The Garda Review, International Women’s Day, DuckDuckGo, More: Friday ResearchBuzz, March 10, 2023

The Garda Review, International Women’s Day, DuckDuckGo, More: Friday ResearchBuzz, March 10, 2023
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NEW RESOURCES

University of Limerick: ‘20th century gems’: University of Limerick and An Garda Síochána launch new digitised archive . “The Garda Review was established in 1923, a year after the force originated. It is now the longest established magazine in Ireland. The digitised collection covers 1923-1932, so roughly the first decade of the State and includes early accounts of policing and policing policy, divisional news and movements and transfers of individual Garda, Irish language articles and sporting accounts.”

Google Blog: Uncovering overlooked stories of women. “For International Women’s Day, Google Arts & Culture poses that question: Where are the women? This year we’ve collaborated with more than 60 renowned institutions, including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the U.S. National Museum of Women in the Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art Bogotá, The J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Archivo General de la Nación – México, to shine a light on the untold stories of women across the globe.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Bleeping Computer: DuckDuckGo launches AI-powered search query answering tool. “Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has launched the first beta version of DuckAssist, an AI-assisted feature that writes accurate summaries to answer users’ search queries.”

The Verge: Google’s One plans are getting expanded VPN access and dark web monitoring. “If you pay for a Google One plan to get extra storage or other benefits, you might be about to get some extra features. The company has announced that all One subscribers will be getting access to the VPN that used to be limited to its Premium tier and that it’s adding dark web monitoring to alert you if your sensitive information starts circulating on sites that search engines normally don’t index.”

The Verge: Musk said Twitter would open source its algorithm – then fired the people who could. “Musk has been claiming he wanted to open source Twitter’s algorithm even before he took over the social network and again when he announced his intention to acquire it in April 2022. Here we are, and nothing’s changed.” I have made the decision not to index any of the articles about EM announcing what he says will happen. Instead, I’m indexing the followup articles (when there are any).

USEFUL STUFF

ProPublica: How to Track Your Tax Refund in 2023. “You’ve figured out your deductions or credits, calculated how much you owed in taxes and successfully filed your return. If you’re sitting around wondering where your money is, you’re not alone. Lucky for you, the IRS offers several ways to track your tax return.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

Agence France-Presse: Activism Goes Viral: How scientists are using TikTok to campaign for climate change. “A growing number of scientists are using the short-form video app TikTok to increase climate change literacy, campaign for action, and combat online misinformation. Some of them have gone viral.”

University of North Carolina: Carolina Libraries acquires archive of renowned photographer Roland L. Freeman. “The collection at Wilson Library is a massive compilation of assignment and project work by Freeman from a career that spans more than fifty years of documenting Black communities, public figures and folk art and artisans. It consists of nearly 24,000 slides, 10,000 photographic prints, 400,000 negatives and 9,000 contact sheets. Also included are publications and an archive of Freeman’s papers.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

NBC News: Men on Pinterest are creating sex-themed image boards of little girls. The platform makes it easy. . “Aggregating individually innocuous images of minors into potentially sexually suggestive collections is a practice experts describe as awful, but in many cases, lawful, meaning platforms have no legal obligation to take action. Yet Pinterest isn’t just allowing this to happen on its website — its recommendation engine is making it easy.”

Telegraph India: Google pages of hill hotels defaced for fraud. “Google pages of many Darjeeling hotels, including premier properties, have been compromised en bloc in such a way that customers booking rooms are directed to pay advance amounts to bank accounts which don’t belong to the owners of the accommodations. The widespread tampering with the Google pages comes at a time there is a rush to book hotel rooms for the upcoming tourism season.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Stars and Stripes: Suffering through a state of social media mediocrity. “Thirteen years ago, when I posted my first photo-less status update on Facebook, typing a few words sufficed for posting. But today, social media posts must tell a compelling, cool, hilarious, heart-warming, informative or tear-jerking tale, complete with a collage of photographs — or better yet, a well-edited video set to music — and include captioning that drives engagement without rendering you unfollowed, unfriended or, worse yet, muted. And that’s just on Facebook.”

University of Georgia: People don’t know what a preprint is. Here’s why that matters. . “The study found the majority of readers have little to no understanding of what a preprint actually is. That lack of understanding could lead to public distrust in science since findings and how those findings are described can change between the preprint phase and publication following peer review. Frequent reporting of scientific preprints could also hurt trust in news.” Good morning, Internet…

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March 10, 2023 at 06:31PM
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Ackland Art Museum, East Village Eye, Washington Telehealth, More: Thursday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, March 8, 2023

Ackland Art Museum, East Village Eye, Washington Telehealth, More: Thursday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, March 8, 2023
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I’m getting faster! This 58-second video only took me four hours: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NX_AwNeri_E

NEW RESOURCES

Codart: Ackland Art Museum Launches Website Entirely Dedicated to a Collection of Drawings. “In 2017, UNC alumnus Dr. Sheldon Peck and his wife Dr. Leena Peck gave the Ackland Art Museum their collection of seventeenth and eighteenth-century Dutch and Flemish drawings, along with an endowment to support a new curatorial position, future art acquisitions, exhibitions, educational materials, and public programs. Central to their vision was a robust website on the leading edge of the digital humanities, that would make possible a deep and significant virtual experience of the art in the collection.”

The Village Sun: East Village Eye archive sees its way to N.Y.P.L.. “Founded by Leonard Abrams, its publisher and editor, ‘The Eye’ put out 73 issues from 1979 through 1987. It mainly focused on local topics, particularly art, music, politics and gentrification.” A complete digital archive is freely available.

Washington State Department of Health: Telehealth sexual and reproductive health care services now available in Washington. “The new DOH webpage and tool offers information about 37 clinics in the Washington State Sexual and Reproductive Health Network that provide telehealth appointments. Available telehealth services include birth control refills, pregnancy options counseling, emergency contraceptives, and screenings for sexually transmitted infections.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Engadget: Microsoft says Bing has crossed 100 million daily active users. “In addition to seeing a boost in numbers, Microsoft is also apparently enjoying a growth in engagement, with more people conducting more searches. The company credits two factors for that particular victory, the first being Edge’s growth in usage, most likely aided by the addition of Bing’s chat AI as a new feature.” Don’t look at me, I’m still there for the RSS feeds.

Gizmodo: AI Seinfeld Show ‘Nothing, Forever’ Gets Un-Cancelled. “Nothing, Forever, the AI-generated and Seinfeld-inspired Twitch stream that first launched in December 2022, is coming back online. The company behind the surreal vortex of animated 90’s New York nostalgia, Mismatch Media, announced the show’s return Tuesday night on Twitter.” Almost hypnotically weird.

USEFUL STUFF

Hongkiat: 5 Best Free Realistic Text-to-Speech Tools. “The web is brimming with text-to-speech tools, but most of the good ones (with realistic/ natural speech) aren’t free. Nevertheless, we’ve stumbled upon some tools that are free and offer high-quality output.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

GamesIndustry: Games tackle the villainy of propaganda. “This is also a time when we’re seeing more games that tackle disinformation, often in much the same way as Not For Broadcast: through satire and the practice of media manipulation. Last year, Tilt Games released Cat Park, the latest in its series of games about social media manipulation. Cat Park is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, and is specifically designed to teach players how disinformation works and how to spot fake news.”

NPR: From TV to Telegram to TikTok, Moldova is being flooded with Russian propaganda. “As Russia’s war in Ukraine drags on, neighboring Moldova is feeling the consequences. Civil society groups and social media researchers say Russia is ramping up its efforts to destabilize the former Soviet state, a candidate for European Union membership, through propaganda and false information.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Motherboard: ‘Horribly Unethical’: Startup Experimented on Suicidal Teens on Social Media With Chatbot. “Koko, a mental health nonprofit, found at-risk teens on platforms like Facebook and Tumblr, then tested an unproven intervention on them without obtaining informed consent.”

University of Waterloo: Computer scientists paint a picture of six decades of movies. “From the sepia tones of a Coen brothers film set in the Depression-era Dust Bowl to a child’s red coat in Schindler’s List, filmmakers have long known the power of colour in movies. Now, computer scientists have analyzed 60 years of films to paint a picture of the past six decades in film.” Good afternoon, Internet…

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March 10, 2023 at 01:17AM
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Inflation Reduction Act, Michigan Opioid Overdoses, WordPress, More: Thursday ResearchBuzz, March 8, 2023

Inflation Reduction Act, Michigan Opioid Overdoses, WordPress, More: Thursday ResearchBuzz, March 8, 2023
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NEW RESOURCES

Columbia Climate School: New Website Tracks Inflation Reduction Act’s Climate Provisions. “Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund unveiled a new website today to track implementation of the climate change-related provisions in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. The website will also provide users with valuable information about the programs, protections, incentives, and tax credits offered through this historic legislation.”

CBS Detroit: State health officials launch smartphone app to help reduce opioid overdoses. “The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is launching a smartphone app to help Michigan residents reduce opioid harm. The OpiRescue app is designed to help anyone prevent opioid misuse and reduce overdose deaths by providing education, prevention and tracking of overdose reversals.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

WordPress: A New Home for WordPress.com Courses. “We’re excited to announce that our WordPress.com courses are now available at wordpress.com/learn, with no registration or purchase needed…. This learning hub also provides quick access to our live webinars (and replays) where you can join us for demonstrations, instructions, and Q&As.”

WP Tavern: Jetpack 11.9 Adds Sharing Button for Mastodon, Updates Stats Dashboard Design. “Jetpack 11.9 was released this week with support for sharing posts to Mastodon. The new button allows readers to click an icon to launch a sharing window that will ask the user to enter the full URL of the Mastodon instance where they want to share the post.” Stopped and immediately added Mastodon sharing buttons to ResearchBuzz, ResearchBuzz Firehose, and Search Gizmos.

Search Engine Land: Google launches new Google Trends portal. “Google has launched a new look and feel for the Google Trends portal. This update brings a new look, with real-time trends on the home page, updated hourly with links directly to publishers’ news articles, the company announced.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

Euronews: The EU tells Twitter to hire more human content moderators amid concerns of rise of illegal content. “The European Union and Twitter boss Elon Musk are currently butting heads over the social media giant’s content moderation policies. According to the Financial Times, EU regulators have asked Musk to hire more people to fact-check and review illegal content and disinformation.”

Euroweekly: National Library of Spain receives 42,000 records from the RNE. “SPAIN’s national library (BNE) is delighted by a donation of 42,000 vinyls from the National Radio of Spain (RNE). The haul includes 14,000 LPs and 28,000 singles, to which is added a smaller batch of CDs.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Yonhap News Agency: Google, Meta file lawsuit against S. Korean data protection watchdog’s ruling . “Google and Meta Platforms have filed a lawsuit against a ruling by the South Korean data protection watchdog to fine the global tech giants for illegally collecting personal data here, industry sources said Monday.”

Washington Post: They thought loved ones were calling for help. It was an AI scam. . “Technology is making it easier and cheaper for bad actors to mimic voices, convincing people, often the elderly, that their loved ones are in distress. In 2022, impostor scams were the second most popular racket in America, with over 36,000 reports of people being swindled by those pretending to be friends and family, according to data from the Federal Trade Commission.”

Colorado Sun: Social media apps have made buying illegal drugs about as convenient as ordering pizza, Colorado AG says. “The 182-page report outlined the ways in which drug dealers use aggressive marketing tactics to sell illegal drugs online, often targeting younger customers, and urged social media platforms and state legislators to enforce new policies to crack down on the sales.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

University of Michigan: Online content moderators likely to experience burnout, U-M study suggests. “A study by University of Michigan School of Information researchers led by doctoral candidate Angela Schöpke-Gonzalez says volunteer content moderators, or VCMs, experience burnout stemming from interpersonal conflict between moderators, time constraints and daily exposure to toxic online behavior.”

WIRED: Billionaires Are A Security Threat. “In the field of information security, there’s a kind of vulnerability known as the evil maid attack whereby an untrusted party gains physical access to important hardware, such as the housekeeping staff coming into your hotel room when you’ve left your laptop unattended, thereby compromising it. We have here a new analog, just as capable of wrecking systems and leaking data. Call it the ‘evil billionaire attack’ if you’d like.” Good morning, Internet…

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March 9, 2023 at 06:31PM
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Bronx Jewish History Project, Google I/O 2023, Chatbot Avatars, More: Wednesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, March 8, 2023

Bronx Jewish History Project, Google I/O 2023, Chatbot Avatars, More: Wednesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, March 8, 2023
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I’m sorry, obviously running VERY late today. I’m taking another crack at doing short videos about my Search Gizmos. I like this effort better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXfAaWRi2kY .

NEW RESOURCES

Fordham University: Center for Jewish Studies Launches Bronx Jewish History Project . “In the first half of the 20th century, the Bronx was home to hundreds of thousands of Jewish residents, many of whom had immigrated with their families in the late 1800s and early 1900s from Europe. More than 600,000 Jewish people lived in the borough in the late 1940s, but by 2003, just about 45,000 were left, according to a 2002 Jewish Community Study by UJA-Federation.”

EVENTS

Google Blog: Let’s go. It’s Google I/O 2023. “Google I/O is back and you’re invited to join us online May 10! Learn about Google’s latest solutions, products, and technologies for developers, that help unlock your creativity and simplify your development workflow.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

TechCrunch: D-ID’s new web app gives a face and voice to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. “D-ID, the Israeli startup behind Deep Nostalgia, announced today that it’s launching the beta version of its new web app that allows users to talk face-to-face with photorealistic AI. The web app, called chat.D-ID, combines D-ID’s text-to-video streaming technology with OpenAI’s ChatGPT to make conversations with AI more accessible.”

Engadget: YouTube reverses course on controversial swearing and monetization policy. “The new profanity rules YouTube introduced late last year are being relaxed — with an update outlining a less restrictive policy that will allow the use of moderate and strong profanity to be used without risking demonetization.” #FreeGrandmaPottymouth

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

Harvard Gazette: HBCU Library Alliance and Harvard team up to expand access to Black history. “On Wednesday, the HBCU Library Alliance and Harvard Library announced a project to sustain and deepen capacity for the digitization, discovery, and preservation of African American history collections held in HBCU libraries and archives across the U.S.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Asahi Shimbun: GaaSyy refuses to appear in Diet to apologize, risking expulsion. “Yoshikazu Higashitani, a YouTuber-turned-lawmaker known online as ‘GaaSyy,’ has informed his secretary he will not attend the March 8 plenary session of the Diet, as ordered by the Upper House’s disciplinary committee, to apologize for failing to appear for any parliamentary proceedings.”

Rolling Stone: Twitter Bots Are Promising Cheap Guns to Anyone Using the N-Word. “When Elon Musk acquired Twitter, he made it clear that eradicating spam bots was a top priority. But his strategies on that front have produced, at best, mixed results. Moreover, in recent months, some users have been plagued by a type of spam that directly violates Twitter policy: automated replies from accounts offering guns for sale.”

Bleeping Computer: FBI investigates data breach impacting U.S. House members and staff. “The FBI is investigating a data breach affecting U.S. House of Representatives members and staff after their account and sensitive personal information was stolen from DC Health Link’s servers.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

The Conversation: The retention problem: Women are going into tech but are also being driven out. “In seeking answers to this retention problem of the tech industry, our research found that women’s negative experiences range from minor to severe harassment, sexism, discrimination and misogyny to explicit death threats. Their expertise is challenged, their contributions are not well-received and their roles are diminished.”

Ars Technica: Google’s PaLM-E is a generalist robot brain that takes commands. “On Monday, a group of AI researchers from Google and the Technical University of Berlin unveiled PaLM-E, a multimodal embodied visual-language model (VLM) with 562 billion parameters that integrates vision and language for robotic control. They claim it is the largest VLM ever developed and that it can perform a variety of tasks without the need for retraining.” Good evening, Internet…

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March 9, 2023 at 05:19AM
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Visit Native California, Ohio Overdose Dashboards, Call Reports Datasets, More: Wednesday ResearchBuzz, March 8, 2023

Visit Native California, Ohio Overdose Dashboards, Call Reports Datasets, More: Wednesday ResearchBuzz, March 8, 2023
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NEW RESOURCES

Condé Nast Traveler: Native California, a Just-Launched Online Database, Connects Travelers to the State’s Indigenous Heritage. “Launching this week, Visit Native California is an online hub from the state’s tourism bureau, intended to help local residents as well as visitors plan trips to places linked to the original occupants of the area. It’s one of the first state-led guides of this nature.”

State of Ohio: Ohio Launches New Data Dashboards to Report Overdose, Substance-Use Measures. “Ohio Governor Mike DeWine today announced that the state has launched new data dashboards to better track and report data on overdose deaths and other substance-use related measures for all 88 Ohio counties.”

Federal Reserve Bank of New York: Insights from Newly Digitized Banking Data, 1867-1904. “Call reports—regulatory filings in which commercial banks report their assets, liabilities, income, and other information—are one of the most-used data sources in banking and finance. Though call reports were collected as far back as 1867, the underlying data are only easily accessible for the recent past: the mid-1980s onward in the case of the FDIC’s FFIEC call reports. To help researchers look farther back in time, we’ve begun creating a complete digital record of this ‘missing’ call report data.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Search Engine Roundtable: Google Search Tests More To Ask & Other Alternatives Of People Also Ask?. “Google may be testing replacing the ‘people also ask’ with a ‘more to ask’ box. Google is also testing ‘People are also asking’ and ‘Others want to know’ too, instead of people also ask. I am unsure if this is just a headline change or if there is any functional difference between the ‘more to ask’ versus ‘people also ask’ but it doesn’t seem to be.”

The Verge: Twitter just let its privacy- and security-protecting Tor service expire. “Twitter has allowed the certificate for its Tor onion site to expire, effectively killing off a privacy- and speech-protecting service that it introduced last year.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

CNN: Elon Musk publicly mocks Twitter worker with disability who is unsure whether he’s been laid off. “Elon Musk publicly scoffed at a Twitter employee’s uncertainty about whether he had been laid off in a recent round of cuts and spoke dismissively of the employee’s disability in a series of tweets Monday night. It’s the latest example of the billionaire openly antagonizing his company’s current and former staffers.”

Daily Beast: How This Rookie Congressman Got TikTok Famous. “Since that first viral post, [Congressman Jeff] Jackson has attracted nearly 500,000 followers on TikTok, and his plainspoken, no-frills videos careen through the app’s algorithm before plopping into the feeds of somewhere between 1 and 3 million people on any given day.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

SecurityWeek: Pre-Deepfake Campaign Targets Putin Critics. “According to a report from Proofpoint, TA499 targets US and European politicians, and leading businessmen and celebrities who have spoken out against Putin’s invasion. The primary purpose is to persuade the victims to take part in phone calls or video chats from which pro-Putin snippets can be elicited and published – thereby discrediting any previous anti-Putin comments.”

Wall Street Journal: FTC Twitter Investigation Sought Elon Musk’s Internal Communications, Journalist Names. “The Federal Trade Commission has demanded Twitter Inc. turn over internal communications related to owner Elon Musk, as well as detailed information about layoffs—citing concerns that staff reductions could compromise the company’s ability to protect users, documents viewed by the Wall Street Journal show.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Notre Dame News: ‘Lyft’ vs. ‘Lift’: Consumers are less likely to support brands with unconventional spellings, study shows . “New research from the University of Notre Dame finds that in general, consumers are less likely to support uniquely spelled unfamiliar brands, compared with those that use the conventional spelling of the same word… However, the study finds there is no backfire effect when a company’s motive for selecting a uniquely spelled name is perceived as sincere.”

Cornell Chronicle: AI- or human-written language? Assumptions mislead. “Human assumptions regarding language usage can lead to flawed judgments of whether language was AI- or human-generated, Cornell Tech and Stanford researchers found in a series of experiments.”

Mercer University: Federal laws needed to protect users from confusing privacy policies, research shows. “Many companies use tactics that intentionally discourage users from reading and understanding what they’re agreeing to, ultimately resulting in users giving broad access to their personal information, according to a recent paper by a Mercer University professor and alumnus. Federal regulations are needed to address the problems of these unfair contracts, they concluded.” Good morning, Internet…

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March 8, 2023 at 06:32PM
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Tennessee Substance Abuse Treatment, Connecticut Open Data, Bing Chat, More: Tuesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, March 7, 2023

Tennessee Substance Abuse Treatment, Connecticut Open Data, Bing Chat, More: Tuesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, March 7, 2023
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NEW RESOURCES

Tennessee Department of Health: New Online Resource Connects Tennesseans In Substance-Use Crisis To local Treatment Services. “FindHelpNowTN.org guides individuals to location-based openings and services available at substance use treatment facilities. Site users can search facility listings using up to 60 different features such as the type of treatment needed, insurance programs, payment methods and availability of wrap-around services.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

State of Connecticut: Governor Lamont Commemorates International Open Data Day 2023. “Governor Ned Lamont is marking International Open Data Day, which is celebrated this year on March 5, 2023, by recognizing the transparency and openness of Connecticut’s state government and highlighting recent enhancements that increase data available for the public’s use on the state’s Open Data portal, data.ct.gov.”

Ars Technica: AI-powered Bing Chat gains three distinct personalities. “On Wednesday, Microsoft employee Mike Davidson announced that the company has rolled out three distinct personality styles for its experimental AI-powered Bing Chat bot: Creative, Balanced, or Precise. Microsoft has been testing the feature since February 24 with a limited set of users. Switching between modes produces different results that shift its balance between accuracy and creativity.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

From ANSAmed, and translated from Italian (an English version is available but the formatting is really bad): Project to digitize Italian periodicals in Egypt. “A project was presented in Cairo which, through the digitization of tens of thousands of pages, aims to preserve and make available to the public the historic collection of printed periodicals by the end of the year in Egypt in the Italian language in almost 50 years, between the end of the 19th century and the pre-war period.”

Auto Evolution: I Used Google Maps and Waze for a Two-Hour Drive and the Results Are Not Surprising. “Opinions are still divided on whether Waze is better than Google Maps, or the other way around, so I decided to use both for a 2-hour drive. The purpose of the test was to determine the accuracy of the ETA but also to see which app makes the journey overall more predictable.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

NBC News: 3,000 Asians in Texas had their driver’s licenses sent to a criminal group. They want answers.. “Asian Americans in Texas are angered after officials revealed this week that thousands of Asians statewide may be impacted by identity theft orchestrated through a website that involved using personal information to answer security questions.”

TechCrunch: Hackers steal gun owners’ data from firearm auction website. “Hackers breached a website that allows people to buy and sell guns, exposing the identities of its users, TechCrunch has learned. The breach exposed reams of sensitive personal data for more than 550,000 users, including customers’ full names, home addresses, email addresses, plaintext passwords and telephone numbers. Also, the stolen data allegedly makes it possible to link a particular person with the sale or purchase of a specific weapon.”

Connexion: French MPs back social media age restrictions for teenagers. “French MPs have backed a bill to reinforce a minimum ‘digital age’ of 15 for new accounts on prominent social media platforms. Those under this age will require parental confirmation to access apps such as TikTok and Snapchat.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

University of British Columbia: ‘Greed is good’ for likes and retweets if you’re a U.S. senator. “The researchers from UBC’s department of psychology analyzed every tweet posted by U.S. senators from early 2013 to late 2021—a total of 861,104 tweets from 140 senators. The researchers were looking specifically for communication about greed, so they could see if it correlates with more likes and retweets. As it turns out, it does.”

The Guardian: Unlocking the stories behind the shorthand. “The largest part of the collection was made up of reporter’s notebooks, chiefly written in shorthand. Sadly, a combined decade and a half as archivists in a newspaper archive had left us none the wiser when it came to reading this. When we managed to secure a precious few minutes of help from some of the Guardian’s journalists, we found out that this was Pitman New Era shorthand, not widely taught in the UK since the 1970s.” Good afternoon, Internet..

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March 8, 2023 at 01:57AM
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Family Airline Seating, Royal Astronomical Society, Twitter, More: Tuesday ResearchBuzz, March 7, 2023

Family Airline Seating, Royal Astronomical Society, Twitter, More: Tuesday ResearchBuzz, March 7, 2023
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NEW RESOURCES

CBS: DOT tool shows which airlines let families sit together for free. “The Transportation Department on Monday debuted a new dashboard that shows families which airlines guarantee they can sit together without paying extra fees, as the Biden Administration takes steps to crack down on so-called ‘junk fees.'”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Royal Astronomical Society: Royal Astronomical Society announces all journals to publish as open access from 2024. “The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) has today announced that all journals published by the Society will be Open Access (OA) from January 2024. This move will enable everyone in the global community to have free, immediate, and unrestricted access to the high-quality research published in the portfolio of RAS journals.”

BBC: Twitter insiders: We can’t protect users from trolling under Musk. “Twitter insiders have told the BBC that the company is no longer able to protect users from trolling, state-co-ordinated disinformation and child sexual exploitation, following lay-offs and changes under owner Elon Musk.”

USEFUL STUFF

Craig Silverman / Digital Investigations: Getting the most out of the Wayback Machine. “Roughly a year ago, the Wayback Machine Chrome extension got a major update. The new version has useful customization features and the ability to connect it to your personal Wayback Machine account, making it an even more essential tool for journalists and investigators.”

MIT Technology Review: How to log off. “In search of ways to cut down on aimless time online, I went to talk to some experts about how to forge a healthier, happier relationship with my devices and the internet. Here’s my mini-guide on how to log off.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

Associated Press: Thousands of pro-Trump bots are attacking DeSantis, Haley. “Over the past 11 months, someone created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts — perhaps hundreds of thousands of them — to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump.”

CNN: Twitter hit with one of the biggest outages since Elon Musk took over. “Twitter’s website was inaccessible for many users on Monday while others reported issues seeing photos and clicking through links in the app, marking one of the most wide-ranging service disruptions to date under new owner Elon Musk.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

The Markup: Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale on Data About You. “When you use supermarket discount cards, you are sharing much more than what is in your cart—and grocery chains like Kroger are reaping huge profits selling this data to brands and advertisers.”

Times of India: Government has new guidelines for social media influencers influencers and celebrity brand ambassadors. “As per the guidelines, the endorsements must be made in simple and clear language. The guidelines also say that individuals must not endorse any product or service that they have not personally used or experienced.”

CT News Junkie: Towns Try Again to Shift Legal Notices to Their Websites. “Municipal leaders in Connecticut resumed on Friday a near-annual push to repeal a long-standing requirement that they publish legal notices in local newspapers and instead allow such notifications to be made on municipal websites.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

The Conversation: More than just risk: LGBTQIA+ young people use social media to sustain and make sense of family relationships. “Social media offers new opportunities to be visible, and many people have shared their celebrations of Pride during this time. However, not everyone. Our new research shows that LGBTQIA+ young people are deciding what to post on social media sites with their families in mind, to foster and maintain ties with them.”

Garbage Day: I Gave Into The New Twitter Algorithm And I Went Way Too Viral. “I would put out links to Garbage Day, they would get like 5-10 retweets (if that), and I had sort of accepted that my time using the site regularly was over. But as I was lurking on the app, my very sick and compulsive content-making brain started to turn on and I began to slowly get how the site worked now. So I finally decided to put my theory to the test and it worked both times.” Laughing a little at him getting “only” 5-10 retweets. Good morning, Internet…

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