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NEW RESOURCES
Houstonia Magazine: New Hispanic History Tool Can Help Us Learn More about Houston. “In May, the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute, a New York–based nonprofit founded in 1954 to foster the art, culture, and history of Spain, unveiled an online database called the Portal of Hispanic History, developed by the Royal Academy of History of Spain. The free digital platform highlights more than 20,000 Hispanic historical events, prominent figures, and locations of historical markers and statues across the globe.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
National Library of Finland: New resources in the National Library search service. “As of June, the National Library of Finland search service can help you find manuscript and archival material as well as ephemera. As the library collections contain several kilometres of such resources, their comprehensive cataloguing is expected to take years. The bibliographic information available through the search service will increase gradually as the daily work of describing and cataloguing resources progresses.”
Engadget: Twitter has supposedly started paying its Google Cloud bill again. “Twitter has resumed paying its Google Cloud contract, according to Bloomberg. If you missed the initial news of the impending showdown, Platformer reported on June 10th that Twitter had been refusing to pay Google for its cloud services ahead of their contract’s June 30th renewal date.”
USEFUL STUFF
MakeUseOf: 6 Tools to Download an Entire Website for Offline Reading. “It’s pretty basic to save individual web pages for offline reading, but what if you want to download an entire website? Don’t worry, it’s easier than you think. But don’t take our word for it. Here are several nifty tools you can use to download any website for offline reading without any hassles.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
The Verge: Google’s Nest cameras are randomly going offline in Europe. “I woke up at 7AM yesterday and discovered that two of my Nest cameras were showing as offline. After hours of troubleshooting and hard resetting the cameras to get them working again, I realized the problem was a peculiar issue on Google’s end. Hundreds of Nest Cam owners have reported their cameras showing as offline over the past week or so, but Google hasn’t notified owners or even posted the issue on its Nest service status page.”
The Register: We just don’t get enough time, contractor tasked with fact-checking Google Bard tells us. “Workers tasked with improving the output of Google’s Bard chatbot say they’ve been told to focus on working fast at the expense of quality. Bard sometimes generates inaccurate information simply because there isn’t enough time for these fact checkers to verify the software’s output, one of those workers told The Register.”
WIRED: Stack Overflow Didn’t Ask How Bad Its Gender Problem Is This Year . “In the organization’s annual survey of its users conducted in 2022, 92 percent of respondents identified as male, and three-quarters as white or European. The platform acknowledged then that it has ‘considerable work to do.’ But in 2023, Stack Overflow’s survey, published on June 13, stripped out questions about gender and race.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Federal Trade Commission: FTC alleges Amazon enrolled people in Prime without consent and thwarted members’ attempts to cancel. “In the latest action to challenge alleged digital dark patterns, the FTC has sued Amazon for enrolling people in its Prime program without the consumer’s consent. Once consumers were signed up, the complaint also charges that Amazon set up online obstacles that made it difficult for them to cancel their Prime subscription.”
Reuters: German cartel office: some Google Automotive Services practices anti-competitive . “Germany’s cartel office said on Wednesday that a number of Google’s practices in connection with Google Automotive Services are anti-competitive and that it intends to prohibit them.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
University of Exeter: Network of channels tried to saturate YouTube with pro-Bolsonaro content during 2022 Brazil election . “Experts have identified coordinated efforts to saturate YouTube’s recommender algorithm, flooding users with pro- Bolsonaro content during the 2022 Brazil election. Researchers from the University of Exeter and Instituto Vero have uncovered a complex, web-like influencer system of channels that shaped political narratives during this period. This is in addition to YouTube’s own recommender algorithm which also generates suggestions based on users’ viewership patterns.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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June 23, 2023 at 12:56AM
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