2024-05-08 09:46
Bloomberg: Ex-Google CEO Schmidt Says He Considered Buying TikTok. “Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive officer of Google, said he had explored a possible purchase of TikTok but h… Read More
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I've been writing about search engines and online information collections since 1996. My first book, OFFICIAL NETSCAPE GUIDE TO INTERNET RESEARCH, came out that year. I'm still obsessed with them over 25 years later. ResearchBuzz Firehose contains the individual items listed in ResearchBuzz newsletter, only separately tagged and categorized so they're easier to follow via RSS feed or search feed.
2024-05-08 09:45
Kuwait Times: Nepalis fight TikTok ban in court, or ignore it entirely. “When Nepal suddenly announced a ban on TikTok last year, lawyer Sunil Rajan Singh was determined to fight what… Read More
2024-05-08 09:42
Stony Brook University: Using AI and Social Media to Track Depression in Communities. “A study led by Stony Brook University researchers used artificial intelligence (AI) and social me… Read More
2024-05-08 09:35
Reuters: UK Has Taken Military Database Offline After Hack Reports, Says Minister . “Britain acted quickly to take a database used by its defence ministry offline after – media r… Read More
2024-05-08 09:33
CTV News: Canadian government proposes new foreign influence registry as part of wide-spanning new bill . “Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is proposing a suite of new… Read More
2024-05-08 09:31
CropLife: For Agriculture, the Artificial Intelligence Test Has Arrived. “Since these items — programs that could ‘learn and adapt’ without human intervention as they… Read More
2024-05-08 09:29
Search Engine Roundtable: Google SGE Says Drink Urine To Pass Kidney Stones Quickly. “The new AI advanced version of Google Search, aka Google SGE or Search Generative Experience, prov… Read More
2024-05-08 09:27
ABC News: Nervous about falling behind the GOP, Democrats are wrestling with how to use AI. “President Joe Biden’s campaign and Democratic candidates are in a fevered race with R… Read More
2024-05-08 09:25
PRNewswire: a href=”https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lexamplescom-introduces-the-first-comprehensive-database-of-sec-exhibits-302138564.html”>LEXamples.com Introduces… Read More
2024-05-08 09:22
404 Media: This Tool Shows Some Telegram Users’ Approximate Physical Location. “A recently launched tool allows anyone to search a specific set of coordinates for Telegram users… Read More
2024-05-08 09:17
The Verge: Apple’s ‘Let Loose’ event live blog: iPads all the way down. “Y’all ready for some new iPads? That’s what’s on deck for today’s &ls&hell…Read More
2024-05-08 09:14
IBM Research: Open sourcing IBM’s Granite code models. “We’re releasing a series of decoder-only Granite code models for code generative tasks, trained with code written in… Read More
2024-05-08 09:11
Utrecht University: Research meets sightseeing: reviewing thousands of papers in Utrecht’s historical gems. “More than 25 researchers from ten different European countries will j… Read More
2024-05-08 09:06
ABC News: TikTok sues federal government over potential US ban. “TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance filed a lawsuit against the federal government Tuesday over what it cal… Read More
2024-05-08 09:03
Mother Jones: The Promise of Health Chatbots Has Already Failed. “We know chatbots are unreliable entities that have famously ‘hallucinated’ celebrity gossip and declared t… Read More
2024-05-07 11:24
Hürriyet Daily News: Night Museum project in Ephesus launched. “The Night Museum project, which aims to bring together Türkiye’s unique historical places and rich cultu… Read More
2024-05-07 11:20
Gizmodo: Fans Rename Drake’s Mansion ‘Kendrick’s House’ on Google Maps. “Kendrick Lamar fans have renamed Aubrey ‘Drake’ Graham’s famed mansio… Read More
2024-05-07 11:17
New York Times: From Baby Talk to Baby A.I.. “For an hour each week over the past 11 months, Dr. Lake, a psychologist at New York University whose research focuses on human and artific… Read More
2024-05-07 11:13
VentureBeat: Hugging Face launches LeRobot open source robotics code library. “Now, today, we are getting our first taste of what Hugging Face’s open source robot vision looks li… Read More
2024-05-07 11:06
Search Engine Journal: Apple’s “Intelligent Search” Will Summarize Webpages. “A report based on independently verified accounts notes that Apple’s Safari 18 wil… Read More
2024-05-07 11:01
Canadian Press: Google suing CRTC to have YouTube video ad revenue exempted from regulatory fees. “Google is taking Canada’s broadcasting regulator to court, arguing ‘signi… Read More
2024-05-07 10:59
Search Engine Land: 3 key observations about the Google March 2024 core update. “Google’s March 2024 core update will hands down be one of the most talked-about SEO topics of the… Read More
2024-05-07 10:58
Hollywood Reporter: Tiffany Haddish Started Fake Social Media Account to Find and Call Trolls: “People Think They Can Just Say Whatever”. “Tiffany Haddish opened a fake Ins… Read More
2024-05-07 10:56
Associated Press: Sex offender asks Norway’s Supreme Court to declare social media access is a human right. “A convicted sex offender is asking the Norwegian Supreme Court to dec… Read More
2024-05-07 10:51
Lifehacker: Nine Tasks You Can Handle Right From the Chrome Address Bar. “Google Chrome’s address bar (or omnibox, as Google calls it), might seem simple, but you can actually do… Read More
2024-05-07 10:45
New-to-me, from Boing Boing: Site tells you where you can order 6,000 species of plant. “Get Any Plant is an online aggregator of nurseries and online stores with some 6,000 species of… Read More
2024-05-07 10:41
Bleeping Computer: Google Chrome is getting native support for YouTube-like video chapters. “Google is adding a new feature to Google Chrome that allows publishers to add video chapter… Read More
2024-05-07 10:39
Washington State University: Cybersecurity education varies widely in US. “Cybersecurity programs vary dramatically across the country, a review has found. The authors argue that progr… Read More
2024-05-07 10:37
Patrick’s Substack: What if we contributed to Wikipedia instead of publishing papers?. “The majority of a paper is there to support the story and not to provide new knowledge. Wh… Read More
2024-05-07 10:33
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya: New AI tool efficiently detects asbestos in roofs so it can be removed. “A team of researchers from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) has desig… Read More
2024-05-06 18:28
Reuters: Microsoft readies new AI model to compete with Google, OpenAI, The Information reports. “Microsoft is training a new, in-house AI language model large enough to compete with t… Read More
2024-05-06 18:23
Dallas Morning News: Facebook downgrades journalism websites. Google runs similar tests. Local news suffers. “Facebook/Meta last month eliminated its news tab that curated news stories… Read More
2024-05-06 18:09
Indian Express: EC asks political parties to remove fake content from social media within 3 hours. “The Election Commission on Monday issued an advisory to all recognised political par… Read More
2024-05-06 17:59
El Pais: The day Google started to get worse: ‘We are getting too close to money’. “One objective of that yellow code was to increase the number of searches on Google. The… Read More
2024-05-06 16:21
404 Media: Pornhub’s Biggest Star Is Promoting an AI Nonconsensual ‘Nudify’ App. “Sweetie Fox, currently the #1 most popular adult content creator on Pornhub with alm… Read More
2024-05-06 16:14
The Straits Times: AI-powered search engine makes S’pore Parliament debates more accessible. “An artificial intelligence (AI)-powered search engine has been launched that makes c… Read More
2024-05-06 15:49
NPR: Possible TikTok ban could be ‘an extinction-level event’ for the creator economy. “TikTok will be banned in the U.S. in less than a year, unless its owner, ByteDance… Read More
2024-05-06 15:46
Asahi Shimbun: Despite social media posts, scientists say no rise in quakes. “Every time an earthquake occurs in Japan, social media sites are filled with posts saying things like: &ls&hell…Read More
2024-05-05 18:05
University of Arizona: Good vibrations: New tech may lead to smaller, more powerful wireless devices. “A new class of synthetic materials could herald the next revolution of wireless t… Read More
2024-05-05 17:51
University of Texas at Austin: Stretchable E-Skin Could Give Robots Human-Level Touch Sensitivity. “A first-ever stretchy electronic skin could equip robots and other devices with the… Read More
2024-05-05 17:01
Ars Technica: Counterfeit Cisco gear ended up in US military bases, used in combat operations. “A Florida resident was sentenced to 78 months for running a counterfeit scam that genera… Read More
2024-05-05 16:58
Technical.ly: Penn Engineering rolls out an online master’s degree in AI, first in Ivy League. “For the second time in less than six months, the University of Pennsylvania is int… Read More
2024-05-05 16:16
9to5 Google: Google Maps redesign back in testing with more changes on Android. “Back in February, Google Maps started testing a big redesign of the Android app. On my devices/account… Read More
2024-05-05 16:12
Search Engine Land: Google’s huge search market share loss wasn’t real: Data revised. “Google has 90.91% search market share, according to Statcounter’s revised data… Read More
2024-05-05 15:39
Washington Post: Divided Trump campaign weighs joining TikTok, the app he tried to ban. “In 2020, the then-president said the app was a threat to national security because its parent c… Read More
2024-05-05 15:31
Gothamist: NYC Council Speaker demands investigation into NYPD social media conduct. “New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams is demanding an independent probe into the NYPD&rsquo&hell…Read More
2024-05-05 15:26
Washington University in St. Louis: STL DataFest unites region’s data scientists. “Washington University in St. Louis will host the inaugural STL DataFest, an event designed to u… Read More
2024-05-05 15:23
Northeastern Global News: Connections and Wordle games from the New York Times are wildly popular. Can they improve cognitive function as you age?. “The Times said in 2023, there were… Read More
2024-05-05 15:19
The Verge: Google is getting even worse for independent sites. “An article in HouseFresh, a site dedicated to air quality, hit a nerve in February: it outlined how independent publishe… Read More
2024-05-05 11:14
TechCrunch: LinkedIn is the Twitter/X rival no one is talking about. “Since Elon Musk acquired Twitter in the fall of 2022, the market for Twitter alternatives has been saturated with… Read More
2024-05-05 10:50
Europol, and I promise I did not plan to put these two stories together: Operation PANDORA shuts down 12 phone fraud call centres. “In the early hours of 18 April 2024, German, Albania… Read More
2024-05-05 10:38
Associated Press: Scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans last year, an FBI report says. “Scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans last year, accor… Read More
2024-05-05 10:05
PC Magazine: Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400+ Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years . “Firefox power user Hazel, who prefers not to give her last name, posted a screenshot showing 7,470 tabs op… Read More
2024-05-05 09:59
404 Media: Facebook’s AI Spam Isn’t the ‘Dead Internet’: It’s the Zombie Internet. “Facebook is undeniably cooked, a decaying, depressing hall of horrors… Read More
2024-05-05 09:48
Irish Times: Fake videos of Modi aides trigger political showdown in India election. “Manipulated videos are taking centre stage as campaigning heats up in India’s election, with… Read More
2024-05-05 09:45
Space: AI discovers over 27,000 overlooked asteroids in old telescope images. “More than 27,000 asteroids in our solar system had been overlooked in existing telescope images — b… Read More
2024-05-05 09:42
The Conversation: What’s in a VIN? How to decode the vehicle identification number, your car’s unique fingerprint . “VINs serve many purposes. They help consumers learn abo… Read More
2024-05-05 09:32
Carnegie Mellon University: Young Adults Reduced Drinking During and After Pandemic. “A new study examined the drinking levels and patterns of young adults before, during and after th… Read More
2024-05-05 09:20
WGME: State hopes new resources will help ease Maine housing crisis. “To dive into how much housing is needed where, the state launched the Maine Housing Data Portal. The state’s… Read More
2024-05-05 09:09
Search Engine Land: Google restricts promotion of deep fake sexual content. “Google introduced new restrictions on deep fake sexual content for Shopping ads. Google also updated its ge… Read More
2024-05-04 23:02
WIRED: Extremist Militias Are Coordinating in More Than 100 Facebook Groups. “Free American Army is just one of around 200 similar Facebook groups and profiles, most of which are still… Read More
2024-05-04 22:53
PEN International: Ukraine: Over 100 cultural figures killed by Russian forces since full-scale invasion . “The killing of at least 102 cultural figures by Russian forces in Ukraine ma… Read More
2024-05-04 21:40
Xtra: Inside TransCare+, a new Canadian directory of trans health resources. “Transitioning can be an act of ritual—a series of movements made to renew long-severed connections t… Read More
2024-05-04 21:37
National Library of Medicine: Preservation At The National Library Of Medicine. “What does it take to keep a physical library collection in working order? In honor of Preservation Wee… Read More
2024-05-04 21:27
TechCrunch: Danti’s natural language search engine for Earth data soars with $5M in new funding. “Danti, an artificial intelligence company building a superpower search engine fo… Read More
2024-05-04 20:19
Fortune: I’m paid $14 an hour to rate AI-generated Google search results. Subcontractors like me do key work but don’t get fair wages or benefits. “These days, most search… Read More
2024-05-04 19:56
Ars Technica: Judge mulls sanctions over Google’s “shocking” destruction of internal chats. “Near the end of the second day of closing arguments in the Google monopol… Read More
2024-05-04 19:45
404 Media: Pokémon Go Players Invent Fake Beaches on Real Maps to Catch Rare Wigletts. “Pokémon Go players are creating a headache for members of the open source map tool… Read More
2024-05-04 18:34
9to5 Google: Google Play Store rolling out ‘Government’ apps badge. “Google Play’s “Government” badge — with an accompanying building icon — w… Read More
2024-05-04 18:13
Norwegian SciTech News: The people who are most active on social media are also the most active offline . “Parents often worry about the use of social media among children and young pe… Read More
2024-05-04 17:56
Bleeping Computer: Millions of Docker repos found pushing malware, phishing sites. “Three large-scale campaigns targeted Docker Hub users, planting millions of repositories that pushed… Read More
2024-05-04 17:55
Discovered via Calishat Snaps (my handmade replacement for Google Alerts, which aren’t as great as they used to be): Prompto. From the home page: “Prompto is an open-source web a… Read More
2024-05-04 17:31
Kyiv Post: Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry Introduces AI Spokesperson Modeled After Ukrainian Influencer. “The virtual consular representative called Victoriya Shi was created based o… Read More
2024-05-04 17:08
PC Magazine: Hacker Breaches Dropbox Sign Database, Views Customer Data. “The attacker accessed Dropbox Sign’s customer database containing user email addresses, phone numbers, a… Read More
2024-05-04 16:57
Fast Company: How generative AI is clouding the future of Google search. “To preserve the usefulness of its rankings as early adopters defect to ChatGPT, Bing, and Perplexity, Google j… Read More
2024-05-04 12:13
Associated Press: Many of the best-known social-media influencers are literal unknowns. Anonymity provides cover when they peddle disinformaton.. “The reposts and expressions of shock… Read More
2024-05-04 12:12
Medpage Today: TikTok and the Death of Nex Benedict. “Nex Benedict’s death is no longer trending on TikTok. Now that the manner of death has been determined as suicide, it is uns… Read More
2024-05-04 11:51
Flipboard on Medium: Recap of Fediverse Webinar for Creators and Curators. “We recently announced that we federated 400 of Flipboard’s top creators and curators, meaning that the… Read More
2024-05-04 11:46
Princeton Alumni Weekly: Emmet Gowin’s Photo Archive Finds a Lasting Home at Princeton. “In making a photographic print, Emmet Gowin said, ‘I go through a gradient of disco… Read More
2024-05-04 11:23
Censor.net: Estonia returns 274 illegally exported cultural artefacts to Ukraine. . “Estonia returned 274 cultural heritage items illegally exported by smugglers to Ukraine. This was r… Read More
2024-05-04 10:59
Gizmodo: Elon Musk’s Grok Will Get All Its News From X. “Elon Musk says Grok’s real-time news feature, which is going about as well as you’d expect so far, will get i… Read More
2024-05-04 09:48
Bellingcat: A Phantom’s Tale: The Coyote Influencer on TikTok. “We surveyed approximately 100 advertisements on TikTok offering smuggling services. The smuggling of Latin America… Read More
2024-05-03 23:27
Courthouse News Service: Meta sued by professor who wants to release ‘Unfollow Everything 2.0’ tool. “A University of Massachusetts professor sued Meta, formerly Facebook… Read More
2024-05-03 23:11
The Drinks Report: Researchers’ database used to test authenticity of spirits. “Scientists from the International Centre for Brewing and Distilling (ICBD) at Heriot-Watt Universi… Read More
2024-05-03 22:59
UK Government: Digital record of the Coronation unveiled for the first time in history. “The Coronation Roll is the official record of the Monarch’s Accession and Coronation and… Read More
2024-05-03 22:53
Servindi, and machine-translated to English: Martín Chambi: they digitize his photographic legacy . “The digital Catalog of the Martín Chambi Photographic Collection, whi… Read More
2024-05-03 22:46
Mother Jones: TikTok’s Raw Milk Influencers Are Going to Give Us All Bird Flu. “If you go on TikTok or Instagram, you’ll see legions of wellness influencers promoting the b… Read More
2024-05-03 22:38
Association for Computing Machinery: With Great Computing Power Must Come Responsible Computing. “ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has announced the publication of the fir… Read More
2024-05-03 12:55
The Verge: LastPass goes independent over a year after serious breaches. “It’s been over a year and a half since LastPass suffered back-to-back high-profile hacks, and the compan… Read More
2024-05-03 12:55
Search Engine Land: Did Google really lose search market share to Microsoft Bing in April?. “Statcounter has updated its search engine market share stats for April – and the resu… Read More
2024-05-03 12:18
US Department of Justice: Early Bitcoin Investor Charged with Tax Fraud. “An indictment was unsealed yesterday charging Roger Ver, an early investor in bitcoins, with mail fraud, tax e… Read More
2024-05-03 12:13
PetaPixel: Discovery of 20,000 Photographs Reveal World’s First Police Crime Lab. “In 2005, 20,000 glass photographic plates were discovered in a garage of the National Forensic… Read More
2024-05-03 12:10
WIRED: Elon Musk Is Platforming Far-Right Activists in Brazil, Defying Court Order. “A Brazilian court has announced that it will be opening an investigation into X owner Elon Musk for… Read More
2024-05-03 12:08
University at Buffalo: Study shows a tale of two social media platforms for Donald Trump. “Truth Social was more effective at driving news attention toward Donald Trump during the 2022… Read More
2024-05-03 12:04
The Journal (Ireland): An Rúis inniu: Russian propaganda network sets up Irish-language news website. “PRO-KREMLIN PROPAGANDISTS have created an Irish-language news website as p… Read More
2024-05-03 11:59
Lifehacker: Play With These Retro Mac OS Versions in Your Browser. “If you used a Mac computer in the ’80s or ’90s, you likely remember what’s now called ‘Class… Read More
2024-05-03 11:28
404 Media: Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher. “A small publisher for speculative fiction and roleplaying games is shuttering a… Read More
2024-05-03 10:48
Al Jazeera: Identity war: Far from frontlines, Ukraine resists Russia’s cultural legacy. “Written in 1892, The Nutcracker’s danceable, hummable and harmonically advanced tu… Read More
2024-05-03 10:45
Amnesty International: Global: A Web of Surveillance – Unravelling a murky network of spyware exports to Indonesia. “An expansive range of highly invasive spyware and surveillanc… Read More
2024-05-03 10:31
Android Police: Google Play Books now has over 300 free ebooks for children. “Google dropped the news today that it had made over 300 non-fiction children’s books available on it… Read More
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