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The director of the Dwight D Eisenhower Presidential Library
has stepped down after a dispute with the Trump administration
over gifting a sword in its collection
to King Charles,
according to the BBC's US partner, CBS News.
Todd Arrington, the head of the library in Kansas,
resigned on Monday after declining to remove an original sword from the library's collection
to give to the King during President Donald Trump's visit to the United …

Trump's Eisenhower sword gift to King Charles leads to official resigning
The library director reportedly rejected a request for the White House to gift an Eisenhower sword to King Charles.

"Imagining the Future Library" by Masud Khokhar @ Katina Magazine:
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2025/imagining-the-future-library
"In an algorithmic economy, our understanding of knowledge …

Google removed 749M URLs linked to Anna's Archive, a popular shadow library for pirated books, over copyright claims, representing ~5% of all takedown requests (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/google-removed-749-m…

I'm lucky in libraries, because of where I live.
My local library "system": Pikes Peak Library District is made up of 14 library locations and 3 mobile libraries that serve 500,000 people living in 2,070 square miles of El Paso County, CO, USA.
But ONLY if you live in this county.
A neighboring county has BUPKIS.
Queens Public Library (New York, USA) $50/year. Accepts non-US residents.

That Neue Klasse ix3 looks very nice (for an SUV) though think that steering wheel is overcompensating for something.
I'm not in the market for an SUV, despite the price, but a 3er Touring might fit the bill when it arrives.
https://www.the-intercooler.com/library/bl

BMW iX3: welcome to the future of BMW - The Intercooler
This is the first of a whole new family of BMWs called ‘Neue Klasse’. They will define the brand for decades to come. Richard Aucock reports

Google removed 749M URLs linked to Anna's Archive, a popular shadow library for pirated books, over copyright claims, representing ~5% of all takedown requests (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/google-removed-749-m…

💻 Cyberangriffe auf Kultur(erbe)einrichtungen: was kann man lernen am Beispiel der British Library?
❗ Der Cyberangriff auf die British Library im Herbst 2023 war Teil einer Welle an Angriffen auf Kultur(erbe)einrichtungen - @… widmet der Attacke auf die BL einen eigenen lesenswerten Eintrag, beschreibt den Ablauf und die Schwachstellen, die genutzt wurden: …

The Internet Archive might sound like a thriving organization,
but it only recently emerged from years of bruising copyright battles that threatened to bankrupt the beloved library project.
In the end, the fight led to more than 500,000 books being removed from the Archive’s “Open Library.”
“We survived,” Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle told Ars.
“But it wiped out the Library.”
An Internet Archive spokesperson confirmed to Ars that the archive currently…

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

👉 Was sind potenzielle Folgen?
Zwei Jahre nach dem Angriff vermittelt der Artikel Einblicke, wie die Services aber vor allem auch die Mitarbeitenden durch Datenleaks privat betroffen sind: https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/ho