By ResearchBuzz
NEW RESOURCES
New search tool from ProPublica: Supreme Court Financial Connections. From the front page: “Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people. Using our new database, you can now search for organizations and people that have paid the justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Bleeping Computer: OpenAI rolls out imperfect fix for ChatGPT data leak flaw. “OpenAI has mitigated a data exfiltration bug in ChatGPT that could potentially leak conversation details to an external URL. According to the researcher who discovered the flaw, the mitigation isn’t perfect, so attackers can still exploit it under certain conditions.”
Techdirt: The Republican Push To Ban TikTok Has Very Little (And Dwindling) Real World Support. “The real GOP motivation for banning TikTok is lousy, and the implementation has been lousier. Most of the GOP bans on TikTok (which require endless billable legal hours to craft) so far have been bypassed by children in all of thirty seconds. Many of the bans have proven unconstitutional. And several of the state AG lawsuits against TikTok have proven to be baseless and largely incoherent. Regardless of motivation (and despite three years of breathless press coverage presenting the GOP efforts as good faith), actual support for such bans is small and shrinking.”
USEFUL STUFF
Online Journalism Blog: How to investigate companies: recommendations from Graham Barrow. “Graham Barrow has worked to prevent money laundering and fraud for decades — in recent years working with journalists to investigate companies. In a guest post he shares his tips with Tony Jarne on what you can do when you are following the money.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
WIRED: Meet Flip, the Viral Video App Giving Away Free Stuff. ” Flip, a social video platform fixated on shopping has recently blazed a trail of confusion-tinged-delight across the internet. A referral program that rewards users with next-to-free merchandise has helped propel the platform into the top 25 most popular free US shopping apps on the iPhone, according to SensorTower—while sparking questions about the business model behind it.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
AFP: US Court Rules Twitter Breached Contract Over Failure To Pay Bonuses. “A US federal court ruled on Friday that social media company Twitter, now branded X, violated contracts by failing to pay annual performance bonuses it orally promised its workers. The breach-of-contract lawsuit was brought by former employer Mark Schobinger in June.”
KTLA: Google spent $1.2M lobbying against paying news publishers: LAT. “A California bill that would require large tech companies to pay news publishers for their content is on hold until at least next year, and it appears lobbying by those same companies played a role. The Los Angeles Times reports that Google spent $1.5 million lobbying state lawmakers between January and September, including $1.2 million for an advertisement attacking Assembly Bill 886, the California Journalism Preservation Act.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
NiemanLab: I gave ChatGPT the last 13 years of Nieman Lab predictions. “In past years I’ve written my year-end predictions as articles, zines, or illustrations. This year my prediction comes in the form of a GPT: Nieman Lab Predictions GPT. I made a GPT and used retrieval augmentation to give the it access to the past 13 years of Nieman Lab year-end predictions. That’s 1,369 articles.”
TechXplore: Examining effects of mobile phone use on attention, reaction time, and working memory of office workers. “Writing in the International Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics, a team from Iran has looked at mobile phone use on attention, reaction time, and the working memory of office workers. Fatemeh Sharmandemola, Gholamhossein Halvani, Sara Jambarsang, and Amir Houshang Mehrparvar of the Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences in Yazd, Iran, hoped to discover whether mobile phone use has an impact on cognitive function.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
Hackaday: Open Source Scanner Scans The Slides. “What do you get when you join a slide projector and a digital camera? Filmolimo, an open source slide scanner. The scanner uses an M5Stack Fire, an ESP32 development board. Thanks to the ESP32, you can control the device via WiFi.” Good afternoon, Internet….
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December 27, 2023 at 02:00AM
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