Data broker claims its shady lists weren't actually ever sold.

Federal Register still receives agency notices for publication on floppy disks.

The real reason 23andMe can’t test for my mutation is the company who formerly held a patent on BRCA1 and BRCA2 still has a proprietary database of our genetic mutations, and they aren’t sharing it with anyone! We need to fix THIS.

Randy Olson ponders how studies using proprietary data should be handled when published in open access journals.

Prompted by a blog post by Barbara Sierman, this space is a staging area for collecting visual examples of digital preservation challenges, failed renderings, encoding damage, corrupt data, and visual evidence documenting #FAILs of any stripe. You can contribute just an image. If you want to tell the story behind the image, that's even better. If you'd like to share the original file (or set of files), so that tool developers can learn from digital damage and test out their code with it, we'll be eternally in your debt. Contribute the files here: github.com/openplanets/format-corpus If you'd like to contribute to some other community digital preservation initiatives check out these ideas: wiki.opf-labs.org/display/SPR/Support+your+digital+preser...

The authors of a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine are retracting it, after being unable to find data supporting a table that required corrections. Here’s the notice:

Computerworld covers a range of technology topics, with a focus on these core areas of IT: Windows, Mobile, Apple/enterprise, Office and productivity suites, collaboration, web browsers and blockchain, as well as relevant information about companies such as Microsoft, Apple and Google.

The New York Times brings us news of a growing problem in the world of Supreme Court opinions: "link rot," a term coined to describe hyperlinks used to...

When I started developing websites back in the day, I was lucky to have hundreds of valuable, practical articles that would help me become better at what I did. I could learn day and night, and whenever I discovered a new tool or technique, I would bookmark it on Delicious for future reference. I knew the value of each article and of each bookmark, and I kept revisiting and carefully tagging them for months and months — almost every day.

When it comes to public access, the tree of life has holes. A new study shows about 70 percent of published genetic sequence comparisons are not publicly accessible, leaving researchers worldwide unable to get to critical data they may need to tackle a host a problems ranging from climate change to disease control.

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So how long do researchers have to keep records of experiments? We had that question while reading the retraction notice for a 2007 paper in the Journal of Clinical Investigation:

Last year, we reported on two retractions and two corrections by a team at the University of Utah. The retractions were because “some of the original data were inappropriately removed from th…