]. #bioinformatics #Gene2Genes
- "... describe Genes2Genes, a Bayesian information-theoretic dynamic programming framework for aligning single-cell trajectories. It is able to capture sequential matches and mismatches of individual genes between a reference and query trajectory, highlighting distinct clusters of alignment patterns. ..."