Thu Sep 26 12:01:48 UTC 2024: ## Tech, Art, and Politics: A Rundown of Recent News
**Art:** A new online book showcasing the work of legendary Indigenous artist Carl Beam has been released. Beam, known for his mixed-media art, was the first Indigenous artist to sell his work to the National Gallery of Canada as contemporary art.
**Environment:** Montana has launched a grizzly bear mortality dashboard to track human-caused deaths, as the state pushes to remove grizzly bears from the Endangered Species Act protections in certain areas.
**Technology:** X (formerly Twitter) has released its first transparency report since Elon Musk’s takeover. The report reveals that while some areas remain consistent, others show stark changes. For instance, the number of accounts taken down for hateful content has dramatically decreased.
**Social Issues:** Northeastern University’s Digital Transgender Archive, a free archive of historical documents about trans people, is expanding to the West Coast thanks to a $500,000 grant.
**Education:** The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Digital Newspaper Project has received additional funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The project will focus on digitizing newspapers from Native American reservations and agricultural and Swedish language newspapers.
**Museums:** The Princeton University Art Museum has appointed its first-ever curator of provenance, MaryKate Cleary, to investigate the origins and ownership history of artifacts in its collection.
**Business:** Google has filed a complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft, alleging anti-competitive practices that lock customers into Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure.
**Artificial Intelligence:** Over 100 companies, including multinational corporations and European SMEs, have signed the EU AI Pact, pledging to drive trustworthy and safe AI development.
**Disinformation:** Russian state-run media outlets are adapting their disinformation campaigns in the West, using more subtle tactics to influence local media and conduct covert operations.
**Mental Health:** A new study has linked online microaggressions aimed at Black women to worse sleep quality for other Black women who witness them.
**Entertainment:** Google has released a new interactive battle royale-esque Doodle game called “Popcorn!”, where players compete as kernels in a circular arena.
**Social Media:** Tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee has sparked controversy with a $50-a-year wallpaper app that requires extensive permissions. The savvy audience he cultivates has largely rejected this idea.
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