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North Dakota Newspapers, Disney+, Google Drive, More: Sunday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, November 16, 2025

NEW RESOURCES

The Dickinson Press: Expanded archives of The Dickinson Press are available online. “Newly digitized, the archives of The Dickinson Press are now fully digitized and available for perusal through Newspapers.com . Subscribers, history enthusiasts and those searching for genealogy data will be able to access almost every edition from the 142 years of the Press online in the site’s comprehensive, easy-to-navigate database.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Engadget: Disney+ may start hosting user-generated AI videos. “During Disney’s latest earnings call, CEO Bob Iger spoke about next steps for the Disney+ streaming service, and he noted that the entertainment giant has had ‘productive conversations’ with potential AI partners. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney+ might soon play host to user-generated short-form AI videos.”

Chrome Unboxed: Moving from Dropbox to Google Drive just got a whole lot easier with this new tool. “Available now, the new Data Migration Service has arrived in open beta, and it now supports migrating files and folders directly from Dropbox to Google Drive.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Government of New South Wales: Artificial Intelligence powers nsw.gov.au search engine. “People will now be able to read important NSW Government information faster and more easily than ever thanks to new search summaries on nsw.gov.au generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI). The new feature will enhance the user experience by providing quick, short summaries in the form of a ‘quick answer’ of whatever NSW Government information they are seeking.”

BBC: The TikTok mum helping others from her son’s hospital bedside. “Kobi Crolla is not yet 18 months old but he has spent almost all his life in hospital as medics treat him for severe brain damage. In that time he has suffered countless seizures and endured 17 operations, while his parents have had to give up their jobs to care for him full-time. Now his mother Kirsty Grandison, 35, is charting their experience on TikTok in a bid to help other parents of sick children in hospital.”

NBC Philadelphia: People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?. “Text With Jesus offers users an interactive experience with a religious deity. In other words, users can text questions to Jesus and get a response. (Premium users can also converse with Satan.)”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Lifehacker: This New Hotel Reservation Scam Is Fooling People Who Use Sites Like Booking.com. “If you’ve booked a hotel through a platform like Booking.com or Expedia, beware any communication that directs you to confirm your payment details to hold your reservation. Threat actors are targeting the hospitality industry with a phishing campaign designed to steal from travelers.”

Tom’s Hardware: ‘Bitcoin Queen’ who laundered $5.6 billion in illicit funds through crypto gets nearly 12 years in prison — UK court hands down sentence. “Zhimin Qian, also known as the ‘Bitcoin Queen,’ has been handed an 11-year, 8-month prison sentence by a London judge after she pleaded guilty to charges of possession of and transacting in criminal property in August of this year.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

PsyPost: ChatGPT’s social trait judgments align with human impressions, study finds. “A new study published in Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans provides evidence that ChatGPT’s judgments of facial traits such as attractiveness, dominance, and trustworthiness tend to align with those made by humans.”

Search Engine Land: AI sends 1% of website traffic – and most of it is from ChatGPT. “ChatGPT tops AI referrals; AI highlights brands Google doesn’t; and organic search still drives the most traffic, new benchmark report finds. AI referral traffic accounts for just over 1% of all website visits across 10 major industries, according to a new Conductor AI search benchmark report.” Good afternoon, Internet…

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