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NEW RESOURCES
Center for Research Libraries: Global Press Archive CRL Alliance Launches Open Access Liberian Newspaper Archive. “East View Information Services and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) have launched the Daily Observer Digital Archive… Comprising more than 35,000 pages, DODA is a comprehensive archive of the English-language Daily Observer, Liberia’s best-known independent national newspaper. Founded in 1981, the Daily Observer is notable for its coverage of the modern history of Liberia, from the Liberian Civil War through its current phase of development.”
Lambeth Palace Library Blog: A giant task: Digitising the Lambeth Bible. “The Lambeth Bible (MS 3) is one of around a dozen giant Romanesque Bibles that survive from England and alongside the Winchester Bible and Bury Bible, is one of the most finely illuminated. The manuscript is full of vibrant images decorated with gold, including six full-page paintings and twenty-four historiated initials, just a few of which are featured below.”
National Archives: New Online Exhibits: “Presidential Visits to the National Archives Building”. “The new, two-part online exhibit, ‘Presidential Visits to the National Archives Building: 20th Century’ and ‘Presidential Visits to the National Archives Building: 21st Century’ explore nearly 100 years of Presidential trips down Pennsylvania Avenue to the National Archives Building.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
CNN: Google to pay $700 million to US states, consumers in Play store settlement. “Google has agreed to pay $700 million and to allow more competition in its Play app store, according to the terms of an antitrust settlement with US states and consumers filed in federal court on Monday.”
The Bookseller: British Library to restore access to main catalogue on 15th Jan after cyberattack outage . “A reference-only version of the British Library’s (BL) main catalogue will be online again from 15th January 2024, when the library will begin a ‘phased return’ of some services after October’s cyberattack. An inter-library loan system will also be made available, alongside ‘increased on-site access’ to the library’s special collections and manuscripts, while the main catalogue will help with manual orders.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
New York Times: You Need Felix the Cat? Early Popeye? Talk to the King of Silent Animation.. “Once a week, Mr. [Tommy José] Stathes heads from his small studio apartment in Queens to his enormous collection of vintage cartoons: a celluloid library of around 4,000 reels, some of the prints more than 100 years old. It is certainly one of the largest collections of early animated films anywhere in the world — and that accounts for the holdings of the Library of Congress, according to an archivist who does restoration there.”
ArtDaily: Project at Independence Seaport Museum to document lives of African-Americans from along Delaware River. “Furthering the Independence Seaport Museum mission as a maritime museum focused on the Delaware River, its people and the environment and how it connects to the larger world, the museum is embarking on a new, multi-year project, ‘Breaking Uncommon Ground on the Delaware River,’ an initiative that will collect oral histories from African-American Philadelphians who lived and worked along the Delaware River in the mid- to the late 20th- and 21st-centuries.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Associated Press: Justice Department creates database to track records of misconduct by federal law enforcement. “The U.S. Justice Department has created a database to track records of misconduct by federal law enforcement officers that is aimed at preventing agencies from unknowingly hiring problem officers, officials said on Monday.”
404 Media: Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them. “In one of the coolest and more outrageous repair stories in quite some time, three white-hat hackers helped a regional rail company in southwest Poland unbrick a train that had been artificially rendered inoperable by the train’s manufacturer after an independent maintenance company worked on it. The train’s manufacturer is now threatening to sue the hackers who were hired by the independent repair company to fix it.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
SiliconANGLE: New OpenAI safety team will have power to block high-risk developments. “OpenAI today announced a new safety plan that will give its board of directors veto power to overrule Chief Executive Sam Altman if it considers the risks of the AI being developed to be too high.”
Stanford Graduate School of Business: Generative AI Boost Can Boost Productivity Without Replacing Workers. “Since generative AI went mainstream a year ago, it has inspired an equal measure of hype and fear. Boosters of tools such as ChatGPT and DALL-E predict that they will transform our economy, while skeptics worry about their potential to produce inaccurate or harmful results and ultimately replace workers. But until recently, no one had tested what really happens when companies unleash generative AI at scale in real workplaces.”
Business Insider: I found an archive of old posts and Gmail chats from when I was 11 — and instead of cringing, it endeared me to that youthful, carefree version of myself. “Reading the posts, I was startled to find such joyful innocence and unfiltered emotion in myself at that age. There are numerous videos and forums online about people finding their old MySpace accounts and Facebook posts and saying they feel ‘cringed out,’ or embarrassed. For me, however, I wasn’t scared to re-meet my younger self. I was endeared by him.” Good morning, Internet…
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December 19, 2023 at 06:31PM
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