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Tim Allison @tallison314159.bsky.social · 4d

If you're attending #iPres2025, make sure to check out @petervwyatt.bsky.social 's tutorial on Monday: "A forensic spotlight on PDF/A"!

twelve.eventsair.com/QuickEventWe...

iPRES 2025 - TUTORIAL 3: A forensic spotlight on PDF/A

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ToxSec @toxsec.bsky.social · 6d

Is AI fueling the old 'Dead Internet' conspiracy theory?
Yes! AI is building a fake internet just for you.

#ai #psychology #cybersecurity #society #internet

www.toxsec.com/p/ai-is-buil...

The Dead Internet - AI is Building a Fake Internet Just for You

How Generative AI is Fueling the "Dead Internet Theory," Creating an Authenticity Crisis, and Why AI Detection Can't Save Us.

www.toxsec.com

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Tim Allison @tallison314159.bsky.social · 6d

In belated celebration of World Digital Preservation Day, I'm throwing a "What's new with Apache Tika/Office hours" meetup: November 13, noon EST.

Everyone interested in files is welcome to join!

#ApacheTika #wdpd2025 #digipres #fileForensics #reverseEngineering

www.meetup.com/apache-tika-...

Apache Tika -- What's New/Office Hours, Thu, Nov 13, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup

This will be an expansion of my presentation at the Digital Preservation Bake Off (Tools Demonstration) #iPres2025 and a late entry to celebrate World Digital Preservation

www.meetup.com

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DistrictCon @districtcon.bsky.social · 7d

We're officially announcing our speakers DistrictCon Year 1! Check out our incredible lineup: www.districtcon.org/speakers

This also includes our Day 1 & Day 2 Keynotes from Ian Levy and Dan Ridge.

And don't forget, GA tickets go on sale November 16! See you in January! 🪩

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Charlie Hull @thesearchjuggler.bsky.social · 12d

It's your responsibility - but how do you even get started fixing search? A blog for Search Product Managers and other search leads thesearchjuggler.com/its-your-res...

It's your responsibility - but how do you even start fixing search? - Charlie Hull - The Search Juggler

How to get started fixing search - looking for zero result searches, low click queries and how to prioritise

thesearchjuggler.com

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Tim Allison @tallison314159.bsky.social · 12d

...even if the PDF is embedded in an email that was then added to a zip file.

Tim Allison @tallison314159.bsky.social · 12d

We treat PDF's incremental updates as a special type of attachment. This means that with just `java -jar tika-app.jar -Z input-file.zip output_dir`

You'll be able to recover the earlier versions of a PDF if saved with incremental updates...

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Tim Allison @tallison314159.bsky.social · 12d

So, the news for #ApacheTika and #ipres2025: I implemented fully recursive extraction of raw embedded files from the commandline.

issues.apache.org/jira/browse/...

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 16d

goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

www.nytimes.com

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Ian Coldwater 📦💥 @lookitup.baby · 17d

Everyone tests in production. Some people just don’t know it yet

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Tim Allison @tallison314159.bsky.social · 19d

Looking forward to some baking with #ApacheTika! News soon on some #conferenceDrivenDevelopment.

#ipres2025

iPRES 2025 International Conference on Digital Preservation @ipres2025.bsky.social · 19d

Tips for Bakers: Preparing Your Tool Demo for the Great Digital Preservation Bake Off at #iPRES2025

www.ipres2025.nz/post/tips-fo...

Tips for Bakers: Preparing Your Tool Demo for the Great Digital Preservation Bake Off at iPRES 2025

Whether you’re presenting onsite or virtually, here are a few tips to help your Bake Off Tool Demo shine and your audience leave hungry for more!

www.ipres2025.nz

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Tim Allison @tallison314159.bsky.social · 22d

Amazing work, as always, @seeinglogic.bsky.social ! #AIxCC

Mark Griffin @seeinglogic.bsky.social · 22d

Want to see the vulnerabilities added for AIxCC?

Interested in seeing how well-known C & Java repositories differ in structure/distribution of code?

Check out the interactive repo visualizer we made for exploring the scale & detail of AIxCC challenges: archive.aicyberchallenge.com/repoviz/

Screenshot of the 3D repository visualizer showing AIxCC challenge code and associated bug

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Tim Allison @tallison314159.bsky.social · 26d

And, y, I'm late to the game, but I'm really excited for this course, @softwaredoug.bsky.social !

Doug Turnbull @softwaredoug.bsky.social · 26d

Surprised by the last minute signups for Cheat at Search with LLMs -- starting at 12:30PM ET! Signup below:

maven.com/softwaredoug...

Cheat at Search with LLMs by Doug Turnbull on Maven

Learn to build LLM based query + content understanding in search

maven.com

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Alexander Reelsen @spinscale.bsky.social · 26d

F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future

Packaging WASM code to read an evolving file format with the data. Interesting approach and a good idea to test the sandbox abilities of the execution engine. Also mentions of a lot of alternatives to parquet/ORC.

db.cs.cmu.edu

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Tim Allison @tallison314159.bsky.social · 26d

We have PDF. What else do we need? 🤣🤣🤣😅

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · Oct 4

A biological 0-day? Threat-screening tools may miss AI-designed proteins. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

A biological 0-day? Threat-screening tools may miss AI-designed proteins.

Ordering DNA for AI-designed toxins doesn’t always raise red flags.

arstechnica.com

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Andreas Lehmkühler @andreaslehmi.bsky.social · Oct 2

The new bugfix release 2.0.35 of #Apache #PDFBox is available pdfbox.apache.org/download.html

Apache PDFBox | Download

The Apache PDFBox™ library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing documents and the ability to extract ...

pdfbox.apache.org

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ToxSec @toxsec.bsky.social · Oct 2

Anyone in #bugbounty looking to connect?

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Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social · Sep 29

New 7-8B OCR model release from AliBaba. Integrated structures data approach looks promising for specialized use cases with complex visual inputs. huggingface.co/Logics-MLLM/...

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Doug Turnbull @softwaredoug.bsky.social · Sep 25

Tomorrow I'll be talking about vector retrieval, continuing Cheat at Search Essentials. Full details on my blog article

softwaredoug.com/blog/2025/07...

Free course: Cheat at Search Essentials

A free introductory search course for anyone who wants better search without all the hard work

softwaredoug.com

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netpreserve.bsky.social @netpreserve.bsky.social · Sep 24

📣This #WebArchiveWednesday, plan your proposal for #iipcWAC26, “Sustainable #WebArchiving,” at KBR, Royal Library of Belgium! netpreserve.org/ga2026/CfP

🗓️ Deadline for proposals: OCT 15

#webarchives #DigitalPreservation #DigitalHumanities

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Doug Turnbull @softwaredoug.bsky.social · Sep 22

Recording for BM25 + Lexical Search now up

maven.com/p/e9fbe4/che...

Cheat at Search Essentials: BM25 + Lexical

It's often said with chat interfaces and RAG, search has become the hard problem. Search has a long history and means more than vector databases. Let's learn how BM25 and similar techniques compliment...

maven.com

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Doug Turnbull @softwaredoug.bsky.social · Sep 21

This Wednesday I'll be discussing how to Cheat at Query Understanding using LLMs with Jason Liu. If you want a taste of "Cheat at Search with LLMs", please come hang out!

maven.com/p/eebe98

Cheating at Query Understanding with LLMs

LLMs transformed query understanding from months-long NLP projects into simple prompting tasks. Students learn practical skills for modern search, RAG, and e-commerce systems. This positions you for h...

maven.com

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WIRED @wired.com · Sep 20

The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and 24/7 lectures. www.wired.com/story/say-he...

Say Hello to the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners

The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and 24/7 lectures.

www.wired.com

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Fredrik Dahlgren @fegge.bsky.social · Sep 15

Great paper on finding and exploiting parser differentials between ZIP parsers to bypass signature validation, malware detection, or VSCode extension ID validation.

www.usenix.org/conference/u...

The image shows two LibreOffice documents. A normal document to the left, and a malicious document to the right. The malicious document contains an additional, malicious word/document.xml file. The signature is checked against the original word/document.xml file, while the malicious word/document.xml file is displayed to the user.

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