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NEW RESOURCES
Princeton University: A Princeton humanities project shares a vast digital ‘Miracles of Mary’ collection of centuries-old African stories and art. “Website visitors can learn about more than 1,000 stories written about the Virgin Mary, see 2,500 Ethiopian paintings depicting stories about the Virgin Mary and learn more about the 1,000 parchment manuscripts in which the stories appear. The stories and paintings are searchable by date, manuscript, place of origin, language, title and many other categories.”
Reporters Without Borders: RSF launches U.S. State Press Freedom Index with Reynolds Journalism Institute. “Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is pleased to announce the launch of its U.S. State Press Freedom Index, a collaboration with the Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI). This new project will rate the press freedom records of all U.S. states and territories based on information gathered from working journalists and media experts around the country : an important tool before the 2024 presidential election.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Reuters: Google plans ad sales restructuring as automation booms – The Information. ” Alphabet-owned Google plans to reorganize a big part of its 30,000-person ad sales unit, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing a person with knowledge of the situation. Sean Downey, who oversees ad sales to big customers in the Americas, said at a department-wide meeting last week that Google plans to restructure its ad sales teams without specifying whether the move would include layoffs, according to the report.”
KWCH: Pranksters change names of Kansas schools on Google Maps. “Pranksters changed the name of Maize Middle School to ‘Maize Of Skibidi Rizz
Middle School.’ They also hit Haysville West Middle School and Augusta High School.”
Detroit Free Press: Chevy dealership’s AI chatbot suggests Ford F-150 when asked for best truck. “Screenshots of an exchange over the weekend between someone online and the customer service chat system for Chevrolet of Watsonville dealership in California (and ‘powered by ChatGPT,’ according to the website) generated some amusement on the Threads social media site over the weekend. It’s not every day that a Chevy AI program heaps praise on an archrival, the Ford F-150.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
WIRED: The Obscure Google Deal That Defines America’s Broken Privacy Protections. “WIRED interviews with 20 current and former employees of Meta and Google who worked on privacy initiatives show that internal reviews forced by consent decrees have sometimes blocked unnecessary harvesting and access of users’ data. But current and former privacy workers, from low-level staff to top executives, increasingly view the agreements as outdated and inadequate. Their hope is that US lawmakers engineer a solution that helps authorities keep pace with advances in technology and constrain the behavior of far more companies.”
Associated Press: FTC proposes strengthening children’s online privacy rules. “The Federal Trade Commission is proposing sweeping changes to a decades-old law that regulates how online companies can track and advertise to children, including turning off targeted ads to kids under 13 by default and limiting push notifications.”
Armidale Express (Australia): eSafety Commission launches legal action against X. “The eSafety Commission has launched legal action against the owners of social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, for breaching online safety rules designed to protect children. The commission filed paperwork on Thursday in the Federal Court over X Corp’s alleged failure to comply with a transparency notice that was issued against the social media platform in February.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
MIT Press: European Sociological Association journals European Societies and European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology move to diamond open access at the MIT Press. “The MIT Press is thrilled to announce a groundbreaking partnership with the European Sociological Association (ESA), marking a significant step forward in the world of academic open access publishing. We are proud to welcome European Societies and European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology to MIT Press as premier diamond open access publications, with new issues commencing in 2025.”
University of Waterloo: Large language models validate misinformation, research finds. “In a recent study, researchers at the University of Waterloo systematically tested an early version of ChatGPT’s understanding of statements in six categories: facts, conspiracies, controversies, misconceptions, stereotypes, and fiction. This was part of Waterloo researchers’ efforts to investigate human-technology interactions and explore how to mitigate risks. They discovered that GPT-3 frequently made mistakes, contradicted itself within the course of a single answer, and repeated harmful misinformation.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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