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| Oct 14, 2026 | BroadbandSwitch.uk Updates Free Full Fibre Upgrade Guide as 13.9 Million UK Premises Have Yet to Take Up Full Fibre | 13.9 million UK homes and businesses can get full fibre and have never ordered it. 82% of homes can get it, 47% of those that can have switched. BroadbandSwitch.uk analysis of Ofcom Connected Nations data, January 2026
The two minute check:... |
| Oct 14, 2026 | BroadbandSwitch.uk Publishes Free One Touch Switch Map and Video After 3.4 Million UK Broadband Switches | Switching broadband under One Touch Switch takes nine steps and the customer does three: order, say yes or no, plug in. Free map and video at broadbandswitch.uk/switching-hub.html. Image: BroadbandSwitch.uk
3,431,195 people had started a On... |
| Oct 7, 2026 | Free Tool RightSpeed Shows UK Homes How Much Broadband Speed They Need | A family of four with a 4K film, two HD streams, a video call and an online game all running at once came out at about 70 Mbps of download and 9 Mbps of upload in RightSpeed, a broadband speed calculator. Free, with no sign-up, at rightspee... |
| Oct 7, 2026 | Free Guides Explain When UK Homes Can Leave a Broadband Contract Without an Exit Fee | Three deadlines can decide whether leaving a UK broadband contract early costs an exit fee: 14 days to cancel, 30 days to leave after a price rise that was not in the contract, and 30 days for a provider to fix speeds below the guaranteed m... |
| Oct 7, 2026 | Бегущий человек: как японские дизайнеры создали международный знак эвакуации | Рассказываем историю создания знака эвакуации, который сегодня принят в международном стандарте ISO.Содержание
1964 — Небольшая и неполная предыстория японских пиктограмм: Токио-1964
Появление новых пиктограмм на Олимпиаде
1975 — Бегущий зе... |
| Oct 5, 2026 | Free Tool RouterMap Shows UK Homes the Best Place to Put a Wi-Fi Router | RouterMap, the free Wi-Fi router placement checker from BroadbandSwitch.uk, shows the signal room by room and finds the best spot for the router. Free, with no sign-up, at routermap.co.uk. Illustration: BroadbandSwitch.uk
In 14 of the 15 UK... |
| Oct 5, 2026 | Free Browser Game Fibre Tycoon Lets Anyone Build Britain's Full Fibre Network | Fibre Tycoon version 6: wire up Britain across 285 real towns and cities, against 68 rival networks. Free to play, with no sign-up, at broadbandswitch.uk/fibre-tycoon.html. Illustration: BroadbandSwitch.uk
The challenge: start in 2010 with ... |
| Sep 24, 2026 | Вышла стабильная версия systemd 262 | Во второй половине сентября 2026 года состоялся релиз стабильной версии подсистемы инициализации и управления службами в Linux systemd 262.
Версию systemd 261 представили в июне 2026 года. Сборка systemd 260 вышла в марте 2026 года. Решение... |
| Sep 15, 2026 | Cozumel's Adults-Only Hotel Market Continues to Grow | The Pool of Stingray Villa
From Cozumel Guesthouses to Beachfront Retreats, Here's Where Adults Can Unwind
Stingray Villa is an adult-only guest house with four luxurious villas, each offering a comfortable Caribbean getaway with all the am... |
| Sep 15, 2026 | Before She Was Nina Simone, Tryon Invested in Eunice Waymon. Now, the North Carolina Community Is Doing It Once Again | Nina Simone in Concert. Credits: Tom-Copi-Michael-Ochs-Archives Getty-Images
The Nina Simone and Samuel Waymon Music Scholarship Fund brings musicians, visual artists and community together to create opportunities for a new generation.
Anyt... |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Что математики говорят про влияние ИИ на математику? | Теренс Тао в видеоинтервью Дваркешу Пателю
Новости с заголовком «ИИ решил задачу тысячелетия» стали появляться всё чаще. Со стороны бывает сложно оценить: где исторический прецедент, а где надуманный хайп? А главное: что всё это значит для ... |
| Sep 9, 2026 | ИИ решил одну из математических «задач тысячелетия» с призом в $1 млн | Математики из OpenAI показали, что решения уравнений Навье — Стокса, описывающих течение жидкостей, в некоторых случаях могут «взрываться». Однако этот потрясающий результат уже вызвал споры
Решение OpenAI представляет собой вихрь, визуализ... |
| Sep 9, 2026 | AI Agents Are Not Going “Rogue,” But Recent Developments Lead Increasingly-Concerned Researchers To Call For AI Slow Down | For the last few months, there has been much talk of AI agents going “rogue”. This is another of those unhelpful anthropomorphisms that are great for clickbait headlines, but which obscure a multitude of important issues. So far, there have... |
| Aug 28, 2026 | Federal science funding falters, but local museums and zoos fill the gap | Citizen Science Coordinator and volunteers spot a frog in the pond. NPS Photo by Ivie Metzen. Photo courtesy of Wiki Commons.
When federal funding collapses, museums and zoos—bridge institutions—step in, turning visitors into research partn... |
| Aug 25, 2026 | Red Telephone Box Turns 100: No Stamp, No Coin, No Campaign, but £17,000 Auctions and 700 Defibrillators, Report Finds | A Century in Red, Report No. 31 from BroadbandSwitch.uk: the verified story of the red telephone box, 1926 to 2026. The free 34 page report finds no Royal Mail stamp, no Royal Mint coin and no BT campaign for the street centenary. Image: Br... |
| Aug 13, 2026 | Kubuntu Focus, Techpaladin Software, and KDE e.V. Announce the 'bullet-proof' KDE Software Initiative | Kubuntu Focus
Techpaladin Software
KDE e.V
Designed for individuals, professionals, companies, and public institutions TRAVERSE CITY, MI, UNITED STATES, August 13, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Kubuntu Focus, Techpaladin Software, and KDE e.V.... |
| Jul 30, 2026 | UK Broadband Complaints Hit Record Low as Ofcom League Table Runs Out of Room | UK broadband complaints fell to 6 per 100,000 customers in Q1 2026, the lowest figure Ofcom has ever published. Source: Ofcom, 23 July 2026. Chart: BroadbandSwitch.uk, The Complaints Floor (Report No. 30).
Ofcom broadband complaints by prov... |
| Jul 27, 2026 | New Report: 14 Million UK Premises Have Full Fibre Available and Unused | The 82% Country (Report No. 29): 82% of UK homes can now get full fibre, 47% of those who can have taken it, and around 14 million front doors remain unopened.
The cover of The 82% Country (Report No. 29): 24 pages, ten charts and all 361 U... |
| Jul 27, 2026 | AI Systems Out-Persuade Expert Humans, Including Professional Canvassers And World Championship Debaters | Persuasion plays a key role in society. Whether it is political or financial decisions, workplace or family choices, or simply reading a book or article (like this one), often someone is trying to persuade someone else to agree with them, p... |
| Jul 22, 2026 | UK Broadband Loyalty Penalty Costs Households up to £108 a Year, Report Finds | The Loyalty Penalty, Report No. 28 from BroadbandSwitch.uk, published July 2026: independent research into what out-of-contract UK broadband customers really pay, built on 35 cited primary sources.
The loyalty penalty, measured: Ofcom data ... |
| Jul 21, 2026 | You Don’t Need $200 Million To Make A Blockbuster Film Any More | Walled Culture the book (digital versions available free) is about the incompatibility of the traditional copyright system with the digital world, and its failure to reward creators fairly. That raises the question of what might replace it,... |
| Jul 18, 2026 | Accesstive Introduces an End-to-End Accessibility Platform for Modern Web Teams | Accesstive - Web Accessibility. Done Right.
Built from 15+ years of enterprise web experience, Accesstive helps organizations and agencies manage accessibility through one continuous workflow.
We built Accesstive to solve the accessibility ... |
| Jul 14, 2026 | How The Spread Of Local AI Models Makes Copyright Enforcement Harder | The central theme of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) is the growing incompatibility between traditional copyright law and the digital, online world. The culmination of that process was the EU Copyright Directive, p... |
| Jul 13, 2026 | UK Broadband Shake-Out: New Report Puts 68% Odds on Three National Platforms | Fibre ducting laid through a London street. The Great Consolidation (Report No. 27) forecasts the UK fibre shake-out, published by BroadbandSwitch.uk, final edition 13 July 2026.
The forecast: 68% odds of three national platforms plus a nic... |
| Jul 7, 2026 | Broadband Deals Study: UK Homes Overpay by Hundreds as £12.50 Social Tariffs Go Unclaimed | Out of contract broadband customers in the UK could save up to £216 over the life of a contract, with the cheapest full fibre deal at £14 a month against roughly £30 for a loyal, out of contract home. Ofcom data, July 2026.
UK broadband soc... |
| Jul 1, 2026 | German Court Says Google Is Liable For False Claims In Its AI Overviews Because They Are Its Own Words | Legal systems have always struggled to keep up with rapid technological change, and things are no different in the world of generative AI. There are still relatively few rulings on the new issues that the roll-out of AI-based services is ra... |
| Jun 30, 2026 | Kubuntu Focus Announces 5 New Laptops With Kubuntu 26.04 LTS | Kubuntu Focus Ar GEN 1 Laptop
Kubuntu Focus 16" XE GEN 3
Kubuntu Focus Zr GEN 2 Laptop
These incorporate the latest Intel and NVIDIA hardware and include its first “Panther Lake” model. TRAVERSE CITY, MI, UNITED STATES, June 30, 2026 /... |
| Jun 23, 2026 | Spain’s Internet Blocks Have A Flimsy Legal Basis, While Lacking Both Oversight & Accountability | Afew weeks ago, Walled Culture wrote about Hadopi, France’s infamous copyright enforcement mechanism. The so-called “graduated response” – aka “three strikes and you are out” – has been around for over 15 years now, has cost French taxpayer... |
| Jun 22, 2026 | UK Phone Switch-Off Set for January 2027: New Report 'The Last Dial Tone' | Front Cover of "The Last Dial Tone" with a coffee, table, professional layout.
Telecoms Professional reading "The Last Dial Tone" on BroadbandSwitch.uk via his laptop
Fully optimised for all devices "The Last Dial T... |
| Jun 14, 2026 | Z-Text Bug Bounty Goes Live: 7 ZEC On-Chain to Anyone Who Breaks It | A live shielded message on the BitcoinZ blockchain, verifiable on-chain — Z-Text's proof that privacy can be checked, not just promised.
Privacy as the Fifth Element — Z-Text carries censorship-resistant, on-chain messaging into the open
Th... |
| Jun 11, 2026 | Dr. Samuel Waymon is coming to UC Santa Cruz | Dr. Samuel L. Waymon. Photo Credit: 4 Eyes Photography
Legendary composer, actor, performer and brother of Nina Simone slated for a week-in-residence at the renowned institution of higher learning.
Don’t Let The Problems Of This World Drive... |
| Jun 11, 2026 | Why Google’s New AI-Saturated Search Page Will Be A Disaster | Google didn’t invent full-text search of the Internet – that honor belongs to early pioneers such as WebCrawler, Lycos and AltaVista. But for the last 25 years or so, Google has been synonymous with online searching, providing the quickest ... |
| May 22, 2026 | France’s Terrible Copyright Law, Hadopi, Is Not Quite Dead | One of the best demonstrations that an obsession with protecting copyright’s intellectual monopoly drives politicians insane is the French law known as Hadopi, an acronym for ‘Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des oeuvres et la protection de... |
| May 22, 2026 | Jake Cohen of Bisnar Chase Named to National Trial Lawyers Top 100 for 2026 | Bisnar Chase Trial Lawyer, Jake Cohen
Bisnar Chase announces senior associate and first-chair trial attorney Jake Cohen has been selected for the prestigious National Trial Lawyers Top 100 for 2026. NEWPORT BEACH, CA, UNITED STATES, May 22,... |
| May 7, 2026 | October 3rd Concert by pianist Awadagin Pratt to launch The Nina Simone and Samuel Waymon Music Scholarship Fund | Famed Pianist Awadagin Pratt
Awadagin Pratt will perform at the Tryon Fine Arts Center on Saturday October 3rd. The concert benefits the Nina Simone & Samuel Waymon Music Scholarship Fund.
I believe Awadagin Pratt to be one of America's... |
| May 4, 2026 | May Broadband Bills Land Across Britain. Switching Households Save up to £292, New Data Shows | April's broadband price rises just hit, but here's the good news. Households switching their UK broadband deal are saving up to around £290 across a 24-month contract, and more than 2 million Britons have already used One Touch Switch to fi... |
| Apr 29, 2026 | Leading Cancer Charity Stops Funding Open Access Publishing Because It’s Just Not Working | As numerous posts on this blog have emphasised, the underlying idea of open access (OA) – allowing anyone to read and share published academic research for free – is great in principle, but in practice has failed in important ways. That’s b... |
| Apr 27, 2026 | The Risks Of Anonymity In The Age Of Generative AI | As its name suggests, generative AI is designed to generate material in response to prompts by drawing on its probabilistic database built up through analyzing huge quantities of training input. But it can draw on those patterns to analyze ... |
| Apr 3, 2026 | Can Agentic AI Coding Tools Finally End Copyright For Software While Re-Inventing Open Source? | Most of the discussions about the impact of the latest generative AI systems on copyright have centered on text, images and video. That’s no surprise, since writers, artists and film-makers feel very strongly about their creations, and memb... |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Copyright Industry Continues Its Efforts To Ban VPNs | Last month Walled Culture wrote about an important case at the Court of Justice of the European Union, (CJEU), the EU’s top court, that could determine how VPNs can be used in that region. Clarification in this area is particularly importan... |
| Mar 24, 2026 | An Open Training Set For AI Goes Global | As many of the AI stories on Walled Culture attest, one of the most contentious areas in the latest stage of AI development concerns the sourcing of training data. To create high-quality large language models (LLMs) massive quantities of tr... |
| Mar 16, 2026 | Почему все, кто работает с ИИ и текстами, должны прочитать (или перечитать) работы Хабермаса | 14 марта не стало философа и социолога Юргена Хабермаса. Ему было 96 лет. Он прожил насыщенную жизнь и оставил многотомное наследие, его труды проходят в вузах по всему миру.
Смерть Хабермаса заставляет не только вспомнить про масштаб его ф... |
| Mar 13, 2026 | Roblox Rolls Out AI-Powered Real-Time Rephrasing Of Profanity Within Chat | The power of the latest generation of AI systems is such that previously impractical applications are not just possible, but scalable. For example, moving beyond basic early AI text translation tools, it is now possible to use live translat... |
| Mar 13, 2026 | Вышел пиринговый видеохостинг PeerTube 8.1 | 11 марта 2026 года состоялся релиз версии пирингового видеохостинга PeerTube 8.1. Выпуск PeerTube 1.0 вышел в октябре 2018 года. Релиз PeerTube 6.0 состоялся в ноябре 2023 года, решение PeerTube 7.0 представлено в декабре 2024 года. Версия ... |
| Mar 7, 2026 | Iran’s internet blackout extends into second week: NetBlocks | Data monitoring site says Iran remains in a “regime-imposed national internet blackout”.
NetBlocks says the Iranian public remain isolated but officials and state media retain access.
Iran remains under a near-complete internet blackout, da... |
| Feb 23, 2026 | AI's Dual Impact: Innovation and Information Integrity | Artificial intelligence transforms information access and processing. It heavily consumes vast human-created datasets like Wikipedia, raising critical questions about fair compensation for data providers and proper attribution. Simultaneous... |
| Feb 23, 2026 | How Copyright Litigation Over Anne Frank’s Diary Could Impact The Fate Of VPNs In The EU | “The Diary of a Young Girl” is a Dutch language diary written by the young Jewish writer Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Although the diary and Anne Frank’s dea... |
| Feb 19, 2026 | Wikipedia Grapples With New Challenges From AI | Wikipedia celebrated its 25th birthday last month. Given the centrality of Wikipedia to so much activity online, it is hard to remember (or to imagine, for those who are younger) a time without Wikipedia. The latest statistics are impressiv... |
| Feb 4, 2026 | OpenAI’s New Scientific Writing And Collaboration Workspace ‘Prism’ Raises Fears Of Vibe-Coded Academic AI Slop | It is no secret that large language models (LLMs) are being used routinely to modify and even write scientific papers. That’s not necessarily a bad thing: LLMs can help produce clearer texts with stronger logic, not least when researchers a... |
| Feb 3, 2026 | Как мы искали «Луну-9» | Ровно 60 лет назад, 3 февраля 1966 года советский космический аппарат «Луна-9» совершил первую в истории человечества мягкую посадку на Луну. И только сейчас мы можем точно узнать, где именно он находится.
18+ НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ... |
| Jan 23, 2026 | Проект Node.js поменял условия программы вознаграждений за найденные ошибки после отчётов, созданных с помощью ИИ-систем | Проект Node.js поменял условия программы вознаграждений за найденные ошибки (багбаунти) после того, как разработчики столкнулись с увеличением отчётов, созданных с помощью ИИ-систем, которые трудно быстро оценить и проверить. Теперь для отп... |
| Jan 13, 2026 | Seeweb Launches Serverless GPU: The Solution to Overcome GPU Shortages and Accelerate AI Innovation | With Seeweb’s Serverless GPU, you get immediate and scalable access to computing power to accelerate AI innovation without hardware constraints. MILANO, ITALY, ITALY, January 13, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The acceleration of artificial int... |
| Dec 29, 2025 | How Generative AI Is Enabling More Connections With True Fans | Walled Culture has written a number of times about the true fans approach – the idea that creators can be supported directly and effectively by the people who love their work. As Walled Culture the book explains (available as a free ebook),... |
| Dec 23, 2025 | 40 Years Of Copyright Obstruction To Human Rights And Social Justice | One of the little-known but extremely telling episodes in the history of modern copyright, discussed in Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available), concerns the Marrakesh Treaty. A post on the Corporate Europe Observatory (CE... |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Google убивает открытый веб | Несколько месяцев назад я писал о прокси-войне, которую Google ведёт против открытого веба при помощи XSLT. Совершенно неудивительно, что Google продолжает продвигать отказ от него, по-прежнему не давая никаких весомых причин, за исключение... |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Итоги «заблокированного» 2025 года | Привет! Это команда AmneziaVPN, и нам есть о чём вспомнить вместе с вами в уходящем 2025 году. Он стал временем непрерывной борьбы VPN-сервисов с цензорами, что привело к технической эволюции с обеих сторон.
За этот год мы прошли через блок... |
| Dec 21, 2025 | Open Source AI Threatens Billion-Dollar Valuations as Bubble Nears Pop | Open-source AI models increasingly threaten the industry's inflated valuations. Chinese powerhouses like DeepSeek and Alibaba lead this charge. They offer superior cost-efficiency, often six times cheaper, and rapidly close performance gaps... |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Firefox будет поставляться с функцией AI Kill Switch для отключения всех встроенных в браузер ИИ-сервисов | 16 декабря 2025 года новый генеральный директор Mozilla Corporation Энтони Энзор‑ДеМео заявил, что Firefox вырастет в более широкую экосистему доверенного программного обеспечения и превратится в современный браузер с искусственным интеллек... |
| Dec 16, 2025 | When People Realize How Good The Latest Chinese Open Source Models Are (And Free), The GenAI Bubble Could Finally Pop | Although the field of artificial intelligence (AI) goes back more than half century, its latest incarnation — generative AI — is still very new: ChatGPT was launched just three years ago. During that time a wide variety of issues have been ... |
| Dec 11, 2025 | Мнение: без iMessage на iPhone не будут работать push-уведомления | Apple, возможно, случайно сделала iMessage частью push-сервиса iOS, чтобы удалить мессенджер было невозможно.
На прошлой неделе в РФ заблокировали использование сервиса голосовых и видеозвонков FaceTime внутри страны. Тогда Роскомнадзор зая... |
| Dec 9, 2025 | Public AI, Built On Open Source, Is The Way Forward In The EU | Aquarter of a century ago, I wrote a book called “Rebel Code”. It was the first – and is still the only – detailed history of the origins and rise of free software and open source, based on interviews with the gifted and generous hackers wh... |
| Nov 29, 2025 | Проект Organic Maps получил множество новых функций в последнем обновлении | Organic Maps, альтернатива Google Картам с открытым исходным кодом, получила обновление 2025.11.25. Оно использует данные карт OpenStreetMap по состоянию на 23 ноября 2025 года, добавляет множество новых функций и улучшает работу приложения... |
| Nov 19, 2025 | Fans Of Open Access, Unite: You Have Nothing To Lose But Your Chained Libraries | When books were rare and extremely expensive, they were often chained to the bookcase to prevent people walking off with them, in what were known as “chained libraries”. Copyright serves a similar purpose today, even though, thanks to the m... |
| Nov 18, 2025 | Hessian Minister President Boris Rhein presents the Broermann Medical Innovation Award | Dr. Carl June and Dr. Michel Sadelain honored for groundbreaking CAR-T cell research in cancer therapy
One of the world’s most highly endowed medical prizes, with €1 million in prize money, awarded for the first time
Titia große Broermann: ... |
| Nov 14, 2025 | Copyright Is The Wrong Tool To Deal With Deepfake Harms | A key theme of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) is that copyright, born in an analogue age of scarcity, works poorly in today’s digital world of abundance. One manifestation of that is how lawmakers struggle to adap... |
| Oct 27, 2025 | Are Web Browsers With Integrated Chatbots A Paradigm Shift – Or Just Privacy And Security Disasters Waiting To Happen? | In a further sign of where the generative AI world is heading, OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Atlas, “a new web browser built with ChatGPT at its core.” It’s not the first to do something like this: earlier browsers incorporating varying degre... |
| Oct 14, 2025 | Research: Italy’s Piracy Shield Is Just As Big A Disaster As Everyone Predicted | Walled Culture first wrote about Piracy Shield, Italy’s automated system for tackling alleged copyright infringement in the streaming sector, two years ago. Since then, we have written about the serious problems that soon emerged. But inste... |
| Oct 13, 2025 | Дерьмофикация интернета | Пример ИИ-мусора: «Креветочный Иисус», подобные изображения используют в социальных сетях для привлечения лайков. Из статьи Википедии про ИИ-слоп (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop)
2025 год, и дерьмофикация повсюду:
качество поисковой выдачи,
... |
| Oct 6, 2025 | Saddletramp1956 Unveils A Climax in Time — A Bold Blend of Time Travel, Romance, and Intrigue | A provocative time-travel novel exploring love, science, and destiny across a century.
HAYDEN, ID, UNITED STATES, October 6, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Acclaimed storyteller Saddletramp1956 returns with A Climax in Time, a daring and invent... |
| Oct 3, 2025 | Брюс Стерлинг: писатель, который предсказал «умный дом» и войны в киберпространстве | Когда заходит речь о писателях в стиле киберпанк, имя Брюса Стерлинга всегда заслуженно идет через запятую с Уильямом Гибсоном, Нилом Стивенсоном и другими. Вместе с тем, есть такое ощущение, что идеи Стерлинга были восприняты массовой куль... |
| Sep 23, 2025 | Anthropic’s AI Lawsuit Settlement May Not Go Through, But It Exposes A Truth About Copyright | The latest generation of AI systems, based on large language models (LLMs), is perceived as the biggest threat in decades to the established copyright order. The scale of that threat can be gauged by the flurry of AI lawsuits that publisher... |
| Sep 12, 2025 | After 30+ Deaths In Protests Triggered by Nepal’s Social Media Ban, 145,000 People Debate The Country’s Future In Discord Chatroom | The Himalayan nation of Nepal has featured only rarely on Techdirt. The first time was back in 2003, with a story about an early Internet user there. According to the post, he would spend five hours walking down the mountain to the main roa... |
| Sep 4, 2025 | Why Powerful But Hard To Detect Backdoors Could Become A Routine Problem For Open Source Projects Because Of AI | Last year, Andres Freund, a Microsoft engineer, spotted a backdoor in xz Utils, an open source data compression utility that is found on nearly all versions of GNU/Linux and Unix-like operating systems. Ars Technica has a good report on the... |
| Aug 27, 2025 | Cozumel Sees 14% Decline in United States Visitors During Summer 2025 | The Pool of Stingray Villa
The courtyard of Stingray Villa
Officials cite rising costs, transport challenges, and shifting travel trends as U.S. arrivals drop while domestic tourism grows COZUMEL, QUINTANA ROO, MEXICO, August 27, 2025 /EINP... |
| Aug 26, 2025 | Após polêmica, iOS 26 ganha opção para desativar anúncios no Apple Wallet | iOS 26 vai permitir desativar anúncios no Apple Wallet (foto: Thássius Veloso/Tecnoblog)
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O iOS 26 traz opção para desativar anúnci... |
| Jul 25, 2025 | Is Including Hidden AI Prompts In Academic Papers Gaming The Peer Review System — Or Keeping It Honest? | It seems to be part of human nature to try to game systems. That’s also true for technological systems, including the most recent iteration of AI, as the numerous examples of prompt injection exploits demonstrate. In the latest twist, an in... |
| Jul 24, 2025 | Starlink fora do ar: clientes relatam instabilidade no mundo todo | Starlink ficou fora do ar (imagem: Vitor Pádua/Tecnoblog)
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Starlink enfrentou instabilidade global nesta quinta-feira (24/07) por cerca de 2h30.
O problema foi causado... |
| Jul 23, 2025 | As Site Blocking Is Increasing, European Commission Subtly Slaps Down Italy’s Piracy Shield | As numerous Walled Culture posts attest, site blocking is in the vanguard of the actions by copyright companies against sites engaged in the unauthorized sharing of material. Over the past few months, this approach has become even more perv... |
| Jul 22, 2025 | Kubuntu Focus Announces the 3rd-Generation NX Desktop Computer | Kubuntu Focus NX GEN 3 Quarter Shot
Kubuntu Focus NX GEN 3 Port Callouts
Kubuntu Focus NX GEN 3 with 4K Monitors
This new model includes the latest Intel® Ultra series 2 hardware. TRAVERSE CITY, MI, UNITED STATES, July 22, 2025 /EINPresswir... |
| Jul 14, 2025 | Tackling The AI Bots That Threaten To Overwhelm The Open Web | It is a measure of how fast the field of AI has developed in the three years since Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) was published that the issue of using copyright material for training AI systems, briefly mentioned... |
| Jul 11, 2025 | Crowd-Sourced ICE Tracking Alerts Aim To Provide Local Communities With Early Warning Of Immigration Raids | Techdirt has just written about how people are using Ring doorbell cameras to warn others in the area about the presence of ICE agents and the risk of possible ICE raids. That’s a good example of using existing technology to monitor the inc... |
| Jun 30, 2025 | Alliance of Civic Technologists Welcomes Programmers, Former U.S. Digital Service Employees to Inaugural ACT Congress | The Alliance of Civic Technologists is available online at www.civictechnologists.org
Volunteer-driven civic technology projects benefiting government services, communities directly impacted by DOGE layoffs
Civic technology can support the ... |
| Jun 25, 2025 | Trump’s War On Knowledge Requires Re-inventing Academic Publishing | A year ago, Walled Culture wrote about a growing risk that we will lose access to the world’s knowledge, because of a failure by traditional academic publishers to place copies of the articles they publish in key backup archives. Although u... |
| Jun 18, 2025 | Соцсеть Mastodon запретит обучение моделей ИИ на пользовательских данных | Соцсеть Mastodon обновляет условия пользовательского соглашения. Согласно новым правилам, использование инструментов для сбора пользовательских данных с основного сервера Mastodon.social для обучения LLM будет категорически запрещено. Новые... |
| Jun 13, 2025 | Senior English Judge Warns That Lawyers Who Use AI Must Check Their Legal Citations Thoroughly – Or Face ‘Severe Sanction’ | One of the legitimate criticisms of large language models, generative AI, and chatbots is that they produce hallucinations –- output that is plausible but wrong. That’s a problem in all domains, but arguably it’s a particularly serious one ... |
| May 20, 2025 | Copyright Licensing For AI Training Won’t Make Anything “Fair” | Afew weeks ago, the UK’s regional and national daily news titles ran similar front covers, exhorting the government there to “Make it Fair.” The campaign Web site explained:
Under new UK proposals, creators will be able to opt out of their ... |
| May 18, 2025 | The Rise of Digital Nomads: A New Era of Gaming and Entrepreneurship | In the age of digital nomads, the world is witnessing a seismic shift. Entrepreneurs are no longer bound by geography. They are weaving their dreams into the fabric of the digital landscape. One such visionary is Kanessa Muluneh, an Ethiopi... |
| May 15, 2025 | AI Is Making Many People Rethink Copyright | For the last hundred years or so, the prevailing dogma has been that copyright is an unalloyed good, and that more of it is better. Whether that was ever true is one question, but it is certainly not the case since we entered the digital er... |
| May 13, 2025 | Meta Threatens To Pull Facebook And Instagram Out Of Nigeria Over $290 Million Fine Imposed For Violation Of Local Privacy Laws | It’s hardly a secret that Meta is an unpleasant company. That’s reflected both in terms of what happens behind closed doors, and its actions in the market. Some of its attempts to bully nations or even large economic blocks are well documen... |
| May 8, 2025 | Greek Authorities Fail In Their Attempt To Make VPN Founder Personally Responsible For The Action Of An Unknown User | Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are not a privacy panacea, but they do empower Internet users in important ways. Proof of that can be found in the constant attempts by governments around the world to control who can use VPNs and for what pu... |
| Apr 21, 2025 | Industry Begins Embracing True Fans, Super Fans, Core Fans As An Alternative Way To Fund Creators | Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) concluded with a look at “true fans,” an alternative way of funding creators that avoids the main problems of the current copyright system. The approach is based on nurturing the con... |
| Apr 14, 2025 | DeepSeek Is Already Being Applied Widely Across China’s Industries, And Used For Government Surveillance And Propaganda | It’s just three months since the Chinese company DeepSeek released its R1 reasoning model. In that time, its global impact has been dramatic: An article in Fortune magazine described how DeepSeek had “erased Silicon Valley’s AI lead and wip... |
| Apr 10, 2025 | AI Crawlers Are Harming Wikimedia, Bringing Open Source Sites To Their Knees, And Putting The Open Web At Risk | The current rapid advances in generative AI are built on three things. Computing power, some clever coding, and vast amounts of training data. Lots of money can buy you more of the first two, but finding the necessary training material is i... |
| Apr 8, 2025 | If AI Agents Catch On, Expect The Legacy Copyright Industry To Turn Them Against You | One of the many interesting aspects of the new wave of artificial intelligence systems is that with them, copyright has moved from the fringe to center stage. There are continuing debates about what role copyright should play in the world o... |
| Apr 7, 2025 | Beautinow Launches AI-Powered Sunscreen Advisor & Sun Protection Guide | Beautinow 2025 Sun Care & Sunscreen Guide
Beautinow, an online leader in premium skincare, releases its 2025 Sun Protection & Sunscreen Guide, featuring an in-house trained AI sun care advisor.
What sets this guide apart is its cutt... |
| Apr 3, 2025 | Massive Expansion Of Italy’s Piracy Shield Underway Despite Growing Criticism Of Its Flaws | Walled Culture has been following closely Italy’s poorly designed Piracy Shield system. Back in December we reported how copyright companies used their access to the Piracy Shield system to order Italian Internet service providers (ISPs) to... |
| Mar 19, 2025 | The Shadows of Propaganda and Political Turmoil: A Dual Crisis in the Digital Age | In the digital age, the line between truth and deception blurs. Two recent events highlight this reality: the rise of automated propaganda networks and the political upheaval in Turkey following the arrest of a key opposition figure. Both s... |
| Mar 19, 2025 | YouTube Apparently Unsure If Shakespeare Is In The Public Domain | One of the darker threads of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) is how complex copyright enforcement systems can be abused, for example by sending Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown requests for material... |
| Mar 19, 2025 | Turkish lira, stock market drop after Istanbul mayor and Erdogan rival arrested | Imamoglu, the popular 53-year-old mayor, was seen as the next opposition party candidate for the Turkish presidency and was expected to be nominated on Sunday.
Charges for the arrest, which Imamoglu and his party reject, include terrorism a... |