Traditional Olive Recipes, Google Chrome, Online Review Extortion, More: Thursday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, November 13, 2025
NEW RESOURCES
Olive Oil Times: The Mission to Preserve Traditional Table Olive Recipes. “A National Geographic Society-backed project is collecting traditional table olive recipes from across the Mediterranean basin for a new digital archive. The organizers of Olives Around the Table, a side initiative of the broader Entangled Destiny project, have issued a call for traditional table olive recipes from approximately 20 countries and have already received entries from France, Lebanon, and Turkey.…
Traditional Olive Recipes, Google Chrome, Online Review Extortion, More: Thursday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, November 13, 2025
NEW RESOURCES
Olive Oil Times: The Mission to Preserve Traditional Table Olive Recipes. “A National Geographic Society-backed project is collecting traditional table olive recipes from across the Mediterranean basin for a new digital archive. The organizers of Olives Around the Table, a side initiative of the broader Entangled Destiny project, have issued a call for traditional table olive recipes from approximately 20 countries and have already received entries from France, Lebanon, and Turkey.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Lifehacker: Chrome’s New ‘Split View’ Is Now My Favorite Way to Use the Internet. “It works exactly as you might guess from the name: Split View enables you to have two sites or apps open in the same tab, so you can, for example, dive deep into a Lifehacker article while also keeping an eye on social media. It works much better than just having two Chrome windows up side-by-side in Windows or macOS.”
Search Engine Roundtable: Google Negative Review Extortion Scams Reporting Form Seems To Work. “A month ago, we reported Google added a new form to report negative review extortion scams on your Google Business Profiles and local listings. Google also listed some tips on how to handle these extortion attempts. But I am glad to report that some local SEOs are saying this form is working and those extortion reviews are being removed by Google.”
AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD
Music Business Worldwide: iHeartMedia and TikTok team up to launch podcast network and digital radio station. “The collaboration features TikTok Podcast Network, which will feature up to 25 podcasts hosted by TikTok creators. To support production, iHeartMedia is opening co-branded studios in Los Angeles, New York and Atlanta, equipped with audio and video infrastructure.”
Mashable: Rule34dle is a game that mashes up Wordle and smutty cartoon art . “Like Wordle, Rule34dle is a game, but distinctly different. When you go on the site, you’ll be paired with two fictional franchise characters (like Pokémon) and told how many pornographic posts exist of the one on the left. The number of smutty posts for the character on the right is hidden. You must guess which of the two has more explicit art out there online.” If you haven’t heard of Rule 34, DO NOT GOOGLE IT. Here’s the Wikipedia article.
SECURITY & LEGAL
Ars Technica: Reddit mod jailed for sharing movie sex scenes in rare “moral rights” verdict. “A Reddit moderator known as ‘KlammereFyr’ was recently convicted by a Danish court after clipping and posting hundreds of nude scenes that actresses filmed for movies and TV shows but apparently never expected to be shared out of context.”
MakeUseOf: “Vibescamming” is the new online scam everyone’s falling for. “It borrows from ‘vibe coding,’ the process of building software by prompting a generative AI tool until you get what you want. In the same way, VibeScamming lets almost anyone launch a phishing scam or cyberattack by describing it to an AI agent. Even people with no coding skills or hacking experience can generate malicious emails, fake websites, and malware just by prompting an AI chatbot.”
The Register: North Korean spies turn Google’s Find Hub into remote-wipe weapon. “North Korean state-backed spies have found a new way to torch evidence of their own cyber-spying – by hijacking Google’s Find Hub service to remotely wipe Android phones belonging to their South Korean targets.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
University of Copenhagen: Small digital frictions can slow the spread of misinformation. “New research from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Indiana points to a simple yet effective method for combating misinformation on social media: make it slightly harder to share content.”
Oregon Public Broadcasting: Museums had a rough 2025: Report shows lower attendance, lost grants, less money. “[American Alliance of Museums] just issued a new report highlighting an extremely rocky 2025: after-school programs and programming for seniors and veterans were cut, and new exhibitions and maintenance projects were stalled. A major worry for the group is softening attendance. More than half of the museums surveyed are seeing fewer visitors than in 2019.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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