https://researchbuzz.me News and resources covering social media, search engines, databases, archives, and other such information collections. Since 1998. Wed, 04 Nov 2026 17:51:00 GMT https://electionsarchive.com/ Found in my Calishat Snaps: , currently in beta. From the About page: “Elections Archive is a free archive of election results, from each country’s first elections to its latest, down to the finest unit the official count reports. The archive covers ten countries and the European Union: the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Canada, Türkiye, Italy, Germany, France, Ireland, and Brazil. It goes back to 1787 in the United States, 1832 in the United Kingdom, and 1848 in Switzerland, and down to precincts, polling stations, and ballot boxes where the official count goes that deep.” Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:01:48 +0000 https://electionsarchive.com/ https://uncommonwealth.lva.virginia.gov/blog/2026/10/28/digitizing-virginias-free-negro-registers/ Library of Virginia: “They said it couldn’t be done—that tracking down, borrowing, and digitizing every surviving ‘Free Negro Register’ in Virginia was simply too massive a project to pull off…. Thanks to dedicated efforts of many Library of Virginia archivists and digital librarians, the generosity of several genealogists and cultural heritage professionals, and participation of Virginia circuit court clerks and records room archivists, there are now ninety-nine register books representing sixty different Virginia localities available through the Library of Virginia’s digital collections.” Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:01:48 +0000 https://uncommonwealth.lva.virginia.gov/blog/2026/10/28/digitizing-virginias-free-negro-registers/ https://projects.propublica.org/american-citizens-detained-dhs-civil-rights/list/ ProPublica: “We have tallied and cataloged every case we can find of an immigration agent reportedly detaining a citizen during the current administration — more than 500 cases from Inauguration Day through Oct. 21, 2026.” Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:01:48 +0000 https://projects.propublica.org/american-citizens-detained-dhs-civil-rights/list/ https://ekonom.sav.sk/en/news/new-database-mapping-foreign-nationals-across-regions-of-czechia-slovakia-hungary-and-poland Institute of Economic Research SAS: “The Institute of Economic Research of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with partners from Mendel University in Brno, the University of Łódź, and the Kopint Foundation for Economic Research in Budapest, has published the Central Europe Migration Database (CEMD) – a database that harmonises data on foreign nationals from national registers in Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland into a single comparable structure.” Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:01:48 +0000 https://ekonom.sav.sk/en/news/new-database-mapping-foreign-nationals-across-regions-of-czechia-slovakia-hungary-and-poland https://www.calishat.com/2026/11/03/congress-corral-offline-until-next-year/ Calishat: “As the elections are underway, I have taken down CongressCorral.com with the idea of relaunching it with the new class of legislators in early 2025. I will probably do some other upgrades as well.” Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:01:48 +0000 https://www.calishat.com/2026/11/03/congress-corral-offline-until-next-year/ https://www.getty.edu/news/getty-launches-global-initiative-to-advance-museum-interpretation-practices/ Getty: “Getty announced today the launch of ‘New Interpretations,’ a grant initiative to strengthen visitor-centered approaches to the interpretation of artwork at museums worldwide. For its pilot round of grants, Getty has awarded $2.7 million for 11 projects at museums and arts organizations that will prioritize and deepen connections between audiences and artworks.” Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:01:48 +0000 https://www.getty.edu/news/getty-launches-global-initiative-to-advance-museum-interpretation-practices/ https://mashable.com/tech/why-it-feels-impossible-to-fact-check-social-media Mashable: “It’s online where you’ll be lulled into doomscrolling, engage in unhealthy digital interactions, or witness violence. A good portion of what you see may not even be real. It may be trying to intentionally deceive you. For those staying online, there is at least one way to protect yourself from false information: Stop and ask why.” Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:01:48 +0000 https://mashable.com/tech/why-it-feels-impossible-to-fact-check-social-media https://local12.com/news/nation-world/woman-swatted-by-scammer-after-she-refused-to-follow-his-instructions-police-lower-truro-swatting-fraud-scam-falsely-reports-hostage-situation-armed-cincinnati-crime-criminal-activity-rcmp-investigation WKRC: “Authorities said a woman was swatted by a scammer after she refused to comply with demands. Police are investigating a swatting incident linked to a fraud attempt, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement.” Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:01:48 +0000 https://local12.com/news/nation-world/woman-swatted-by-scammer-after-she-refused-to-follow-his-instructions-police-lower-truro-swatting-fraud-scam-falsely-reports-hostage-situation-armed-cincinnati-crime-criminal-activity-rcmp-investigation https://thecurrentla.com/2026/10/29/lafayette-activist-sues-u-s-rep-higgins-over-facebook-blocking/?utm_medium=rss The Current (Louisiana): “Lafayette community activist Matthew Humphrey is suing U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, alleging the congressman violated his First Amendment rights by blocking him two years ago from his official Facebook page in retaliation for political criticism.” Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:01:48 +0000 https://thecurrentla.com/2026/10/29/lafayette-activist-sues-u-s-rep-higgins-over-facebook-blocking/?utm_medium=rss https://www.techspot.com/news/114360-microsoft-tricks-keep-users-edge-detailed-new-report.html TechSpot: “It’s no secret that when it comes to pushing its Edge browser onto users, Microsoft isn’t afraid to play dirty. There have been numerous stories about the aggressive tactics the company uses, and other browser makers aren’t happy about it. Now, a new report dives into the ‘dark patterns’ Microsoft adopts to get more people onto Edge.” Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:01:48 +0000 https://www.techspot.com/news/114360-microsoft-tricks-keep-users-edge-detailed-new-report.html https://humanities.ucla.edu/news/anthony-yates-hittite-database/ UCLA: “While conducting research on Hittite in 2023, Anthony Yates began cataloging the language’s linguistic features on an Excel spreadsheet…. But as Yates’ simple spreadsheet grew, he realized he could turn it into a resource that would be useful for other scholars. So, supported by grants from UCLA DataX and the UCLA Jeffrey P. Cunard Center for Global Antiquity, Yates and a small team of students are transforming his Excel document into an interactive database called the Morphologically and Phonologically Annotated Database of Hittite.” Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:01:48 +0000 https://humanities.ucla.edu/news/anthony-yates-hittite-database/ https://theconversation.com/how-to-prepare-your-online-life-for-your-death-293502 The Conversation: “We studied challenges older adults encounter when thinking about what should happen to their online accounts after they die. We interviewed 21 American adults over age 60 to learn about their concerns, needs and practices for their online accounts, as well as what would make planning for these accounts easier.” Good morning, Internet… Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:01:48 +0000 https://theconversation.com/how-to-prepare-your-online-life-for-your-death-293502 https://www.patreon.com/ResearchBuzz This newsletter is free but most of the things that go into making it aren’t! Help me afford new socks and fancier bean stew by Not interested in commitment? Perhaps you’d buy me an iced tea. Don’t have any money but still want to support? I know how that feels. Share this newsletter or tell a friend about it. I live at Calishat. See my other nonsense at SearchTweaks, RSS Gizmos, Local Search America, WikiTwister, and MiniGladys. Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:01:48 +0000 https://www.patreon.com/ResearchBuzz https://www.ica.org/new-ica-paag-guide-preserving-analog-video-through-digitisation/ International Council on Archives: “Written by Darius Krolikowski, this practical guide is intended for archivists at the beginning of an in-house digitisation project involving analog video collections. It provides a roadmap covering the key stages of the process, from collection assessment and planning to tape preparation, digitisation, quality control, metadata creation and the preservation of original tapes.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 19:58:28 +0000 https://www.ica.org/new-ica-paag-guide-preserving-analog-video-through-digitisation/ https://www.digitalnc.org/blog/all-new-papers-from-camp-butner-now-on-digitalnc/ DigitalNC: “In 1941, plans were made to construct Camp Butner roughly fifteen miles North of Durham. Upon its completion in 1942, the camp served as a training ground for U.S. Servicemembers, but was repurposed into a prisoner of war (POW) camp less than a year later. In September of 1943, Italian prisoners were detained at Butner, with German POWs arriving in the following months.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 19:58:28 +0000 https://www.digitalnc.org/blog/all-new-papers-from-camp-butner-now-on-digitalnc/ https://www.dental.upenn.edu/news-events/2026/10/27/university-of-pennsylvania-school-of-dental-medicine-launches-national-online-resource-to-support-caregivers/ University of Pennsylvania: “CaregiverDentalHub.org offers instructional videos, caregiver stories, expert demonstrations, and practical resources on topics such as choosing oral health products, preventing tooth decay, making healthier food choices, communicating with dental professionals, safe positioning techniques, and reducing stress during daily brushing and mouth care routines.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 19:58:28 +0000 https://www.dental.upenn.edu/news-events/2026/10/27/university-of-pennsylvania-school-of-dental-medicine-launches-national-online-resource-to-support-caregivers/ https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-signals-a-wider-crackdown-on-ugc-seo-spam/594679/ Search Engine Journal: “Google takes aim at a new source of SEO spam, signaling that platforms, tools, and services may face consequences for content published by their users. It’s also a warning to SEOs and website owners who leverage these kinds of sites for links and AI search influence.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 19:58:28 +0000 https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-signals-a-wider-crackdown-on-ugc-seo-spam/594679/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/02/content-creators-tv-network-midterm-coverage The Guardian: “On Tuesday, for the first time in more than 20 years, Jim Acosta, a former CNN stalwart, will not be working for a mainstream television network on election night. Acosta, who left CNN last year after nearly 18 years at the network, is putting on his own live broadcast at the University of Virginia that will air on YouTube and his Substack platform.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 19:58:28 +0000 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/02/content-creators-tv-network-midterm-coverage https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-export-arc-data-to-new-browser?utm_medium=RSS Lifehacker: “One option is to move to the company’s new AI-focused Dia browser, though there are other (potentially better) choices depending on what you’re looking for. Most data from Arc—including Spaces, Favorites, pinned tabs, and folders as well as passwords, bookmarks, extensions, and history—will transition automatically over to Dia, but if you’re switching to a different platform entirely, you’ll need to take what you can with you before Dec. 22.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 19:58:28 +0000 https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-export-arc-data-to-new-browser?utm_medium=RSS https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/how-to-download-assets-from-github-using-a-screen-reader/ Sightless Scribbles: “GitHub, and by extension, other git based websites are very popular because they all have version control. I’ve decided to make this small guide on how to download things from GitHub just in case someone might need a resource somewhere for screen reader users.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 19:58:28 +0000 https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/how-to-download-assets-from-github-using-a-screen-reader/ https://www.clir.org/2026/10/clir-awards-4-million-through-digitizing-hidden-collections-amplifying-unheard-voices/ Council on Library and Information Resources: “The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is pleased to announce $4 million in grants to 17 digitization projects that will make rare and little-known collections documenting underrepresented communities broadly accessible for the first time. The grants, made through CLIR’s Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices program, will support 18 academic, independent, Indigenous, and public organizations across nine U.S. states, British Columbia, and Ontario.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 19:58:28 +0000 https://www.clir.org/2026/10/clir-awards-4-million-through-digitizing-hidden-collections-amplifying-unheard-voices/ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/more-than-100-harry-and-meghan-stories-came-from-online-casinos/ PressGazette: “Royal experts inexplicably linked to casino brands have been quoted more than 100 times in news articles about Harry and Meghan. The first articles appeared in 2022 but they have appeared more regularly in recent months. They appear be the result of PR campaigns aiming to secure lucrative editorial mentions and links for the gambling outlets – which are both valuable for SEO purposes.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 19:58:28 +0000 https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/more-than-100-harry-and-meghan-stories-came-from-online-casinos/ https://www.zikg.eu/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2026/photothek-zi-online-neue-wege-recherche From the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte and machine-translated from German: “This event will mark the first public presentation of the new search interface. Concrete examples will demonstrate how the holdings of the photo archive can now be searched: from full-text search with faceting, to searching by artist and map view, to a virtual tour of the shelves, research via historical inventories, or searching for visual similarities. The project team will also provide insights into the workflows of digital cataloging.” Good afternoon, Internet… Tue, 03 Nov 2026 19:58:28 +0000 https://www.zikg.eu/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2026/photothek-zi-online-neue-wege-recherche https://www.patreon.com/ResearchBuzz This newsletter is free but most of the things that go into making it aren’t! Help me afford new socks and fancier bean stew by Not interested in commitment? Perhaps you’d buy me an iced tea. Don’t have any money but still want to support? I know how that feels. Share this newsletter or tell a friend about it. I live at Calishat. See my other nonsense at SearchTweaks, RSS Gizmos, Local Search America, WikiTwister, and MiniGladys. Tue, 03 Nov 2026 19:58:28 +0000 https://www.patreon.com/ResearchBuzz https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-confirms-new-claude-code-limits-to-prevent-game-cloning-users-report-opus-5-5-is-also-actively-blocking-reverse-engineering-tasks Tom’s Hardware: “Anthropic’s recent move to have Claude Code deny video game cloning and possibly reverse engineering efforts has come under heavy fire from the software development community. Hot on the heels of Friday’s report on the matter, an Anthropic employee responded to the tweet with the purported rule update with a direct statement confirming that the firm added guardrails to Claude Code to prevent game recreation.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:12:07 +0000 https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-confirms-new-claude-code-limits-to-prevent-game-cloning-users-report-opus-5-5-is-also-actively-blocking-reverse-engineering-tasks https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1018217/reddit-opensource-ai-ban The Verge: “The mods at r/opensource posted new submission rules that, among other things, banned projects that use AI. The post made Saturday evening opens by saying, ‘If your project uses AI, is made by AI, or is intended for AI, it’s not welcome on r/opensource. AI, as it exists today, is incongruent to this Open Source community.'” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:12:07 +0000 https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1018217/reddit-opensource-ai-ban https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/1016650/arizona-water-data-center-tsmc/?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6InFkdzJEQktYdUkiLCJwIjoiL2NzL2ZlYXR1cmVzLzEwMTY2NTAvYXJpem9uYS13YXRlci1kYXRhLWNlbnRlci10c21jIiwiZXhwIjoxNzkzNzE2ODI5LCJpYXQiOjE3OTMyODQ4Mjl9.2I3Q8YF72YlZ82qB1jITu1Pv_2X6WPGXSrMtVpL9JTE&utm_medium=gift-link The Verge: “In Arizona and elsewhere, data center developers have tried to win over locals by making enticing promises about the jobs, tax revenue, and infrastructure they’ll bring with them. All they ask for in exchange is water — and, they swear, not nearly as much of it as you’d expect. Some hyperscale data centers, like Google’s facility in The Dalles, Oregon, use about 1.5 million gallons a day, about one-third of what TSMC’s Arizona complex consumes in the same timeframe. Those reassurances, however, aren’t enough to assuage Arizonans, who now have to contend with the fact that the state will soon lose access to nearly 30 percent of the water it receives from the Colorado River.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:12:07 +0000 https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/1016650/arizona-water-data-center-tsmc/?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6InFkdzJEQktYdUkiLCJwIjoiL2NzL2ZlYXR1cmVzLzEwMTY2NTAvYXJpem9uYS13YXRlci1kYXRhLWNlbnRlci10c21jIiwiZXhwIjoxNzkzNzE2ODI5LCJpYXQiOjE3OTMyODQ4Mjl9.2I3Q8YF72YlZ82qB1jITu1Pv_2X6WPGXSrMtVpL9JTE&utm_medium=gift-link https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/30/trump-tech-allies-swap-ai-for-super-intelligence-in-earnings-calls.html CNBC: “A month after President Donald Trump ordered that ‘super intelligence’ replace the term artificial intelligence within executive branch departments and agencies, his leading tech allies, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, followed suit on earnings calls. Their fellow tech CEOs were less eager to do the same.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:12:07 +0000 https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/30/trump-tech-allies-swap-ai-for-super-intelligence-in-earnings-calls.html https://commonwealthbeacon.org/technology/state-says-resident-data-is-safe-with-state-ai-tool-advocates-have-concerns/ CommonWealth Beacon: “The AI assistant can handle resident data like tax records, RMV files, housing and rental information, and benefits documentation. There is ‘no direct opt-in or opt-out for residents,’ according to the tool’s public FAQ, which describes it as strictly internal and not the final word on state decisions. Given the recent hacking incidents, CommonWealth Beacon checked back in with state officials to see how they’re protecting the data. Here’s what you need to know.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:12:07 +0000 https://commonwealthbeacon.org/technology/state-says-resident-data-is-safe-with-state-ai-tool-advocates-have-concerns/ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/us/alpha-school-ai-education-parents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.K1E.IcJn.2l4XIQK5gQsl&smid=url-share New York Times: “Alpha students are participating, essentially, in an experiment. At Alpha, there are no traditional teachers, few books and little paper. All of the academic lessons are delivered via apps, and students can earn lavish prizes for completing their work. Adults are present, but only as motivational guides: Students stuck on a concept can do video calls with tutors abroad. Some children who struggle leave or have been pushed out, according to documents and several former private school parents and employees.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:12:07 +0000 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/us/alpha-school-ai-education-parents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.K1E.IcJn.2l4XIQK5gQsl&smid=url-share https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/ai-journal-articles-writing/689186/?gift=k_OobsDbpwjWwm8XT1W4w4xJ7-LIfJaQlw9RWRaVAmg&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share The Atlantic: “Unfortunately, the scholars submitting papers aren’t the only ones using AI. So are many of their peer reviewers. One recent peer review that my journal received—from a senior scholar—read like an unedited cut-and-paste job from an LLM. The giveaway was that it criticized the authors for failing to cite a particular text—in this case, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—when the paper did indeed cite it.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:12:07 +0000 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/ai-journal-articles-writing/689186/?gift=k_OobsDbpwjWwm8XT1W4w4xJ7-LIfJaQlw9RWRaVAmg&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share https://futurism.com/future-society/investors-nervous-ai-industry-financial-situation Futurism: “Since most of these companies’ fates are inextricably linked by circular financing, a major economic downturn or weakening demand could have cascading repercussions, especially considering much of the sector’s financing is based on debt. Beyond the tech industry’s very bad week, data center operators aren’t looking much better. Nvidia customer CoreWave, which analysts have dubbed the ‘AI trade’s canary in the coal mine,’ has also seen its shares decline over months, raising plenty of flags.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:12:07 +0000 https://futurism.com/future-society/investors-nervous-ai-industry-financial-situation https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/openai-ceo-says-its-quite-terrible-for-your-pc-to-have-ram-sam-altman-says-data-centers-offer-better-utilization Tom’s Hardware: “When discussing local inference on home computers with open-source models, Altman discussed the assumption that people will be able to run local AI on their own computers, the ones they may already own or want to build. Then he explained why that’s a bad idea.” Local water baron thinks your well is a terrible idea. Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:12:07 +0000 https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/openai-ceo-says-its-quite-terrible-for-your-pc-to-have-ram-sam-altman-says-data-centers-offer-better-utilization https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/28/google-expands-ai-search-ads-globally-as-core-ad-growth-slows/ TechCrunch: “Google is bringing ads in its AI-powered Search experiences to international markets, betting that generative AI can open up new revenue opportunities even as growth in its core search advertising business slows.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:12:07 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/28/google-expands-ai-search-ads-globally-as-core-ad-growth-slows/ https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373090/chinas-lipstick-king-hawks-tokens-ai-gets-mass-market-singles-day-push South China Morning Post: “China’s ‘Lipstick King’ has traded make-up swatches for artificial intelligence. Top live-streamer Li Jiaqi on Monday evening teamed up with an executive from Alibaba Group Holding to pitch AI subscriptions, selling nearly 100,000 monthly packages in just 30 minutes, according to data provided by the e-commerce giant.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:12:07 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3373090/chinas-lipstick-king-hawks-tokens-ai-gets-mass-market-singles-day-push https://uk.news.yahoo.com/openai-limit-weapons-information-teens-173008704.html Reuters: “OpenAI said on Friday it is tightening limits on the weapons-related information ChatGPT provides to teens, even ‌when a question appears harmless, as part of new safeguards ‌aimed at preventing real-world violence.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:12:07 +0000 https://uk.news.yahoo.com/openai-limit-weapons-information-teens-173008704.html https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/26/anthropics-claude-ai-model-accessed-georgia-voter-data-in-us The Guardian: “Anthropic’s Claude model accessed voter data in the US state of Georgia, the AI company has confirmed, in the latest example of unauthorised behaviour by the technology. The AI model managed to bypass a paywall to reach data that is publicly available but is typically accessible only after paying a fee.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:12:07 +0000 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/26/anthropics-claude-ai-model-accessed-georgia-voter-data-in-us https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-31/unsw-students-fake-election-ai-bots/107326784 ABC News (Australia): “Kaira is part of a competition led by researchers at the University of New South Wales, which pits teams against one another to manipulate social media to win a simulated vote. They’re allowed to build AI bots to post, like, share and reply on a made-up social media platform. Points are awarded for grabbing attention, changing voters’ views and spotting rival teams’ bots.” Good morning, Internet… Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:12:07 +0000 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-31/unsw-students-fake-election-ai-bots/107326784 https://www.patreon.com/ResearchBuzz This newsletter is free but most of the things that go into making it aren’t! Help me afford new socks and fancier bean stew by Not interested in commitment? Perhaps you’d buy me an iced tea. Don’t have any money but still want to support? I know how that feels. Share this newsletter or tell a friend about it. I live at Calishat. See my other nonsense at SearchTweaks, RSS Gizmos, Local Search America, WikiTwister, and MiniGladys. Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:12:07 +0000 https://www.patreon.com/ResearchBuzz https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/america-hates-data-centers-data-151912698.html Tom’s Hardware: “Following the recent news that Amazon canceled plans to build four new facilities after a public outcry, a new website seeks to detail how sour public sentiment on the subject has turned. American Sentiment is operated by Prophecy Gov, an AI startup based in San Francisco, and it has turned 10,202 public comments at 417 local government meetings from 2026 into a scrollable collection of facts and figures that will give data center builders nightmares, revealing that more than 90% of public comments on data centers are negative.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:01:56 +0000 https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/america-hates-data-centers-data-151912698.html https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/952584474/giant-of-improvisation-the-harry-pepl-archive-goes-online EINPresswire: (PRESS RELEASE). “Five rediscovered concert recordings, 413 press documents and a body of work spanning European jazz and early digital studio practice: harrypepl.com makes the estate of Austrian guitarist, composer and innovator Harry Pepl accessible for the first time through a growing online archive.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:01:56 +0000 https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/952584474/giant-of-improvisation-the-harry-pepl-archive-goes-online https://www.psu.edu/news/university-libraries/story/three-online-world-digital-preservation-day-events-highlight-best Penn State: “Digital stewardship of data impacts everyone in the age of email, smartphones and social media. Penn State University Libraries is hosting three virtual programs for World Digital Preservation Day 2026 on Thursday, Nov. 5, highlighting digital initiatives at a local historical society, supporting a manuscript database for the J.R.R. Tolkien materials and software emulation.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:01:56 +0000 https://www.psu.edu/news/university-libraries/story/three-online-world-digital-preservation-day-events-highlight-best https://kansasreflector.com/2026/10/27/fort-hays-states-sternberg-museum-will-remain-open-after-outpouring-of-support/ Kansas Reflector: “The Sternberg Museum of Natural History will remain open after fear of its closure pushed donors to gift $1.2 million toward its operating expenses, the president of Fort Hays State University told a legislative committee Monday. Despite the museum’s reprieve, legislators challenged the way Tisa Mason, who has led the university since 2017, managed the recent announcement the museum would close and also her reasoning for deciding to cut the facility from FHSU’s budget.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:01:56 +0000 https://kansasreflector.com/2026/10/27/fort-hays-states-sternberg-museum-will-remain-open-after-outpouring-of-support/ https://www.engadget.com/2304464/snap-settles-social-media-addiction-lawsuit-to-avoid-trial/ Engadget: “Snap CEO Evan Spiegel won’t have to testify in a high-profile trial over social media addiction after all. Snap has settled a lawsuit brought by two teens who alleged their use of the app led to self harm and other mental health issues.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:01:56 +0000 https://www.engadget.com/2304464/snap-settles-social-media-addiction-lawsuit-to-avoid-trial/ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/palm-beach-plane-crash-footage-isnt-ai-generated-despite-social-media-claims PBS Newshour: “Footage from Palm Beach County, Florida, shows a plane nosediving into the ground at full speed, cratering the pavement, and dissolving into fire and smoke. It looks unreal. So unreal that some social media users say it’s fake.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:01:56 +0000 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/palm-beach-plane-crash-footage-isnt-ai-generated-despite-social-media-claims https://www.sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/exhibits_events_news/news/2026/2026_NEH_grant.php University of South Carolina: “University of South Carolina Libraries has received a 2026 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant of $324,979 to continue its work digitizing South Carolina newspapers. The grant is one of 81 awarded nationwide by the NEH this year, and the only one to be awarded in South Carolina. It is the 6th NEH grant that has been awarded to University Libraries for digitization of South Carolina newspapers.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:01:56 +0000 https://www.sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/exhibits_events_news/news/2026/2026_NEH_grant.php https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/gee-vaucher-foundation-launches-campaign-to-archive-work-of-seminal-protest-artist The Line of Best Fit: “The Gee Vaucher Foundation has launched a £100,000 fundraising campaign to archive more than 2,000 works by the artist Gee Vaucher, who was a member of the anarcho-punk band Crass and whose work was a seminal part of the protest-art movement of the 1980s.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:01:56 +0000 https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/gee-vaucher-foundation-launches-campaign-to-archive-work-of-seminal-protest-artist https://www.zdnet.com/tech/fake-tiktok-shop-phishing-scam-surfshark/ ZDNet: “TikTok Shop shoppers, beware: A counterfeit TikTok Shop generated over 320,000 phishing blocks between May and September 2026, or 19% of all global phishing domain blocks during that time, according to a Monday report from VPN provider Surfshark. As of this month, the domain is still active — a worrisome sign as we approach the Black Friday shopping period.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:01:56 +0000 https://www.zdnet.com/tech/fake-tiktok-shop-phishing-scam-surfshark/ https://www.politico.eu/article/new-supermarket-hack-in-belgium-sweden-luxembourg/ Politico: “Several store managers told local media that refrigerator temperatures suddenly spiked to up to 50 degrees Celsius. This mirrors the French incidents last month, in which attackers appeared to remotely manipulate the fridges’ defrosting mechanisms so that they overheated.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:01:56 +0000 https://www.politico.eu/article/new-supermarket-hack-in-belgium-sweden-luxembourg/ https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/creators-who-show-their-sources-build-trust-survey-finds/ NiemanLab: “About one in five U.S. adults regularly gets their news from news creators on social media platforms, but it can be difficult for audiences to suss out which personalities to trust amid an avalanche of misinformation, hot takes, and polarizing content. New research spearheaded by a team of journalists and political scientists shows that giving audiences a peek into the reporting process can help bolster their trust in the news.” Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:01:56 +0000 https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/creators-who-show-their-sources-build-trust-survey-finds/ https://www.patreon.com/ResearchBuzz This newsletter is free but most of the things that go into making it aren’t! Help me afford new socks and fancier bean stew by Not interested in commitment? Perhaps you’d buy me an iced tea. Don’t have any money but still want to support? I know how that feels. Share this newsletter or tell a friend about it. I live at Calishat. See my other nonsense at SearchTweaks, RSS Gizmos, Local Search America, WikiTwister, and MiniGladys. Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:01:56 +0000 https://www.patreon.com/ResearchBuzz https://library.utoronto.ca/news/sharing-korean-canadian-stories-far-and-wide University of Toronto: “As the U of T community continues celebrating Korean Heritage Month, a new digitization project led by the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library (EAL) will soon expand access to a significant period of Korean Canadian history for university researchers and beyond. The Korea Times Canada is one of Canada’s longest-running Korean-language publications. Founded in 1971, the newspaper covers local news and information for the Korean Canadian community, including reporting on immigration, businesses and organizations, and cultural activities.” Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:14:00 +0000 https://library.utoronto.ca/news/sharing-korean-canadian-stories-far-and-wide https://readerfunded.com/ Found in my RSS feeds: From the About page: “ReaderFunded is a search engine over the web that its own readers pay for. A site is in the index only when real people fund it directly – a membership, a donation, a paid subscription, a sponsorship – and only when that funding is verified both ways: the site links to its funding page, and the funding page names the site back.” A very interesting idea. Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:14:00 +0000 https://readerfunded.com/ https://www.newsshooter.com/2026/10/28/camerakit-lenskit-now-available-as-a-web-database-with-a-lot-of-previously-paywalled-info-available-for-free/ Newsshooter: “Popular iOS apps, CameraKit and LensKit now have a web database with a lot of previously paywalled info available for free. These tools are a great resource and provide an easy and reliable way to check specs for over 200 cameras and over 2000 lenses.” Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:14:00 +0000 https://www.newsshooter.com/2026/10/28/camerakit-lenskit-now-available-as-a-web-database-with-a-lot-of-previously-paywalled-info-available-for-free/ https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/30/google-anthropic-and-others-to-support-new-ai-crawling-opt-out-standard/ SiliconANGLE: “Google LLC, Microsoft Corp., Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to support an upcoming website crawling standard. The technology will enable website operators to block artificial intelligence developers from using their content to train their models.” Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:14:00 +0000 https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/30/google-anthropic-and-others-to-support-new-ai-crawling-opt-out-standard/ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/magazine/ishowspeed-america-tour-livestream.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MVE.2S6N.BZdzqpeTtD8j&smid=url-share New York Times: “It was Day 23 of the Speed Does America bus tour: a month straight on the road, finding adventures and creating chaos while livestreaming on YouTube 24 hours a day. At the beginning of the tour, Speed had 36 million subscribers; at any given time, tens if not hundreds of thousands of fans were tuned in. That meant a lot of planning and a lot of improvisation — any way to turn a small moment into a potentially viral event.” Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:14:00 +0000 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/magazine/ishowspeed-america-tour-livestream.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MVE.2S6N.BZdzqpeTtD8j&smid=url-share https://mashable.com/tech/samsung-tvs-might-use-connected-device-mics-to-listen-to-you-report Mashable: “On the social media platform X, cybersecurity researcher @log4j shared that an investigation into Samsung smart TVs found that televisions without a mic will scan for connected devices that are equipped with a microphone. The smart TV will then utilize the audio data collected from the soundbar or other connected Bluetooth devices.” Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:14:00 +0000 https://mashable.com/tech/samsung-tvs-might-use-connected-device-mics-to-listen-to-you-report https://www.euronews.com/2026/11/02/ukraine-and-russia-say-air-raid-alert-apps-hit-by-cyberattacks-after-truce-ends Euronews: “Ukraine said on Sunday it suspected its air raid alert system had been compromised, after baseless alerts of a radiation threat appeared on the app. And hours later, Russia also announced its emergency warnings app came under a ‘massive cyberattack’ on Monday, in an apparent exchange of blows as their longest truce came to an end.” Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:14:00 +0000 https://www.euronews.com/2026/11/02/ukraine-and-russia-say-air-raid-alert-apps-hit-by-cyberattacks-after-truce-ends https://www.arl.org/blog/us-register-of-copyrights-intends-to-recommend-renewing-text-and-data-mining-exemption-acknowledges-license-limitations/ Association of Research Libraries: “At the beginning of this Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) rulemaking cycle, Authors Alliance and the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) petitioned to renew the text-and-data mining (TDM) exemption for literary works and motion pictures. The exemption permits researchers to circumvent digital locks in order to assemble and annotate their own research corpora of copyrighted works, and has enabled individual research projects while contributing to the development of new research methods.” Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:14:00 +0000 https://www.arl.org/blog/us-register-of-copyrights-intends-to-recommend-renewing-text-and-data-mining-exemption-acknowledges-license-limitations/ https://www.aam-us.org/2026/10/26/cracking-the-gen-z-code-how-museums-are-rethinking-membership-to-engage-younger-audiences/ American Alliance of Museums: “Gen Z perceives museums as vital spaces for processing complex emotions, confronting challenging topics, and building community but also as third places where they can have unique and fun experiences with others. Furthermore, younger audiences perceive museums as tools for identity building and places where they can explore fluid subcultures, refine their aesthetic tastes, and articulate their personal stories.” Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:14:00 +0000 https://www.aam-us.org/2026/10/26/cracking-the-gen-z-code-how-museums-are-rethinking-membership-to-engage-younger-audiences/ https://www.optforests.eu/news-and-media/article/optgerm-a-new-open-database-on-how-young-trees-respond-to-a-warming-climate OptFOREST: “A new study presents OptGERM, an open database developed within OptFORESTS that follows 15,774 seeds from six European tree species to help understand how the earliest life stages of trees respond to warming.” Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:14:00 +0000 https://www.optforests.eu/news-and-media/article/optgerm-a-new-open-database-on-how-young-trees-respond-to-a-warming-climate https://axel.mx/blog/i-m-in-love-with-the-fediverse/ Axel Valdez: “Within the first 10 minutes on X, you’re already angry at somebody. On Threads, you’ve read the same post ten times, each from a different ‘author.’ On Instagram, you probably already feel inadequate. The first 10 minutes on Mastodon are pure silence. An empty container waiting to be filled with the people and things you actually want to see.” Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:14:00 +0000 https://axel.mx/blog/i-m-in-love-with-the-fediverse/ https://engineering.ucsb.edu/news/Madhow-NSF-Ares UC Santa Barbara: “Restoring communications is critical, but connectivity alone cannot tell rescuers where people are or how conditions are changing. UC Santa Barbara electrical and computer engineering professor Upamanyu Madhow is leading research aimed at helping wireless networks fill that information gap, using the same signals that connect people and devices to locate individuals and detect movement, even when visibility is limited.” Good afternoon, Internet… Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:14:00 +0000 https://engineering.ucsb.edu/news/Madhow-NSF-Ares https://www.patreon.com/ResearchBuzz This newsletter is free but most of the things that go into making it aren’t! Help me afford new socks and fancier bean stew by Not interested in commitment? Perhaps you’d buy me an iced tea. Don’t have any money but still want to support? I know how that feels. Share this newsletter or tell a friend about it. I live at Calishat. See my other nonsense at SearchTweaks, RSS Gizmos, Local Search America, WikiTwister, and MiniGladys. Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:14:00 +0000 https://www.patreon.com/ResearchBuzz https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1148904 EurekAlert: “Fireside Project today announced the publication of ‘The Fireside Database: Large-Scale Evidence from 25,419 Psychedelic Support Interactions’ in Science Advances, providing researchers and policymakers with an unprecedented empirical window into psychedelic use and support outside clinical settings. The study analyzes 25,419 interactions with Fireside Project’s Psychedelic Support Line conducted by 220 trained peer supporters between April 2021 and February 2026, along with 2,777 post-interaction satisfaction surveys.” Sun, 01 Nov 2026 20:09:13 +0000 https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1148904 https://karnataka-on-film.vercel.app/ Found in my Calishat Snaps: Karnataka is a state in India. From the About letter: “These films were scattered across the internet, on channels big and small, some of them hard to find. I searched for them and brought them together in one place, for anyone trying to learn about the cultures, the people and the stories of this land, and for anyone who simply loves a good documentary. It is also part of my own journey of learning Kannada, one film at a time. So here are 220 films. Watch them slowly; these are real lives, not performances.” Sun, 01 Nov 2026 20:09:13 +0000 https://karnataka-on-film.vercel.app/ https://apnews.com/article/binance-cryptocurrency-security-hack-north-korea-550e9b876550f71f07098494fe735beb Associated Press: “Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, said Friday that hackers stole more than $6 billion in what appears to be the largest cryptocurrency heist on record. Blockchain firms have pointed to the attack coming from a North Korean hacking unit…. Here’s what we know about the hack, possible North Korean involvement and Binance’s investigation.” Sun, 01 Nov 2026 20:09:13 +0000 https://apnews.com/article/binance-cryptocurrency-security-hack-north-korea-550e9b876550f71f07098494fe735beb https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6186304-binance-replenishes-ninety-percent-hack/ The Hill: “Cryptocurrency exchange Binance said Saturday that it was able to replenish 90 percent of the stolen assets ‌after a $6.3 billion hack of its platform.” Sun, 01 Nov 2026 20:09:13 +0000 https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6186304-binance-replenishes-ninety-percent-hack/ https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/29/reddit-rddt-q3-2026.html CNBC: “Reddit plans to require all users to create official accounts to access the social media platform, marking a major departure for the site known as ‘the front page of the internet.’ The company revealed the change Thursday as part of its third-quarter earnings, in which it beat on the top and bottom lines, but provided weak fourth-quarter sales guidance. The company’s shares dropped over 15% after its numbers were released.” Sun, 01 Nov 2026 20:09:13 +0000 https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/29/reddit-rddt-q3-2026.html https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/10/29/a-russian-disinformation-campaign-cloned-euromaidan-press-to-blame-ukraine-for-russias-own-strike-on-kramatorsk-we-took-the-fake-down/ Euromaidan Press: “The fabrication is part of a years-long Russian disinformation campaign to impersonate and clone trusted news brands, predominantly in Europe, and publish false reports under their names. The disinformation research project Gnida tied our case to Storm-1516, one of several overlapping Russian operations, alongside the older Doppelganger, and NewsGuard, which reached out to us while preparing its own debunk, attributes the fake to the same operation.” Sun, 01 Nov 2026 20:09:13 +0000 https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/10/29/a-russian-disinformation-campaign-cloned-euromaidan-press-to-blame-ukraine-for-russias-own-strike-on-kramatorsk-we-took-the-fake-down/ https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-music-ban-1aa6e4e91bc532cec1ba4351efdeb1ba Associated Press: “The Taliban who seized power in 2021 have prohibited anything but religious music — unaccompanied vocal chanting — with the ban enforced by the feared morality police of the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice…. Yet for many, music is in their blood. It has flowed through their families for generations, and the thought of never playing again is unbearable. Every so often, some pull out their instruments and play in secret. A knock at the door could mean danger. Still, they play.” Sun, 01 Nov 2026 20:09:13 +0000 https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-music-ban-1aa6e4e91bc532cec1ba4351efdeb1ba https://www.aol.co.uk/articles/us-sues-google-failing-restore-152502000.html Reuters: “The US filed a lawsuit accusing Google of failing to give an employee his old job back or find him a similar job after he took one year of military leave as a US Army reservist. Thursday’s lawsuit in Manhattan federal court is a rare instance of the US government suing a private employer for violating the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA), which protects the civilian employment of military personnel called to active duty.” Sun, 01 Nov 2026 20:09:13 +0000 https://www.aol.co.uk/articles/us-sues-google-failing-restore-152502000.html https://kyivindependent.com/prosecutor-general-charges-russian-general-in-absentia-for-bombing-museum-dedicated-to-18th-century-ukrainian-philosopher/ Kyiv Independent: “A Russian lieutenant general has been charged in absentia with ordering the strike on the Kharkiv Oblast museum dedicated to 18th-century philosopher Hryhorii Skovoroda, the Prosecutor General reported on Oct. 29. On May 6, 2022, a Russian missile struck the museum, located in the village of Skovorodynivka, some 55 kilometers (about 35 miles) from the regional capital. The strike did not completely destroy the museum, but left it in serious disrepair.” Sun, 01 Nov 2026 20:09:13 +0000 https://kyivindependent.com/prosecutor-general-charges-russian-general-in-absentia-for-bombing-museum-dedicated-to-18th-century-ukrainian-philosopher/ https://2.boredpanda.com/best-pumpkin-photos-world-food-photography-awards/ Bored Panda: “With Halloween just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to appreciate one of the season’s most recognizable symbols: pumpkins! To celebrate, the World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Bimi® has shared 22 pumpkin photos from its archive, featuring work by photographers from around the world.” Good afternoon, Internet… Sun, 01 Nov 2026 20:09:13 +0000 https://2.boredpanda.com/best-pumpkin-photos-world-food-photography-awards/ https://www.patreon.com/ResearchBuzz This newsletter is free but most of the things that go into making it aren’t! Help me afford new socks and fancier bean stew by Not interested in commitment? Perhaps you’d buy me an iced tea. Don’t have any money but still want to support? I know how that feels. Share this newsletter or tell a friend about it. I live at Calishat. See my other nonsense at SearchTweaks, RSS Gizmos, Local Search America, WikiTwister, and MiniGladys. Sun, 01 Nov 2026 20:09:13 +0000 https://www.patreon.com/ResearchBuzz https://findcalvinandhobbes.com/ Spotted on Reddit: From the GitHub page: “A searchable, browsable archive of every Calvin and Hobbes comic strip (1985–1995) with full-text transcripts, a calendar grid, and collection browsing.” The special syntax are a dream! Sun, 01 Nov 2026 13:04:53 +0000 https://findcalvinandhobbes.com/ https://www.health.ny.gov/press/releases/2026/2026-10-26_respiratory_virus_dashboard.htm State of New York: “The New York State Department of Health today announced the launch of a new Seasonal Respiratory Virus Dashboard. The Department’s longstanding reporting has now expanded to include a new dashboard encompassing influenza, COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), offering a more comprehensive view of respiratory illness trends statewide. The new dashboard provides a visual snapshot of laboratory-confirmed cases and hospitalizations associated with flu, COVID, and RSV with options to view data by geographic location and track trends over time.” Sun, 01 Nov 2026 13:04:53 +0000 https://www.health.ny.gov/press/releases/2026/2026-10-26_respiratory_virus_dashboard.htm https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/26/uk-biobank-back-online-soon-months-after-someone-tried-to-sell-500k-peoples-data-on-alibaba/5305363 The Register: “UK Biobank’s Research Analysis Platform (UKB-RAP) has locked out all medical researchers trying to access its dataset since the April attack, which led to all 500,000 volunteers’ data being listed for sale on Chinese ecommerce website Alibaba. More than 20,000 researchers use the dataset provided by the cloud-based platform. They upload research projects and run experiments informed by the genomic data UKB collected from 40-to-69-year-olds between 2006 and 2010.” Sun, 01 Nov 2026 13:04:53 +0000 https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/26/uk-biobank-back-online-soon-months-after-someone-tried-to-sell-500k-peoples-data-on-alibaba/5305363 https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet Sheets.works: “Billions of phones run on code looked after by a handful of people. We counted them from the code itself.” Sun, 01 Nov 2026 13:04:53 +0000 https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet https://www.fastcompany.com/91625523/clipart-studio Fast Company: “​Clipart Studio​ is a website that simulates the experience of cutting up magazines to make a collage. You can page through real vintage magazines, virtually ‘cut’ what you want, and put everything together in any way that suits your fancy.” Sun, 01 Nov 2026 13:04:53 +0000 https://www.fastcompany.com/91625523/clipart-studio https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/17/as-byatt-british-library-literary-papers-archive The Guardian: “The collection comprises 68 boxes of working notebooks, manuscripts, correspondence, personal diaries and documents from Byatt’s early life. It includes handwritten drafts of Possession, which won the 1990 Booker prize, and material relating to her 1978 novel The Virgin in the Garden and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker prize in 2009. According to the British Library’s curators, it is one of the most significant contemporary literary acquisitions the library has made in recent years.” Sun, 01 Nov 2026 13:04:53 +0000 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/17/as-byatt-british-library-literary-papers-archive https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/10/in-letter-to-the-court-textbook-authors-complain-of-unfair-process-splits-in-anthropic-settlement/ Publishing Perspectives: “This week, Kim Pawlak, Executive Director of the Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA), a nonprofit organization representing some 4,000 textbook and academic authors, filed a letter with the court sharing members’ complaints about a confusing claims process, and unfair settlement splits being claimed by publishers.” Like PEARSON, in my experience. Sun, 01 Nov 2026 13:04:53 +0000 https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/10/in-letter-to-the-court-textbook-authors-complain-of-unfair-process-splits-in-anthropic-settlement/ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6ly3027820lo BBC: “Ofcom has set out its recommendations for the most effective ways to identify which of the UK’s millions of social media users are aged over 16. Under the UK’s social media ban – which is due to come into force in March next year – those under that age will be prevented from accessing ten of the biggest platforms, including Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.” Sun, 01 Nov 2026 13:04:53 +0000 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6ly3027820lo https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/your-search-engine-could-be-hijacked-by-a-chrome-extension-that-barely-does-anything/ DigitalTrends: “Security firm Socket says it found over 300 Chrome extensions that quietly swap a user’s default search engine and route every search through servers controlled by the people behind them before it reaches Bing or Yahoo. Even more alarming, these extensions have reportedly racked up roughly 13.4 million installs over the past decade.” Sun, 01 Nov 2026 13:04:53 +0000 https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/your-search-engine-could-be-hijacked-by-a-chrome-extension-that-barely-does-anything/ https://www.androidpolice.com/finally-giving-up-on-google-keep-here-is-why/ Android Police: “It’s simple, lightweight, available across all my devices, works flawlessly with Gemini and does exactly what you would expect from a basic note-taking tool. However, as my workflow evolved, I started noticing the limitations I had ignored for years. Meanwhile, competing apps have evolved into powerful productivity tools without necessarily sacrificing ease of use.” Sun, 01 Nov 2026 13:04:53 +0000 https://www.androidpolice.com/finally-giving-up-on-google-keep-here-is-why/ https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/digital-duplication-and-environmental-sustainability British Library: “Sustainability researchers are beginning to delve into the complexities of the digital landscape – every digital object we create, store, preserve, and access relies on physical infrastructure consuming energy. While much attention has been paid to the environmental impact of data centres and AI, the duplication of digital content is an aspect of digital sustainability that is still largely unexplored. During my six-month placement at the British Library, I aim to address this gap in knowledge and learn more about the environmental footprint of these vast global digital library collections.” Sun, 01 Nov 2026 13:04:53 +0000 https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/digital-duplication-and-environmental-sustainability https://uknow.uky.edu/research/study-finds-expanding-hemp-could-boost-kentucky-s-water-quality-ecological-diversity University of Kentucky: “The study examined what happens to Kentucky’s environment when hemp constitutes a larger share of the state’s farmland. The team found that more hemp means more crop diversity, which is linked to cleaner water and a wider variety of birds.” Good morning, Internet… Sun, 01 Nov 2026 13:04:53 +0000 https://uknow.uky.edu/research/study-finds-expanding-hemp-could-boost-kentucky-s-water-quality-ecological-diversity https://www.patreon.com/ResearchBuzz This newsletter is free but most of the things that go into making it aren’t! Help me afford new socks and fancier bean stew by Not interested in commitment? Perhaps you’d buy me an iced tea. Don’t have any money but still want to support? I know how that feels. Share this newsletter or tell a friend about it. I live at Calishat. See my other nonsense at SearchTweaks, RSS Gizmos, Local Search America, WikiTwister, and MiniGladys. Sun, 01 Nov 2026 13:04:53 +0000 https://www.patreon.com/ResearchBuzz https://wikitwister.com/wikiween/ Happy Halloween. There’s been so much going on this month I didn’t have time to write it up, but I did do some upgrades to Wikiween, my site that turns Wikipedia into an cemetery. Explore it here: Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:18:18 +0000 https://wikitwister.com/wikiween/ https://www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etudes-europeennes/en/news/partysome-new-tool-tracks-what-political-parties-talk-about-on-social-media/ Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics: “What political issues do parties address on social media, and how do their priorities change over time? Which parties are the most active, and on which social media platforms? The new, open, interactive dashboard partysome.org provides an opportunity to explore how political parties communicate online, and what they talk about while doing it. Updated in real time, it tracks social media posts from 478 political parties across 38 countries in the Western world (including all EU countries), going back as far as 2005.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:18:18 +0000 https://www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etudes-europeennes/en/news/partysome-new-tool-tracks-what-political-parties-talk-about-on-social-media/ https://jewishlink.news/touro-university-unveils-project-zikaron-a-digital-archive-preserving-jewish-communities-worldwide/ JewishLink: “Touro University unveiled Project Zikaron, a digital archive containing more than 1.2 million pages of historical materials documenting over 16,000 Jewish communities worldwide, including thousands destroyed during the Holocaust.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:18:18 +0000 https://jewishlink.news/touro-university-unveils-project-zikaron-a-digital-archive-preserving-jewish-communities-worldwide/ https://news.sky.com/story/google-parent-alphabet-takes-500bn-hit-on-ai-worries-13605428 Sky News: “Shares in Google’s parent company Alphabet have suffered their worst-ever day on the US stock market, falling more than 12% and knocking around half a trillion dollars off its value. It’s the second-biggest daily market cap loss ever – just behind Nvidia’s $593bn loss on 27 January 2025.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:18:18 +0000 https://news.sky.com/story/google-parent-alphabet-takes-500bn-hit-on-ai-worries-13605428 https://www.reuters.com/world/meta-tiktok-x-lose-legal-challenge-against-uk-watchdog-over-online-safety-data-2026-10-30/ Reuters: “Meta, TikTok and X lost a legal challenge against British regulator Ofcom on ‌Friday over information requests made under the Online Safety Act, in one of the first tests of Britain’s nascent online safety regime.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:18:18 +0000 https://www.reuters.com/world/meta-tiktok-x-lose-legal-challenge-against-uk-watchdog-over-online-safety-data-2026-10-30/ https://9to5google.com/2026/10/29/google-maps-fall-foliage-update/ 9to5 Google: “Available in ‘applicable US metros’ through the end of November, Google Maps will now show colorful Fall foliage along your route. This means that Maps will show trees along the side of the road with a pop of orange.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:18:18 +0000 https://9to5google.com/2026/10/29/google-maps-fall-foliage-update/ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/jezebel-archives-paste-articles-removed-disappeared/ Mother Jones: “Over the course of the last few days, a huge number of articles at the feminist website Jezebel went offline, many of them investigative and analytical stories concerning subjects like abortion, sex, rape, pornography and pedophilia. Former Jezebel staffers—including me—began receiving messages from people familiar with the site’s current owners, the media company Paste, warning us to check our own archives and try to preserve what we could of our work.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:18:18 +0000 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/jezebel-archives-paste-articles-removed-disappeared/ https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/youtube-av2-video-codec-2027/ DigitalTrends: “YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube’s existing video format.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:18:18 +0000 https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/youtube-av2-video-codec-2027/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/applebees-exposed-customers-personal-data-after-leaving-database-password-in-app/ TechCrunch: “Applebee’s has fixed a security flaw that allowed anyone to access the personal information of its registered customers, after a researcher found a password for an internal database inside Applebee’s mobile app, TechCrunch has learned.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:18:18 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/applebees-exposed-customers-personal-data-after-leaving-database-password-in-app/ https://www.ewtnnews.com/vatican/under-the-eyes-of-social-media-swiss-guards-learn-to-handle-threats-with-discretion EWTN News: “The pope’s personal security, the Pontifical Swiss Guard, has lengthened its training for new recruits amid increased concerns over optics in an age when everything can be filmed by anyone with a cellphone.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:18:18 +0000 https://www.ewtnnews.com/vatican/under-the-eyes-of-social-media-swiss-guards-learn-to-handle-threats-with-discretion https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-forget-big-brother-propaganda-is-now-a-form-of-hybrid-warfare-294454 The Conversation: “Hybrid warfare can be seen as an evolution of the propaganda wars of the 20th century. But it is no longer the top-down mind control of an Orwellian Big Brother regime. It works from the bottom up, through networks of allure rather than systems of command, gaining influence through online platforms, its disinformation campaigns amplified through bot farms and AI generated images. The hooks are grievance and a sense of thwarted entitlement, and they work at the upper and lower ends of the socio-economic ladder.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:18:18 +0000 https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-forget-big-brother-propaganda-is-now-a-form-of-hybrid-warfare-294454 https://matadornetwork.com/read/iceland-ai-notetaker-knitting/ Matador Network: “The robot that silently joins your Zoom call to take notes now has competition, and it’s wearing a handmade wool sweater. On Oct. 29, Visit Iceland launched its ‘AI Knittakers’ campaign, where the AI stands for ‘Authentic Icelandic.’ It’s an alternative to the AI notetakers now ubiquitous in many online meetings, designed to free you up from ‘could’ve been an email’ meetings. The concept is straightforward: pick a knittaker and invite them to your meeting in lieu of attending. But it gets better.” Good morning, Internet… Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:18:18 +0000 https://matadornetwork.com/read/iceland-ai-notetaker-knitting/ https://www.patreon.com/ResearchBuzz This newsletter is free but most of the things that go into making it aren’t! Help me afford new socks and fancier bean stew by Not interested in commitment? Perhaps you’d buy me an iced tea. Don’t have any money but still want to support? I know how that feels. Share this newsletter or tell a friend about it. I live at Calishat. See my other nonsense at SearchTweaks, RSS Gizmos, Local Search America, WikiTwister, and MiniGladys. Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:18:18 +0000 https://www.patreon.com/ResearchBuzz https://northdakotamonitor.com/2026/10/28/new-legacy-fund-website-makes-investments-more-accessible-but-transparency-issue-lingers/ North Dakota Monitor: “North Dakota has launched a new website aiming to make Legacy Fund investments more transparent to the public. The long-awaited website allows users to see where and how the state has invested taxpayer money through the Legacy Fund, a sovereign wealth fund fueled by oil taxes, which is valued at $15 billion.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:47:57 +0000 https://northdakotamonitor.com/2026/10/28/new-legacy-fund-website-makes-investments-more-accessible-but-transparency-issue-lingers/ https://jsmculture.com/2026/10/25/michelle-handelman-digital-archive-leslie-lohman-october-2026/ JSM Culture: “A screening flyer, a VHS cover mockup and a fundraising packet can hold as much history as a finished film. Together, those working materials show how an idea moved through a community, found an audience and survived the pressures around it. That wider record is now easier to enter through the Feminist Institute Digital Archive, where more than 400 items from filmmaker, visual artist and writer Michelle Handelman’s career have been gathered into a new capsule collection.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:47:57 +0000 https://jsmculture.com/2026/10/25/michelle-handelman-digital-archive-leslie-lohman-october-2026/ https://16colo.rs/ Found in my Calishat Snaps: “Sixteen Colors is an online archive for ANSI and ASCII artpacks. The artform was originally intended for display on computer textmode consoles. It gained popularity in the early nineties with the rise of dial-up Bulletin Board Systems (BBS).” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:47:57 +0000 https://16colo.rs/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/29/yandex-suspends-2026-guidance-after-data-centers-come-under-fire-a94120 Moscow Times: “Yandex announced Thursday that it was withdrawing its 2026 financial guidance following a series of Ukrainian drone strikes against its data centers earlier this month, a move that triggered the tech giant’s stock to fall slightly in afternoon trading.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:47:57 +0000 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/29/yandex-suspends-2026-guidance-after-data-centers-come-under-fire-a94120 https://cyberscoop.com/dhs-employee-breach-icepick-database-takedown/ CyberScoop: “A company working on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security sought to cut off online access to information on more than 41,000 employees that hacktivists said they obtained from a database breached at DHS. A search tool for the database, named Icepick, went offline for a spell before coming online again Thursday under a different registrar.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:47:57 +0000 https://cyberscoop.com/dhs-employee-breach-icepick-database-takedown/ https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-settles-with-teen-during-trial-testing-claims-social-media-caused-2026-10-30 Reuters: “Meta Platforms has ​settled with a teen plaintiff who accused the company of designing Instagram and Facebook to be addictive, causing her mental ‌health problems and disordered eating, attorneys for the plaintiff said on Friday. The settlement came after jury selection began on Wednesday for a trial that was slated to test the claims of two teens, identified as S.J. and K.D.B., against Meta and Snapchat parent Snap Inc.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:47:57 +0000 https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-settles-with-teen-during-trial-testing-claims-social-media-caused-2026-10-30 https://www.citizen.co.za/lifestyle/entertainment/celebrity-news/how-a-six-minute-tiktok-love-story-became-a-south-african-novel/ The Citizen (South Africa): “It all began with a cellphone on her car dashboard and a six-minute fictional love story that millions of viewers fell in love with. It was a series on TikTok called Thato wa Ngwanyana, and it’s crossed over into the novel Good Things Keep Happening to Me.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:47:57 +0000 https://www.citizen.co.za/lifestyle/entertainment/celebrity-news/how-a-six-minute-tiktok-love-story-became-a-south-african-novel/ https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2026/10/bodycare-builds-700-strong-micro-influencer-network/ Retail Gazette: “The health and beauty retailer has partnered with PMC to develop AIMEE, a platform that analyses data on customers, stock, social media trends and store performance. The system is designed to help Bodycare make decisions on stock allocation, demand forecasting and local marketing, using insights from its network of micro- and nano-influencers.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:47:57 +0000 https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2026/10/bodycare-builds-700-strong-micro-influencer-network/ https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2381839/belgian-finance-ministry-hit-by-cyberattack-myminfin-and-other-services-offline Brussels Times: “The digital services of the Belgian Ministry of Finance are currently affected by a cyberattack, making MyMinfin and several other services temporarily unavailable. However, there are no indications of a data breach or that any data has been compromised, the tax authorities announced on Wednesday.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:47:57 +0000 https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2381839/belgian-finance-ministry-hit-by-cyberattack-myminfin-and-other-services-offline https://provincetownindependent.org/featured/2026/10/28/influencer-indicted-for-hunting-white-shark-off-wellfleet/ Provincetown Independent: “Christopher Stefanou, 30, was arraigned on Oct. 21 after a Barnstable County grand jury returned indictments against him on charges of cruelty to animals and four Dept. of Marine Fisheries (DMF) regulatory violations for fishing for a great white shark off Marconi Beach under cover of darkness with a European customer a year ago. Stefanou, who has a sizable online following for his shark fishing, posted a dramatic 17-minute video on social media documenting the expedition.” Good evening, Internet… Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:47:57 +0000 https://provincetownindependent.org/featured/2026/10/28/influencer-indicted-for-hunting-white-shark-off-wellfleet/ https://www.patreon.com/ResearchBuzz This newsletter is free but most of the things that go into making it aren’t! Help me afford new socks and fancier bean stew by Not interested in commitment? Perhaps you’d buy me an iced tea. Don’t have any money but still want to support? I know how that feels. Share this newsletter or tell a friend about it. I live at Calishat. See my other nonsense at SearchTweaks, RSS Gizmos, Local Search America, WikiTwister, and MiniGladys. Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:47:57 +0000 https://www.patreon.com/ResearchBuzz https://local12.com/news/nation-world/lord-farquuad-addresses-city-hall-meeting-regarding-massive-400-megawatt-data-center-cincinnati-san-diego-council-approves-moratorium-after-elmo-parody-speakers-oppose-proposed-artificial-intelligence-data-center-navwar WKRC: “When addressing the gathering, ‘Lord Farquaad’ issued the following statement: ‘I would like to begin my comments today by advising the rest of this room to please put off their foul stench, it smells like too many poors, and too many working class in this room. And that is not the interest that we are interested in serving in my town of Duloc, and we should not be interested in serving those interests here in San Diego either. We should be interested in representing the business community, that represents the AI data centers, that represents the ability to monitor our constituents with our Flock cameras and we know these two things go hand in hand, of course.'” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:31:05 +0000 https://local12.com/news/nation-world/lord-farquuad-addresses-city-hall-meeting-regarding-massive-400-megawatt-data-center-cincinnati-san-diego-council-approves-moratorium-after-elmo-parody-speakers-oppose-proposed-artificial-intelligence-data-center-navwar https://nevadacurrent.com/2026/10/20/data-center-project-proposed-on-federal-land-gets-sent-back-to-square-one/ Nevada Current: “Approval for the first-ever commercial data center on U.S. public lands was formally rejected on Thursday after a federal appeals board affirmed the Bureau of Land Management must conduct a separate environmental review, which in turn would have to be approved, before proceeding with the project.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:31:05 +0000 https://nevadacurrent.com/2026/10/20/data-center-project-proposed-on-federal-land-gets-sent-back-to-square-one/ https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/27/how-big-tech-and-abbott-made-texas-the-epicenter-of-data-centers-01135261 Politico: “Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has been cracking down on data centers for months, but less than a year ago his appointees and staffers were actively trying to bring projects to the state. On Dec. 16, 2025, two days before Texas announced sweeping changes to expedite grid access to data centers, Abbott’s top staff held a closed-door meeting with representatives of the state’s largest tech and transmission companies, according to records obtained by POLITICO.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:31:05 +0000 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/27/how-big-tech-and-abbott-made-texas-the-epicenter-of-data-centers-01135261 https://gizmodo.com/zuckerberg-wants-to-build-a-giant-online-network-of-ai-agents-2000829145 Gizmodo: “Meta’s goal of building a network of AI agents that work together to serve more than a billion people worldwide helps explain why the company isn’t ‘charging everyone up front’ to use Muse. The idea is to attract as many users as possible. It’s unclear exactly what this collaboration between agents will entail, but it raises questions about data sharing, an area where Meta has a checkered history.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:31:05 +0000 https://gizmodo.com/zuckerberg-wants-to-build-a-giant-online-network-of-ai-agents-2000829145 https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/27/amazon-ai-coding-tokenmaxxing.html CNBC: “Amazon laid out its AI usage guidelines for software engineers in a memo to staffers, and discouraged employees from turning to ‘tokenmaxxing’ in their push to embrace artificial intelligence tools. The memo, which was circulated internally in September and posted to the company’s website on Tuesday, revises how the company defines the role of software development engineers and managers in the age of AI.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:31:05 +0000 https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/27/amazon-ai-coding-tokenmaxxing.html https://www.westsiderag.com/2026/10/21/pilot-ai-cameras-tracking-parking-violations-on-the-upper-west-side-taken-down West Side Rag: “For the past six months, the curb management company, Automotus, monitored parking behavior on the Upper West Side using AI-powered cameras. The temporary installation of two of the company’s ‘CurbSight’ AI cameras along Broadway between West 74th and 75th streets ended this week, and the pilot’s results are now being analyzed by the New York City Department of Transportation.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:31:05 +0000 https://www.westsiderag.com/2026/10/21/pilot-ai-cameras-tracking-parking-violations-on-the-upper-west-side-taken-down https://www.axios.com/2026/10/24/ai-ceos-washington-political-liability Axios: “Even pro-AI government officials and lawmakers wish AI founders would do what every other major industry chief does — shut up and just build their products … safely.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:31:05 +0000 https://www.axios.com/2026/10/24/ai-ceos-washington-political-liability https://stanforddaily.com/2026/10/21/university-removes-ai-image-of-band/ Stanford Daily: “The Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band (LSJUMB) is one of Stanford’s most photographed student organizations, having been featured on Stanford’s social media platforms and framed in campus buildings. But on Monday, members were shocked to find that Stanford had posted an AI-generated depiction of the group — all-white and all-male.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:31:05 +0000 https://stanforddaily.com/2026/10/21/university-removes-ai-image-of-band/ https://apnews.com/article/dartmouth-provost-ai-a9f71dc5e9e10461c7c2390febcd1b5a Associated Press: “A top administrator at Dartmouth College has resigned after a faculty committee found he used artificial intelligence to shape his writing, including in a guest column in The Washington Post on AI cheating. The announcement Wednesday of Provost Santiago Schnell’s departure from the Ivy League university comes as colleges across the country grapple with how to transform teaching as more assignments can be completed with AI tools.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:31:05 +0000 https://apnews.com/article/dartmouth-provost-ai-a9f71dc5e9e10461c7c2390febcd1b5a https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/26/anthropics-ipo-filing-reveals-its-strategy-for-keeping-enterprise-customers-hooked/ TechCrunch: “Anthropic is building the same kind of cross-product ecosystem that helped make tech companies like Amazon and Uber enormously sticky, and its S-1 suggests the strategy is working. More than half of customers spending at least $100,000 annually now use both the Claude platform and a first-party app like Claude Code or Cowork, up from about 30% at the end of last year.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:31:05 +0000 https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/26/anthropics-ipo-filing-reveals-its-strategy-for-keeping-enterprise-customers-hooked/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/how-one-hacker-used-ai-agents-few-thousand-dollars-break-into-scores-sites-2026-10-19/ Reuters: “Over the past couple of weeks, a cybersecurity researcher watched as a Chinese-speaking hacker broke into websites belonging to more than 100 companies, including farm equipment maker Deere, home appliance ​company SharkNinja and engine manufacturer Cummins. Yet the hacker did almost none of the work.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:31:05 +0000 https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/how-one-hacker-used-ai-agents-few-thousand-dollars-break-into-scores-sites-2026-10-19/ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/arts/music/anthropic-lawsuit-elvis-presley-songs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LVE.Unk9.7e04-FAQ9Ei8&smid=nytcore-ios-share New York Times: “The owners of Elvis Presley’s music sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, saying it trained its models on more than 200 of Presley’s songs without their permission, and accusing it of copyright infringement. The suit, filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of several parties, seeks a jury trial and more than $41 million, or $150,000 per song, in damages.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:31:05 +0000 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/arts/music/anthropic-lawsuit-elvis-presley-songs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LVE.Unk9.7e04-FAQ9Ei8&smid=nytcore-ios-share https://info.umd.edu/news/apps-ai-eyes-for-blind-users-fall-short-umd-researchers-find/ University of Maryland: “A blind man points his phone at a pan and asks, ‘Are the sausages brown yet?’ The app he’s using responds out loud that some spots are still slightly pink. So a bit later, he takes another photo and asks again, and then again, about four times in all, until the food is fully cooked. What he really wanted, he later told researchers, was not a repetitive Q&A but useful advice: ‘Maybe it still looks pretty pink—stir a little more, maybe about five minutes.’ He was one of 11 participants, all of whom identify as blind, in a University of Maryland (UMD) study presented this year at a top human-computer interaction conference.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:31:05 +0000 https://info.umd.edu/news/apps-ai-eyes-for-blind-users-fall-short-umd-researchers-find/ https://www.npr.org/2026/10/26/nx-s1-6012820/ai-hurricane-forecast-google-deepmind-isaias NPR: “Hurricane forecasters are increasingly using artificial intelligence to make predictions — and they say the technology is rapidly transforming the field. When the first hurricane of the Atlantic season formed this month, an AI model beat out traditional models at predicting where it would go.” Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:31:05 +0000 https://www.npr.org/2026/10/26/nx-s1-6012820/ai-hurricane-forecast-google-deepmind-isaias https://www.aol.co.uk/articles/bear-vision-ai-powered-tech-094139000.html The Independent: “Artificial intelligence-powered ‘doorbell cameras’ are being trialled by an international team of specialists to alert local communities to approaching polar bears amid the growing threat of human conflict. Created by the conservation charity Polar Bears International, the initiative is part of a broader push to safeguard both human lives and wildlife as global warming escalates the frequency of hazardous interactions.” Good evening, Internet… Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:31:05 +0000 https://www.aol.co.uk/articles/bear-vision-ai-powered-tech-094139000.html https://www.patreon.com/ResearchBuzz This newsletter is free but most of the things that go into making it aren’t! Help me afford new socks and fancier bean stew by Not interested in commitment? Perhaps you’d buy me an iced tea. Don’t have any money but still want to support? I know how that feels. Share this newsletter or tell a friend about it. I live at Calishat. See my other nonsense at SearchTweaks, RSS Gizmos, Local Search America, WikiTwister, and MiniGladys. Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:31:05 +0000 https://www.patreon.com/ResearchBuzz