![]() “MED,” was a codename for the $2 billion ($24 billion, at 2021 prices) emergency bomb-building project-based, essentially, on uranium from the strategic Shinkolobwe mine, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.īut unlike ‘Oppenheimer,’ “Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Africa,” is not fiction. One of these, was the Manhattan Engineer District’s (MED’s) appropriation of African resources. It’s just that, from Obatala’s vantage point, and ours, other issues loomed larger. Not that Oppenheimer was inconsequential, in a generic sense. “If I could do it over again,” he concedes, “I’d probably mention his famous Hindu quote, “Now I have become death, the destroyer of worlds”. Obatala never thought about Oppenheimer-now the subject of a film, released in Nigeria, on July 21st. The announcement was made at the Trusted News Initiative event held in London today, 30 March 2023, where representatives of the BBC, AFP, Microsoft, Meta and many others gathered to discuss trust, misinformation and authenticity in news media.Oppenheimer, a physicist, was director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, in New Mexico, which designed the two bombs-plus the historic “Trinity,” test explosion-that were dropped on Japan, in 1945. ![]() “The IPTC is a perfect partner for Project Origin as we work to connect newsrooms through secure metadata,” said Bruce MacCormack, the CBC/Radio-Canada Co-Lead. “This is very much in keeping with the IPTC’s mission to help media organisations to succeed by sharing best practices, creating open standards and facilitating collaboration between media and technology organisations.” “Project Origin’s aim is to take the ground-breaking technical specification created by C2PA and make it realistic and relevant for newsrooms around the world,” Quinn said. “We were very happy to co-host with Project Origin a productive series of webinars and workshops during 2022, introducing the details of C2PA technology to the news and media industry and discussing the remaining issues to drive wider adoption,” says Brendan Quinn, Managing Director of the IPTC.Ĭ2PA, the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity, took a set of requirements from both Project Origin and the Content Authenticity Initiative to create a technical means of associating media files with information on the origin and subsequent modifications of news stories and other media content. The New York Times also participates in Steering Committee meetings through its Research & Development department. The IPTC is very happy to announce that it has joined the Steering Committee of Project Origin, one of the industry’s key initiatives to fight misinformation online through the use of tamper-evident metadata embedded in media files.Īfter working with Project Origin over a number of years, and co-hosting a series of workshops during 2022, the organisation formally invited the IPTC to join the Steering Committee.Ĭurrent Steering Committee members are Microsoft, the BBC and CBC / Radio Canada. Screenshot of the home page of Project Origin’s web site,. Royal Society/BBC workshop on Generative AI and content provenance 13 July 2023.IPTC Sport Schema launched at Sports Video Group Content Management Forum 26 July 2023.New “digital source type” term added to support inpainting and outpainting in Generative AI 27 July 2023.IPTC releases Guidelines for Expressing Trust and Credibility signals in IPTC standards 7 August 2023.IPTC releases technical guidance for creating and editing metadata, including DigitalSourceType 31 August 2023.Media Topics – IPTC’s subject vocabulary.IPTC Photo Metadata Interoperability Tests. ![]()
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