New on Archive.org, a long run of the journal Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos.

New on Archive.org, a recent run of the Library of Congress magazine. Appears to be 2013-2022.

Google is killing off its “cached” feature, reports Ars Technica. The feature kept a copy of a page for a few hours, days or weeks. Sometimes longer. The burden will now largely fall on permanent preservation in The Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive, making that service more vital than ever. However, that does have limitations, said to be ‘100 saves per day, per IP address’. Thus if your ISP puts you on a shared IP, you could be out of luck that day.

There’s also Archive.is, but there can be a queue 1,000 users long to archive a page. But it’s otherwise fast and also saves a screenshot. There are a few others, such as Perma.cc.

It might have been nice if Google had also bunged the Internet Archive $100m or so, to help them take up the slack, but Google seems to be a bit hard up these days. Ars Technica suggests the cache killing is a cost-saving move.

The Paul Allen Institute for AI has open-sourced its OLMo AI models for text generation. Funded by the wealth of Microsoft’s Paul Allen, the Institute runs the huge free Semantic Scholar ‘academic papers’ search harvester and database, and also has an AI arm. Its AI models are radically ‘open’ under an Apache licence, available for free-use including commercialisation. My guess would be that OLMo may be especially useful for academic text and semantics?

DiscMaster has returned. The site enables semantic keyword search of 500,000+ “vintage computer files” at Archive.org, including back-copies of 3D World magazine. Sadly it couldn’t find my test item, Red Herring’s vintage Combat Tanks, which the site definitely has. So it doesn’t know about everything.

A useful new UK Court of Appeal ruling…

it confirms that museums do not have valid copyright in photographs of (two-dimensional) works which are themselves out of copyright. It means these photographs are in the public domain, and free to use.

A new open journal, Construction KIT: a review journal for research tools and data services in the humanities.

The Mozilla organisation have released a way to make Large Language AI’s (think ‘ChatGPT’) into normal single-file .EXE files that will run on Windows, Mac, Linux, etc. Llamafile is open source and available now. Sample .EXE files include WizardCoder-Python-13B. Sadly though it won’t run on Windows, as that OS has a 4Gb limit on the size of .EXE files. So near, yet so far.