Bookmarks: Week of Aug 17 - Aug 23, 2026

Ready for Entrepreneurial Thinking: UCalgary to offer Canada’s first entrepreneurial micro-credential course for university students | News | University of Calgary

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Free to all students, the program will teach students to find innovative solutions, thrive in uncertainty

Tags: OSLE, ETMC, microcredentials, UCalgary

Guidelines for faculty: protecting student personal information – The CIEL blog

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a good page on info privacy, by VIU’s team.

Guidelines for faculty: protecting student personal information outlines how instructors can safeguard student privacy and comply with FIPPA regulations. Faculty must practice data minimization, utilize only VIU-approved technologies, and adhere to secure email protocols to mitigate the rising risks of cybersecurity threats and data breaches.

Tags: VIU, information, privacy, data

How Claude’s text watermarking works \ Anthropic

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this is obvious BS. They’re going to change the text that’s generated, subtly choosing less-good options for some tokens and hoping nobody notices or cares - to fingerprint the output. Just change every 9th word to CLAUDE and at least it’s honest. Hide the changes in words, hoping people can’t spot it? just shady. On top of the ethics issues with genAI in general, this taints the output as well.

Future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark. This is a way of determining the likelihood that Claude was involved in writing the text, and we, along with several other major AI providers, are implementing this change to comply with the EU AI Act. In this article, we share answers to some of the questions we’ve received about how our chosen watermarking method works, whether it affects Claude’s outputs, and why we’re making this change.

Tags: Anthropic, Claude, watermark

Daring Fireball: Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

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this is a good overview of the whole “let’s mess with writing to somehow watermark AI text generation and who cares because it’s just text and AI is inevitable etc.” stuff from the last week.

It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea that anything other than my needs should factor into the generation of text for me is patently offensive.

Tags: via:John Gruber, AI, Claude, Anthropic, watermark