Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host
The worst part about this? I suspect that all this insanity isn’t even a deliberate decision by Google. I believe the search ranking has gotten away from them. That Google isn’t in control of their own rankings or algorithms anymore. Too many subpar leaders in positions with way too much power, way too much complexity in the SERPs, and AI as a massive distraction for the entire search team.
Here are the titles most in jeopardy
Individuals requested that 150 books and other documents, the majority of them young adult books and graphic novels, be removed or put in age-restricted sections in libraries between July 2023 and June 2024, according to the report from the clearinghouse, which is affiliated with the State Library of Oregon.
I have yet to be able to come up with a query that a librarian wasn’t able to answer. That’s not really a surprise. Librarians are well-educated women and men with excellent research skills and—at least in my experience—an innate desire to figure things out. The librarians I’ve worked with seem to know a wide variety of people, from staff in the museum archives to scientists at the research council to up and coming local musicians
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Under Tennessee’s stricter school library law, some books quietly disappear
“Banning books is not OK,” Edwards told the board last month as it began reviewing the materials. “Just because you don’t like what the mirror shows you doesn’t mean you put the mirror down.”
This week’s vote comes after the district, south of Nashville, already removed 29 books from its libraries this year under a previous policy, part of a wave of purges on campuses across Tennessee and other states.
Why I’m So Desperate for the Return of Microsoft Word to Our Prison Library
From 1971, when the Supreme Court endorsed prison law libraries, keeping them updated with the latest legal materials and tech has always been a point of contention between prison staff and people incarcerated there. Prisoners have legally faced off with administrators from California to Tennessee over typewriters and computers. In response to one such complaint, one district judge stated, “the typed word leaps more vivid to the watery judicial eye.”
The 18-page report is a rare example of transparency that can help others avoid the same fate
It is a stark reminder that no one is safe.
Yet an ongoing problem remains — the deathly silence from organisations who fall victim to attacks, often cowed by shame.
This omertà is a problem for legislators, trying to scotch ransomware payments, and a problem for cybersecurity bodies, trying to gather data.
GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar
Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI. They are often created with widely available, general-purpose AI applications, most likely ChatGPT, and mimic scientific writing. Google Scholar easily locates and lists these questionable papers alongside reputable, quality-controlled research. Our analysis of a selection of questionable GPT-fabricated scientific papers found in Google Scholar shows that many are about applied, often controversial topics susceptible to disinformation: the environment, health, and computing. The resulting enhanced potential for malicious manipulation of society’s evidence base, particularly in politically divisive domains, is a growing concern.
A Virginia library was in for a surprise when a book was returned 50 years late!
Late last month, Hopewell Library in Hopewell, Va. posted a video on Facebook about a patron who checked out Leaves of Grass, a poetry collection by Walt Whitman, in 1974.
According to the library, the book was due on June 3, 1974 and it was finally returned on August 22, 2024.
What Happens When a School Closes Its Library?A year after Texas turned school libraries into discipline centers in Black and Latino neighborhoods, librarians have lost their jobs and teachers are quitting.
Prostitution, adultery, eunuchs: Library dispute in Mobile, AL as one official ponders Bible ban
The culture wars over libraries and the debates over appropriate content on the bookshelves came to the Mobile City Council for the first time on Tuesday and were met with a rebuttal from one council member who questioned whether the Bible should be among those banned.
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