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NEW RESOURCES
Vanguard (Nigeria): Ex-student launches African journal aggregator platform in memory of Prof Oso. “A former student, and protégé of the late Prof. Lai Oso, Olasunkanmi Arowolo, is set to launch an African journal aggregator portal, aimed to improve the international visibility of African journals through robust databases and indexing. Arowolo, a Nigerian scholar, and founder of Research Africa Publications, a pan-African journal database committed to making African research accessible globally, added that the absence of access to African works during his studies abroad was a motivation to set up the website.”
New-to-me, from The Guardian: Meet the ‘headstrong historian’ bringing Africa’s past to life – for Africans. “[Chao] Tayiana is also co-founder of Open Restitution Africa, an initiative that maps data on the return of African treasures that were seized or stolen by former colonial powers, and documents the demands for these artefacts.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
ProPublica: How to Use the Updated “Nursing Home Inspect” Database. “As of today, the underlying database covers nearly 400,000 deficiencies from over 90,000 reports at over 15,000 homes. It is updated monthly to include new data and deficiencies. In addition to allowing you to search reports, the database also provides other information about nursing homes, including fines, whether the home is for-profit or nonprofit, staffing and capacity information, and COVID-19 vaccination information.”
Engadget: TikTok rolls out passkey login for iOS devices. “The list of third-party apps that support passkey login on the iPhone has grown by one, thanks to TikTok. Users of the popular video-sharing service will now have the option to sign in with their passkey associated with their Apple ID, which means they can easily get into their account using Face or Touch ID.”
The Moscow Times: Russian Tech Giant Yandex Seeks New ‘Middlemen’ Buyers for Kremlin Handover – Reports. “The Kremlin is looking for buyers of Russia’s internet giant Yandex who would later sell the company to a Kremlin-linked oligarch sanctioned by the West, independent media reported, citing several anonymous sources familiar with the matter. The Bell business outlet and the news website Meduza said the search follows a breakdown of Yandex’s Dutch-registered holding company’s previous talks to sell its revenue-generating businesses and fully exit Russia.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Haaretz: Israeli Antiquities Remain Stranded at Trump’s Florida Estate as Authorities Fail to Retrieve. “Antiquities belonging to Israel have been kept for the past several months at former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, and senior Israeli figures have unsuccessfully tried to have them returned to Israel.”
Marketplace: Reddit, Twitter and the [price] war on third-party developers. “Matt Binder, a senior tech reporter at Mashable, has written about the clash over social media APIs. He joined Marketplace’s Kai Ryssdal to talk about how it’s playing out and what kind of downstream effects we might see. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation.”
El País: AI fuels rise of content farms and fake news outlets. “A study by the NewsGuard misinformation monitor found that an increasing number of content farms now use generative AI. These websites publish articles created by chatbots with little or no human editorial oversight. The numbers are astronomical. One of the websites analyzed in the study — World Today News — published around 8,600 articles during the week of June 9. That’s an average of 1,200 articles per day. The other two websites analyzed by NewsGuard each published 6,108 and 5,867 posts that same week.” This is why I’m writing articles about avoiding infosewage.
SECURITY & LEGAL
Insider: A traveler’s Delta flight was canceled, so he called the airline’s number listed on Google. It led to a scammer — then he says he discovered more airlines with the same problem.. “‘My @delta flight got canceled from JFK. The customer service line was huge, so I google a Delta JFK phone number. The number was 1888-571-4869 Thinking I reached Delta, I started telling them about getting me on a new flight,’ he tweeted Sunday. But that phone call led him to a scam, he said. And, after more digging, [Shmuli] Evers said he discovered at least six other airlines with what he suspected were scam numbers listed on Google.”
USA Today: Are your smart devices safe? New government logo will ID devices less prone to cyberattack.. “The Biden administration and the Federal Communications Commission will launch a new certification and labeling program on Tuesday to help buyers identify which Internet- and Bluetooth-connected devices meet federal cybersecurity requirements and are less vulnerable to cyberattacks. Products that meet the standards will be stamped with a certification mark or logo to be called the ‘U.S. Cyber Trust Mark.'”
Global Voices: A forensic investigation finds a site that doxxes Hong Kong activists and journalists is likely backed by Beijing. “A tech forensic run by Toronto-based research group Citizen Lab finds that HKleaks, a notorious doxxing site launched in 2019 targeting Hong Kong activists and journalists, is most likely backed by the mainland Chinese government or its proxies.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
MSNBC: What’s going to happen to Black Twitter?. “Black Twitter serves as a potent example of Black digital expertise, one that de-centers whiteness as a default internet identity. Black folk have rarely been considered civil, rational or productive by mainstream American society, yet we dominate this influential platform.” Good morning, Internet…
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July 19, 2023 at 05:28PM
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