University of Illinois Chicago: New UIC early learning website focuses on kindergarten readiness

University of Illinois Chicago: New UIC early learning website focuses on kindergarten readiness. “The focus of The Ready Child is on pre-K families and teachers and is broken down into three sections, including The Ready Child, where people can learn about the five areas of kindergarten readiness; The Ready Family, where family members can find resources needed to help their child succeed; and the Ready School, where teachers and child care providers can build on the strengths children bring to the classroom.”

Classical Music: The Lark Ascending: brand new skylark recordings project

Classical Music: The Lark Ascending: brand new skylark recordings project . “”[The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society] has joined forces with the Wildlife Sound Recording Society (WSRS) and the British Library’s Wildlife and Environmental Sounds collection to gather examples of the song of the skylark – the bird whose exuberant, melodious singing inspired the composer’s much-loved piece The Lark Ascending.”

Bleeping Computer: Dole discloses employee data breach after ransomware attack

Bleeping Computer: Dole discloses employee data breach after ransomware attack. “Fresh produce giant Dole Food Company has confirmed threat actors behind a February ransomware attack have accessed the information of an undisclosed number of employees. Dole employs around 38,000 people worldwide, providing fresh fruits and vegetables to customers in more than 75 countries.”

PBS News Hour: What it means to be Iraqi, 20 years after the U.S. invasion

PBS News Hour: What it means to be Iraqi, 20 years after the U.S. invasion. “The 2003 invasion of Iraq is a memory forever etched in the minds of millions of Iraqis who were living in and outside the country at the time. Years of war, followed by continued instability in the country, has cost generations time and trauma. In Ruptured Domesticity, a digital archive, Iraqi researcher Sana Murrani has collected the memories of Iraqis living inside and outside the country during the times of war.”

University of Kentucky: UK’s Brent Seales launches global competition to decipher Herculaneum scrolls

University of Kentucky: UK’s Brent Seales launches global competition to decipher Herculaneum scrolls. “Brent Seales, a computer science professor at the University of Kentucky, is leading a global competition to read the charred scrolls after demonstrating that an artificial intelligence program (AI) can successfully extract letters and symbols from X-ray images of the unrolled papyri (EduceLab-scrolls).”

HuffPost: We Were All Supposed To Leave The Twitter Dumpster Fire. Why Are We Still Here?

HuffPost: We Were All Supposed To Leave The Twitter Dumpster Fire. Why Are We Still Here?. “The social media platform was supposed to be canceled right after spoiled man-baby Elon Musk purchased the site. But, for some reason, we just can’t leave it alone.” I suspect the “some reason” is that social media sites have destroyed the decentralized nature of the Web and there are no good alternatives.

WIRED: The Scorched-Earth Tactics of Iran’s Cyber Army

WIRED: The Scorched-Earth Tactics of Iran’s Cyber Army. “Within its borders, the Iranian regime controls its population through one of the world’s toughest internet filtering systems, physical crackdowns, and mass arrests carried out with impunity. However, the IRI is vulnerable beyond its physical and virtual borders, as the regime struggles to contain the discourse and silence dissidents. To combat opposition narratives in the West and among VPN-armed domestic activists online, the IRI cyber army deploys multifaceted, devious, and sometimes clumsy tactics.”