NEW RESOURCES
University of California Santa Cruz: New eDNA Explorer provides a powerful new resource for conservation. "CALeDNA, a UC-wide consortium project to document California's biodiversity, has launched a prototype of their new eDNA Explorer. This open-source tool provides a powerful and easily accessible platform for sharing, exploring, and analyzing data from projects that use environmental DNA.
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
The Verge: Google agrees to pay publishers in Canada and drops plans for blocking news. "Google announced today that it won't pull links to Canadian news outlets after all, thanks to an agreement with the government of Canada over the contentious Online News Act or Bill C-18."
National Library of Australia: Making history with Trove. "Australia's much loved digital library Trove is inviting community-led, volunteer-run and rural and regional collecting organisations across Australia to make their significant digital collections and data available and findable in Trove. Following the budget announcement in April 2023, the National Library of Australia has announced that these organisations will not be asked to pay to showcase their digital content in Trove."
NPR: Merriam-Webster's word of the year definitely wasn't picked by AI. "'Authentic' was selected as the 2023 word of the year by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, landing among the most-looked-up words in the dictionary's 500,000 entries, the company said in a press release Monday."
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Daily Beast: Elon Musk Tells Major Advertisers in Person: 'Go F*ck Yourself'. "Elon Musk on Wednesday told advertisers who've abandoned X over his antisemitic and conspiratorial posts to 'Go fuck yourself,' throwing a normally calm media summit off the rails during its closing session. While appearing at The New York Times' annual DealBook Summit, Musk accused major companies like Disney and The Washington Post of wanting to 'blackmail me with advertising,' denouncing them for abandoning his platform and speculating they will 'fail' for their decision."
The Guardian:
'Part of our history': Ukraine hails return of Scythian gold treasures . "On Tuesday the collection, including a rare golden neck ornament and a solid gold helmet, was shown off in Kyiv. They are among 1,000 items lent in 2013 by four museums in Crimea for an exhibition in the Netherlands. The following year – with the artefacts still out of the country – Vladimir Putin annexed the Black Sea peninsula. Ukraine and the museums in Moscow-occupied territory both demanded the Scythian finds be sent back to them. After a lengthy battle the Dutch supreme court ruled in June that the items belonged to Ukraine. "
CBS News: How algorithms determine what we're buying for the holidays — and beyond. "We've all been there: Scrolling through social media and spotting the ads recommending something you never knew you needed, whether it's the perfect pair of shoes, a gadget to solve an annoying problem or the ideal holiday gift for your mom. As shoppers log on for Cyber Monday sales and the holidays approach, you're more likely to see gift ideas inspired by and advertised by algorithms, experts in the field of algorithmic commerce and online shopping say."
SECURITY & LEGAL
Irish Independent: Dublin riots: Elon Musk's X did not take down 'vile messages' despite Garda requests, Justice Minister Helen McEntee says . "Helen McEntee says X, formerly Twitter, did not cooperate with Gardaí in taking down 'vile messages' last Thursday. A detective at Store Street last Saturday told Minister McEntee that An Garda Síochána had been engaging in real time with social media companies to seek the removal of hate messages and those relating to incitement to violence.... 'They [other companies] were taking down their vile messages. X were not. They did not engage. They did not fulfil their own customer standards,' she said."
TechCrunch: Founder of spyware maker Hacking Team arrested for attempted murder: local media. "The founder of the infamous and now-defunct spyware maker Hacking Team was arrested on Saturday after allegedly stabbing and attempting to murder a relative, according to multiple news reports. David Vincenzetti, who launched Hacking Team in 2003, was arrested when police showed up to his apartment after his cousin called the police, local media reported, because he couldn't reach his wife on the phone."
INTERPOL: INTERPOL unveils new biometric screening tool . "In mid-November, a fugitive migrant smuggler was subject to a police check... Wanted on organized crime and human trafficking charges since 2021, the smuggler presented himself as a fellow migrant under a false name, using a fraudulent identification document to avoid detection. The police check, however, was part of an INTERPOL operation that saw the Biometric Hub – a new tool that checks biometric data against the organization's global fingerprint and facial recognition databases – used remotely for the first time."
RESEARCH & OPINION
ABC News (Australia): Social media is starting to feel like a playground for adults, and yes, the games are just as repetitive. "More and more social media seems like an all-in adult version of children's playground games, where nobody's ever out, and where the game — and the joke — just goes around and around and never gets old. That new catchphrase that would run around the playground for a week or so before it's replaced by another? That's pretty much it."
Northeastern Global News: From the Ice Bucket Challenge to MrBeast — does 'stunt philanthropy' make the world a better place? . "MrBeast, or James Donaldson as he is known in real life, is arguably the poster child of stunt philanthropy. With more than 215 million YouTube subscribers, he is one of the platform's largest content creators — and a self-described philanthropist... Patricia Illingworth, a professor of philosophy and business at Northeastern University and author of 'Giving Now: Accelerating Human Rights for All,' considers Donaldson in her philanthropy and ethics courses, and says the YouTube star may not be the force for good that many — Donaldson included — make him out to be." Good morning, Internet...
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