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New Artificial Intelligence Li1

New Artificial Intelligence LibGuide

I wish I’d put it together, but it was my colleague, Bronte Chiang, who just released this fantastic LibGuide on Artificial Intelligence. It’s not a hard-science guide, but “…has been created for students and instructors to explore how to responsibly and ethically use AI in their work. There is information about how to critically engage […]

2023 LibLearnX Wrap-Up

Joslyn Dixon (left), executive director of Oak Park (Ill.) Public Library, poses with author Caseen Gaines in the LLX Marketplace.Photo: EPNAC For the first time, the American Library Association (ALA) held LibLearnX (January 27–30) in person. The four-day hybrid event drew 1,712 attendees and 757 exhibitors to New Orleans as well as 190 participants to […]

The SDR loves your complex dat1

This is international Love Data Week, an annual celebration of all things data that highlights topics, opportunities, and services relevant to data in research.  Check out this quick (1:37) video below to learn about new features for the Stanford Digital Repository (SDR) that make it easier than ever for you to share your data with others. Share your […]

Data We Love – Day 3

Data We Love – Day 3

Today we celebrate accessible data, the third post in the “Data We Love” series for #LoveDataStanford during #LoveData23 Week! Yesterday (Day 2) we celebrated innovative data.   Before that (Day 1), impactful data was in the spotlight.  This series is brought to you by the Stanford Digital Repository service team. Special thanks to co-producer Regina Roberts […]

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, Febru1

Microsoft is sending the world a whole bunch of love today, in the form of patches to plug dozens of security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software. This year’s special Valentine’s Day Patch Tuesday includes fixes for a whopping three different “zero-day” vulnerabilities that are already being used in active attacks. Microsoft’s […]

Data We Love – Day 2

Data We Love – Day 2

Welcome to the second post in our “Data We Love” blog series! In honor of #LoveDataStanford during #LoveData23, every day this week we are highlighting data in the Stanford Digital Repository that stands out — and deserves a heart-filled shoutout — for being especially loveable! Today we draw your attention to an incredible project focused on […]

Data We Love – Day 1

Data We Love – Day 1

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U.S., U.K. Sanction 7 Men Tied1

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “Trickbot,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. The U.S. Department of the Treasury says the Trickbot group is associated with Russian intelligence […]

KrebsOnSecurity in Upcoming Hu1

KrebsOnSecurity will likely have a decent amount of screen time in an upcoming Hulu documentary series about the 2015 megabreach at marital infidelity site Ashley Madison. While I can’t predict what the producers will do with the video interviews we shot, it’s fair to say the series will explore compelling new clues as to who […]

Finland’s Most-Wanted Hacker N

Julius “Zeekill” Kivimäki, a 25-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a local online psychotherapy practice and leaking therapy notes for more than 22,000 patients online, was arrested this week in France. A notorious hacker convicted of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, Kivimäki had been in hiding since October 2022, when he failed to show […]

Jeremy Singer-Vine’s Data Libe

Jeremy Singer-Vine’s Data Liberation Project

Not to be confused with Canada’s Data Liberation Initiative, Jeremy Singer-Vine is spending his time on the Data Liberation Project, “an initiative to identify, obtain, reformat, clean, document, publish, and disseminate government datasets of public interest.” There’s not yet a lot to look at there, but there’s plenty in the pipeline. I just attended a […]

Presenting “Digitization Exemp

Digital Library Systems and Services (DLSS) has published a new reference resource about the work we produce in digitization services: Digitization Exemplars. This exhibit features an array of examples of each of the kinds of materials that we digitally reformat in our various labs. The purpose of this site is to serve as a reference […]

Experian Glitch Exposing Credi1

On Dec. 23, 2022, KrebsOnSecurity alerted big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian that identity thieves had worked out how to bypass its security and access any consumer’s full credit report — armed with nothing more than a person’s name, address, date of birth, and Social Security number. Experian fixed the glitch, but remained silent about […]

Administrator of RSOCKS Proxy 1

Denis Emelyantsev, a 36-year-old Russian man accused of running a massive botnet called RSOCKS that stitched malware into millions of devices worldwide, pleaded guilty to two counts of computer crime violations in a California courtroom this week. The plea comes just months after Emelyantsev was extradited from Bulgaria, where he told investigators, “America is looking […]

Another Hidden Figure in Libra1

Autherine Lucy and lawyers Thurgood Marshall and Arthur Brooks leave the courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama, on February 29, 1956, after the court had ruled Lucy had to be reinstated as a library science student at University of Alabama but before the university’s trustees expelled her later that day. Photo: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs […]