BBC threatens legal action against AI startup over content scraping
BBC threatens legal action against AI startup over content scraping
Letter sent to Perplexity AI but US-based firm calls corporation’s claims ‘manipulative and opportunistic’Mark Sweney (The Guardian)
JD Vance becomes the most blocked account on Bluesky after anti-trans post
JD Vance rapidly becomes the most blocked account on Bluesky
JD Vance has been blocked by 11 times more Bluesky accounts than those that follow him.Ryan Adamczeski (Advocate.com)
Microsoft is blocking Google Chrome through its family safety feature
Microsoft is blocking Google Chrome through its family safety feature
Microsoft’s parental controls have started blocking Google’s Chrome browser. The issue started in early June, and stops Chrome from opening properly.Tom Warren (The Verge)
Americans more vulgar online than Brits, Aussies — study
Americans more vulgar online than Brits, Aussies — study
Linguists analyzed websites and blogs to determine where vulgarity was most common. They found Americans swear more on the internet than other English-speaking groups.Matthew Ward Agius (Deutsche Welle)
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New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony
Netflix, Sony & more back a new anti-piracy bill aiming to ban access to infringing sites in the U.S., with its reach spanning anime and much more.Chike Nwaenie (CBR)
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Better alternative to GitHub with good git speeds?
Recently, I can't access any GitHub repositories without having to sign in. This is becoming frustrating.
I'm looking for an alternative to switch to that has good git push/pull speeds (I've visited one which speeds are slow for me).
Any good options? Would one of the following be good?
- Codeberg
- Gitlab
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Forefield of the Athabasca Glacier, Banff NP, Canada
Hiking along the glacial till in the large bowl of the Athabasca glacier leaves one filled with awe. This short route takes you to a nice viewpoint in the location of the glacier in 1996 before turning back around or advancing on another trail. I combined this trail with a small section of the Boundary trail that took me to that super sketchy crevasse. Also pictured with the other trail photos is a collection of the markers for where the glacier was located in 1996, 1948, and 1844.
Crumbling snowpack spans the outflow of the Athabasca Glacier, which may be seen in the background. Small from distance, the vehicles that drive up to the glacier may also be seen along with their tracks.
Black and white picture of Athabasca glacier.
Gaze up at Mt Athabasca before crossing the bridge early on the trail.
Marker displaying the location of the Athabasca Glacier in 2006, with the glacier seen over a mile behind it. Black and white.
Another example of the retreat of the Athabasca glacier. The people are at the location of the 2006 marker.
The Athabasca Glacier is well over two miles away from this marker designating its position back in 1948.
The location of the Athabasca glacier in 1844, the glacier can be seen well off in the distance. This marker is on the far side of the parking area opposite the highway from the glacier.
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Japan scraps U.S. meeting after Washington demands more defense spending
Japan scraps U.S. meeting after Washington demands more defense spending--FT | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
WASHINGTON--Japan has canceled a regular high-level meeting with its key ally the United States after the Trump administration demanded it spend more on defense, the Financial Times reported on Friday.The Asahi Shimbun
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‘Martyrdom or Bust:’ Texas Man Caught Plotting Terror Attack Through Roblox Chats
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The FBI has accused a Texas man, James Wesley Burger, of planning an Islamic State-style terrorist attack on a Christian music festival and talking about it on Roblox. The feds caught Burger after another Roblox user overheard his conversations about martyrdom and murder and tipped them off. The feds said that when they searched Burger’s phone they found a list of searches that included “ginger isis member” and “are suicide attacks haram in islam.”
According to charging documents, a Roblox player contacted federal authorities after seeing another player called “Crazz3pain” talking about killing people. Screenshots from the server and included in the charging documents show Roblox avatars with beards dressed in Keffiyehs talking about dealing a “greivoius [sic] wound upon followers of the cross.”
“The witness observed the user of Crazz3pain state they were willing, as reported by the Witness, to ‘kill Shia Musilms at their mosque,” court records said. “Crazz3pain and another Roblox user[…]continued to make violent statements so the witness left the game.”
The witness stayed off of Roblox for two days and when they returned they saw Crazz3pain say something else that worried them, according to the court filing. “The Witness observed Crazz3pain tell Roblox User 1 to check their message on Discord,” the charging document said. “Roblox User 1 replied on Roblox to Crazz3pain, they should delete the photograph of firearms within the unknown Discord chat, ‘in case it was flagged as suspicious…the firearms should be kept hidden.”
According to the witness, Crazz3pain kept talking about their desire to commit “martyrdom” at a Christian event and that he wanted to “bring humiliation to worshippers of the cross.” The Witness allegedly asked Crazz3pain if the attack would happen at a church service and Crazz3pain told them it would happen at a concert.
Someone asked Crazz3pain when it would happen. “‘It will be months…Shawwal…April,’” Crazz3pain said. Shawwal is the month after Ramadan in the Islamic calendar. The conversations the witness shared with the FBI happened on January 21 and 23, 2025.
Roblox gave authorities Crazz3pain’s email address, name, physical address, and IP address and it all pointed back to James Wesley Burger. The FBI searched Burger’s home on February 28 and discovered that someone in his family had put on a keylogger on the laptop he used to play Roblox and that they’d captured a lot of what he’d been typing while playing the game. They turned over the records to the feds.
“The safety of our community is among our highest priorities. In this case, we moved swiftly to assist law enforcement’s investigation before any real-world harm could occur and investigated and took action in accordance with our policies. We have a robust set of proactive and preventative safety measures designed to help swiftly detect and remove content that violates our policies," a spokesperson for Roblox told 404 Media. "Our Community Standards explicitly prohibit any content or behavior that depicts, supports, glorifies, or promotes terrorist or extremist organizations in any way. We have dedicated teams focused on proactively identifying and swiftly removing such content, as well as supporting requests from and providing assistance to law enforcement. We also work closely with other platforms and in close collaboration with safety organizations to keep content that violates our policies off our platform, and will continue to diligently enforce our policies.”
Burger’s plan to kill Christians was allegedly captured by the keylogger. “I’ve come to conclude it will befall the 12 of Shawwal aa/And it will be a music festival /Attracting bounties of Christians s/In’shaa’allah we will attain martyrdom /And deal a grevious [sic] wound upon the followers of the Cross /Pray for me and enjoin yourself to martyrdom,” he allegedly typed in Roblox, according to court records.
The FBI then interviewed Burger in his living room and he admitted he used the Crazz3pain account to play Roblox. The feds asked him about his alleged plan to kill Christians at a concert. Burger said it was, at the time, “mostly a heightened emotional response,” according to the court records.
Burger also said that the details “became exaggerated” but that the goal “hasn’t shifted a bit,” according to the court records. He said he wanted to “[G]et the hell out of the U.S.” And if he can’t, “then, martyrdom or bust.”
He said that his intention with the attack “is something that is meant to or will cause terror,” according to the charging document. When the FBI agent asked if he was a terrorist, Burger said, “I mean, yeah, yeah. By, by the sense and … by my very own definition, yes, I guess, you know, I would be a terrorist.”
When authorities searched his iPhone, they discovered two notes on the phone that described how to avoid leaving behind DNA and fingerprints at a crime scene. A third note appeared to be a note explaining the attack, meant to be read after it occured.
The list of previous searches on his iPhone included “Which month is april in islam,” “Festivals happening near me,” “are suicide attacks haram in islam,” “ginger isis member,” “lone wolf terrorists isis,” and “can tou kill a woman who foesnt[sic] wear hijab.”
Burger has been charged with making violent threats online and may spend time in a federal prison if convicted. This is not the first time something like this has happened on Roblox. The popular children’s game has been a popular spot for extremist behavior, including Nazis and religious terrorists, for years now. Last year, the DOJ accused a Syrian man living in Albanian of using Roblox to coordinate a group of American teenagers to disrupt public city council Zoom meetings.
'Local Residents' Terrorizing City Council Meetings Were Actually Overseas, Feds Allege
A racist 'Zoom Bombing' group was made up of American teenagers collaborating on a Roblox-owned chat with foreign nationals, according to a criminal complaint.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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Only 16% of Americans think going to war against Iran is a good idea, but the Democrats still won’t come out against it.
Roaming Charges: Neo-Conned Again! - CounterPunch.org
Using Israel's logic for attacking Iran (to protect itself from (non-existent) Iranian nuclear weapons), every country in the Middle East (and beyond) would be justified in attacking Israel and destroying its (still undeclared) arsenal of 90 nuclear …Jeffrey St. Clair (CounterPunch.org)
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Israeli official wanted by ICC sparks outrage online after column in major British paper
A recent column published by The Times newspaper, co-authored by right-wing British historian Niall Ferguson and Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, titled, Israel Has Done Most of the Job, Now Trump Can Finish It, has ignited widespread outrage across social media platforms.
The article, originally published in one of Britain's oldest newspapers, calls for US President Donald Trump to escalate military action against Iran in the wake of Israel’s recent operations.
The decision to platform Gallant, who is currently wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, has drawn sharp criticism.
Israeli official wanted by ICC sparks outrage online after column in major British paper
A recent column published by The Times newspaper, co-authored by right-wing British historian Niall Ferguson and Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, titled, Israel Has Done Most of the Job, Now Trump Can Finish It, has ignited widespread outrage a…Reem Aouir (Middle East Eye)
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Far-right activist given lighter sentence by Court of Appeal
Far-right activist Dries Van Langenhove given lighter sentence by Court of Appeal | VRT NWS: news
The far-right activist and former federal MP Dries Van Langenhove has seen his earlier conviction for breaches of the racism and Holocaust denial laws confirmed by the Court of Appeal in Ghent (East Flanders).VRT NWS
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Ya know... I used to be this binary in my thinking. For example, I naively opposed harm reduction measures, such as needle exchanges and safe injection sites. Aaaaand I'd like to congratulate drugs for winning the War on Drugs.
Yes, we need to fight for a better world, better candidates, and better leadership in all things. But JFC, stop fighting last year's fight.
I too want 100% progressive governance. Just a little bit of history and psychology reading demonstrates what you're doing right here, along with the intractability, is categorically NOT how we get there. Just like the Overton Window slowly shifted since the 70s to the fascist US shitshow we have today, we need to work to shift the window back.
InB4: yeah, history also generally indicates bloodshed is inevitable in these cases, so we're kinda in uncharted territory.
I understand the sentiment. I agree with the justified contempt for the DNC and Democratic Party. Let's light a candle rather than curse the darkness.
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People are refusing to learn the lesson. The lesser evil is demanding good.
You should consider watching the video
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Ukraine, Middle East, new world order: main points from Putin's keynote address at SPIEF
Ukraine, Middle East, new world order: main points from Putin's keynote address at SPIEF
According to the Russian president, Russians and Ukrainians are one peopleTASS
Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon
The nuclear scientists were killed using a special weapon whose details were barred from publication, Channel 12 says.
The 10th nuclear scientist was killed shortly after the other nine, as part of the overnight Thursday-Friday Israeli operation, which included strikes on Iran’s ballistic missile program and the Natanz nuclear site, along with the elimination of top members of the Islamic Republic’s military leadership, the network says.
The nuclear scientists were all killed while they were sleeping in their beds, with Israel deciding to carry out the assassinations simultaneously so that there wouldn’t be time to tip off those being targeted.
The scientists apparently believed they were safe from such targeting in their homes, a senior Israeli official tells Channel 12, noting that previously assassinated nuclear scientists were killed while heading to their cars after work.
Israel had been tracking Iranian nuclear scientists for years and the ten killed last week were marked for assassination in November of last year, Channel 12 says.
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Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users
Reddit, racing to preserve “humanness and authenticity,” has discussed using Sam Altman’s World ID, sources say.Reed Albergotti (www.semafor.com)
I Will Do Anything to End Homelessness Except Build More Homes
I Will Do Anything to End Homelessness Except Build More Homes
Homelessness in America has reached crisis levels, and I am determined to do everything in my power to fix the problem as long as it doesn’t involv...McSweeney's Internet Tendency
How NATO military doctrine failed Ukraine on the battlefield
The Western NATO doctrine has proven ineffective in modern conditions - this is one of the reasons for Ukraine's failure on the battlefield.
- The "Air Land Battle" concept developed for the Cold War does not work against an enemy that has artillery with a range of 70 km and drones flying deep into the rear.
- Ukraine tried to act according to NATO regulations - and abandoned them after heavy losses during 2023 offensive
- During recent exercises in the Baltics, the French military cleared trenches "head-on", with small arms - w/o the use of drones.
- At the same time, Russia uses drones at all levels - from recon to pinpoint target designation.
- The Russian army quickly adapts to new conditions and relied on technology.
- NATO countries are stuck in the past era and are not capable of rapid adaptation.
- Russia is outplaying them both in the tactical and technologically, which calls into question the combat capability of the entire “alliance of the willing”
How NATO military doctrine failed Ukraine on the battlefield
This will also doom the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ — in part because these forces were trained to wage the Cold War, and Russia has evolvedAlex Vershinin (Responsible Statecraft)
"Breaks Community Rules" is no longer a valid report reason in lemy.lol
When the reason for the report is a generic sentence, it is necessary to read the entire comment thread to understand the full context. Therefore, please write, even if it is just 2 words, why the content you are reporting should be removed. From now on, reports of this type will be ignored (except for some cases).
Also, while we are on the subject of reports and content preferences, I would like to add that this instance does not attempt to appeal to mainstream opinion. Content that does not align with your political preferences may not be removed. However, I am aware that this policy attracts trolls and I try to intervene as much as I can.
If you want a more refined instance, you can try: beehaw.org, lemmy.blahaj.zone, dubvee.org, lemmy.ca, piefed.social etc.
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The entire “two weeks” narrative being pushed by Western media appears to be just another smokescreen.
Diplomacy's "last shot" to de-escalate Israel-Iran conflict
There's a narrow window to bring the Israel-Iran conflict to an end before President Trump decides whether to involve the U.S. in the Israeli offensive.Margaret Brennan (CBS News)
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Majority of Germans now hold negative view of Israel : Survey
German public opinion has shifted dramatically against Israel, with 57% now holding a negative view of the country following its military actions in Gaza, according to a new survey released Friday.
The poll by Allensbach research institute for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper marks a striking reversal from 2022, when only 23% expressed negative views of Israel.
The survey found growing concerns about Israel's military attacks, with 65% of Germans considering Israel's actions in Gaza “inappropriate.” Only 13% voiced support for the military campaign.
In a particularly notable finding, 73% of respondents indicated they saw “some truth” in the statement that Israel's actions in Gaza constitute “genocide,” while only 9% explicitly rejected this characterization.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/majority-of-germans-now-hold-negative-view-of-israel-survey/3605776
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France: Tangled in conspiracy theories and violence, Muslims prepare for a new Islamophobic law
In the wake of the tragic and violent Islamophobic murder of Aboubakar Cissé — who was stabbed 57 times in a mosque — Muslims were left to grieve for both his loss and the countless lives lost in Palestine.
The State had the opportunity to halt its relentless Islamophobic agenda. It did the exact opposite. The Minister of the Interior refused to visit the mosque where the murder took place, and on 21 May he divulged a report on the alleged infiltration of French society by the Muslim Brotherhood.
The publication exacerbated an already intense moral panic, depicting Muslims as conspirators on the verge of seizing power. Ten days after the publication, a second racist murder occurred: a man stabbed his Tunisian neighbour, Hicham Miraoui, to death and subsequently published a series of videos on social media in which he declared his racism.
Tangled in conspiracy theories and violence, Muslims prepare for a new Islamophobic law
Middle East Monitor
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Zionism is the root of violence from Palestine to Iran
Zionism is the root of violence from Palestine to Iran
Iranians know the logic of Zionism, underwritten by the American empire, is what has naturally led to the devastation they are now experiencing. Palestinian liberation from Zionism can bring the entire region, including Iran, closer to freedom.Rameen Javadian (Mondoweiss)
Tillamook Forest, OR.
I had been going back and forth between the coast a lot, and I got to be the passenger for one of the trips. With a piece in mind about hurtling through the trees at sixty miles per hour, I had turned the shutter speed to two seconds (too much blur, can’t tell what stuff is) and settled on a single second. Holding the camera as steady as possible in a bouncy car was difficult, but I like the result! There could be a little man dashing through the trees, trying to keep up with the car.
Thanks for seeing my work!
Israel is running out of interceptor missiles. China’s export bans mean they can’t be replaced.
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Rust Belt Voters Are Sick of Both Parties
Rust Belt Voters Are Sick of Both Parties
Polling shows Americans are ready to support independent populists running on economic platforms. But what they don’t want is anything associated with the Democratic Party’s brand.jacobin.com
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Turns out Simon Whistler is a Nazi apologist after all?
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Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users
Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users
Reddit, racing to preserve “humanness and authenticity,” has discussed using Sam Altman’s World ID, sources say.Reed Albergotti (www.semafor.com)
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in reply to Mothra • • •Yeah piracy more or less died down when Netflix blew up, made it available and easy to stream things legally and they had tons of content.
Now there are 50 services with its own subscription fee and their own library, and they pulled their content from Netflix so no service have a decent library.
So you either have to hop between subscriptions as you watch series and movies, or you pirate.
I don't pirate music because Spotify is good enough for me, but I guess it's just a matter of time before all the big record labels start their own shit service to stream their music.
katy ✨
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in reply to Kernal64 • • •It sounded like he was being sloppy about stitching together the audio from multiple takes, rather than a distinct decision.
But yeah, I can't stand that condensed run-on-sentence editing style that so many youtubers have adopted. It has an uncanny valley quality to it that's off-putting.
Captain Aggravated
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in reply to Kernal64 • • •Viewers have literally zero attention span, so if the talking isn't super high speed back to back without even a single second to pause for breath, people click off or scroll past.
Same with subtitles that flash up rapidly, a single word at at time.
That's the sorry state of affairs we are now living with.
sanzky
in reply to redox • • •can anyone ELI5 why music streaming never fragmented like TV streaming did?
An album being exclusive to a particular platform seem to be incredible rare. TV platform continuously remove things from the catalog to reduce costs but that does not seem to happen often in music.
Wolf314159
in reply to sanzky • • •Songs are cheap. Ever heard of buying something for a song?
It's because that recording industry, the RIAA vs. the MPAA, has had a stranglehold on the industry and artists for much longer. They are much better at exploiting artists while paying them next to nothing.
Banzai51
in reply to sanzky • • •TV streaming STARTED fragmented. Just it was all bundled together in a cable subscription. The (ineffective) moderator in that were the cable companies like Comcast, who were always trying to negotiate the price of a channel down. Suddenly with streaming, you could start your own service and getting dropped by someone like Comcast wasn't the death sentence it used to be. The TV content creators are dealing with the end user for the first time.
The music industry long ago learned they get better sales when all their vynal/cassettes/CDs are available at Kmart/Walmart/Best Buy/etc. The music industry DID fragment a bit with online streaming, but those quickly failed. And the artists soon realized that being cool and exclusive to iTunes lead to less money for them.
dmention7
in reply to sanzky • • •My guess is that with TV/Movies streaming you generally sit down to consume a given piece of content in chunks of minimum 1hr, and people rarely watch an episode of one show back to back with another show. So having that content fragmented between services doesn't provide much friction to normal viewing.
Contrast that with music, where having to switch services to listen to a different album would be extremely disruptive to the way most people listen. The only way that would work is if the separate services were generally clustered by genre, like radio. Having said that, I'm a little surprised that niche music streaming services haven't popped up (like how you have Crunchyroll for anime, for example).
rumba
in reply to sanzky • • •Artists are basically already not getting any serious royalty from streaming. Streaming is essentially free other than operating costs for the companies.
You can also listen to that latest track on the radio for nothing.
To fragment the market you'd have to have something so powerful that people would go to one place over another for lack of having it. The effect is surprisingly weak in the music segment, people just listen to other things.
katy ✨
in reply to redox • • •"the new approach is subscribe to one or two services and pirate the rest"
i'll just pirate everything and subscribe to nothing thnx
zebidiah
in reply to katy ✨ • • •I pay for YouTube because I hate ads and I use the music service heavily... I also pay (A LOT) for a MotoGP subscription, but that's sports, and unless I'm awake when there's a race being pirate streamed I'd be sol.
For everything else, i sail the salty seas
technocrit
in reply to zebidiah • • •I usually watch YouTube through a laptop that blocks ads.
The YouTube ads are still annoying on my phone, etc., but not nearly as bad as Spotify (unusable).
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in reply to technocrit • • •Android? If so, install PersonalDNSFilter. Haven't seen a youtube ad in I really have no idea how long.
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in reply to redox • • •I feel like I'm living in bizarro world when the above statement represents a business' last-resort effort for survival instead of it's primary focus.
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