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NEW RESOURCES
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: New Online: Recent Updates to Finding Aids and Digital Images. “As our archives staff work on an ongoing basis to arrange, preserve, describe, and make available to the public the materials under our care, we spotlight new additions to the website in a regular feature from Out of the Stacks. The column lists new and revised finding aids recently made available online, along with fresh uploads to the Texas Digital Archive, our repository of electronic items.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Associated Press: The year of social media soul-searching: Twitter dies, X and Threads are born and AI gets personal. “We lost Twitter and got X. We tried out Bluesky and Mastodon (well, some of us did). We fretted about AI bots and teen mental health. We cocooned in private chats and scrolled endlessly as we did in years past. For social media users, 2023 was a year of beginnings and endings, with some soul-searching in between. Here’s a look back some of the biggest stories in social media in 2023 — and what to watch for next year.”
Times of Israel: After 2 months amid war, Google starts to reactivate live traffic updates on Waze, maps. “For the first time in some two months amid the war with the Hamas terror group, Google is starting to gradually reactivate live traffic updates for Google Maps and Waze in Israel.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Search Engine Roundtable: Pre-Christmas Intense Google Algorithm Ranking Volatility. “No one should be surprised to hear that I am reporting on some intense Google search ranking volatility starting this Friday, December 22nd, through the weekend, with things seeming to calm down today, Sunday, December 24th. Did Google push an algorithm update or tweak before the holiday break? Who knows, but there are signals of ranking volatility either way.”
Politico: Arizona creates own deep-fake election hoaxes to prepare for 2024. “After his key swing state became a magnet for election fraud conspiracy theories in the 2020 presidential election, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes is leading a series of exercises to prepare the Grand Canyon State for a range of likely threats to next year’s vote, foremost among them the use of open access AI tools to amplify disinformation.”
WIRED: Pinterest Is Having a Moment. “In 2023, Pinterest had a moment—and that’s thanks to Gen Z-ers. They make up more than 40 percent of its active monthly users and are now the platform’s fastest growing demographic, outpacing the millennials who first discovered and popularized the platform with mood boards and wedding planning pins. Experts say Pinterest is also growing because it fills a different, more positive niche than other forms of social media, serving as a place for exploration and creativity rather than a race for likes and views.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
CTV News: Sudbury senior loses life savings after clicking on social media ad. “Over the course of five months, he lost about $130,000 total after clicking on a social media ad that said a $250 investment could return thousands.”
TechCrunch: Google makes bid to resolve competition concerns in Germany over its automotive services bundling. “Following competition objections raised on Google in Germany this summer over bundling of services including Google Maps via its Android-based in-car infotainment system software, known as Google Automotive Services (GAS), the tech giant has made an offer of some service unbundling and the removal of contractual restrictions it applies to vehicle makers in a bid to settle the regulatory intervention.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
New York Times: Let’s Rescue Book Lovers From This Online Hellscape. “Goodreads is broken. What began in 2007 as a promising tool for readers, authors, booksellers and publishers has become an unreliable, unmanageable, near-unnavigable morass of unreliable data and unfettered ill will. Of course, the internet offers no shortage of bad data and ill will but at its inception Goodreads promised something different: a gathering space where ardent readers could connect with writers and with one another, swapping impressions and sharing recommendations.”
IEEE Spectrum: Quantum Computing’s Hard, Cold Reality Check . “The quantum computer revolution may be further off and more limited than many have been led to believe. That’s the message coming from a small but vocal set of prominent skeptics in and around the emerging quantum computing industry.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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December 26, 2023 at 01:19AM
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