While the web buzzes with anxiety about AI taking our jobs or achieving consciousness, real artificial intelligence systems have already been making life-altering decisions about healthcare, housing, and basic human rights – often with devastating consequences.In this article I’m going to examine three real-life cases where AI systems destroyed thousands of lives. Then I’ll share…

Google has made a significant change: you now need to enable JavaScript to use Google Search. According to them, this move is about security and improving the experience for users like you and me. By requiring JavaScript, Google says it can better protect its platform against spam, bots, and other types of abuse. It also…

The Libraries is expanding NC State’s open access (OA) support through new agreements with Elsevier and Springer, two major publishers, that will cover NC State authors’ OA article publishing charges…

This post was authored by Campbell Dunne, with research done by Campbell and Jocelyn Romero Regules, and edited by Clara Wilson and Todd Kosmerick.As 2025 begins we recognize the centennial…

Last week, Automattic announced that they’d be cutting their weekly contributor hours to WordPress.org from roughly 4,000 to a mere 45. This is a massive shift in how open-source WordPress has functioned for over a decade. Let’s explore four possible implications of this major change.

TheLibraries website contains a wealth of online research resources for instructors and students. However, even the best website can sometimes be less than ideal to use, particularly for those with a…

In this Special Collections News posting, we discuss recent projects to digitize documents and photographs on the history of NC Cooperative Extension.In 2022, NC State University Libraries conducted a project…

If you’ve used Google lately, you’ve probably noticed a change: instead of just getting a mix of links and snippets, you’re now seeing AI-generated responses that synthesize information from multiple sources right there in your results. This is what’s known as generative search and it’s changing how we optimize content for search engines. In this…

All NC State undergraduate students have been automatically enrolled in the new Course Ready textbook billing program, which launches in the spring 2025 semester. Offered throughWolfpack Outfitters, the program charges students…

Martyr! is the debut novel of poet Kaveh Akbar, who not too long ago visited the Libraries as part of the Art United series. Full disclosure, I didn’t want to…