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NEW RESOURCES
National Indigenous Times (Australia): New website launched to drive national Truth-telling. “Towards Truth is a partnership between the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the UNSW Indigenous Law Centre (ILC), with significant support from pro bono partners across the legal field. The website compiles laws and policies that have impacted First Nations people from 1788 until today, as well as government documents, reports, media articles and case studies that show their practical effects.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Medium: New Partner Program incentives focus on high-quality human writing. “Changes are coming in August to the way we pay writers for great stories and which countries we support. Here’s what’s happening, why, and what it means for you.” I wrote about my weird Medium spam experience in January 2021..
The Verge: ChatGPT can now remember who you are and what you want. “The newest feature of ChatGPT is designed to help you type a little less. It’s called ‘custom instructions,’ and it gives you a place to tell your chatbot the things it should always know about you and how you’d like it to respond to your questions. The feature is in beta, works everywhere ChatGPT does — it should be particularly helpful on mobile devices — and is available today on an opt-in basis to ChatGPT Plus subscribers everywhere but the UK and EU. (Those are hopefully coming soon.)”
Search Engine Roundtable: How It’s Going After Removing Google AMP Pages 3 Weeks Ago. “On June 28th, three weeks ago, I removed the AMP pages from this site. Overall, I didn’t see overall traffic changes from the change. I did notice issues with this site in Google Discover, a spike in crawl rates, a jump in AMP errors and some more changes.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Reuters: OpenAI’s Sam Altman launches Worldcoin crypto project. “Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency project founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, launches on Monday. The project’s core offering is its World ID, an account that only real humans can get. To get a World ID, a customer signs up to do an in-person iris scan using Worldcoin’s ‘orb’, a silver ball approximately the size of a bowling ball. Once the orb’s iris scan verifies the person is a real human, it creates a World ID.” I will not share my opinion on this endeavor with you because doing so would violate every obscenity ordinance in a 200-mile radius.
Boing Boing: TikToker calls out and publicly shames pickpockets in Venice, Italy. “Pickpockets in the tourist areas of Venice Italy aren’t taking kindly to a TikToker who records them on video and loudly shouts “Attenzione pickpocket!” (‘Attention, pickpocket!’) to warn people in crowded areas that fast-fingered fiends are in the vicinity.”
The Library of Congress Signal: Centering Digital Collection Users: An Interview with Lauren Algee. “I’m excited to share this interview with Lauren Algee, one of my colleagues in the Digital Services Directorate here at the Library of Congress. My hope that interviews like this help to spread awareness about the background, experience, and interests of the people that support the Library of Congress. Along with that, I think it’s really valuable to hear from members of our teams about how their thoughts on the work have changed and developed over time.”
Current: Digitization project will preserve decades of archival content for Arkansas PBS. “A digitization effort underway at Arkansas PBS will preserve more than 26,000 magnetic tapes in the station’s archives, going back to its first hour on the air in 1966. The tapes also include interviews with the Little Rock Nine, audio of Arkansas Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller’s service for Martin Luther King Jr., and several children’s programs from the 1970s previously thought to be lost. The collection also holds nearly 600 interviews with World War II veterans and 700 interviews with movie stars from Good Times Picture Show, a show that aired on the station for about 25 years.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Wall Street Journal: Schools Sue Social-Media Platforms Over Alleged Harms to Students . “Plaintiffs’ lawyers are pitching school boards throughout the country to file lawsuits against social-media companies on allegations that their apps cause classroom disciplinary problems and mental-health issues, diverting resources from education.”
Hindustan Times: Govt warned Twitter of ‘consequences’ for failing to block URLs during farmers’ protest. “In a significant move, the Union government has accepted that it sent out a notice to Twitter warning it of ‘significant consequences’ after the platform failed to block certain URLs during farmers’ protest.”
Reuters: Google owes $338.7 mln in Chromecast patent case, US jury says. “Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) violated a software developer’s patent rights with its remote-streaming technology and must pay $338.7 million in damages, a federal jury in Waco, Texas decided on Friday. The jury found that Google’s Chromecast and other devices infringe patents owned by Touchstream Technologies related to streaming videos from one screen to another.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Analytics India: When Google Thinks It Owns the Internet . “Google has introduced a new proposal ‘Web Environment Integrity Explainer’ drafted by four of its engineers, revolving around the fundamental idea of enhancing ‘trust and security’ in the client environment. It introduces a new API that enables websites to request a token, providing evidence about the client code’s surroundings. In short, Google is killing ad blockers. No matter how easy or a positive move it seems at first glance, it has sparked controversy in the tech community for being a huge red flag in privacy rights.” Good morning, Internet…
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July 25, 2023 at 05:31PM
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