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NEW RESOURCES
KTVZ: New OHA data dashboard shows emergency visits for common summer hazards. “The Oregon ESSENCE Summer Hazard Report dashboard was launched last week by OHA’s Acute and Communicable Disease Prevention Section. It contains interactive graphs showing total daily counts of emergency department and urgent care center visits in Oregon associated with four injury and illness categories: heat-related illness, water submersion events, wildfire-related smoke inhalation, and air quality-related respiratory illness.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
South China Morning Post: Google executive says company is committed to Hong Kong amid fear of search engine pull-out over potential protest song ban. “A senior Google executive in Asia said the US technology giant remains committed to Hong Kong, after the city’s bid to ban a controversial protest song sparked concerns that Western internet platforms may opt to leave the Asian financial hub.”
ReviewGeek: Your Raspberry Pi Pico W Supports Bluetooth Now. “The Raspberry Pi Pico W is nearing its first birthday. And now, it’s gaining a new feature—Bluetooth connectivity. You don’t even need to buy a new Pi Pico W to enable Bluetooth.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Gizmodo: Google Tells Employees to Stay Away from Its Own Bard Chatbot. “Four sources close to the matter told Reuters that the massive tech giant has advised employees not to enter confidential information into chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s own Bard over fears of leaks. Alphabet is reportedly concerned with employees inputting sensitive information into these chatbots since human reviewers may sit on the other end reviewing chat entries.”
WIRED: Google Made Millions From Ads for Fake Abortion Clinics. “AS A GROWING number of US states suppress abortion services and reproductive health information, online resources have become increasingly vital for people seeking to terminate a pregnancy. But a new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a nonprofit that tracks disinformation, claims that Google made more than $10 million over the past two years from ads for ‘crisis pregnancy centers,’ anti-choice clinics that aim to convince women not to have abortions.”
TechCrunch: Musk woos ad giants in Paris to fix Twitter’s woes. “In a steaming-hot, packed, VivaTech hall in Paris today, Twitter owner Elon Musk waxed lyrical on his various accomplishments, but demured over some of the bigger questions hanging over his various companies.”
WXII: UNCG receives federal grant to unveil new information about the Greensboro Massacre nearly 45 years later. “In 1979, five members of the Communist Workers’ Party were gunned down by neo-Nazis and members of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, details surrounding that deadly protest will be made available to the public thanks to a nearly $100,000 grant.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Iran International: Google Removes Leading Iranian Marketplace App From Its Store. “The Iran-based marketplace app, Divar, has been removed from Google Play as sanctions hit e-commerce. According to an email published by Divar, Google said the app has been removed to comply with the sanctions regime of the United States against Iran.”
Reuters: Judging the judges: New database lets law clerks speak out. “Lawyers often regard being a judicial clerk as one of the best professional experiences of their lives. But for Aliza Shatzman, it was the worst. After what she describes as a disastrous stint clerking for a judge (who is no longer on the bench) in Washington, D.C., Superior Court, Shatzman, 31, is on a mission. A year ago, she founded the nonprofit Legal Accountability Project, pledging to build a national database of reviews by former clerks to candidly — and if they prefer, anonymously — judge their judges as bosses and mentors.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
TBN Weekly: Movie review: Director Inés Toharia’s documentary is a love letter to film preservationists. “In ‘Film, the Living Record of Our Memory,’ director Inés Toharia sheds light on the shortcomings of digital preservation while advocating for an increased sense of urgency in film preservation. The film features interviews with film archivists, curators, technicians, and filmmakers including Costa-Gavras, Jonas Mekas, Patricio Guzmán, Ken Loach, Bill Morrison, Fernando Trueba, Wim Wenders, and appearances by Martin Scorsese, Barbara Rubin, Idrissa Ouédraogo, Ridley Scott, and Ousmane Sembene.”
MIT: Study finds bot detection software isn’t as accurate as it seems. “General-purpose bot-detection algorithms trained on a particular data set may be highly error-prone when applied in real-world contexts.”
Iowa State University: Cutting back on social media reduces anxiety, depression, loneliness . “During a two-week experiment with 230 college students, half were asked to limit their social media usage to 30 minutes a day and received automated, daily reminders. They scored significantly lower for anxiety, depression, loneliness and fear of missing out at the end of the experiment compared to the control group.” Good morning, Internet…
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June 18, 2023 at 05:31PM
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