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TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Gizmodo: Google Says It will Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI. “Google updated its privacy policy over the weekend, explicitly saying the company reserves the right to scrape just about everything you post online to build its AI tools. If Google can read your words, assume they belong to the company now, and expect that they’re nesting somewhere in the bowels of a chatbot.” I’m trying to square this with the concept of personal intellectual property and having a hard time.
9to5 Mac: Twitter locking TweetDeck behind a paywall, forcing users to switch to the new design. “Twitter has officially announced a change that many of us saw coming. Starting next month, the company is putting TweetDeck behind a paywall, requiring that users subscribe to Twitter Blue to access the more advanced, multi-column version of Twitter.” (This will be what finally gets me off Twitter. I’m on Mastodon at researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host .)
Search Engine Roundtable: Google Search Showing 50% Fewer Twitter URLs After Twitter Blocked Unregistered Users. “On Friday afternoon, Twitter decided to block unregistered, signed-out users, from seeing public tweets. That meant that for Google’s normal crawling purposes, it was unable to see some of these tweets. It seems that Google now has about 52% fewer Twitter URLs in its index today than it had on Friday, just a few days later.”
USEFUL STUFF
MakeUseOf: Memos Is a Simple Self-Hosted Alternative to Google Keep and Evernote. “Cross-platform note-taking apps that allow you to sync and interact with notes and images across devices are essential if you want to stay organized. Synchronization needs to be handled by a central server, which means that your jottings are controlled by a third party you may not fully trust, and which can monitor or delete your content at will. By running Memos on Raspberry Pi, you control the server, and can take the privacy and security of your notes into your own hands. The article focuses a lot on privacy, but this will also work for those of you worried that Google will cancel Keep at any moment…
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Hold the Front Page: Fake journalist profiles used to launch new local news title. “Fake journalist profiles have been used to launch a new website purporting to cover local news in a UK town, an HTFP investigation has found. Photos taken from a stock picture archive were used by the Bournemouth Observer, which claims to be a new independent title serving Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch, to illustrate a series of profiles of its journalists.”
KPEL: I-10 Westbound Open Over Atchafalaya Basin Bridge, Despite Google Maps Saying Otherwise. “According to Google Maps, I-10 westbound is closed at the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge until July 13. One Lafayette family, traveling home from Baton Rouge, told KPEL News that other travel apps on their phone said no such thing. It’s just Google Maps.”
New York Times: Written in the Stars? More Like Written by A.I.. “Astrologers for centuries have referred to the movement and positions of planets and other celestial bodies to inform readings and horoscopes. Co-Star follows similar methods, but its daily readings are prepared by A.I. that pulls text from a database written for the app by a team of astrologers and poets.” So it’s a chat interface on top of a search engine?
SECURITY & LEGAL
Bloomberg: Twitter Accused of Ducking a Fight Over Musk’s Mass Layoffs. “The company now known as X Corp. has been accused in multiple suits of numerous labor and workplace violations, including its failure to pay thousands of workers laid off late last year after Musk’s acquisition. About 2,000 former Twitter employees have resorted to fighting their claims in arbitration as the company has demanded — but Twitter hasn’t shown up, according to a complaint filed Monday in San Francisco federal court.”
TechCrunch: Stop using Google Analytics, warns Sweden’s privacy watchdog, as it issues over $1M in fines. “Sweden’s data protection watchdog has issued a couple of fines in relation to exports of European users’ data via Google Analytics which it found breach the bloc’s privacy rulebook owing to risks posed by U.S. government surveillance. It has also warned other companies against use of Google’s tool.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Ubergizmo: Alphabet Invests In Laser Technology For Internet Connectivity In Remote Regions. “Alphabet — the parent company of Google — is embarking on an ambitious endeavor to extend internet access to remote and underserved regions. Departing from the conventional use of high-altitude balloons in the stratosphere, Alphabet is employing cutting-edge laser technology to achieve its goal.”
UNESCO: Generative Artificial Intelligence in education: What are the opportunities and challenges?. “In her think piece, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education, Stefania Giannini expresses her concerns that the checks and balances applied to teaching materials are not being used to the implementation of generative AI. While highlighting that AI tools open new opportunities for learning, she underscores that regulations can only be built once the proper research has been conducted.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
Motherboard: 2,200 Forgotten Vintage Computers Are Being Liberated From a Barn in Massachusetts. ” These computers, with a weight equivalent to roughly 11 full-size vehicles, were basically new, other than the fact that they had sat unopened and unused for nearly four decades, roughly half that time inside this barn. Every box was ‘new old stock,’ essentially a manufactured time capsule, waiting to be found by somebody. These machines, featuring the label of a forgotten brand built around an idea that was tragically too early to succeed, could have disappeared, anonymously, into the junkyard of history, as so many others like them have.” Good morning, Internet…
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July 5, 2023 at 05:29PM
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