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TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Associated Press: As social media guardrails fade and AI deepfakes go mainstream, experts warn of impact on elections . “Nearly three years after rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, the false election conspiracy theories that drove the violent attack remain prevalent on social media and cable news: suitcases filled with ballots, late-night ballot dumps, dead people voting. Experts warn it will likely be worse in the coming presidential election contest.”
Search Engine Journal: WordPress Migration Guides Undermining Divi, Elementor And Wix?. “WordPress is creating guides and tools to help publishers migrate to their block based editor Gutenberg and away from commercial WordPress page builders and private closed source content management systems like Wix. While it’s understandable that WordPress might want to help publishers and businesses migrate away from Wix, some perceive it as a somewhat controversial move to create a guide to undermine software publishers who are a part of the WordPress ecosystem itself.”
USEFUL STUFF
Tom’s Guide: How to opt out of Google Ad Topics for greater privacy. “Google recently launched its new Topics API as a part of Google’s new Privacy Sandbox. … Advertisers use this data to display tailored ads, hoping you’ll interact with the ad and make a purchase. While some individuals can discover new products with the ads, there are others who are uncomfortable sharing their personal data with who knows what. So, if you want to enjoy greater privacy and are not interested in seeing personalized ads, this guide, where we discuss how to opt out of Google Ad Topics, is for you.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
TechCrunch: TechCrunch’s favorite apps of 2023. “As 2023 draws to a close, we reflect on some of our favorite apps that made everyday life a little easier this year. While flashy new AI apps and rival social networks were grabbing headlines, sometimes the most useful innovations fly under the radar. The apps on our best-of list may not have arrived in 2023, but they became daily staples that streamlined our work or brought small moments of joy. Read on for the top apps we turned to again and again when we needed to get things done, connect with others or simply have more fun.”
The Print (India): Meet India’s ‘dunki influencers’. They teach you how to cross Panama jungle, Mexico border. “[Jaspal] Sharma, who goes by the name of ‘2 Numbari USA Wala’, is only one of the dozens of Indians who are now taking to YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok to document their migration journeys. They offer tips, route suggestions and risk assessments to hop from one country to another, especially the tricky forest between Colombia and Panama and the US-Mexico border. In fact, Indians rank third when it comes to illegal immigration to the US.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Ars Technica: 4-year campaign backdoored iPhones using possibly the most advanced exploit ever. “Researchers on Wednesday presented intriguing new findings surrounding an attack that over four years backdoored dozens if not thousands of iPhones, many of which belonged to employees of Moscow-based security firm Kaspersky. Chief among the discoveries: the unknown attackers were able to achieve an unprecedented level of access by exploiting a vulnerability in an undocumented hardware feature that few if anyone outside of Apple and chip suppliers such as ARM Holdings knew of.”
New York Times: The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work. “The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement on Wednesday, opening a new front in the increasingly intense legal battle over the unauthorized use of published work to train artificial intelligence technologies.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
The Conversation: Selfies and social media: how tourists indulge their influencer fantasies. “The expansion of social media and ubiquity of smartphone cameras has had a major impact on tourists’ behaviour. This has also led to what’s been called a selfie ‘tourist gaze’, creating photos where the traveller is at the forefront of images rather than the destination. Indeed, according to my research, increasingly, some tourists go somewhere to be spotted – to be observed by others both online and in person at these destinations.”
Larry Ferlazzo via EducationWeek: Larry Ferlazzo’s 9 Education Predictions for 2024 . “I’ve been publishing annual education-related predictions for over a decade now, usually in The Washington Post. Let’s just say that no one would have become rich by betting on my past predictions. Nevertheless, since being wrong has never stopped education pundits from continuing their pontifications, I figured it shouldn’t stop me, a practicing teacher, from continuing mine!”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
BBC: Firm develops jet fuel made entirely from human poo. “Chemists at a lab in Gloucestershire have turned the waste into kerosene. James Hygate, Firefly Green Fuels CEO, said: ‘We wanted to find a really low-value feedstock that was highly abundant. And of course poo is abundant.’ [editor’s note: 
] Independent tests by international aviation regulators found it was nearly identical to standard fossil jet fuel.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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December 28, 2023 at 02:09AM
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