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Zeit-Bibliothek der 100 Bücher, 1980, ISBN 3518371452.
Zeit-Bibliothek der 100 Sachbücher, 1984, ISBN 3518375741
100 beste Bücher, 1986, 3250010618.
1001 Bücher, Zürich, 2007, 9783283011567.
Bücher – Alles was man lesen muss, 2004 9783453872721.
Harenberg – Das Buch der 1000 Bücher, 2002, 3611010596
501 Must-Read Books, 2006, 9780753714331.
Books that changed the World, 1983, 0451626982.
https://www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/sinologie/shan/nl-archiv/2020_NL105_7.html

Pipestone County Star: Museum launches online newspaper archive. “The Pipestone County Museum launched a digital newspaper archive in February that can be accessed through the museum’s website… at no cost to users. For now, the archive has all copies of all newspapers published in Pipestone County from 1879 to 1916. That includes 50,831 pages from 11 different newspapers.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/13/pipestone-county-star-museum-launches-online-newspaper-archive/

MIT Press: Cover story: The Urban Naturalist by Menno Schilthuizen. “Imagine taking your smartphone-turned-microscope to an empty lot and discovering a rare mason bee that builds its nest in empty snail shells. Or a miniature spider that hunts ants and carries their corpses around. With a team of citizen scientists, that’s exactly what Menno Schilthuizen did—one instance in the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/06/cover-story-the-urban-naturalist-by-menno-schilthuizen-mit-press/

AFP: Authors hold London protest against Meta for ‘stealing’ work to train AI. “Around 100 authors on Thursday protested outside the London headquarters of Meta, accusing the U.S. tech giant of ‘stealing’ content to train its Artificial Intelligence models.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/04/afp-authors-hold-london-protest-against-meta-for-stealing-work-to-train-ai/

Abitare : Lessons from the masters: Renzo Piano https://www.abitare.it/en/research/publications/2025/04/03/renzo-piano-monograph-corriere-della-sera/ #libri&pubblicazioni #Publications #RenzoPiano

Suivant les recommandations du consortium allemand DEAL, le consortium français COUPERIN conseille aux chercheurs et chercheuses français de publier leurs articles sous la licence CC-by et de ne pas utiliser les licences non commerciales (NC) https://www.couperin.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/OA_MEANC_CC_BY_DEAL_FR1-1.pdf #publications #creativecommons

#IST #Publications #Fiabilité
Fragilité des grandes bases de données scientifiques centralisées... mais force par rapport aux modèles automatisés. Article qui compare l'efficacité de #Pubmed par rapport à des modèles IA. Et qui rappelle le contexte actuel d'une forte inquiétude sur la pérennité et l'intégrité des bases publiques en cas de changement de gouvernance (anti #DEI).

Proud to announce the latest publication from RESPOND partners from University of Amsterdam “Designing algorithms against corruption: a conjoint study on communicative features to encourage intentions for collective action”

Learn more: https://shorturl.at/hGw9J

Engadget: Game Informer is back and so is its entire team. “Gaming journalism stalwart Game Informer has risen from the ashes. More than thirty years after its debut issue back in August 1991, the media outlet was officially shut down by parent company GameStop in August 2024. Since then, the rights to Game Informer were acquired by Gunzilla Games and, in an all-to-rare win for today’s media […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/26/engadget-game-informer-is-back-and-so-is-its-entire-team/

TorrentFreak: Meta’s BitTorrent Uploads of ‘Pirate Library’ Data Equaled 30% of Downloads, Expert Says. “A lawsuit filed by several authors against Meta centers on Meta’s alleged use of pirated books for AI training data and the technical details of BitTorrent which was used to obtain them. Yesterday, Meta filed a motion for summary judgment, while countering the authors’ request to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/26/torrentfreak-metas-bittorrent-uploads-of-pirate-library-data-equaled-30-of-downloads-expert-says/

Financial cyberthreats in 2024 – Source: securelist.com https://ciso2ciso.com/financial-cyberthreats-in-2024-source-securelist-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #CyberSecurityNews #MalwareStatistics #Financialmalware #Financialthreats #Thematicphishing #securelistcom #Publications #TrojanBanker #Phishing #Trojan

Cincinnati Public Library: More Than 10,000 Cincinnati Enquirer Photos Now Available on CHPL’s Digital Library. “Exciting news: you can now view 10,000+ photos from the Cincinnati Enquirer Photo Archive, anytime in high resolution! Since 2023, Library staff have been digitizing and cataloging images donated by The Cincinnati Enquirer for public access on CHPL’s Digital Library. From […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/24/cincinnati-public-library-more-than-10000-cincinnati-enquirer-photos-now-available-on-chpls-digital-library/

Engadget: ‘Careless People’ hits the top of the New York Times bestseller list. “Careless People has debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. It’s also spent much of the week in the number three position on Amazon’s bestseller list. That’s despite the fact that Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former policy director at Facebook, has been barred from promoting or publicly […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/24/engadget-careless-people-hits-the-top-of-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list/

Poynter: Opinion | An Italian newspaper launched a generative AI experiment. It’s not going well. “I am usually a fan of bold experiments like this, and bristle at the hand-wringing that often comes in response to emerging technology. But, so far, it’s a case study of how bad AI is at writing the news. Along with the misspellings in images, an article about Donald Trump’s falsehoods has […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/23/opinion-an-italian-newspaper-launched-a-generative-ai-experiment-its-not-going-well-poynter/

The Society of Authors: The LibGen data set – what authors can do. “The Atlantic published a searchable database of over 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers. This data set, called Library Genesis or ‘LibGen’ for short, is full of pirated material, and all of it has been used to develop AI systems by tech giant Meta.” FIVE of my books are in this data set. Do you think I […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/23/the-society-of-authors-the-libgen-data-set-what-authors-can-do/

William & Mary: A vital link to local news. “Say you were offered a job in a town you’d never been to. How would you know if you would like to live there? How are the schools? What is the crime rate? Is there any nightlife? Can you afford a house or apartment there?   W&M Data Science assistant professor Alexander Nwala suggests you could begin your research with a site he and his […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/23/william-mary-a-vital-link-to-local-news/

Dans le Japon de la fin du XVIe siècle : «Assassin’s Creed Shadows» sort enfin.

La série vidéoludique des «Assassin’s Creed» d'Ubisoft comprend désormais un nouvel opus, situé dans le Japon de la fin du XVIe siècle. Les enjeux financiers de cette sortie sont importants

https://lyonelkaufmann.ch/histoire/2025/03/23/dans-le-japon-de-la-fin-du-xvie-siecle-assassins-creed-shadows-sort-enfin/

MIT Press: A note on LibGen and the unauthorized use of our authors’ work. “We want to be clear: The MIT Press has not licensed any of our books or journal articles for LLM training purposes, nor have we granted permission for any such use. However, we are well aware that many MIT Press publications have ended up in pirated training data sets. We share the deep distress of our authors whose […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/22/mit-press-a-note-on-libgen-and-the-unauthorized-use-of-our-authors-work/

Max Weber. Une vie mouvementée dans une époque agitée – Blog Musée national suisse

Cet article du Blog du Musée national suisse nous offre un portrait de Max Weber, socialiste suisse, pacifiste puis défenseur de la défense nationale devant la montée des fascismes, brillant économiste qui fut également

https://lyonelkaufmann.ch/histoire/2025/03/22/max-weber-une-vie-mouvementee-dans-une-epoque-agitee-blog-musee-national-suisse/