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| 04.11.2024 | 'Horrible Idea': X Is Making It Extra Difficult to Block Someone and Users Are Pushing Back Meanwhile, X competitors Bluesky and Threads are gaining millions of new users. | Trying to fully block someone on X? You'll have to do more than hit the block button.
X began rolling out a change to the block function on Sunday that modifies what it means to bar contact with someone on the platform. Under the update, it... |
| 01.11.2024 | Охота за (не)аутентифицированным удалённым доступом в роутерах Asus | Почитав в сети подробности о нескольких обнародованных критических CVE, связанных с маршрутизаторами Asus, мы решили проанализировать уязвимую прошивку этих устройств и, быть может, написать подходящий эксплойт «n-day». В итоге в процессе п... |
| 01.11.2024 | Threads Bans Anyone For Mentioning Hitler, Even To Criticize | Quick test: should saying “Hitler, not a good guy” cause you to be banned from your social media account? Seems simple enough. But apparently not for Meta, the largest social media company on the planet.
I’ve talked about the Masnick Imposs... |
| 31.10.2024 | The Crossroads of Knowledge: Antitrust and Innovation in Academic Publishing | The academic publishing landscape is a battleground. On one side, the open access movement fights for free knowledge. On the other, powerful publishers cling to their profit margins. This tug-of-war has persisted for over two decades. Yet, ... |
| 31.10.2024 | Bitcoin's Rollercoaster: Bhutan's Bold Moves and Market Reactions | Bitcoin is a wild ride. It soars, it dips, and it keeps investors on their toes. Recently, the cryptocurrency approached its all-time high, crossing the $73,000 mark. But as excitement builds, so does the caution. Profit-taking is the name ... |
| 30.10.2024 | Where Open Access Has Failed To Reform Academic Publishing, Perhaps Antitrust Law Will Succeed | The open access movement has been trying for over 20 years to promote the widest access to knowledge. Sadly, as numerous Walled Culture posts have chronicled, what should be a matter of social justice has been subverted by clever and cynica... |
| 29.10.2024 | React Native полностью переделан | После 6 лет разработки команда React Native представила полностью переписанную архитектуру фреймворка (0.76) – самое значительное обновление с момента создания React Native. Это результат масштабной работы над улучшением производительности,... |
| 28.10.2024 | Shadows Over Democracy: The Price of Silence in the Age of Trump | In the current political landscape, the specter of Donald Trump looms large. His influence stretches beyond the ballot box, reaching into the very heart of American journalism. Recent events reveal a troubling trend: media moguls, gripped b... |
| 28.10.2024 | How The Cowardice Of The LA Times And Washington Post Highlights The Danger Of The Link Taxes They Demand, And Their Hypocrisy | As Mike and others have pointed out, the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post have utterly failed the public. While it is of course their right to endorse, or not endorse, anyone they choose, the refusal to provide any such endorsement in ... |
| 25.10.2024 | Cop/Substitute Teacher Reenacts George Floyd Murder With Black Student, Says ‘Police Brutality Isn’t Real’ | Not all cops are terrible people, but a whole lot of terrible people seem to be cops.
For some reason, a police officer (who has not been officially identified by the district) has a side gig as a substitute English teacher. I don’t know wh... |
| 25.10.2024 | German Court: LAION’s Generative AI Training Dataset Is Legal Thanks To EU Copyright Exceptions | The copyright world is currently trying to assert its control over the new world of generative AI through a number of lawsuits, several of which have been discussed previously on Walled Culture. We now have our first decision in this area, ... |
| 25.10.2024 | Democracy Dies In Darkness… Helped Along By Billionaire Cowardice | Newspaper presidential endorsements may not actually matter that much, but billionaire media owners blocking editorial teams from publishing their endorsements out of concern over potential retaliation from a future Donald Trump presidency ... |
| 24.10.2024 | Italy's Piracy Shield: A Misguided Attempt at Control | Italy's recent foray into anti-piracy legislation has become a cautionary tale. The "Piracy Shield" law, intended to combat digital theft, has instead ensnared innocent users in its web. In a misguided attempt to block piracy, Ita... |
| 23.10.2024 | Juicy Licensing Deals With AI Companies Show That Publishers Don’t Actually Care About Creators | One of the many interesting aspects of the current enthusiasm for generative AI is the way that it has electrified the formerly rather sleepy world of copyright. Where before publishers thought they had successfully locked down more or less... |
| 19.10.2024 | The Exodus from X: How Bluesky Captured 1.2 Million Users in Just Days | In the digital landscape, change is the only constant. Recently, a seismic shift occurred when X, formerly known as Twitter, announced a controversial update to its blocking feature. This decision sent ripples through its user base, prompti... |
| 18.10.2024 | Bluesky ganha 500 mil usuários em um dia após X mudar sistema de bloqueio | Bluesky tem novo pico de crescimento após X alterar funcionamento do bloqueio na plataforma (Imagem: Giovanni Santa Rosa/Tecnoblog)
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| 18.10.2024 | X Is Making a Controversial Change, and One of Its Rivals Gained 1.2 Million New Users in 2 Days — Here's Why Half a million people signed up within a day. | X users may be migrating to bluer skies after a major change.
Bluesky is an open, ad-free social network that grew out of Twitter, now X, in 2019. The platform announced on Thursday that half a million new users signed up within a day of X ... |
| 16.10.2024 | Claim's $12 Million Series A: A Game Changer for Gen Z Brand Discovery | In a world where attention is currency, Claim has struck gold. The social app, designed for Gen Z, recently announced a $12 million Series A funding round led by VMG Technology. This investment, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Susa... |
| 16.10.2024 | Claim: Social App Company Raises $12 Million (Series A) | Claim, a viral social app transforming how Gen Z discovers brands, announced a $12 million Series A funding round led by VMG Technology. Prior leads Sequoia Capital and Susa Ventures participated, as did new investor Lightbank.
Since launch... |
| 15.10.2024 | Robot Vacuums That Collect Photos, Videos And Audio Of Users To Train AI Models Start Yelling Obscenities And Chasing Dogs | As far back as 2017, Techdirt was warning that robot vacuum cleaners represented a threat to privacy. In that instance, it concerned the possibility that iRobot, makers of the robot vacuum Roomba, might sell the data that its device collect... |
| 05.10.2024 | Better Call Saul almost had Saul working at Hot Topic instead of Cinnabon | Although it’s mostly a prequel to Breaking Bad, a huge slice of the action of Better Call Saul takes place in the aftermath of the original show. In those black-and-white scenes, Jimmy (aka Saul and Gene) is working at a Cinnabon in a mall ... |
| 03.10.2024 | LAPD Raids Medical Lab For (Nonexistent) Weed, Get Gun Stuck In An MRI Machine | Some of our nation’s finest Drug Warriors are at it again. And by “at it,” I mean doing seriously stupid, seriously unconstitutional stuff in hopes of finding drugs or (better yet!) cash that will somehow prove they’re doing anything at all... |
| 01.10.2024 | Taylor Swift: Singer, Songwriter, Copyright Innovator | Taylor Swift is in the news, and not just because she has become the most decorated solo artist of all time. The fact that Taylor Swift has already been mentioned multiple times on Walled Culture underlines that she is also an important – i... |
| 30.09.2024 | The Copyright Directive’s Link Tax Has Been A Failure; Will Anyone Learn From This? | It seems so long ago that people were trying to stop the worst aspects of the EU Copyright Directive. It was quite a battle, as Chapter 6 of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) recounts in detail. The final legislation... |
| 28.09.2024 | Pie: Social App Company Raises $11.5 Million (Series A) | Pie is a social app that makes it easy for friends to connect in real life. The company recently announced it raised $11.5 million in Series A funding, led by Kirsten Green of Forerunner Ventures, with participation from Origin Ventures, Re... |
| 27.09.2024 | The Battle for Digital Freedom: Copyright, Cheating, and Abortion Rights | In a world where technology evolves at lightning speed, laws often lag behind. This disconnect is glaring in two recent cases: one involving video game cheats and the other concerning abortion rights in Tennessee. Both highlight the struggl... |
| 26.09.2024 | Gates Foundation Shows That ‘Gold Open Access’ Was A Mistake, And ‘Diamond Open Access’ Is The Future | The Gates Foundation is one of the most influential funding bodies in the world. According to one ranking, it is the second largest charitable foundation, and as of 31 December 2023 had an endowment of around $75.2 billion. That makes a shi... |
| 25.09.2024 | Top EU Court’s Advisor Explains Why Video Game Cheats Are Not Copyright Infringement | One of the reasons that today’s copyright is such a bad fit for the modern digital world is that its roots lie deep in 18th-century law and analogue objects like books. This fact has created a kind of legislative drag that means copyright i... |
| 24.09.2024 | Court Shuts Down Tennessee’s Attempt To Ban People From Talking About Abortion Options | Tennessee’s government cranks out a lot of stupid laws. It’s been doing it for years, but things have accelerated recently as the state’s legislators seek to curtail rights for, well, pretty much everyone but white men. It has enacted book ... |
| 24.09.2024 | NYPD Officers Shot Innocent Bystanders, Fellow Cop Chasing Down A Fare Jumper | I don’t know why the press feels the need to provide cover for law enforcement officers who screw up so badly they injure innocent people and their own coworkers. But they do. It’s not even the “view from nowhere.” It’s the “view mostly lik... |
| 20.09.2024 | The Battle Against SLAPP Suits: A Call for Global Protection | The digital age has brought unprecedented access to information. Wikipedia stands as a beacon of knowledge, a vast ocean of facts and figures. Yet, beneath its surface lies a turbulent undercurrent: SLAPP suits. These Strategic Lawsuits Aga... |
| 20.09.2024 | The Rise of SocialAI: A Digital Playground for Bots and Humans | In a world where technology evolves at lightning speed, a new app has emerged that blurs the lines between reality and artificiality. SocialAI, launched by Michael Sayman, is a social media platform where users interact solely with AI chatb... |
| 18.09.2024 | “Dead Internet theory” comes to life with new AI-powered social media app | Enlarge
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For the past few years, a conspiracy theory called "Dead Internet theory" has picked up speed as large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT increasingly generate text and even so... |
| 18.09.2024 | The Wikimedia Foundation Successfully Sees Off Another SLAPP Suit, But More Protection Is Needed Globally | Wikipedia seems such an essential and benign aspect of the online world that it is hard to understand why people would want to attack it in the courts. But it is nonetheless subject to lawsuits that try to force it to censor its articles be... |
| 13.09.2024 | The Duality of Progress: Navigating the Analog and Digital Divide in AI | In a world increasingly dominated by artificial intelligence, the divide between analog and digital experiences is more pronounced than ever. This duality shapes our lives, our choices, and our perceptions of technology. The rise of AI has ... |
| 13.09.2024 | Free Starlink Internet is coming to all of United’s airplanes | Enlarge / Soon you'll be able to stream games and video for free on United flights.
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United Airlines announced this morning that it is giving its in-flight Internet access an upgrade. It has signed a deal with Star... |
| 12.09.2024 | Rival do X/Twitter, Bluesky agora suporta vídeos de até 60 segundos | Rival do X/Twitter, Bluesky agora suporta vídeos de até 60 segundos (imagem: Lupa Charleaux/Tecnoblog)
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O Bluesky já tem suporte oficial para publicação e reprodução de vídeo... |
| 11.09.2024 | Utah’s ‘Protect The Kids Online!’ Law Rejected By Court | Over the last few years, politicians in Utah have been itching to pass terrible internet legislation. Some of you may forget that in the earlier part of the century, Utah became somewhat famous for passing absolutely terrible internet laws ... |
| 10.09.2024 | Florida Gov’t Sending Cops To Voter’s Houses To Intimidate Pro-Choice Ballot Measure Petition Supporters | Well, here’s even more ugliness from America’s penis. The state of Florida — currently presided over by a bootlicker wearing boot lifts — has decided the best way to protect its war on women is to harass and intimidate residents who support... |
| 09.09.2024 | How ‘Analog Privilege’ Spares Elites From The Downsides Of Flawed AI Decision-Making Systems | We live in a world where there are often both analog and digital versions of a product. For example, we can buy books or ebooks, and choose to listen to music on vinyl or via streaming services. The fact that digital goods can be copied end... |
| 08.09.2024 | Число пользователей Bluesky достигло 9 млн — прирост за неделю составил 50% | Компания объявила, что по состоянию на утро пятницы к ней добавилось 3 млн новых пользователей, и Bluesky стало вторым по популярности среди бесплатных приложений для iPhone в Бразилии (уступает только Threads*).
Социальная сеть стала полно... |
| 06.09.2024 | Pix passa por instabilidade nesta sexta-feira (6) | Pix, do Banco Central (Imagem: Vitor Pádua / Tecnoblog)
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Usuários de vários bancos relatam que o Pix teve problemas no início da noite desta sexta-feira (dia 06/09). No DownD... |
| 05.09.2024 | Second Circuit Says Libraries Disincentivize Authors To Write Books By Lending Them For Free | What would you think if an author told you they would have written a book, but they wouldn’t bother because it would be available to be borrowed for free from a library? You’d probably think they were delusional. Yet that argument has now c... |
| 04.09.2024 | Is Your Google Scholar Profile Looking A Bit Empty? Need To Bulk Up Your Citations? Simple – Buy Some | Techdirt has been reporting on the rotten state of academic publishing for more than ten years. Abuses include publishers willing to publish anything for a fee, and the sale of nonsense papers so that they can be used to bulk up an academic... |
| 03.09.2024 | Cops Are Starting To Tow Away Teslas To ‘Secure’ Recordings Captured By The Cars’ Cameras | Well, here’s a not-so-fun new twist in the search-and-seizure narrative. Car owners are being deprived of their vehicles just because cops think footage of a crime may have been captured by the car’s on-board cameras.
Tesla’s vehicles carry... |
| 01.09.2024 | Bluesky привлекла миллион новых пользователей из Бразилии на фоне блокировки X в стране | За последние три дня число новых пользователей Bluesky выросло на миллион. Новые пользователи начали прибывать на платформу после запрета в Бразилии соцсети X.
Сутками ранее платформа микроблогов объявила, что она показывает «исторические м... |
| 01.09.2024 | Соцсеть Bluesky фиксирует рекордную активность пользователей после блокировки X в Бразилии | «Бразилия, вы ставите новые рекорды активности в Bluesky», — говорится в официальном аккаунте Bluesky на своей же платформе.
В субботу компания сообщила о 500 тыс. новых пользователей за последние два дня, а уже в воскресенье трехдневный по... |
| 31.08.2024 | Volkswagen's Shift: From Cars to Data-Driven Services | Volkswagen is on the brink of a transformation. The iconic car manufacturer is pivoting from traditional car sales to a model centered around "Vehicles on Demand." This shift is not just about cars; it’s about data. Volkswagen Fin... |
| 31.08.2024 | Илон Маск опасается за свободу слова и размышляет о корректировке маршрутов своих поездок | В доказательство свой позиции по роли Камалы Харрис в ограничении свободы слова Маск приводит ссылку на предвыборное интервью кандидатки. Поводом же для выраженных в посте опасениях относительно повсеместной цензуры стало решение судьи Верх... |
| 29.08.2024 | Volkswagen Plans To Shift From Selling Cars To Offering ‘Vehicles On Demand’ – And Grabbing Even More Data About Drivers | Volkswagen Financial Services (VWFS) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the well-known car manufacturer Volkswagen (VW). An article in the German Auto Motor und Sport magazine reports on a major shift in the way that VWFS, and hence VW, wants ... |
| 21.08.2024 | Just Because You Can, Doesn’t Mean You Should, Or What Disney’s Litigation Disaster Teaches Us About Tech Policy | There are many things to say about Disney’s recent self-induced litigation disaster. Not the case that good Disney lawyering just helped win; I am referring to the case where bad Disney lawyering tried to press the now-withdrawn legal argum... |
| 12.08.2024 | UN Delegates Cheer As They Vote To Approve Increased Surveillance Via Russia-Backed Cybercrime Treaty | For years now, the UN has been trying to strike a deal on a “Cybercrime Treaty.” As with nearly every attempt by the UN to craft treaties around internet regulation, it’s been a total mess. The concept, enabling countries to have agreed upo... |
| 11.08.2024 | Как работает протокол HLS | Вот уже несколько недель я разрабатываю серверную поддержку коротких видео для компании Bluesky.
Основное назначение этой фичи – обеспечивать потоковый показ небольших (максимум 90 секунд) видеороликов. Показ должен быть бесплатным и при эт... |
| 08.08.2024 | Mystery ADV "Zombie Police: Christmas Dancing with Police Zombies" Now Available – 25% OFF Launch Sale on Steam | This is quirky world where the undead and the living team up to crack impossible cases!
Don't give up even if you fail. Those who persevere will surely find a helping hand...
"Zombie Police," a mystery game under the direction of ... |
| 07.08.2024 | It Always Gets Dumber: Elon Sues The Ad Coalition He Just Rejoined Because He Thinks It’s Illegal To Not Advertise On ExTwitter | Remember when Elon told advertisers not to advertise on ExTwitter? Remember how he told them to “go fuck” themselves? Well, now he’s suing those companies for the serious crime (he claims it might be RICO) of not wanting to advertise on his... |
| 01.08.2024 | First Mover Advantage Shows How Copyright Isn’t Necessary To Protect Innovative Creativity | One of the arguments sometimes made in defense of copyright is that without it, creators would be unable to compete with the hordes of copycats that would spring up as soon as their works became popular. Copyright is needed, supporters say,... |
| 31.07.2024 | Kamala, Coconuts & The Impossibility Of Content Moderation At Scale | I’ve spent many years trying to explain to people the impossibility of doing content moderation well at scale. I’ve created dozens of case studies on impossible decisions. I’ve made two separate video games about content moderation and trus... |
| 30.07.2024 | Making Money By Understanding The Difference Between Analog & Digital | One of the central ideas of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) is that there is a fundamental difference between analog and digital, and that copyright fails to recognize that. Instead, it seeks to impose what is an i... |
| 29.07.2024 | Sharing Material Used To Be The Norm For Newspapers, And Should Be For LLMs | Even though parents insist that it is good and right to share things, the copyright world has succeeded in establishing the contrary as the norm. Now, sharing is deemed a bad, possibly illegal thing. But it was not always thus, as a fascina... |
| 24.07.2024 | A Rare Copyright Win For The Public; But A Small One, Only In Canada, And Possibly Temporary | It is extraordinary that within the copyright world it is accepted dogma that legal protections for this intellectual monopoly should always get stronger – creating a kind of copyright ratchet. One of the manifestations of this belief was t... |
| 22.07.2024 | Fox News’ Desperate Attempts To Link Trump Shooter To Video Games Is Pathetic | When tragedy strikes, it’s human nature to search for answers. But when you’re Fox News, it seems that the answer is always the same: blame video games, social media, or anything else that fits your preconceived notions, facts be damned.
In... |
| 18.07.2024 | Mystery ADV 'Zombie Police: Christmas Dancing with Police Zombies' Set to Launch on August 8 | We're offering a 25% discount for the first 14 days after release.
"Zombie Police" launches on August 8, 2024! The full game soundtrack releases simultaneously. 25% off for first 2 weeks! KYOTO, JAPAN, July 18, 2024 /EINPresswire.... |
| 17.07.2024 | How The Other EV Transition — To E-bikes — Is Changing The World | One of the most important transitions taking place today in technology is the shift to electric vehicles (EVs). Most attention is focused on electric cars. That’s in part because they are big glamorous items, and they have high-profile chee... |
| 15.07.2024 | Immunity Denied To Officer Who Claimed A Suicidal Man Pointed A Gun At Him Through His Own Head | Far too many law enforcement officers believe the best way to deal with suicidal people is to kill them. That’s the case here with Washington County Deputy Brian Krook. He came across a suicidal person and decided to make that final decisio... |
| 09.07.2024 | Tennessee Woman Scores A Win In Free Speech Lawsuit Filed Over Her ‘Fuck ‘Em Both 2024’ Yard Sign | Daniel Horwitz — who has fought plenty of free speech battles for Tennesseans — has secured an extremely quick victory for his client, Lakeland resident Julie Pereira.
According to the complaint [PDF], which was filed June 6 of this year, t... |
| 03.07.2024 | Meta's Move Towards ActivityPub Integration: A Step Towards Openness or Just a Facade? | Meta's recent embrace of the ActivityPub standard for its Threads platform has sparked both optimism and skepticism in the decentralized social media community. While the move signifies a shift towards a more protocolized world, concerns ab... |
| 03.07.2024 | Ukraine Turns To Flying Machine Guns And Autonomous AI-Controlled Drone Swarms To Counter Russian Numbers | It’s no secret that Ukraine is having a hard time in its fight against Russia at the moment. That’s in part because Ukraine is being limited in how deep into Russia it can attack using Western-supplied weapons. But mostly it is a matter of ... |
| 27.06.2024 | Meta Moves To More Directly Connect To ActivityPub, But Is It Really Open? | Meta is actually making moves to live up to its promise to integrate Threads into the open ActivityPub standard used by a variety of “fediverse” platforms such as Mastodon and Pixelfed. It’s a fundamental boost to the concept of protocols o... |
| 26.06.2024 | EU’s ‘Going Dark’ Expert Group Publishes 42-Point Surveillance Plan For Access To All Devices And Data At All Times | Techdirt has been covering the disgraceful attempts by the EU to break end-to-end encryption — supposedly in order to “protect the children” — for two years now. An important vote that could have seen EU nations back the proposal was due to... |
| 12.06.2024 | Newspaper Drops Paywall, Moves To Reader Patronage, Generates 37% More Revenue | The problems and unfairness of the copyright system are so manifest that many would like to adopt alternative approaches. But that’s a big step, and one that undoubtedly requires a certain courage. Every example that shows how the move work... |
| 11.06.2024 | Google’s AI Overview Still Flawed, Glue on Pizza Suggestion Still Appears | By Isaiah Richard
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The highly controversial AI Overview feature from Google is still reportedly flawed... |
| 10.06.2024 | Mystery ADV "Zombie Police: Christmas Dancing with Police Zombies" - Free demo released on Steam | Dance with Detective Zomby in celebration of solving the case!
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| 07.06.2024 | Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important | A year ago, Walled Culture wrote about an extremely important case that was being considered by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the EU’s top court. The central question was whether the judges considered that copyright was... |
| 31.05.2024 | Journalists “deeply troubled” by OpenAI’s content deals with Vox, The Atlantic | Enlarge
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On Wednesday, Axios broke the news that OpenAI had signed deals with The Atlantic and Vox Media that will allow the ChatGPT maker to license their editorial content to further train its language model... |
| 30.05.2024 | Dead Politicians Hit The Campaign Trail For India’s Billion-Voter Election | The 2024 elections in India are widely regarded as the largest in history, with nearly a billion people eligible to cast a vote. Alongside the sheer human scale, there’s another aspect of the Indian elections that is surprising for its magn... |
| 29.05.2024 | The U.S. Finally Passes An Internet Privacy Law… For Rich Jet Owners | The U.S. yet yet to pass even a basic internet-era privacy law — or regulate data brokers. And while there’s a lot of misdirection and pretense to the contrary, the primary reason is (1) because the U.S. government is too corrupt; and (2) b... |
| 25.05.2024 | Google's AI Summaries: A Double-Edged Sword in the Digital Age | The recent implementation of Google's AI summaries in search results has ignited a firestorm of debate and apprehension surrounding the accuracy and reliability of these automated summaries. Users are now confronted with the daunting task o... |
| 24.05.2024 | Google’s “AI Overview” can give false, misleading, and dangerous answers | Enlarge / This is fine.
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Further ReadingGoogle is “reimagining” search in “the Gemini era” with AI OverviewsIf you use Google regularly, you may have noticed the company's new AI Overviews providing summarize... |
| 24.05.2024 | Google's AI summaries cause headaches and spawn memes | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
The blowback to Google's AI Overviews is growing now that they are showing up for all U.S. users — and sometimes getting things glaringly wrong.
Why it matters: The search giant's addition of AI-gener... |
| 23.05.2024 | The First Amendment Gives You The Right To Lie, Even With AI | While the celebrity-driven allure of the Scarlett Johansson voicealike story might be an easier headline grab, it is in the dark arts of election dirty trickery where you’re more likely to find the kinds of election misinformation concerns ... |
| 21.05.2024 | London-based social commerce app Haz raises €1.2 million to creates live feeds of users’ old and new purchases | - |
| 16.05.2024 | There Is No Good Reason To Just Let Unsupported Video Games Die | The Pirate Party has long played an important role in fighting the worst excesses of copyright in the EU. For example, when a major copyright update was being discussed, the Pirate Party MEP Felix Reda wrote an insightful and practical repo... |
| 14.05.2024 | Private Equity Is Using Copyright To Cannibalize The Past At The Expense Of The Future | Walled Culture has been warning about the financialization and securitization of music for two years now. Those obscure but important developments mean that the owners of copyrights are increasingly detached from the creative production pro... |
| 06.05.2024 | Welcome To The Brave New World Of Vehicle Insurance Fraud Powered By Shallowfakes | The harms of deepfakes have been evident for a while. Recent examples include a Biden deepfake designed to influence voters, and the rising use of AI “nudification” apps to produce deepfake nudes of students, often female minors. But alongs... |
| 06.05.2024 | Джек Дорси ушёл из совета директоров Bluesky Статьи редакции | Он запустил соцсеть в 2019 году и развивал её после ухода из Twitter.
Джек Дорси написал об уходе из совета директоров Bluesky в X. Он коротко ответил на прямой вопрос пользователя об этом и больше не комментировал решение, заметил TechCrun... |
| 05.05.2024 | Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board | Bluesky’s most prominent backer has left its board.
On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X about grants for open protocols from his philanthropic Start Small initiative. This prompted someone to ask Dorsey if he was still on the Bluesky board... |
| 26.04.2024 | Mystery Adventure "Zombie Police" Gameplay Footage Released - Sneak Peek of Chapter 1 | Tackle difficult cases with a method that only these two can pull off!
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The video, spanning 13 minutes, captures actual gameplay footage from the game.
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| 25.04.2024 | FTC Battles Corporate Giants: The Fight for Fair Competition | The FTC is in the ring, throwing punches at corporate behemoths trying to stifle competition. In one corner, the FTC is banning non-competes to free workers from modern-day indentured servitude. In the other corner, the FTC is suing to bloc... |
| 25.04.2024 | X to charge new users for interaction in battle against the bots | After a trial in select locations, Elon Musk is expanding its fee to more X users
One dollar per year doesn’t sound like a lot. But the fee will add up for those who create thousands of fake social media accounts with the aim of shifting pu... |
| 25.04.2024 | Japanese Metal Sculpture Artisan Develops Art Jewelry with Elaborate Truss Structure | A small treasure
The Truss Series SHIPPOU, crafted utilizing cutting-edge precious metal technology and artisan handiwork, launches on Kickstarter
1.Hair elastics can be replaced 2.Can be used for multiple purposes”
— Tyusen MiyakitaKANAZAW... |
| 25.04.2024 | Bluesky backs a project that would let Mastodon apps, like Ivory, work with its network | Social networks Bluesky and Mastodon may soon be accessible from within a single app — at least, that’s what Bluesky hopes. The new decentralized social network, originally incubated inside Jack Dorsey-run Twitter, is backing a project that... |
| 24.04.2024 | FTC Bans Non-Competes, Sparks Instant Lawsuit: The War For Worker Freedom | This is a frustrating article to write. The FTC has come out with a very good and important policy ruling, but I’m not sure it has the authority to do so. The legal challenge (that was filed basically seconds after the rule came out) could ... |
| 20.04.2024 | Энтузиаст обнаружил, что в ретро-игре Car Builder для Apple II корпус Cybertruck — «идеальная» конструкция для шасси | Энтузиаст обнаружил, что в ретро-игре от 1985 года Car Builder для Apple II корпус Cybertruck — «идеальная» конструкция для шасси автомобиля.
«Для Apple II была старая игра под названием Car Builder, и «идеальная» конструкция шасси, которая... |
| 19.04.2024 | "Zombie Police: Christmas Dancing with Police Zombies" - A New Era of Mystery Adventure Begins | She's the only one who can conduct this investigation... (because she's a zombie)
Based on the collected evidence, solve the case and deduce the culprit.
The story is told by old Detective Tamura as a memory of the days of struggle.
A Japan... |
| 17.04.2024 | Senate Now Considering Section 702 Re-Up With A Dangerous Amendment Attached To It | For a little while, it looked as though Section 702 surveillance might finally be curtailed, if not substantially reformed. Lots of House Republicans were irritated that some of Trump’s inner circle had been (inappropriately) targeted by FB... |
| 15.04.2024 | Partisan Bullshit Tanks House Section 702 Reform Efforts | It took the FBI carelessly, stupidly, and unlawfully targeting members of Trump’s inner circle to make Section 702 program reform a thing that might actually happen.
It’s kind of astounding, considering the Snowden leaks provided a much bet... |
| 15.04.2024 | Bluesky is now allowing heads of states to sign up | Social networking service Bluesky is now allowing heads of state to sign up and join the platform. The move comes ahead of major general elections in countries like the U.S. and India this year.
Last year, during Bluesky’s invite-only perio... |
| 14.04.2024 | Bluesky Reverses Ban on Heads of State, Opening Platform to World Leaders | Inno Flores, Tech Times 14 April 2024, 09:04 pm
Bluesky has recently unveiled a notable shift in its policy: it will now allow heads of state to become members. Following a year-long prohibition, Bluesky's official account revealed that thi... |
| 12.04.2024 | Если покупка — это не владение, то пиратство — не воровство | Двадцать лет назад я ввязался в публичную перепалку (дружескую) с Крисом Андерсоном, работавшим тогда главным редактором Wired. Я публично выразил своё разочарование публикуемыми в Wired радужными обзорами отягощённых DRM цифровых устройств... |
| 11.04.2024 | Spoken Announces Update and Plans for Autism Acceptance Month | Latest Speech App Update and Special Promotion Aim to Boost Communication Access MARIETTA, OHIO, UNITED STATES, April 11, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- In its latest effort to bridge communication gaps, Spoken has announced an update to its au... |
