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NEW RESOURCES
Route Fifty: New Map Shows How Common Train Derailments Are. “With Congress considering legislation to improve rail safety, the National League of Cities published a map showing how common derailments are in communities across the country. The map gives the location and other information about more than 12,000 incidents between 2013 and 2022.”
WDBJ: Grown Here at Home: How should this land be used? New website intends to help localities make the best decision . “The Virginia Cooperative Extension worked with several state agencies, among others, to develop Virginia’s Land Use and Energy Navigator or VaLEN. The interactive map can serve as a guide to help localities make land use decisions based on their specific needs and goals. … You can search an address or a broad area. To navigate, there are different layers of geographic data you can select to help you get specific information about a piece of land.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Business Insider: People are starting to place bets on Reddit’s civil war. “As the blackout protests on Reddit continue, the battle is starting to attract attention from spectators who are betting on how it might play out. Hundreds of people are putting money on whether the company will back-track on its new API pricing policy or oust its CEO Steve Huffman, BetUS told Insider.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
WIRED: The Reddit Blackout Is Breaking Reddit. “IT’S PRETTY EASY to piss people off on Reddit. Less so to piss off seemingly everyone on the platform. Still, Reddit’s management has succeeded in doing just that as it weathers protests over its decision to charge for access to its API. That ruling risks putting the company in a death spiral as users revolt, the most dedicated community caretakers quit, and the vibrant discussions move to other platforms.”
Consequence Sound: Grammys Introduce New AI Rule: “Only Human Creators Are Eligible” for Nominations . “The Recording Academy has announced a new list of rule-changes impacting who, and what, can be nominated for a number of categories at the Grammy Awards. Chief among the updates is a new rule for all categories targeted at the rising wave of artificial intelligence, or AI, technology: ‘Only human creators are eligible to be submitted for consideration.'”
Rolling Stone: The Right Boosted Trans Hate — And Ran Up Their Follower Counts. “On one hand, it’s true that the right is familiar with trans issues — as trans visibility has grown, right-wing activists have consistently campaigned against their rights…. At the same time, there have been indications of prominent right-wing figures planning to harness anti-trans rhetoric.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Associated Press: Microsoft says early June disruptions to Outlook, cloud platform, were cyberattacks. “In early June, sporadic but serious service disruptions plagued Microsoft’s flagship office suite — including the Outlook email and OneDrive file-sharing apps — and cloud computing platform. A shadowy hacktivist group claimed responsibility, saying it flooded the sites with junk traffic in distributed denial-of-service attacks. Initially reticent to name the cause, Microsoft has now disclosed that DDoS attacks by the murky upstart were indeed to blame.”
ABC News: 2 men who helped run popular pirating website Megaupload sentenced to prison in New Zealand. “Two men who helped run the once wildly popular pirating website Megaupload were each sentenced by a New Zealand court on Thursday to more than two years in prison. The sentencing of Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk ended an 11-year legal battle by the men to avoid extradition to the United States on more serious charges that included racketeering.”
Associated Press: Soccer project tracking social media abuse identifies 300 people from World Cup posts. “A project using artificial intelligence to track social media abuse aimed at players at the 2022 World Cup identified more than 300 people whose details are being given to law enforcement.”
Reuters: Turkey’s Competition Board launches new investigation into Google. “Turkey’s Competition Board said on Monday it has launched a new investigation into Alphabet Inc. GOOGL.O, Google LLC and Turkish Google advertising unit on whether they had abused their dominant position in the market.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Columbia Journalism Review: The tech platforms have surrendered in the fight over election-related misinformation. “YouTube didn’t say in its blog post, or in any of its other public comments about the change, why it chose to make such a policy decision now, especially when the US is heading into another presidential election in which Donald Trump, the man who almost single-handedly made such policies necessary, is a candidate. All the company would say is that it ‘carefully deliberated’ about the change. It’s not the only platform to decide that the misinformation guardrails it erected after the Capitol riots in 2021 are no longer required.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
Games Radar: Real-life trucking companies are trying to hire American Truck Simulator players with in-game ads. “A number of billboards in American Truck Simulator’s recreation of the United States now feature recruitment ads from the massive transportation company Schneider National, all pointing to the company’s employment website. Developer SCS Software says that this advertising push is ‘now in the try-out phase,’ but hints that it could eventually expand beyond ATS into the more popular Euro Truck Simulator 2.” Good morning, Internet…
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June 20, 2023 at 05:29PM
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