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☆ We're about to enter the Digital Dark Ages
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-15 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Without laborious renaming, everything behind those links — billions of them, a decade of digital content — will become inaccessible. We're about to enter the Digital Dark Ages. The Department of Veterans Affairs is legally required to preserve all medical records for 75 years after the death of a vet — but it's having problems, in part because of a balky digital records system. "Over the long term, you can't preserve a digital object in its original form," says Manoff, the former MIT librarian. The Dark Ages, as historians used to call the early centuries of medieval Europe, lasted for 500 years.

Persons: Mark Graham, Graham, we're, Marlene Manoff, Loren McClenachan, McClenachan, we'd, Adam Rogers Organizations: Google, Companies, of Alexandria, New York Times, Pew Research Center, Gawker, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, New York Newsday, Paramount, MTV, Comedy, Yahoo Groups, Yahoo, Facebook, Penguin, AOL, Prodigy, Department of Veterans Affairs, Wayback, Wayback Machine, MIT Libraries, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, MIT, Business Locations: Friendster, Key West , Florida, Europe

☆ Ötzi the Iceman has the world’s oldest tattoos. How were they made?
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-09 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Found high in the Tyrolean Alps in 1991, Ötzi the Iceman had dark skin and eyes and was likely bald. How and why Ötzi, perhaps the world’s most studied corpse, got the body art has long been a source of fascination. Ötzi's tattoos, captured with image-processing software, might have been part of an ancient healing technique, according to research. The design, created during a 2022 study of ancient tattooing tools and techniques, is not one of Ötzi's tattoos. Samadelli urged the team to continue their study of Ötzi’s tattoos and how they were made.

Persons: ”, Aaron, Marco Samadelli, I’ve, hadn’t, Ötzi’s, Wolf, “, Candice Nel, Ötzi, Danny Riday, Matt Lodder, —, you’ve, Lodder, Samadelli Organizations: CNN —, EURAC Research, Institute for Mummy Studies, Tennessee Division, European, Archaeology, South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, Research, University of Essex, Humanity, Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, Eurac Research, Ötzi Locations: Tyrolean, Ötzi, Bolzano, Italy, Zealand, Tyrol

☆ Women laughing alone with AI-generated content spam
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewIn 2011, the small women's interest blog The Hairpin broke new ground in the field of visual journalism with the iconic post "Women laughing alone with salad." This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Kate Knibbs reports:In an attempt to understand the future of media, I tracked down The Hairpin's new owner — a Serbian DJ named Nebojša Vujinović Vujo. Choire Sicha, a cofounder of the Awl Network, which published The Hairpin, told Business Insider that they have sent a letter to the domain's new owner. "This entity or person did not purchase The Hairpin," he told Business Insider.

Persons: —, Edith Zimmerman's, James Nolen, Kate Knibbs, Vujinović Vujo, Vujo didn't, Jia Tolentino, Anne Helen Petersen, Jazmine Hughes, Choire, It's, Vujo, Sicha, they're Organizations: Service, Business, Google, Awl Locations: Serbian

MOSCOW, May 28 (Reuters) - Russia's most powerful mercenary said on Sunday he was convinced that senior Kremlin officials had banned reporting about him on state media, cautioning that such a misleading approach would lead to a backlash from the Russian people within months. Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner mercenary group, is the most striking member of President Vladimir Putin's circle to gain widespread notoriety in the 15-month war in Ukraine. In a sign of just how far Prigozhin is perceived to have breached the taboos of Putin's Russia, state television ignored the fall of Bakhmut for 20 hours, and did not air Prigozhin's victory speech. Asked about what appeared to be a ban on coverage of him on state media, Prigozhin used a series of Russian proverbs to poke fun at those responsible: "What is forbidden is always sweeter." After Prigozhin claimed victory on Bakhmut, it took the Kremlin 10 hours to release a 36-word statement congratulating Wagner and armed forces units for "liberating" Artyomovsk, the Soviet-era name for Bakhmut used by Russia.

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