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NEW RESOURCES
Center for Research Libraries: Global Press Archive CRL Alliance Launches First Ukrainian Collection. “East View Information Services and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) have launched Local and Independent Ukrainian Newspapers (LIUN), the fifth in-copyright collection of titles produced under the Global Press Archive (GPA) CRL Alliance, available now to all CRL member institutions. Comprising more than 250,000 pages and 900 titles, LIUN includes local newspapers from more than 340 cities and towns—including publications from each of Ukraine’s 27 regions.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Search Engine Roundtable: Google “Simple Search” – New Search Refinement Option?. “Google may be testing a new ‘Simple Search’ feature that may dumb-down the search results when you want something more simple. Google shows the ‘Simple Search’ +Topics refinement button at the top of the mobile and desktop results, when tapped on, it readjusts the results to give you a different set of results.”
USEFUL STUFF
Lifehacker: The Easiest Ways to Transcribe a YouTube Video. “Sometimes, you don’t have time to watch an entire YouTube tutorial when you’re trying to learn something on the fly—sometimes, it would be easier if you could just skim the text to find the step you’re stuck on. Of course, most YouTube videos don’t come with transcriptions, and transcribing them by hand is a non-starter. But you don’t need to: Here are some of the best ways to transcribe a YouTube video.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Search Engine Journal: Google Investigating Reports Of Declining Traffic After Updates, Discover Bug. “Google’s core updates have often resulted in a traffic increase or decline for some websites. However, after the latest updates and possible bugs in Discover, publishers have noticed an unprecedented drop in website traffic and visibility in Google Search.”
TechCrunch: Yup hacks together a cross-posting app for X, Threads, Bluesky and others. “Decentralized social networking may be the future, but in the meantime, there are a lot of Twitter alternatives to keep up with. A new app called Yup aims to help by offering a single place to read feeds, follow friends across services and cross-post to a range of social apps, including Twitter/X itself, as well as Bluesky, Farcaster, Lens and Threads — although the latter comes with a big caveat.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Associated Press: New York will automatically seal old criminal records under a new law signed by Gov. Hochul. “New Yorkers who complete their sentences and stay out of trouble for a certain period of time will have their criminal records automatically sealed under a long awaited bill signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday.”
WIRED: Bumble, Grindr, and Hinge Moderators Struggle to Keep Users—and Themselves—Safe. “The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) interviewed more than 40 current and former workers based in Honduras, Mexico, Brazil, India, the Philippines, the US, and the UK who worked on behalf of Grindr, Bumble, and Match Group. Conditions across the groups varied, but the trends were stark. Workers spoke of mental health issues, including symptoms of anxiety, depression, and PTSD that they associated with their jobs, but said there was a shortage of support.”
404 Media: Consumer Rights Groups Petition Government to Create Formal Rules Protecting Right to Repair. “Consumer rights groups have formally petitioned the federal government, asking the Federal Trade Commission to finally create and enforce rules on right to repair after years of studying the issue of manufacturer repair monopolies and their cost to consumers.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Harvard Gazette: Smart trackers may predict health risks in older adults. “Wearable devices that measure daily patterns of circadian rest-activity rhythms may be able to predict frailty-related health risks more than six years before an incidence occurs, according to a new study out of Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital.”
Google Research Blog: Open sourcing Project Guideline: A platform for computer vision accessibility technology. “Two years ago we announced Project Guideline, a collaboration between Google Research and Guiding Eyes for the Blind that enabled people with visual impairments (e.g., blindness and low-vision) to walk, jog, and run independently…. Today, we announce the open source release of Project Guideline, making it available for anyone to use to improve upon and build new accessibility experiences. The release includes source code for the core platform, an Android application, pre-trained ML models, and a 3D simulation framework.”
Scientific American: ChatGPT Replicates Gender Bias in Recommendation Letters. “Generative artificial intelligence has been touted as a valuable tool in the workplace. Estimates suggest it could increase productivity growth by 1.5 percent in the coming decade and boost global gross domestic product by 7 percent during the same period. But a new study advises that it should only be used with careful scrutiny—because its output discriminates against women.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
Ars Technica: Infocom’s ingenious code-porting tools for Zork and other games have been found. “The source code for many of Infocom’s foundational text-parsing adventure games, including Zork, has been available since 2019. But that code doesn’t do anything for modern computers, nor even computers of the era, when it comes to actually running the games. Most of Infocom’s games were written in ‘Zork Implementation Language,’ which was native to no particular platform or processor, but ready to be interpreted on all kinds of systems by versions of its Z-Machine.” Good morning, Internet…
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November 23, 2023 at 06:31PM
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