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NEW RESOURCES
Wikimedia Foundation: Introducing Wikifunctions: first Wikimedia project to launch in a decade creates new forms of knowledge. “The project will enable volunteer editors to collaboratively create and maintain a library of functions to answer questions and enhance knowledge on Wikimedia projects and beyond. A ‘function’ is a sequence of programming instructions that makes a calculation based on data provided. Internet users most commonly encounter functions when entering queries on search engines, such as the time difference between two cities, the distance between two locations, or the volume of an object.”
University of Utah: Scrapbooks show climbing history of Utah in the 1960s. “The scrapbooks contain black-and-white photographs taken by Club members during their climbs, as well as clippings from local Salt Lake City newspapers and climbing magazines, typed reflections from club members about climbs, written descriptions and drawings of climbing routes, communications and agendas related to club activities, and other ephemera, including a cloth Alpenbock Club patch. The scrapbooks contain routes and reports from other climbing areas, including the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming and the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
The Verge: The new Mammoth app is a much simpler take on Mastodon. “Mammoth won some fans earlier this year with a really nicely designed Mastodon client, and then added a ‘For You’ feed that makes Mammoth a little more automatically personalized. Now, with the launch of Mammoth 2 for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, the app is going even deeper into curation and personalization: it’s launching a series of ‘Smart Lists’ filled with good posts, a set of suggested people and accounts to follow, and more.”
Reuters: Elon Musk appeals dispute over SEC consent decree to US Supreme Court. “Billionaire businessman Elon Musk on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether the Securities and Exchange Commission overstepped its authority in enforcing a consent decree that he has called a ‘muzzle’ on his constitutional free speech rights, his lawyer said.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
New York Times: Russia’s Latest Disinformation Tactic Exploits American Celebrities. “The video was recorded on Cameo, the popular, though now struggling, app where users can pay for personalized messages from famous people — in Mr. [Elijah] Wood’s case, starting at $340. While a genuine video, it was repurposed as part of Russia’s efforts to falsely denigrate Mr. Zelensky as a drug-addled neo-Nazi. Beginning in July, according to a report released on Thursday by Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Center, the video and others like it ricocheted through Russian social media and were ultimately featured by news organizations owned or controlled by the government.”
Korea Herald: More cultural assets to be digitized. “The Cultural Heritage Administration said Thursday it would push for concrete steps to grow the economy and digitize the way cultural assets are used and promoted, ahead of the enactment of a new law on heritage management. Nurturing cultural heritage-related startups while incentivizing ordinary Koreans to make more frequent visits to cultural sites are some of the priorities, the culture agency said in a press statement. Legislative support will be provided to make that happen, it added.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Axios: Ex-Twitter exec claims X fired him for raising security concerns. “Twitter’s former global head of information security accused X in a lawsuit Wednesday of wrongly firing him for raising concerns about Musk’s budget cuts following the Elon Musk-led takeover.”
Search Engine Journal: Critical WordPress Form Plugin Vulnerability Affects Up To +200,000 Installs. “Security researchers at Wordfence detailed a critical security flaw in the MW WP Form plugin, affecting versions 5.0.1 and earlier. The vulnerability allows unauthenticated threat actors to exploit the plugin by uploading arbitrary files, including potentially malicious PHP backdoors, with the ability to execute these files on the server.”
Boing Boing: Six months jail for YouTuber who filmed self bailing out of plane for the views. “Trevor Jacob, the YouTuber who bailed out of his own plane and later admitted that he did it for the views, is off to jail for six months over the November 2021 stunt. Jacobs earlier plead guilty to obstructing a federal investigation, having recovered and destroyed the wreckage himself to make sure the NTSB couldn’t get its hands on it.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
North Carolina State University: How Open Science Can Both Advance and Hinder Equity in Research. “In January 2023, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science and Technology Council released an official definition of open science for use by the US government: ‘The principle and practice of making research products and processes available to all, while respecting diverse cultures, maintaining security and privacy, and fostering collaborations, reproducibility, and equity.’ While this definition promises equity, not all aspects of open science currently deliver.”
The Conversation: Disinformation is rampant on social media – a social psychologist explains the tactics used against you. “Foreign governments, internet trolls, domestic and international extremists, opportunistic profiteers and even paid disinformation agencies exploit the internet to spread questionable content. Periods of civil unrest, natural disasters, health crises and wars trigger anxiety and the hunt for information, which disinformation agents take advantage of. Certainly it’s worth watching for the warning signs for misinformation and dangerous speech, but there are additional tactics disinformation agents employ.”
RTÉ: Hate speech ads approved on social media, investigation finds. “Facebook, X, TikTok and YouTube have all approved adverts featuring extreme and violent misogynistic hate speech against women journalists in South Africa, according to a new investigation by Global Witness and the South African public interest law firm, Legal Resources Centre.” Good morning, Internet…
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December 8, 2023 at 06:31PM
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