A look at GFWeb, which tracks millions of domains to uncover the Great Firewall's domain blocklists; GFWeb data reveals China blocked ChatGPT on March 2, 2023
GFWeb is a measurement platform capable of testing hundreds of millions … USENIX : GFWeb: Measuring the Great Firewall's Web Censorship at Scale X: Joanna Chiu / @joannachiu : I was amazed when UBC co...
How livestreaming talent agencies in China recruit influencers, often signing them to multiyear contracts that cost tens of thousands of dollars to breach
https://restofworld.org/... [image] X: Russell Brandom / @russellbrandom : Talent agencies are forcing Chinese influencers into debt peonage https://restofworld.org/... [image] LinkedIn: Sophie Schmi...
A test of ChatGPT's ability to respond in underrepresented languages like Bengali and Kurdish found translation errors, fabricated words, and illogical answers
Outside of English, ChatGPT makes up words, fails logic tests, and can't do basic information retrieval. X: @vickiturk and @russellbrandom . Forums: Beehaw X: Vicki Turk / @vickiturk : Love this - @de...
Analysis: Tencent's Sogou Input Method, the top Chinese character inputting tool in China with 450M+ MAUs, had since-fixed data-leaking flaws in its encryption
We urge Sogou Input Method users to immediately update to the most recent version of the app (at least Windows version 13.7, Android version 11.26, or iOS version 11.25). X: @russellbrandom , @citizen...
Twitter plans to discontinue free access to its API starting on February 9, ending support for both v1.1 and v2, and launch a “paid basic tier” instead
This week I spent too many minutes watching Nothing, Forever, which is a Twitch stream that runs 24/7. Mastodon: Kate Starbird / @katestarbird@mstdn.social : Looks like Twitter is eliminating free acc...
Instagram, and now TikTok, have fallen afoul of the “Bootleg Ratio”, as clout-chasing accounts overtake content created by users specifically for each platform
TikTok is changing. … That stuff is still on the platform, but it's largely fallen off my For You page … Tweets: @taylorlorenz , @russellbrandom , @joshelman , @jeffhorwitz , @kylebrussell , @katienot...
[Thread] Twitter CEO gives context on how Twitter counts spam, saying “multiple human reviews” of thousands of accounts seen as mDAUs have found <5% are spam
Exit Content Preview — On the off chance you weren't on Twitter … Jody Serrano / Gizmodo : Elon Tells Twitter: Prove That Bots Aren't a Big Deal, or I Sink This Buyout Scott Bicheno / Telecoms.com :...
Survey of 1,200 US adults: 66% view Facebook favorably, down from 71% in 2020, compared to 79% for Apple (down 2%), 87% for Amazon (down 4%), and 90% for Google
After a year of the pandemic, we asked Americans if their trust in big tech companies has changed — and if the biggest ones should be broken up Tweets: @reckless , @nickconfessore , @nkulw , @tysonbro...
Teachers say many students, bought up with search features on their computers, are unfamiliar with directories and folders, forcing a rethink of lesson plans
Catherine Garland, an astrophysicist, started seeing the problem in 2017. She was teaching an engineering course … Tweets: @mcsquared96 , @reckless , @gretchenamcc , @gretchenamcc , @gerrymcgovern , ...
Starlink review: nice hardware yielding a moderately fast, very inconsistent connection, but has line-of-sight issues with even a tree able to block the signal
The problem with reality is that it is very irritating. — In our imaginations, we might dream of a satellite internet system … Tweets: @russellbrandom , @reckless , @dcseifert , @jsnell , @jaycuthre...