StateScoop: Pennsylvania launches voter data dashboard. “Pennsylvania election officials on Monday launched a new data dashboard designed to make the state’s voter registration data easier for the public to access and track ahead of the November election.”

Mississippi Today: Fannie Lou Hamer Digital Driving Tour relaunches. “Funded by the Mississippi Humanities Council and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the digital tour with immersive views is designed to make Hamer’s story more accessible for classrooms, cultural heritage travelers and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of Mississippi’s role in the Civil Rights Movement. Visitors can explore historic locations, learn the significance of each site and connect Hamer’s grassroots organizing to broader themes of voting rights, civic participation, education, food justice and community empowerment.”

Fire & Safety Journal Americas: NFPA releases 9/11 World Trade Center safety archive 25 years later. “The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has released a new digital collection marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks, highlighting how lessons from the World Trade Center tragedy shaped fire and life safety standards for high-rise buildings. The collection, titled ‘NFPA and the World Trade Center: 25 Years Later’, brings together surveys, photographs, videos, presentations, reports, correspondence and other materials connected to the emergency response, evacuation research and building safety work that followed 9/11.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

CNBC: Amazon service Bezos once called ‘artificial artificial intelligence’ is shutting down. “Amazon is soon pulling the plug on its 21-year-old crowdsourced work platform, called Mechanical Turk, the company said Tuesday…. Launched in 2005, Mechanical Turk matches legions of workers with simple digital jobs, or ‘Human Intelligence Tasks,’ that typically pay out a few cents per task. They include labeling data, transcribing audio or video or answering surveys.”

Ars Technica: Meta settles states’ child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as “peanuts”. “Meta, which already uses ID checks and face analysis to verify user ages, said it agreed to impose on people under 18 a ‘default two-hour daily time limit that teens can only turn off with a parent’s permission,’ a default block between midnight and 6 am, and a school mode in which notifications are muted by default from 8 am to 3 pm.”

AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Wisconsin Watch: $4K rent? $7 gas? Inside the internet campaign insisting Green Bay is ‘more expensive than NYC’. “This model is spreading nationwide as dark money groups try to sway voters stealthily by hiring social media creators to push their agendas. Wisconsin Watch and Sunlight Research Desk identified more than a dozen users publishing near-identical messaging about the cost of living in battleground states — claims that oscillate between factual, misleading and downright false. ”

Loudwire: Wolfgang Van Halen Wins Mammoth Bet With Social Media Critic 5 Years Later . “Ever since taking a more prominent roll as the leader of his own band Mammoth, Wolf has had a pretty good handle on how to deal with the negativity and trolling that can come with social media, being one of the more interesting follows in the music industry. And earlier today, Aug. 24, Van Halen got to pay off a bet made five years prior.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Reuters: German firms report rising cyber threat from foreign intelligence services, study shows. “German companies are increasingly being targeted by cyberattacks that they suspect are linked to foreign intelligence services, a study by digital industry association Bitkom showed on Wednesday. More ​than one in three companies hit by cyberattacks, or 37%, said they ‌had attributed at least one incident in the past 12 months to a foreign intelligence service.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Harvard: A Smartphone Navigation App for People with Blindness and Low Vision. “Engineers at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have invented a new smartphone app called Mobilio that combines machine learning; algorithms that streamline input from multiple sensors; and personalized audio cues to provide a blind or low-vision person turn-by-turn directions, path guidance, and obstacle avoidance.”

OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL

Advertiser Democrat: Eagle Scout surveys, digitizes every West Paris cemetery. “For his final service project, [Steven] McCann decided to remap all of West Paris’ cemeteries, digitizing each one and notating the graves belonging to veterans. He led a team of 21 friends, Scouts and family members across seven sites: the Finnish Cemetery on Pioneer Street; Forbes Cemetery on Ellingwood Road; North Paris Cemetery on Abbott Hill Road; Porter Neighborhood Cemetery on Porter Road; Stearns Hill Cemetery on Stearns Hill Road; Tuelltown Cemetery on Tuelltown Road; and Wayside Cemetery on Main Street.” Good evening, Internet…

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The Register: Browser fingerprint tool shows how easy you are to track using the latest sneaky tricks. “Unlike some other available tools that do the same, Glassbox provides a whole bunch of raw, unfiltered data you can sift through to see what makes your browser stand out, along with an estimate of how identifiable its fingerprint may be.”

REUSE Foundation: REUSE Foundation Launches REUSE.IQ, the First Global Database of Reuse Businesses Fighting Plastic Waste. “Free, research-grade database catalogues more than 800 reuse and circular-economy organisations worldwide, giving researchers, investors, and policymakers a single source to track the businesses working to prevent single-use plastic waste.”

Great Lakes Commission: GLC and National Sea Grant Law Center launch new database to help prevent online sales of invasive species. “Developed in collaboration with the National Sea Grant Law Center, the new AquaSale database compiles regulations governing aquatic organisms across all 50 states, making it easier for online sellers and buyers to determine where species may be legally sold, purchased or transported.”

EVENTS

9to5 Mac: Apple announces iPhone 18 Pro and foldable iPhone Ultra event: ‘Surprise and shine’. “Apple has officially announced its next product event, where it will unveil the iPhone 18 Pro lineup and its first foldable iPhone. The event will take place on September 9 at 10 am, PT. The tagline reads ‘Surprise and shine,’ and the invitation features a glowing Apple logo with a sun shining through.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Search Engine Watch: Search Engine Watch is back: a new independent chapter begins. “Thirty years after a webmaster’s question became Search Engine Watch, the publication is under new independent ownership. Here is what we owe its history, and what we intend to build next.”

TechCrunch: X sends cease-and-desist to open source project Nitter over alleged scraping. “Nitter, an open source project that allowed people to read X posts without logging into or even opening the X app, has received cease-and-desist letters from X demanding that it shut down. The news was shared via a brief message posted to the project’s website, and follows X’s earlier attempts to knock Nitter offline by technical means.”

AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Press Gazette: MSN removes publishers from platform without notice. “Several independent publishers told Press Gazette they have been removed from syndication platform MSN without being given any notice. Microsoft said it regularly reviews content and partners ‘based on a range of business, quality and operational considerations’.” Not good. MSN is an underrated news platform.

Music Business Worldwide: SoundCloud starts letting artists sell downloads direct from their profiles – and says it’s taking zero commission. “The company launched a beta of direct music purchases on Wednesday (August 26), opening it to a select group of Artist Pro creators who can now sell tracks from their profiles. SoundCloud says it takes no commission on purchases, with artists receiving the proceeds from each sale, less applicable fees and taxes.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Reuters: US says Chinese hackers broke into Justice Department, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate. “The United States ‌said on Wednesday it had disrupted a Chinese hacking operation responsible for break-ins and attempts on the U.S. Justice Department, NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Senate, and other sensitive government agencies.”

Ars Technica: Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they’re coming for monitors.. “Ads and tracking have turned TVs into privacy nightmares. Both are so widespread among smart TVs that I’ve written a guide for avoiding them. One recommendation in that guide is to use a computer monitor. But in recent years, monitors have become more capable of pushing ads and tracking users. Without more straightforward approaches from vendors, such as easily comprehensible privacy policies and avoiding inappropriate ads, monitors are dangerously encroaching into smart-TV-like territory.”

The Hill: Pennsylvania attorney general accuses Snapchat of failing to protect children in new lawsuit. “Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday (R) announced a lawsuit Tuesday, accusing Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, of failing to protect children from compulsively using its platform.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Internet Archive Blog: Archiving Democracy: How the U.S. End of Term Web Archive Preserves Government History. “The Internet Archive has participated in the End of Term (EOT) Archive since 2004, working alongside partner institutions to capture US government websites at every presidential transition. Over time the scope has grown, but the purpose remains the same: to preserve government information and civic memory at critical moments of democratic change.” Good afternoon, Internet…

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NEW RESOURCES

National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA): NASDA and NALC roll out new data on agricultural bankruptcy. “This week, the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture and the National Agricultural Law Center announced the launch of Data on Economic and Bankruptcy Trends in Agriculture (DEBT), a data project that aims to provide a more comprehensive view of bankruptcy trends across the agricultural sector. The project compiles agricultural bankruptcy filings under both Chapter 11 and Chapter 12.”

Gizmodo: This Website Ranks IKEA Products by How Difficult They Are to Assemble. “I’ve never really understood the hatred for putting together IKEA furniture. Assembling flat-pack furniture is not unlike adult Lego—and like Lego, IKEA does what it does better than pretty much anyone else. With that said, some of its items are clearly easier to assemble than others—and if you’re eyeing up a purchase from Sweden’s finest, you might find yourself wondering what you’re letting yourself in for. If so, there’s a new site that could help: it’s called the IKEA Complexity Index, and it catalogues 21,290 separate IKEA products, assigning each a numerical score that aims to measure how difficult the product is to put together.” This is a very in-depth criticism/review!

BVN Architecture: 100 Years of Collective Creativity. “By surfacing historic recordings, archival finds and a plethora of photographs, drawings and models, we assembled them for the digital world and created BVN100.com. The site is conceived as a landscape of artefacts and curios tracing a century of our people, culture and architecture. Paired with each design artefact is a story of influence and belonging rooted in our 100-year history.”

Rosemont College: Cornelian Yearbooks Now Available Online Through JSTOR. “Rosemont College is thrilled to announce an exciting milestone for our community and alumni: the complete collection of Cornelian Yearbooks is now part of the Rosemont College Archives Digital Library on JSTOR. This remarkable accomplishment was completed by Tori Jones and Lucia Madron over the summer. This achievement makes generations of campus memories freely accessible online, allowing alumni, students, and researchers to explore Rosemont’s rich history from anywhere in the world.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Common Crawl: August 2026 Crawl Archive Now Available. “The crawl archive for August 2026 is now available. The data was crawled between August 7th and August 20th, and contains 2.14 billion web pages (or 360 TiB of uncompressed content). Page captures are from 40.2 million hosts or 33.1 million registered domains and include 0.7 billion new URLs, not visited in any of our prior crawls.”

Troy Hunt: Welcoming the Sri Lankan Government to Have I Been Pwned. “Today, we welcome the 48th government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned’s free gov service: Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka CERT now has access to monitor Sri Lankan government domains against the data in HIBP, helping identify exposed government accounts and respond when they appear in new data breaches.”

Courthouse News: Federal court halts sale of Titanic artifacts for now. “A Virginia-based federal judge halted the custodian of thousands of Titanic artifacts from auctioning off over 360 items Monday, ruling the sale breaches the conditions of their salvor-in-possession status.”

AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Tubefilter: YouTube expands Stations beyond music and into the realm of “creator content”. “As the tug-of-war between YouTube and Netflix intensifies, the former company is expanding a product that makes it look more like the latter. YouTube’s Stations first rolled out with music-focused channels at Coachella, but a recent update will bring that format to other content categories.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

BBC: New Zealand to introduce bill for under-16s social media ban. “New Zealand is to introduce a bill seeking to ban under-16s from using social media. Under the latest proposals, platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook, will have to take steps to check users are over 16 and platforms that fail to meet their obligations could face fines of up to 10% of their global revenue.”

The Guardian: No 10 backs ‘tough action’ if social platforms fail to remove dangerous driving posts after A66 crash. “The government has given its full backing to Ofcom to take ‘tough action’ against social media platforms that fail to remove videos that depict dangerous driving after a crash that killed seven people near Middlesbrough.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

The Sentinel Assam: Legendary ‘Shutter Guru’ Nalini Kanta Baruah’s vintage cameras gifted to Tezpur University. “A collection of vintage cameras belonging to legendary Assam photographer Nalini Kanta Baruah, popularly known as the ‘Shutter Guru,’ has been donated to the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism (MCJ), Tezpur University, marking a significant addition to the institution’s photographic heritage.”

Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Remains of 9/11 victim identified using innovative technology. “The technique of forensic investigative genetic genealogy pairs specialized DNA technologies with genealogical investigative techniques to produce identification leads. The Medical Examiner’s Office then confirms these leads through DNA or other forensic methodologies. This latest identification is the result of a new collaboration that combines the Medical Examiner’s forensic capabilities with NYPD’s genealogical expertise.”

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Politico: Data centers’ ‘oh s–t’ moment. “The intensifying late-summer backlash against data centers is inspiring panic among some corners of the tech sector — amid fears that the industry is mishandling a political crisis that will stretch into 2028 and beyond. Those worries have deepened in recent weeks as politicians across the political spectrum embraced various curbs on data center construction, with Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, potential Democratic White House hopeful Josh Shapiro and Michigan GOP Senate nominee Mike Rogers being among the latest to sign on.”

Philadelphia Inquirer: Fighting AI and Flock, today’s Luddites are the revolutionaries we need. “[Cody] Morelock was arrested after the June incident and then prosecutors in Clermont County, Ohio took what looked like an open-and-shut case — with surveillance tapes, credit-card receipts, and other hard evidence connecting the 35-year-old man to the alleged crime — before a grand jury of his peers. But Morelock’s peers apparently didn’t see a crime in the wanton destruction of a Flock camera spying on their community. The grand jury refused to indict him — another victory for the 21st century Luddites who’ve turned U.S. politics upside-down with their rage against the machines.”

AI MODELS

Reuters: Alibaba launches Wan3.0 AI video model after $10 billion share sale. “Alibaba (9988.HK), opens new tab officially rolled out its latest AI video generation-model ​Wan3.0 on Monday with enhanced ‌capabilities after the Chinese internet giant launched a $10 billion share placement to fund ​rising AI spending.”

AI AGENTS

VentureBeat: Perplexity partners with Nvidia to launch Portable Computer, a fully local AI agent with zero token costs. “Perplexity is launching Portable Computer today, a version of its agentic ‘Computer’ platform that runs entirely on hardware users already own — starting with Nvidia’s DGX Spark desktop supercomputer and Linux machines equipped with Nvidia RTX GPUs.”

AI IN EDUCATION

TechCrunch: Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors. “As Harvard Business School seeks to expand its reach, it’s leaning on AI avatars to provide individual feedback. These avatars were created by a startup called HeyGen and are included in the eight-week, $699 HBS Foundry bootcamp for entrepreneurs. The program offers live sessions with instructors every week, but the AI avatars are the ones providing feedback during practice pitches and board meetings.”

AI IN FINANCE

CNBC: Goldman Sachs partner warns of ‘huge danger’ in letting AI replace bankers’ reasoning skills. “A Goldman Sachs partner leading one of the bank’s flagship artificial intelligence projects warned that AI’s spread across Wall Street risks hobbling the thinking capabilities of the next generation of financiers.”

AI IN GOVERNANCE

Axios: Data centers “dug their own grave,” says Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. “Texas Gov. Greg Abbott delivered one of the starkest warnings yet from a Republican to the AI industry, saying data center companies ‘dug their own grave’ and deserve the backlash they’re facing after failing to win community support.”

New York Times: E.P.A. Moves to Curb Public Input on Data Centers. “The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate a federal requirement that states publicize and solicit public input on applications for air pollution permits for a range of industrial facilities, including new data centers and the power plants needed to run them.”

AI IN WORK

Associated Press: Workers in China worry over being replaced as they adapt to the growing impact of AI on jobs. “Computer programmer Fei Zhaojun’s boss asked him if artificial intelligence could soon replace humans in coding jobs. Two weeks later, he was laid off from his job in Beijing, together with about 160 of his colleagues. It’s an increasingly common scenario as artificial intelligence, supported by government policies, reshapes China’s massive job market. Some economists believe that might eventually undermine the overall strength of the world’s second largest economy.”

The Day: Connecticut police are using AI to make officers look like children in online stings. “A 24-year-old Connecticut man was chatting online with someone he never met. He stayed with the conversation even when the stranger said she was 14. Instead of leaving the chat, he allegedly asked for pictures…. The ‘girl’ was a Bloomfield police officer who used AI technology to make herself look younger.”

AROUND THE AI WORLD

Deadline: Dr. Dre Admits He Uses AI To Produce, Doesn’t See It “As A Threat”: “I’m Embracing It”. “As creative industries remain divided on AI, Dr. Dre is full steam ahead on implementing the technology in his own work. The 8x Grammy winner recently admitted to using artificial intelligence in his music producing, explaining the he doesn’t see the technology ‘as a threat,’ but as ‘a new tool for creativity.'”

ABC News (Australia): Fully AI-generated music to be banned from ARIA charts. “The Australian Recording Industry Association says wholly AI-generated tracks will not be eligible for the ARIA Charts, though recordings using AI in a supporting role will remain eligible. It comes after a song produced with AI became the most-played track on Australian radio and reached number four on two ARIA charts in July.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

CNBC: OpenAI bans Russian ChatGPT accounts used in covert misinformation campaign. “OpenAI has banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts originating in Russia that it said were being used to support a covert online influence campaign to spread misinformation. The company discovered the issue after investigating AI-generated social media posts, which led it to a ‘much broader influence operation,’ OpenAI said in a blog post on Tuesday.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

The Kurzweil Library: Breakthrough AI method generates 3D holograms in real-time.. “…researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) designed a new way to produce holograms — almost instantly. The software they’re using is called a deep learning artificial intelligence program, because it can teach itself. They said it’s so efficient that it can create a hologram on a laptop — in the blink of an eye.”

The Conversation: Listening to the bush: how AI can help NZ rid its wilderness of ‘hold‑out’ pest possums. “Even a handful of remaining animals can eventually rebuild a population, making it essential that conservation workers have effective tools to detect them. One promising solution lies in microphones that record sounds overnight, combined with artificial intelligence (AI) software capable of scanning thousands of hours of audio for possum calls. Our new research shows this approach can work well – but only if the AI learns not to mistake other animals for possums.” Good afternoon, Internet…

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EV Infrastructure News: Octopus launches Octopus Charge, a database of over 200,000 EV chargers in the US. “Octopus Energy US has launched Octopus Charge, a map-based database of 211,221 EV chargers in the US to help drivers better plan their journeys. Accessed via an app, the database includes a plethora of information on available chargers, including charging speed, connection type and charging station operator, across the country.”

India Pharma Post: IPA launches India Pharma Archives to preserve a century of India’s pharma legacy. “The Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA) has launched the India Pharma Archives, a digital repository aimed at preserving and documenting more than a century of India’s pharmaceutical industry and making its institutional history accessible to future generations.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Press Gazette: The news publishers on Tiktok with biggest growth since 2024. “Four major news publishers in the UK and US have increased their core Tiktok followings by more than 11 million people in the last two years. Press Gazette has updated its ranking of the biggest and fastest-growing news publisher Tiktok accounts for the first time since August 2024.”

AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Something Better to Do: New: WP+Masto POSSE — publish to both WordPress and Mastodon. “With this tool, you can write an article in Markdown, convert it into HTML for pasting into the WordPress post editor; convert it into a textual representation of a Mastodon thread; and when that looks right, automatically post the thread to Mastodon.”

KMUW: In ‘Unread,’ a man rallies the forces of TikTok to finally learn to read. “His new book, Unread: A Memoir of Learning (and Loving) to Read on TikTok, chronicles how [Oliver] James became one of more than 45 million functionally illiterate adult Americans — and how he used the very tools of our post-literate society to finally master the complexities of reading.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Ars Technica: Hidden Zillow listings created fake supply shock, raising NYC rents, lawsuit says. “This week, two New York City renters filed a class action complaint alleging that a brokerage business called Compass—which has been boycotting posting listings on free digital platforms like Zillow—has now delisted so many rental units that it has created a fake supply shock that is artificially raising rents.”

Reuters: Museum heists have turned more violent, with thieves hired on social media, Europol says. “Art thieves in Europe are committing more violent robberies focusing on gold and jewels, and specialist gangs have been replaced by ad-hoc ​opportunists recruited through social media, Europol said on Monday. The heist at ‌the Louvre Museum in Paris in October last year was a prime example of these shifts, Europol said, as the thieves threatened guards and visitors, and stole €88 million worth of jewels such ​as Empress Eugenie’s tiara.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, Brookhaven Lab Researchers Demonstrate ‘Wireless’ Capability for Quantum Network. “The daytime demonstration showcased the extraordinary precision of this free-space optical (FSO) link between the two institutions, with researchers transmitting photons between fiber-optic cables that are only a fraction of a millimeter in diameter and separated by several miles. But the team has already progressed to the next phase of experimentation using entangled photons — pairs of light particles that are intrinsically linked by the laws of quantum mechanics.”

The Guardian: Trump’s border wall construction threatens rock art as old as the pyramids: ‘The ancestors are still here’. “The impending construction also threatens to mar or destroy an untold number of these millennia-old rock art murals that stand in the coming wall’s path. The slated construction includes 165 miles (266km) of four-to-six-foot-tall vehicle barriers and patrol roads starting a few miles outside the Big Bend national park and ending at Lake Amistad. It runs straight through the Seminole Canyon state park, which is home to 27 murals…”

OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL

PetaPixel: You Can Play Doom On a 16-Year-Old Canon DSLR. “It’s possible to run the pioneering 1993 first-person shooter video game Doom on just about anything, even cameras. By using Magic Lantern software on a Canon EOS 550D from 2010, also known as the EOS Rebel T2i and EOS Kiss X4, photographers can install a custom build of Doom on their APS-C cameras.” Good evening, Internet…

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Irish Legal News: Victim’s charity Paper Trail maps nearly 4,500 lives lost to conflict. “Paper Trail, the Belfast-based victims’ charity, has launched the beginning of its Memorial Map project an interactive digital resource which aims to commemorate every life lost as a result of the Northern Ireland conflict since 1966. The Memorial Map marks a significant step in the effort to commemorate all victims equally and connect every loss of life to a location.”

University of California San Francisco: New Firearms Industry Documents Archive and Fleet Farm Collection. “The University of California, San Francisco’s (UCSF) Industry Documents Library (IDL), has established the Firearms Industry Document Archive (FAIDA) with the Fleet Farm Collection consisting of 694 documents. The documents were obtained during Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s 2022 lawsuit, which alleged that Fleet Farm, a 50-store chain that sells firearms, hunting equipment, and other goods in five Midwestern states, negligently sold firearms to straw buyers (people who purchase firearms on behalf of another person) and contributed to gun trafficking in Minnesota.”

SF Gate: SF Public Library launches massive, historical platform free to public. “The San Francisco Public Library announced this week that it has launched a new platform for its digital archive featuring more than 80,000 pieces of historical items that are free to access for the public. The archive, called DigitalSF, includes historical photographs dating back to before the city was founded, as well as documents, manuscripts, maps, publications, and oral histories.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Search Engine Roundtable: Google August 2026 Spam Update Has Finished Rolling Out. “The Google August 2026 spam update is now done rolling out. It started on Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at around 12:30 pm ET and completed on August 21, 2026 at 4:50 am ET. Despite some people feeling the update started soon, Google’s John Mueller said it did not.”

WordPress: WordPress 7.1 “Mary Lou”. “There’s a lot packed into WordPress 7.1 across new styling tools, updated media flows, added Notes functionality, and more. Some changes add new capabilities, while others refine existing tools and workflows.”

AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Ars Technica: Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians. “Meta platforms recently ran ads for an AI porn-generation tool that seemingly encouraged users to create deepfaked videos resembling female US politicians, despite the company’s policies against ads containing sexual material. It’s the latest in a series of failures by Meta to keep advertisements for tools that produce nonconsensual intimate imagery off its platforms.”

New York Times: The Funny Way That Stand-Up Comics Are Posting on Social Media. This link goes to a gift article. “That’s a contrast with recent years when comedians would post their crowd work on Instagram and other platforms. Some would even engineer crowd interactions with specially placed cameras. It allowed performers to show their comedic chops without spoiling their material, while also taking advantage of a hunger for short videos. The shift toward the cartoon strip-like frames is an example of how quickly ways of getting attention online can evolve, and how, almost overnight, simple changes in the tech world can have an avalanche effect on an entire arts community.”

Tubefilter: After becoming China’s answer to YouTube, BiliBili has its eyes on the rest of the world. “Can one of China’s biggest video hosting sites compete with the titans of the Western tech industry? BiliBili is about to find out. The 17-year-old entertainment hub, which ranks among the top 100 most-visited webpages in the world, is expanding.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Task & Purpose: Sailors and Marines advised to hide military ties on social media, report suspicious activity. “The Acting Secretary of the Navy is advising sailors and Marines to ‘harden’ their online profiles and hide ties to the military, as part of a wider call for Department of the Navy personnel to be ‘vigilant’ against adversaries.”

BBC: Iran-linked hackers behind cyber attack that shut down power plant, reports say. “A small power plant in the UK was shut down during a cyber attack. The government said that at no point was there a risk to the UK’s energy system, but the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has contacted power companies to advise them about the risk of cyber attacks.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Reuters: Senate Democrats question USDA about data errors, staff losses. “In July, the ⁠USDA reported a nearly 500% jump in weekly U.S. beef export sales before revising the figure down by 90% a ​week later, calling it ‘an isolated processing issue.’ The beef export sales error was the latest of a series of questionable USDA reports amid ​concerns about data quality after staffing losses during the Trump administration’s reshaping of the federal government. Last summer, analysts voiced concerns about agency data integrity after the USDA delayed a report and excluded findings that pointed to tariffs as a reason for a forecasted increase in the agricultural trade ​deficit.”

OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL

TechSpot: This fully walkable 3D city was built entirely out of ASCII art. “Even the latest and greatest titles still have a long way to go before virtual environments become indistinguishable from reality, but at the current rate of progress, that eventuality may not be too far off. On the opposite end of the spectrum – and to some, even more impressive – are projects that do more with less, like this walkable city made entirely of ASCII characters.” Very impressive. Good morning, Internet…

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Cornell Chronicle: ‘Wall-to-wall’ map of NYC trees could help cool cities worldwide. “Researchers have created an interactive map identifying 1.8 million individual trees in New York City, with a new approach that could optimize the placement of trees for cooling in cities around the world.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Meiji University: Special materials from medieval Europe and the early Edo period made available in the Meiji University Digital Archive. “In July, Meiji University Library made available special materials from medieval Europe and the early Edo period, acquired in academic year 2025 through the Meiji University Library Promotion Fund, via the Meiji University Digital Archive.”

The Register: Thunderbird to flap twice as fast from September. “Thunderbird is moving to fortnightly releases to keep pace with Firefox’s accelerated schedule. Mozilla and its subsidiary MZLA updated their flagship apps this week, releasing Firefox 154 and Thunderbird 154, respectively.”

AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Down the Road: A new tool for organizing your negatives: Filmaris. “Rémi built Filmaris around a simple observation: scanning every negative on a roll one by one is slow, and if you only end up printing or sharing a handful of shots, most of that scanning time was wasted. So Filmaris flips the usual order. You scan or photograph your contact sheets first — a flatbed scanner, a light table, even a Print File sleeve shot with your phone all work — and browse those the way you’d browse a roll with a loupe on a light table. Then you scan only the individual frames worth your time.”

New York Times: Sick of Constant Pings, They’re Sending Texts at the Speed of Carrier Pigeon. This link goes to a gift article. “A lot of time has gone into speeding up human communication, from the telegram to the Pony Express to shouting loudly from a rooftop. Lately, at least two apps have asked: Was a carrier pigeon the pinnacle?”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Ars Technica: Reverse-lookup service exposed millions of photos of people’s faces. “When someone uploads a photo to the people-search tool ClarityCheck, the website has a clear message: ‘Your reverse image search is private and secure.’ New research, though, shows that the website left more than 9 million image files, including photographs of people’s faces, publicly exposed. And a second misconfiguration publicly exposed people’s email addresses and phone numbers.”

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: Despite years of confiscations, the Met still holds hundreds of pieces linked to alleged trafficking and looting figures. “Even after authorities seized more than $95 million worth of antiquities from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in recent years, the institution still holds hundreds more pieces linked to alleged looting and trafficking figures, a new analysis by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has found.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Maui News: UH oral history center receives $538K for Maui projects. “Four grants totaling $538,000 will support University of Hawaii projects recording dozens of oral histories about Lahaina, water, women’s history and the Lahaina Jodo Mission. Researchers say documenting residents’ experiences, cultural knowledge and memories will help preserve Maui’s history for future generations and contribute to the island’s recovery from the 2023 wildfires.”

PsyPost: Negative social media posts correlated with changes in the brain’s fear network during the COVID-19 lockdown. “The collective emotional stress of the COVID-19 pandemic may be reflected in how the human brain regulates fear and anxiety. A recent study published in Frontiers in Nuclear Medicine indicates that on days when public social media posts expressed higher levels of negative emotions, brain scans of patients taken on those same days showed reduced activity in areas responsible for emotional regulation. This provides evidence that societal stress can have measurable, wide-reaching neurological effects on vulnerable populations.”

OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL

Baltimore Fishbowl: Row, row, row your Poe! First-ever Edgar Allan Row paddle event at Inner Harbor in October. “The thing the organizers need to know is just how many Poes will row. It matters not if fast or slow. Bring your friend or bring your foe, there’s little chance it’s called for snow. Though wind may take your new chapeau, the fun will mitigate the blow, as will, perhaps, a nice merlot. Regardless, sense of rhyme or no, the scene will make a fine tableau.” Good afternoon, Internet…

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Society of Automotive Historians: IMRRC Archives Go Digital. “Motorsports history is hitting the digital track as the International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC) expands public access to its extensive archival collections with the launch of CONTENTdm as its official digital collections platform.”

Fold3: Uncover Hidden Paper Trails: New Confederate Quartermaster Records Live on Fold3!. “Military service records tell you when an ancestor served, but supply records reveal how they survived. We’ve just added a new collection to Fold3: Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate States of America Quartermaster Department, 1861-1864.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Search Engine Roundtable: Google Trends Gains Explore Maps & Regional Breakdown. “Google Trends has added two new features this morning, explore maps and regional breakdown.”

Engadget: A recent Windows 11 update is causing game crashes and all kinds of other problems . “A recent Windows 11 update looks to be causing some serious issues on some PCs, according to a report by Windows Latest. The update is triggering game crashes, login errors, display issues, system crashes and more.”

AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Wired Middle East: The Open-Source Investigators Reconstructing the Middle East’s Wars. “With war and conflict raging across the region, researchers and journalists are increasingly turning to open-source intelligence (OSINT) to document atrocities and help hold perpetrators to account. From Gaza and southern Lebanon to Syria and Iran, and with some state actors operating without oversight, those working on open-source investigations are documenting war crimes, challenging official narratives and preserving evidence for future accountability.”

Mashable: TikTok could let you send friends money via DM. “Bloomberg reports that code in TikTok’s U.S. iOS app suggests it’s developing a peer-to-peer payment system for users. According to the uncovered code, senders will receive notifications regarding the status of their transactions, while receivers will be able to tap a button to accept incoming payments.”

Time Extension: This Dying Street Fighter II Cart Is A Sobering Reminder That Physical Doesn’t Mean Forever. “Ownership of the games we play is something that is naturally very close to the hearts of many gamers, and with good reason – billion-dollar companies are a little too fond of pulling access to digital goods, after all. However, it’s always worth keeping in mind that even physical media doesn’t guarantee you’ll have access to something forever; disc rot is a thing, as we all know, and while cartridges are generally more robust and longer-lasting, even they have an expiry date.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Lifehacker: Hundreds of Fake VPNs Are Flooding the Chrome Web Store. “Many of these extensions are free, some are paid, and some even pretend to be from trusted cybersecurity providers to lure users into handing over unrestricted access to their network and browser. This weekend, I dug through Socket’s report to find out exactly what was going on with these apps and how they managed to clear Web Store moderation without getting flagged by Google. I’ll share what I found and offer some tips to help you avoid these fake VPNs.”

Ars Technica: Roblox must make changes after failing to block adults creeping on kids. “Despite making changes last fall to help block adults from messaging unknown children, Roblox is still failing to stop adults from creeping on kids in other ways, Australia’s eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, said on Thursday.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

CEPR: The anatomy of censorship and propaganda: What Russia’s Wikipedia clone reveals about authoritarian information control. “This column exploits the 2023 cloning of Russian-language Wikipedia and its subsequent rewriting into Ruwiki, a regime-aligned alternative. Comparing the two 1.9 million-article corpora reveals a coherent editorial intervention legitimising Russia’s aggression, suppressing opposition and criticism of state institutions, and promoting traditional values. Rewriting is far more common than outright deletion, suggesting that modern information control works primarily by changing the meaning of familiar topics rather than making them disappear.”

Bridge Michigan: Inside U-M’s rare program to save ancient texts. “The Papyrus Conservation Summer Seminar at the University of Michigan is the only one of its kind in the Americas, according to the university. And it’s one of the few in the world designed to convey the best practices for conserving papyrus manuscripts, ancient texts written on rolls or sheets made from the papyrus plant.”

OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL

Hackaday: Samsung Printer Is The Next Frontier Of Minecraft Servers. “While DOOM remains the undisputed champion of ‘game you play on every piece of hardware’ it seems that the role of ‘game you play on everything just because you can’ is slowly being shifted to Minecraft, as we have yet another Minecraft server somewhere Minecraft has no business being served– in this case, a Samsung Printer.” Good morning, Internet…

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Gizmodo: Which AI Chatbot Did This School Use to Make Such a Ridiculous Map?. “You’ve probably seen the story by now. A school in Kentucky sent students home with a bound agenda that included absurd errors clearly made by AI. The periodic table was nonsense. The map of the U.S. lists the state of Illinois as ‘Vitoiis,’ and Kentucky is listed as ‘Venecky.’ There’s an extra planet called Marc, and Saturn is listed as “Sature,” among countless other gibberish errors.”

NiemanLab: Facing a “deluge” from AI, this publication will only take pitches by phone. “Whether you’re a reporter or an editor, your inbox has probably seen an influx of pitches, increasingly written with artificial intelligence. They’re likely bad, irrelevant, and annoyingly clogging up your email. But one publication is over it. If you want to write for The Food Section, you’ll have to pick up the phone.”

Korea Times: Hallucinating history: Korea enlists youth ambassadors to fix AI errors on cultural heritage. “The glitch is symbolic of a growing challenge for cultural institutions in the digital age and maintaining historical truth as generative AI becomes the world’s default reference tool. To counter these digital distortions, the Korean government, in partnership with a civil diplomacy organization, is turning to tech-savvy youth to audit algorithms and safeguard the nation’s historical identity online.”

ANTI-AI SENTIMENT

Teen Vogue: A Data Center Threatened a 17-Year-Old’s Hometown, So She Turned to TikTok. “Seventeen-year-old Sadie Esperanza Cisneros’s viral TikTok video started like so many others do: ‘Come with me…’ she says to the selfie camera, which is held above her head, showing her outfit. She’s wearing a white tee and low-rise jeans; her lashes are bold and freshly glued (a great promo for her lash-tech business). What comes next, though, is what turned her into an overnight sensation: ‘…to protest against data centers at my local city council meeting,’ she finishes.”

DATA CENTERS

The Maine Monitor: Even small Maine towns are weighing data center bans. “Several small towns across Maine are weighing temporary bans on data center development as a nationwide backlash against artificial intelligence and Big Tech continues to grow. Larger communities like Bangor quickly passed moratoriums this spring. Fears of data centers are reaching many smaller towns, with several towns in Oxford County that were unlikely to ever see such projects weighing pauses on hypothetical ones.”

AI MODELS

It’s a Binary World 2.0: More Fun With Local AI Models. “A few days ago I mentioned playing around with local AI models, despite having low strength hardware for the task. Yesterday I was trying our some new models – tinyllama and smollm2 – and I asked each model the same question to compare the answers. After doing this for a few questions, I had the same feeling I always have when I’m doing a repetitious task: computers would excel at this!”

AI EVENTS

The Register: Black Hat and DEF CON are AI conferences now, too. “Our cybersecurity editor Jessica Lyons spent last week in Las Vegas for the Black Hat and DEF CON security conferences, and at both events there was only one thing on everyone’s mind: AI agents and their growing threat to cybersecurity defenders.”

AI IN GOVERNANCE

Rest of World: Why we should all be worried about AI in elections. “The more important question is not what happens when AI generates a fake video of a candidate, but what happens when it is embedded in the systems that administer elections themselves — in procurement decisions, biometric voter-verification systems, and data-sharing arrangements. That is where AI’s impact on democracy may prove most profound.”

AI IN WORK

Capital & Main: Mental Health Workers Say Algorithmic Triage Is Hurting Patients. “To understand some of the ways that AI is affecting mental health care, Capital & Main spoke with more than a dozen therapists, clinicians, academic experts and advocates in Wisconsin and California, who said the hasty integration of the technology is eroding patients’ access to timely and appropriate mental health care.”

Tubefilter: OnlyFans investor says it will “never use AI in any capacity to disrupt creators”. “OnlyFans‘ newest investor is talking up his future plans for the platform–including promising that it will ‘never use AI in any capacity to disrupt creators.'”

AROUND THE AI WORLD

The Guardian: Are Microsoft’s AI plans being held back by a shortage of chips? . “The chips are quite small and some can be held in the palm of a hand. They are fundamental to the development of artificial intelligence models – and the world’s biggest technology companies need vast numbers of them to keep ahead. Microsoft is one of them. And, on paper, it seems to have a problem. A Guardian investigation has found an apparent discrepancy between what the company has said about its AI capacity – and the number of advanced AI chips it has in operation.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Reuters: Your AI research is your responsibility — California court sanctions attorney for delegating AI citation verification to paralegal. “On appeal, the central legal questions concerned the trial court’s reduction of compensable attorney hours, its sua sponte exclusion of paralegal fees from the fee award, and the propriety of sanctions the trial court had imposed against Del Biaggio’s ​counsel in connection with a motion for reconsideration. It was in briefing the paralegal-fee issue that Del Biaggio’s attorney, Carlton Floyd, introduced AI-generated content that would prove deeply problematic.”

Racket Minnesota: 3M Paid Expert Witness $475/Hour to Use ChatGPT to Defend Company in Major Explosion Lawsuit. “Previous decisions against 3M and Watson Grinding have tallied more than $150 million, and more cases are working through the courts. ‘It’s David and Goliath, no doubt about it,’ Rob Kwok, a lawyer representing plaintiffs, tells ABC13 Houston. Turns out Goliath is relying on expert witness reports generated by ChatGPT.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

University of Exeter: Scientists increasingly depend on ‘black-box’ tools they cannot control or fully understand . “As AI becomes more capable and autonomous, this lack of transparency will make scientific findings harder to interpret and verify. This issue extends beyond AI. Many remote sensing products rely on proprietary processing that researchers cannot fully access and verify, while some wildlife tracking devices provide only processed animal locations, while withholding the underlying raw data.”

Invisible Parade: Learning Mahjong with AI help. “A number of my dad friends play Mahjong, so I figured this would be a good time to finally take the time to learn to play. I’ve been able to use AI tools in a way that makes learning extremely efficient (at least I think so).” Good evening, Internet…

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Dartmouth College: New Website Investigates Eugenics in 20th-Century U.S.. “An innovative new website, Eugenic States: A Contextual Archive, uses digital storytelling to preserve and illuminate a disturbing and largely unknown chapter in U.S. history. During the 20th century, more than 60,000 people in the United States were sterilized based on state eugenics laws.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Mastodon Blog: 5.0: Laying the foundation. “Two weeks ago, we shared insights from Mastodon’s first Discovery Week and how it’s informing our roadmap. Today, we’re offering a deeper dive on what’s in store for Mastodon 5.0 – not an exhaustive list of changes, but a glimpse into major decisions and the thoughts behind them.”

Mozilla Blog: Firefox new release cadence and what to expect. “Some of you may have heard about this change from the announcement the team shared in early July, but Firefox is moving to a two-week release cycle. The first release on the new cadence is Firefox 155 on September 1, 2026, two weeks earlier than the originally planned September 15 release.”

USEFUL STUFF

Lifehacker: Social Media Platforms Are Training Their AI Models on Your Content, but You Can Stop Them (Sometimes). “Even if you find out how your data’s being used, many sites simply don’t offer you the ability to opt out. And of all the ones I looked at, not a single one that trains AI offers an opt-in model. Put simply, if you logged on today, tech companies took that as your consent to be part of their training data. If there is a way to opt out of even some AI training from a social media site, though, you’ll find instructions in our list below, sorted by alphabetical order.”

AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Tubefilter: The founders of Kick are in the Club as their new platform comes out of beta. “After co-founding the virtual casino Stake.com in 2017, Australian entrepreneurs Bijan Tehrani and Ed Craven set their sights on live streaming with the launch of Kick. Now, Tehrani and Craven are diving deeper into the creator world by announcing the official launch of their new platform: Club. Club, true to its name, is a home for superfan communities centered around individual creators.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Ars Technica: Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data. “It may sound like a solid plan if you ever flew on Spirit Airlines and interacted with an employee by email or chat. However, Google’s privacy commitments protecting Spirit customers don’t seem to extend to former Spirit workers. Panicked by the deal, former flight attendants are now rushing to object, worried that Google has not agreed to strip confidential information that workers fear could possibly be used by Google or a third party to link them to scrubbed data.”

Meduza: YouTube blocks Serbian director Emir Kusturica’s channel, which was co-produced with the Russian state agency Sputnik. “YouTube has blocked ‘My Life’ (Moj život), a channel run by the Serbian film director Emir Kusturica, the Serbian-language service of the Russian state news agency Sputnik said. The channel published videos produced in collaboration with Sputnik’s Serbian-language service. In all, it had 243 videos of Kusturica’s performances, programs, and music. The channel had 30,000 subscribers.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Nautilus: TikTok Discovered a Blind, Pale, Worm-Like Fish. “There are millions of undiscovered species on Earth. In fact, by some estimates, nearly 90 percent of life on our planet hasn’t been formally described by science. Some of these unknown creatures are very small, like insects, others live in hard-to-reach areas, and many are hiding in plain sight. None of them have any kind of social media presence to speak of—except for one: A previously unknown (to scientists) species of blind cavefish that was recently discovered after being caught on TikTok.”

Tom’s Hardware: MicroSD card torture test writes 133 petabytes of data across 351 cards over three years — cards tested to failure reveal SanDisk as the outlier with 6 failures of the 7 tested. “There are many different options available if you want to buy a microSD card, but which one of these lasts the longest? Tech enthusiast Matt Cole wanted to find out, so he set up a torture rig in 2023 to put various cards through their paces and recently released an update on the status of his project on the r/DataHoarder subreddit. Cole said that he has a total of 351 microSD cards in his collection coming from 52 different brands and 111 unique models.”

OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL

Gothamist: The river otter makes its first appearance in 100 years along the Bronx River. “Local scientist R.J. Hawkins caught the long, muscular otter on a motion-activated camera fixed on the river on June 23. The Bronx Zoo, which oversees a long-term camera trap monitoring program for wildlife along the Bronx River, confirmed the sighting. This is the species’ first documented appearance there since the early 1900s, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society, which operates the zoo.” Good evening, Internet…

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