(31 Jul 2026) A North Korean cyber espionage group was behind attacks on four widely used open-source software libraries relied upon by developers around the world, according to a newly disclosed security report from Amazon, highlighting the growing risks to the global software supply chain. The findings, first reported by Voice of America citing Amazon’s…
(29 Jun 2026) Newspaper publishers across the country are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for allegedly scraping their websites to train their flagship artificial intelligence models. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday, alleges that by using unlicensed and paywalled content to train versions of ChatGPT,…
(14 Jun 2026) The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities has, for the first time, publicly announced the exclusion of dozens of universities from its upcoming July 2026 edition for promoting fabricated data and inflated positions derived from using ‘predatory’ websites that are copycat ranking sites. On 9 June, Isidro Aguillo, editor of the Webometrics rankings,…
New requirements in the U.K. look to give online publishers more leverage in negotiations with Google, while in Germany, a court has ruled that the company can be held liable for false statements in its AI Overviews. (11 Jun 2026) Two significant developments this week have targeted Google’s AI-generated summaries that now appear at…
(27 May 2026) For most of the history of scholarly publishing, the definition of “end user” was stable enough that no one thought to question it. The user was a researcher, a student, a clinician, a librarian: a human being who navigated a platform, read content, and formed their own judgments. Everything downstream of that assumption,…
(6 May 2026) “AI isn’t just summarizing research; it is, in fact, selecting what needs to be shown in the overview. Publishers, journal editors, and peer reviewers are traditionally considered gatekeepers; they are the ones deciding what should be selected and what is worth reading. There have been so many panel discussions and articles written…
(16 Apr 2026) According to a new study from the Université de Montréal, the English language’s share of academic output in scholarly publishing fell from 94 per cent to 85 per cent between 1990 and 2023. Researchers analysed 88 million articles and 1.48 billion cited references using the OpenAlex and Dimensions databases. The findings, published…
(30 Mar 2026) Last week, Wikipedia announced a new policy regarding the usage of large language models (LLMs) when working on Wikipedia articles. The policy itself is straightforward: volunteers cannot use LLMs to generate or rewrite article content. The only exceptions are the use of AI for “basic copyedits” and to generate some translations. However, in both…
(12 Jan 2026) Google search traffic to publishers declined globally by a third in the year to November, according to new Chartbeat data. In addition, referrals to more than 2,500 publisher websites from Google Discover, a feed served to users on Google’s native mobile apps and within its Android operating system, were down 21% year on year.…
(11 Jan 2026) Anna’s Archive has just lost its primary ORG domain name in a surprise suspension and has been placed on ServerHold status, an action typically taken by the domain name registry. Users will not be automatically redirected to the new domain name, which is available on their Wikipedia page. In a statement on…