White Buses Mission, World Digital Preservation Day, Wordle, More: Saturday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, November 8, 2025
NEW RESOURCES
Cision: New Digital Archive Brings Sweden’s WWII Rescue Mission to Life (PRESS RELEASE). “During the final months of the Second World War, the Swedish Red Cross led the White Buses mission, which brought around 15,000 people — many rescued from Nazi concentration camps — to safety in Sweden.”
EVENTS
Digital Preservation Coalition: World Digital Preservation Day: Why Preserve?. “World Digital…
White Buses Mission, World Digital Preservation Day, Wordle, More: Saturday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, November 8, 2025
NEW RESOURCES
Cision: New Digital Archive Brings Sweden’s WWII Rescue Mission to Life (PRESS RELEASE). “During the final months of the Second World War, the Swedish Red Cross led the White Buses mission, which brought around 15,000 people — many rescued from Nazi concentration camps — to safety in Sweden.”
EVENTS
Digital Preservation Coalition: World Digital Preservation Day: Why Preserve?. “World Digital Preservation Day is an annual event sponsored by the Digital Preservation Coalition to bring international attention to the critical challenges and opportunities of digital preservation stewardship. The theme of this year’s celebration is Why Preserve? This question has particular relevance right now given the sea change so many of us are experiencing in our institutional environments.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Engadget: The New York Times is letting you create your own Wordle puzzles. “…fans of the popular word game can create their own custom puzzles. The publication announced today that its All Access and Games subscribers have the option to make World challenges of their own to send to friends and family.”
USEFUL STUFF
How-To Geek: I replaced Mathematica with this free and open-source alternative. “Mathematica is well-known for its ability to solve all kinds of math and science problems. It’s also notoriously expensive and closed-source. What if there was an open-source program for Linux that let you explore math for free? There is, and it’s called SageMath.”
AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD
Tubefilter: 20 years of YouTube: We made it to 2025. Don’t break the spaghetti.. “Bayashi and Lionfield came up separately, and they could likely continue to put up big numbers without each other’s help. Instead, the two hubs have developed a codependent relationship. It’s simple, really: Bayashi cooks grotesque takes on Italian food, and the Lionfield guys critique him for it.”
Press Gazette: How Tiktok inspired the New York Times vertical video strategy. “‘Watch’ is now the second of four menu items offered at the bottom of the New York Times app (after ‘Home’ and before ‘Listen’ and ‘Play’) and it offers access to a daily selection of around 20 short vertical videos. The videos are a mixture of narrated news footage, first-person takes from New York Times staff and lighter lifestyle and cooking content.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
BBC: I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?. “When Viktoria asks about the method of taking her life, the chatbot evaluates the best time of day not to be seen by security and the risk of surviving with permanent injuries.”
The Register: Senate bill would require companies to report AI layoffs as job cuts reach 20-year high in October. “A bipartisan pair of US Senators has introduced a bill that would require companies and government agencies to report AI-related layoffs, and it couldn’t come at a better time. October jobs data suggests AI is driving the largest wave of layoffs headed into the end of the year that we’ve seen since 2003.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Reuters: Early AI investor returns earn average human grade. “Over a two-week span, six frontier models were seeded with $10,000 apiece to trade digital-coin derivatives. Five finished deep in the red, while the last barely scraped by despite its flimsy risk-adjusted score. For the time being, primate fund managers can rest easy knowing machines simply ape their worst tendencies.”
Notre Dame News: University of Notre Dame and FIA team up to reduce online abuse in sports. “The University of Notre Dame has announced a research collaboration with the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile to lead an initiative addressing the rising threat of online abuse in sports.” Good morning, Internet…
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