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NEW RESOURCES
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: JPL Creates World’s Largest PDF Archive to Aid Malware Research. “As part of DARPA’s SafeDocs program, JPL data scientists have amassed 8 million PDFs that can now be used for further study in order to make the internet more secure.”
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Historical Texas Newspapers Now Available Online Through Texas State Library and Archives Commission Partnership with the University of North Texas. “The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) is pleased to announce a new partnership with the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries. The TSLAC Newspaper Collection is now live and available for free online. More than 4,500 issues of historical Texas newspapers from TSLAC’s collection, published from 1855 to 1930, are available online through UNT’s Portal to Texas History.”
Federal Reserve: Federal Reserve Board publishes a database of financial institutions with access to, or requests to access, Federal Reserve Bank master accounts and services. “To promote transparency, the Federal Reserve Board on Friday published a database of financial institutions with access to, or requests to access, Federal Reserve Bank master accounts and services. The database is consistent with the requirements set forth in legislation enacted last year and will be updated on a quarterly basis.”
USEFUL STUFF
Search Engine Journal: Top 5 Video Editing Tools: Pros And Cons. “We recently published a post about the top video editing tools for beginners. This article focuses on a smaller number of what are, in my opinion, the best video editing tools, irrespective of experience.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
GQ: If You Post a Delicious Bagel Sandwich on the Internet, Do You Have to Say Where You Got It? . “A TikTok hunt for a New York bagel started as a joke beef over ‘gatekeeping’—and ended as a story about how going viral doesn’t always have a happy ending.”
Stanford University: Gift boosts vision for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute. “The gift will support the digitization of Dr. King’s writings, allowing the institute to offer them through a new, searchable online database that will be available to the public and to scholars worldwide.”
The Mainichi: Mainichi wartime photographs digital archiving project launches dedicated page. “A page dedicated to the latest news and information from the Joint Digital Archiving Project of Mainichi Wartime Photographs was launched on The Mainichi news site on June 12. The Wartime Photographs is a collection of 60,000 photos and negatives taken by Mainichi Shimbun correspondents overseas in locations such as China and Southeast Asia during the Second Sino-Japanese and Pacific wars.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Bleeping Computer: Fake zero-day PoC exploits on GitHub push Windows, Linux malware. “Hackers are impersonating cybersecurity researchers on Twitter and GitHub to publish fake proof-of-concept exploits for zero-day vulnerabilities that infect Windows and Linux with malware.”
TorrentFreak: Music Company Asks Google to Delist ‘YouTube Downloader’ Wikipedia Article. “The music industry is doing all it can to get rid of its YouTube ripping problem. The RIAA and BPI, for example, regularly send DMCA anti-circumvention notices to Google, asking the company to remove sites from search results. Independent label ‘Because Music’ has also joined in the action but some notices sent in their name are quite broad, to say the least.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Fordham University: Seeing Castles on the Streets of New York. “When you think of the Middle Ages, you likely picture knights, swords, and castles— not things you’re likely to find in New York City. The Medieval New York Project would beg to disagree. The project, a three-way collaborative effort between Fordham’s Center for Medieval Studies Department, the Office of Information Technology, and New Rochelle High School, is striving to show the public that there actually are medieval elements all across the city.”
WIRED: My Father’s Death in 7 Gigabytes. “Dad spent decades writing weird, experimental literature. His last wish: Upload it all to the Internet Archive.” An excellent if sad read.
Mother Jones: Why Reddit Is Destined to Turn to Crap. “Even if Reddit’s protesting users win, their victory isn’t likely to last. In time, the company’s shareholders will learn to care less about user backlash, or new ones who have priced it in will step up. Until that day, Reddit will be a small holdout surrounded by behemoths who have already given themselves up to the path of enshittification.” Good morning, Internet…
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June 19, 2023 at 05:31PM
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