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SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?

Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle said that while the nonprofit organization has always functioned as a library, this new designation makes it easier to work with the other federal depository libraries. That, he said, is a service to everyone.

“ I think there is a great deal of excitement to have an organization such as the Internet Archive, which has physical collections of materials, but is really known mostly for being accessible as part of the internet,” Kahle said. “And helping integrate these materials into things like Wikipedia, so that the whole internet ecosystem gets stronger as digital learners get closer access into the government materials.”

SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?https://www.kqed.org/news/12049420/sf-based-internet-archive-is-now-a-federal-depository-library-what-does-that-meanOpen linkView original on programming.dev
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Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals

The Sapienza computer scientists say Wi-Fi signals offer superior surveillance potential compared to cameras because they're not affected by light conditions, can penetrate walls and other obstacles, and they're more privacy-preserving than visual images.

[…] The Rome-based researchers who proposed WhoFi claim their technique makes accurate matches on the public NTU-Fi dataset up to 95.5 percent of the time when the deep neural network uses the transformer encoding architecture.

Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signalshttps://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/whofi_wifi_identifierOpen linkView original on programming.dev
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When tech hardware becomes paperweights

Now I have this blood pressure monitor device that doesn't work without a logged in app and is a paperweight. I'm lucky I never invested into their ecosystem of health products. Lesson is no matter how popular a brand is, there is no guarantee they will be around. I've lost all my health data and there is no way to get it back.

When tech hardware becomes paperweightshttps://basic.bearblog.dev/when-tech-hardware-becomes-paperweights/Open linkView original on programming.dev
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