digital archives

The late‑December experiment staged by long‑time Shell critic John Donovan transformed an old, bitter dispute into a live laboratory for how generative AI, archival persistence, and modern media law collide — and it did so in full public view by publishing both a satirical piece produced with AI...

Over the course of a single news cycle in late December 2025, an old-fashioned, decades‑long dispute between a private citizen and one of the world’s largest energy companies was reframed not by a press release or a courtroom filing, but by a series of public interactions between generative AI...

Generative chatbots are increasingly creating work for human knowledge professionals: they answer confidently, invent citations and catalogue numbers, and send librarians on time-consuming hunts to prove that a referenced item never existed in the first place. Background Generative large...

Legacy Update’s recent enlargement of its Microsoft Download Center archive is a quiet but significant win for anyone still maintaining legacy Windows installations, and it crystallizes a growing tension between corporate content management and community-driven software preservation. Background...

Generative‑AI chatbots are now being explicitly warned against by the International Committee of the Red Cross for inventing entire research records — fabricated journal titles, bogus archive call numbers and non‑existent papers — a failure mode that threatens research integrity, imposes real...

The race to unlock actionable insights from the troves of organizational data has always been fraught with complexity, cost, and risk. Yet with the announcement of Cohesity Gaia’s integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot, this paradigm is shifting dramatically, promising to empower enterprises...

Canadian organizations are facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities in preserving, governing, and leveraging their ever-growing volumes of digital content. As digital transformation accelerates across the public and private sectors, the mandate for robust information governance...

The promise of a truly intelligent, contextually aware Windows PC experience has long enticed tech enthusiasts and productivity seekers alike. A recent advance—Windows Recall, currently only on Copilot+ PCs in preview—introduces a radical new direction. It promises to fundamentally alter how we...

The looming sunset of Microsoft Publisher has created an unexpected crossroads for millions who rely on the software to power everything from church bulletins to community flyers. Microsoft’s decision to end the desktop publishing application’s support in October 2026, coinciding with the...

Amnesty International Empowers Digital Archive with Preserve365 in Microsoft 365 In a bold move to safeguard decades of critical human rights data, Amnesty International has adopted Preservica’s Preserve365® – an innovative Active Digital Preservation solution seamlessly embedded into the...