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NEW RESOURCES
University of Hawaii: Rare 200-year-old Japanese scrolls made accessible worldwide. “Students and scholars at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa (and worldwide) can now easily access and view the fine details of rare, hand-painted Japanese scrolls, made possible by UH Mānoa Library’s new state-of-the-art digitization lab.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
How-To Geek: Kodi 20.2 Now Available With a Ton of Bug Fixes. “Kodi is an open-source media center that allows you to stream content from the internet, such as movies and shows, from servers and backends of your choosing. While Kodi 21 is in still development, a new update for Kodi 20 is rolling out.”
Reuters: Google to block news in Canada over law on paying publishers. “Google said on Thursday it plans to block Canadian news on its platform in Canada, joining Facebook in escalating a campaign against a new law requiring payments to local news publishers.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
MarketWatch: Yahoo CEO says company will seek a public listing again: report. “Yahoo, an early trailblazer of the Internet boom, is ‘very profitable,’ and ready to return to public markets via an initial public offering. That’s according to Chief Executive Jim Lanzone, who made the comments in an interview with the Financial Times that published Tuesday. Yahoo soared to prominence in the 1990s, along with its share price during the dot-com boom.”
Toronto Star: A website spread disinformation about Canada. Why did major Indian outlets treat it as news?. “A report about a conference in Toronto on Sikh terrorism was posted last May on the website of a now defunct Canadian-based think tank. The problem? There’s no evidence the Star could find that the conference took place or that the listed speakers even exist. But multiple Indian news outlets picked up the report, treating it as news.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
TechCrunch: LetMeSpy, a phone tracking app spying on thousands, says it was hacked. “A hacker has stolen the messages, call logs and locations intercepted by a widely used phone monitoring app called LetMeSpy, according to the company that makes the spyware.”
WIRED: Pornhub Is Being Accused of Illegal Data Collection. “THERE AREN’T MANY websites bigger than Pornhub. Each month, more than 2 billion people visit the adult site, spending an average of almost eight minutes browsing and watching videos—an eternity in internet time. All that activity has the potential to generate huge volumes of data. Now Pornhub is facing a series of legal challenges across Europe over the information it collects.”
Axios: France approves law requiring parental consent for minors on social media. “France approved a new law Thursday requiring social media platforms like TikTok to verify users’ ages and obtain parental consent for those under 15 years in an effort to protect children online.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Mixed Conclusions: Canadian Legal Problems Survey: Data Dashboard. “In this blogpost, I describe the construction of a dashboard from the main CLPS dataset itself. First, I’ll give an overview of the organization of the project and go through the structure of the data. Then I’ll describe some simple data validation procedures I performed using a data validation toolkit called Pandera. Finally, I’ll spend the bulk of this post describing the dashboard and its implementation, including various issues I encountered.”
Pew: #BlackLivesMatter Turns 10. “In July 2013, activists first used the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag to spark conversation about racism, violence and the criminal justice system following George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida. Ten years later, Black Lives Matter stands as a model of a new generation of social movements intrinsically linked to social media.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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July 6, 2023 at 12:36AM
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