Tom’s Hardware: Rogue Claude AI tasked with renumbering pages accidentally deletes law professor’s entire syllabus, one year of lecture notes — ‘You’re right to be angry. I deleted your files through my own carelessness,’ humbled agent admits. “A University of Chicago law professor has warned of the dangers of using AI for mundane tasks after Claude AI accidentally deleted an entire year of Constitutional Law lecture notes and his entire current syllabus. While the files were later recovered via Dropbox, William Baude shared the story as a public service announcement, the latest story shared in a line of unfortunate AI missteps as proliferation increases.”

ANTI-AI SENTIMENT

Respawn First: “Ram Altman” Is Now a Linux Script That Emails Sam Altman Daily to Report How Much Unused RAM Is in Your PC. “Open-source developer Iain Kay has created an open-source BASH script called ‘Ram Altman’ for Linux systems designed to monitor how much idle RAM you have sitting on your rigs, laptops, etc. The percentage of unused RAM is than emailed to Sam Altman… well not really. The correspondence depends on how you set it up. By default, the email server isn’t set up out of the box.”

DATA CENTERS

New York Times: SpaceX Plans $74 Billion Investment to Build Data Centers in Texas and Arizona. “SpaceX said on Thursday that it planned to invest $74 billion to build new data center campuses in Arizona and Texas as the company continued to pour money into the global artificial intelligence race. The projects, proposed by Elon Musk’s rocket and A.I. company, would be among some of the largest data center projects in the United States.”

The Guardian: AI datacentres plan on-site power stations on huge scale despite climate risks, research reveals. “Datacentres planned across the US, the UK and mainland Europe have proposals to build fossil fuel plants on-site to create 181GW of gas-fired capacity because of delays to connect to national grids, according to the findings. This is almost four times the total peak electricity demand of Great Britain.”

AI IN WORK

Entropic Thoughts: Claude Code token cost explorer. “I tried some existing tools like ccusage and claude-agent-ledger, but they weren’t able to give me the sort of breakdown into specifics I needed to optimise my usage. Thus, I shamelessly had Claude Code whip up a tool that gives me a better view of its token usage.” This article is aggressively footnoted; a footnote was omitted from this quote.

Northeastern University: How AI is shifting the face of journalism, causing a “crisis” in the media industry. “Microsoft and Barclays are among some of the latest companies that have announced thousands of job cuts linked to their implementation of AI. British publishers Reach and Future announced hundreds of layoffs in recent months as some readers rely on AI summaries instead of clicking on complete articles. Journalists have emphasized the value of humans gathering and confirming the accuracy of information as opposed to the AI collection of often unconfirmed commentary available on the internet.”

AI IN GOVERNANCE

Spectrum Local News: North Carolina Department of Information Technology looking for AI vendors. “From accessing state services online to the technology government employees use behind the scenes, artificial intelligence could soon play a bigger role in how North Carolina operates.”

AI IN EDUCATION

TechSpot: School buses are becoming AI-powered ticket machines, generating millions from drivers who fail to stop. “An investigation by Bloomberg and Type Investigations earlier this year reported that BusPatrol equipped around 35,000 buses across 24 states. Its cameras flag suspected illegal passing, with police reviewing evidence before tickets are issued. In Montgomery County, Maryland, the investigation tallied more than 375,000 tickets and $92 million in issued fines. Those are some stunning figures, but the research found little reduction in violations and no evidence of fewer collisions near stopped buses.”

AROUND THE AI WORLD

Mashable: Is that advertisement AI-generated? These 6 signs offer clues.. “In a September study of more than 500 consumers, only 17 percent correctly identified the AI-generated ad in a lineup of 10 — even though half initially felt confident they could spot it. So what gives an AI ad away? Often, it’s something small that doesn’t hold up as well as the overall image. These six signs can offer clues.”

Tubefilter: As brands dive into ChatGPT, OpenAI will let them track their mentions. “If AI chatbots are going to remain a relevant touchpoint for marketers, then agencies and brands need access to the same analytics they use in their other campaigns. Rumor has it that OpenAI is developing new tools in that area, potentially creating new opportunities for advertisers on ChatGPT.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

The Register: OpenAI launches security products, tells orgs they’re doomed if they don’t use them. “OpenAI has launched two new security products, one for penetration testing and another for defense, and warned organizations that their businesses are only safe if they use tools like these.” I wish I could put meme responses here sometimes.

The Sun: Lawmakers challenge Mcdonald’s over use of AI pricing tools . “Senator Elizabeth Warren and four Democratic House members questioned McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski about the company’s use of machine learning algorithms for pricing menu items.”

Ars Technica: Claude Code is accidentally exposing secrets all over GitHub. “Claude Code is leaking sensitive information on public GitHub instances thanks to a partial oversight in the way its settings files are handled. That’s the finding of AI security researchers at Apiiro, who discovered thousands of secrets, including database passwords, API tokens, and root logins, amid Claude Code settings files embedded in GitHub repositories.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

University of Southern California: Stevens INI researchers use generative AI to fill gaps in brain wiring maps. “Researchers from the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that helps fill gaps in brain wiring maps made with diffusion MRI, a type of scan that traces the brain’s nerve fiber pathways. This could help researchers study how key brain connections change with aging and disease.”

Syracuse University: Can AI Truly Understand? Spinoza Award Funds Student’s Work to Find Out. “Instead of feeding AI millions of images for it to recognize what, say, a cat is, [Dio] Brown is testing whether the system, which she calls ‘a coherence-based framework for developmental perception,’ can build understanding the way a child does: by exploring the world one small piece at a time to comprehend what is around them.” Good evening, Internet….

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Internet Archive Blog: 2027 Public Domain Film Contest: The Internet Archive is Looking For Creative Short Films Made By You!. “We invite filmmakers, artists, and creatives of all skill levels and backgrounds to celebrate Public Domain Day, by creating and uploading a short film not exceeding 4 minutes to the Internet Archive. This contest offers a chance to explore and reimagine the creative treasures entering the public domain, especially works from 1931 that enter the public domain on January 1—classic literature, early sound films, cartoons, music, and art.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Mozilla Security Blog: Open research, stronger privacy: Making Firefox users harder to fingerprint. “Firefox is strengthening protection against trackers that recognize you across websites, even when they don’t use cookies. The latest fingerprinting protections shipped in Firefox reduce the extractable distinguishing details, making more Firefox users look alike to tracking scripts and strengthening individuals’ privacy in everyday browsing.”

The Register: Mozilla Thunderbird email service edges closer to launch with early access. “Now known as Thundermail (what else?), the service was originally developed under the Thunderbird Pro banner, which encompassed paid email, appointment scheduling, and file-sharing services designed to generate additional revenue for the organization.”

AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

DigitalTrends: Apple will check your public iCloud links for harmful content, and it doesn’t rule out banning accounts. “When you share a photo through iCloud Photos or a file through iCloud Drive, Apple offers two options: ‘People you choose,’ which limits access to invited people, and ‘Anyone with the link,’ which lets anyone with the URL view the content. Only public links will be checked. The same change applies to iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS 27.3. Since public links were always accessible to anyone, ‘including Apple,’ I see this as Apple finally enforcing a door it always had a key to.”

Waterford Live: Waterford drivers urged to be aware of Google Maps error on key road. “Drivers are being urged to be aware of an issue with Google Maps regarding a section of the main Waterford to Wexford road. The navigation app is displaying the wrong speed limit for a section of the N25 near Glenmore in South Kilkenny.”

Tubefilter: TikTok Shop Plus is a subscription tier that unlocks shopping perks for $9.99 per month. “TikTok Shop is delivering a perk for shoppers this holiday season: a new subscription service. It’s called TikTok Shop Plus, and it brings TikTok’s ecommerce wing in line with its competitors. Similar to Walmart+ and Amazon Prime, TikTok Shop Plus will reward subscribers with deals, shipping discounts, and coupons that will refresh on a regular basis.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

CBC: LinkedIn, Monster take down over 1,000 fake job postings after CBC investigation. “More than 1,500 misleading job postings — offering remote work, no experience needed — have been taken down from LinkedIn and Monster after a CBC visual investigation revealed the listings funnelled unsuspecting applicants to a multi-level marketing (MLM) company that asked for money.”

The Guardian: UK social media ban expansion for under-16s could cover YouTube Kids. “A substantial expansion of the social media ban for under-16s could inadvertently lead to a ban on YouTube Kids and other sites that had been thought exempt, sources briefed on the government’s proposals have said.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Lireo Design: Fun Bird Games to Help You Get Better at Identifying Birds. “Like many other folks, I love playing online games. Especially games that don’t require me to create an account or log in. Games I only need to take a few minutes to play. When the games are focused on one of my hobbies, like birding, that’s even better! I discovered two birding games this past month I’ve enjoyed playing.”

Museums Journal: Monthly museum visits could improve public health, report finds. “The report, The Recommended Dose of Art: A Prescription for Health and Wellbeing, was commissioned by Art Fund, the national art charity, and produced in partnership with Daisy Fancourt, professor of psychobiology and epidemiology at University College London (UCL). It brings together existing studies showing the wide-ranging benefits of engaging with art, including reduced stress hormones, a lower risk of developing dementia and a slow-down in physiological ageing.” Good afternoon, Internet…

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Fullview: Google Arts & Culture Celebrates Esther Mahlangu’s 91st Birthday.. “On the occasion of the 91st birthday of South African artist, Dr Esther Mahlangu, Google Arts & Culture – an online platform and mobile app developed by Google in collaboration with thousands of international museums, archives and cultural entities in over 80 countries – has launched the first expansive online retrospective dedicated to her.”

Jewish Telegraphic Weekly: A new digital archive opens a window into New York’s rich and vibrant Jewish past. “The National Library of Israel has digitized nearly five decades of The New York Jewish Week, New York’s leading Jewish newspaper, making its archives free and accessible to the public for the first time through the library’s Historical Jewish Press collection.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Search Engine Journal: Google’s November 2026 Core Update Starts Rolling Out. “Google began rolling out the November 2026 core update today, according to the Google Search Status Dashboard. The rollout started at 10:06 a.m. PT. Google says the update applies globally and to all languages and may take up to two weeks to complete.”

Chicago Tribune: Chicago parents, students protest Google’s new no-AI, no-search policy with schools. “Chicago parents are pushing back on Google’s announcement last week that K-12 school districts will lose access to its search engine if they switch off all the company’s AI tools. Dozens gathered outside Google’s sleek Fulton Market office Wednesday, raising hand-painted signs and chanting as the rain beat down.”

AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Video Games Chronicle: Nintendo is hiring someone to document the history of its games. “Nintendo of America is hiring a ‘Digital Archivist’ who will be tasked with documenting the company’s history, including the history of its games. A successful candidate will be tasked with collecting ‘technical records, engineering documentation, source materials, and institutional knowledge’ related to Nintendo products, ensuring they are accessible to future generations.”

Tubefilter: The Met Opera is using YouTube to look for a new generation of fans. “Timothee Chalamet may think that no one cares about opera, but one of the most prominent opera houses in the U.S. is betting that it can find new fans for a 430-year-old art form — it just needs to look in the right place. New York’s Metropolitan Opera is delivering a YouTube live stream that will provide open access to a performance of the new work Lincoln in the Bardo.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Reuters: Setback for Google as EU Court Adviser Backs $1.7 Billion Antitrust Fine. “Google suffered ⁠a setback ​on Thursday as ‌an adviser to ‌Europe’s ⁠top ⁠court faulted a lower tribunal’s ​decision to scrap a €1.49 ​billion ($1.7 billion) fine levied ⁠against the ⁠U.S. ⁠tech giant ​7 years ago for ​anti-competitive ⁠practices related to online advertising.”

Ars Technica: Grok Build coding agent leaks oodles of confidential info, some belonging to SpaceXSI. “Grok Build, the vibe-coding agent from SpaceXSI, is leaking data—some of it proprietary business information and other sensitive secrets—from thousands of its users, including the very same Elon Musk-owned company that offers the platform, new research shows.”

Military Times: Hegseth to cut civilians from military service colleges, wants focus on ‘victory’. “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered an overhaul of higher military service colleges today, releasing a memorandum listing 33 directives that he stated would be effective immediately. The mandate will require students aspiring to roles as senior military leaders to prove their acumen using Artificial Intelligence in war games rather than write lengthy written dissertations, and end emeritus status and eliminate lifetime tenure for newly hired civilian faculty.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

The Art Newspaper: Hundreds protest US Senate bill that would gut key section of National Historic Preservation Act. “Representatives from more than 100 tribal nations, members of congress, leaders from the Association of African American Museums, the DC Preservation League, the American Institute of Architects and the Archaeological Institute of America gathered to protest a bill that would remove the requirement for federal agencies to notify and consult with the public and tribal nations about potential harms to historic sites, as stipulated in Section 106, Title III of the National Historic Preservation Act.”

Duke Chronicle: Meet the Duke students trying to tell the human side of science, one podcast episode at a time. “Every Thursday night, Duke students can tune into the radio and hear a different kind of programming — a science podcast, run by their peers. That podcast, called ‘Benchside Broadcast,’ is a passion project led by four second-year Duke developmental and stem cell biology students that shares the endeavors and stories of the science community.”

OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL

Phayul: Tibetan activist Kalsang Tharchin completes 1600-km solo walk for language preservation. “Nearly four months on the road walking through the unforgiving terrains of the Himalayas surviving primarily on a staple of Tsampa (barley flour), a grassroots Tibetan activist Kalsang Tharchin, arrived in Dharamshala on Wednesday, November 11, after traversing 1600-kilometre solo march from Dharamshala to Leh, the capital of Ladakh and back to raise awareness about the urgent need to preserve the Tibetan language amid growing threats posed by China’s policies in occupied Tibet.” Good morning, Internet…

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Yonkers Times: New Yorkers Hound Schumer at Home over Data Center Deal. “On Friday morning, protestors gathered outside Senator Schumer’s Brooklyn home with an AI data center prop to demand that Schumer and the Democrats put a stop to the Trump-supported Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (BAAJA).”

DATA CENTERS

ProPublica: Trump Official Who Wants Data Centers on Public Lands Has Tens of Millions Invested in AI Industry. “Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who is heavily invested in the AI industry, is leading the charge to allow tech companies to build data centers on the public lands he oversees.”

AI AGENTS

Northeastern University: What are they talking about? AI agents are developing odd dialects humans struggle to follow. “With AI digital assistants like Meta’s Muse using everyday language to book dental appointments and Grok Bot picking up the slack on work tasks, agentic AI has gone mainstream. But the integration hasn’t been seamless. When left to their own devices, AI agents behave in shifty ways — and those behaviors can transfer to their interactions with humans.”

AI MODELS

North Carolina State University: Researchers Demonstrate Comprehensive Suite of New Techniques to Protect AI from ‘Backdoor Attacks’. “Researchers have demonstrated three new techniques to prevent so-called ‘backdoor attacks,’ which induce malicious or undesirable behavior in AI models. The researchers have also proposed a concept that would repurpose backdoor attack techniques to create an additional layer of security for users.”

AI IN WORK

Signal Cleveland: Cleveland Public Library sets rules for how it will use AI. “The CPL Board of Trustees approved an AI governance policy. The policy will guide how AI is used in library operations and could be reviewed and amended quarterly as technology changes. The library also established an AI Futures Council so that employee perspectives can be incorporated into these future decisions.”

WHYY: Are AI bots running these Philadelphia and New Jersey news sites?. “Billy Penn spent months keeping tabs on several local news websites that may be using AI and impersonating authors. What we found had us questioning reality.”

AI IN GOVERNANCE

The Register: DoJ’s ‘Super Intelligence Task Force’ up and running. “The US Department of Justice (DoJ) says its Super Intelligence Task Force (SINTF) is now up and running, after president Donald Trump ordered the move in a memo last month. Headed up by director of national intelligence Jay Clayton, as well as associate attorney general Stanley Woodward and associate deputy attorney general Stephen Weiss, SINTF’s responsibility is to protect the US’s lead in artificial intelligence development.”

AI IN EDUCATION

New York Times: A.I. Agents Are Taking Entire Online Courses for Cheating Students. “Artificial intelligence threatens to undermine online education, a growing business for colleges and universities, as professors struggle to counter a groundswell of tech-enabled cheating. In physical classrooms, many educators have shifted to oral presentations and handwritten exams to try to prevent misuse of an unregulated technology. But those strategies can be harder to execute online, where more than half of American college students took at least one class last year, up from about a third in 2019.”

Chronicle of Higher Education: When Technology Harms Learning. “As concerns about digital distraction grow, professors like [Lisa] Silvestri are asking whether technologies that once seemed so promising for education are instead undermining students. We know about the dangers of smartphones and social media, they say. But what about course-management software that organizes lessons into a series of tasks to check off? Digital readings that encourage scrolling? Apps that turn learning into point collection? And online assignments in which diversion is a click away?”

AROUND THE AI WORLD

Gizmodo: Apple Begins Testing Its Apple Watch Always Listening Features. “Apple has officially begun rolling out new tools that allow users to use their Apple Watches as always-listening devices. Apple first announced the Apple Watch Series 12 and its AI-infused Siri features at its fall hardware event, ‘Surprise and Shine,’ back in September. Two key new features were unveiled under the moniker Audio Intelligence.”

ZDNet: Can you still trust Proton?. “It hasn’t been a good month for Proton, the Swiss technology company best known for privacy-focused products like Proton Mail and Proton VPN. Now, in a blog post published today, the company is defending its use of AI and assuring customers that its security safeguards remain intact.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

USA Today: Man sues OpenAI alleging ChatGPT encouraged his wife to poison him. “A North Carolina man has sued OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT aided his wife in a monthslong plan to poison him by spiking his sodas and energy drinks. The popular chatbot ‘encouraged, planned and helped to execute and conceal’ the plan, according to the lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court.”

Yahoo Sports: LeBron James’ lawyers send cease and desist to AI sports-betting app that used his name and likeness. “Attorneys for Philadelphia 76ers star LeBron James sent a cease and desist letter to an AI sports-betting app that used a popular nickname for James and released an ad featuring his likeness, according to Front Office Sports. Bron AI, a sports-gambling app, put out the ad Wednesday. In it, an AI version of James can be seen placing bets on NBA outcomes.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Poynter: Political campaigns spent $187 million promoting AI-generated ads in the 2026 midterms. Did they work?. “…while this wasn’t ‘the ‘AI election’,’ AI ads are the new normal, said Christina Walker, a University of Georgia international affairs assistant professor who studies how AI shapes political information. About 300 political ads were generated or enhanced by AI this election cycle, according to analysis by the Wesleyan Media Project, which tracks and analyzes political advertising.”

PsyPost: One of AI’s most annoying writing habits has a 2,000-year-old history. “Anyone who spends much time reading text generated by artificial intelligence has likely noticed a recurring stylistic habit: a sentence makes a plain statement and immediately negates it in favor of something grander, such as ‘This is not a course. It is a journey of transformation.’ A new preprint posted on arXiv examines how large language models use this ancient rhetorical figure, known as epanorthosis, and finds early signs that the models overuse it in some genres and underuse it in others.” Good evening, Internet…

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UNESCO: AI Answers. You Decide: UNESCO launches a new Media and Information Literacy curriculum. “As artificial intelligence transforms how information is created, accessed and shared, UNESCO is launching a new educational resource to help educators and learners critically engage with AI and make informed decisions.”

Digital Preservation Coalition: Thirty-three years of Novaya Gazeta, open to all. “On 30 October Novaya Gazeta announced its closure, ending its 33-year history of outstanding independent journalism. According to the editors, the Russian authorities and security services forced the newsroom to stop working under the threat of an ‘extremist organisation’ designation, which could have led to the arrest of its journalists. Its record, from the first issue in April 1993 to the last, is now preserved in RIMA and open to anyone.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Search Engine Roundtable: Google Loses Another Round in Legal Battle Against SerpApi Over Scraping. “Google has lost again in SerpApi’s scraping legal fight in court, with the court giving Google 21 days to amend its complaint. But this is a major win for SerpApi and this case seems like it might be coming to a close soon.”

AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Signal Cleveland: Meet T-Bone and Solo, the Cleveland comedians behind viral ‘Culture Swap’ videos. “Cleveland’s prominence on social media is getting a major boost from the antics of two local comedy stars whose videos spotlighting and breaking down racial stereotypes have gone viral. Over 4.5 million viewers have watched the online series ‘Culture Swap’ featuring Timothy Sweeney, or ‘T-Bone,’ and David Bost, or ‘Solo.'”

9to5 Mac: End of an era: Apple Support Community forums will permanently close on November 20. “Users visiting the Apple Support Community tonight were greeted with a message informing them that the platform will permanently shut down on November 20. Here are the details.”

Politico: Finland’s embassy in Canberra is going viral — and no one knows why. “It initially appeared to be an innocuous, some would say boring, public service announcement from Finland’s embassy in Australia. ‘The Embassy … will be temporarily closed on Tuesday, 10 November 2026.’ By Wednesday morning, the embassy’s social media staff were frantically replying to a deluge of ironic memes and videos lamenting the announcement.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

The Register: November Patch Tuesday boasts over 1,000 bugs but only one zero-day so far. “It’s another doozy of a Patch Tuesday, with Microsoft fixing 1,094 bugs in its products, including one that attackers exploited before Redmond released a patch. Jake Knott, head of threat intelligence at exposure management firm watchTowr, succinctly said in an email to The Register: ‘Maybe we should just go home.'”

Mashable: $6 billion Binance hack started with a fake job interview. “In September, a different Binance engineer was contacted through a job-hunting platform and went through multiple interview rounds for a company that turned out to be nonexistent. After building trust with the engineer, the hacker posing as an employee at the fake company asked the Binance engineer to download an assignment as part of the interview process. This download included malicious code.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

PsyPost: Social media rewards politicians for negative partisan attacks, study finds. “Members of the United States Congress have become increasingly partisan and negative in their online communications over the last decade. A massive study evaluating millions of social media posts and emails found that politicians receive disproportionately high engagement when they attack political opponents rather than sharing legislative accomplishments. The findings were published in the American Political Science Review.”

OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL

Johnson County Library: Country-wide Library Card Collection Convenes at Corinth. “Hi, I’m Caitlin, a Librarian at Johnson County Library. I was inspired by this yearly tradition, and I wanted to do my part to promote libraries with a display featuring library cards from across all 50 states. Could I possibly get 100% representation? I had a significant jump start with the help of a friend and former coworker who personally collects local library cards whenever she travels. Right off the bat, I had 33 unique cards representing 13 states. Day one and I was already a quarter of the way there.” Good afternoon, Internet…

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Google Blog: 40 years of American culinary history with the James Beard Foundation. “For over four decades, the James Beard Foundation — a launchpad for many of today’s top chefs — has hosted dinners capturing the evolution of American cuisine. This new James Beard Foundation digital archive opens a window into that evolution, with an interactive experiment and more than 10,000 digitized menus from those dinners documenting how ingredients, trends, and values have shifted across generations.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Moscow Times: Nearly 3% of Cloud Customer Data Permanently Lost After Drone Strikes, Yandex Says. “Yandex said Tuesday that it restored access to around 97% of cloud customer data affected by last month’s Ukrainian drone strikes on its data centers, though the remaining 3% has been permanently lost. In a press release, the tech company attributed the data loss to ‘critical damage to equipment’ and a failure by some cloud customers to maintain external backups on the platform.”

Mashable: Is YouTube getting a separate social networking app?. “Google might be looking to expand the social side of YouTube to a separate app, according to a report. The diligent detectives over at Android Authority spotted several references, both in the form of code and visual assets, to something called ‘Tamba’ in the latest build of YouTube for Android.”

AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

EdEx: Yuge Yugeen Bharat Museum to get digital archive under centre-Google partnership. “The upcoming Yuge Yugeen Bharat Museum in New Delhi will be a central focus of a new digital heritage initiative launched through a partnership between the Ministry of Culture and Google Arts & Culture. The two organisations signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on November 5 to document, preserve and share India’s cultural heritage through digital platforms.”

Gizmodo: iOS Apparently Maintains a List of 4,500+ Phrases It Won’t Autocomplete. “Beyond the words it actively autocorrects to something else, new research suggests that iOS maintains what researcher Derik Kauffman calls a ‘gray list’—phrases that it will never suggest, no matter how often you type them, and will often refuse to recognize when you use swipe typing.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Ed Markey: Sen. Markey, Rep. Adams Reintroduce Legislation to Protect Critical Records from Environmental Damage. “Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee and Environment and Public Works Committee, and Congresswoman Alma Adams, Ph.D. (NC-12) today announced the introduction of the Public Archives Resiliency Act to authorize grants to support long-term climate resiliency, preservation, and continuity of records and documents for archival intuitions, including libraries and museums.”

Reuters: Exclusive-India Ordered Website Takedowns on Fake Court Orders, Reuters Finds; Police Launch Probe. “India’s government ordered internet providers to block 129 illegal betting websites ⁠this ⁠year based on two state high court orders that Reuters has ⁠found were fake, findings that have triggered at least one police investigation. The forgeries are the latest sign that fake orders are slipping past India’s official content ​removal mechanism, considered one of the world’s strictest, and could impact the online presence of any organisation operating in the country. ”

Ars Technica: Hackers exploited iOS and Android flaws to infect phones. “Hackers possibly linked to the Kremlin exploited previously patched iOS and Android flaws in an attempt to hack visitors of multiple websites, including one celebrating the 250th anniversary of American independence, researchers said Wednesday.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

The Atlantic: The Trolls’ Comeuppance. This link goes to a gift article. “The Twitter takeover went wrong for conservatives in two ways. The first is that they posted more and more toxic content in an effort to drive engagement. The second is that they had no idea how unpopular that toxic content had become; both influencers and politicians mistook engagement for approval. Political influencers and parties’ incentives can align. In the end, however, the former is looking for engagement and the latter for votes, and those interests can diverge—leaving politicians chasing engagement while not realizing they are shedding voters.”

New York Times: Young Talent Fueled American Scientific Dominance. Now It’s Disappearing.. “For nearly a century, the United States has been the global leader in cultivating young scientists, training them at the nation’s vast network of universities and harnessing their talents to ensure American dominance in research and innovation. But now that Ph.D. pipeline is in turmoil. An analysis by The New York Times of university and federal data found that the Trump administration, in its broader dismantling of the American scientific machinery, has undermined opportunities for young scientists.”

North Carolina A&T: Beyond the Lab: N.C. A&T Research Explores New Way to Identify Corruption Risk Through Google Searches. “[Dr. Kecia Williams] Smith and her research co-authors at the University of Illinois developed a Google-based measure that examines how often the ticker symbols of companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges appear near the word ‘corruption’ in online documents. They compared those results with the overall volume of online information associated with each company.”

OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL

North Carolina State University: New Tech Turns Your Arm Into a Smartwatch Trackpad. “Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed technology that turns a smartwatch user’s forearm into a trackpad, allowing the user to scroll, zoom, click on icons, and so on. The system relies on a radar system that tracks the movement of a user’s fingers on the forearm and monitors pressure on the skin of the forearm, providing the same level of force-touch detail available on laptop trackpads.” Good morning, Internet…

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Smithsonian: National Museum of the American Indian Presents the 2026 Native Cinema Showcase. “The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian returns with the online Native Cinema Showcase, celebrating Indigenous filmmakers of the Western Hemisphere. All films are available on demand beginning Friday, Nov. 13, 5 p.m. ET, through Friday, Nov. 27, 5 p.m. ET. With the exception of Remaining Native, all films are available to view worldwide.”

Among Cats and Books: Bloggies ’27 – Enter the Arena. Please note these are awards specifically for tabletop roleplaying blogs. “It’s almost time for us mere bloggers to step into the arena again, break billiard cues in half, grab whatever improvised weapons we can find, and battle to the death. There can be only one. It’s BLOGGIES time!”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

ZDNet: Linux Mint 27 arrives next month, and I like it already: New features and other upgrades to expect. “Linux Mint, my favorite Linux desktop distribution, is ready for a fresh start. Its lead developer, Clement “Clem” Lefebvre, announced earlier this year that the team behind it was considering slowing Mint’s release cadence because the old twice-a-year release cycle was time-consuming and constrained their ability to make major changes. So it is that the next release, Linux Mint 27, will appear in your Christmas stocking.”

USEFUL STUFF

HackerNoon: Insignary Releases Free Insignary-Chk Tool to Detect PHP2Shell and Node2Shell Exposure (PRESS RELEASE). “Insignary, a global open-source security company, today released insignary-chk, a free tool that checks for PHP2Shell and Node2Shell, two recently disclosed runtime vulnerabilities affecting PHP and Node.js.”

AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

The Register: Outlook.com bounces legit emails as Microsoft’s authentication crackdown goes sideways . “A validation error has stopped Outlook.com from accepting legitimate emails. The problem appears widespread and, according to reports from affected users, can result in non-delivery reports with error codes related to SPF (Sender Policy Framework) validation failures.”

South Dakota State Archives: The South Dakota State Archives has received over 500 Vietnam War era color slide photographs.. “The South Dakota State Archives has received over 500 Vietnam War era color slide photographs taken by South Dakota native and Vietnam Veteran Harry Knapp. This is a remarkably large and detailed collection that documents an important era in our country’s history.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

DigitalTrends: Research exposes TikTok’s dark side that lures young girls into the world of adult content. “According to research conducted by the UK’s Centre to End All Sexual Exploitation (CEASE) and Australia’s Collective Shout, TikTok has become a funnel for promoting adult content hosted on platforms such as OnlyFans. Titled ‘The TikTok to OnlyFans Pipeline: How TikTok is promoting, normalising and glamourising the sex industry,’ the report is the result of a year-long investigation into how OnlyFans is being normalized on the platform.”

Mashable: European Commission advises TikTok to redesign FYP or risk fines. “European regulators warn TikTok’s ‘rabbit hole’-inducing FYP might be breaking EU law. Preliminary findings from an investigation by the European Commission accuse the social media giant of failing to mitigate the potential mental health risks of its personalized algorithmic feed in violation of the Digital Services Act.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

IndieWeb is Punk. “Punk didn’t wait for labels to say yes. It plugged in a blown out amp in someone’s basement and played anyway…. The IndieWeb works the same way. Nobody’s waiting for permission to publish a website. You don’t need a ‘content strategy.’ You don’t need a niche. You need a place that’s yours, and the nerve to hit publish. Sometimes it’s ugly. It’s the wrong font. It’s a blog post about nothing at all. It works and it’s yours.”

Lianhe Zaobao: Botanic Gardens deciphers century-old manuscripts; 120,000 archived items to go online by 2028. “The Library [of the Singapore Botanic Gardens] holds about 120,000 items, including botanical literature, botanical illustrations, maps and photographs. More than 10,000 items have been digitised so far, including over 10,600 botanical artworks and more than 8,300 photographs and postcards. The entire digitisation project is expected to be completed in 2028, when the collection will be made available to the public.” Good afternoon, Internet…

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Search Engine Roundtable: Google AI Mode Biased: It Only Shows Links To Google Flights. “Over the weekend, I tested out using Google AI Mode to get flight information and 100% of the time, the only links available within the AI Mode responses were to Google Flights. I am sure the Digital Markets Act (DMA) folks in Europe are going to like this.”

Futurism: Kids Hooked on AI Chatbots Are Showing Dramatically Worse Mental Health. “Huge numbers of kids are turning to AI for schoolwork and emotional support — habits that are linked to poor mental health and suicidal ideation. According to a new survey by the mental health advocacy group JED Foundation, 90 percent of nine to 17 year olds have used an AI chatbot. The majority of them, 58 percent, said they use AI for schoolwork. And nearly the same portion, 57 percent, said they also use AI when feeling sad, stressed, lonely, or overwhelmed.”

Tom’s Hardware: Anthropic loosens Claude’s game cloning ban — AI will now offer to build original games in the requested genre. “The explosion of cloning and reverse-engineering games with AI has forced Anthropic to completely block its AI tools from executing these tasks. However, this has also negatively impacted game developers, who have started complaining that they can no longer use the tool for their own legitimate purposes. The Anthropic team has updated the rule so that Claude will now offer to build an original game in the same genre when asked to copy an existing one, according to an X post by technical staff member Addy Osmani.”

ANTI-AI SENTIMENT

The Register: ‘Stop dirty datacenters’: Europe-wide protests planned demanding building moratorium. “As well as demonstrations, there will be public meetings, stalls, petitions, walking tours, cycle rides, poetry readings and other creative actions, the organizers say. The coalition of groups has put up a website – stopdirtydatacentres.eu – with an interactive map allowing anyone to find information on the events taking place and where.” This was last week so don’t put your protesting shoes on.

DATA CENTERS

New York Times: Old, Polluting Jet Engines Are Being Scavenged to Power Data Centers. “Jet engines are a plentiful and untapped source. In January, the federal Energy Information Administration said that the engines from the 4,000 old military jets it parks at a single desert base in Tucson could create 40,000 megawatts of power. That’s more than the generation capacity of the entire state. But repurposed aircraft turbines tend to be less efficient and more polluting than engines designed for conventional gas-burning plants. And data centers need more jet-powered generators to produce the same amount of electricity.”

Reuters: Google acquires Wyoming data center site from AI infrastructure firm Crusoe. “Google has acquired Crusoe’s data center site in southeast Wyoming, the AI infrastructure developer said on Friday, a day after the Alphabet unit announced a $17-billion investment in the project.”

AI AGENTS

Mashable: AI agents are banned on Tinder and Hinge, CEO says. “AI agents aren’t allowed on Tinder and Hinge, the CEO of their parent company, Match Group, Spencer Rascoff, wrote in a New York Times op-ed yesterday. Rascoff argues that the initial purpose of dating apps was to remove friction, which is also the goal of AI agents, but that in some cases friction is necessary for a more meaningful experience.”

AI IN WORK

Hollywood Reporter: David Ellison Is Very Bullish On AI’s Creative Potential. “In his first earnings call as CEO at the helm of both Paramount and Warner Bros., David Ellison talked up his merged Hollywood empire as a tech-forward enterprise — and part of that tightrope walk included an embrace of AI while also dismissing ‘AI slop.'”

AI IN GOVERNANCE

Politico: New York’s Hochul launches nation’s first state AI testing program. “New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is launching a first-in-nation effort to have the state independently test AI systems and train a new generation of AI safety experts, according to a policy announcement first shared with Decoded by POLITICO.”

AI IN EDUCATION

The Guardian: AI has made it ‘close to impossible’ to assess university coursework, regulator says. “Universities should go back to traditional exams and in-person presentations to grade students after lecturers complained that AI has made it ‘close to impossible’ to assess coursework, according to an investigation by England’s higher education regulator.”

AI FINANCE

CNBC: Anthropic sets price range of $70 to $78 in upcoming IPO as AI lab marches toward Nasdaq. “Anthropic said it will offer 825 million shares in its upcoming IPO at a price range between $70 to $78 per share, according to an updated filing on Tuesday, bringing the five-year-old artificial intelligence lab a step closer to a potentially historic Nasdaq debut.”

AROUND THE AI WORLD

PetaPixel: Photographer Exposes AI-Generated Images in Another Photographer’s Portfolio. “Whitehaven is a picturesque town on the Cumbrian coast of England, not too far from the breathtaking Lake District National Park. It’s a magnet for photographers who want to capture its harbor, which can be traced back to 1517 and was once raided by John Paul Jones during the American Revolutionary War. One photographer who works in the area, Dave Wilson, was perusing the myWhitehaven Facebook page recently when he spotted a photo that didn’t look right.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Denver Post: Lakewood radiologist took $5 million in ‘Ponzi-like’ AI investment scheme, lawsuit alleges. “A Lakewood man fraudulently took more than $5 million from investors and failed to pay them the promised returns in a ‘Ponzi-like’ artificial intelligence investment scheme, Colorado alleges in a new lawsuit.”

Courthouse News Service: Anthropic must face claims its Claude Max pitch misled users. “Anthropic’s promise of ‘5x or 20x more usage’ for its Claude Max plans could mislead customers, a federal judge in California said Friday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Alex Tse dismissed several claims but allowed key parts of a proposed class action by Claude users to move forward.

RESEARCH & OPINION

University of Florida: As AI transforms education, a UF mathematician aims to preserve the productive struggle of learning. “As leading AI labs solve famous open problems in mathematics, educators are grappling with a fundamental question: How can artificial intelligence support student learning without replacing the thinking that makes it possible? A University of Florida-led research team is addressing that challenge with HaLLMos, an AI tool that helps students learn to work through mathematical challenges rather than avoid them.”

University of Southern California: What If AI Came With a Nutrition Label? A New Framework Measures AI’s Impact on Human Wellbeing. “Nutrition labels have long helped consumers understand what they’re putting into their bodies. Now, a new framework applies a similar approach to AI, giving people a clearer view of how the AI models they use may affect their wellbeing.” Good afternoon, Internet…

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Vietnam.vn: Opening a digital library of Vietnamese films.. “…starting in November 2026, films about famous figures, revolutionary history, children’s films, and award-winning works from across the country are expected to be uploaded to online platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, and other OTT applications. However, putting films online is just the first step, and many issues are being addressed to ensure that film distribution is truly effective and has a wide reach.”

The Henryettan: Oklahoma launches spending transparency database for state purchases. “Oklahomans can now search state agency purchase orders and purchase-card charges in one place after the Office of Management and Enterprise Services launched the Oklahoma Spending Transparency database, the agency said Thursday. The public tool lets users look up spending by agency and see vendor or merchant names, amounts and purchase dates.”

Coventry Cathedral: New chapter for Coventry Cathedral’s exceptional medieval glass collection as World Monuments Fund partnership comes to a close. “World Monuments Fund (WMF) and Coventry Cathedral have recently completed a project cataloguing the cathedral’s collection of medieval stained glass, continuing a partnership that began with the cathedral’s inclusion on the 2012 World Monuments Watch. Thousands of stained-glass fragments have been brought together for the first time in over a decade, making this important collection accessible for visitors and researchers.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Correctional Association of New York: CANY Updates Dashboards on Incarcerated Population, Releases, and Staffing Levels in New York State Prisons . “The Correctional Association of New York (CANY) today announced an update to its Staffing, Under Custody, and Releases from Custody dashboards, incorporating recent data received from the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS). Today’s updates are also reflected on CANY’s prison map page.”

USEFUL STUFF

Hypertext Hero: YouTube timestamps to Markdown tool. “My vibe-coded tool of the day: Paste a YouTube URL and video description containing video chapter timestamps to make clean blog-ready Markdown links.”

AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Ars Technica: FAA to finally ditch floppy disks in what it calls “historic” tech upgrade. “The FAA said yesterday that it will stop using floppy disks as part of a long-awaited upgrade that will give air traffic controllers faster access to data needed for crucial safety alerts. The new Enterprise Information Display System (E-IDS) will be installed in 435 facilities, replacing several information display systems dating to the 1980s.”

ZephrSec Blog: Who Is aocr.org and Why Is It Reading My Blog?. “A radiology college started ‘sending’ me traffic. In reality, it wasn’t. Unpicking a headless crawler with a fake referrer, rotating proxies and a ByteDance-shaped fingerprint, and blocking it with a single Cloudflare rule.” This has been happening to me too and it was driving me crazy.

SECURITY & LEGAL

Gizmodo: A YouTuber Figured Out How to Find Almost Anyone Using Airplane Sounds. “YouTuber Colsto has made a name for himself by finding novel ways to track down hidden locations: those of album cover shots, Primitive Technology, and, um, Andrew Tate. (Happily, we can all do the last one now.) In his latest video, though, Colsto has outdone himself. The video describes a technique that can reveal where an otherwise unidentifiable recording was made by analyzing its audio for the faint sounds of passing aircraft.”

The Register: DigiCert admits 16-month security lapse exposed customer information. “DigiCert has admitted that a botched server migration left an internal system exposed to the internet for more than a year, allowing an unauthorized user to access customer data, including passports, driver’s licenses, and other identity documents. The certificate authority has begun notifying affected customers but has yet to disclose how many people had their information exposed.”

KLAX: Louisiana Supreme Court Leverages Technology to Strengthen Transparency, Expand Public Access to Justice . “Now, in addition to providing high definition livestreaming of the Court’s oral arguments, the upgrades include state-of-the-art audiovisual technology that will allow the Court to offer the Oral Arguments On-Demand Audio platform, providing access to archived recordings.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

New Orleans Museum of Art: Educator Guide for Second Nature: Japanese Rinpa Paintings from the Gitter-Yelen Collection Now Available Online for Free. “A free and downloadable Educator’s Guide to Second Nature: Japanese Rinpa Paintings from the Gitter-Yelen Collection, on view at NOMA now through February 14, 2027, is now available. Included in the guide are an introduction to Rinpa painting, a brief description of the exhibition and related topics, classroom activities that encourage student reflection, guiding questions and additional resources to support learning.”

OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL

New York City Economic Development Corporation: Billion Oyster Project and NYC Ferry Launch Floating Classroom, Opening New York Harbor to Thousands of Public School Students. “Announced at the DUMBO Ferry Dock in Brooklyn Bridge Park, the program will transform existing NYC Ferry vessels into science classrooms during off-peak weekday hours. Led by Billion Oyster Project educators, 90-minute voyages will introduce students to marine ecology, oyster restoration, climate resilience, and the people and careers that keep New York Harbor moving. The partnership aims to bring more than 10,000 public school students onto the Harbor annually.” Good morning, Internet…

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Chytomo: Against the threat of Russian aggression – Lithuania digitizes cultural heritage and connects collections from over 170 institutions. “Lithuania is bringing together digital collections from more than 170 cultural institutions through its national eKultūra platform, in a major effort to preserve and make its cultural heritage accessible. The initiative is driven, not least, by concerns about safeguarding cultural heritage amid the threat posed by Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.”

The Courtauld: The Courtauld launches ‘The Art of Looking’ on Google Arts and Culture. “The Courtauld has launched The Art of Looking, in partnership with Google Arts & Culture, now available for everyone to see on the platform. Drawing on the expertise of the Courtauld’s faculty of art historians and curators, The Art of Looking invites people anywhere in the world to look more closely at art and to think differently about what they see.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Itch: The return of Flash games. “We’ve got an update for fans of Flash games! We’ve re-implemented Flash support on itch.io using Ruffle, an open source Flash emulator that runs entirely in your browser. Ruffle has been around for quite some time and compatibility is quite good from our testing. We’ve gotten a few requests over the years to add it to help make older games playable. The day has arrived!”

TechCrunch: YouTube streaming data returns to Billboard charts, ending major disagreement. “Announced Monday, YouTube is set to resume sharing its streaming data with Billboard in 2027. The decision follows recent changes to Billboard’s chart formula, which now gives more weight to ad-supported streams.”

AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Finestre sull’Arte: In Ghana, an archive that started on Instagram has become a cultural center: here’s how they did it. “Accra, Ghana. A digital archive that began on Instagram to collect images of traditional Ghanaian culture has evolved into a cultural center open to the city. This is the story of Si Hene, a project founded in 2020by Ghanaian artist Rita Mawuena Benissan and now a foundation dedicated to heritage preservation, research, and education.”

San Jose Public Library: The Rise and Fall of National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo). “There were several problems that led to the downfall of Nanowrimo. The primary one was money. It took a lot of money to keep the website going. They did not get grants they needed to keep the website working, and very few notable authors or publishers contributed either. The inability to stay solvent produced a lot of finger-pointing at who was to blame. Many people who believed in Nano tried to keep it open but in the end it just wasn’t enough. The second problem, however, was far more avoidable.”

NBC News: Trump Media cashes in on high-speed access to social media posts. “The ‘Truth API,’ as the company calls it, allows news organizations, Wall Street trading firms and other services to pay $60,000 to $100,000 per month for a direct feed of posts on the social network. Critics have slammed the feed as an attempt to profit from President Donald Trump’s posts.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

New York Times: Researchers Identify Suspicious Prediction Market Activity Before Times/Siena Poll Release. “A user on Polymarket placed a series of bets worth $191,277 in the early hours of Oct. 31 that Senator Pete Ricketts, a Nebraska Republican, would win re-election. About an hour later, at 5:05 a.m. Eastern time, a Times/Siena poll came out with Mr. Ricketts six points ahead — among his largest leads in the race. It was unclear if the user had access to inside information or simply made well-timed trades.”

Kentucky Lantern: KY measles database revealed patient information, state officials say. “Patient information for Kentuckians with confirmed cases of measles reported on the state’s disease dashboard was publicly accessible in September. On Sept. 23, the ‘security vulnerability’ was discovered, which ‘made some private patient information accessible to the public,’ cabinet spokeswoman Beth Fisher said in a statement.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

ARTNews: Getty Pitches In on First-Ever Conservation of an Earthquake-Damaged 17th-Century Church in the Andean Highlands of Peru. “The Getty will work with local authorities on the first-ever conservation project on a 17th-century earthen church in the Andean highlands of the Cusco region of Peru. The Church of Santo Tomás de Aquino, locally known as the Church of Rondocan, is a sacred cultural heritage site. Over the years, earthquakes have damaged the church, and not only the structure but also the church’s collection of more than 300 cultural objects is under threat.” Good afternoon, Internet…

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