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NEW RESOURCES
Engadget: The Video Game History Foundation will open a digital version of its research library. “The Video Game History Foundation set up shop back in 2017 and offers a gigantic collection of gaming-related archival materials, from magazines to art books and even source code. Previously, you’d have to make the trek to Oakland, California to peruse the archive, but that changes soon. The VGHF just announced a digital library that will offer remote access.”
New-to-me, looks like it launched in February. KSBY: App provides accessibility reviews of public places worldwide– and you can help add to their database. “Shortly after [Joe] Foster’s outing with the Paralympic athletes, he got started on an app to help individuals better navigate public spaces. It’s called Roll Mobility, and it allows users to filter the kind of accessibility they’re looking for. The app then color codes public places from green to red based on how accessible it is.”
Ohio Department of Natural Resources: ODNR Launches New Website For Accessing Groundwater Data In Ohio. “The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Geological Survey has released a new web-based application to help users monitor groundwater resources throughout Ohio…. The new web application is a robust tool for exploring the state’s groundwater resources and is the most comprehensive dataset available for researching long-term trends in groundwater levels in Ohio.”
EVENTS
US Department of Justice: Chief FOIA Officers Council Meeting Showcases the Use of Advanced Technologies in FOIA. “The Chief FOIA Officers (CFO) Council met virtually on November 9, 2023. Associate Attorney General of the United States Vanita Gupta welcomed attendees, thanked agencies for their work on FOIA reporting, and highlighted the new Search Tool on FOIA.gov that will improve the public’s ability to search for previously released FOIA records and to identify appropriate agencies for new FOIA requests.” The entire meeting is available on YouTube.
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
TechCrunch: Elon Musk’s Twitter a year later: Everything you need to know. “Since Musk bought Twitter and took the company private, the news around the microblogging platform has been a whirlwind, rife with verification chaos, API access shakeups, ban reversals, staggering layoffs, and most notably, rebranding to X…. As X enters year two of Musk’s ownership, here’s a comprehensive timeline of everything that’s happened since Elon let that sink in.”
ZDNet: Later, Discord! Midjourney AI tool is moving to dedicated website. “Midjourney AI offers a robust text-to-image generator that can cook up virtually any image you want. But access has been available only through Discord, which isn’t the most user-friendly platform. Now Midjourney has launched its own website that promises an easier and quicker method of creating images.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
The Verge: ByteDance is secretly using OpenAI’s tech to build a competitor. “TikTok’s entrancing ‘For You’ feed made its parent company, ByteDance, an AI leader on the world stage. But that same company is now so behind in the generative AI race that it has been secretly using OpenAI’s technology to develop its own competing large language model, or LLM.”
NPR: ‘Shameless’: Reporters Without Borders rebukes X for claiming to support it. “‘Elon Musk’s company is a haven for disinformation and in no way an ally to an organization defending journalism,’ Reporters Without Borders said in an email to NPR. While the group had accepted advertising credits from Twitter before Musk took over, Reporters Without Borders said, it does not receive ‘any form of support from X whatsoever.'”
SECURITY & LEGAL
CNBC: Fake TikTok accounts spread disinformation on Russia-Ukraine war to millions. “Fake TikTok accounts have spread disinformation on Russia’s war in Ukraine to millions of people, new data from the Chinese social media giant shows. Posts on the video-sharing site targeted Ukrainian and Russian users, as well as many across Europe, with content designed to ‘artificially amplify pro-Russian narratives’ on the war, TikTok said in a report released Wednesday.”
Electronic Frontier Foundation: Internet Archive Files Appeal Brief Defending Libraries and Digital Lending From Big Publishers’ Legal Attack. “The Internet Archive is a San Francisco-based 501(c)(3) non-profit library which preserves and provides access to cultural artifacts of all kinds in electronic form. The brief filed in the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Morrison Foerster on the Archive’s behalf explains that the Archive’s Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) program is a lawful fair use that preserves traditional library lending in the digital world.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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December 17, 2023 at 01:08AM
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