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NEW RESOURCES
Cornell Chronicle: Digitized images illuminate U.S. colonial period in the Philippines. “A scientific explorer for the United States Department of Agriculture, Gerow D. Brill (Class of 1888) traveled across the Philippines in 1902 and photographed placid scenes of rice fields, coconut groves, sugar mills, duck farms, and thatch-roofed villages. But his idyllic images also illuminate the tumultuous U.S. annexation of the archipelago in the aftermath of the Philippine-American War, according to Claire Cororaton, a Ph.D. student in history at Cornell.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
arXiv: Accessibility update: arXiv now offers papers in HTML format. “arXiv’s goal is equitable access to scientific research for all – and to achieve this, we have been working to make research papers more accessible for arXiv users with disabilities. We are happy to announce that as of Monday, December 18th, arXiv is now generating an HTML formatted version of all papers submitted in TeX/LaTeX (as long as papers were submitted on or after December 1st, 2023 and HTML conversion is successful – more on this below).”
9to5Google: Google rolling out ‘AI support assistant’ chatbot to provide product help. “Over the past year, Google has been working to add generative AI to its products. The latest application of that is a new ‘AI support assistant’ live on some Google Help pages.”
Engadget: Google tweaks Memory Saver and tab group features in latest Chrome update. “Google Chrome is getting new security and performance features. The web browser’s latest version (M12) upgrades Safety Check and Memory Saver while adding the ability to save tab groups.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Search Engine Journal: Google Search Overwhelmed By Massive Spam Attack. “Google’s search results have been hit by a spam attack for the past few days in what can only be described as completely out of control. Many domains are ranking for hundreds of thousands of keywords each, an indication that the scale of this attack could easily reach into the millions of keyword phrases.”
openDemocracy: Digital giants are profiting from harmful ‘vaginal detox’ products in Kenya. “Some ‘vaginal detox’ products, which doctors warn are ‘associated with injuries, bleeding, and infections’, have been banned in Canada. In the US, a class action lawsuit was filed against Goddess Detox, the company whose ‘pearls’ were barred from sale by Health Canada. Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle company Goop was also sued and fined $145,000 in 2018 by a US court for false advertising of ‘jade eggs’. Goop had claimed the product, different from yoni pearls but similarly intended for vaginal insertion, had a range of health benefits.”
ZDNet: What developers trying out Google Gemini should know about their data. “Developers who have jumped in to try out Google Gemini for free should know their data might be used to train its generative artificial intelligence (AI) models, including those that power Google AI Studio and Gemini Pro.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Bloomberg: Google play deal frustrates critics of steep app developer fees. “For all the incremental changes that the Google settlement offers, it won’t dismantle the fee structure. Google will still rake in profits because the settlement extends to all developers a program that calls for a service fee of as much as 26 per cent — not much less than the current 30 per cent commission rate charged to developers that make more than US$1 million in sales each year.”
Reuters: EU targets Pornhub, XVideos under new content rules. “The European Union added three adult content companies ― Pornhub, Stripchat and XVideos ― to its list of firms subject to stringent regulations under new online content rules, the bloc’s industry chief Thierry Breton said on Wednesday.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
EurekAlert: Social media posts may be viewed differently by others to how users perceive themselves. “In a new study, viewers of Facebook users’ posts came away with perceptions of the users that differed from the users’ own self-perceptions. Qi Wang and colleagues at Cornell University, New York, US, present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on December 20, 2023.”
MuckRock: MuckRock survey of FOIA fees points to uneven picture across the U.S.: From $2 in Washington state to $431 per request in Idaho. “MuckRock surveyed nonprofit Freedom of Information and press clubs in all 50 states and three U.S. territories to gauge the relative strength and limitations of their open-records laws and associated fees. Some groups pointed to egregious examples where governments charged exorbitant fees for records, like one state agency in Georgia that estimated that one of its datasets would cost a newsroom $17 million. At least 25 states and territories allowed for some type of fee waiver or exemption but just 10 of those specifically referenced media requestors in those decisions.”
Search Engine Land: Google’s shifting approach to AI content: An in-depth look. “A deep dive into the proliferation of AI-generated content, its impact on search quality, and the future of combating spam.” Great read. Good morning, Internet…
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