NEW RESOURCES

Hyde Park Herald: New archive reunites the art and Legacy of Shaddle and Baum. “…created over more than a decade by their son, Charles Baum, [the Alice Shaddle and Don Baum Art & Archive] catalogs roughly 5,400 artworks and 3,400 archival items tied to the pair, along with records of hundreds of exhibitions, institutions and collaborators.”

City Life Org: Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Stephen Sondheim and Many Others Featured in 92NY’s New Literary Audio Collection. “Made possible by generous funding from the Mellon Foundation, the collection features over 800 archival recordings of 92nd Street Y Poetry Center events dating back to 1949, over 500 of which have never been released.”

State of California: Governor and LA Rises announce new online resource to further help LA fire survivors navigate rebuilding. “Governor Gavin Newsom and LA Rises today launched a new webpage with resources and information to help homeowners who lost their homes during the 2025 LA firestorms. Building on existing resources, the new online resource lays out the pathway for rebuilding, providing survivors with connections with trusted community organizations, homebuilders, prefabricated homes, preapproved plans, mortgage relief, and rebuilding calculators.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Search Engine Journal: Google Reveals The Top Searches Of 2025. “In 2025, Google’s AI tool Gemini topped global searches. People tracked cricket matches between India and England, looked up details on the new Pope, and searched for information about Iran and the TikTok ban. They followed LA fires and government shutdowns.”

USEFUL STUFF

Lifehacker: 10 iPhone Privacy Hacks Everyone Should Know. “When you’re using devices that are always connected to the internet, it’s difficult to completely protect your privacy. Luckily, there are plenty of great privacy hacks for your iPhone, which you can use to make it hard for trackers and spies to collect your data and snoop on your business. From built-in solutions, like adjusting app permissions, to purchasing privacy screen protectors, here are 10 hacks every iPhone user should consider to protect their privacy.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Mashable: ‘Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’ stripped of Indie Game Awards due to generative AI use. “The Indie Game Awards has stripped Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 of both its Game of the Year and Debut Game awards, citing the roleplaying game’s use of generative AI. Run by Six One Indie, the annual Indie Game Awards aims to highlight excellence in independent video game development.”

Tubefilter: TikTok wants more creators to take a chance on brand campaigns. So it’s offering $10,000.. “We just wrote about how TikTok Shop is tempting both sellers and buyers with things like gift cards and cash incentives. But its ecommerce hub isn’t the only division where TikTok’s looking to grow.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Ars Technica: OpenAI’s child exploitation reports increased sharply this year. “OpenAI sent 80 times as many child exploitation incident reports to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children during the first half of 2025 as it did during a similar time period in 2024, according to a recent update from the company. The NCMEC’s CyberTipline is a Congressionally authorized clearinghouse for reporting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and other forms of child exploitation.”

The Register: Around 1,000 systems compromised in ransomware attack on Romanian water agency. “Romania’s cybersecurity agency confirms a major ransomware attack on the country’s water management administration has compromised around 1,000 systems, with work to remediate them still ongoing.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Marek Jancovic: Vibe-Coding for Historians: How I Digitized 21.000 Archival Documents Without Coding Skills. “The following is a case report on how I’ve managed to turn all of these images into accurate text data, group them into document clusters and automatically date them, label them with meaningful topics and entities, and embed them in a database that allows me to search and talk to the entire collection independently of document language — all with nearly no coding skills whatsoever, relying almost entirely on an AI chatbot.”

PsyPost: Adolescents with high emotional intelligence are less likely to trust AI. “The research suggests that teens with higher emotional intelligence and supportive, authoritative parents tend to use AI less frequently and with greater skepticism. Conversely, adolescents raised in authoritarian environments appear more likely to rely on AI for advice and trust it implicitly regarding data security and accuracy.”

OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL

University of St. Andrews: Groundbreaking discovery turns household plastic recycling into anti-cancer medication. “Published today in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, researchers discovered that by using a ruthenium-catalysedsemi-hydrogenation process, PET waste could be depolymerised into a valuable chemical, ethyl-4-hydroxymethyl benzoate (EHMB). Remarkably, EHMB serves as a key intermediate for synthesising several important compounds, including the blockbuster anticancer drug Imatinib, Tranexamic acid, the base for medication that helps the blood to clot, and the insecticide Fenpyroximate.” Good morning, Internet…

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