The nonprofit that oversees Wikipedia briefly enforced a 'read-only' mode on Thursday morning as users spotted code designed to delete articles and place Russian text in the edit summary.

The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a self-propagating JavaScript worm began vandalizing pages and modifying user scripts across multiple wikis.

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The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation has launched the First Peoples First Stewards Children’s Library, a new program at nine DCR properties, including the Mount Greylock State ...

As eligibility changes to federal food programs increase barriers to healthy food, Chicago opens its first food pantry inside a West Side library. Literary hub, polling place, warming center and now… ...

Emeritus Professor of Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the coolest library on Earth was inaugurated at the Concordia station, Antarctica. Samples ...

When Margaret Neill worked at the El Paso Public Library in Texas, a project to rebuild the library division’s sizable Spanish-language collection involved crossing the border. “I used to go to ...

MAPLETON — 84 years after it opened at Grand Army Plaza, the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) is one of the largest public library systems in the United States and Linda E. Johnson, the BPL’s president ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...