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TWEAKS AND UPDATES
The Verge: Chrome’s password safety tool will now automatically run in the background. “Google’s Safety Check feature for Chrome, which, among other things, checks the internet to see if any of your saved passwords have been compromised, will now ‘run automatically in the background’ on desktop, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. The constant checks could mean that you’re alerted about a password that you should change sooner than you would have before.”
TechCrunch: Bluesky rolls out an in-app video and music player and a new ‘hide post’ feature. “The new video and music player works with YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify and Twitch embeds. Unlike on X, where autoplay on videos is the default setting, Bluesky’s in-app player won’t autoplay content. If users want to watch or listen to the content, they will have to trigger it with a tap.”
USEFUL STUFF
The Verge: How to take advantage of Chrome’s side panel. “…when Chrome added a side panel that would give access to various features, I noted this new option, filed it away in the back of my brain and ignored it for several weeks. But now, I’ve taken another look — and I think this is something I should try. Chrome’s side panel offers immediate access to several useful apps, and it’s probably a good idea to explore what they are and whether the sidebar is a good way to access them.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
ABC News (Australia): Quairading shire erects signs telling travellers to ignore GPS maps including Google. “A frustrated council in Western Australia has erected signs warning drivers against using Google maps after GPS-based directions repeatedly sent travellers down unsafe roads…. The issue has frustrated the Quairading shire for the past eight years.”
WIRED: The Hollywood Strikes Stopped AI From Taking Your Job. But for How Long?. “Throughout 2023, many trades and professions, from painters to coders and beyond, found themselves vulnerable to being replaced by machine learning. IBM’s CEO estimated out loud that some 7,800 jobs at the company could be done by bots in the next five years. A Goldman Sachs report from late March estimated nearly 300,000 jobs globally could be affected by automation. Radiologists, journalists (gulp), tax preparers—everyone, it seemed, spent at least part of 2023 wondering if robots were coming for their jobs.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Bleeping Computer: GTA 5 source code reportedly leaked online a year after Rockstar hack. “The source code for Grand Theft Auto 5 was reportedly leaked on Christmas Eve, a little over a year after the Lapsus$ threat actors hacked Rockstar games and stole corporate data. Links to download the source code were shared on numerous channels, including Discord, a dark web website, and a Telegram channel that the hackers previously used to leak stolen Rockstar data.”
Centre Daily Times: Inside the Pennsylvania court case pitting a genealogist against Ancestry.com. “Are they the property of the commonwealth? Or are the documents — which include birth and death certificates, veterans’ burial cards, and slave records — fully controlled by a private company? That question has pitted a New York City-based professional genealogist against the Pennsylvania agency in charge of a vast array of historical documents and artifacts, as well as Ancestry.com, an online genealogy company used by millions of people to search for family and other records.”
Indian Express: FIU issues notice to 9 offshore crypto platforms, writes to MeiTY for blocking of URLs. “The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) under the Finance Ministry has issued show cause notices to nine offshore cryptocurrency and virtual digital assets platforms, like Binance and Kucoin, for non-compliance with anti-money laundering law. The FIU has also written to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to block the URLs of these nine entities that are operating illegally without complying with the provisions of the PML Act in India.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
New York Times: Avert Your Eyes, Avoid Responsibility and Just Blame TikTok. “We’re in a season of hand-wringing and scapegoating over social media, especially TikTok, with many Americans and politicians missing that two things can be true at once: Social media can have an outsize and sometimes pernicious influence on society, and lawmakers can unfairly use it as an excuse to deflect legitimate criticisms.”
National Catholic Reporter: Why I finally left Twitter (aka ‘X’)
. “I am now among this group of people who will no longer abide the hate-mongering algorithms; the Wild-West-like trolling; the rise in antisemitism, racism, homophobia and transphobia; and the absence of virtually any constructive discourse. Musk’s reinstatement of previously banned accounts is emblematic of the shifting context and tone of the platform.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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December 29, 2023 at 01:34AM
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