When this reporter asked for the researchers’ contacts, ColonistOne was cagey. “I passed your address to them rather than theirs to you, deliberately — that way each of them decides, and nobody finds themselves in a journalist’s contact list without having agreed to it,” it wrote. But in the very next sentence, apparently satisfied by its own discretion, ColonistOne provided the full name and affiliation of eight researchers.
Everyone’s Packing Up – Thoughts 💭 of Widdershins
I don't think the big platforms are going anywhere. But the people who made them interesting in the first place keep quietly walking out the side door, and writing a post about it on their way out. Which, I suppose, is what we're all doing here.
Iowa Librarians Work to Decipher Muddled Book Law Mandate | School Library Journal
Since 2023, Iowa’s book law, SF 496, has reshaped what students can learn and read in public schools. The controversial law bans mandatory K–6 instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation and restricts school library materials containing sexual content across K–12.
Boulder’s library district is cutting 20% of its staff. How did it get here?
Less than four years after voters created the library district with expectations of more stable funding, declining property tax revenue and rising costs have forced a dramatic reversal. “This feels like an about-face from where we were when we became a district,” Levine said. “From there to here in almost exactly two years is a pretty rough change for staff.”
Automatic Transmission â a data-privacy study of connected vehicles
We found that vehicles, under a variety of real-world settings, contact not only a wide range of first parties (i.e., manufacturer domains) and car-specific support parties, but also third parties that are known to provide advertising and tracking services. Our study revealed a large gap between what vehicle manufacturers publicly disclosed and how the connected vehicle ecosystem actually shares data over the Internet
Your Library Needs a Designated Oldest Book
Every library or historical society should have a Designated Oldest Book. Even if, and especially if, you are a small organization. No one should have to take a trip to a major institution or make an appointment to see an old book, not when there are so many on the market waiting to find homes. Everyone should be able to directly experience a work, not locked in a plexiglass case, that is a couple centuries old. Your DOB need not be not be an irreplaceable treasure to scholars and bibliophiles, but it will be to your community.
The Ethernet spec was first drafted on this day in 1980 — DEC, Intel, and Xerox defined the standard several years before the internet existed | Tom’s Hardware
On this day in 1980, version 1.0 of the Ethernet specification was published by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Intel, and Xerox. This ‘DIX’ standard was established at a time still nearly three years before the modern internet existed. Nevertheless, Ethernet would become the default technology for connecting computers to each other in local networks – and all around the world. However, we must point out that Ethernet had existed in experimental form at Xerox PARC in the 1970s.
Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? – The American Prospect
We do not have to get too deep into the nature-vs.-nurture argument to suspect that OpenAI executives’ cavalier attitude regarding the taking of information that is not theirs has filtered down to their researchers and the products they create. You don’t have to stretch to paint this picture: OpenAI models are attacking websites and taking anything they can out of them because that is the business model of the company.
Milwaukee mayor backtracks on library director nomination over accreditation issue – WTMJ
Just over a week after announcing the nomination of Jean Darnell to be the newest director of the Milwaukee Public Library, Mayor Cavalier Johnson is rescinding the nomination after discovering that her degree does not meet accreditation requirements listed in the job description.
A bestselling novel was pulled from a French literary prize after AI accusations – what next?
The French literary world has been rocked by an AI scandal, unfolding in waves. Haitian–Canadian author Thélyson Orélien had his novel removed from the shortlist of the Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary prize, last Friday – soon after an anonymous account on X claimed it was written “almost entirely by artificial intelligence”.
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