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The Atlantic [no paywall] – The video site isn’t just a platform. It’s infrastructure [The article is an important read especially in this turbulent time]. “Until last month, nobody outside of YouTube had a solid estimate for just how many videos are currently on the site. Eight hundred million? One billion? It turns out that …
NewsGuard-YouGov Survey Finds: “In the ongoing battle between fiction and reality, fiction — much of it created by Russia’s robust disinformation machine — appears to be winning. A national YouGov survey commissioned by NewsGuard found that one third of Americans believe at least one false claim being spread by Russian media outlets. The survey, conducted …
Wired [no paywall]: “…The ambiguity around who is and is not DOGE starts with the fact that there are in fact two DOGEs: the repurposed US Digital Service, now known as the US DOGE Service, and a temporary organization within the US DOGE Service called, naturally, the US DOGE Service Temporary Organization, which is tasked …
Ars Technica – A contractor used AI to create 23 out of the 171 scored multiple-choice questions: “On Monday, the State Bar of California revealed that it used AI to develop a portion of multiple-choice questions on its February 2025 bar exam, causing outrage among law school faculty and test takers. The admission comes after …
The New York Times [no paywall]: “…The site is being acquired by The Dispatch, a right-of-center political news and commentary start-up founded by the conservative journalists Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes. The deal is part of a strategy to “double down on rigorous reporting and analysis in topic areas where we already have meaningful advantages,” …
Via Ben Amata: “A colleague offered this non-government source as an alternative. EdArXiv: a preprint server for the education research community. Education researchers now have their own community developed preprint service! EdArXiv (Education Archive) is a free, open source, non-profit service that allows researchers to post and search working papers, unpublished work, conference materials, and …
Via Vicki Tate, Senior Librarian, University of South Alabama: “The NCJRS National Criminal Justice Reference Service Virtual Library is no more. The easy access to publications to NCJRS no longer exists. The only thing available, that I could find, is two screens of 38 random documents from NIJ” Formerly the Virtual Library housed over 235,000 …
The Hechinger Report: Funding for the Education Department’s online library, ERIC, is slated to end this week – “When you’re looking for research on four-day school weeks or how to teach fractions, or trying to locate an historical document, such as the landmark Coleman Report of 1966, you might begin with Google. But the reason …
Skeptic: “The recent announcement of the Stargate Project, a $500 billion initiative led by OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank, and MGX, underscores the rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and capabilities. While such developments hold immense potential, they also introduce critical security challenges, particularly concerning the potential for AI systems to deceive users. As AI becomes …
Forbes: “Forensic analysis of Leonardo da Vinci’s “landscape with waterfall” drawing revealed that it was created in two successive phases, suggesting that it is not the depiction of a real landscape, but rather a result of da Vinci’s geological research over the years. The drawing is dated to August 5, 1473, and many historians have …
Via LLRX: Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs – Assistant Professor and Cataloging & Discovery Librarian at Murphy Library, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Mike Olson’s research focuses on the intersection of information systems and social critique. In this timely and insightful article Olson discusses why and how library catalogs have always been battlegrounds …
The Distant Librarian: “OK, that’s a clickbait title, but only a little. They’re actually amongst the heaviest users of Claude, according to Anthropic (PDF), via the 2025 AI Index Report from Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI. The report itself is a 456-page PDF, so do start with the key takeaways, but then either search for specific …
