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Urgent appeal: protect funding for public libraries at risk

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Urgent appeal: protect funding for public libraries at risk CILIP is the leading industry voice championing and representing library and information professionals across the United Kingdom, guided by our Royal Charter to develop and improve library and information services, and as a Charity to act in the public good.

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Google fixed the second actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2023

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Google rolled out emergency fixes to address another actively exploited high-severity zero-day flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-2136 , in its Chrome web browser. The vulnerability is an Integer overflow in the Skia graphics library, the issue was reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on April 12, 2023.

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Libraries, critical thinking and the war on truth – what lies ahead in 2024

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Libraries, critical thinking and the war on truth – what lies ahead in 2024 Nick Poole, Chief Executive, CILIP will leave CILIP at the end of March 2024. In all her courage and conviction, she was confronting the reality of a brutal Taliban regime that used violence to deny millions of women and girls the basic right to an education.

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Google fixed the first Chrome zero-day of 2023

Security Affairs

Google released an emergency security update to address the first Chrome zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-2033) in 2023, the company is aware of attacks in the wild exploiting the issue. The vulnerability was reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on 2023-04-11. “Type Confusion in V8.

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Researchers disclose critical sandbox escape bug in vm2 sandbox library

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The development team behind the vm2 JavaScript sandbox library addressed a critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability. The developers behind the vm2 JavaScript sandbox module have addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-29017 (CVSS score 9.8), that could be exploited to execute arbitrary shellcode.

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Mastering RPG Games in Libraries

CILIP

Mastering RPG Games in Libraries For librarians or teachers who aren’t players themselves, the scope of role-playing games can seem overwhelming, especially because being a game master in a school or public library for a group of students is quite different to being a game master for adults with hours to spend.

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Action, Inspiration and Insight at Inaugural Green Libraries Conference

CILIP

Action, Inspiration and Insight at Inaugural Green Libraries Conference Last week CILIP’s first Green Libraries Conference took place and showcased over a year of sustainable and attainable green projects and initiatives, at the Wellcome Collection in London.