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NEW RESOURCES
StateScoop: Pennsylvania launches new website to find food, housing, childcare services. “On Tuesday, Pennsylvania launched PA Navigate, a new website that connects residents to community organizations, government agencies and health care providers for access to resources for basic needs, such as food, housing and childcare.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
County 17: Wyoming’s revamped online job board launches Thursday. ” The Department of Workforce Services announced Wednesday that its new online job board… is set to go live Thursday. The upgraded site aims to improve user experience and site performance with new features for job seekers and employers, as well as present a more straightforward and intuitive design.”
Associated Press: Liberal blogger granted press credentials in Iowa House days after filing lawsuit. “A liberal journalist who blogs about Iowa politics was granted press credentials for the Iowa House of Representatives Wednesday, days after she filed a lawsuit alleging the Republican-controlled House was denying her her First Amendment rights.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Sky News: DPD customer service chatbot swears and calls company ‘worst delivery firm’. “DPD has disabled its artificial intelligence (AI) online chatbot after a customer was able to make the bot swear and write a poem criticising the parcel delivery company.”
Fast Company: How Twitch lost its way. “In trying to figure out where things went wrong, I spoke to Twitch employees, past and present, to find out. They painted a picture of a company that has never quite understood what its users wanted, caught in a constant cycle of trying to break into the mainstream, failing, and circling back to a core gamer demographic. A company that fumbled its biggest opportunities, alienated its top creators, and allowed itself to be outpaced by its competitors.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
CBS News: NYC issues public health advisory about social media, designates it an “environmental health toxin” due to its impact on kids. “New York City is issuing an health advisory about social media due to its impact on children. The city is designating social media an ‘environmental health toxin.'”
Kotaku: Ubisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your Games. “With the pre-release of Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown started, Ubisoft has chosen this week to rebrand its Ubisoft+ subscription services, and introduce a PC version of the ‘Classics’ tier at a lower price. And a big part of this, says the publisher’s director of subscriptions, Philippe Tremblay, is getting players ‘comfortable’ with not owning their games.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Search Engine Land: 75% of top brands fall victim to fraud in Google Search Ads. “Three-quarters of leading brands in the US and UK reportedly fall victim to identity theft in Google Search Ads. Consequences range from financial losses for the targeted business to customers becoming victims of fraud, according to a new report by search marketing security firm, Marcode.”
Centre for Economic Policy Research: Paying for news: What Google and Meta owe publishers. “What would Meta and Google owe US publishers under a fair payment for the use of their content? The authors of this blog estimate that the tech platforms should be paying a total of between $11.9 and $13.9 billion annually.”
Nature: Dana-Farber retractions: meet the blogger who spotted problems in dozens of cancer papers. “The prestigious Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) in Boston, Massachusetts, acknowledged yesterday that it would seek retractions for six papers and corrections for an additional 31 — some co-authored by DFCI chief executive Laurie Glimcher, chief operating officer William Hahn and several other prominent cancer researchers. The news came after scientific-image sleuth Sholto David posted his concerns about more than 50 manuscripts to a blog on 2 January.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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January 26, 2024 at 01:42AM
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