NEW RESOURCES
Queens Daily Eagle: Go back in time with the court's new naturalization database. "[Abraham] Kaplan's naturalization record, along with thousands of others, can now be found through the new free online naturalization documents database, a joint project from the Queens Public Library and the Office of Court Administration. The new program... gives public access to around 400,000 naturalization records signed in the courts of Queens and the Bronx between 1794 and 1952."
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Fold3: New Military Records from Washington State . "If you have ancestors who have served at a military base in Washington State, you'll love our new collection of US, Washington State Military Records, 1855-1950. This collection contains more than 140 thousand records for servicemembers in Washington State."
The Verge: It's taken one day for customers to report broken Pixel Fold screens. "The Google Pixel Fold was only officially released yesterday, and unfortunately, we're seeing some of the first major casualties of Hot Foldable Summer. Reports of broken and damaged screens are starting to trickle in, ranging from 'Hmm, that might not be great' to 'Oh dear God, the humanity.'"
TechCrunch: India court rejects Twitter's lawsuit against gov't challenging block orders. "The Karnataka High Court dismissed the high-profile plea, filed last year, and also fined the Elon Musk-owned firm 5 million Indian rupees ($61,000). The court observed that despite being issued notices, Twitter did not provide reasons for why it delayed compliance to the amendments to India's IT rules."
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
CNN: McDonald's bet on viral success with its Grimace shake. TikTok users are pretending it killed them. "With a vibrant purple hue, a meme-able mascot and limited window of availability, McDonald's had all the ingredients to turn its Grimace milkshake into a viral sensation. What the company likely did not intend was for the shake's success to come from TikTok users playing dead." Kids today.... are AWESOME. I thought I was going to crack a rib laughing.
CNBC: Google employees boo company at drag show that was nearly canceled amid religious employee protest. "A drag show originally meant to celebrate the end of Pride month turned into a rallying cry for corporate allyship as dozens of Google employees attended, some of whom booed their employer."
Romea .cz: The Czech Republic's disinformation influencers: Unfulfilled ambitions, personal debt, and ever more radical content. "In the Czech Republic, the activities of its more or less successful disinformation influencers are being kept alive by a small group of faithful fans willing to pay for such anti-system content or for public 'happenings'. According to research, the strong supporters of such conspiracy theories and of disinformation in Czech society are at a minimum."
SECURITY & LEGAL
Reuters: Russian court fines Google an additional $47 million. "A Russian court has fined Alphabet's Google 4 billion roubles ($47 million) for failing to pay an earlier fine over alleged abuse of its dominant position in the video hosting market, the country's anti-monopoly watchdog said on Tuesday."
Techdirt: Terrible People Are Still Using Forged Court Orders To Disappear Content They Don't Like. "'Cursory review' is the name of the game. Bullshit is fed to DMCA inboxes in hopes the people overseeing millions (or billions!) of pieces of uploaded content won't spend too much time vetting takedown requests. When the initial takedown requests fail, bullshit artists (some of them hired!) decide to exploit the public sector."
CitizenLab: Should We Chat? Privacy in the WeChat Ecosystem. "This work performs the first analysis of WeChat's tracking ecosystem. Using reverse engineering methods to intercept WeChat's network requests, we identified exactly what types of data the WeChat app is sending to its servers, and when."
RESEARCH & OPINION
Chronicle of Philanthropy: Seeking to Curb Racial Bias in Medicine, Doris Duke Fund Awards $10 Million to Health Groups. "The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is awarding more than $10 million to five health organizations to reconsider the use of race in medical algorithms, which research shows can lead to potentially dangerous results for patients of color."
MIT News: Gamifying medical data labeling to advance AI. "Through the app, users review anything from images of potentially cancerous skin lesions or audio clips of heart and lung sounds that could indicate a problem. If the users are accurate, Centaur uses their opinions and awards them small cash prizes. Those opinions, in turn, help medical AI companies train and improve their algorithms." Good morning, Internet...
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