Washington Secretary of State: Washington State Library’s Research Library, Washington Talking Book & Braille Library Closed to Public Due to Budget Shortfall. ” The Washington State Library (WSL) announced program closures for their research library and the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library and a restriction of services at those locations after funds to keep them open were not […]

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EL PAÍS: Eleven studies by Spanish scientist Rafael Luque are retracted due to fraudulent practices. “On December 1, 2022, Luque was expelled from his university, Universidad de Córdoba, with a historic sanction. A new tool now exposes how he rose to the top and how he fell, eventually becoming honored in the Kremlin as ‘pro-Russian.’ Eleven studies of his have already been retracted for […]

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Irish Council for Civil Liberties: Public Services Card database of millions of Irish people’s faces declared illegal . “The decision vindicates the actions taken by ICCL and Digital Rights Ireland against the Department of Employment and Social Protection (DEASP). The Government had previously claimed that the facial records were not biometric data. Today, the DPC found that the Department […]

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Harvard Library: Institutional Books 1.0: A 242B Token Dataset from Harvard Library’s Collections, Refined for Accuracy and Usability. “The rapid development and adoption of LLMs of varying quality has brought into focus the scarcity of publicly available, high-quality training data and revealed an urgent need to ground the stewardship of these datasets in sustainable practices with clear […]

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ABS-CBN: Resurrecting nostalgia: Archiving to preserve history before it’s too late. “In the age of streaming, it’s hard to imagine not being able to watch a film again after its theatrical run, or a show after it has aired on television. But almost half a century ago, this was the reality faced by then-high school student Dann Garcia. He observed at the time the dearth in the available […]

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Calishat: No Kings TV. “I’m very interested in the protests which will occur tomorrow, but I’m worried about the disinformation and propaganda which will be flying around. … So I’m knocking together a web app I’m calling No Kings TV. It aggregates and displays TV news and video RSS feeds by DMA (Designated Market Area, like a metro area.) Pick a DMA from the dropdown menu and […]

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