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Saturday, September 3, 2022

Mining Safety, Illinois State University, New Jersey Disaster Relief, More: Saturday ResearchBuzz, September 3, 2022

Mining Safety, Illinois State University, New Jersey Disaster Relief, More: Saturday ResearchBuzz, September 3, 2022
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NEW RESOURCES

Department of Labor: US Department Of Labor Launches App To Provide Miners Access To Health, Safety, Miners’ Rights Information. “The app allows miners to easily use the tool at mine sites and outside of working hours to search for best safety and health practices and find resources on understanding their rights and responsibilities under the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977. The app also sends users notifications of mining accidents and how to prevent them.”

Illinois State University: Historic Illinois State alumni and marketing publications digitally preserved . “With 110 years of material to look through, each issue contains valuable insight into the evolving sociopolitical landscape of the country. One magazine which was disconnected from these previous publications, The Statesman, ran for just four issues between 1969 and 1971. It offers great insight into views on the Vietnam War, race relations on campus, marijuana, and other markedly countercultural perspectives of the era.”

North Jersey: Need help after a major storm? A year after Ida, NJ launches a new website for that. “Gov. Phil Murphy announced a new resource website… on Thursday to help victims of future storms navigate federal and state disaster relief programs. The site will be geared toward providing residents, small businesses, local governments and nonprofit organizations with a directory of resources to prepare for and recover from disasters.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Library of Congress: LC Labs Letter: Recap of 2022 Summer Fellow Projects. “As summer draws to a close, the LC Labs and Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) teams are grateful for the time we shared with students and recent graduates from around the country who joined us for summer fellowships. This month’s newsletter highlights some of our favorite moments!”

9to5 Google: You can download Hangouts history via Google Takeout until January 1. “The only way to use classic Hangouts today is the website, but that’s set to go away in November. Ahead of that, Google is advising people to download Hangouts history via Takeout ‘because some of [their] conversations or portions of conversations won’t automatically migrate from Hangouts to Chat.'”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

TechCrunch: Google, YouTube outline plans for the US midterm elections. “Google and its video sharing app YouTube outlined plans for handling the 2022 U.S. midterm elections this week, highlighting tools at its disposal to limit the effort to limit the spread of political misinformation.”

New York Times: Katie Gregson-MacLeod Sang About a ‘Complex’ Love. TikTok Responded.. “Vulnerability is contagious, and TikTok, which allows users to both imbibe and amplify at the same time, is an optimal accelerant. The success of ‘Complex’ reflects the evolving priorities of TikTok, which in its first couple of years was best known as an accelerant for dance trends, novelty songs and meme-able comedy, but is now just as often a home for sorrow. The shift reflects a partial maturation of the medium somewhere beyond pure escape.”

WINA: Petition launched to bring The Hook archives back online. “The publishers of C-Ville Weekly, who also published The Hook before it was shut down in 2013, transferred ownership of its website/archive to an anonymous buyer last year. Earlier this year, the buyer removed the website/archive from the internet. The publishers of C-Ville Weekly’s have so far refused to explain why they made the decision to sell.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

City A.M.: Google heads to court over billion pound competition row for Play Store. “Google will have to defend itself at trial over a £1bn consumer claim about Play Store, a competition judge has decided. A Competition Appeal Tribunal ruling this week found that consumer champion Liz Coll is authorised to bring an opt-out collective claim against the tech giant for alleged competition infringements.”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: New law, less sunlight: Missouri takes down contract website. “Gov. Mike Parson’s administration shut down access Monday to a website that allows Missourians to track who is winning potentially lucrative state contracts. In an announcement posted on an Office of Administration’s procurement website, officials say a new law is forcing them to remove contract award information from public access for privacy reasons. The new law, which was signed by Parson, went into effect Sunday.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

WIRED: Trans Researchers Want Google Scholar to Stop Deadnaming Them. “[Tess] Tanenbaum is one of many academics that have urged Google in recent years to give people more agency over how their names appear on its service. She and other critics of Google Scholar say it subjects trans academics and researchers to deadnaming, the unwelcome and even traumatic mention of a transgender person’s name from before they transitioned.”

News@Northeastern: Unprecedented Data Collection Project, ‘A Huge Missing Piece Of The Study Of The Internet,’ Now Underway. “Thanks to a $15.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the team has begun to recruit volunteers for the online data collection project, which will involve monitoring the online experiences of tens of thousands of volunteer users through a web browser extension researchers are building, then documenting and analyzing the results.” Good morning, Internet..

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Friday, September 2, 2022

Air Travel Transparency, Alberta Teachers, Google Chrome, More: Friday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, September 2, 2022

Air Travel Transparency, Alberta Teachers, Google Chrome, More: Friday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, September 2, 2022
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NEW RESOURCES

Good Morning America: New online dashboard helps fliers navigate flight delays and cancellations. “The U.S. Department of Transportation debuted its airline customer service dashboard today, which details airlines’ ‘commitments’ to passengers in the event of ‘controllable’ cancellations and delays within the airline’s control, such as mechanical or staffing issues.”

CBC: Alberta’s searchable teacher registry to go live this week. “Starting later this week Albertans will be able to search an online database and find out the names and professional standings of 162,000 teachers and teacher leaders dating back to 1954. The province’s new teacher registry will have information about what certificates teachers hold, what the status of those certificates is and when they were issued.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

How-To Geek: What’s New in Chrome 105, Available Now. “Google Chrome version 105 arrived on August 30, 2022. This latest release gains better picture-in-picture support for Android, more tools for web apps to feel native, and some under-the-hood goodies.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

Washington Post: Online creators are de facto therapists for millions. It’s complicated.. “In real life, mental health information and care are sparse. In the United States, 1 in 3 counties do not have a single licensed psychologist, according to the American Psychological Association, and Americans say cost is a top barrier to seeking mental health help. On the internet, however, mental health tips are everywhere: TikTok videos with #mentalhealth in the caption have earned more than 43.9 billion views, according to the analytics company Sprout Social, and mentions of mental health on social media are increasing year by year.”

Input Magazine: The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s ‘high five’ photos. “I love the aughts fashion, the use of the word ‘victim,’ and the fact that ‘finger-guns’ gets a hyperlink in the last caption. The woman in the photo gives an Oscar-worthy performance in the final image — she looks like she’s on the verge of tears — and her male counterpart couldn’t look more smug. The pictures are endearing and capture a kind of humanity you don’t find in your average stock photo…. A quick search of ‘high five wikipedia photo’ shows that the images are an object of fascination for many others besides me.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Bleeping Computer: Over 1,000 iOS apps found exposing hardcoded AWS credentials. “Security researchers are raising the alarm about mobile app developers relying on insecure practices that expose Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials, making the supply chain vulnerable. Malicious actors could take advantage of this to access private databases, leading to data breaches and the exposure of customers’ personal data.”

The New Arab: Saudi Arabia: Woman receives 45 years prison sentence over social media use. “A Saudi court has sentenced a woman to 45 years in prison for allegedly damaging the country through her social media activity, according to a court document obtained on Wednesday. It was the second such sentence that has drawn scrutiny of the kingdom this month.”

Straits Times: Popular Thai YouTuber flees abroad after alleged $77 million forex scam. “A popular Thai YouTuber who claimed to be a successful forex trader has reportedly fled abroad after allegedly cheating thousands of investors out of two billion baht (S$77 million). Ms Natthamon Khongchak, better known as Nutty the YouTuber, defrauded over 6,000 victims, according to Mr Phaisal Ruangrit, a lawyer who campaigns to help fraud victims.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

NiemanLab: Most local election offices still aren’t on social media, new research finds. “In our research as scholars of voter participation and electoral processes, we find that when local election officials not only have social media accounts but use them to distribute information about voting, voters of all ages — but particularly young voters — are more likely to register to vote, to cast ballots, and to have their ballots counted.”

OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL

CNET: Hear James Webb Telescope Images Translated Into Ethereal Music. “There are many ways to observe the universe. There’s been much fanfare around the first image and data releases from the next-gen James Webb Space Telescope. On Wednesday, NASA gave space fans a new way to experience Webb’s observations with a series of audio tracks.” Good afternoon, Internet…

September 3, 2022 at 12:12AM
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Ireland Genealogy, Crowdsourced Graphic Design, California Literacy Resources, More: Friday ResearchBuzz, September 2, 2022

Ireland Genealogy, Crowdsourced Graphic Design, California Literacy Resources, More: Friday ResearchBuzz, September 2, 2022
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NEW RESOURCES

IrishCentral: Did your ancestors come from Armagh? Massive amount of new records released online. “Are you searching for family history in Co Armagh? We might have another breadcrumb to add to your trail. Roots Ireland has just added 26,210 Armagh records to their database. Dating from the 17th to the 20th centuries, the historic Irish records contain census substitutes, church records, and headstone records.”

New York Times: A Panorama of Design. “Coming to the rescue of leaflets, typefaces and ticket stubs is the People’s Graphic Design Archive, a crowdsourced database that recently went live after eight years of development. The digital archive, which currently contains about 5,000 items, allows anyone, anywhere in the world, to upload — and thereby keep — any piece of ephemera.”

California Department of Education: State Superintendent Thurmond Announces Access to Free Literacy and Biliteracy Learning Tool for California Families. “The Footsteps2Brilliance bilingual early literacy program for birth through third graders is accessible 24/7 via the Internet from the smartphones, tablets, and computers that families already own. This resource expands free access to all children and families statewide, creating a much-needed bridge between school and home. The $27 million digital literacy partnership will provide free learning resources in English and Spanish.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

CNET: Twitter’s Latest Feature Could Make Tweeting Less Intimidating. “Called Twitter Circle, the feature lets users tweet to a smaller group rather than all of their followers. When users compose a tweet, they’ll see an option to share a tweet with Everyone or their Twitter Circle. Users can add up to 150 people to their Twitter Circle and edit who is in the group.”

Boing Boing: Dall·E’s new outpainting feature extends images. “Astonishing, alarming and as incoherent as ever, the AI’s brush now fills in spaces beyond the original canvas, replicating the artist’s style and subject.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

City College of New York: CCNY to expand blockchain and crypto research and teaching. “Rosario Gennaro, professor of computer science in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, is the recipient of a five-year $850,000 grant to further CCNY’s contributions to the advancement of blockchain systems.”

Washington Post: The Biden White House gets feisty on Twitter. “‘We’ve never hesitated to call out hypocrisy, and we’re not going to stop now,’ said White House spokeswoman Alexandra LaManna…. The White House also recently hired Megan Coyne as deputy director of platforms in its Office of Digital Strategy. Coyne garnered widespread attention among Democrats for bringing humor and punchiness to a New Jersey state-run account with tweets that went viral.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Ars Technica: Microsoft finds TikTok vulnerability that allowed one-click account compromises. “Microsoft said on Wednesday that it recently identified a vulnerability in TikTok’s Android app that could allow attackers to hijack accounts when users did nothing more than click on a single errant link. The software maker said it notified TikTok of the vulnerability in February and that the China-based social media company has since fixed the flaw, which is tracked as CVE-2022-28799.”

CTV: B.C. company wins defamation case against customer who posted bad Google, Yelp reviews. “A ‘disgruntled customer’ who posted reviews on Google and Yelp accusing a B.C. business of fraud has been ordered to pay $90,000 worth of damages for defamation by the province’s Supreme Court.”

FTC: FTC Sues Kochava for Selling Data that Tracks People at Reproductive Health Clinics, Places of Worship, and Other Sensitive Locations. “The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against data broker Kochava Inc. for selling geolocation data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices that can be used to trace the movements of individuals to and from sensitive locations.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Motherboard: An AI-Generated Artwork Won First Place at a State Fair Fine Arts Competition, and Artists Are Pissed. “A man came in first at the Colorado State Fair’s fine art competition using an AI generated artwork on Monday. ‘I won first place,’ a user going by Sincarnate said in a Discord post above photos of the AI-generated canvases hanging at the fair.”

Tech Xplore: New algorithm based on the behavior of gulls improves edge computing. “The seagull algorithm encodes the migratory and attack behavior of gulls in such a way that it can be used to solve problems such as the assigning and routing of computational resources. The use of the simulated annealing algorithm in conjunction with the seagull algorithm will help the system avoid the local maximum and premature convergence problems, which are often the bane of other approaches to similar problems.” Not clear on edge computing? IBM has an overview. Good morning, Internet…

September 2, 2022 at 05:29PM
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Thursday, September 1, 2022

Hawaiian Music, Google Play, Photographer Communities, More: Thursday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, September 1, 2022

Hawaiian Music, Google Play, Photographer Communities, More: Thursday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, September 1, 2022
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NEW RESOURCES

Hawaii Public Radio: Memorial concert for Harry B. Soria to support digitizing his Hawaiian music collection. “Territorial Airwaves is the longest-running weekly radio show on Hawaiian music here in the islands. For decades the program celebrated our music history. Music host Harry B. Soria took up the torch from his father and grandfather. He died on Dec. 7, 2021. The golden oldies and tales told by Soria can now be heard online — hundreds are available, with more to come. To pay homage to his remarkable Hawaiian music collection, a memorial concert is in the works to help raise money to make it accessible to everyone.” Mostly an audio program.

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Axios: Scoop: Truth Social’s Google Play Store holdup. “Google hasn’t yet approved Truth Social’s Android app for distribution via its Play Store because of insufficient content moderation, a Google spokesperson tells Axios.”

USEFUL STUFF

The Phoblographer: The Best Communities For Photographers In 2022. “Let’s be honest, photographers are really annoyed at Instagram. They’ve been considering places like TikTok and more but those are spaces for content creators. Thankfully, there are still communities that think photographers are valuable. So we’ve rounded up some of the best communities for photographers.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

Washington Post: A neighborhood’s cryptocurrency mine: ‘Like a jet that never leaves’. ” It’s midnight, and a jet-like roar is rumbling up the slopes of Poor House Mountain. Except there are no planes overhead, and the nearest commercial airport is 80 miles away. The sound is coming from a cluster of sheds at the base of the mountain housing a cryptocurrency data center, operated by the San Francisco-based firm PrimeBlock. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, powerful computers perform the complex computations needed to ‘mine,’ or create, digital currencies. And those noise-generating computers are kept cool by huge fans.”

Texas Monthly: Why the Texas Archive of the Moving Image Is the Best Follow on TikTok. “The Austin-based nonprofit has become a social media star with clips of vintage local newscasts, bizarre industrial films, and one-of-a-kind celebrity encounters.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Bleeping Computer: Montenegro says Russian cyberattacks threaten key state functions. “Members of the government in Montenegro are stating that the country is being hit with sophisticated and persistent cyberattacks that threaten the country’s essential infrastructure. Targets include electricity and water supply systems, transportation services, online portals that citizens use to access various state services, and more.”

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: Flurry of seizures intensify pressure on the Met over artifacts linked to accused traffickers . “The largest museum in the United States, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is facing increasing scrutiny from police and federal agents investigating international art smuggling. The Manhattan district attorney’s office has obtained nine warrants to seize ancient works from the Met since 2017, according to records reviewed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and shared with reporting partner Finance Uncovered.”

Wall Street Journal: Google, Meta and Others May Soon Need to Disclose Pay on California Job Listings . “California may soon require nearly all employers hiring in the state to begin listing pay on job postings, a move that could affect many of the biggest U.S. companies. A bill passed by the California legislature mandates that all organizations with 15 or more employees include the hourly pay or salary range on job listings in the state.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

MIT Technology Review: What does GPT-3 “know” about me? . “Large language models are trained on troves of personal data hoovered from the internet. So I wanted to know: What does it have on me?”

Analytics India: Google Just Stepped Up the Game for Text-to-Image AI. “Google’s DreamBooth takes a moderately different approach when compared to other recently released text-to-image tools like DALL-E2, Stable Diffusion, Imagen, and Midjourney by providing more control of the subject image and then guiding the diffusion model using text based inputs.” Good afternoon, Internet…

September 1, 2022 at 05:28PM
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Wednesday, August 31, 2022

USPTO Virtual Events, Tweet Tiles, Searching Streaming Media, More: Wednesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, August 31, 2022

USPTO Virtual Events, Tweet Tiles, Searching Streaming Media, More: Wednesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, August 31, 2022
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EVENTS

USPTO: Quarterly series introducing intellectual property beginning this week in Spanish and English. “Are you curious about intellectual property (IP) and want to learn more? This free United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) virtual series, Introduction to intellectual property, is offered quarterly and begins again with Intellectual property fundamentals on August 30 at 2 p.m. ET. In addition to the series in English, there is a corresponding series in Spanish, Introducción a la propiedad intelectual.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

NiemanLab: Twitter is letting some news publishers post customizable cards. “Have you noticed that some news article cards on Twitter are looking a little different lately? The social media company rolled out Tweet Tiles — ‘a new, customizable way to expand the creative surface area of a Tweet’ — to three news publishers last week, a Twitter spokesperson confirmed.”

USEFUL STUFF

ZDNet: Want to search across all of your streaming channels? These two apps can help . “Fortunately for us, there are some half-a-dozen applications and services that make it possible to easily search across over 100 streaming channels for our favorite TV shows and movies. That said, in my experience, only two of them, JustWatch and Reelgood, are good and mature enough to deserve your TV-watching time.”

Search Engine Journal: 16 Places To Create A Free Brand Logo. “Since a logo is a visual representation of a company’s image and can be the first thing a potential customer sees, it’s important to get it right. That way, people can get a clear picture of the brand identity from the image you create. When creating a logo, it’s essential to consider several things, such as color scheme, font style, and overall design. So, here we’ve put together some of the best sites to help you get your logo ready for your brand.”

For a given value of “Useful”. PC World: 14 popular Google Doodle games you can still play . “Most Google Doodles revolve around art that transforms the iconic search engine’s logo to celebrate anniversaries and special events, or to raise awareness of ongoing issues, like recent ones that shone a spotlight on Route 66 and Teacher Appreciation Day. But a few times each year, the Google Doodle team goes one step further and cranks out some high-quality games that take the drawings to another level.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

Washington Post: ‘Mutilated by rats,’ burned, trashed: 200 years of presidential papers lost. “Until the 1970s, former presidents could do pretty much whatever they wanted with their presidential papers. That often was a problem. Some papers ‘were purposely destroyed, while others fell victim to chance destruction,’ concluded a 1978 congressional study. ‘Others have been scattered to the four winds.'”

SECURITY & LEGAL

BBC: Nato investigates hacker sale of missile firm data. “Nato is assessing the impact of a data breach of classified military documents being sold by a hacker group online. The data includes blueprints of weapons being used by Nato allies in the Ukraine war. Criminal hackers are selling the dossiers after stealing data linked to a major European weapons maker.”

Axios: Anatomy of a text message phishing scam. “The growth of text-based phishing scams hit close to home for Axios last week when several employees got fake text messages claiming to be from company president and co-founder Roy Schwartz…. We dug into the recent campaign targeting Axios employees to learn more about how these scams operate — especially as reports about text message scams continue to outpace reports about email scams this year for the first time, per the Federal Trade Commission.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Thumbsticks: Preserving games media is as important as preserving the games themselves. “Another video game website will soon disappear, along with nearly a decade of articles. In the digital age, more has to be done to preserve video games coverage and criticism.”

Newswise: 41% of teenagers can’t tell the difference between true and fake online health messages . “A new study has found that teenagers have a hard time discerning between fake and true health messages. Only 48% of the participants trusted accurate health messages (without editorial elements) more than fake ones. Meanwhile, 41% considered fake and true neutral messages equally trustworthy and 11% considered true neutral health messages less trustworthy than fake health messages.” Good afternoon, Internet…

September 1, 2022 at 12:16AM
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North Carolina Cold Cases, LinkedIn, YouTube, More: Wednesday ResearchBuzz, August 31, 2022

North Carolina Cold Cases, LinkedIn, YouTube, More: Wednesday ResearchBuzz, August 31, 2022
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NEW RESOURCES

Carolina Public Press: As NC’s decades-old rape kits are tested, new DNA evidence emerges. “After having the largest backlog of untested kits in the entire country, North Carolina is methodically working through those kits — more than 16,000 of them…. The DNA from another 1,481 kits has already been uploaded to CODIS [Combined DNA Index System], awaiting a hit from a possibly unknown person. That information is now displayed publicly, including down to the law enforcement agency level, on a new website.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Search Engine Journal: LinkedIn Improves Search Results For Posts. “Search results for posts were previously served by two indexes – one for posts in LinkedIn’s main feed and one for articles. The complex nature made it difficult to build upon, so LinkedIn decided to decouple the two indexes. LinkedIn reveals the entire process in excruciating detail in a new blog post.”

CNBC: YouTube appoints Mary Ellen Coe as Chief Business Officer, following departure of Robert Kyncl. “Long-time YouTube executive Robert Kyncl announced on Monday he’s departing the dominant social video platform in the U.S. after more than 12 years at the company. Google President of global customer solutions Mary Ellen Coe will take over the role of Chief Business Officer at YouTube starting in early October, the company confirmed. Kyncl will temporarily stay at YouTube to help with the transition.”

USEFUL STUFF

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: How to navigate and search ICIJ’s Offshore Leaks Database. “In the first installment of this multi-part video series, ICIJ’s training manager Jelena Cosic walks through the basics of how to search through more than 800,000 offshore entities from the Pandora Papers, Panama Papers and more.”

MakeUseOf: 7 Best YouTube Curators to Find Videos, Movies, and Documentaries Worth Watching. “Finding quality videos on YouTube has become a recurring joke these days, and let’s not even get started on the irrelevant recommendations that YouTube serves you. But that’s why we need video curators. These are the people (or algorithms) that crawl the deep recesses of YouTube’s library to find videos worth watching so that you can spend more time watching and less time searching.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

Washington Post: Twitter labeled factual information about covid-19 as misinformation. “Many of the tweets have since had the misinformation labels removed, and the suspended accounts have been restored. But the episode has shaken many scientific and medical professionals, who say Twitter is a key way they try to publicize the continuing risk of covid to a population that has grown weary of more than two years of shifting claims about the illness.”

Bard College: Bard Graduate Center Faculty Member Aaron Glass Awarded $150,000 NEH Grant to Support Enhanced Accessibility for the Digital Publication of Indigenous Cultural Heritage Materials. “Bard Graduate Center Associate Professor Aaron Glass has been awarded a $150,000 Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) to support his collaborative project to create a critical, annotated, digitized edition of anthropologist Franz Boas’s landmark 1897 monograph on the Kwakwaka’wakw culture of the Pacific Northwest Coast.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

New York Times: Remote Scan of Student’s Room Before Test Violated His Privacy, Judge Rules. “A federal judge said Cleveland State University violated the Fourth Amendment when it used software to scan a student’s bedroom, a practice that has grown during the Covid-19 pandemic.”

Bleeping Computer: FBI: Hackers increasingly exploit DeFi bugs to steal cryptocurrency. “The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning investors that cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting security vulnerabilities in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) platforms to steal cryptocurrency. ‘The FBI has observed cyber criminals exploiting vulnerabilities in the smart contracts governing DeFi platforms to steal investors’ cryptocurrency,’ the federal law enforcement agency said.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

New York Times: The Animal Translators. “Machine-learning systems, which use algorithms to detect patterns in large collections of data, have excelled at analyzing human language, giving rise to voice assistants that recognize speech, transcription software that converts speech to text and digital tools that translate between human languages. In recent years, scientists have begun deploying this technology to decode animal communication, using machine-learning algorithms to identify when squeaking mice are stressed or why fruit bats are shouting.”

Science Daily: Underwater messaging app for smartphones. “Researchers have developed AquaApp, a mobile app for acoustic-based communication and networking underwater that can be used with existing devices such as smartphones and smartwatches.”

OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL

How-To Geek: “An Intense Hobby”: Meet the People Making New Retro Games. “It’s easy to think that consoles like the original NES, Sega Mega Drive, or even the Atari are nothing more than museum pieces, mere footnotes in video gaming history. However, there’s plenty of interest in retro gaming: And people are even making new games for these old consoles. Nowhere was this clearer than at Gamescom 2022 in Cologne, Germany, where a decent-sized section of a massive hall was dedicated to retro gaming.” Good morning, Internet…

August 31, 2022 at 05:29PM
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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Ohio Naloxone, Wolfram Arithmetic, OpenSea, More: Tuesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, August 30, 2022

Ohio Naloxone, Wolfram Arithmetic, OpenSea, More: Tuesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, August 30, 2022
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NEW RESOURCES

WDTN: New website provides free naloxone to Ohio residents. “A new website will provide Ohioans with a simplified process for accessing naloxone, a lifesaving drug used in the event of an opioid overdose…. The new website makes requesting naloxone possible for all Ohioans, whether they are a first responder, community member or distribution site and enhances access to prevention and treatment information.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Wolfram: Wolfram|Alpha Pro Teaches Step-by-Step Arithmetic for All Grade Levels. “Now, Wolfram|Alpha Pro returns step-by-step solutions for long addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems, including ones involving decimals or negative numbers. We have also developed detailed step-by-step solutions for long division of whole numbers and negative numbers as well as—for the high-school level—multiplication and division of polynomials.”

Fortune: Trading volume on top NFT marketplace OpenSea down 99% since May. “What was once a red-hot market fueled by FOMO during the crypto bull market of 2021 is now just a trickle, with trading volume on the most popular NFT marketplace, OpenSea, down 99% in just under four months. On May 1, OpenSea processed a record $2.7 billion in NFT transactions, but on Sunday the marketplace recorded just $9.34 million worth, according to data compiled by DappRadar.”

USEFUL STUFF

WIRED: The Best RSS Feed Readers for Streamlining the Internet. “RSS has been around awhile now, so there are a lot of very good RSS readers out there. Most of them feature built-in search and suggestions, so you don’t have to go hunting for feeds yourself. You just might discover some cool new sites to read. I’ve been using RSS for more than a decade and recently spent a few months trying almost a dozen RSS reader services. The picks below are the best RSS readers available.” I use both NewsBlur and Feedly daily, and recommend them both.

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

On the Wight: Did someone press the button early? Google Maps showing many closed Isle of Wight roads (updated). “As you can see from our screen grabs above and below and from Dan’s short video below it almost looks as though someone has accidentally turned on the rolling road closures two weeks early for the Tour of Britain cycle race – due to take place next Sunday.”

Voice of America: VOA Greek Service Legacy Finds Home at City University of New York. “The physical and digital archive of the Greek broadcasting service of the Voice of America, one of the original language services of the network, is now donated to the Hellenic American Project (HAP), a nonprofit program under the Department of Sociology of Queens College in the City University of New York.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

WIRED: Nothing Is Protecting Child Influencers From Exploitation. “Children can now enter the public gaze of millions with as little as their first ultrasound scan. As early as 2010, studies indicated that a quarter of children had an online presence before their birth, curated by expectant parents. There is something deeply Kafkaesque about a child’s day-to-day existence becoming a vessel for logo-embroidered merch and licensing contracts. But whilst Jackie Coogan may have been able to take back at least a fraction of the money made from peanut butter tins with his face on them, the prospects seem bleak for today’s hashtag babies.”

The Verge: Snap agrees to $35 million settlement over privacy lawsuit . “Snapchat users in Illinois who used filters or lenses may be eligible for a payout. Illinois reached a $35 million settlement with Snap this month, according to the Chicago Tribune, in a class action lawsuit over how user data was collected.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

University of New South Wales: Unlocking the secret to private messaging apps. “Whether you’re sharing confidential information or swapping movie ideas with a friend, people are turning to private messaging apps that offer end-to-end encryption to protect the contents of their conversations. When data is shared over the internet, it often traverses a series of networks to reach its destination. Apps such as WhatsApp, owned by social media giant Meta (formerly Facebook), provide a level of privacy that even challenges Government agencies from accessing encrypted conversations.”

SmartCompany: Google AI spots 20,000 undeclared pools in $14 million tax windfall for French government. “Artificial intelligence (AI) software developed by Google has found thousands of undeclared swimming pools in the backyards of France, resulting in the owners of those pools being slugged a hefty tax bill totalling $14.5 million.” Good afternoon, Internet…

August 31, 2022 at 12:52AM
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