| Date | Title | Description |
| 14.06.2026 | 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... |
| 11.06.2026 | 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... |
| 11.06.2026 | 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 ... |
| 22.05.2026 | 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... |
| 22.05.2026 | 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,... |
| 07.05.2026 | 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... |
| 04.05.2026 | 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... |
| 29.04.2026 | 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... |
| 27.04.2026 | 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 ... |
| 03.04.2026 | 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... |
| 01.04.2026 | 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... |
| 24.03.2026 | 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... |
| 16.03.2026 | 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... |
| 13.03.2026 | 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... |
| 13.03.2026 | 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 ... |
| 07.03.2026 | 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... |
| 23.02.2026 | 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... |
| 23.02.2026 | 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... |
| 19.02.2026 | 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... |
| 04.02.2026 | 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... |
| 03.02.2026 | 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... |
| 23.01.2026 | 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... |
| 13.01.2026 | 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... |
| 29.12.2025 | 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),... |
| 23.12.2025 | 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... |
| 22.12.2025 | 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... |
| 22.12.2025 | 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... |
| 21.12.2025 | 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... |
| 19.12.2025 | 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... |
| 16.12.2025 | 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 ... |
| 11.12.2025 | 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... |
| 09.12.2025 | 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... |
| 29.11.2025 | 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... |
| 19.11.2025 | 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... |
| 18.11.2025 | 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: ... |
| 14.11.2025 | 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... |
| 27.10.2025 | 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... |
| 14.10.2025 | 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... |
| 13.10.2025 | 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,
... |
| 06.10.2025 | 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... |
| 03.10.2025 | 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... |
| 23.09.2025 | 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... |
| 12.09.2025 | 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... |
| 04.09.2025 | 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... |
| 27.08.2025 | 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... |
| 26.08.2025 | 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)
Clique no play para ouvir a matéria
O melhor da tecnologia está no nosso canal no WhatsApp
Entre Agora Resumo
O iOS 26 traz opção para desativar anúnci... |
| 25.07.2025 | 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... |
| 24.07.2025 | Starlink fora do ar: clientes relatam instabilidade no mundo todo | Starlink ficou fora do ar (imagem: Vitor Pádua/Tecnoblog)
O melhor da tecnologia está no nosso canal no WhatsApp
Entre Agora Resumo
Starlink enfrentou instabilidade global nesta quinta-feira (24/07) por cerca de 2h30.
O problema foi causado... |
| 23.07.2025 | 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... |
| 22.07.2025 | 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... |
| 14.07.2025 | 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... |
| 11.07.2025 | 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... |
| 30.06.2025 | 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 ... |
| 25.06.2025 | 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... |
| 18.06.2025 | 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... |
| 13.06.2025 | 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 ... |
| 20.05.2025 | 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 ... |
| 18.05.2025 | 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... |
| 15.05.2025 | 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... |
| 13.05.2025 | 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... |
| 08.05.2025 | 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... |
| 21.04.2025 | 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... |
| 14.04.2025 | 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... |
| 10.04.2025 | 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... |
| 08.04.2025 | 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... |
| 07.04.2025 | 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... |
| 03.04.2025 | 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... |
| 19.03.2025 | 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... |
| 19.03.2025 | 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... |
| 19.03.2025 | 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... |
| 17.03.2025 | Automated ‘Pravda’ Propaganda Network Retooled To Embed Pro-Russian Narratives Surreptitiously In Popular Chatbots | It’s no secret that Russia has taken advantage of the Internet’s global reach and low distribution costs to flood the online world with huge quantities of propaganda (as have other nations): Techdirt has been writing about Putin’s troll arm... |
| 07.03.2025 | The Uberization Of Nursing Sees The Usual Problems For Gig Workers, But Here Comes ‘Uber For Armed Guards’ Anyway | Uber has only been around for 15 years, but its underlying business model of on-demand labor, organized online, has been applied widely around the world in many industries. That’s despite concerns that gig workers get a raw deal, since they... |
| 26.02.2025 | Heritage Foundation Presentation Details Plans To Doxx And Target Wikipeda Editors It Claims Are ‘Abusing Their Position’ | Every day Donald Trump seems to implement yet another of the key schemes of Project 2025, despite claiming last summer that “I know nothing about Project 2025.” According to the Project 2025 Web site, it is organized by the Heritage Foundat... |
| 26.02.2025 | Beautinow Launches Its New Beauty Blog for the Latest Beauty Tips, Trends & Shopping Guides | Beauty Blog
We understand how overwhelming beauty shopping can be, especially for those just starting their self-care journeys. Our blog will make shopping beauty products accessible for all.”
— Beautinow
ZUID HOLLAND, NETHERLANDS, February... |
| 13.02.2025 | India’s Aadhaar Expansion: A Double-Edged Sword for Privacy and Innovation | India's Aadhaar system is a colossal biometric database, a digital fingerprint of over 1.4 billion citizens. It was designed to streamline access to government services, a key to unlock the doors of bureaucracy. But now, the Indian governme... |
| 11.02.2025 | India Wants Wide Business Use Of Its Huge Aadhaar Biometric Database, Now With Facial Recognition | Techdirt has been writing about India’s huge Aadhaar database of biometrics, which assigns a unique 12-digit number to all Indian citizens, for a decade now. The system was introduced to make it easier for people in India to access key gove... |
| 01.02.2025 | The DeepSeek Dilemma: Privacy, Power, and the Future of AI | In the world of artificial intelligence, the stakes are high. The recent controversy surrounding DeepSeek, a Chinese AI chatbot company, has ignited a firestorm of privacy concerns. Italy has taken a bold step, blocking the app after a comp... |
| 31.01.2025 | DeepSeek App Blocked In Italy After Privacy Complaint Under EU’s GDPR, Irish Data Protection Commission Also Investigating | Last week Techdirt wrote about leading Chinese tech companies being hit with GDPR complaints from noyb.eu concerning the transfer of personal data from the EU to China. More recently, much of the world has been obsessed with another Chinese... |
| 27.01.2025 | The Cost of Climate on Education: A Global Crisis | In a world where the sun scorches and storms rage, children are caught in the crossfire. A recent report from UNICEF reveals a staggering truth: nearly 250 million children missed school last year due to extreme weather events. This is not ... |
| 27.01.2025 | TikTok, AliExpress, SHEIN, Temu, WeChat, And Xiaomi Hit With GDPR Complaints Over Personal Data Transfers To China | As you may have noticed, the tech world is full of news about TikTok, its ban, its reprieve and possible sale, and whether it represents a security threat to the US and its citizens. Of course, the question of whether TikTok is spying on it... |
| 24.01.2025 | India Spends $715 Million On The Wrong Kind Of Open Access Journals | Numerous articles on Walled Culture have chronicled the struggles to turn the aspirations of open access to knowledge into reality. The central reason people do not have free digital access to all academic knowledge is that publishers have ... |
| 22.01.2025 | European Commission Fined For Violating Its Own Data Protection Rules; Also Found To Have Used Privacy-Violating Ads | Love it or loathe it, there’s no denying that the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the most important piece of data protection law around. GDPR stories are often about big, bad companies failing to respect the legislation, ... |
| 15.01.2025 | Pixelfed, децентрализованный конкурент Instagram**, стал доступен на iOS и Android | Децентрализованная социальная сеть Pixelfed обзавелась приложениями для iOS и Android. Запуск приложения-конкурента Instagram** для Android состоялась 10 января, а для iOS — 15 января.
Pixelfed переживает всплеск популярности после заявлени... |
| 27.12.2024 | Copyright Industry Wants To Apply Automated Blocking To The Internet’s Core Routers | A central theme of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) and this blog is that the copyright industry is never satisfied. Now matter how long the term of copyright, publishers and recording companies want more. No matter... |
| 26.12.2024 | The Crumbling Facade of Copyright: A Call for Change | Copyright is a fortress built on shaky ground. It promises protection and profit for creators, yet delivers crumbs. The system is outdated, a relic of a bygone era. Artists struggle to survive while the industry thrives. This is the paradox... |
| 26.12.2024 | Italy’s Piracy Shield Moving From Digital Farce To National Tragedy | Walled Culture has been following the sorry saga of Italy’s automated blocking system Piracy Shield for a year now. Blocklists are drawn up by copyright companies, without any review, or the possibility of any objections, and those blocks m... |
| 23.12.2024 | Copyright Doesn’t Provide A ‘Living’ For A Successful Author | Copyright is built on a lie that most people seem to accept: artists can make a decent living from the current system of rewards that copyright provides. As Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) explores, all the data ab... |
| 19.12.2024 | Meta's Billion-Euro Wake-Up Call: Data Breach Fallout | In a world where data is the new gold, the stakes are high. Meta, the tech giant formerly known as Facebook, just faced a staggering €263 million (about R$ 1.7 billion) fine from the European Union. This hefty penalty stems from a data brea... |
| 19.12.2024 | Copyright Chaos Reigns Among The UK’s Top Cultural Institutions | The perennial attempts to widen the reach of copyright in the pursuit of yet more revenue is something that is to be expected from companies. After all, maximizing profits is basically what companies do. But as previous Walled Culture posts... |
| 17.12.2024 | Платформа для оплаты контента создателей Fediverse sub.club закрывается | Платформа Sub.club, которая позволяет создателям Fediverse предлагать платные подписки и премиум-контент, объявила о закрытии. Её запустили в августе этого года.
Сервис позволял участникам Fediverse монетизировать свою аудиторию, не направл... |
| 03.12.2024 | Why Generative AI’s Lack Of Modularity Means It Can’t Be Meaningfully Open, Is Unreliable, And Is A Technological Dead End | One of the most important shifts in computing over the last few decades has been the increasing use of open source software on nearly every platform, from cloud computing to smartphones (well, I would say that). For the distributed developm... |
| 25.11.2024 | India Punishes Meta For Its ‘Take-It-Or-Leave-It’ Approach To Collecting And Sharing Personal Data | Whether you like the results or not, there’s no denying that the EU’s GDPR legislation has tackled a wide range of privacy problems in the online world. Other countries around the globe — including the US — may lack comparable national legi... |
| 20.11.2024 | It’s Perfectly Fine To Patent Inventions Obtained By Immoral Means Says European Patent Office | Despite widespread beliefs to the contrary, patents are not a measure of innovation, nor are they needed for companies to thrive — something even Elon Musk understands. But one aspect of patents that is rarely considered is their morality. ... |
| 15.11.2024 | The Battle for Digital Freedom: Wikimedia's Dilemma in India and Bluesky's Ascent | In the digital age, information is power. It flows like water, sometimes clear, sometimes murky. Two recent events highlight the struggles for control over this vital resource. On one side, Wikimedia faces a legal storm in India. On the oth... |
| 14.11.2024 | Bluesky thinking -- why left-wingers are leaving X and why X will get over it | Are you still on Twitter (sorry, X)? You can tell us, we won't judge. If you are you may have noticed something interesting since the recent US election.
Celebrities along with people and organizations of a left-wing persuasion have been an... |
| 12.11.2024 | Threatened With A Ban In India, Wikimedia Agrees To Hand Over Personal Information About Wikipedians To Delhi High Court | As Techdirt stories attest, Wikipedia has been attacked in the past for publishing true information that somebody doesn’t like. As well as wanting articles to be censored, those behind such attacks often also demand the names of those who w... |
| 04.11.2024 | Editor-In-Chief Of RT, Russia’s Main Propaganda Network, Says Many Of Its Presenters Are AI-Generated – If You Can Believe Her | RT, formerly Russia Today, has appeared a few times here on Techdirt. As the long article about RT on Wikipedia explains, the TV channel has morphed from an attempt to create a state-supported international news network along the lines of t... |
| 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... |
