Day archives: September 30th, 2025

Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It

The New Yorker [no paywall]: “Tim Berners-Lee may have the smallest fame-to-impact ratio of anyone living. Strangers hardly ever recognize his face; on “Jeopardy!,” his name usually goes for at least sixteen hundred dollars. Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, in 1989, but people informed of this often respond with a joke: Wasn’t that Al …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management

ADL deletes Glossary of Extremism under pressure from conservatives over Charlie Kirk entry

Jewish Insider: “The organization stands by a separate resource that describes Kirk’s Turning Point USA’s ties to ‘extremists’. Under pressure from Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr. and prominent right-wing activists in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Anti-Defamation League is removing from its website the Glossary of Extremism and Hate, one of …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

404 Media: Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples’ phones. “The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of …

Subjects: E-Records, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

U.S. Government Information: Shutdown

Via Kelly Smith’s LibGuide – U.S. Government Information: Shutdown – “In the event of a government shutdown due to a lapse in appropriations, agency contingency plans will indicate which of the agency’s activities will continue and which will cease, which staff will be furloughed and which are “excepted” from furlough, and other details. Unlike in …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines