NEW RESOURCES
University of Auckland: New digital repository opens Pacific scholarship to the world. This is more about the Pacific region (“Pacific Basin”) than the Pacific ocean. “Pacific research created at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland is now more accessible than ever through the launch of Measina o le Pasefika, Treasures of the Pacific, a new digital repository designed to preserve, showcase and share Pacific scholarship with communities across Aotearoa and the wider Pacific….the repository brings together Pacific research in a searchable online platform, making it easier for students, academics, communities and future generations to discover, access and engage with Pacific knowledge.”
Found in my RSS Feeds: PayAuthors. It’s for writers to check and see if their books are being pirated. The check and initial list is free but if you want to make some futile attempt at protecting your intellectual property, you can get a full copyright registration report for a fee, I think $95. I ran a search and found lots of my books and one I had nothing to do with (“ActionScript 2.0 Garage”).
EVENTS
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
The Irish Republican Digital Archive: The Future of the Irish Republican Digital Archive. “With more than 7,100 documents now preserved on the Internet Archive, and the final collection expected to exceed 7,500, the Irish Republican Digital Archive has entered a new phase. The active digitising project has concluded, but the archive itself remains freely available. The following answers some of the questions people may have about the decision and what happens next.”
Reuters: Order to limit Starshield for Ukraine came from inside White House, sources say. “The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter The officials said leaders at the Defense Department received a message that the SpaceX Starshield service for the Ukrainian military needed to be slowed.”
AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD
NiemanLab: Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites, legal experts say. “The new terms broadly cover business accounts that manage pages and groups, run advertisements, push marketing messages, and use the platform’s business account dashboard. As written, the new terms could be used to argue that Meta can scrape content from news sites and use that content to train the company’s AI products, according to three legal experts who reviewed the terms at Nieman Lab’s request.”
TheDesk: BBC News launches live stream on YouTube in U.S., U.K.. “The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is hoping to expand the reach of its global news channel by bringing a live streaming simulcast of the network to YouTube in two key countries. Streamers in the United Kingdom and the United States can now watch the 24-hour BBC News feed via the BBC News YouTube channel, the broadcaster announced Thursday.”
New York Times: Meta Withdraws $25 Million From Its Midterms Push. “In the world of campaign finance, where outside groups often carry cash from cycle to cycle, returns of tens of millions of dollars are rare outside of scandals. Meta, one of the world’s largest and wealthiest companies, also does not need $25 million to add back to its cash reserves, which recently stood at more than $90 billion.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Gizmodo: Meta’s Smart Glasses May Have Been Recording People Without Their Knowledge. “If you needed another reason to be skeptical of Meta’s smart glasses, congratulations—you can add ‘may record without my knowledge’ to the seemingly never-ending list. As noted by Android Authority, people who own Meta’s smart glasses have noticed that, after a recent firmware update, their smart glasses have been keeping records of some conversations even if they didn’t wake up the smart glasses’ voice assistant first.”
State of California: Attorney General Bonta Sues to Block Closure of San Francisco National Archives. “California Attorney General Rob Bonta today filed a lawsuit challenging the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) abrupt decision to close the National Archives at San Francisco and transfer its holdings to other National Archives facilities across the country. The San Francisco National Archives holds records that tell the story of Northern and Central California’s history, with records dating back more than 175 years.”
Ars Technica: The Internet’s undersea backbone is slipping into the danger zone. “Despite the expansion of Starlink and other communications satellite services, most of the world’s Internet traffic still travels through subsea cables crisscrossing the ocean floors. Those fiber-optic cables coexist with a network of oil and gas pipelines and submarine power cables—and all these crucial links connecting countries and continents now face growing sabotage risks as gray-zone warfare and open conflicts have become widespread.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
University of Hawaii: Rare Korean books return to UH Mānoa after restoration. “Ten rare Korean books, including a historically significant military manual, have returned to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Hamilton Library following a year-long restoration project in South Korea. The books, severely damaged by water, insects and age, were restored by the Jungjae Cultural Heritage Conservation Institute in Seoul, one of Korea’s leading conservation laboratories. The collection includes military manuals, travelogues, poetry collections and Buddhist scriptures that had become nearly impossible for researchers to consult.”
Euronews: Louvre could be forced to close without major overhaul, director warns. “A year after thieves made off with €88 million of crown jewels that have never been found, the new man in charge says leaking pipes and crumbling galleries mean security fixes alone won’t save the Paris landmark.” Good morning, Internet…
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