Flemish Art Scholarship, Twitter, Google Maps, More: Friday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, May 19, 2023

Flemish Art Scholarship, Twitter, Google Maps, More: Friday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, May 19, 2023
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NEW RESOURCES

CODART: Documents, Videos, and Aftermovie of CODART 24 Now Online. “From 12 to 14 March 2023, the CODART 24 congress took place in Antwerp. The theme of CODART 24 was Flemish Art: Local and Global. In partnership with the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA), CODART organized two congress days that addressed the impact of Flemish art on museums worldwide. In addition, excursions and in-depth study visits in and around Antwerp were an important part of the program. A list of participants, the complete congress folder, the network document, and the slides of the CODART slide show are now available for downloading on our website.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Jetpack Blog: The End of Twitter Auto-Sharing. “It took a few weeks, but Twitter finally shut off our API access. Though we were in limbo for a bit, we can now confirm that our services have been disconnected and Twitter is no longer part of Jetpack Social.”

Evening Standard: Google Maps makes wheelchair accessibility information visible to everyone. “Google Maps provides wheelchair accessibility information for more than 40 million places worldwide, including public transport, pubs and restaurants…. However, this wealth of information was previously locked behind filters and opt-in settings. Google is changing that today by making it visible to everyone by default.”

Associated Press: False claims of a stolen election thrive unchecked on Twitter even as Musk promises otherwise. “In an interview this week, Twitter owner Elon Musk said users making false claims of stolen elections ‘will be corrected’ on the platform.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

PC Magazine: The Best Mastodon Apps for 2023. “Mastodon looks and feels like Twitter but is a beast all its own, and the death of third-party Twitter apps has driven some of those developers to the decentralized, open-source Mastodon. There are now dozens of Mastodon apps to try across numerous platforms. For this article, we tested 18 different Mastodon client applications across mobile, web, and desktop.”

Universität Zürich: Johanna Spyri and Heidi archives included in the Memory of the World Register of UNESCO. “The Johanna Spyri and Heidi archives in Zurich have been added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World International Register. The decision by the Executive Board of UNESCO acknowledges the collections’ universal importance. The University of Zurich will be working with both institutions to promote the academic study of the collections.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Bloomberg Law: Supreme Court Spares Social Media Liability Shield in Google Win. “The US Supreme Court left in place a broad liability shield for social media companies for content posted by users, insulating Twitter Inc., Facebook Inc. and Google LLC from claims that they provided assistance to Islamic State terrorists.”

Ars Technica: Malware turns home routers into proxies for Chinese state-sponsored hackers. “Researchers on Tuesday unveiled a major discovery—malicious firmware that can wrangle a wide range of residential and small office routers into a network that stealthily relays traffic to command-and-control servers maintained by Chinese state-sponsored hackers.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Science Daily: Joyful music could be a game changer for virtual reality headaches. “Cybersickness — a type of motion sickness from virtual reality experiences such as computer games — significantly reduces when joyful music is part of the immersive experience, the study found. The intensity of the nausea-related symptoms of cybersickness was also found to substantially decrease with both joyful and calming music.”

Texas A&M: Could Online Gaming Social Networks Have A Positive Impact On Mental Health?. “Informal social networks like those found in online gaming could play a key role in a person’s mental wellbeing, helping them cope with various stressors and seek formal help for conditions such as anxiety or depression.” Good afternoon, Internet…

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May 20, 2023 at 12:29AM
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Hearst Newsreels, Arizona Groundwater, Google Calendar, More: Friday ResearchBuzz, May 19, 2023

Hearst Newsreels, Arizona Groundwater, Google Calendar, More: Friday ResearchBuzz, May 19, 2023
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NEW RESOURCES

New from the UCLA Film & Television Archive: https://newsreels.net/. The Web site does not use an encryption certificate and I could not find any announcements anywhere but Facebook and Twitter, so I was not hopeful. Sounds like a great collection, though. From the front page: “In 1981, the Hearst Corporation donated its newsreel collection to the University of California. In cooperation with the UCLA Film & Television Archive, the Packard Humanities Institute is developing this website as part of a joint project to make the Hearst newsreel collection more easily accessible to the public.” Newsreels cover 1929-1967. I just watched Elizabeth Arden talk about the return of the natural waistline in 1930. Ma’am, mine never went anywhere.

USGS: New Online Maps for Exploring Groundwater Levels in Arizona. “New interactive maps that can address different questions about groundwater availability in Arizona were released today by the U.S. Geological Survey. Called the Arizona Groundwater Explorer, or AGEx, the maps provide water managers, decision-makers, and the public, information on historical, current, and change in groundwater levels in Arizona to help sustainably manage this shared resource.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

9to5 Google: New Google Docs Calendar template lets you collaborate on invites. “Following Gmail last year, Google Docs is adding a new Calendar event template that lets you ‘collaborate with others to draft calendar invites.'”

Search Engine Land: Google defines which languages translated search results will show up in Google Search. “As you may know, Google Search may translate the title link and snippet of a search result snippet for results that aren’t in the language of the search query. Google has now updated its help document it initially added a year and a half ago to include which languages this works for.”

ZDNet: Deleted Twitter messages are reappearing for some users. “Say you deleted some Twitter messages. Perhaps, you just wanted to get rid of some blunders. Maybe, you tweeted some things you regretted, or you needed to erase some tweets that would land you in a lot of trouble with your boss. Well, you’d better check your Twitter feed. Those messages you thought were long gone may have reappeared.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

University of Florida: Sharing Underground Railroad’s oral histories. “Under the guidance of the National Park Service and the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, UF staff and students in the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program will record the oral and family traditions of Underground Railroad descendants and representatives.”

Bloomberg: Google to Phase Out Cookies for 1% of Chrome Users in Early 2024. “Alphabet Inc.’s Google will phase out third-party cookies for 1% of the users of its Chrome browser in the first quarter of 2024, a key step in a plan that will upend how advertisements are targeted on websites.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

WIRED: This is catfishing on an industrial scale. “Liam is one of hundreds of freelancers employed all over the world to animate fake profiles and chat with people who have signed up for dating and hookup sites…. Often recruited into ‘customer support’ or content moderation roles, they found themselves playing roles in sophisticated operations set up to tease subscription money from lonely hearts looking for connections online.”

New York Times: Extremism Finds Fertile Ground in Chat Rooms for Gamers. “A report, released on Thursday by the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, underscored how deeply rooted misogyny, racism and other extreme ideologies have become in some video game chat rooms, and offered insight into why people playing video games or socializing online seem to be particularly susceptible to such viewpoints.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Caltech: Reviving the Past with Artificial Intelligence. “While studying John Singer Sargent’s paintings of wealthy women in 19th-century society, Jessica Helfand, a former Caltech artist in residence, had an idea: to search census records to find the identities of those women’s servants. ‘I thought, “What happens if I paint these women in the style of John Singer Sargent?”‘… To recreate a style from history, she turned to technology that, increasingly, is driving the future.”

Statistics Netherlands: CBS develops experimental database of supply chains in the Dutch economy. “Production chains play a major role in the Dutch economy, but they are vulnerable to disruptions. Statistics Netherlands (CBS) is developing a database to understand the production chains for Dutch companies. The database is still in the experimental phase, but some initial analyses have recently been published.”

OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL

Boing Boing: Uncle Apple educates kids through rap songs that slap. “When Georgia-based singer/songwriter Kyle Lucas isn’t making his own music, he’s making catchy rap songs for kids under the moniker ‘Uncle Apple.’ Inspired by his niece (who gave him the nickname) and two nephews, Kyle started creating these fun and educational songs to teach kids important stuff like washing hands, learning colors, and getting outside.” Good morning, Internet…

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May 19, 2023 at 05:31PM
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Indie Video Game Publishers, Butterflies Worldwide, NY Citizen Preparedness, More: Thursday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, May 18, 2023

Indie Video Game Publishers, Butterflies Worldwide, NY Citizen Preparedness, More: Thursday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, May 18, 2023
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NEW RESOURCES

Game World Observer: This free database of indie game publishers contains over 100 companies filtered by budget and more. “Unifiq Games founder Seyed Nasrollahi has created a free database of active indie publishers and investors. This spreadsheet should help game developers find companies they could pitch their projects to.”

WAMC: Global butterfly database launched. “The Vermont Center for Ecostudies is part of a collaborative launching a digital platform that identifies and catalogues butterflies from around the world. The Center is working with the University of Ottawa and Espace pour la vie in Montréal to launch eButterfly, a database that includes nearly 20,000 butterfly species – all currently known species on the planet.”

Governor of New York: Governor Hochul Announces New York State Citizen Preparedness Corps Trainings Now Online in Multiple Languages. “Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the New York State Citizen Preparedness Corps program is now offering online training to New Yorkers in English and with subtitles for 12 additional languages.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

9to5 Google: Google Colab adding Codey for AI-powered code generation . “At I/O 2023, Google announced Codey as a ‘family of code models built on PaLM 2’ and it’s soon coming to Google Colab. Aimed at machine learning, education, and data analysis, Google Colab lets you write and execute Python in a browser.”

USEFUL STUFF

PC Magazine: How to Securely Dispose of a Printer. “We all know it’s important to wipe our personal data before selling or discarding a computer or smartphone. Do you have to worry about privacy when getting rid of a printer?” I don’t believe in clickbait so I’ll tell you up front the answer is “it depends,” but if you’ve got a multi-function printer or one with memory you’ll appreciate this article.

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

Rolling Stone: Professor Flunks All His Students After ChatGPT Falsely Claims It Wrote Their Papers. “Texas A&M University–Commerce seniors who have already graduated were denied their diplomas because of an instructor who incorrectly used AI software to detect cheating.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

NBC News: Intel leak suspect was warned about mishandling classified info, prosecutors say. “The Air National Guardsman accused of one of the most significant intelligence leaks in years was warned repeatedly by superiors about his handling of classified information, prosecutors said Wednesday, alleging that he may have shared sensitive secrets with people outside the United States.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Pew (PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW!): How U.S. adults on Twitter use the site in the Elon Musk era . “Six-in-ten U.S. adults who have used Twitter in the past year say they have taken a break from the platform recently. And a quarter of these users say they are not likely to use Twitter a year from now, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. The Center’s new analysis of actual behavior on the site finds that the most active users before Musk’s acquisition – defined as the top 20% by tweet volume – have seen a noticeable posting decline in the months after. These users’ average number of tweets per month declined by around 25% following the acquisition.”

Farmers Weekly (New Zealand): Waste not want not in database project. “A Plant & Food Research effort to match up food processors grappling with waste byproducts with innovators seeking animal feed solutions will help keep thousands of tonnes out of landfills in coming years. The research agency is using the Canterbury region as the test bed for a database to match up processors with potential end users, with a view to eventually rolling out the project nationally.”

Motherboard: I Asked ChatGPT To Control My Life, and It Immediately Fell Apart. “After 35 years of living in relative control of my decisions, I had decided to see what would happen if I asked AI to control my life instead. Years of suboptimal performance, both personally and professionally, and numerous failed attempts at self-improvement had convinced me there had to be a better way, and I wondered if the collective knowledge hidden inside OpenAI’s hit tech product could help me.” I have rarely laughed so hard at an article. Good afternoon, Internet…

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May 19, 2023 at 12:27AM
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Crimea Military Installations, Ireland Missing Persons, Generative AI, More: Thursday ResearchBuzz, May 18, 2023

Crimea Military Installations, Ireland Missing Persons, Generative AI, More: Thursday ResearchBuzz, May 18, 2023
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NEW RESOURCES

Kyiv Independent: Investigative Stories from Ukraine: Journalists map military facilities in Russian-occupied Crimea . “Crimea.Realities, a project of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, launched an interactive map showing 233 active and frozen military facilities in Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula occupied by Russia since 2014. They include military airfields, naval bases, docks, arsenals, supply warehouses, military towns, military units, rotations of air defense locations, training grounds, and military-industrial enterprises.”

Ireland Department of Justice: Coronial data on unidentified remains is published for the first time. “The department established a Forum in July 2021 alongside An Garda Síochána’s Missing Persons Unit and Forensic Science Ireland (FSI) to facilitate information exchange on unidentified remains. The Unidentified Remains database has been compiled following an analysis of Coroners records.”

EVENTS

Berkeley News: Generative AI meets copyright law. “On Wednesday, April 26, Pamela Samuelson, Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Berkeley, delivered the final of four Distinguished Lectures on the Status and Future of AI, co-hosted by CITRIS Research Exchange and the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Group (BAIR). Samuelson’s talk explores a particularly controversial topic in the legal community: whether the texts and images generated by artificial intelligence (AI) should be protected under copyright law.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Engadget: Adobe’s new AI automates PDF accessibility tags. “The company says its Sensei-powered software will indicate the correct reading order for assistive technology, saving companies time and — more to the point — making PDFs more readable for people with disabilities. Adobe says the AI can quickly go through stockpiles of old documents lacking the proper structure.”

Associated Press: At least 80 calls to National Archives since 2010 about mishandling classified information. “The National Archives has been called more than 80 times in the past decade-plus about classified materials found in the papers of former members of Congress and other U.S. officials, according to newly released congressional testimony.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

Skift: Expedia Asked Google to Crack Down on Bait and Switch Hotel Rates. “Expedia Group told Google that the bait and switch tactics that some online travel agencies deploy in Google’s price comparison feature, Google Hotels, is ‘screwed up’ and Google made some satisfactory changes. That’s according to Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern, who discussed the issue with Skift last week, and mentioned it at the company’s partner conference in Seattle, as well.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

CNBC: Here’s what happened during OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s first congressional hearing on artificial intelligence. “Artificial intelligence regulation should not repeat the same mistakes Congress made at the dawn of the social media era, lawmakers at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on privacy and technology made clear Tuesday.”

Associated Press: Montana becomes 1st state to ban TikTok; law likely to be challenged. “Montana became the first state in the U.S. to completely ban TikTok on Wednesday when Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a measure that’s more sweeping than any other state’s attempts to curtail the social media app.”

Moscow Times: Amsterdam Court Rejects Sanctioned Yandex Founder’s Appeal Against Mansion Squatters. “Russian tech billionaire Arkady Volozh’s latest effort to evict a group of squatters from his luxurious Amsterdam mansion has been struck down in court, lawyers for the opposing parties told The Moscow Times’ Russian service Tuesday.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

The Guardian: ‘She has stories to tell’: digital scan of Titanic wreck could reveal its secrets. “The unique 3D view of the entire vessel, seen as if the water has been drained away, could reveal fresh clues about how she came to sink on her maiden voyage in 1912. The scans also preserve a “digital twin” of the ship, which is rapidly being destroyed by iron-eating bacteria, salt corrosion and deep ocean currents.”

Breaking Defense: Ukraine War: Vast hacker ‘militias’ do little damage – but can rally mass support, says study . “‘Hacktivist’ groups like the IT Army of Ukraine claim hundreds of thousands of members, but their cyber attacks are less about tangible results than online agitprop, says a forthcoming study from CSIS exclusively previewed by Breaking Defense.”

ProPublica: The Newest College Admissions Ploy: Paying to Make Your Teen a “Peer-Reviewed” Author. “A group of services, often connected to pricey college counselors, has arisen to help high schoolers carry out and publish research as a credential for their college applications. The research papers — and the publications — can be dubious.” Good morning, Internet…

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May 18, 2023 at 05:27PM
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1970s Greenwich Village, Peel Art Gallery, CNET, More: Wednesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, May 17, 2023

1970s Greenwich Village, Peel Art Gallery, CNET, More: Wednesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, May 17, 2023
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NEW RESOURCES

Greenwich Society for Historical Preservation: New Historic Image Collections Show Greenwich Village in the 1970s and More. “Our new Riccardo Spina Collection shows photos from a longtime resident who was born in Greenwich Village in the 1950s and raised in the neighborhood before eventually moving to the Netherlands.”

Region of Peel (Ontario Canada): PAMA launches a new online open access collections catalogue. “The Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA) has launched a new online collections management system known as an open public access catalogue (OPAC). The catalogue is an automated research tool that will allow the public to search for information in the PAMA art gallery, museum and archives collections.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

WIRED: CNET Published AI-Generated Stories. Then Its Staff Pushed Back. “IN NOVEMBER, VENERABLE tech outlet CNET began publishing articles generated by artificial intelligence, on topics such as personal finance, that proved to be riddled with errors. Today the human members of its editorial staff have unionized, calling on their bosses to provide better conditions for workers and more transparency and accountability around the use of AI.”

Ars Technica: Google’s new “inactive account” policy won’t delete years of YouTube videos. “A day later, Google now says there will be no digital burning of Alexandria. YouTube’s creator liaison, Rene Ritchie, clarified on Twitter that Google has ‘no plans to delete accounts with YT videos.'” I have no evidence for my suspicion that this policy is a poorly-planned plan to save money.

The Scotsman: Google testing ad blocker ban on video streaming platform YouTube. “Google has revealed that it is experimenting with a new feature to try and thwart YouTube users who use ad blockers. The new software will block users from using the video streaming platform if they have an ad blocker enabled on their browser.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

CNBC: Google plans to use new A.I. models for ads and to help YouTube creators, sources say. “The company has given the green light to plans for using generative AI, fueled by large language models (LLMs), to automate advertising and ad-supported consumer services, according to internal documents.”

The Verge: It looks like Google’s working on a dashcam feature for Android phones. “Google appears to be working on a native dashcam recording feature for some Android phones that could run in the background for up to 24 hours, and it sounds pretty great.”

Glossy: Elizabeth Arden uses generative AI for new virtual store launch. “Launching on Tuesday, the immersive VR store created by experiential e-commerce firm Obsess allows users to click through a virtual space based on Elizabeth Arden’s historic Fifth Avenue salon with its iconic red door. It features product information alongside a mini online museum on the history of the brand.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Motherboard: Homeland Security Uses AI Tool to Analyze Social Media of U.S. Citizens and Refugees. “Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is using a tool called Babel X that can link a person’s Social Security number to their social media posts and location data, according to an internal CBP document obtained by Motherboard.”

WIRED: ChatGPT Scams Are Infiltrating the App Store and Google Play. “There are paid versions of OpenAI’s GPT and ChatGPT for regular users and developers, but anyone can try the AI chatbot for free on the company’s website. The scam apps take advantage of people who have heard about this new technology—and perhaps the frenzy of people clamoring to use it—but don’t have much additional context for how to try it themselves.” Good afternoon, Internet…

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May 18, 2023 at 03:09AM
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Undocumented Student Communities of Practice, The Cinema Qawwali Project, José Luandino Vieira, More: Wednesday ResearchBuzz, May 17, 2023

Undocumented Student Communities of Practice, The Cinema Qawwali Project, José Luandino Vieira, More: Wednesday ResearchBuzz, May 17, 2023
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NEW RESOURCES

The Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration: New Tool Launches: “Undocumented Student Communities of Practice” Network and Directory. “‘Undocumented Student Communities of Practice’ [is] a new online tool and directory that aims to share effective practices, host topic-specific meetings and working groups, and facilitate connections for those who work with undocumented immigrant students. More than 100 experts from more than 25 states have already joined the network.”

The Print (India): 80 years of qawwali in Bombay cinema — one man is archiving Hindi music’s crown jewel. “Much before Indians started grooving to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, qawwalis were a jewel in the crown in scores of Bollywood movies through five decades. It featured Muslim characters, showcased the lyricist’s poetry and quickened the pace and plot twists in the storylines. And then the qawwalis in Hindi films started to dwindle. Now, it is largely a phenomenon that has moved on to the realm of scholarly research and study. And Yousuf Saeed, has done just that with The Cinema Qawwali Project.” . I didn’t know what qawwali was, so I checked MegaGladys. The response, sourced from Wikipedia, was “Qawwali is a form of Sufi Islamic devotional singing, originating in South Asia.”

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation: Luandino Vieira’s Prison Papers gathered in a new digital archive. “Most of José Luandino Vieira’s fictional work was written during the 12 years in which he was imprisoned following his political activity in pursuit of Angolan independence…. During his imprisonment, Luandino Vieira produced 17 notebooks composed of diary entries, correspondence, postcards, drawings, popular songs, literary sketches, translation exercises, sayings, texts in Kimbundu, news clippings and notes.” Direct link to the archive because I had a hard time finding it: https://luandino.ces.uc.pt/index.php?&id_lingua=2 . (This link goes to the English version of the site.)

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

i-D: Find My Friends is becoming another form of toxic social media. “…as many continue to share their location with more friends and checking in more often themselves, the tracking app can take on a whole new role in modern relationships. With people openly admitting to keeping track of their friend’s locations multiple times a day, Find My has become an unexpected social media app in its own right.”

The Independent: Autistic teenager attempted suicide after social media sites refused to take down viral video. “An autistic teenager tried to take his own life after a video of him spread online and social media platforms refused to take it down, a former victims’ commissioner has said.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

NPR: Congress is holding hearings on how to regulate emerging AI technology. “Another thing lawmakers are focused on today – how to regulate artificial intelligence. After a dinner with members of the House, the CEO of the company behind ChatGPT, Sam Altman, is appearing before a Senate Judiciary panel. We called up Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, who chairs that subcommittee.”

Krebs on Security: Re-Victimization from Police-Auctioned Cell Phones. “Countless smartphones seized in arrests and searches by police forces across the United States are being auctioned online without first having the data on them erased, a practice that can lead to crime victims being re-victimized, a new study found.”

Ars Technica: Twitter sued over Saudi spying that allegedly landed popular user in prison. “While based in the United States from 2008 to 2014, human rights activist Abdulrahman Al-Sadhan tweeted critically about the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to more than 160,000 followers. After he returned to Saudi Arabia in 2015, his anonymous account allegedly became unmasked by former Twitter employees who were charged with conspiring with the Saudi regime to silence dissidents. Now, his sister, Areej Al-Sadhan, is suing Twitter for allegedly violating its terms of service and giving her brother’s ‘identifying information to the government of Saudi Arabia’ when his Twitter speech should’ve been protected.”

Bleeping Computer: New ZIP domains spark debate among cybersecurity experts. “Cybersecurity researchers and IT admins have raised concerns over Google’s new ZIP and MOV Internet domains, warning that threat actors could use them for phishing attacks and malware delivery.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

African Business: Social media puts pressure on African e-commerce platforms. “A new study reveals that MSMEs in six African countries are increasingly choosing social media to engage in e-commerce, putting pressure on dedicated e-commerce platforms.”

Virginian-Pilot: NASA releases exposure tracker tool for War on Terror veterans. “A new tool, called Source-Differentiated Air Quality System, will help researchers who can then help clinicians in treatment, according to NASA and researchers. It can create charts and files of air pollution concentration at 1,200 bases in Southwest Asia since 2002 for each month. The tool can also provide data about type, severity and length of exposure veterans to pollutants faced by veterans with their exact deployment history.”

Tech Transparency Project: YouTube Leads Young Gamers to Videos of Guns, School Shootings. “YouTube’s algorithms are pushing boys interested in video games to scenes of school shootings, instructions on how to use and modify weapons, and even a movie about notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, according to a study by the Tech Transparency Project (TTP).”

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May 17, 2023 at 05:28PM
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Medieval and Renaissance Women, National Virtual Climate Laboratory, Google, More: Tuesday Evening ResearchBuzz, May 16, 2023

Medieval and Renaissance Women, National Virtual Climate Laboratory, Google, More: Tuesday Evening ResearchBuzz, May 16, 2023
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NEW RESOURCES

British Library Medieval Manuscripts Blog: Medieval and Renaissance Women: full list of the charters and rolls. “… we are thrilled to release a list of all the rolls and charters digitised as part of our Medieval and Renaissance Women project. There are 25 rolls and 219 charters in total, in addition to the 93 manuscript volumes that we announced in a previous blogpost.”

US Department of Energy: New DOE Portal Connects Researchers and Students with Climate Science and Training Opportunities . “The National Virtual Climate Laboratory (NVCL), a comprehensive web portal for climate science projects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science’s Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program, is now available…. Portal users will be able to find a wide range of national laboratory experts, programs, projects, activities, and user facilities that are engaged in climate research across the BER portfolio.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Reuters: Google to delete inactive accounts starting December. “Alphabet Inc’s Google on Tuesday said it would delete accounts that had remained unused for two years starting December, in a bid to prevent security threats including hacks.”

Engadget: Pocket users can now create multiple collections of articles, videos and websites. “Read-it-later service Pocket has unveiled some new features, including the option to create private lists of saved articles, videos and websites. Pocket Lists are only available in the US on the web for now, but the feature will be available globally starting next month and on mobile later this year.”

USEFUL STUFF

Lifehacker: Make AI Do the Hard Parts of Spreadsheets for You. “AI is coming to your spreadsheet apps from the top-down: Microsoft is currently testing Copilot, its AI-integration assistant, in all of its Microsoft 365 apps. Google is working on integrating AI tool to Sheets, starting with Workspace accounts over the next few months. However, these tools aren’t here yet, so we currently need to rely on third-party creations to add a little artificial intelligence to our workflow.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

Times of Israel: Israel accuses Elon Musk of stoking antisemitism on Twitter after anti-Soros remark. ”
Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday accused Twitter owner Elon Musk of driving up antisemitic rhetoric on his social media platform in the wake of a remark he made against Jewish philanthropist George Soros.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Associated Press: US announces criminal cases involving flow of technology, information to Russia, China and Iran. “The Justice Department announced a series of criminal cases Tuesday tracing the illegal flow of sensitive technology, including Apple’s software code for self-driving cars and materials used for missiles, to foreign adversaries like Russia, China and Iran.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Newswise: Smartphone Use Goes Up in City Parks, But Down in Forests. “The new research, which tracked the smartphone activity of 700 study participants for two years, reveals that participants’ smartphone activity actually increased during visits to city parks and other urban green spaces…. participants who visited nature reserves or forests saw significant declines in screen time over the first three hours, compared to visiting urban locations for the same amount of time.”

CNBC: Google Cloud launches A.I.-powered tools to accelerate drug discovery, precision medicine. “Google Cloud on Tuesday launched two new AI-powered tools that aim to help biotech and pharmaceutical companies accelerate drug discovery and advance precision medicine.” Good evening, Internet…

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May 17, 2023 at 04:13AM
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