Category «Internet»

Tips for Searching in Chronicling America

“Chronicling America has a new look! This month, we’ll be exploring the new Chronicling America interface and providing tips on how to best use the new site. In this series of posts, we’ll show you how to use multiple keyword search options and facet your search results to narrow your search. We’ll also look at …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Search Engines

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 1, 2025

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 1, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Health Care, Internet, Privacy

Using Tails When Your World Doesn’t Feel Safe Anymore

Privacy Guides: “There is a growing number of people who no longer feel safe in their own home or country. Whatever the reason, many people might not feel safe to browse certain topics online. With all the information getting collected for each internet search, it is difficult to access sometime vital information without leaving a …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, Health Care, Internet, Legal Research

Public Domain Image Archive

From The Public Domain Review – Explore our hand-picked collection of 10,046 out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse. This is a living database with new images added every week. Users may Search the Collection, Browse the Categories. Enter “Infinite View” (via colossal) “While The Public Domain Review primarily takes the form …

Subjects: Copyright, Internet, Search Engines

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

404 Media – “A declassified World War II-era government guide to “simple sabotage” is currently one of the most popular open source books on the internet. The book, called “Simple Sabotage Field Manual,” was declassified in 2008 by the CIA and “describes ways to train normal people to be purposefully annoying telephone operators, dysfunctional train …

Subjects: Education, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

How to remove yourself from the internet

BleepingComputer – Want to prevent people from harvesting your personal information? Keep reading to learn how to remove your data from people search sites. “Protecting your digital footprint is crucial if you want to prevent phishing, scams, and other unwanted side effects caused by online data harvesting. Every day, people around the globe suffer from …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov

404 Media – “Datasets aggregated on data.gov, the largest repository of U.S. government open data on the internet, are being deleted, according to the website’s own information. Since Donald Trump was inaugurated as president, more than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from the database. As people in the Data Hoarding and archiving communities have pointed out, …

Subjects: Censorship, Climate Change, E-Government, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Is This How Reddit Ends?

The Atlantic: “The site has become a reservoir of humanity on the web. Now it, too, is turning to AI. The internet is growing more hostile to humans. Google results are stuffed with search-optimized spam, unhelpful advertisements, and AI slop. Amazon has become littered with undifferentiated junk. The state of social media, meanwhile—fractured, disorienting, and …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

US Copyright Office rules out copyright for AI-created content without human input

TechSpot: “The US Copyright Agency is publishing a series of reports about the relationship between copyright and AI. Despite the complexity of the issue, the organization has already said that AI-based works with no human intervention cannot enjoy copyright protection at all. Movies and other complex works created through AI means cannot be copyrighted, except …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Government Documents, Intellectual Property, Internet, Legal Research

Trump Freezes All Grant Funding to Libraries, Archives, and Museums

everylibrary – “While this “pause” will negatively impact millions of Americans, it will also considerably impact libraries. rump has demanded a freeze on all federal grants and for all agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance.” The memo also calls for each agency to perform a …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education, Free Speech, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries