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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Found in my RSS feeds: US air traffic, 1990–2025. “Since 1990, the US has collected a monthly summary of every scheduled and chartered flight segment from airlines – the airports at either end, the aircraft flown, passenger count, number of seats, and amount of freight is recorded. This site uses visualisations and tables to try and help you to understand the data.”

Canadian Association of Research Libraries: New CARL Resource: Directory of Canadian Digital Preservation Groups. “To celebrate World Digital Preservation Day (WDPD), CARL’s Digital Preservation Working Group (DPWG) is pleased to announce the launch of a new community resource: a directory of active digital preservation groups in Canada.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Search Engine Journal: Ziff Davis CEO: ‘Not Planning On A Search Recovery’. “Ziff Davis says organic Google referrals to its properties fell about 37% year over year in the third quarter. CEO Vivek Shah told analysts on the company’s Nov. 6 earnings call that referrals fell about 23% in the same quarter last year, putting the two-year decline at more than 50%.”

AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

CNBC: New national home listing database is taking on Compass in the battle for control of real estate information. “AGNT (which owns eXp Realty and NextHome), HomeServices of America, Keller Williams and Real REMAX Group, four of the nation’s largest brokerages, announced that they are creating a largely open and shared database (API) of listings for brokers — and inviting all other brokerages to join it. Those who do must submit a new listing within one business day. There is, however, an option within the system for certain private listings.”

TechCrunch: If Snap’s Specs are still ridiculously expensive, they’re also a lot more comfortable than they used to be. “What I can say is this: Specs has improved the form factor significantly since my first brush with the device. The glasses now weigh nearly half of what the previous version did, slimming down to 132 grams, or approximately 4.6 ounces. They were quite comfortable and, during the hour-ish that I demo-ed the device, it did not heat up like the previous version had.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

CNN: Whistleblowers tell Democrats documents linked to Trump’s construction projects are being destroyed. “House Democrats are demanding that the Interior department retain documents related to President Donald Trump’s construction projects around Washington after whistleblowers warned that key paperwork has already been destroyed before Democrats take power, congressional sources tell CNN.”

DigitalTrends: Chrome’s Incognito mode has a security blind spot, but Google is plugging the hole now. “According to Windows Report, a new Chromium development suggests Chrome could soon extend real-time Safe Browsing checks to both Incognito and Guest modes, potentially offering better protection against phishing websites, malware, and other online threats.”

North Carolina State University: New ‘Directional’ Password Technique Addresses Memorability, Efficiency, Security. “Researchers have demonstrated a new password authentication technique for use in virtual reality (VR) settings, which allows users to choose directions rather than numbers. The approach supports the same number of possible combinations as a six-digit numeric password, but is much easier for users to remember.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Tubefilter: Some students watch thousands of irrelevant videos during class. Can YouTube solve that problem?. “One Wisconsin sixth grader viewed more than 2,200 videos during the school year, but only 21 were deemed educational. An eighth grader in Pennsylvania watched a whopping 4,700 videos over the same period, and only a small fraction suited the intended use of his classroom device.”

News-Medical: Searching for medicine in Europe? Not every Google result is what it seems. “The study examined 9,000 organic Google results across 30 European countries to assess associations between national online medicine sales policies, drug classifications, and the visibility of illegal sellers. The researchers found that while legitimate pharmacies predominated overall, more than one in three retail links directed users to illegal vendors lacking recognized legal authorization, raising concerns about potential access to unsafe medicines.”

Techdirt: The Tech Bros Who Bet On Fascism Lost. Don’t Let The Internet Pay For It. “Last year, in a post called Fascism for First Time Founders, I pointed out to the tech bros embracing MAGA-style fascism in the short-sighted belief that this was their moment to become the permanent overlords of the tech world… that it would not end well. Fascism never does. And as for the idea that Silicon Valley as a whole (beyond the VC bro / tech bro set) had gone all MAGA, well…”

OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL

6ABC: S.S. United States sinking date moved up due to weather. “The S.S. United States is now set to become the world’s largest artificial reef in just a matter of days. On Monday night, leaders in Okaloosa County, Florida, announced they were moving up the sinking by one day because of weather conditions.” The sinking is now tomorrow (Wednesday) and will be livestreamed. Good morning, Internet…

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NIST: Self-Employed? Solopreneur? NIST Has a Cybersecurity Guide Just for You. “Small Business Cybersecurity: Non-Employer Firms (NIST Cybersecurity White Paper 50) is a lay-language resource offering cybersecurity basics tailored expressly to the ‘solopreneur’ — a term referring to anyone who is a business’s sole paid employee.”

The Stage: Kneehigh digital archive launches five years after company closure. “The Kneehigh Legacy Project has launched a website featuring never-before-seen photographs, film footage and information for educators and theatremakers to unpack the work of the Cornish company. The project’s centrepiece is a 98-page downloadable scrapbook that offers teachers and students insight into the company’s methodologies and approach to creating work across 40 years.”

European AIDS Treatment Group: The Legacy Chest Goes Live: A New Online Archive Honours Long-Term Survivors of HIV. “Launched as part of the Long-Term Survivors of HIV – Honouring the Past, Shaping the Future project, the archive preserves the voices of people who have lived through the HIV/AIDS pandemic and makes their knowledge accessible to current and future generations.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Spam Resource: Gmail Is Shutting Down “Send As”. “Google is ending support for the functionality that allowed users to ‘Send As’ some other, non-Gmail account using the Gmail web interface. Word of this has been circulating on Reddit and elsewhere, and Google has published a support page and FAQ with details.”

USEFUL STUFF

TechCrunch: Apps to distract you from the endless cycle of doomscrolling. “It’s hard to break the cycle of doomscrolling, but there are plenty of apps that provide content that’s engaging and productive. Of course, you could always read a book or go for a walk (we have a guide on how to stop doomscrolling), but this list is for when you have a few spare minutes and want something to do on your phone that isn’t endless scrolling.”

AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

University of Wisconsin-Superior: From Geocaching to Poetry Caching: UW-Superior Professor Brings Poetry to Public Lands Through New App. “Muthupandiyan, a writing professor at the University of Wisconsin-Superior and founder of the nonprofit Locus Poetica/Poetry in the Parks, Inc.(opens in a new tab), recently launched Locus Poetica(opens in a new tab), a location-based poetry app that connects poems to the landscapes that inspired them. Using the app’s interactive map, visitors can discover poetry connected to parks, trails, historic sites and protected lands, creating a literary experience rooted in the places they explore.”

Tubefilter: YouTube is giving some creators a 30-day fix-it period before terminating their channels. “YouTube is giving some creators a little grace after flagging their channels for violations of its spam policy. Historically, creators who are flagged for spam–a broad category that includes everything from viewbotting, to posting ‘low-effort, repetitive’ comments or polls, to promoting get-rich-quick schemes, to mass-reposting content from other people–get their channels immediately terminated. That means all of a channel’s videos, subscribers, comments, and of course revenue are gone.”

Engadget: Reddit is testing in-app search ads as traffic from Google declines . “Reddit will soon start putting ads in more places as it faces increased pressure due to declining traffic from Google. The company will start testing ads in its search results in an effort to monetize the ‘high purchase’ intent of users who rely on its platform for buying advice.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Pew (PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW!): LGBTQ Americans Stand Out for Being Part of Online Communities, Finding Value in Them . “About half of LGBTQ Americans (49%) say they are part of an online community, according to a Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults from the Pew-Knight Initiative. This drops to 35% among those who are not LGBTQ.”

Prairie View A&M University: When History Has Nowhere to Live: Museum Deserts and Cultural Inaccessibility. “I have not found a widely accepted dictionary definition of a museum desert. I use the term to describe a geographic area with limited or no reasonable access to a museum that collects, preserves, interprets, and stewards cultural memory through objects, records, artifacts, oral histories, and other materials of historical significance. My research examines where these museum deserts exist across cities and states in the United States and what their absence may mean for public access to cultural history (Pegram, 2024).” Good evening, Internet…

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Tow Center: Introducing a Guide to Information Warfare Reporting. “This guide is a compilation of essays, resources, and interviews with practitioners in the field. Each has taken the time to visit our class, engage with our students, and share their stories and expertise. We are incredibly grateful for their insights and support.”

HuBMAP: Online Map, Data Delivered to Empower Exploration of Human Health. “A team of scientists has announced the latest version of the HuBMAP Data Portal, a data repository and 3D map for studying the biological and chemical functions of the human body. In a paper in the Nov. 2, 2026, issue of the prestigious journal Nature Communications, the collaborators describe a set of online research and instructional tools, as well as 9,316 public data sets that investigators across the world will be able to use to search and study human health and ailments at scales as small as individual cells.”

University of Connecticut: A World-class Window into a World-class Collection. “In addition to being the largest and most diverse facility of its kind in the Northeast and one of the three most diverse in the country, [UConn Botanical Conservatory] now has a state-of-the-art database like no other. It is more than an ordinary website, explains Cynthia Jones, professor emerita of ecology and evolutionary biology and director of the conservatory, because the i3 team was able to re-incorporate all of the previous database functionality with an updated design. The site is optimized so anyone can explore aspects of the collection by geographic and taxonomic detail, see what is currently flowering, and plan and schedule trips to the conservatory.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

University of Iowa: Big Ten Open Books project launches three new collections. “In partnership with eight Big Ten-affiliated university presses, the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s Center for Library Programs has expanded the Big Ten Open Books project with the publication of its next three 100-book collections. The collections are centered on African- Asian- and Hispanic American experiences; health disparities and disability culture; and human environmental impact. The works included have all been previously published in print by the partnering university presses and are now being made openly available in digital form to read and reuse at no cost.”

Mashable: Tumblr is having a fandom renaissance amid the AO3 outage. “When Archive of Our Own (AO3) went offline on Oct. 29 for an extended maintenance period, millions of fanfiction readers suddenly found themselves with a lot more free time. But fandom doesn’t simply disappear when its favorite website goes down. It finds somewhere else to congregate. And apparently, that somewhere is Tumblr, an old familiar haunt for millennial fans.”

USEFUL STUFF

Effortmark: An app that reads alt text from pptx. “If you’ve ever clicked, clicked, clicked through a long set of slides, checking the alt text on each image one by one: you’ll love the PPTX Checker app. It’s free, does not require any log-in, and does not keep any files or other identification.”

AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Grist: Extreme weather is creating a perfect storm of misinformation. Here’s what’s at stake . “Rumors and conspiracies are spreading too fast for emergency managers to keep up. This information chaos is slowing disaster relief and putting lives at risk.”

New York Times: Deportees Turn to Social Media to Share Life in Countries They Barely Know. “Mr. Khambounleung, who grew up in Louisiana, can speak Lao, but he cannot read or write in the language. He has befriended other men who, like him, left the country as children and assimilated in the United States. And like deportees across Latin America, Africa and elsewhere in Asia, he is sharing glimpses of his life on social media, hoping to raise awareness about the challenges and opportunities people face when they are removed to unfamiliar home countries, or third countries to which they have no ties.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Gothamist: Queens Public Library online system downed by ransomware hack, officials said. “In posts on social media, the library said while all branches are open to the public, several services including the website, on-site computers, check out and return machines, and free Wi-Fi were unavailable. The library’s app and digital media services were also down.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Nautilus: Tourist Posts a Photo to a Facebook Group, Accidentally Discovering 120-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Footprint. “Having happened upon the deep indentation on his travels, [Pichai] Prathetsena uploaded a photo of the footprint to Facebook, where it was spotted by the government.”

Digital Preservation Coalition: EOSC EDEN: Developing long-term preservation strategies for GLAM. “The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) project ‘Enhancing Digital preservation strategies at European and National level’ (EDEN) aims to support and promote digital preservation practices and standards to advance the long-term preservation of digital data. Between January 2025 and December 2027, EDEN is creating a framework to help institutions to identify what data are candidates for digital preservation and to preserve research outputs as high-quality, FAIR data in the long term.”

OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL

Animation Obsessive: Animating Traditional Pottery, in India. “Godawan is an Indian whiskey brand named after the endangered Godawan, or Great Indian Bustard. For years, the brand has fought to save the species. It hired Eeksaurus to make a film about that effort, and to explain why the Godawan needs protection. To do it, Eeksaurus invented a mind-bending technique: animation based on traditional pottery.” I can’t stress enough how good this is. The embedded video is seven minutes long, with the animation itself being about half that. It’s well, well worth your time. Whatever awards this animation qualifies for, it should win all of them. Good morning, Internet…

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Bureau of Land Management: New Interactive Map Opens the Door to More Accessible Outdoor Adventures. “In support of All Americans Outside and the Expanding Public Lands Outdoor Recreation Experiences (EXPLORE) Act, the Bureau of Land Management developed this tool to help more Americans, regardless of ability, enjoy and connect with their public lands.”

Found in my RSS feeds: Hacker Blogs. “The 24,284 personal and company blogs Hacker News keeps linking to, ranked by how many different people linked them in stories and comments.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

ZDNet: Firefox’s new Mini Window is every multitasker’s dream – Chrome can’t do this. “The idea behind the Firefox Mini Window feature is simple: allow users to move a currently open tab (or a section of a tab) into a separate mini window. Think of it as moving a tab from one window to what appears like a web app.”

USEFUL STUFF

How-To Geek: 5 productivity app replacements you can build in an Excel spreadsheet. “Anything you want to do, you’ll find an app that’s supposed to help you, and productivity apps are no exception. But between paywalls, unnecessary features, and wasting time toggling between too many tabs and views, you might start wondering whether they’re making your life easier or just giving you more things to manage. And maybe you could’ve just used a spreadsheet all along. There’s more to Excel than complicated formulas.”

AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Government of Hawaii: Steel Guitar Hall of Fame Finds Permanent Home at Hawaiʻi State Archives. “The Steel Guitar Hall of Fame has found a permanent home at the Hawaiʻi State Archives, a division of the Department of Accounting and General Services. The move marks a milestone in preserving the steel guitar’s history and legacy.”

Mediaite: Sources Tell WashPo Trump Ally Laura Loomer Charges Up to $5,000 Per Paid Post. “MAGA influencer Laura Loomer is now being accused of being paid between $3,000 and $5,000 for political tweets by multiple people following an ex-advisor to President Donald Trump putting her on blast. The Washington Post reported that three people spoke on the condition on anonymity and said they had direct knowledge of Loomer being paid for social media posts.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Mashable: Beware: Fake Cloudflare verification tricks users into giving hackers access. “Many websites and online platforms use Cloudflare in order to properly handle web traffic. Cloudflare has become so ubiquitous that the few times the company’s services have gone down, a significant portion of the internet goes down with it. Hackers are very aware of this and are now rolling out new cyber attacks that impersonate Cloudflare in order to trick unsuspecting internet users into giving these cyber criminals unauthorized access to their computers.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

New York Times: How Trump Is Dismantling America’s Scientific Research Machine. “The turmoil inside scientific research has extended beyond the Pentagon. The Energy Department, a key hub of nuclear and quantum research, has lost more than 1,000 scientists and technical staff. The National Science Foundation, for decades a primary backer of long-term, foundational research, has withheld more than $1 billion in funding. And at the National Institutes of Health, the biggest funder of medical research, officials delayed or canceled more than 2,000 grants to biomedical researchers focused on topics such as Alzheimer’s, cancer and other diseases.”

Council on Library and Information Resources: CLIR Now Accepting Applications for Recordings at Risk. “The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is now accepting applications for the fourteenth cycle of Recordings at Risk. The Recordings at Risk regranting program funds the preservation of rare and unique audio and audiovisual content on degrading or obsolete time-based media such as magnetic tape, wax cylinders, wire recordings, or early film (with or without sound); this year, projects involving up to 50% optical media (CDs and DVDs) will also be eligible. CLIR will award grants ranging from $10,000 to $60,000 to successful applicants for projects scheduled to begin September 1, 2027. Funding is made possible through the generous support of the Mellon Foundation.”

OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL

Tom’s Hardware: Developer builds a complete Intel 486 PC emulator in a browser — 100% pure-JavaScript Retro486 includes modular tabs for screen, motherboard, storage, expansion cards, and more. “Developer Jan de Jager has created a full Intel 486 PC system in a browser. On the e486-web GitHub page, de Jager boasts that the emulator is coded in 100% pure JavaScript. The project’s fuller title is the Retro486 Modular Browser PC. Claude gets a development credit, so we guess you could say e486-web was (partially) vibe-coded.” Good afternoon, Internet…

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Gizmodo: Meta Removed Disturbing AI Videos After Initially Saying They Didn’t Violate Its Rules. “A new investigation found that Facebook allowed accounts sharing disturbing AI-generated videos of coaches inappropriately touching young athletes to remain online, even after users reported them. The accounts were only removed after journalists started asking questions. Futurism reporter Maggie Harrison Dupré reported Monday that Facebook was hosting numerous accounts dedicated to sharing AI-generated videos of older male coaches inappropriately touching young women and girls during gymnastics, ballet, and yoga practice.”

Vox: Uncanny AI scams are everywhere. Here’s how to protect your family.. “A few years ago, we started to hear more about voice cloning tools, which allow scammers to spoof a loved one’s voice in order to extort money from a victim. Large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, have also made any text-based scams more convincing and much cheaper to deploy. Imposter scams, which include romance scams, tech support fraud, and employment fraud, are on the rise, and thanks to increasingly high-quality AI, it’s harder than ever to know who’s real and who’s an imposter online.”

ANTI-AI SENTIMENT

The Guardian: Activists break into building site of Microsoft datacentre in Amsterdam. “Protesters from Geef Tegengas, a Dutch direct action group, clashed with police while breaking into a construction site at Westpoort, Amsterdam, where some members climbed a crane, lit flares and tied helium balloons to equipment.”

DATA CENTERS

Tom’s Hardware: OpenAI introduces program to reduce AI data center energy demand during peak hours — company testing Grid Protectors Program system in Georgia. “According to the company, its Grid Protectors Program aims to reduce the power consumption of its data centers as local demand increases, ensuring that the grid is not overwhelmed during peak hours. Aside from ensuring that the lights remain on for everyone, it would also allow its data centers to connect to the grid and go online sooner instead of waiting for the additional power sources to come online.”

AI MODELS

The New Stack: Meta’s best AI model now trains the one most of its users get. “Starting on Friday, everyone using Meta’s Muse agent and Meta AI gets new models the company trained using Muse Wonder, its frontier model. Subscribers still get Wonder itself for harder tasks. Meta hasn’t named the new models, though we can assume their codenames don’t involve fruits.” Posterity, Meta just decided to stop using fruit names for its models. This is not an inside joke.

AI TRAINING

Tech Policy Press: What Training Dataset Transparency Mandates Hide. “Training datasets are often a driving cause of AI related harms, such as bias, discrimination, and the erosion of digital rights. The intention of transparency requirements is to provide copyright holders, privacy advocates and critical AI researchers information about the data used to train AI models, so that they can verify whether their interests were protected, and hold AI companies to account. In doing so, dataset transparency disclosures can arm consumers (both individuals and companies) with the necessary information to choose which AI system is right for them.”

AI IN WORK

New York Times: A.I. Was Supposed to Come for Our Jobs. So Far, Evidence Is Mixed.. “Is artificial intelligence taking our jobs? It’s arguably the single biggest question facing the labor market right now, all the more so after Tuesday’s midterm elections showed widespread public animosity toward A.I. and data centers, in particular. The evidence, though, is far from clear.”

AROUND THE AI WORLD

Reuters: Environmental groups embrace AI, even as they warn of data center impacts. “Environmental groups worldwide are using artificial intelligence to analyze climate data, track forest fires and count endangered wildlife – embracing a technology they also warn is driving a surge in electricity demand, water use and greenhouse-gas emissions. The contradiction is forcing these organizations to justify their AI use in carrying out missions to combat climate change or protect natural resources.”

Engadget: Itch.io adds a filter for games with gen AI disclosures . “Game hosting site Itch.io announced that it is adding filters for AI-generated content. There is now a “No AI” option in the menu when browsing. For games, applying the filter today took the number of projects shown from more than 1.77 million to less than 425,000.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

TechCrunch: Hundreds of Artex AI hacking tools found publicly exposed to the web. “Security researchers have discovered hundreds of copies of a Chinese-made AI hacking tool publicly exposed to the internet for anyone to access, potentially allowing outsiders to launch cyberattacks against unsuspecting targets.”

SFist: More Than $11 Million In Nvidia Hardware Stolen From Truck That Left Oakland. “A truck carrying $11.4 million in Nvidia hardware disappeared after leaving Oakland, as organized cargo thieves increasingly target expensive computer equipment destined for the data centers powering the AI boom.”

Variety: Elvis Music Owners, Eminem Publisher File Sprawling New Lawsuits Against AI Music Generator Suno: ‘The Next Elvis Won’t Pick Up a Guitar’. “A collection of Elvis Presley music rightsholders and the publisher of many of Eminem‘s records have filed sprawling new federal lawsuits against the AI music generator Suno, with each party making separate allegations that add to the AI company’s legal challenges.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

STAT: AI depends on medical records that don’t always tell the full truth about women. “Fifty-three of the women described a trust-breaking encounter with a health system, but only seven of them had medical records that documented mistrust. Thirty-two women reported experiencing a misdiagnosis, but misdiagnosis was only documented for eight of these women. Thirty women reported that they felt that clinicians treated them with disrespect, but this was not documented in the records anywhere.”

University of Florida: Tracing the online networks behind AI-generated nude images. “As Domestic Violence Awareness Month comes to a close this week, one University of Florida researcher is examining the roots of nudification apps, online platforms that use AI to turn images of clothed people — easily and convincingly — into nude images.”

Genealogy’s Star: Can AI Fix the FamilySearch Family Tree — Part Two Concerns and Challenges. “It is obvious that AI can perform remarkable feats—particularly in automated transcription, paleographic deciphering, translation, and surrogate search. A key question, however, is whether AI is reliable enough to replace FamilySearch’s traditional catalog and query systems, tools built on decades of painstaking volunteer indexing.” Good morning, Internet…

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UNESCO: 60 years since the ‘Aqua Granda’: UNESCO and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini join forces to digitise the archives on the safeguarding of Venice. “On the 60th anniversary of the devastating flood in Venice, UNESCO and Fondazione Giorgio Cini are launching a project to digitise and promote the UNESCO archives on the safeguarding of Venice, a testament to decades of international cooperation for the protection and revitalisation of the city’s cultural and natural heritage.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

This Reddit thread notes that Goodreads has disabled RSS feeds. Boo! Hiss! “Goodreads support confirmed they removed them: ‘Unfortunately, this feature is no longer available on Goodreads. We remove features that have very low usage to improve our members’ experience.'”

Search Engine Roundtable: Google Search May Be Bringing Back 100 Search Results Parameter. “Google Search may be bringing back the ability to see 100 search results per page by bringing back the num=100 parameter. As a reminder, Google dropped this feature in September 2025 as one of many methods to prevent crawlers from scraping its search results. As you know, third-party tracking tools are not working so well these days.”

AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Unseen Japan: Why French and Japanese X Users Declared War On Each Other. “In October, Japanese and French-speaking users on X (formerly Twitter) found themselves embroiled in an increasingly hostile exchange of insults. What began amid widespread protests in France quickly escalated into arguments involving immigration, racism, and even the countries’ respective histories during World War II.”

Museum of Screens: GameMaker is becoming free for commercial use. “GameMaker has been around for more than 25 years. It is the engine of Undertale, Hotline Miami, and many indie successes. And it also has a huge popularity in the hobbyist scene thanks to his very simple drag and drop design. It has been possible to export browser games for free with it for a very long time now, and recently it has been announced that its next version will be free for commercial use.”

ABC News (Australia): Influencers, promo codes and deadly black-market peptides. “Social media pulses with influencers promoting peptides to fix any physical insecurity you might have. But most are not approved for human use and are sourced from a multi-billion-dollar black market. Here, influencers explain why they push illegal peptides and we give you an exclusive look inside the unregulated Chinese labs where many are made.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Associated Press: Japan announces emergency cybersecurity package following a wave of attacks. “Japan on Friday announced an emergency cybersecurity package that includes the use of artificial intelligence and cyber rescue teams after a wave of massive data breaches hit major companies and government agencies.”

The Register: British intelligence agency misplaced ‘thousands’ of storage devices, years later still can’t say how many . “Thousands of GCHQ storage drives containing sensitive data have been lost for years, and the British signals intelligence agency still cannot explain where they are. According to the Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office’s (IPCO) annual report, the missing storage drives have been known to officials for years, and may contain data related to the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA).”

Tubefilter: A new California law lets children of family vloggers make their parents take down all footage of them. “A new California law will protect the children of family vloggers once they turn 18. Senate Bill No. 1247 gives adults whose parents, legal guardians, or family members used them in social media content while they were minors the right to demand removal of said content.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Xtra Magazine: Online censorship is crushing indie webcomics. “Webcomic artists Hazel & Bell have shared their work online for years. But new algorithms and restrictions from payment providers are making sharing queer stories online even harder. This comic is part of Comics Against Censorship, a five-part series of original comics tackling the history, impact and fight against LGBTQ2S+ censorship. Read the full series here.”

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia: Understanding the archive through data. “As cultural collections become increasingly digital, traditional approaches to describing and measuring them are reaching their limits. Aiming to provide a stronger foundation for collection management, reporting and discovery, the NFSA tackled the challenge of reorganising over 750,000 works and 7.5 million components.”

OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL

Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation: Winners of the 2026 IFComp. From the About page: “The Interactive Fiction Competition is an annual event begun by passionate hobbyists in 1995 to encourage both the creation and the discussion of new interactive fiction works (also known as IF). While the definition of IF has evolved in the years since then, the IFComp’s format and schedule have remained stable since the 1990s. Anyone can judge the entries on a one-to-ten scale, and the laurels go to the entries receiving the best average rating.” Good morning, Internet…

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