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February 10, 2026 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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The Verge Explores Section 230 on Its 30th Anniversary
Lauren Feiner writes the following in “Section 230 Turns 30 as It Faces Its Biggest Tests Yet” for The Verge:Thirty years ago [on Feb. 8], Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a bill credited with creating the groundwork for the modern internet, became law and set off a chain of events that would make it a lightning rod for the techlash. The statute has survived everything from the dot-com bubble to a Supreme Court challenge that struck down the surrounding text in the CDA. But as it marks this major milestone, Section 230 is facing what could be among its biggest threats to date, as prominent lawmakers plot to bring it down and a mountain of legal challenges give courts the chance to narrow its scope. For more information, read the article.
University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill Offers Students New Way to Explore Generative AI
The University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill Library held a grand opening for its new Library AI Studio and launched PromptLab, “a free platform designed for the Carolina community to access and explore top generative AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and more.” The university continues, “PromptLab provides a secure environment for users to create custom agents and test models side by side. They can access agents designed by the University Library team to help tackle a variety of tasks from fine-tuning resumes to summarizing course materials.” For more information, read the news item.
The CIA Sunsets The World Factbook
The CIA announced the end of The World Factbook, stating:One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. The World Factbook served the Intelligence Community and the general public as a longstanding, one-stop basic reference about countries and communities around the globe. … [It] evolved from a classified to unclassified, hardcopy to electronic product that added new categories, and even new global entities. The original classified publication, titled The National Basic Intelligence Factbook, launched in 1962. The first unclassified companion version was issued in 1971. A decade later it was renamed The World Factbook. In 1997, The World Factbook went digital and debuted to a worldwide audience on CIA.gov, where it garnered millions of views each year. For more information, read the announcement.
OCLC Unveils Catalog of Content From Italian Library Collections
OCLC rolled out the Italian Discovery Catalog, “a comprehensive bibliographic catalog of Italian library collections rich with history and culture. This new catalog offers access to Italian-language resources and materials across participating libraries, all within a unified, user-friendly discovery experience,” the company shares. The catalog “provides more than 16 million records representing 31 million items held by Italian libraries, and it continues to grow,” and it “features filtering options to quickly locate all types of electronic resources, including open access content, as well as print works.” For more information, read the press release.
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