#ApacheTika 4.0.0 is up for vote! 🥳 🎉 Tika for the LLM/RAG era: • Markdown as default • VLM parsers (OpenAI, Gemini, Claude) for OCR • tika-inference — chunking and embeddings emitted straight to Elasticsearch/OpenSearch Please have your 🤖 kick the tires! lists.apache.org/thread/j64g9...

Apache Lucene/Solr committer since November 2018, I just squeaked in my first meaningful PR before hitting 8 years of only watching from the sidelines! 🥳 🎉 🤣 #ApacheLucene #ASF lists.apache.org/thread/0jdtv...

Just had to create an "accidental-cyberattacks" tag on my blog We're up to four now: the original OpenAI+Hugging Face one, Anthropic's me-too attacks, then two new ones from the UK AI Safety Institute and Irregular that OpenAI reported yesterday simonwillison.net/tags/acciden...

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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clever

Mike Elgan@mikeelgan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Typeface of the moment: "Ghost Font" www.mixfont.com/ghost-font

The new bugfix release 3.0.8 of #Apache #PDFBox is available pdfbox.apache.org/download.html

I once asked a priest to bless a printer that I was in the middle of fighting with and he went "I only bless things when there's a chance it'll take" and then turned and walked out of the room.

✨hauntedtoasters✨@hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I am tech support to the bone and do not like to mystify computer stuff but I genuinely believe in my heart of hearts that printers have demons in them. There is literally no other explanation.

Voting is underway for #ApacheTika 4.0.0-alpha-1! 🎉 Started work on the 4.x branch in October 2024. Lots has changed, core principles remain. Many, many thanks to the community of fellow devs and users! Onwards towards 4.0.0! lists.apache.org/thread/bjowz...

Preview of the #ApacheTika 4.x site is live: tika.apache.org/docs/4.0.0-S... This is early and buggy. Please help improve it!

I can already tell that "mailing lists were large group emails in old typewriter font" is a phrase that will live rent free in my mind forever

Tim Maughan@timmaughan.bsky.social · 6mo ago

no please NYT, tell me more of this ancient discovery your digital archeologists have unearthed (source: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b...)

xz security advisory (CVE-2026-34743): tukaani.org -> Who has the guts to update? :) Original->

Voting is underway for #ApacheTika 3.3.0! Please give it a try and let us know if there are any surprises! lists.apache.org/thread/pq4zj...

RE//verse 2026 videos are online www.youtube.com -> Original->

Lol... wapo literally won't let me go.

All that the Turing Test proves is that human are much, much stupider than Alan Turing ever suspected.

On #ApacheTika, we're migrating all configuration to json for 4.x. If you use tika-server, please join the conversation on runtime configuration: lists.apache.org/thread/jlt8j...

In 4 hours (noon EST), I'm hosting a demo with office hours for #ApacheTika in belated celebration of World Digital Preservation Day #wdpd2025! www.meetup.com/apache-tika-... Please dm me for the meeting info.

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

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Make your 2025 words-of-the-year nominations for the only vote that matters! bit.ly/2025WOTYNOMS

New: Google says it has discovered at least 5 malware families that use AI to rewrite their code and generate new capabilities on the fly, suggesting AI-powered malware is finally starting to take off. cloud.google.com/blog/topics/... Report also has interesting stories about state actors' AI use.

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...

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.

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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

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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! 🪩

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

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So, the news for #ApacheTika and #ipres2025: I implemented fully recursive extraction of raw embedded files from the commandline. issues.apache.org/jira/browse/...

Tim Allison@tallison314159.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Looking forward to some baking with #ApacheTika! News soon on some #conferenceDrivenDevelopment. #ipres2025

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

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

Looking forward to some baking with #ApacheTika! News soon on some #conferenceDrivenDevelopment. #ipres2025

iPRES 2025 International Conference on Digital Preservation@ipres2025.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Tips for Bakers: Preparing Your Tool Demo for the Great Digital Preservation Bake Off at #iPRES2025 www.ipres2025.nz/post/tips-fo...

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

Mark Griffin@seeinglogic.bsky.social · 12mo ago

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/

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

Doug Turnbull@softwaredoug.bsky.social · 12mo ago

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