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TWEAKS AND UPDATES Mashable: Windows 11 emergency update: Microsoft races to fix bugs. “Microsoft’s big September 2026 Patch Tuesday update addressed a record 966 flaws, including two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities, across Microsoft products when it was released last week on Sept. 8. However, just one week later on Sept. 14, Microsoft rolled out an emergency, out-of-band patch for the patch.” USEFUL STUFF MakeUseOf: This free open-source tool is my new favorite way to capture notes.

NEW RESOURCES Met Office UK: How 54 million historical weather records are being made globally accessible. “Part of a wider cataloguing initiative, the Climate Data Rescue project has made accessible 47 shelves of historical meteorological archive material, scanning 1,143 volumes and more than 302,000 source images.

NEW RESOURCES Mercyhurst University: Mercyhurst marks 25th anniversary of 9/11 with new Homeland Security Collection.

NEW RESOURCES Spotlight Delaware: Spotlight Delaware launches Campaign Finance Explorer. “Spotlight Delaware has launched the Delaware Campaign Finance Explorer, a free, easy-to-use tool for the public to see who is funding candidates running for state and county offices this year.” New-to-me, from Londonist: “It’s Like An Addiction”: The Man Archiving Pirate Radio Station Kool FM. “First broadcasting on 28 November 1991, Kool FM quickly rose to the top of London’s pirate radio scene.

NEW RESOURCES Penn State: Center for Energy Law and Policy’s Michael Helbing and Hannah Wiseman release Solar Ordinance Database. “The Penn State Center for Energy Law and Policy has published a user-friendly Pennsylvania solar ordinance database. The database includes filters for a variety of provisions in local government ordinances addressing grid-scale solar development….

NEW RESOURCES Stony Brook University: Announcing Our New JSTOR Digital Collections Portal!.

NEW RESOURCES Found in my RSS Feeds: the The Eleventh of September. This site was first launched in 2006, went offline eventually, and was brought back online recently. “The Eleventh of September is a memorial by Tape Art. The artists created 490 drawings of life-sized figures using the temporary medium of tape. Each figure is dedicated to one person killed on September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center, and remembers others.

NEW RESOURCES Little Black Book: This AI-Powered Archive Maps 115 Years of Swedish Political Advertising. “​Propagandaindex is a new digital archive that brings together Swedish election posters from 1911 to the upcoming 2026 parliamentary election.

AI PROBLEMS Geeks Are Sexy: Egyptologist Fact-Checks AI’s Absolutely Insane Ancient Egypt. “In this video, Egyptologist Professor Laurel Bestock takes on AI-generated ancient Egypt and points out just how much of it is completely wrong.

EVENTS What The Fran: 121 Blaugust posts. “I visited the Blaugust participants and these are my favourite blog posts from the second half of the month, following up from 132 Blaugust posts. A bunch of them are end of August wrap-up types because I’m always interested. Sadly I only read English so for the blogs in other languages I’ve tried to link something cool.