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NEW RESOURCES
Illinois State Police: Illinois State Police Announces a New Public Website for Crime Statistics. “Crime in Illinois Online includes data on crime rates per county, the type of offenses, trends, and more. The website is interactive and contains pin-point crime mapping, data tables, FAQs, agency compliance tracking, and the ability to download crime reports. Previous years’ Crime in Illinois Annual Uniform Crime Reports will still be available and future reports will be presented in the
same format.”
University of Southern Mississippi: WWII Combat StoryMap: 103rd Infantry Division. “In 2022, the Dale Center began a new, multi-year digital humanities project designed to create a new website highlighting the wartime history of the division along with a digital document collection of the division’s historical record. As part of that project, the Dale Center’s 103rd Infantry Division project team created an interactive, digital-narrative timeline and map of the Division’s history, called a StoryMap.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Waxy: Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk’s emergency blocks and rate limits: “It’s amateur hour”. “Are shadowy AI companies scraping Twitter for training data? Maybe! But on Mastodon this morning, web developer Sheldon Chang noticed another source of unusual traffic: a bug in Twitter’s web app that is constantly sending requests to Twitter in an infinite loop.”
Bleeping Computer: Twitter’s bot spam keeps getting worse — it’s about porn this time. “Forget crypto spam accounts, Twitter’s got another problem which involves bots and accounts promoting adult content and infiltrating Direct Messages and interactions on the platform. And there doesn’t seem to be an easy solution in sight. While the problem has existed for while, the uptick in porn bots is ironic, given Elon Musk’s promising claims of tackling bots and fake accounts on Twitter, after his acquisition of the platform.”
The Verge: At least one big third-party Reddit iOS app will live on. “Many Reddit users are mourning the June 30th shutdowns of third-party apps like Apollo for Reddit, rif is fun for Reddit (RIF), and BaconReader, but at least one popular Reddit app will still be around: Narwhal for Reddit.”
USEFUL STUFF
MakeUseOf: 13 Ways to Give Vivaldi a Complete Makeover. “There are dozens of ways to make your Vivaldi browser look, feel, and behave more uniquely. From basic theme changes to using mouse gestures as a means to navigate the internet in a more efficient manner, Vivaldi offers plenty of customization options.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Associated Press: Why social media is being blamed for fueling the riots in France. “Social media companies are once again under scrutiny, this time in France as the country’s president blames TikTok, Snapchat and other platforms for helping fuel widespread riots over the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old driver.”
Ars Technica: Torrent of image-based phishing emails are harder to detect and more convincing. “Phishing mongers have released a torrent of image-based junk emails that embed QR codes into their bodies to successfully bypass security protections and provide a level of customization to more easily fool recipients, researchers said.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
US Department of Energy: U.S. Department of Energy Releases Plan to Ensure Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research. “Key elements of the new DOE public access plan, as laid out by OSTP, will include elimination of any ’embargo’ period before the public gains free access to journal articles or final accepted manuscripts resulting from federal funding; immediate access to scientific data displayed in or underlying publications and expanded access to scientific data not displayed in publications; and broad adoption of persistent identifiers (PIDs) for research outputs, organizations, awards and contracts, and people.”
TechXplore: Rendering three-dimensional images from eye reflections with NeRF. “Vision depends on light entering the eyes through the transparent tissues of the cornea, pupil and lens. When the light reaches the retina, photoreceptors produce signals and transmit them via the optical nerve to the brain, where an image is formed. Some of that light entering the eye is reflected back into the world by a highly reflective thin film of fluid covering the cornea. Researchers at the University of Maryland were able to capture this reflected light and extract a three-dimensional model of the surroundings.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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July 4, 2023 at 12:49AM
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