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NEW RESOURCES
Boing Boing: Finland declassifies its long-secret intelligence report on JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald . “Merry Christmas, America! Finland has declassified its 60-year-old intelligence report into Lee Harvey Oswald, who stayed in Helsinki before heading on to the Soviet Union. Oswald, an assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, made a quixotic attempt to defect there; the commies saw him coming and only let him stay because he tried to kill himself after they told him to go home.”
KGMI (Washington): Dept. of Health launches new WIC Nutrition Program Clinic locator. “The state has released a new tool to help pregnant women and young children get access to vital resources. The Women, Infants and Children Nutrition Program offers monthly food benefits and health screenings to mothers and their infants. The program’s new clinic locator gives information on the more than 200 WIC clinics across Washington, including five in Whatcom County.”
Michigan Advance: Benson unveils new online FOIA portal for Michigan Department of Elections. “Calling FOIA ‘one of the most important tools citizens can use to hold their government accountable,’ [Secretary of State Jocelyn] Benson said the new online portal would make document requests easier and the results more accessible than they’ve ever been. In fact, she said once a FOIA request has been made, many of the responsive documents will be publicly available on the department’s website. ”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Mozilla Blog: Mozilla VPN Update: New privacy features, plus independent security audit results. “This year, we’ve been working on the many ways to protect your data when you use Mozilla VPN, our fast and easy-to-use Virtual Private Network service. Over the summer, we rolled out new security features like malware blocking, and performance improvements like the server location recommendations. We also expanded to 16 new European countries.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Tom’s Guide: I pitted Google Bard with Gemini Pro vs ChatGPT — here’s the winner. “Google has incorporated its new AI large language model, Gemini Pro, into its popular chatbot, Bard. With this comes the promise that it will perform at least as well, if not better, than OpenAI’s free version of ChatGPT. To better understand whether it has achieved this goal, I decided to pit the two chatbots against one another with a series of questions designed by an independent arbiter.”
Omaha World-Herald: UNL Professor preserves Nebraskan Holocaust stories for educational impact. “In April 2022, former Gov. Pete Ricketts signed LB888 into law, requiring the State Board of Education to adopt standards for education on the Holocaust and other acts of genocide. Dotan’s dissertation for her doctorate studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, ‘Integrating Narratives with Digital Humanities Tools to Inform Holocaust Education Pedagogies,’ aims to provide a framework for Holocaust education in Nebraska by creating a digital archive of maps, letters, and artifacts from seven Nebraskans touched by the events of the Holocaust.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Bloomberg: Google’s Epic Legal Defeat Threatens $200 Billion App Store Industry. “Google’s legal defeat at the hands of Fortnite maker Epic Games Inc. threatens to roil an app store duopoly with Apple Inc. that generates close to $200 billion a year and dictates how billions of consumers use mobile devices. The loss — handed down by a San Francisco jury on Monday — is a blow to the two companies’ business model in apps, where they charge commissions of as much as 30% to software developers who typically have few other options.”
ABC News (Australia): Fitbit fined $11 million after misleading consumers about smart watches and fitness trackers. “The Federal Court issued the penalty against the US firm on Tuesday after it admitted making false, misleading or deceptive claims to 58 customers between 2020 and 2022. In several cases, Fitbit representatives claimed customers only had 45 days to return a faulty device.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
UPI: Many U.S. teens report using social media ‘almost constantly,’ study says. “The new Pew Research Center survey of U.S. teens, released Monday, shows that while YouTube is the most widely used platform among 13- to 17-year-olds — at 90% — TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram also remain popular with between 59% and 63% of teens viewing those sites everyday.”
AFP: Fungi and flatworms: Scientists want more diverse nature emojis. “Too many cats, not enough crustaceans: The current emoji catalog doesn’t accurately represent the breadth of biodiversity seen in nature — and that hurts conservation efforts, according to scientists. An analysis published Monday in the journal iScience found that while animals are well represented by the current emoji catalog, plants, fungi, and microorganisms get short shrift.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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December 14, 2023 at 01:47AM
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