Intent: An online museum about the resistance to the occupation of Crimea has been created in Ukraine. “An online platform called ‘Virtual Space of Memory: Museum of Crimean Resistance’ has been launched in Ukraine. The project tells the stories of Crimean political prisoners through their letters, documents, and personal belongings.”

Irish Central: Where are you from? Find out using these Irish surname maps. “More than 6,000 Irish surnames are included on a website compiled by genealogist Barry Griffin that lets users explore where in Ireland the surname was concentrated. Using data compiled from Ireland’s 1901 and 1911 censuses, Griffin has pieced together information on thousands of Irish surnames.” I looked up one of the Irish surnames in my family tree — Jordan — and found lots of them around County Mayo and County Sligo.

Jazz Rochester: Exploring Rochester’s Jazz Artists: Past and Present. “The database also includes jazz musicians from Western New York and the Finger Lakes who perform a lot in Rochester. Right now there are nearly 400 names in the database, with their active years ranging from 1917 to the present. Jim [Lill]’s goal is to gather data about Rochester’s jazz musicians for other researchers and to facilitate contact with current artists.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Google Blog: Google Arts & Culture turns 15 — and gives its app a makeover. “Starting today, you can check out our refreshed Google Arts & Culture mobile app to mark this 15-year milestone. The updated experience helps you easily navigate our partners’ vast archives, including high-resolution artworks, archaeological 3D artifacts, fashion, performance art, sports, craft, culinary heritage, natural history, science, design, and nature.”

TechCrunch: Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots. “Amid a number of updates for moderators and developers announced Wednesday, comes bad news for supporters of a more open web: Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds.” NOT. HAPPY.

USEFUL STUFF

How-To Geek: What LoRa actually is, and why it can send messages miles without cell towers. “If you’ve spent any time in hobbyist electronic spaces, you’ve probably come across the term ‘LoRa’ before. Like Wi-Fi and cell networks, LoRa can be used to send and receive data through the air. But there are some big differences that make LoRa a very different technology.”

AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Tubefilter: YouTube is letting creators make reaction content on-platform, using everyone else’s long-form videos. “Reaction creator pirating gave birth to a crop of digital rights management companies specifically serving creators. For some, the main goal is reclaiming revenue when a creator’s content is reuploaded without their permission. Others focus on licensing out banks of UGC content from creators who are cool with people reacting to their clips–as long as they’re credited and compensated. YouTube is now getting into this side of things. Kind of.”

Syrian Observer: Aleppo Citadel Launches “Touristech” Project to Digitize Heritage Visits. “The project turns a visit to the citadel into a journey with multiple stops. At each stop, visitors can learn the story of the place through interactive units and screens, and they can also use a QR code to access additional information and materials, including photos, maps, and site-related content.”

KRQE: New Mexico State Library collection now digitally available to residents. “New Mexicans can now access almost 1,000 digital books for free. The New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs is opening access to the state library’s collection of audio and eBooks via Hoopla.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

SwissInfo: Swiss commission ready to mediate disputes over looted art. “Former Swiss President and Commission Chair Simonetta Sommaruga, along with Vice-Chair Felix Uhlmann, briefed the media on Wednesday in Bern. The Commission has now adopted the procedural rules for dealing with such individual cases, which the legal scholar Uhlmann discussed at the conference. It will thus act as a mediator between the parties where there is a prospect of reaching an amicable agreement. If not, proceedings will be initiated, culminating in a non-binding recommendation. This applies to objects from the Nazi and colonial contexts.” Good afternoon, Internet…

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Gizmodo: Not Even $10,000 Could Convince These Locals To Stop Protesting a Data Center Project. “A major developer is offering $10,000 to every family in a small Pennsylvania town if they don’t object to the construction of a mega data center project. Nevertheless, local advocates are standing their ground, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report.”

DATA CENTERS

Idaho Capital Sun: Pacific Power to charge new Oregon data centers for all costs associated with growing energy need. “Oregon’s second largest investor-owned electric utility could soon directly assign the costs of new energy projects and infrastructure needed for data centers to data center operators. Pacific Power last week agreed to the deal following months of negotiations with staff of the Oregon Public Utility Commission, the watchdog Citizens’ Utility Board and a handful of environmental and community advocacy groups.”

Business Standard: Sydney data centre plan scrapped by developer after community backlash. “Australia’s data-centre boom is running into growing community resistance, with Goodman Group scrapping plans for a 24-hour facility in suburban Sydney after a backlash from local residents.”

The Guardian: US datacenter discharged large amounts of pollution for almost a year with no permits. “DataOne, the Microsoft-linked New Jersey datacenter recently hit with a $1m fine for running unpermitted generators, emitted large amounts of health-harming air pollution for nearly a year before state regulators stepped in, according to public records obtained by Floodlight.”

AI IN EDUCATION

Wall Street Journal: Inside Google’s AI Push Into Schools: ‘It Slowed My Thinking Down’. “Google’s own researchers have written that the technology can pose elevated risks to children, who struggle to distinguish chatbots from human interaction, and has potential for cognitive and emotional harm, according to interviews with current and former Google employees and a review of more than a dozen Google research papers.”

AI IN GOVERNANCE

International Business Times: Trump’s America.gov AI Says His Name Is in Epstein Files Before It Suddenly Stops Talking Politics. “When the site first went live, its question-and-answer tool initially confirmed that Trump’s name appears in the Epstein files, that Joe Biden won the 2020 election and that recent warming is largely driven by humans. Within moments, according to the Associated Press, it began refusing the same questions, replying that it did not answer political inquiries.”

The Conversation: As AI political deepfakes go viral, lawmakers struggle to keep up – 2 states’ laws show limits of what they can do. “I am an AI policy scholar at the University of Denver, where we use an AI policy tracker to monitor bills and laws across the U.S. With 2026 midterm elections approaching, the important question for voters is what protection a deepfake law actually provides, and I examine two state laws – in Louisiana and Maryland – to illustrate the limits of what can be done.”

AI LEGISLATION

CNBC: California Gov. Gavin Newsom bans AI ‘robo bosses’ in landmark state law, reversing his earlier veto. “SB 947, dubbed the No Robo Bosses Act, prevents businesses around the state from exclusively using ‘automated decision-making systems’ in matters of employee discipline and termination. It also restricts their capacity to use AI as a principal tool in such decisions.”

AI IN WORK

Genealogy’s Star: Will Genealogy Survive AI?. “As AI matures and becomes more sophisticated and reliable, the tasks it will be able to do will continue to expand. Those genealogists that are still working on paper or even those who do not care to learn about AI may one day wake up to the fact that any work they do is already done by an online website such as FamilySearch.”

404 Media: Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal. “A lawyer used ChatGPT to generate briefs that included completely made-up witnesses and testimony while representing a man accused of shooting his wife. When he was caught by the judges, the lawyer blamed it on his own ‘stupidity.'”

AROUND THE AI WORLD

Reuters: AI is changing how Americans choose snacks, says Conagra. “Consumers are also examining ingredients more ​closely and increasingly using AI tools to guide purchasing decisions, ​Conagra said. ⁠Rather than searching for a specific product, shoppers are asking for snacks that meet particular needs, such as higher protein or fibre content.”

Associated Press: Contradicting Trump, Pope Leo says AI safety concerns not ‘fake news’. “Pope Leo XIV said Monday that concerns about artificial intelligence going rogue are not ‘fake news’ and should be taken seriously, insisting that safety issues raised by AI experts should be discussed and acted on.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Kurt Hanson’s Radio and Internet News: Sony and Warner team in billion-dollar IP lawsuit against AI founders. “AI is under legal attack again, and this time the intellectual property at the center of the case is not music, but lyrics. Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music are teaming against AI company Anthropic and — notably — its CEO and co-founder Benjamin Mann.”

BBC: Man charged over AI image of crocodile in Singapore reservoir. “Police in Singapore have charged a man who is accused of posting an AI-generated image of a saltwater crocodile in a popular reservoir. Ye Lin was charged with communicating a false message and obstructing the course of justice for allegedly deleting the picture and the application he used.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

North Carolina State University: Researchers Offer Three Ways to Alert Users to AI Hallucinations with ‘Embodied’ Agents. “When a conversational AI character in an immersive environment says something false, how should the system alert the user? Researchers have now explored this question in a proof-of-concept study, which tested three techniques for alerting users to hallucinated statements from ’embodied’ AI agents in virtual reality (VR) systems.” Good morning, Internet…

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Came in over the transom: American History Chronologically. The introductory email describes it as “a free interactive timeline of American history: 10,773 entries from deep geological time through September 2026, laid out on one shared time axis across 25 topics. Alongside the events are about36 chart views built from federal data (energy consumption since 1635, federal spending and debt, immigration, Supreme Court tenures, congressional composition, every national park and forest by date of establishment).” There is a LOT happening on this timeline. The first thing I did was zoom in.

Simon Fraser University: New sound catalogue reveals who’s who in the world of killer whales. “Developed at Simon Fraser University, the Orca Call Catalogue serves as a field guide to killer whale calls, pulling decades of recordings into a searchable online library for the first time, says John Ford, scientist emeritus at Fisheries and Oceans Canada.”

Washington Sun: New Database Tracks the Education Outcomes of D.C. Students. “What happens after graduation for students of D.C.’s schools? What about students who don’t graduate? On Monday, the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education and the Office of Education Through Employment Pathways (ETEP) launched an interactive dashboard that offers a first of its kind look into those questions and others exploring the economic mobility of the District’s students.”

EVENTS

United Nations: International Day for Universal Access to Information: 28 September. “The 2026 International Day for Universal Access to Information focuses on ‘Upholding Information Integrity in the Digital Age: The role of access to information in addressing information disorder.’ The Day explores how access to reliable official information, proactive disclosure, media and information literacy, credible data and digital technologies can contribute to a healthier information environment.” As you might imagine I am all about this holiday.

AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

The Register: Mop the slop from your LinkedIn feed with a new open-source Chrome extension. “Decision-making AI model Jev has found another job: helping a Chrome extension identify and flag low-value writing on LinkedIn. AI enthusiast, author, and business consultant Tom Frazier released Slop Mop as a Chrome extension on Tuesday, as well as publishing its code on GitHub for those who want to tinker with it on their own.”

Press Gazette: Guardian creates 40 jobs to train journalists with content creator skills. “The Guardian is creating 40 new jobs which will feature training to help newer journalists gain content creator skills. The newsbrand said the scheme, which is targeted at journalists with two to three years of experience in journalism or content creation, would build skills across audio, video, photography, text and audience engagement.”

Premium Times (Nigeria): Despite NFVCB warning, gay-themed Nigerian series returns to YouTube. “The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) has vowed to ensure that the gay-themed Nigerian web series Living in Colours is removed from YouTube after three episodes resurfaced there.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

TechCrunch: Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach. “The U.S. government is reportedly alerting millions of current and former U.S. military service members and staff that their personal information was stolen during a months-long breach of the Pentagon’s personnel records, the latest in a spate of thefts involving federal workers’ data in recent months.”

Mashable: The internet goes after Flock CEO’s personal information as backlash continues. “Flock CEO Garrett Langley is avoiding the public. Last week, as individuals testified to Flock’s flaws in front of the U.S. Senate’s Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, Langley stayed home. He sent a letter in his stead. But a group of ignited internet users believes the CEO, who runs an $8 billion surveillance technology company advertised as a security solution, should be put on display — and perhaps given a metaphorical swirly.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Government of Saudi Arabia: KSGAAL Releases ‘Riyadh List’ of 5,000 Most Common Words in Contemporary Arabic. “The King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language (KSGAAL) has released a list of 5,000 of the most frequently used words in contemporary Arabic, known as the ‘Riyadh List of Common Vocabulary in Contemporary Arabic.’ The list provides a reliable linguistic resource for lexicographic studies, Arabic language education, AI applications, and Arabic language processing, as part of the academy’s efforts to develop linguistic resources and datasets.”

Government of Sint Maarten: Digitisation of Meteorological Archives Completed for Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, and Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba (BES) . “The International Panel on Deltas and Coastal Areas (IPDC), on behalf of its partner organisations, today announced the successful completion of data rescue and digitisation activities for the historical meteorological archives of Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten. By preserving historical data, policy-advisors now have critical insights into long-term weather trends that contribute to more accurate climate projections for the islands. This achievement is the result of a unique collaboration between the national meteorological services of Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten and the Netherlands.”

OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL

Associated Press: Gentle giant Backpack declared winner of Alaska’s Fat Bear Week. “After a week of fierce competition, Backpack emerged victorious as Fat Bear Week champion, the heftiest bear of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve. The nonprofit running the longstanding contest announced that the bear, known for his pacifist nature, was the winner Tuesday with more than 100,000 votes, giving him a close win over Bear 910 with just over 50% of the poll.” Good morning, Internet…

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Times of India: Challan gone wrong: AI camera mistakes guitar for unhelmeted pillion in Bengaluru. “Souvik Dutta was riding his wife’s scooter in the city, with his guitar strapped to his back. However, the traffic surveillance system appeared to have seen something else: An unhelmeted pillion rider!”

DATA CENTERS

Colorado Newsline: Colorado’s largest data center could rise next to homes — without a public hearing. “Planning documents quietly filed with the city of Aurora show two two-story buildings on the property that would equal 861,866 square feet combined. The current design calls for 334 megawatts of planned IT capacity, with a total electrical demand to power computer banks, as well as lights and other appliances, of about 500 megawatts, said Mark Freeman, Vantage Data Center Inc.’s vice president of global marketing, in an email.”

Investing.com: Oracle triggers force majeure on massive ’Project Jupiter’ data center. “According to a recent report from Bloomberg, Oracle Corp. is moving to shield itself from mounting financial liabilities tied to its massive artificial intelligence data center in New Mexico.”

AI AGENTS

BBC: OpenAI scraps rollout of new model over safety concerns. “OpenAI has announced it will not release its latest AI model due to safety concerns. Its GPT-6.1 Astra system, which performs tasks like browsing the web and using apps by itself, ‘didn’t quite meet the bar’ of the company’s standards, according to Saachi Jain, head of safety systems at OpenAI.”

AI IN EDUCATION

Long Beach Current: ‘We’re fed up’: CSULB students protest AI, data centers. “Students walked out on campus today to protest against artificial intelligence and data centers, citing excessive energy use as a contributing factor to worsening climate change and the incoming El Niño storm. Marching toward Brotman Hall, protestors chanted ‘no more AI’ and ‘no more data centers,’ and called for AI to stay out of higher education.”

Stanford Daily: Dining hall removes alleged AI-generated artwork beside Black historical figures. “Following a viral post on Fizz, an anonymous campus social media app, R&DE staff removed several pieces of allegedly AI-generated art from Lakeside Dining. The incident comes as Stanford faces national scrutiny after Residential and Dining Enterprises (R&DE) used AI to replace a student in promotional materials, changing his gender and ethnicity to a Black woman, while altering the appearance of two others.”

AI IN GOVERNANCE

Capital News Illinois: Pritzker establishes AI cabinet amid calls for greater regulation. “[Governor JB] Pritzker signed an executive order on Tuesday to establish an AI Cabinet made up of experts and representatives from several state agencies. The unpaid group, which will formulate policy proposals through 2027, will analyze and assess ‘the various risks posed by AI to the safety of Illinois residents and the critical infrastructure residents rely on.'”

StateTech: Smart Cities Connect 2026: Raleigh’s AI Pilot Shines a Light on the Human Touch. “The City of Raleigh, N.C., tested an artificial intelligence–powered customer service assistant and ultimately decided not to keep it. But city officials say that doesn’t mean the experiment was a failure. Instead, Raleigh came away with a clearer idea of where resident-facing AI can be useful — and where a human being remains the better option.”

AI LEGISLATION

CNBC: Khanna to introduce AI safety bill with ban on ‘recursive’ technology until safeguards exist. “Silicon Valley Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna will introduce a bill to regulate artificial intelligence, which includes strict liability standards and a ban on ‘recursive’ self-improving AI until the government creates safeguards.”

AI IN WORK

PetaPixel: This Camera Wants To Solve the AI-Driven Erosion of Trust in Photography. “Upstart camera company Caimera has teamed up with Austrian PC fan company Noctua, on a new prototype Micro Four Thirds camera that is all about cryptographic authentication at the time of capture. The CAIM1 camera’s name stands for ‘Counter Artificial Intelligence Machine 1.’ Catchy.”

New York Times: How Three Times Tech Journalists Make Sense of A.I.’s Promise and Peril. “I asked two tech reporters, Mike Isaac and Kalley Huang, and their editor, Pui-Wing Tam, to share how they approach providing readers with clarity on a topic that even its leaders are still figuring out. Read our edited and condensed conversations below.”

AROUND THE AI WORLD

Reuters: Canadian and French publishers stand by author accused of using AI for prize-winning novel. “The publishers of an award-winning novel by Haitian-Canadian author Thelyson ​Orelien have defended the writer against accusations he used artificial intelligence to write it, and said they stand ‌behind him.”

Mashable: Meta to release Muse Charm, a Tamagotchi-like device for the Muse AI agent. “At the end of Wednesday’s Meta Connect keynote, CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Muse Charm, a small, always-on handheld device built around Muse, Meta’s AI assistant. The Tamagotchi-like gadget is designed for people who don’t wear Meta’s smart glasses, and Zuckerberg called it the fastest way to talk to Muse without wearing them.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

MacRumors: Siri AI Settlement Website Now Live: Apple to Pay Some iPhone Owners. “In May, Apple agreed to pay $250 million to settle a U.S. class action lawsuit over Siri AI’s delayed launch, and the settlement website is now live.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

University of Florida: Simple visual patterns can trick AI-powered vehicles and robots, UF research finds. “A simple pattern of black-and-white stripes could cause an autonomous vehicle or robot to misjudge how far away an obstacle is, potentially triggering an unexpected maneuver or even a collision, according to new University of Florida research.” Good evening, Internet…

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Hypebot: ROSTR Launches Free Global Database of 33,000 Music Venues. “Independent live music trade and technology company The ROSTR Group has launched ROSTR Venues, a sweeping new live music directory. Covering over 33,000 venues across North America (13,000+), Europe (10,000+), and Latin America (9,000+), this interactive map and database aims to make booking a gig as intuitive as booking an Airbnb.”

Indiatimes: CM Fadnavis Launches Bappa.org Digital Archive to Preserve Ganeshotsav Heritage. “Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis launchedBappa.org – Gatha Ganesh-kathanchi, a digital archive documenting Ganeshotsav traditions from nearly40,000 villagesacross the state. He said the platform will preserve local customs, stories, and cultural heritage while making them accessible globally.” The site is available in English.

State of Massachusetts: Department of Fire Services Launches Hot Work Violation Database. “The Department of Fire Services has launched a new, public-facing database to document violations of the State Fire Code and Massachusetts General Laws regarding welding, grinding, and other hot work processes.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Video Game History Foundation: VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here’s what’s next.. “Our magazine library now spans 46 years of video game history, from 1981–2026. Major new additions since launch include hundreds of trade magazines, a historically significant newsletter, and publications for niche gaming communities. Altogether, these account for about 60 percent of the Video Game History Foundation’s entire physical magazine collection that we’ve cataloged so far.”

AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Dextero: PewDiePie ends family vlogs on YouTube after promising to focus on son’s privacy. “Over the last few years, PewDiePie has ceased making the gaming videos that brought him to popularity. The Swedish content creator is still synonymous with YouTube, but has changed his content to be more focused on real-life happenings. In that, he started uploading monthly vlogs talking about his new life with family in Japan, discussing other projects he was working on outside of YouTube, and documenting the growth of his son, Bjorn.”

Maps Mania: The World Drawn by 3,000 People. “The object of Borderline is very simple. You are shown a map without borders and asked to draw the outline of a named country. You are then scored on the accuracy of your drawn border. The scoring appears to be based on two measures of accuracy.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Search Engine Journal: Automattic & Matt Mullenweg Fail To Dismiss WP Engine Antitrust Claims. “The judge in the WP Engine federal antitrust lawsuit ruled on motions to dismiss filed by Automattic, WooCommerce, and Matt Mullenweg, handing both WP Engine and the defendants significant victories and losses.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

PsyPost: How online toxicity silences the majority and fuels power users. “In online political discussions, a small fraction of highly active users typically generates the vast majority of content while most people silently observe. A recent experiment reveals that polite and constructive environments encourage silent readers to post their first comment, but the most active users are driven to post more when discussions become toxic. These findings were published in the journal Science Advances.”

IndyWeek: What It Takes to Keep History from Fading, Shriveling, or Molding . “The three documents—the Stone, the Binns, and the Tyler—come from the collection of Duke University alumnus David M. Rubenstein and are all rare copies of the Declaration of Independence made in the early 19th century. Their two-part display comes as the centerpiece of We the People, a collaboration between Duke and Durham marking the 250th anniversary of the original Declaration of Independence signing.”

Local News Matters Bay Area: UC Berkeley researchers create digital twin of Pajaro Valley to test future flood risks. “THE FARMING COMMUNITIES along the Lower Pajaro River that divides Monterey and Santa Cruz counties have suffered five multi-million dollar floods since a system of levees was built in 1949. Now, researchers are building a dynamic virtual version of the region to simulate flooding scenarios over time, while taking account of a variety of factors such as climate risk.” Good afternoon, Internet…

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Jewish Heritage Europe: Important New Resource: All 24 volumes of the important journal Jewish Art, formerly the Journal of Jewish Art, have been digitalized and made freely available for download. “All 24 volumes of the important journal Jewish Art, formerly the Journal of Jewish Art (1974-1985), have been digitalized and made freely available for download on the web site of the Center for Jewish Art.”

Spotted on LinkedIn: Flipbook. From the backstory: “It takes any IIIF manifest as input (it also takes plain item links from digital collections sites), and adds the item to your ‘shelf’ which persists in your browser storage. You can ‘scrub’ back and forth through a sample of the pages, and hopefully get a sense of what lies between the covers.”

EVENTS

American Alliance of Museums: Introducing the AAMies: AAM Innovative Exhibition Showcase. “Part exhibition design challenge, part science fair, and part friendly competition, the AAMies are designed to celebrate what our field does best: turning big ideas into meaningful experiences visitors can actually have. And yes, there will be trophies. More specifically, the Golden Stanchion. [A Stannie! — TJC] Each year, the AAMies will pose a challenge to the museum field around an issue where exhibitions – the distinctly human, physical, place-based experiences museums create – can make an impact.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Ars Technica: Google seemingly confirms plans to kill ChromeOS in 2034. “We are mere days away from the launch of Googlebooks, the long-awaited Android laptops that Google hopes will compete with macOS and Windows. But what of Chromebooks? There have been hints that Google plans to sunset its web-first ChromeOS platform, and a new support page lays out some of the specifics.”

AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Kotaku: Comics Creators And Readers Are Reeling After The News That Tapas Is Shutting Down. “Tapas, a popular North American comic and web novel hosting site, is shutting down. According to a report on BigGo Finance, Tapas is ‘a drag on earnings’ for parent company Kakao Entertainment, a South Korean media company which purchased the platform in 2021 for roughly $800 million. BigGo Finance reports that Tapas was home to over ‘100,000 titles’ from ‘75,000 creators’ and had amassed over ’10 million cumulative registered users,’ many of whom are upset right now.”

Futurism: Private List Warns Woman of “Over a Hundred” Allegedly Predatory Men in Silicon Valley. “The list, on top of names, is said to contain details of alleged acts of abuse which include drugging, sexual assaults, and rape. But it’s very selectively distributed, probably in part to protect the people who’ve made the allegations.”

The Guardian: A ‘freaked out’ US food industry is hitting back at Maga – with social media influencers. “Some of the biggest food and agriculture corporations in the US are funding a campaign that pays social media influencers to combat elements of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Make America Healthy Again platform, according to an investigation by the Guardian and Documented, an investigative watchdog and journalism project.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Reuters: Google challenges EU orders to open up to AI, search-engine rivals. “Google has challenged two EU orders to help AI rivals such as OpenAI access its services and ​search engine competitors to access its search data, saying these would undermine ‌privacy safeguards and cause irreversible harm to European users.”

CNBC: Elon Musk, SpaceXAI subpoenaed by NYC in AI safety investigation. “The New York City Council issued a subpoena on Monday to Elon Musk, requiring that he or another representative of SpaceXAI testify in an investigation concerning artificial intelligence safety risks.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Museums Journal: Museum leaders call for ‘transformation, not incremental change’. “Museum leaders are seeking ‘transformation, not incremental change’, according to a report published this week by Arts Council England (ACE). The Museums Overview 2026 found that England’s museums face “severe financial pressures”, along with workforce shortages and increasingly unsustainable approaches to collections management.”

University of Southern California: Risks faced by teens online vary by platform, study shows. “A recent study in JAMA Pediatrics describes a pioneering assessment of how different online platforms expose teens to different types of harm. USC researchers collaborated on the Stanford University-led study with New York University colleagues and analyzed data from 472 teens ages 13 to 17 who participated in USC’s Understanding America Survey.”

National Museums Scotland: 127 year-old fly launches major digitisation project in Scotland. “As Scotland’s Climate Week gets underway, a 127 year-old hoverfly is among the first insect specimens to be digitised as part of a major new project led in Scotland by National Museums Scotland and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.” Good morning, Internet…

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Big Island Now: New website/app crowd sources stock of supplies at stores across Hawaiʻi before, during, after storms. “With ongoing storms impacting Hawaiʻi this year, a computer engineer in Pāhoa has created a website to help residents quickly find supplies. After Hurricane Lala severely damaged parts of the Big Island, Sean Repanshek, 34, reached out to friends across the island to assess their well-being and inquire about their preparation experiences.”

NiemanLab: When disaster strikes, newsrooms scramble. A new website aims to help tame the chaos.. “Emergency Mode’s website has pre-made checklists for various kinds of extreme weather disasters, like hurricanes, wildfires, or extreme heat, written by journalists who have experience covering those types of disasters. The website also links to Grist’s disaster toolkit and has a module to help create an ‘action pack’ with resources that change depending on whether the journalists coming to the site are preparing for a threat ahead of time, in the midst of an emergency, or recovering from a disaster.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

NOAA: NOAA’s flood mapping tool now covers nearly 100% of U.S.. “NOAA’s National Weather Service announced today that Flood Inundation Mapping (FIM), a revolutionary tool for predicting river flooding, is now available on an experimental basis to nearly 100% of the U.S. population. This is a massive expansion from FIM’s prior coverage of 60% of the country.”

University of Exeter: Cyber Law Toolkit releases 2026 update and opens call for new scenarios. “The Cyber Law Toolkit is a global online platform showing crucial information about international law and the cyber activities of nations. It offers a unique combination of resources, including detailed hypothetical scenarios, a repository of real-world cyber incidents, and a comprehensive collection of national positions on international law in cyberspace.”

AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

London Standard: Google celebrates its 28th birthday with nostalgic doodle – how did the search engine mark earlier milestones?. “Today is Google’s 28th birthday – and the search engine is marking the milestone with a very nostalgic doodle. The tech titan paid tribute to itself with a doodle from its early years.”

CSUN: CSUN Gets Grant to Digitize Its Collection of Images by Pioneering Photographer Vera Jackson . “Her photos captured life in Black Los Angeles during the 1940s and ’50s. Vera Jackson, the only woman who worked in the 1940s as a staff photographer for The California Eagle — the oldest Black newspaper — captured images of weddings, society events and protests, chronicling every-day life in a community that was largely ignored by the rest of the city. The John Randolph Hayes and Dora Hayes Foundation has awarded California State University, Northridge nearly $70,000 to digitize Jackson’s work and make it available to the public through the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center’s digital collection in CSUN’s University Library.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Washington Sun: White House Drove Users to Official App Fraught With Trackers. “No one can say definitively where the user data ends up. But it’s clear the White House app covertly collects excessive user data and shares it with third-party trackers while sidestepping federal security rules, according to cybersecurity experts and an independent risk assessment conducted by The Washington Sun.”

Android Authority: This Meta Muse incident is a scary warning about trusting AI agents. “Threads user Matt Robb shared what happened after using Muse to handle a Facebook Marketplace listing. According to screenshots he posted, the AI negotiated with a buyer, agreed to a price, shared his address, and arranged a pickup — all without him realizing someone had actually been invited over.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

PsyPost: PsyPost deploys audit program to track retracted and corrected scientific studies in its archive. “PsyPost, a psychology and neuroscience news website, has implemented a new automated Python program designed to monitor its archive for scientific studies that have been retracted, corrected, or flagged by publishers.”

National Institutes of Health: NIH launches new PubMed tool to strengthen research replication and reproducibility . “The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today launched Linked Discoveries, an experimental tool designed to help scientists more easily see how an individual research finding relates to the larger body of biomedical evidence. From a citation in PubMed, users can use the Linked Discoveries tool to explore a ‘neighborhood’ of publications closely related to that article, including replication studies. More than 29 million PubMed publications are represented in Linked Discoveries at launch.”

Sancho Panza’s Thoughts: When did Google get so f-ing weird?. “Google, a search engine which does not have human emotions, assumed that I had been spurned by a man in my life named Dario and decided what I wanted was an empathetic digital friend. What I wanted was some links, but that’s not what Google does in 2026.”

OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL

Variety: Dolly Parton’s ‘9 to 5’ Returns to Theaters With Ticket Sales Donated to Dollywood Foundation After Star’s Death. “Dolly Parton‘s hit 1980 comedy ‘9 to 5’ will return to theaters next month for one week in the wake of the country superstar’s death on Aug. 25 at age 80. All U.S. ticket sales will be donated to The Dollywood Foundation to support its flagship program, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.” Good morning, Internet…

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From University of Basel, and machine-translated from German: 140 million pages of knowledge history accessible online: Four Swiss libraries launch the platform «Books as Data». “The platform ‘Books as Data’ makes the holdings of four academic libraries from the years 1700 to 1900 fully accessible and searchable. In addition to scholarly literature, the collection includes journals and fiction from Switzerland, Europe, and around the world – a representative part of Switzerland’s knowledge landscape during this period.”

CT News Junkie: Revamped Data Tool IDs Trends In Mental Health, Substance Use Among CT Residents. “The portal is designed to provide researchers, journalists, and community members statewide with streamlined access to mental health and substance use data through interactive visualizations and centralized resources.”

EVENTS

Google Blog: Made On YouTube 2026. “Made On YouTube is the yearly event where we show you the latest product launches and platform improvements that creators and viewers will use and see on YouTube in the coming year.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

The Assembly (NC): After the Flood Came the Lies. “Disinformation—the deliberate spreading of falsehoods—about malicious intentions or neglect on the part of emergency management agencies became one of the key storylines after Helene. Debunking rumors added strain to an overburdened agency communications apparatus… and clogged social media, taking attention away from the lifesaving information people needed.”

Q Voice News: Club Cobra’s Instagram page returns after 9-month battle with Meta. “In a one-two punch, A.I.-driven search engines listed his clubs as permanently closed. Longtime regulars texted him condolences. Then, by June 1, approximately a dozen Instagram pages from his staff and affiliated club promoters had been suspended. Again, nobody received a warning or explanation about why the pages were turned off.”

USEFUL STUFF

MakeUseOf: VLC has a hidden live TV feature, and it gives you thousands of free channels. “The second part of the puzzle is knowing where you can find the free TV channels, and this is where IPTV-org comes in. It is one of those open-source projects that can replace something you’d normally pay for, except in this case, it replaces cable TV.” I use Ubuntu so I already had VLC. I tried this and wow! You might get confused by an error message saying something didn’t load. That was probably an URL on the video playlist. Follow the instructions to find the playlist.

RESEARCH & OPINION

MuseumNext: Museums and Climate: Why Cultural Institutions Belong in the Conversation. “…museums are not just commentators. Their buildings, exhibitions and supply chains carry a real environmental footprint, which gives them the chance to lead by example. Here are four ways museums around the world are proving that cultural institutions belong in the climate conversation.”

University of Exeter: Researchers to conduct first comprehensive archaeological study of extreme medieval sports. “The medieval tournament – the iconic chivalric spectacle of jousting and mock battles – is to be the focus of a first-ever comprehensive archaeological study. The 30-month project at the University of Exeter will break new ground in exploring some of the locations and landscapes that staged these ‘extreme sports’ of the Middle Ages.”

PsyPost: Negative feelings about life are more common among teens on Instagram and TikTok. “A recent survey of teenagers suggests that a large portion of young people encounter negative experiences on the internet, and the types of harm they face tend to vary depending on which apps they use.”

OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL

Hackaday: Robot Makes Literal Daisy Chains. “[Jude Robinson]’s robot Daisy has an unusual function: making a literal chain of daisies. The device is his student final project and demonstrates how a system can replace sensing with clever mechanical constraints. Instead of bringing tools to bear on each daisy, the daisies are brought to the tools in a repeatable, deterministic way.” Good afternoon, Internet…

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Mother Jones: ChatGPT Helped Tumbler Ridge Shooter Focus on Guns, Tactics, and Terror. “The violent contents of Van Rootselaar’s two ChatGPT accounts, detailed here publicly for the first time, are far more extensive and disturbing than previously known. Van Rootselaar, who was 18 at the time of the attack, also used OpenAI’s chatbot to upload bloody images of extreme violence and photos of harm to herself. She pushed ChatGPT to create graphic fictional narratives of mass killings. One featured an 18-year-old perpetrator who livestreamed a mass shooting that went viral and, in ChatGPT’s telling, made her an online ‘legend.'”

BBC: Criticised AI mural of city on pub wall removed. “A controversial mural which was generated by AI and plastered on the wall of a city pub has been removed. The vinyl sticker, which was put on the side of the Jolly Colliers pub in Bedminster, Bristol, on Wednesday featured iconic symbols of the city such as hot air balloons and the Clifton Suspension Bridge.”

ANTI-AI SENTIMENT

Financial Times: Maga base recoils as Donald Trump goes all-in on AI. “On January 6 2021, Amy Kremer stood near the White House, urging Maga supporters to ‘Stop the Steal’ of the election from Donald Trump. Now she is again rallying the president’s fans — this time to join a revolt against his pro-AI agenda. ‘I’m not a sheep, I don’t just blindly follow,’ Kremer, a former Tea Party activist who founded Women for Trump, told a crowd gathered for an AI data centre protest in West Virginia’s solidly Republican Berkeley County last week.”

DATA CENTERS

Columbus Underground: Data Centers Are Driving Up Ohio Electric Bills, Whether or Not They Get Built. “Utilities base their grid investments on demand projections. In Ohio, those forecasts are now through the roof. The state’s largest regulated electric utility is American Electric Power’s Ohio Power Co., which anticipates demand will nearly triple over the next decade, largely due to expected data center projects. Critics question the validity of these forecasts — and the wisdom of using them to justify costly investments that utility customers will end up on the hook for if the numbers don’t pan out.”

Capital B Atlanta: Are Black Residents Being Left Out of Atlanta’s Data Center Talks?. “In only a few years, Atlanta has become one of the fastest-growing markets for data center development in the country. In the first half of 2026, the city had the most data center space under construction in the U.S. It’s the first time the city has surpassed Northern Virginia, which has been called ‘Data Center Alley.'”

AI IN GOVERNANCE

Washington Sun: Classified Estimates Show the NSA Is Paying Billions to Test AI Models. “The National Security Agency told lawmakers that it is spending billions of dollars in taxpayer funds this year evaluating and testing advanced artificial intelligence models, according to two sources familiar with classified intelligence estimates. The price tag — which is significantly greater than previously known — has led lawmakers to believe that a more comprehensive AI regulatory system could cost the government tens of billions of dollars per year, the sources said.”

Gothamist: NJ fines data center $1 million for illegally powering facility with gas generators. “The Sherrill administration has fined a large data center in New Jersey over $1 million for installing and operating 62 large gas powered generators without state permits. The penalty comes as growth of the data center industry, and the energy it requires, has been blamed for rising electricity prices in the state and sparked environmental concerns.”

AI IN WORK

New York Times: Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher. “In the latest sign that artificial intelligence is fueling higher health care costs, a group of insurers released a report Thursday claiming that hospitals’ use of A.I. was responsible for nearly $1 billion in additional expenses over two years.”

Reuters: China’s ‘Lipstick King’ confronts slower growth, AI disruption in livestream shopping. “For nearly a decade, China’s ‘Lipstick King’ has been the face of the livestream shopping industry, helping to grow a niche format into one of ​the country’s most important retail channels. Now, despite slowing growth and artificial intelligence reshaping the sector, Li Jiaqi, famed for selling billions of dollars ‌worth of beauty products to more than 100 million followers, bets it will still depend on people like him.”

AROUND THE AI WORLD

Bloomberg: Google DeepMind Exodus Sparks VC Frenzy for AI’s Next Big Thing. This link goes to a gift article. “For years, Alphabet Inc.’s London research lab was a destination of choice for top AI research talent. But the mood is changing as the Mountain View-based company shifts the power center of its AI division from London to California, highlighted by DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis stepping down from running Google’s AI and research operations in August. A number of DeepMind alumni have founded their own companies recently, seeking hundreds of millions of dollars from investors looking for the next big AI breakthrough.”

ABC News (Australia): AI-generated influencers targeting FIFO workers to sell online adult content. “When she is not on site commenting on the quality of the food served up at the mess hall, she is an avid West Coast Eagles supporter going to the football, or soaking up the sun on Perth’s Cottesloe Beach. There is just one problem: Bindi Raye does not exist. Her face, voice and online persona are a generative AI fabrication.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

TechCrunch: Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge. “After images that users uploaded to OpenAI models were included in training data, AI agents operating in the company’s research environment posted them on public image hosting sites.”

CNBC: Nvidia releases software platform to stop AI agents from misbehaving. “The release on Monday of Nvidia’s Open Agent Safety Platform comes after companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google disclosed recent incidents in which their artificial intelligence models escaped their sandboxes and attempted to hack other companies and access their computer systems.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Euronews: AI-generated ‘experts’ make up large network of German political videos. “Researchers identified 47 YouTube channels using artificial presenters to discuss conflicts, geopolitics and German politics, with videos recording more than 7.5 million views.”

Tim Boucher: Doubtful about Muse AI, so far. “Have been doing a trial of FB’s Muse AI app for Mac desktop. And call me old-fashioned but in my time we didn’t ask for full disk access on the first date, along with credit card verification, and no expiring chats. You can deny it full disk access and still seemingly have it run things on its cloud virtual machine (VM), but you can’t assign it individual folder access like you can with ChatGPT Work/Codex, which I have also been testing and enjoying a lot more than Muse.” Good morning, Internet…

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PR Newswire: Texture launches CommonGrid, an open source registry of the US power grid (PRESS RELEASE). “Built and moderated like Wikipedia, CommonGrid connects every U.S. electric utility, grid operator, power plant, and major asset into a single structured model, where every change is attributed to a contributor, cited to a source, timestamped, and reversible. A grid model this large stays accurate only if the people who work on it can fix it, which is why CommonGrid is built to be corrected rather than published once.”

Euronews: Deep mining for memories: Greece opens digital archive to preserve Serifos ironworks history. “The digital archive (source in Greek)contains more than 250 photographs, rare documents, press clippings from the period and 10 first-hand testimonies by miners and their descendants who are still alive. This was deemed necessary because for decades the history of the Serifos mines survived mainly through the oral accounts of those who had lived and worked there.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Associated Press: New Mexico jury finds Facebook liable of deceiving users about privacy protections. “A New Mexico jury on Friday found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy protections on the platform in the latest legal setback against the social media giant that has already cost it billions of dollars. The jury found over 43 million violations of state consumer protection law and it is now up to the judge to determine how much the company would pay, with attorneys representing the state asking for the maximum $5,000 penalty per violation.”

WordPress: WordPress 7.1.2 Release. “This security release features a fix for a critical severity security vulnerability. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately.”

Hollywood Reporter: YouTube and Meta Reverse Course, Will Accept ‘Musk’ Trailer Ad. “Bleecker Street, the studio behind Alex Gibney’s upcoming Musk, will be allowed to buy an ad for the trailer on the platform after all, a YouTube spokesperson tells The Hollywood Reporter. The trailer ‘was temporarily restricted by our system. Following review, the ad has been cleared to run,’ the company said, also posting the message to social media. Meanwhile, a Meta spokesperson tells THR that a decision to reject the ad ‘was an error and we’re restoring the ads.'” Sure Jan. lol.

USEFUL STUFF

Juha-Matti Santala: Make your website printable – a short guide. “Have you ever printed a web page or thought about how your website looks like if someone were to print it? Let this short guide provide you a starting point on your journey to make the reader’s experience better if they decide to print your page.”

AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Bard College: Bard College Launches Ralph Ellison Center, Establishing a Permanent Home for Ellison’s Literary and Intellectual Legacy. “Having inherited the rights to the Ralph Ellison archive at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the Center will embark on an ambitious digitization project to advance the tools scholars use to engage in research on Ellison and create a digital archive that enables the sharing of knowledge with other academic and cultural institutions and the general public.”

ERR: Interior Ministry now publishes deceased people’s personal data online. “Since mid-September, Estonia’s Interior Ministry has been issuing a table of personal data on people who have died in the past 100 years, replacing individual queries. The dataset on andmed.eesti.ee includes personal identification codes, names and dates of birth and death for people born from 1926 onwards.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Reuters: ShinyHunters hackers say they stole psychiatric and medical records of FBI staff. “FBI personnel data recently stolen by the ShinyHunters hackers includes sensitive psychiatric and medical ​evaluation records, according to the hackers and documents reviewed by Reuters.”

The Register: Academic publisher Elsevier hit by LAPSUS$ redirect attack. “Academic publishing giant Elsevier confirmed a compromise this week after students found its platform redirecting users to a cybercriminal crew’s leak page.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

American Alliance of Museums: AAM Supports Congressional Action to Protect the Smithsonian’s Independence. “The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) endorses The Smithsonian Integrity and Historical Independence Act of 2026, introduced by Representatives Stanbury (D-NM), Jackson (D-IL), and Mfume (D-MD), which would protect the scholarly independence of the Smithsonian Institution from political influence.”

Press Gazette: Fifth of News UK website traffic was ‘non-human’ in past six months. “About a fifth of all News UK traffic in the last six months was non-human, chief technology officer Tom Jackson has revealed. But he said bot attacks were even higher before it deployed new bot protection technology which has made its sites ‘less of a target’.” Good morning, Internet…

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