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NEW RESOURCES
BusinessWire: Esri Launches Maps.com, a Content Platform for Creators Demonstrating the Power of Maps (PRESS RELEASE). “Created by Esri, the global leader in mapping and location intelligence software, the new website is a platform for sharing and discussing visually engaging maps that inspire, challenge, educate, reward, and provoke across a range of topics and formats. The site will serve as a celebration of science and art, presenting maps that captivate not only with their insights but also with their aesthetics.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
The Verge: iOS 17.3 is out, adding Stolen Device Protection for your iPhone. “iOS 17.3 is out, and it comes with a new security feature that’s supposed to prevent thieves from taking your iPhone and quickly taking over access to anything stored in iCloud as well as other important accounts like your bank or email.”
Wall Street Journal: New York City Passed an AI Hiring Law. So Far, Few Companies Are Following It.. “It has been six months since New York City began enforcing the nation’s first law requiring companies to disclose how algorithms influence their hiring decisions. So far, disclosures are rare. The law requires employers that use software to assist with hiring and promotion decisions—including chatbot interviewing tools and résumé scanners that look for keyword matches—to audit those tools annually for potential race and gender bias, and then publish the results on their websites.”
CNBC: New details emerge about SEC’s X account hack, including SIM swap. “The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Monday that a SIM swap attack was to blame for the breach of its official account on X, formerly known as Twitter, earlier this month.”
USEFUL STUFF
Lifehacker: The Best Ways to Make Your Own GIFs. “Perhaps you’ve found the perfect snippet of video to express your thoughts in a second or two, and you need it in the GIF format. In that case, you can make your own GIF, often in just a few minutes. The best way of making a GIF depends on what you’re creating it out of, whether that’s a YouTube video or a series of your own photos. I’ll run down the most important options, and how to work through them.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Moscow Times: Tech Giant Yandex Gets New Russian Owner Ahead of Restructuring. “A Russia-based company has become the legal owner of tech giant Yandex as it prepares to separate from its Dutch parent company, the state-run Interfax news agency reported Tuesday.”
University of Wisconsin-Madison: UWM researchers win grant to digitally map racially restrictive housing covenants. “Two UWM researchers have won a federal grant of nearly $150,000 to continue their research into restrictive racial covenants in Milwaukee County. The grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will help Anne Bonds, professor of geography, and Derek Handley, assistant professor of English, to develop a digital platform to map and visualize racial covenants in early 20th-century Milwaukee.”
ABC News (Australia): Inside the world of Indonesia’s social media ‘buzzers’ cashing in from pushing 2024 election propaganda. “Buzzing is a fast-growing industry in Indonesia and across South-East Asia, which involves individuals and groups being paid to create and share political propaganda online. Over the past decade, armies of buzzers have been promoting candidates and party issues, or creating hoaxes and disinformation. But Robert, who has been moonlighting as a buzzer since Indonesia’s 2014 elections, says this year the industry has become much slicker and professional.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
The Guardian: Grieving Louisiana father faces $18,000 bill to access state records of son’s case . “A Louisiana state prosecutor who declined to file a murder charge in connection with a man’s drugging and robbery death in 2017 has demanded more than $18,000 for the victim’s grieving father to obtain public records related to the case.”
Daily Beast: Is This Russia’s Dumbest Propaganda Fail?. “The photos showed [Volodymyr] Zelensky’s hand circled in red ink as it was first shown on U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s shoulder, followed by a close-up of the tattoos, and then a third photo … showing Zelensky clear across the room from that tattooed hand supposedly belonging to him.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Stony Brook University: SoCJ’s Li to Study Impact of AI-Generated Science and Health Misinformation on Racial Minorities. “…racial groups whose health is already vulnerable, including Black and Hispanic populations, are most likely to be harmed as AI-generated misinformation is created particularly to engage — and mislead — them. All of this seems clear from a growing body of research. What is less clear is what can be done about it.”
Tim Bray: Mourning Google. “It’s not just Google · The last two decades of my career featured the arcing then crashing of popular regard for Big Tech. It’s hard to believe now, the years when those lovably nerdy Bay Area kids were leading humanity to a brighter, better-lit future; our leaders were lionized and when people found out you actually worked for Google, their eyes widened and you could feel the focus. These days, Big Tech features in hostile congressional hearings, mass layoffs, and messy antitrust litigation. It offers few experiences that can be uncritically enjoyed.” Good morning, Internet…
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January 24, 2024 at 06:31PM
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