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NEW RESOURCES
Agriland: New website to show effect of farm practices on environment. “The website was created by the EU Science Hub and EU Agriculture, and displays content gathered from the collection of published scientific evidence on the impacts of farming practices on the environment, climate and agricultural productivity.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
EU Neighbours East: Laptops for Ukraine initiative extended to help museums and libraries safeguard cultural heritage. “The ‘Laptops for Ukraine’ initiative was expanded on 15 June to help cultural heritage institutions in Ukraine to digitally document, scan and photograph documents and objects at risk of being lost due to the war.”
Motherboard: Reddit Moderators Are Protesting By Changing Their Communities to NSFW. “In protest of Reddit’s new API fees, the moderators of some big subreddits have cast aside the usual rules and changed their communities to NSFW. Reddit doesn’t allow ads to run on subreddits that are marked NSFW; in theory, keeping advertisers off of some of the most popular subreddits on the site would deprive the company of some serious ad revenue.”
Engadget: Google’s Duet AI can generate custom templates in Sheets. “Google testers now have the chance to check out another new Duet AI feature in Google Workspace. Starting today, they’ll see a new sidebar for Google Sheets. They can describe what they want to do and Duet AI can create a custom template to help them get the ball rolling.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Deutsche Welle: Free money: Germany’s €200 culture ticket for 18-year-olds. “Germany’s 18-year-olds have been invited to register on an app called the ‘KulturPass,’ to receive €200 ($216) from the government. The pass can be spent on a variety of cultural activities of their choice, including museum visits, films, theater and concerts.”
Sacramento Bee: Sacramento’s LGBT newspaper archive went missing. Here’s how the community brought it back . “The paper, Mom Guess What was founded Nov. 1, 1978 by Linda Birner and published until around the end of 2009. Birner approached the Center for Sacramento History around late 2021 to donate some copies of her publication and other items, telling staff not long thereafter that file cabinets with voluminous copies of the paper had been taken and destroyed.”
TechCrunch: Twitter competitor Spill launches in beta on iOS. “Spill is a visual-first, multimedia microblogging app with an interface that looks kind of like Tumblr. When you open the app, you land on a feed, which includes recent posts from people you’re following (or, in the app’s language, ‘sipping’), as well as algorithmically served posts.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Toronto Star: Liberal bill requiring Google and Meta to pay for news content passes in Senate . “A federal bill that will require Google and Meta to pay media outlets for news content that they share or otherwise repurpose on their platforms is set to become law. The Senate has passed the bill in a final vote and it is now awaiting royal assent amid a standoff between the Liberal government and Silicon Valley tech giants.”
CNN: First on CNN: Senators press Google, Meta and Twitter on whether their layoffs could imperil 2024 election. “Three US senators are pressing Facebook-parent Meta, Google-parent Alphabet and Twitter about whether their layoffs may have hindered the companies’ ability to fight the spread of misinformation ahead of the 2024 elections.”
Bloomberg: EU Warns Twitter Must Bolster Resources Ahead of Elections. “Elon Musk’s Twitter needs to put more resources toward addressing sensitive content if it wants to comply with strict new European regulations ahead of a deadline in August, according to Thierry Breton, the bloc’s internal market commissioner.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
University of Washington: An app can transform smartphones into thermometers that accurately detect fevers. “… a team led by researchers at the University of Washington has created an app called FeverPhone, which transforms smartphones into thermometers without adding new hardware. Instead, it uses the phone’s touchscreen and repurposes the existing battery temperature sensors to gather data that a machine learning model uses to estimate people’s core body temperatures.”
Tampa Bay Times: Gov. DeSantis’ embrace of deepfake videos will come back to bite him | Editorial. “Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign clearly considers voters to be fools, or at least deserving of being treated as such. How else to explain the campaign’s eager dive earlier this month into the technological sewer of ‘deepfakes’?” Good morning, Internet…
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June 23, 2023 at 05:31PM
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