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NEW RESOURCES
Seacoast Online (Maine): Discover York history: 100 years of York newspapers are now online. “Thanks to a generous grant from the Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation, 100 years’ worth of the York Weekly and other town newspapers have been completely digitized. York Public Library, in partnership with Old York Historical Society, Advantage Preservation, and York Weekly, recently announced the long-awaited unveiling of the York History Digital Archive.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
9to5 Google: Twitter is blocking Threads links in searches. “While Twitter’s new CEO has been trying to convince us that the platform can’t be replaced by Threads, it seems the company is privately rather less confident. A developer noticed that Twitter is blocking Threads links in searches, with others confirming it.”
USEFUL STUFF
MakeUseOf: 18 Unique Creative Projects to Reuse Your Old PC. “When you’re upgrading to a new PC, you might wonder what to do with your old hardware. You could sell it or keep it as an emergency backup machine, but you could also put it to more creative uses.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Philadelphia Magazine: How Josh Shapiro’s Social Media Skills Turned the I-95 Rebuild Into an Online Party. “On Friday, June 23rd, after a fire truck holding a city’s worth of mascots made the inaugural journey across a repaired patch of Interstate 95, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro held a press conference. Flanked by politicians and construction workers and state employees, Shapiro looked out into the crowd and noticed someone.”
University of Georgia: Georgia Newspaper Project transitions to digital preservation. “Since 1953, the Georgia Newspaper Project at the University of Georgia Libraries has microfilmed more than 100 community newspapers, providing free access to the stories of the state’s small towns, big cities, and close communities. But with an 11-year backlog and outdated equipment no longer in production, the future of the project is in flux, and librarians are seeking partnerships to transform the practice using 21st century technology.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
New York Times: U.S. and E.U. Complete Long-Awaited Deal on Sharing Data. “A deal to ensure that data from Meta, Google and scores of other companies can continue flowing between the United States and the European Union was completed on Monday, after the digital transfer of personal information between the two jurisdictions had been thrown into doubt because of privacy concerns.”
Haaretz: Twitter Facing Lawsuit Brought by Jewish Students in Europe Over Antisemitic Tweets. “A German court has ruled that a lawsuit accusing Twitter of allowing hateful content to proliferate on its platform can go ahead, adding yet another challenge for the embattled social media giant.”
CNN: Japan’s largest port hit with ransomware attack. “Japan’s busiest shipping port said Thursday it would resume operations after a ransomware attack prevented the port from receiving shipping containers for two days. The expected restoration of the Port of Nagoya, a hub for car exports and an engine of the Japanese economy, will ease concerns about any wider economic fallout from the ransomware attack.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
The Verge: Google’s medical AI chatbot is already being tested in hospitals. “Google’s Med-PaLM 2, an AI tool designed to answer questions about medical information, has been in testing at the Mayo Clinic research hospital, among others, since April, The Wall Street Journal reported this morning. Med-PaLM 2 is a variant of PaLM 2, which was announced at Google I/O in May this year. PaLM 2 is the language model underpinning Google’s Bard.”
Washington Post: Opinion: How today’s Twitter has made conservative boycotts more successful. “Initially, this sounded crazy. The timing is suspicious, I grant, but coincidences happen. And it didn’t look to me as if Twitter was the main vector for attacks on Mulvaney, et al. — they seemed to emanate from conservative sites such as the Daily Wire. Over time, however, I’ve come around — and what convinced me was watching people try to agree on a Twitter alternative.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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July 13, 2023 at 12:46AM
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