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Elsevier shutdown looms Down Under as open access talks collapse

December 8, 2025 at 2:53:18 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/elsevier-boycott-looms-down-under

Don’t rely on government to save the British Library - Impact of Social Sciences

510 · 644 · breaches · libraries · sustainability · highered

December 8, 2025 at 2:27:08 PM UTC · permalink

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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/12/02/dont-rely-on-government-to-save-the-british-library/

Ex-teen hackers warn parents are clueless as children steal 'millions' | Money News | Sky News

Advanced persistent teenagers.

510 · apts

December 7, 2025 at 1:34:35 AM UTC · permalink

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https://news.sky.com/story/children-as-young-as-seven-caught-hacking-as-former-cybercriminals-warn-its-mainstream-now-13479365

GitHub - grimthorpe/clbre: A fork of Calibre called Clbre, because the AI is stripped out.

ebooks · software

December 6, 2025 at 9:17:47 PM UTC · permalink

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https://github.com/grimthorpe/clbre

Have I Been Flocked? - Check if Your License Plate is Being Watched

510 · surveillance · gis

December 6, 2025 at 8:11:05 PM UTC · permalink

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https://haveibeenflocked.com/

Chapter 13 Reframing ‘reframing’: a holistic approach to understanding failure | Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship | University of London Press

601 · 500 · meritocracy

December 5, 2025 at 4:49:38 PM UTC · permalink

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https://read.uolpress.co.uk/read/reframing-failure-in-digital-scholarship-a56118ab-e4eb-4eb4-9dca-e8c343c6441b/section/86921880-c7c5-4e25-98da-454e55144faa

A.I. labs want more of your time. That's a problem.

ai · ai · ethics · 351 · 644

December 5, 2025 at 4:11:56 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.compiler.news/openai-anthropic-chatgpt-engagement/

Chapter 6 A career in ruins? Accepting imperfection and celebrating failures in digital preservation and digital archaeology | Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship | University of London Press

668 · digitalforensics · digitalpreservation · casestudy

December 4, 2025 at 6:47:52 PM UTC · permalink

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https://read.uolpress.co.uk/read/reframing-failure-in-digital-scholarship-a56118ab-e4eb-4eb4-9dca-e8c343c6441b/section/0629f230-84b6-482b-b1ca-04f12ee76103

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

351 · 644 · ai · pedagogy · highered

December 4, 2025 at 4:44:00 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself

Prime Video pulls eerily emotionless AI-generated anime dubs after complaints - Ars Technica

People who need subtitles shouldn't have to settle for AI slop.

351 · 644 · ai · accessibility

December 4, 2025 at 3:16:21 PM UTC · permalink

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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/prime-video-pulls-eerily-emotionless-ai-generated-anime-dubs-after-complaints/

What Students Actually Want From Edtech — and Why We Should Listen | EdSurge News

644 · edtech · ux · usability

December 4, 2025 at 3:00:17 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.edsurge.com/news/2025-12-03-what-students-actually-want-from-edtech-and-why-we-should-listen

A data breach at analytics giant Mixpanel leaves a lot of open questions | TechCrunch

351 · analytics · webanalytics · surveillance · breaches · 510

December 2, 2025 at 5:19:26 PM UTC · permalink

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https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/a-data-breach-at-analytics-giant-mixpanel-leaves-a-lot-of-open-questions/

[this is aaronland] what are the chances the cashless student cafeteria has a privacy policy?

Museums have a LONG way to go with metadata.

632 · 644 · museums · metadata · digitalcollections · theoryofchange

December 2, 2025 at 3:53:38 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2025/11/20/cafeteria/#usf

Syntax hacking: Researchers discover sentence structure can bypass AI safety rules - Ars Technica

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

510 · ai · injectionattack

December 2, 2025 at 2:41:21 PM UTC · permalink

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https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/syntax-hacking-researchers-discover-sentence-structure-can-bypass-ai-safety-rules/

Supreme Court hears case that could trigger big crackdown on Internet piracy - Ars Technica

351 · 644 · dmca

December 2, 2025 at 2:40:58 PM UTC · permalink

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/supreme-court-debates-whether-isps-must-kick-pirates-off-the-internet/

OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets - Ars Technica

601 · 644 · ai · copyright

December 2, 2025 at 2:40:48 PM UTC · permalink

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/openai-desperate-to-avoid-explaining-why-it-deleted-pirated-book-datasets/

From smart cars to tracking devices: Technology's increasing role in coercive control and family and domestic violence | eSafety Commissioner

510 · abuse · internetofthings · mobile · stalkerware

December 2, 2025 at 2:38:51 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.esafety.gov.au/newsroom/blogs/from-smart-cars-to-tracking-devices-technologys-increasing-role-in-coercive-control-and-family-and-domestic-violence

LLMs are a failure. A new AI winter is coming.

351 · 601 · 644 · ai · ai

December 1, 2025 at 6:40:24 PM UTC · permalink

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https://taranis.ie/llms-are-a-failure-a-new-ai-winter-is-coming/

How CVSS v4.0 works: characterizing and scoring vulnerabilities | Malwarebytes

510 · models · vulnerabilities

December 1, 2025 at 3:26:17 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/how-cvss-v4-0-works-characterizing-and-scoring-vulnerabilities

PRINT-EN-Prosocial-Tech-Design - 691f5696295db224dc3e9be9_EN-Prosocial-Tech-Design-Regulation-a-Practical-Guide.pdf

351 · 644 · policy · recommenders · darkpatterns · ux · ai

December 1, 2025 at 3:01:58 PM UTC · permalink

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https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/68ba1281b6406dbd18597dab/691f5696295db224dc3e9be9_EN-Prosocial-Tech-Design-Regulation-a-Practical-Guide.pdf