Tim Allison

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

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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.

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

#ai #psychology #cybersecurity #society #internet

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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

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

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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 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

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...

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

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...

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

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Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A biological 0-day? Threat-screening tools may miss AI-designed proteins. Ordering DNA for AI-designed toxins doesn’t always raise red flags.

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

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

Anyone in #bugbounty looking to connect?

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/...

Free course: Cheat at Search Essentials A free introductory search course for anyone who wants better search without all the hard work

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

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📣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

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...

Recording for BM25 + Lexical Search now up

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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...

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!

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Say Hello to the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and 24/7 lectures.

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

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.

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

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Lucene™ Core News Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for...

Lucene 10.3 is out with 40% faster lexical search, 15% faster dense vector search and 30% faster terms dictionary lookups. lucene.apache.org/core/corenew...

🚨 Breaking News from Community Over Code 🚨

Introducing The ASF’s New Logo buff.ly/DzgT82w

#CommunityOverCode #opensource

Bluesky- "If you can't cite peer reviewed literature, your opinion is morally equivalent to fart noises <links to papers>"

Anyhow, I just want to show of my LLM side projects, there really isn't a forum for that anymore.

People on Twitter - "LLMs are gods and I command them so I am a god and people will finally give me the respect I crave"

People on Mastodon - "<frothing> slop <pant shitting> LLMs :( <howler monkey sounds> stochastic parrot <growling noises> by the way, Github is the root of all social evils"

W00t!