September 23, 2023

Deutsche Welle: Tanzanians demand return of ancestral skulls

Deutsche Welle: Tanzanians demand return of ancestral skulls. “In a major research project, scientists from Berlin’s Museum of Prehistory and Early History, together with colleagues from Rwanda, investigated the origin of around 1,100 human skulls from Germany’s former colonies in East Africa. Hermann Parzinger, president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, told DW that it was ‘a small miracle’ to find living relatives for three skulls through DNA analysis and that it was like finding a needle in a haystack.”

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September 8, 2023

Kutztown University: Johannes Schwalm Historical Association Selects Kutztown University As New Home Of Digital Military Archives

Kutztown University: Johannes Schwalm Historical Association Selects Kutztown University As New Home Of Digital Military Archives. “The Johannes Schwalm Historical Association is a nonprofit organization dedicated to researching those German auxiliary troops (generically called Hessian) who remained in America after the Revolutionary War… Researchers from across the world can now access these digital archives through Kutztown University’s Rohrbach Library.”

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July 28, 2023

Bloomberg: Google Street View to post first new pictures from Germany in a decade

Bloomberg: Google Street View to post first new pictures from Germany in a decade. “Alphabet Inc.’s update will start with new photos of the streets and landmarks of the country’s 20 largest cities and expand from there, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday. Google voluntarily suspended Street View photography in Germany in 2011, after an outcry from privacy advocates and opposition from regulators.”

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June 10, 2023

Android Police: Google Street View returns to Germany after 10+ year pause due to privacy outcry

Android Police: Google Street View returns to Germany after 10+ year pause due to privacy outcry . “One of the countries to shun the service early on was Germany, where privacy outcries and lawsuits led to Google halt the Street View rollout in 2011 after only covering about 20 big cities, shortly after it was launched in the country. Fast-forward to 2023, and the company is finally returning to the European country, allowing tourists and residents to explore sights and neighborhoods with up-to-date imagery.”

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April 29, 2023

The Mayor: Berlin publishes a guide on dealing with ChatGPT in schools

The Mayor (EU): Berlin publishes a guide on dealing with ChatGPT in schools. “At the start of the week, Berlin’s Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family published guidelines for schools on dealing with ChatGPT. The new AI text tool has seen a massive rise in popularity over the last few months and one of the areas that are most significantly impacted in the initial phase of this new tech’s adoption is education.”

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April 20, 2023

Sky News: Michael Schumacher’s family plans legal action over AI ‘interview’ which generated fake quotes

Sky News: Michael Schumacher’s family plans legal action over AI ‘interview’ which generated fake quotes . “Michael Schumacher’s family are planning to take legal action against a German magazine which published an ‘interview’ with the seven-time F1 champion generated by artificial intelligence. The 54-year-old has not been seen in public since he suffered a serious brain injury in a skiing accident on a family holiday in the French Alps almost a decade ago.”

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April 6, 2023

TechCrunch: Twitter could be facing slew of fines in Germany over illegal hate speech

TechCrunch: Twitter could be facing slew of fines in Germany over illegal hate speech. “Elon Musk’s Twitter could be on the hook for a pipeline of multi-million dollar penalties for failing to take down illegal hate speech in Germany. Fines could even stack up to billions if the federal government acts on the scores of cases of content moderation inaction that have already been reported to it and German courts confirm the law has been breached.”

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February 23, 2023

“Facts against fakes”: New website tackles internet disinformation (Germany Press Agency)

German Press Agency: “Facts against fakes”: New website tackles internet disinformation. “Under the title ‘Facts against Fakes,’ fact-checking organizations from Germany and Austria offer up-to-date articles on false information currently being circulated on the internet. This creates the largest freely-accessible archive of fact checks in the German language. In addition, the site provides learning opportunities to promote media literacy among citizens, as well as many research articles.”

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February 1, 2023

US News & World Report: Finland Most Resistant to ‘Fake News,’ Report Finds

US News & World Report: Finland Most Resistant to ‘Fake News,’ Report Finds. “Finland is the European country that is least susceptible to ‘fake news,’ with other Nordic countries trailing close behind, according to a recent analysis of media literacy. The United States and much of Western Europe – including the United Kingdom, France and Germany – ranked in a lower tier with countries such as Latvia and Lithuania in an expanded version of the analysis, which measures countries’ susceptibility to false news reports.”

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January 31, 2023

RG 242: Target Dossiers Pertaining to the British Isles, 1938-1945 Now Fully Digitized! (National Archives Blog)

National Archives Blog: RG 242: Target Dossiers Pertaining to the British Isles, 1938-1945 Now Fully Digitized!. “The records in this series are a subset of RG 242: National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized, 1675-1958. The dossiers, which are aerial photographs and maps of German identified bombing targets, are arranged by country and, thereunder, by location.”

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