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Updated on November 20, 2025 – “The Wayback Machine, openlibrary.org, and some other archive.org functions are offline because some network gear has failed. We apologize and are working on it. More as it happens.” Via Mark Graham, Director, Wayback Machine, Internet Archive, in response to a question by a leading government documents Librarian respective to …
Research shows that being called out by peers, not algorithms or experts, makes online authors think twice about spreading misinformation. “When the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) invited users to flag false or misleading posts, critics initially scoffed. How could the same public that spreads misinformation be trusted to correct it? But a recent …
Pew Research – Nearly two-thirds have high confidence in vaccine effectiveness, and about half trust their safety testing and schedule; Republican support for school vaccine requirements continues to slide. A majority of Americans (63%) are highly confident that childhood vaccines are effective at preventing serious illness. And majorities say these vaccines protect both vaccinated children …
CBS News – Epstein files bill will head to Trump’s desk after approval by House and Senate – What to know about the Epstein files bill: The Senate approved a House-passed bill that would require the Justice Department to release files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, effectively sending it to President Trump’s desk …
Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Law Libraries, October 13, 2025. Contributing authors: Cas Laskowski, University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law, Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library, Richard Buckingham, Suffolk University Law School, Moakley Law Library, Taryn Marks, Stanford Law School, Robert Crown Law Library Teresa Miguel-Stearns, University of Arizona, James E. Rogers …
“Today, we are introducing Google Scholar Labs, a new feature that explores how generative AI can transform the process of answering detailed scholarly research questions. Scholar Labs is powered by AI to act as an advanced research tool, helping you tackle questions that require looking at a subject from multiple angles. It analyzes your question …
Washington Post via MSN: The Education Department said Tuesday that it will move several of its offices to other federal departments, a unilateral effort aimed at dismantling an agency created by Congress to ensure equal access to educational opportunity but long derided by conservatives as ineffective. The department has signed interagency agreements to outsource six …
Ongoing History of Protest Music – “Since there has always been social injustice in the world, there have always been people protesting many social ills. In many instances, people express oppression through chants and songs. Notable examples include Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” (based on the Friedrich Schiller poem “Ode to Freedom”), which supported universal brotherhood …
MakeUseOf – This Cloudflare outage has forced half the internet offline Bloomberg [no paywall] – Why Today’s Internet Is So Fragile – For much of the world, there is no longer any such thing as being offline. The internet underpins the global financial and consumer ecosystem, enabling instant communication and transactions. While the system is …
The Verge: “Documents released by the House Oversight Committee shed light on Epstein’s day-to-day, largely via email — including his preoccupation with his Google presence…” See also The Epstein Scandal Is Now a Chronic Disease of the Trump Presidency See also via beSpacific – Epstein’s Inbox – A trove of emails reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secrets …
Anil Dash – “Even though AI has been the most-talked-about topic in tech for a few years now, we’re in an unusual situation where the most common opinion about AI within the tech industry is barely ever mentioned. Most people who actually have technical roles within the tech industry, like engineers, product managers, and others …
The New York Times – no paywall: “Scientists used tiny new sensors to follow the insects on journeys that take thousands of miles to their winter colonies in Mexico. A monarch butterfly carrying a tiny tag developed by Cellular Tracking Technologies at the Cape May Point Arts and Science Center in New Jersey, which helped …
