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NEW RESOURCES
Colorado Sun: New online tool helps Coloradans quickly determine which public benefits they might be eligible for . “The tool, which appears to be the first of its kind in Colorado, streamlines the navigation process for human services workers by helping them guide people through screening questions on the MyFriendBen site instead of a time-consuming search through a cumbersome database, Jimenez said.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
From the National Library of Chile and machine-translated from Spanish: Writer’s Archive adds new digitizations to the collections of Braulio Arenas, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda and Salvador Reyes. “All types of manuscripts and personal documents of Chilean authors are gathered in the Writer’s Archive. The collection of this section of the National Library is made up of more than 25,000 objects, including manuscripts, epistolaries and personal documents. During this year, the Writer’s Archive made progress in the digitization of the valuable collections of Braulio Arenas, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda and Salvador Reyes.”
ZDNet: The fall of Firefox: Mozilla’s once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance. “There’s nothing new about Firefox’s decline. In 2022, Firefox dropped to 2.6% from 2021’s 2.7%. In 2015, when I first started using DAP’s numbers, Firefox had an 11% market share. By 2016, Firefox had declined to 8.2%. It had a slight bounce upward by 2018 to 9%.”
USEFUL STUFF
WIRED: How to Be More Anonymous Online . “At this stage of the internet, being totally anonymous across your entire online life is incredibly hard to achieve. Phones, SIM cards, browsers, Wi-Fi networks, and more use identifiers that can be linked to your activity. But there are steps you can take to obscure your identity for everyday browsing.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
The Diplomat: How Social Media Will be Weaponized in Bangladesh’s Election. “As Bangladesh prepares for its 2024 elections, a familiar but chilling specter haunts the political landscape: the potential misuse of social media, which has reshaped the landscape since the 2018 parliamentary election.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
PBS News: How citizen investigators are helping the FBI track down Jan. 6 rioters. “The Jan. 6 investigation is the largest FBI operation in history. More than 1200 people have been charged and over 900 convicted. But it has stretched the bureau’s resources and has often had to rely on the work of citizen investigators who came to be known as ‘sedition hunters.’ Judy Woodruff spoke with one of these anonymous sleuths as part of her series, America at a Crossroads.”
Reuters: Google must bargain with YouTube worker union, US labor board rules. “Alphabet Inc’s Google violated U.S. labor law by refusing to bargain with a union representing contract workers for YouTube Music, a federal agency has ruled. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in a decision on Wednesday rejected claims by Google, which owns YouTube, that it should not be considered the employer of workers provided by staffing firm Cognizant Technology Solutions.”
Associated Press: Official suggests Polish president check social media security after odd tweet from private account. “Poland’s minister of digital affairs suggested Friday that President Andrzej Duda check the security of access to his social accounts after a bizarre tweet went out that was almost immediately removed. The tweet published Thursday on Duda’s private account said: ‘Tell him to ask his wife what “having balls” means. She knows!'”
RESEARCH & OPINION
New Yorker: What We Lost When Twitter Became X. “The over-all direction of Musk’s changes hasn’t been too surprising, but the magnitude of the shift—the sheer inanity of it—still shocks me. Wiping out billions in brand value by changing the platform’s name; decimating the developer ecosystem; testing out charging new users for the service. These decisions seem indistinguishable from acts of self-sabotage.”
The Independent: Google reveals new ‘robot constitution’ to try and stop robots from accidentally killing humans. “The company has now revealed a set of new advances that it hopes will make it easier to develop robots that are both able to help out with such tasks and to do so without causing any harm. The systems are intended to ‘help robots make decisions faster, and better understand and navigate their environments’, it said – and to do so safely.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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January 6, 2024 at 04:06AM
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