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Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Poster Stamps, Epstein Materials, More: Saturday ResearchBuzz, November 15, 2025

NEW RESOURCES

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art: Digital Permanent Collection Catalog and other resources. “Our wonderful Registration team has launched the first iteration of our Digital Permanent Collection Catalog – a searchable resource that contains the full listing of all works in our collection, including information on what’s on view across campus.”

Vienna University of Economics and Business: Advertising, Art, and History – Our New Digital Collection. “Poster stamps flourished as a means of advertising from around 1900 to 1914, promoting products, services, and events. Widely utilized on an international scale, they advertised trade fairs, exhibitions, congresses, and various other events across the globe.”

COURIER: We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate. “To make this massive data dump more accessible, COURIER has compiled the 20,000 documents from Epstein’s estate into an easily searchable repository via Google Pinpoint.”

EVENTS

BBC: TikTok award winner Max: ‘It takes me hours to make the content you scroll on the toilet’. “A transport enthusiast, a beauty advocate and a mum teaching people how to raise an autistic child were among the winners of the second annual TikTok awards. Hosted by TV presenter Aj Odudu at Magazine London, awards were handed out in 12 categories including fashion, travel, food and education.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

The Verge: Mozilla announces an AI ‘window’ for Firefox. “Firefox says it is building an AI browsing feature called AI Window that includes an AI assistant and chatbot. The company calls it an opt-in ‘intelligent and user-controlled space’ that is currently being built ‘in the open’ with user input.” Mozilla kills Pocket but carries on with this nonsense.

Tubefilter: Attention, please: TikTok launches “bulletin board” feature. “To complement its infinitely-scrolling feed of short-form videos, TikTok is adding some short-form text posts to the mix. The app has unveiled a virtual bulletin board that account owners can use to share updates, new content releases, and other news items.”

USEFUL STUFF

How-To Geek: Trying local AI models became way easier after I installed this app. “AI is more popular than ever, and there are dozens of great uses out there ranging from voice replication and synthesis to 3D modeling. None of that means anything if getting them up and running is too much trouble. Normally, firing up a new model is cumbersome enough that I don’t unless I know I want to use it. That is where Pinokio comes in.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Mashable: How TikTok is rewriting the soundtrack of music discovery. “In the U.S., the song hit No. 1 on both TikTok’s Viral 50 and Top 50 charts and No. 67 on Spotify’s Global Top 100, where it has generated over 120 million Spotify streams, making it her most-streamed song to date. Before her passing in July, Francis said her newfound TikTok fame gave her a ‘new lease on life,’ and she joined the platform herself at the age of 87.”

Unseen Japan: Photo Contest in Japan Rescinds Award for Stolen AI-Generated Pic . “The Association hung the work in its gallery. A picture of it also ran in an edition of the Asahi Shimbun. However, overseas social media users quickly pointed out that the winning image was AI-generated. Not only that, but it appeared to be taken from a site offering royalty-free AI-generated images.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

The Register: Chinese spies told Claude to break into about 30 critical orgs. Some attacks succeeded. “Chinese cyber spies used Anthropic’s Claude Code AI tool to attempt digital break-ins at about 30 high-profile companies and government organizations – and the government-backed snoops ‘succeeded in a small number of cases,’ according to a Thursday report from the AI company.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Tim Bray: Time to Migrate. “This month marks the third anniversary of my Mastodon migration and I’m convinced that right now, in late 2025, it’s the best place to go. Come join me. Here’s why.”

News-Medical: Landmark Japanese genome cohort reveals best practices for managing massive DNA databases. “At a time when large-scale human genome analysis was not yet common, the Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo) launched its genome cohort study. After ten years of operating this ambitious project, they are sharing key insights regarding the techniques required to analyze, manage, maintain, and update a genomic database of 100,000 people.” Good morning, Internet…

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