NEW RESOURCES
Fisher Phillips: Fisher Phillips Launches Organizing Activity Map. "Fisher Phillips, an international labor and employment law firm representing employers, has launched a new Organizing Activity Map that draws upon publicly available data published by the National Labor Relations Board to reflect organizing filings searchable by region, state, and date."
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Search Engine Land: TikTok pilots 30-minute video uploads for select users. "TikTok is trialing 30-minute long video uploads for some users in the beta version of its app. Why we care. Longer videos may provide more opportunities to place ads in the middle of clips, known as mid-roll ads. These mid-roll ads often lead to higher completion and engagement rates."
The Wrap: TechCrunch to Shutter Subscription Service TC+ After Layoffs. "Silicon Valley news site TechCrunch is ending its subscription product after laying off eight staffers this week, the publication said on Tuesday. The subscription product TC+ will wind down as the site aims to refocus its coverage around the investors, founders and startups of Silicon Valley, Adweek reported, citing an internal memo."
Reuters: Google parent Alphabet holiday ad revenue disappoints, shares drop 4 per cent. "Alphabet came short of expectations for ad revenue, recording $65.5 billion in the fourth quarter while analysts on average had estimated $66.1 billion, according to LSEG data. It had posted $59.0 billion a year earlier."
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Inside Radio: WYSO Gets $5 Million Grant To Continue HBCU Radio Preservation Pilot Project.. "Every Historically Black College or University that has a radio station in the country stands to benefit from a grant to WYSO, the public radio station licensed to Yellow Springs, OH, in the Dayton market. The Miami Valley Public Media station is receiving $5 million from the Mellon Foundation to support The HBCU Radio Preservation Project. There are currently 104 HBCUs, and of those, 29 have active radio stations."
Bloomberg: Russia Hit With Widespread Internet Outage Across Country. "Russia is facing a widespread internet outage that's affected users across the country, with access to websites on the local .ru domain down."
The Verge: Google spent billions of dollars to lay people off. "Google spent $2.1 billion on severance and other expenses as it laid off more than 12,000 employees over the course of 2023. And the layoff charges keep coming: in just the one month of 2024 so far, the company has already spent $700 million on employee severance charges as part of layoffs targeting another 1,000-plus roles. Alphabet, Google's parent company, revealed the figure alongside its fourth-quarter earnings release on Tuesday."
SECURITY & LEGAL
Gizmodo: The Jig is Up: NSA Is Buying Your Browser History, Says U.S. Senator. "The National Security Agency (NSA) is purchasing Americans' internet records, according to government documents made public on Friday. U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, wrote a letter claiming the NSA goes through backchannel avenues to purchase your browsing records and location data, which government agencies typically require a search warrant to obtain."
New York Times: 23andMe Breach Targeted Jewish and Chinese Customers, Lawsuit Says. "The genetic testing company 23andMe is being accused in a class-action lawsuit of failing to protect the privacy of customers whose personal information was exposed last year in a data breach that affected nearly seven million profiles."
RESEARCH & OPINION
Techdirt: Research Suggests A Large Proportion Of Web Material In Languages Other Than English Is Machine Translations Of Poor Quality Texts. "The latest generative AI tools are certainly impressive, but they bring with them a wide range of complex problems, as numerous posts on Techdirt attest. A new academic paper, published on arXiv, raises more of them, but from a new angle. Entitled 'A Shocking Amount of the Web is Machine Translated: Insights from Multi-Way Parallelism', it studies the impact of today's low-cost AI translation tools on the online world."
Associated Press: Spring a leak? Google will find it through a new partnership aimed at saving water in New Mexico. "New Mexico is teaming up with Google to hunt for leaky water pipes using satellite imagery as the drought-stricken state prepares for a future in which growing demand puts more pressure on already dwindling drinking water supplies."
University of Florida: AI-powered app can detect poison ivy. "It's found on farms, in woods, landscapes, fields, hiking trails and other open spaces. So, if you go to those places, you're susceptible to irritation caused by poison ivy, which can lead to reactions that require medical attention. Worse, most people don't know poison ivy when they see it. To find poison ivy before it finds you, University of Florida scientists published a new study in which they use artificial intelligence to confirm that an app can identify poison ivy." Good morning, Internet...
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