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TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Motherboard: ‘It’s About the Little Victories’: Government Closer to Paying $125 Million it Overcharged for Court Records. “Impacted parties in a $125 million class action lawsuit regarding charges by the U.S. court records system PACER may have started to receive notifications about the settlement, according to a website dedicated to the lawsuit. The news highlights the massive fees that some PACER users can face, and what critics see as an overpricing for public records that some argue should be free to access.”
CNBC: Twitter traffic is ‘tanking’ as Meta’s Threads hits 100 million users. “User traffic on Twitter has slowed since the launch of Meta’s text-based platform Threads, which has already surpassed 100 million sign-ups since its debut last week.” Let me state here: I don’t believe that 100 million user number. My suspicion is that Facebook is using Threads’ integration with Instagram to play counting games, but I don’t know for sure. On the other hand, Twitter’s activity has fallen off a cliff. I don’t know where they’re going, but Twitter users are definitely leaving from what I see.
USEFUL STUFF
The Verge: How to move your notes out of Evernote. “When an app is depended on by a large number of people — especially one that’s been around long enough so that a number of its users may have a lot of data stored in it — and major changes are instituted, the first thought that many will have is: what will happen to my data?”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Sky News: Twitter wins big name backer against Threads – but it’s the Taliban. “Twitter has won the support of a big name backer against fast-growing rival Threads – but it’s the Taliban. A leader of the hardline Islamist group, which seized power in Afghanistan in summer 2021, said Elon Musk’s platform was a tolerant place that allowed freedom of speech to thrive.”
New York Times: The Twitter Watch Party Is Over. “‘Sharknado’ may not be long remembered as cinema, but it is a historical emblem of the way millions of people shared the experience of live TV at a certain time. A decade later, that time is ending, because of the ways Twitter and TV have changed.”
Mashable: Young people are using TikTok and online communities to quit vaping nicotine. “TikTok, in recent years, has dominated the world of social media by pushing creative boundaries, spreading good vibes, and entertaining us during those idle moments in the grocery store checkout line. But beyond hot takes and get ready with me videos, the social media platform is also bringing millions of young people together to help them quit vaping nicotine for good.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
TechCrunch: UK battles hacking wave as ransomware gang claims ‘biggest ever’ NHS breach. “Barts Health NHS Trust, which runs five London-based hospitals and serves more than 2.5 million patients, was recently added to the dark web leak site of the ALPHV ransomware gang. The gang, also known as BlackCat, says it has stolen 70 terabytes of sensitive data in what it claims is the biggest breach of healthcare data in the United Kingdom.”
Australian Associated Press: Google ordered to hand over details of anonymous sender. “Google has been ordered to hand over the account information and IP address of a person who allegedly defamed a Victorian Labor candidate in an email. Nurul Khan was endorsed to run for the Labor Party in last year’s state election but an email littered with allegations against him was sent to ministers and news organisations on November 9.”
Politico: Social media companies, beware: Governor says lawsuits coming in Utah. “Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said Sunday he is getting ready to sue social media companies for the harm caused to his state’s young people. ‘In the coming months, you will see lawsuits being filed by the state of Utah to hold them accountable,’ Cox, a Republican, said during an interview on CBS’ ‘Face the Nation.'”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Toronto Star: The angst of baby boy billionaires means we all suffer. “I am unable to decide which faux-wrestler has damaged my life more, Zuck, who killed journalism, or Musk, who bought Twitter from Jack Dorsey, who turned my brain into rolled oats. Even picking on these two is evidence of a mental fault. There are many rich men causing havoc, including Peter Thiel, Erik Prince, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Everyone wants to bench-press now.”
Cornell Chronicle: Game-playing automaton acts like an ‘irrational’ human. “Researchers were able to simulate human behaviors using a probabilistic finite automaton, a well-known model of limited computational power. They programmed the automatons to compete against each other in a wildlife poaching game, as either a rhino poacher or a ranger trying to stop the poaching. When the automatons could remember everything, they settled into an optimal game strategy. But when researchers limited their memories, they took some decision-making shortcuts – the same kinds as actual humans playing the game.”
University of Waterloo: Search engines and social media can forecast disease outbreaks. “Internet search engine queries and social media data can be early warning signals, creating a real-time surveillance system for disease forecasting, says a recent University of Waterloo study. Using the example of COVID-19, researchers found there was an association between the disease’s prevalence and search engine queries and social media posts.” Good morning, Internet…
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July 12, 2023 at 05:31PM
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