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NEW RESOURCES
University of Pittsburgh: The University Library System will host the full collection of Pitt podcast ‘Being Human’. “The full collection of audio and transcripts of ‘Being Human’ — a University of Pittsburgh podcast ‘devoted to exploring the humanities, their intersections with other disciplines, and their value in the public world’ that ran from 2015-2022 — is now available from Archives and Special Collections at University Library Services (ULS).”
Transport for London: Pioneering map of London shows the link between deprivation and road casualties. “The dashboard enables users to filter the data on the relationship between deprivation levels and road casualties by year, borough, casualty severity and mode of travel, while the mapping function makes it easier to explore areas of higher casualty or casualty location rates.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Bloomberg: Google Plots Product Overhaul for EU’s Digital Dominance Rules. “Alphabet Inc.’s Google is rolling out a series of broad changes to some of its core search, browser and data products in Europe, in order to step in line with the European Union’s new rules to rein in Big Tech’s market dominance.”
Gizmodo: You’re Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds. “The study looked at 7,392 product-review search terms over the course of a year on Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo. The results were clear: the highest-ranked pages are more optimized, they feature more affiliate links, and in general, their text is lower quality. In other words, the jerks pumping out garbage content to make a couple of extra dollars are winning.” And the people who try to give you information free of ads and junk and infosewage? We’re losing.
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Cleveland.com: Cleveland Museum of Art conceals displays of Native American art in observance of new federal regulations. “The Cleveland Museum of Art has installed opaque covers on three display cases containing Native American artworks and artifacts in compliance with new federal regulations that went into force on Jan.12.”
Smithsonian: Smithsonian Curators To Collect 2024 Presidential Campaign Memorabilia. “As the 2024 presidential election season speeds up with caucuses and primaries in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, political history curators from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will be on the road gathering materials and memorabilia to document this election cycle for the national collections.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
International Business Times: Australia May Ask Tech Companies To Label Content Generated By AI Under New Laws . “Australia may push through a new law forcing tech companies to watermark or label content generated by artificial intelligence, as its federal government tries to tackle ‘high-risk’ AI products evolving faster than legislation.”
Associated Press: Iowa Is the Latest State to Sue TikTok, Claims the Social Media Company Misrepresents Its Content. “Iowa on Wednesday became the latest state to sue TikTok over claims that the social media company deceives consumers over the amount of ‘inappropriate content’ that children can access via the platform.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Internet Archive Blog: Call for Proposals: Advancing Inclusive Computational Research with Archives Research Compute Hub. “Computational research and education cannot remain solely accessible to the world’s most well-resourced organizations. With philanthropic support, Internet Archive is initiating Advancing Inclusive Computational Research with ARCH, a pilot program specifically designed to support an initial cohort of five less well-resourced organizations throughout the world.”
The Conversation: Some people who share fake news on social media actually think they’re helping the world . “One of the main ways in which fake news spreads is when people share it to their own social networks. Some genuinely believe the story to be true and share it by mistake. We’ve found that around 20% of people report having shared a story they later found out was untrue. However, like other researchers, we also find that around one in 10 people admit sharing political information that they knew at the time was untrue. Why would these people deliberately spread lies?” Good afternoon, Internet…
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January 19, 2024 at 02:00AM
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