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NEW RESOURCES
National Library of Finland: Gaining a perspective on war through digitised warfront newspapers. “Warfront papers were newspapers for soldiers on the front. The National Library has, in cooperation with the library of the National Defence University, digitised a total of 144 warfront papers from 1939–1945 and made them available.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Search Engine Roundtable: Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update & Volatility Explodes This Weekend. “I often post about Google ranking volatility and search ranking algorithm updates but I rarely post about them on a weekend. But I just had to this Sunday morning; the tools are literally all reporting massive and explosive volatility this weekend and the SEO chatter is also very high.”
Android Police: Google is killing Album Archive this week, so save your Hangouts images before it’s too late. “A few weeks ago, Google sent a scary-sounding email to some of its account holders. The company warned that its ‘Album Archive’ would be discontinued soon, and that you would have to back up any data from it that you want to retain. … The July 19 shutdown date is now moving closer, so if you want to see what data you’ve got in your Album Archive and if you’d like to export it, now is the time.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Bloomberg: Google’s AI Chatbot Is Trained by Humans Who Say They’re Overworked, Underpaid and Frustrated. “Google’s Bard artificial intelligence chatbot will answer a question about how many pandas live in zoos quickly, and with a surfeit of confidence. Ensuring that the response is well-sourced and based on evidence, however, falls to thousands of outside contractors from companies including Appen Ltd. and Accenture Plc, who can make as little as $14 an hour and labor with minimal training under frenzied deadlines, according to several contractors, who declined to be named for fear of losing their jobs.”
Daily Beast: GOP Lawmaker Banned From Wikipedia After Self-Editing Spree. “Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) is a notable alumnus of Manhattan College—at least according to the Bronx liberal arts school’s Wikipedia page. The congressman, a former state lawmaker who upset Democratic campaign chief Sean Patrick Maloney last year, may boast a resume that merits the honor. But it wasn’t the Wikipedia hive mind that put Lawler on the notable alumni list; it was apparently Lawler himself.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
The Next Web: Cowboy releases digital ebike key to keep VanMoof riders on the road. “Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll probably know that ebike darling VanMoof is facing bankruptcy. Obviously, this isn’t good news for VanMoof riders, who could be locked out of their own bikes which largely rely on a unique software app created by the Dutch company. But fear not VanMoofers, Belgian ebike rival Cowboy has released an app to keep you on the road.”
New York Times: Can A.I. Invent?. “A group of legal experts are pressing patent agencies, courts and policymakers to address the question as generative A.I. seems on the brink of invading another uniquely human endeavor.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Ars Technica: Why AI detectors think the US Constitution was written by AI. “If you feed America’s most important legal document—the US Constitution—into a tool designed to detect text written by AI models like ChatGPT, it will tell you that the document was almost certainly written by AI. But unless James Madison was a time traveler, that can’t be the case. Why do AI writing detection tools give false positives? We spoke to several experts—and the creator of AI writing detector GPTZero—to find out.”
Washington Post: Twitter’s Dying. Time to Drop the News Paywalls.. “We now have Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill and Spoutible, but the it thing at the moment is Meta Platforms Inc.’s Threads, which surpassed 100 million users in its first five days thanks to its Instagram ties. Many of us are either getting swept up in the excitement of whatever new app is launching or rolling our eyes after hearing about whatever new ‘Twitter killer’ is on the block. News leaders cannot afford to merely join either camp. They should use this moment to strategize how to compete with a shaky social media landscape that continues to offer “news” and other content for free.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
British Library Knowledge Matters Blog: Building a Minecraft Gateway to the World of Books | User Stories . “Professor Sally Bushell drew on the British Library collections to create Litcraft, a project that builds worlds in Minecraft to inspire reluctant readers. Her most recent Litcraft game is called Steampunk Sherlock Holmes. Sally is a Professor of Romantic and Victorian Literature in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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July 19, 2023 at 12:18AM
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