| Date | Title | Description |
| 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, ... |
| 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... |
| 27.10.2024 | Альтернатива TikTok под названием Loops появится в сети Fediverse | В сети Fedverse появится социальная сеть с короткими видео — Loops. В альтернативе TikTok пользователи смогут публиковать видео длительностью до 60 секунд. Loops разработала команда, которая стоит за созданием альтернативы Instagram** — Pix... |
| 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, ... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 02.10.2024 | Threads mostra seguidores do fediverso e dá 15 minutos para editar posts | Threads dá mais um passo na integração com o fediverso e mostra seguidores de outras redes sociais (Imagem: Thássius Veloso/Tecnoblog)
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| 01.10.2024 | The Digital Tightrope: Navigating Corporate Communication Risks with Telegram | In the corporate world, communication is the lifeblood of productivity. But when employees turn to popular messaging apps like Telegram, the risks multiply. Imagine a tightrope walker, balancing precariously between efficiency and security.... |
| 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 | Apple Pro Weekly News (23.09 – 29.09.24) | В свежем выпуске вспоминаем лучшие моменты из яблочного мира за неделю. Какие системы больше не поставить, что с ремонтопригодностью новых iPhone 16, чего ждать в Apple Vision Pro 2-го поколения, что за устройство готовит компания на базе H... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 19.09.2024 | National Politics | FAU national poll finds Harris leads Trump, 50% to 45% | Wagner is also co-director of FAU’s PolCom Lab, a collaboration of the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies and Department of Political Science, which conducted the poll.
Initially, he said, it doesn’t appear as if there was an im... |
| 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 | 15 цитат всемирно известных людей об искусственном интеллекте | Всемирно известный человек встречает рассвет искусственного интеллекта
За последние два года искусственный интеллект стал одной из основных тем в СМИ, и многие известные люди высказали свои мысли по этой теме. Но если вы начнете искать в Ин... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 | Elon Musk's X Banned in Brazil: Apple Faces Pressure to Remove App | By Joseph Henry
Published Aug 31, 2024 2:05AM EDT
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Elon Musk eats controversies for breakfast, and since he's the CEO of several companie... |
| 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 ... |
| 23.08.2024 | Controversial Microsoft Recall gets October release date | The tech giant added the new release date to a previous blog post about Recall, which was billed as a way for users to find information previously viewed on a PC but derided by security advocates for the potential for threat actors to explo... |
| 22.08.2024 | This strange iOS bug can crash your iPhone in seconds | Bored? Swipe all the way over to the App Library on your iPhone and type “”:: in the search bar. Congratulations! You’ve just crashed your iPhone. But don’t worry — it’s not permanent or serious, according to security researchers.
Mastodon ... |
| 21.08.2024 | Postgresso 7 (68) | Из жизни малышей и гигантов
PGlite 0.2
Опенсорсный проект ElectricSQL явил маленькое чудо. Совсем маленькое: сервер PostgreSQL уместился в архив 3МБ.
Сервер собран как клиентская библиотека TypeScript/JavaScript, PostgreSQL можно запускать ... |
| 15.08.2024 | Experience Open-Source Innovation with ArmSoM's RK3588 AI Module7: The Alternative to Nvidia Jetson Nano | RK3588 AI Module7 & carrier board
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RK3588AIModule7 in carrier board working scene provided by ArmSoM
A low-power AI module prides itself on offering enhanced connectivity, a high-perf... |
| 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,... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 14.07.2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Jacob L. Nelson: Why are journalists obsessed with Biden’s age? It’s because they’ve finally found an interesting election story
By Jacob L. Nelson | By Jacob L. Nelson
Since President Joe Biden’s disastrous presidential debate on June 27, 2024, election news coverage has focused on one question: Will he remain in the race?
This focus has been apparent to even the most casual of news con... |
| 04.07.2024 | Is Threads Still Good to Use After a Year? Here's What Meta Can Pick up From Other Social Media Apps to Improve It | By Joseph Henry
Published Jul 4, 2024 12:53PM EDT
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Threads, Meta's attempt to disrupt the social media world, recently celebrated its fir... |
| 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 ... |
| 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... |
| 26.06.2024 | Apple não quer saber de emulador de PCs na App Store | Apple não quer saber de emulador de PCs na App Store (imagem: Vitor Pádua/Tecnoblog)
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| 26.06.2024 | Threads: integração ao fediverso chega ao Brasil e ganha mais recursos | Fediverso facilita conexão do Threads com outras redes (imagem: Emerson Alecrim / Tecnoblog)
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A Meta anunciou que o Threads terá uma integração mais abrangente a outras redes soc... |
| 23.06.2024 | OEIS Digital Investigato Los Angeles Expands with New Cybersecurity Team to Tackle Digital Threats | OEIS Digital Investigator: Leading the Fight Against Cyber Stalking.
Meet our dedicated team of expert investigators at OEIS Digital Investigator, specializing in combating cyber stalking and digital threats.
OEIS Digital Investigator in Lo... |
| 16.06.2024 | Драма в Fediverse | Привет Хабр. В свободное время я поддерживаю бесплатный сервис Авакари. Основная его функция - фильтрация сообщений из многих тысяч разных источников (RSS, Telegram, Fediverse, ...). В двух словах, вы определяете критерии поиска, Авакари &q... |
| 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... |
| 12.06.2024 | Вышла стабильная версия systemd 256 | 11 июня 2024 года состоялся релиз стабильной версии подсистемы инициализации и управления службами в Linux systemd 256 с run0 (на замену sudo), systemd-vpick, importctl и другими новыми функциями.
Предыдущая стабильная версия systemd вышла ... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 10.05.2024 | Jack Dorsey diz que Bluesky repete os mesmos erros do Twitter | Jack Dorsey ajudou a iniciar Bluesky quando era CEO do Twitter (Imagem: Ryan Lash / TED)
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| 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... |
| 30.04.2024 | Latest Google layoffs hit the Flutter and Python groups | Enlarge
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Another day, another round of Google layoffs. TechCrunch reports the company has axed people across development teams like the Flutter, Dart, and Python groups. Google confirmed th... |
| 29.04.2024 | Apple's Memory Game: A Look at the Evolution of RAM in Macs and MacBook Airs | Apple's memory management in Macs and MacBook Airs has been a rollercoaster ride over the years. From regular RAM upgrades to sudden halts, the tech giant's approach to memory allocation has left many scratching their heads. A recent study ... |
| 29.04.2024 | iPad's Long-Awaited Calculator App May Finally Arrive | After 14 years, Apple may introduce a native Calculator app for the iPad in the upcoming iPadOS 18 update. The absence of this basic tool has been a long-standing joke among users, with the iPad relying on third-party apps or workarounds li... |
| 28.04.2024 | Исследование: Apple прекратила увеличивать объём ОЗУ в базовых Mac с 2012 года, в MacBook Air с 2017 года | Apple регулярно увеличивала объём оперативной памяти в компьютерах Mac до 2012 года, в ноутбуках MacBook Air — до 2017 года. Диаграммы, иллюстрирующие изменение в тенденции, опубликовал Дэвид Шауб на Mastodon.
Шауб составил две диаграммы: о... |
| 25.04.2024 | French Collection Society Wants A Tax On Generative AI, Payable To Collection Societies | Back in October last year, Walled Culture wrote about a proposed law in France that would see a tax imposed on AI companies, with the proceeds being paid to a collecting society. Now that the EU’s AI Act has been adopted, it is being invoke... |
| 23.04.2024 | iPadOS 18 could ship with built-in Calculator app, after 14 Calculator-less years | Enlarge
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Last year, Apple introduced the ability to set multiple timers at once in the Clock app on its various platforms.
“We truly live in an age of wonders,” deadpanned Apple’s Craig Federighi in... |
| 22.04.2024 | More Open Access Training For Academics Would Lead To More Open Access | Open access publishing, which allows people to read academic papers without a subscription, seems such a good idea. It means that anyone, anywhere in the world, can read the latest research without needing to pay. Academic institutions can ... |
| 18.04.2024 | Магазин сторонних приложений для iOS AltStore PAL стал доступен в ЕС | Магазин сторонних iOS-приложений AltStore PAL официально заработал в Европейском Союзе. Чтобы воспользоваться им, нужно приобрести годовую подписку за 1,50 евро плюс 0,5 евро в виде налога. Эти средства идут на покрытие сбора Apple Core Tec... |
| 16.04.2024 | Как мне удалось обнаружить уязвимость, связанную со слабыми ключами в Debian | Для новичков в сфере информационных технологий может быть открытием, что в следующем месяце мы отметим 16-ю годовщину одного знаменательного события: было выявлено, что в течение 18 месяцев пакет OpenSSL в Debian вырабатывал полностью предс... |
| 15.04.2024 | Первый одобренный Apple эмулятор ретро-игр iGBA для iPhone удалили из App Store | Ранее Apple разрешила разместить эмулятор ретро-игр iGBA для iPhone в App Store, однако теперь его удалили из-за нарушения авторских прав и рассылки спама.
Разработчик Райли Тестут сообщил, что приложение является неавторизованным клоном GB... |
| 14.04.2024 | Некоторые разработчики из-за ошибки в системе статистики App Store Connect на время стали миллионерами | В период с 10 по 11 апреля 2024 года некоторые разработчики увидели, что у них в системе статистики Apple показаны миллионы долларов доходов от приложений в App Store (от $2 млн до более чем $10 млн). Это произошло из-за ошибки в работе App... |
| 09.04.2024 | How Copyright May Destroy Our Access To The World’s Academic Knowledge | The shift from analogue to digital has had a massive impact on most aspects of life. One area where that shift has the potential for huge benefits is in the world of academic publishing. Academic papers are costly to publish and distribute ... |
| 09.04.2024 | Автор Notepad++ ищет помощи в удалении копии своего веб-сайта | Разработчик бесплатного проекта редактора текста и исходного кода Notepad++ Дон Хо обратился к общественности. Он просит помочь ему закрыть «сайт-паразит», который выдаёт себя за Notepad++.
Хотя ресурс notepad[.]plus перенаправляет посетите... |
| 08.04.2024 | Автор эмулятора PPSSPP обещает выпустить версию для iOS в App Store после пояснения новых правил площадки | Разработчик эмулятора PPSSPP Хендрик Ридгард пообещал выпустить версию проекта для iOS в App Store после пояснения новых правил площадки по поводу разрешения выпуска эмуляторов ретро-игр.
В рекомендациях Apple сказано, что «приложения-эмуля... |
| 05.04.2024 | Germany Still Locking Up Some Laws Behind Copyright | It is often said that “ignorance of the law is no defense.” But the corollary of this statement is that laws must be freely available so that people can find them, read them and obey them. Secret laws, or laws that are hard to access, under... |
| 02.04.2024 | Forgotten Books And How To Save Them | On the Neglected Books site, there is a fine meditation on rescuing forgotten writers and their works from oblivion, and why this is important. As its author Brad Bigelow explains:
His post mentions three questions that “reissue” publishers... |
| 01.04.2024 | Security Week 2414: последствия взлома xz-utils | История со взломом набора утилит xz-utils, несомненно, войдет в категорию легендарных событий в сфере информационной безопасности. Эта тщательно спланированная атака на цепочку поставок была в шаге от полного успеха. Могла быть реализована ... |
| 01.04.2024 | Американские издания судятся с OpenAI за кражу их контента | Разработчики ИИ помимо технологических проблем, сталкиваются с моральными и юридическими. Еще три новостные организации: The Intercept, Raw Story и AlterNet — подали в суд на OpenAI и Microsoft иск о нарушении авторских прав, включая удален... |
| 01.04.2024 | The AltStore, an alternative app store coming to the EU, will offer Patreon-backed apps | Apple’s chokehold on the App Store ecosystem for iPhone apps stifles competition, according to the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), so it’s now forcing the tech giant to open up to new rivals. As a result, we’re beginning to see what an app ... |
| 29.03.2024 | Of True Fans And Superfans: The Rise Of An Alternative Business Model To Copyright | One of the commonest arguments from supporters of copyright is that creators need to be rewarded and that copyright is the only realistic way of doing that. The first statement may be true, but the second certainly isn’t. As Walled Culture ... |
| 28.03.2024 | Хостинг-провайдеров России обязали подключиться к СОРМ до июня 2024 года | 22 ноября 2023 года Правительство РФ своим утвердило правила взаимодействия провайдеров хостинга с уполномоченными государственными органами, осуществляющими оперативно‑розыскную деятельность. Они вступили в силу с 1 декабря одновременно с ... |
| 25.03.2024 | Мобильная разработка за неделю #531 (18 — 24 марта) | В новом выпуске быстрый старт и дело правительства США против Apple, цена Чистой Архитектуры и Android 15 Developer Preview 2, современный способ организации зависимостей, сила последовательности, топ быстрорастущих приложений в России в ма... |
| 22.03.2024 | Meta enters the fediverse by allowing some users to cross post between Threads and other platforms such as Mastodon | The groundswell of interest in the fediverse really kicked off when Elon Musk took over at Twitter, renamed it X, and made a seemingly endless series of controversial changes and decisions. A large number of users sought new homes, and the ... |
| 19.03.2024 | Italy’s Piracy Shield Blocks Innocent Web Sites And Makes It Hard For Them To Appeal | Italy’s newly-installed Piracy Shield system, put in place by the country’s national telecoms regulator, Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni (Authority for Communications Guarantees, AGCOM), is already failing in significant ways. ... |
| 19.03.2024 | Orbit Research Expands Its Revolutionary Braille Product Family with the Launch of Orbit Reader Q20 and Q40 | The Orbit Reader Q40 Refreshable 40-cell Braille Display with an integrated QWERTY keyboard.
The Orbit Reader Q20 Refreshable 20-cell Braille Display with an integrated QWERTY keyboard.
The all-in-one braille devices with integrated full-si... |
| 12.03.2024 | Новости из мира OpenStreetMap за февраль | Год векторных тайлов, покемоны возвращают должок, благородное закрытие Placemark, а также учимся рендерить на Canvas с помощью Rust.
Парк Бушрозенплац в Organic Maps
Скриншот Фабиана Н. Т.[Векторные] Карты
Инженерная рабочая группа OSM объя... |
| 11.03.2024 | Vehicle Cloning — Another Reason Not To Use Automated License Plate Readers | Over the last decade, increasing numbers of automated license plate readers (ALPR) have been installed on roads, bringing with them a variety of privacy problems, as Techdirt has reported. It’s easy to see why ALPR is popular with the autho... |
| 04.03.2024 | Что это за устройство у меня в комнате? | Примерно год назад я переехал в новую квартиру. Одной из причин её выбора стал возраст здания. Строить его закончили в 2015 году, что гарантировало неплохую теплоизоляцию на зиму, а также кучу приятных мелочей наподобие Ethernet-разъёмов в ... |
| 01.03.2024 | Вступил в силу запрет на статьи о Tor и VPN | С сегодняшнего дня, 1 марта, Роскомнадзор получил право вносить в реестр запрещённых ресурсов страницы с информацией о способах, методах обеспечения доступа к ресурсам и (или) информационно-телекоммуникационным сетям, доступ к которым огра... |
| 27.02.2024 | Newsmast brings curated ‘communities’ to the open source Twitter/X alternative Mastodon | An organization called Newsmast is introducing a new approach to decentralized social media with the launch of an updated version of its Mastodon mobile app that now integrates content from two servers into one interface — a different appro... |
| 27.02.2024 | Italy’s ‘Piracy Shield’ Creating Real Problems As VPNs Start Turning Away Italian Users | Back in October, Walled Culture wrote about the grandly named “Piracy Shield”. This is Italy’s new Internet blocking system, which assumes people are guilty until innocent, and gives the copyright industry a disproportionate power to contro... |
| 26.02.2024 | A Swiftian Solution To Some Of Copyright’s Problems | Copyright is generally understood to be for the benefit of two groups of people: creators and their audience. Given that modern copyright often acts against the interests of the general public – forbidding even the most innocuous sharing of... |
| 23.02.2024 | Hackers are exploiting ConnectWise flaws to deploy LockBit ransomware, security experts warn | Security experts are warning that a pair of high-risk flaws in a popular remote access tool are being exploited by hackers to deploy LockBit ransomware — days after authorities announced that they had disrupted the notorious Russia-linked c... |
| 22.02.2024 | ActivityPub в Awakari | Сегодня всё больше и больше сервисов объявляют о своей поддержке ActivityPub, в том числе даже такие, как Tumblr или Threads. И это ожидаемо, так как ActivityPub позволяет сохранять контроль над собственными данными, в отличие от закрытых с... |
| 22.02.2024 | UK Court Ruling Has Potential To Free Up The Public Domain; But Museums Might Still Block It | There’s a post on the Creative Commons blog with some important news about copyright (in the UK, at least):
The post points out that the case is potentially a “game-changer in the UK open culture landscape”:
This touches on a topic that Wal... |
| 21.02.2024 | Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks | Over the weekend, hackers targeted federated social networks like Mastodon to carry out ongoing spam attacks that were organized on Discord, and conducted using Discord applications. But Discord has yet to remove the server where the attack... |
| 21.02.2024 | Discord Server Accused of Allegedly Orchestrating Mastodon Spam Attacks | Inno Flores, Tech Times 21 February 2024, 10:02 pm
Despite a weekend onslaught of spam attacks on federated social networks like Mastodon, allegedly coordinated through Discord, the communication platform has yet to take any action against ... |
| 21.02.2024 | Российские сайты начали удалять статьи о VPN | Газета «Коммерсант» заметила, что некоторые российские сайты начали досрочно удалять статьи о VPN в преддверии запрета на их «популяризацию», который вступает в силу с 1 марта. В заметке «Рунет самоочищается к весне» они сообщили, что форум... |
| 20.02.2024 | How Allowing Copyright On AI-Generated Works Could Destroy Creative Industries | Generative AI continues to be the hot topic in the digital world – and beyond. A previous blog post noted that this has led to people finally asking the important question whether copyright is fit for the digital world. As far as AI is conc... |
| 20.02.2024 | Spam attack on Twitter/X rival Mastodon highlights ‘fediverse’ vulnerabilities | A spam attack that impacted the open source X rival Mastodon, Misskey and other apps highlights how the decentralized social web, also known as the fediverse, is open to abuse. Over the past several days, attackers have targeted smaller Mas... |
| 16.02.2024 | Just Because Mickey Mouse Is In The Public Domain, It Doesn’t Mean The Battle To Prevent Copyright Term Extensions Is Over | The beginning of the year is a great time for the public domain, since it sees thousands of copyrighted works released from the intellectual monopoly that prevents their free creative use. Which works enter the public domain depends on the ... |
| 09.02.2024 | Dropshipping Creates Novel Online Business Opportunities For The Long-Term Unemployed In South Africa (And Others) | Dropshipping – memorably described by Sirin Kale in Wired as people “selling products they’ve never handled, from countries they’ve never visited, to consumers they’ve never met” – is one of the best examples of “pure” Internet activity aro... |
| 07.02.2024 | How Twitter’s descent into chaos is paving the way for a new web | The post-Twitter era has spurred the development and further growth of numerous social networks that prioritize brief posts, from open source standbys like Mastodon to new decentralized concepts like Bluesky, and those from smaller startups... |
| 29.01.2024 | Research Suggests A Large Proportion Of Web Material In Languages Other Than English Is Machine Translations Of Poor Quality Texts | The latest generative AI tools are certainly impressive, but they bring with them a wide range of complex problems, as numerous posts on Techdirt attest. A new academic paper, published on arXiv, raises more of them, but from a new angle. E... |
| 25.01.2024 | Приложения для Vision Pro выглядят скучно | Наконец-то время пришло
На прошлой неделе в социальных сетях был шквал волнения из-за того, что разработчики начали показывать свои приложения для Vision Pro. Новые продукты выходят на рынок очень редко, поэтому в сообществе инди-разработчи... |
| 16.01.2024 | Around 450 People Will Be Working On The Enforcement Of The UK’s Online Safety Act – To Begin With, At Least… | Techdirt has been covering the UK’s awful Online Safety Act for nearly five years now. During that time it has changed name — it was originally called the Online Harms Bill — but the many bad ideas have remained. Some have even become worse... |
| 12.01.2024 | Threads will allow you to follow Mastodon users by year-end, according to Meta meeting details | Threads’ roadmap for integrations with the fediverse, aka the network of decentralized apps that includes Twitter/X rival Mastodon and others, has been revealed. A new blog post by Tom Coates, the co-founder of an older decentralized app ca... |
| 12.01.2024 | New Book on Writing is “Part Travelogue, Part Essay, Part Crusade” | Writing Beyond Writing: Lessons from Endangered Alphabets
Tim Brookes, author of Writing Beyond Writing
"To Love Love": one of Tim Brookes' carvings in endangered Mongolian calligraphy by Tamir Purev
Founder of Endangered Alphabet... |
| 09.01.2024 | Unity to lay off another 1,800 employees, representing 25% of its workforce | Just a few weeks after its most recent round of layoffs, Unity is once again reducing its workforce. This time, around 1,800 employees will lose their job in the coming weeks as the company is trying to improve its financial performance aft... |
| 04.01.2024 | Apple отозвала iOS 17.3 beta 2 спустя несколько часов после релиза из-за жалоб на окирпичивание iPhone у тестеров | 3 января 2024 года Apple отозвала iOS 17.3 beta 2 спустя несколько часов после релиз из-за жалоб тестеров и авторизованных разработчиков на окирпичивание их iPhone (зависание, уход в вечную перезагрузку) в процессе установки обновления.
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