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He got sued for sharing public YouTube videos; nightmare ended in settlement
The more that Linkletter researched Proctorio, the more concerned he became.
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The more that Linkletter researched Proctorio, the more concerned he became.
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Librarian Ian Linkletter remains one of Proctorio's biggest critics after 5-year legal battle
He got sued for sharing public YouTube videos; nightmare ended in settlement The more that Linkletter researched Proctorio, the more concerned he became. T
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November 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
He got sued for sharing public YouTube videos; nightmare ended in settlement
The more that Linkletter researched Proctorio, the more concerned he became.
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The more that Linkletter researched Proctorio, the more concerned he became.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Looking for Hidden Gems in Scientific Literature
Why do research papers remain in obscurity, does it matter if they do, and what can be done to redeem them?
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Why do research papers remain in obscurity, does it matter if they do, and what can be done to redeem them?
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Looking for Hidden Gems in Scientific Literature
Looking for Hidden Gems in Scientific Literature Why do research papers remain in obscurity, does it matter if they do, and what can be done to redeem
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November 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Looking for Hidden Gems in Scientific Literature
Why do research papers remain in obscurity, does it matter if they do, and what can be done to redeem them?
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Why do research papers remain in obscurity, does it matter if they do, and what can be done to redeem them?
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The Message in the Medium: https://asteriskmag.com/issues/12-books/the-message-in-the-medium
This essay is my answer — my echo, my reformulation — of Andrew’s question. I asked about the mysterious stickers, and Andrew told me that, actually, they go the other way.
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This essay is my answer — my echo, my reformulation — of Andrew’s question. I asked about the mysterious stickers, and Andrew told me that, actually, they go the other way.
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The Message in the Medium: A love story told in books
The Message in the Medium This essay is my answer — my echo, my reformulation — of Andrew’s question. I asked about the mysterious stickers, and Andr
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November 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The Message in the Medium: https://asteriskmag.com/issues/12-books/the-message-in-the-medium
This essay is my answer — my echo, my reformulation — of Andrew’s question. I asked about the mysterious stickers, and Andrew told me that, actually, they go the other way.
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This essay is my answer — my echo, my reformulation — of Andrew’s question. I asked about the mysterious stickers, and Andrew told me that, actually, they go the other way.
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The best thing about a Monday morning is receiving the "What'd I Miss?" #InfoSec & #DataPrivacy weekend news roundup from Sherpa Intelligence. Subscribe here: sherpaintelligence.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The best thing about a Monday morning is receiving the "What'd I Miss?" #InfoSec & #DataPrivacy weekend news roundup from Sherpa Intelligence. Subscribe here: sherpaintelligence.substack.com
A new ruling in Authors Guild v. OpenAI has major implications for copyright law, well beyond artificial intelligence.
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Copyright Winter is Coming (to Wikipedia?)
A new ruling in Authors Guild v. OpenAI has major implications for copyright law, well beyond artificial intelligence. On October 27, 2025, Judge Sidney Stein o
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November 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
A new ruling in Authors Guild v. OpenAI has major implications for copyright law, well beyond artificial intelligence.
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The register of copyrights at the Library of Congress defended a lower court ruling that kept her in office despite President Donald Trump%u2019s attempts to fire her in a legal filing Monday urging the Supreme Court to allow her to remain in office.
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Copyright Office head asks Supreme Court to keep her in role
The register of copyrights at the Library of Congress defended a lower court ruling that kept her in office despite President Donald Trump%u2019s attempts to fi
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November 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The register of copyrights at the Library of Congress defended a lower court ruling that kept her in office despite President Donald Trump%u2019s attempts to fire her in a legal filing Monday urging the Supreme Court to allow her to remain in office.
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Rutherford County libraries close for week to adhere to Trump 'gender ideology' order
Murfreesboro Daily News JournalLibrary patrons will endure a week-long closure of Smyrna and Murfreesboro branches, following a state response to an executive order from President
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Murfreesboro Daily News JournalLibrary patrons will endure a week-long closure of Smyrna and Murfreesboro branches, following a state response to an executive order from President
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TN libraries close a week after Trump 'gender ideology' order on books
Rutherford County libraries close for week to adhere to Trump 'gender ideology' order Murfreesboro Daily News JournalLibrary patrons will endure a week-long
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November 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Rutherford County libraries close for week to adhere to Trump 'gender ideology' order
Murfreesboro Daily News JournalLibrary patrons will endure a week-long closure of Smyrna and Murfreesboro branches, following a state response to an executive order from President
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Murfreesboro Daily News JournalLibrary patrons will endure a week-long closure of Smyrna and Murfreesboro branches, following a state response to an executive order from President
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Remember 22 years ago when they were saying there would be a librarian shortage? LISNews remembers
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A Shortage of Academic Librarians
Chronicle.com has another one of those Shortage of Academic Librarians stories. They say Academic libraries, experiencing a wave of retirements, are finding
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November 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Remember 22 years ago when they were saying there would be a librarian shortage? LISNews remembers
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November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
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AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
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November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
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Stamos @1:24: It's getting hard to not be conspiracy minded here. They closed CSRB, destroyed CISA. CIS has no confirmed director. This just adds to kind of a complete surrender at least on the cyber side. We are spectacularly poorly prepared right now for a cyber attack.
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The Big Sleep | TWiT.TV
From AI-powered code generation boosting productivity to adversaries using the same tools to hunt zero-days, the panel exposes the coming wave of AI-fueled cyberattacks—and
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November 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Stamos @1:24: It's getting hard to not be conspiracy minded here. They closed CSRB, destroyed CISA. CIS has no confirmed director. This just adds to kind of a complete surrender at least on the cyber side. We are spectacularly poorly prepared right now for a cyber attack.
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Join Meredith Broussard, Brandon Butler, and Nick Garcia to learn about the legal and ethical implications of AI in libraries.
Join Meredith Broussard, Brandon Butler, and Nick Garcia to learn about the legal and ethical implications of AI in libraries.
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If I reduced my existence to a series of ChatGPT prompts, the act of my living is only shorter – not better
And I certainly do not want AI to write my books for me, or paint my pictures. Not only would the work be terrible: it wouldn’t even be work.
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And I certainly do not want AI to write my books for me, or paint my pictures. Not only would the work be terrible: it wouldn’t even be work.
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AI promises to free up time. But what if it spares us from learning, writing, painting and exploring the world?
If I reduced my existence to a series of ChatGPT prompts, the act of my living is only shorter – not better And I certainly do not want AI to write my
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October 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
If I reduced my existence to a series of ChatGPT prompts, the act of my living is only shorter – not better
And I certainly do not want AI to write my books for me, or paint my pictures. Not only would the work be terrible: it wouldn’t even be work.
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And I certainly do not want AI to write my books for me, or paint my pictures. Not only would the work be terrible: it wouldn’t even be work.
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Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it
“These books that have huge price tags are given impossible expectations to meet.”
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“These books that have huge price tags are given impossible expectations to meet.”
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The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem
Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it “These books that have huge price tags are given impossible expectations to
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October 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it
“These books that have huge price tags are given impossible expectations to meet.”
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“These books that have huge price tags are given impossible expectations to meet.”
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Clogged toilets, trade unions and Google researchers: this is the saga of the Scarlett Letters
Now, the bookshop is a husk, almost entirely empty apart from the posters announcing future plans to reopen as “The People’s Letters” — a co-operative run by the booksellers
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Now, the bookshop is a husk, almost entirely empty apart from the posters announcing future plans to reopen as “The People’s Letters” — a co-operative run by the booksellers
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The strange death of east London’s most radical bookshop
Clogged toilets, trade unions and Google researchers: this is the saga of the Scarlett Letters Now, the bookshop is a husk, almost entirely empty apart f
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September 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Clogged toilets, trade unions and Google researchers: this is the saga of the Scarlett Letters
Now, the bookshop is a husk, almost entirely empty apart from the posters announcing future plans to reopen as “The People’s Letters” — a co-operative run by the booksellers
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Now, the bookshop is a husk, almost entirely empty apart from the posters announcing future plans to reopen as “The People’s Letters” — a co-operative run by the booksellers
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Why did books start being divided into chapters? Joshua Barnes reviews Nicholas Dames’ history of literary segmentation, a study that slices through and pauses over what chapters have always told us about the times we live in.
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Just a little longer | Sydney Review of Books
Why did books start being divided into chapters? Joshua Barnes reviews Nicholas Dames’ history of literary segmentation, a study that slices through and pauses over what chapters have always told us a...
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September 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Why did books start being divided into chapters? Joshua Barnes reviews Nicholas Dames’ history of literary segmentation, a study that slices through and pauses over what chapters have always told us about the times we live in.
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Denmark scraps book tax to fight 'reading crisis'
The Danish government has announced it will abolish a 25% sales tax on books, in an effort to combat a "reading crisis".
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The Danish government has announced it will abolish a 25% sales tax on books, in an effort to combat a "reading crisis".
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Denmark scraps book tax to combat "reading crisis"
The government hopes abolishing the sales tax will encourage more people to buy books.
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August 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Denmark scraps book tax to fight 'reading crisis'
The Danish government has announced it will abolish a 25% sales tax on books, in an effort to combat a "reading crisis".
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The Danish government has announced it will abolish a 25% sales tax on books, in an effort to combat a "reading crisis".
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“None Of These Books Are Obscene”: Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida’s Book Ban Bill
In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
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In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
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"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill
In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
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August 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“None Of These Books Are Obscene”: Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida’s Book Ban Bill
In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
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In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
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Dozens of companies are hiding how you can delete your personal data, The Markup and CalMatters found.
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We caught companies making it harder to delete your personal data online – The Markup
Dozens of companies are hiding how you can delete your personal data, The Markup and CalMatters found. After our reporters reached out for comment, multiple companies have stopped the practice.
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August 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Dozens of companies are hiding how you can delete your personal data, The Markup and CalMatters found.
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Belgium Bans Internet Archive’s ‘Open Library’ in Sweeping Site Blocking Order
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Belgium Bans Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order * TorrentFreak
A Belgian court ordered intermediaries to block access to major shadow libraries, including the Internet Archive's Open Library.
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August 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Belgium Bans Internet Archive’s ‘Open Library’ in Sweeping Site Blocking Order
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ACM's Transition to Full Open Access: A New Era for Computing Research
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Open Access Publication & ACM
Open Access Publication & ACM
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July 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
ACM's Transition to Full Open Access: A New Era for Computing Research
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Internet Archive is now a US federal depository library
It has become an official U.S. federal depository library, providing online users with access to archived congressional bills, laws, regulations, presidential documents, and other U.S. gvt documents.
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It has become an official U.S. federal depository library, providing online users with access to archived congressional bills, laws, regulations, presidential documents, and other U.S. gvt documents.
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Internet Archive is now a US federal depository library
The Internet Archive has become an official U.S. federal depository library, providing online users with access to archived congressional bills, laws, regulations, presidential documents, and other U....
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July 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Internet Archive is now a US federal depository library
It has become an official U.S. federal depository library, providing online users with access to archived congressional bills, laws, regulations, presidential documents, and other U.S. gvt documents.
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technol...
It has become an official U.S. federal depository library, providing online users with access to archived congressional bills, laws, regulations, presidential documents, and other U.S. gvt documents.
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