Last month many well-known popular musicians signed an open letter to Congress to express their dissatisfaction with the current Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). They…
OPLIN 4cast #497: Takedown and staydown
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Last month many well-known popular musicians signed an open letter to Congress to express their dissatisfaction with the current Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). They…
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“MU-MIMO.” That’s so much more fun to say than “Multi-User, Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output.” MU-MIMO is wireless technology that allows a single wireless router to send internet…
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We have done a number of posts lately about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and efforts to make AI bots communicate more like humans, even to the…
What are electronic communication transactional records? Well… that’s actually a pretty good question. The answer starts with National Security Letters (NSLs), secret demands for information…
Everyone seems to be getting excited about artificial intelligence (AI) these days. As Bill Gates said last week, “The dream is finally arriving.” And people…
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This blog tends to shy away from the “big” tech stories that have been covered in numerous other blogs and news feeds. In the case…
If not, you have a problem. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has just released data collected in July 2015 from about 53,000 households…
A couple of weeks ago, we got a glimpse inside the anti-malware/antivirus (AV) industry, when Google announced a change to the user policies for VirusTotal,…
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OK, all you librarians, it’s time to be brutally honest: You don’t really have a very high opinion of romance novels, do you? At best,…
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Although libraries provide free access to a great deal of information about the workings of our government, access to some information is easier than others.…