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Anchorage Daily News: German museum hopes to reconnect Alaska Native communities to artifacts collected in 1880s

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Anchorage Daily News: German museum hopes to reconnect Alaska Native communities to artifacts collected in 1880s. “Staff from a museum in Germany traveled to Anchorage this month to stoke interest in reconnecting Alaska’s Indigenous communities to artifacts in its archives. Two representatives from the Berlin Ethnological Museum spoke at the Alaska Federation of Natives conference about its work with Chugach Alaska Corp. and nonprofit Chugachmiut to make accessible hundreds of items removed from the region in the 1880s.”

Reuters: Google to pay German publishers 3.2 million eur per year on interim basis

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Reuters: Google to pay German publishers 3.2 million eur per year on interim basis. “Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) has agreed to pay German publishers 3.2 million euros ($3.38 million) a year for its publication of news content pending a decision from the German patent office (DPMA) on the issue, the sides said in separate statements on Thursday. The U.S. search engine operator reached the agreement with Corint Media, an umbrella organisation that represents the interests of German and international publishers including Sat.1, ProSieben, RTL, Axel Springer and CNBC.”

UPI: Germany’s Anti-Discrimination Agency quits X over ‘massive’ surge in hate speech, disinformation

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UPI: Germany’s Anti-Discrimination Agency quits X over ‘massive’ surge in hate speech, disinformation. “Germany’s Anti-Discrimination Agency announced Wednesday that it was quitting Elon Musk’s X due to ‘intolerable’ levels of hate content on the platform targeting the LGBTQ community, minorities, women and Jewish people.”

Reuters: Google changes user data practices to end German antitrust probe

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Reuters: Google changes user data practices to end German antitrust probe. “Alphabet unit Google has agreed to change its user data practices to end a German antitrust investigation aimed at curbing its data-driven market power, the German cartel office said on Thursday.”

ABC News: Germany’s government and Elon Musk spar on X over maritime rescue ships

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ABC News: Germany’s government and Elon Musk spar on X over maritime rescue ships. “Germany’s government rebuked X owner Elon Musk after he criticized the recent work of migrant rescue ships that German humanitarian groups operate in the Mediterranean Sea. Musk late Friday shared a video that showed migrants and aid workers on a boat. The right-wing account that first put the content on X, formerly known as Twitter, praised the populist far-right Alternative for Germany party, which has taken a hard line on migration issues.”

Deutsche Welle: Tanzanians demand return of ancestral skulls

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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.”

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

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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.”

Deutsche Welle: Germany says Charming Kitten hackers target Iran dissidents

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Deutsche Welle: Germany says Charming Kitten hackers target Iran dissidents. “Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has warned dissident Iranian activists about the threat of cyber espionage against them. The hackers work by gaining the trust of their targets.”

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

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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.”

Free money: Germany’s €200 culture ticket for 18-year-olds (Deutsche Welle)

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Deutsche Welle: Free money: Germany’s €200 culture ticket for 18-year-olds. “Germany’s 18-year-olds have been invited to register on an app called the ‘KulturPass,’ to receive €200 ($216) from the government. The pass can be spent on a variety of cultural activities of their choice, including museum visits, films, theater and concerts.”

German cartel office: some Google Automotive Services practices anti-competitive (Reuters)

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Reuters: German cartel office: some Google Automotive Services practices anti-competitive . “Germany’s cartel office said on Wednesday that a number of Google’s practices in connection with Google Automotive Services are anti-competitive and that it intends to prohibit them.”

Reuters: Social media moderators in Germany seek improved working conditions in battling toxic content

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Reuters: Social media moderators in Germany seek improved working conditions in battling toxic content. “Hundreds of social media moderators in Germany – who remove harmful content from platforms such as Facebook and TikTok – are calling on lawmakers to improve their working conditions, citing tough targets and mental health issues.”

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

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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.”

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

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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.”

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

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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.”