REPLAY CREW! Covered some heavy news, some light news, and some fun gadgets with the chat this week! Give it a listen!
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#SGGQA 403: Android 16 Security, Samsung Chip Drama, A Week with the Vivo X200 Ultra
Ted Cruz denied AI protections, Cloudflare targeting AI scraping sites, Samsung can't sell any chips to anybody, and I spent a week with the Vivo X200 Ultra!
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#SGGQA 403: Android 16 Security, Samsung Chip Drama, A Week with the Vivo X200 Ultra
Ted Cruz is REBUFFED, and states might still be allowed to regulate AI. A study from Sweden details challenges of using screens in education. CloudFlare targets AI scraping sites for free. Samsung …SomeGadgetGuy
Threads is nearing X’s daily app users, new data shows
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/threads-is-nearing-xs-daily-app-users-new-data-shows/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Threads is nearing X's daily app users, new data shows | TechCrunch
Threads' mobile app for iOS and Android saw 115.1 million daily active users, representing 127.8% year-over-year growth.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
⚠️🇺🇦Russian war criminal’s drones attack Odesa civilians, killing one person (ViDEO and more) ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/40122… #Ukraine #ICC #ICJ #Hague #ECHR #WarCrimesTribunal #NukesForUkraine #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
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#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsARussianAsset
Russian drones attack Odesa, killing one person
One person was killed and damage reported following a Russian attack on Odesa. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
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Fiat Strada segna un record in Brasile con 62.697 unità vendute nel 2025. Crescono anche Fiat Fastback, Toro, Argo e Mobi
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At least 36 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 so far
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/06/at-least-36-new-tech-unicorns-were-minted-in-2025-so-far/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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At least 36 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 so far | TechCrunch
With AI igniting an investor frenzy, every month, more startups obtain unicorn status. Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked downDominic-Madori Davis (TechCrunch)
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
This July, iodéOS is rolling out one of its most impactful updates yet — and our beta testers are already exploring what’s new. Focused on functionality, freedom, and compatibility, this release includes major features our community has been asking for.
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🔗 Michigan utility aided sabotage of Covid lockdown policies theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
Newly released court documents show power utility DTE Energy knowingly contributed $100,000 to a dark money non-profit that helped sabotage Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer’s Covid lockdown policies.
Michigan utility aided sabotage of Covid lockdown policies, documents reveal
DTE Energy had denied involvement in dark money non-profits, but court documents show a $100,000 donationTom Perkins (The Guardian)
Wero a European payments initiative.
new steps forward for Europe's autonomy in payments
The new Wero digital wallet, supported by a consortium of European banks, is already operational with over 40 million registered users. It currently allows payments between individuals and between individuals and professional.
The next evolution, scheduled for summer 2025, will be the integration in e-commerce payments in Germany and Belgium, followed by France and the Netherlands
Wero - Digital payment wallet
Experience fast and secure digital payments with Wero’s wallet, enabling you to send and receive money between bank accounts in under 10 seconds.wero-wallet.eu
Ukrainekrieg: Die Logik des Verschleißes
Russland führt Krieg – der Westen redet. Während Moskau strategisch eskaliert, verlieren sich Washington und Europa in Gesprächsgesten. Der Ukrainekrieg zeigt: Wer Putins Strategie nicht erkennt, wird ihn verlieren./ Foto: Imagowww.achgut.com
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#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsARussianAsset
Russian army lost another 1,100 soldiers and three tanks in war in Ukraine
The total combat losses of Russian troops since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to July 7, 2025, amount to approximately 1 million 27 thousand 540 people, including 1,100 people over the past day. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
China's Humanoid Robot Soccer League Kicks Off with AI-Only Matches
China's Humanoid Robot Soccer League Kicks Off with AI-Only Matches
China just launched its first fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer league, using AI-powered bots to play real matches with zero human control.Jose Enrico (Tech Times)
Das Bild zeigt eine idyllische Küstenlandschaft mit einem sandigen Strand, der von Dünen bedeckt ist. Im Vordergrund befindet sich ein grünes Informationsschild, das auf einem Holzgeländer steht. Das Schild enthält Text, der auf Deutsch verfasst ist und Informationen über die Dünen und ihre Bedeutung für die Umwelt liefert. Im Hintergrund erstreckt sich der Strand mit mehreren Strandliegen, die in Reihen aufgestellt sind. Der Himmel ist bedeckt mit Wolken, und das Meer ist leicht bewegt, was auf einen milden Wind hinweist. Die Dünen sind mit hochgewachsenem Gras bedeckt, das typisch für solche Küstenregionen ist. Die Szene vermittelt eine ruhige und natürliche Atmosphäre, die die Schönheit der Küste hervorhebt.
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Israel bombs Houthi targets in Yemen, rebels respond with missile attack
https://www.africanews.com/2025/07/07/israel-bombs-houthi-targets-in-yemen-rebels-respond-with-missile-attack/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Israel bombs Houthi targets in Yemen, rebels respond with missile attack | Africanews
Israel’s military launched airstrikes early on Monday targeting ports and facilities held by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The strikes followed a suspected Houthi attack on a ship in the Red Sea.Africanews
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"Temporärer Leerstand. Temporärer Vollstand" #karlsruhe
I have no idea what this is or was. I could have asked though, as there were people, doing something, inside. Should I have asked?
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Arriva al cinema Tutta colpa del rock, il film su un ex chitarrista in caduta libera
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Arriva al cinema Tutta colpa del rock, il film su un ex chitarrista in caduta libera
Nel cast Lillo Petrolo, Maurizio Lastrico, Elio, Naska, Valerio Aprea, Massimo De Lorenzo e Agnese Claisse, tra gli altri.Giuseppe Giordano (Esquire)
Pam Bondi Admits She Must Fire Kash Patel and Dan Bongino www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/07/p...
Pam Bondi Admits She Must Fire...
Pam Bondi Admits She Must Fire Kash Patel and Dan Bongino - emptywheel
If the joint DOJ/FBI memo declaring there no there there to the conspiracy theories Kash Patel and Dan Bongino fueled are true, then Pam Bondi must demand their resignation for discrediting the Bureau.emptywheel
Putin’s top diplomat goads Hungary to support Russia’s war in Ukraine
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Putin’s top diplomat goads Hungary to support Russia’s war in Ukraine
Sergey Lavrov makes overture to Viktor Orbán’s government in Budapest.Ferdinand Knapp (POLITICO)
The latest from @pbump:
#GIFT ARTICLE
RE: threads.com/@pbump/post/DLzrSN…
Philip Bump (@pbump) on Threads
There is an important political lesson in the Mamdani/college application story. It isn't the one the article was focused on. Gift link: https://wapo.st/40HTp2jThreads
AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study
AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them aren't AI at all
Analysis: More fiction than scienceThomas Claburn (The Register)
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⛔️🇺🇦Russian war criminal’s drone attack on Kharkiv civilians: drones hit high-rise apartment buildings, children among victims (more) ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/40122… #Ukraine #Mastodon #ICC #ICJ #Hague #WarCrimesTribunal #ECHR #NukesForUkraine #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsARussianAsset
LibreOffice Begins Landing Markdown File Import Support
While coming a few weeks too late for making it into the LibreOffice 25.8 open-source office suite release, merged today to LibreOffice Git for next year's LibreOffice 26.lxer.com
Das nächste #FediTreff in #Dresden steht an.
Am 11. Juli treffen wir uns wieder ab 18:45 Uhr im @c3d2, um zusammen zu quatschen und gemeinsam Abendbrot zu essen.
Falls nicht schon irgendwer eine Idee hat, was wir essen könnten, ist der aktuelle Plan das spontan vor Ort zu entscheiden. Die Einkaufsmöglichkeiten sind ja nicht weit weg.
Tote bei Protesten in Kenia: Polizei geht mit aller Härte vor
Sie wollten gegen staatliche Unterdrückung und Korruption in Kenia demonstrieren - und sind von der Polizei erschossen worden. Landesweit wurden bei Protesten mindestens fünf Menschen getötet. Das Zentrum Nairobis ist abgeriegelt. Von Julia Linn.
Das Video zeigt einen kleinen, braunen Hund mit langen, weichen Haaren, der auf einem leuchtend gelben Teppich spielt. Der Hund hält ein rosa Spielzeug in Form eines Schweins im Maul und scheint es zu kauen und zu schnüffeln. Der Hintergrund zeigt ein Teil eines modernen Wohnraums mit einem weißen Möbelstück und einem Teil eines Sofas. Der Hund bewegt sich leicht, während er das Spielzeug mit seinen Zähnen und seiner Zunge spielt. Seine langen Ohren fallen ihm ins Gesicht, während er sich auf dem Teppich bewegt. Der Hund bleibt konzentriert auf das Spielzeug fokussiert, und seine Bewegungen sind sanft und kontrolliert. Das Video fängt die entspannte und spielerische Natur des Hundes ein, während er sich mit seinem Spielzeug beschäftigt.
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Ukrainian defenders destroy enemy UAV crew in Sumy region
Soldiers from the 225th Separate Assault Regiment tracked down and destroyed a crew of Russian invaders' drones in the Sumy region, which daily guided enemy artillery and corrected strikes on Ukrainian infantry. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
#rome #archaeology #ancienthistory #romanhistory #ancientrome
Le altre segnalazioni👇
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La clericalata della settimana, 27: la presidente del Consiglio Giorgia Meloni in udienza in Vaticano
Ogni settimana pubblichiamo una cartolina dedicata all’affermazione o all’atto più clericale della settimana compiuto da rappresentanti di istituzioni o di funzioni pubbliche.A ragion veduta
Messertod in Schleswig
Bei einem nächtlichen Streit zweier Männer im Stadtpark erstach einer den anderen. Der Täter konnte verhaftet werden. Die Männer kannten sich, aber der Tathintergrund ist noch nicht bekannt.www.achgut.com
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I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links
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I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links
Welp, Pocket shuts down tomorrow despite our pleas for it to stay. While migrating1 all of my saved articles, I noticed that I’ve got almost 900 saved articles spanning nearly 7 years.noperator
A emprender nuevas cosas y nuevas actividades, deseadme mucha suerte amig@s, que estoy con los nervios a flor de piel.
La imagen muestra cuatro símbolos runas antiguos, cada uno con una forma distintiva. De izquierda a derecha, los símbolos son:
- El primer símbolo tiene una forma que se asemeja a una "X" con una línea curva en la parte superior, que se extiende hacia la derecha.
- El segundo símbolo presenta una "X" con una línea vertical que cruza en el centro, y una línea horizontal que se extiende hacia arriba desde el centro.
- El tercer símbolo es una "X" con una línea vertical que cruza en el centro, y una línea diagonal que se extiende hacia la derecha desde el centro.
- El cuarto símbolo tiene una forma que se asemeja a una "X" con una línea curva en la parte superior, que se extiende hacia la derecha.
Estos símbolos son parte del alfabeto runico, que se utilizó en la antigua Escandinavia y tiene una rica historia y significado cultural.
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Nell'Ue solo una famiglia su quattro ha figli
I dati Eurostat del 2024 certificano che solo il 23,6 per cento dei nuclei ha figli. Italia sotto la media e agli ultimi postiRenato Giannetti (Eunews)
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Netanyahu-Trump meeting stokes ceasefire hopes
Trump is keen to achieve a peace deal in Gaza, and Netanyahu is in a strong position domestically after attacks on Iran severely weakened Israel’s regional rival.Tom Chivers (www.semafor.com)
Guide to Greenlandic culture / Mikkel Larsen
Un interessantissimo resoconto di viaggio e permanenza in Groenlandia da parte di un insegnante danese.
#Groenlandia #KalaallitNunaat #Grønland #Greenland
mikkels.com/cultureguidetogree…
Culture Guide to Greenland
Introduction to how Greenlanders think and act. By Mikkel Larsen I lived in Sisimiut, Greenland, from July 2010 to July 2016, where I taught high school. For the last four years, I was part of the qajaq club, often as the only immigrant.21minutesTOGO (Mikkels)
Mentre cercavo di recuperare il blog di Larsen, tra i risultati usciti dal motore di ricerca mi sono imbattuto in questa pagina su aspetti della cultura groenlandese.
arctichub.gl/category/culture/
Il sito è Artic Hub
#Groenlandia #KalaallitNunaat #Grønland #Greenland
For Elisabeth, it's not just a job – it's a privilege
Elisabeth Fleischer Henriksen is a telephone interviewer for the new population survey. She finds that people tell her things about their lives that they haven't even shared with their own partner.arctichub.gl
📗 A cidade do Porto também vai ter uma sessão de lançamento do último livro de Paula Godinho, "O Impossível Demora Mais".
Terá lugar na UNICEPE, no dia 15 de Julho, e a apresentação estará a cargo da Cristina Nogueira.
ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/impossi…
#Histodons #Anthropodons #Anthropology #Antropologia #Ethnography #Etnografia #NewBook #NovoLivro #MastoBooks #MastoLivros
O Impossível Demora Mais
O novo livro de Paula Godinho vai ser lançado também no Porto, na livraria UNICEPE, com apresentação deihc
I love writing, but I do not love writing about healthcare in America. Yet here we are, echos of the past arise again, the profiteering never ends.
> Forever Avoidance of UHC
> UnitedHealthCare [1], somehow worse than United Fruit's "Nico death squads[2]"
- prose.winterschon.com/forever-…
Forever Avoidance of UHC
UnitedHealthCare [1], somehow worse than United Fruit's "Nico death squads[2]"Eva Winterschön (Prose)
Meet the Neighbors: 10 door pics from 10 photographers including La Vizcaína: Where Stories Brew by @Boundlessroads@flipboard.com @Boundlessroads
Cast a vote (or 2 or 3) for your favorites! ⬇️
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#DailyDoor #Adoorable #Doors #Door #DoorPhotography #Photography #Travel #TravelPhotography #Architecture #ArchitecturePhotography
Vote for Your Favorite Neighbors - Doors, Glorious Doors
I’ve been running my door of the week competition for a full year now. Each week, I feature three of my door photos centered on a certain theme.Jennifer (aka Dr. J) (Meliovation)
Europe’s budget invests where it matters most for 450 million Europeans.
Through solidarity, unity, and cooperation, EU countries work together to improve our daily life.
The 🇪🇺 budget supports projects that bring real benefits to people across Europe. #ThePowerOfTogether
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Ich sehe dagegen NICHT, dass man in digitale, ökonomische und kulturelle Souveränität investiert und den sozialen Ausgleich verbessert.
Ich sehe auch NICHT, dass man Europa klimatisch absichert und ökologisch diversifiziert.
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#MadeInEurope
#ITSouveränität #opensouce
#GreenDeals #EcoDiversity
#SocialEurope
EINFACH MAL MACHEN!
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Ethical Hacking Distro Parrot OS 6.4 Is Out with Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS, New Tools - 9to5Linux
Parrot OS 6.4 Linux distribution for ethical hacking and penetration testing is now available for download with new and updated tools.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Apple hits back against 'unprecedented' €500m EU fine
Apple hits back against 'unprecedented' €500m EU fine
The company has appealed against the fine handed down earlier this year over alleged anti-competitive behaviour.Liv McMahon (BBC News)
Threads is nearing X's daily app users, new data shows | TechCrunch
Threads' mobile app for iOS and Android saw 115.1 million daily active users, representing 127.8% year-over-year growth.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
Is the IAEA Complicit in the Assassination of Iranian Nuclear Scientists? A Crisis of Credibility at the Heart of Non-Proliferation
Are international institutions being weaponised against the very states they’re meant to monitor? This investigation examines the IAEA’s credibilityРикардо Мартинс (New Eastern Outlook)
La clericalata della settimana, 27: la presidente del Consiglio Giorgia Meloni in udienza in Vaticano
Ogni settimana pubblichiamo una cartolina dedicata all’affermazione o all’atto più clericale della settimana compiuto da rappresentanti di istituzioni o di funzioni pubbliche.A ragion veduta
In Frankreich und der Schweiz stehen mal wieder AKW still oder liefern nur gedrosselt Strom: Das Kühlwasser ist schon jetzt zu aufgeheizt. Frage an den Atomstromkonzern EDF: "Wie sollen Ihre AKW in der Klimakrise und künftigen Hitzeperioden funktionieren?" Antwort: ... www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...
Kühlwasser für Kernkraftwerke:...
Kühlwasser für Kernkraftwerke: Frankreichs Atomkraftwerke überhitzen
Mehrere AKWs in Frankreich und der Schweiz sind wegen überhitzter Flüsse heruntergefahren. Die Betreiber fordern nun: weniger Klimaschutz, um Strom zu liefern.Annika Joeres (DIE ZEIT)
Trump verschiebt Zollpause erneut
Eigentlich sollte die Aussetzung der neuen, stark erhöhten Einfuhrtarife für Waren in die USA am Mittwoch enden.www.achgut.com
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TikTok prepara una nuova app per gli utenti USA
TikTok lancerà una nuova app negli USA il 5 settembre, mentre cresce la pressione per la vendita a investitori americani. Incertezza ancora alta.Umberto Stentella (Lega Nerd)
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On Saturday it was Liverpool Makefest at Liverpool Central Library and we were taking part. At a rough count, three MiaB were there, two of ours and one that belonged to the Library, showing the #Unearthed collection.
But, what a fantastic day and so lovely to be able to tell so many people, the story behind MiaB.
#Glam #museum #heritage #education #technology #Liverpool #makefest #audio #madeinliverpool
The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
For someone who says she is fighting AI bot scrapers just in her free time, Xe Iaso seems to be putting up an impressive fight. Since she launched it in January, Anubis, a “program is designed to help protect the small internet from the endless storm of requests that flood in from AI companies,” has been downloaded nearly 200,000 times, and is being used by notable organizations including GNOME, the popular open-source desktop environment for Linux, FFmpeg, the open-source software project for handling video and other media, and UNESCO, the United Nations organization for educations, science, and culture.Iaso decided to develop Anubis after discovering that her own Git server was struggling with AI scrapers, bots that crawl the web hoovering up anything that can be used for the training data that power AI models. Like many libraries, archives, and other small organizations, Iaso discovered her Git server was getting slammed only when it stopped working.
“I wasn't able to load it in my browser. I thought, huh, that's strange,” Iaso told me on a call. “So I looked at the logs and I figured out that it's restarted about 500 times in the last two days. So I looked in the access logs and I saw that [an] Amazon [bot] was clicking on every single link.”
Iaso knew it was an Amazon bot because it self identified as such. She said she considered withdrawing the Git server from the open web but that because she wants to keep some of the source code hosted there open to the public, she tried to stop the Amazon bot instead.
“I tried some things that I can’t admit in a recorded environment. None of them worked. So I had a bad idea,” she said. “I implemented some code. I put it up on GitHub in an experimental project dumping ground, and then the GNOME desktop environment started using it as a Hail Mary. And that's about when I knew that I had something on my hands.”
There are several ways people and organizations are trying to stop bots at the moment. Historically, robots.txt, a file sites could use to tell automated tools not to scrape, was a respected and sufficient norm for this purpose, but since the generative AI boom, major AI companies as well as less established companies and even individuals, often ignored it. CAPTCHAs, the little tests users take to prove they’re not a robot, aren’t great, Iaso said, because some AI bot scrapers have CAPTCHA solvers built in. Some developers have created “infinite mazes” that send AI bot scrapers from useless link to useless link, diverting them from the actual sites humans use and wasting their time. Cloudflare, the ubiquitous internet infrastructure company, has created a similar “AI labyrinth” feature to trap bots.
Iaso, who said she deals with some generative AI at her day job, told me that “from what I have learned, poisoning datasets doesn't work. It makes you feel good, but it ends up using more compute than you end up saving. I don't know the polite way to say this, but if you piss in an ocean, the ocean does not turn into piss.”
In other words, Iaso thinks that it might be fun to mess with the AI bots that are trying to mess with the internet, but in many cases it’s not practical to send them on these wild goose chases because it requires resources Cloudflare might have, but small organizations and individuals don’t.
“Anubis is an uncaptcha,” Iaso explains on her site. “It uses features of your browser to automate a lot of the work that a CAPTCHA would, and right now the main implementation is by having it run a bunch of cryptographic math with JavaScript to prove that you can run JavaScript in a way that can be validated on the server.”
Essentially, Anubis verifies that any visitor to a site is a human using a browser as opposed to a bot. One of the ways it does this is by making the browser do a type of cryptographic math with JavaScript or other subtle checks that browsers do by default but bots have to be explicitly programmed to do. This check is invisible to the user, and most browsers since 2022 are able to complete this test. In theory, bot scrapers could pretend to be users with browsers as well, but the additional computational cost of doing so on the scale of scraping the entire internet would be huge. This way, Anubis creates a computational cost that is prohibitively expensive for AI scrapers that are hitting millions and millions of sites, but marginal for an individual user who is just using the internet like a human.
Anubis is free, open source, lightweight, can be self-hosted, and can be implemented almost anywhere. It also appears to be a pretty good solution for what we’ve repeatedly reported is a widespread problem across the internet, which helps explain its popularity. But Iaso is still putting a lot of work into improving it and adding features. She told me she’s working on a non cryptographic challenge so it taxes users’ CPUs less, and also thinking about a version that doesn’t require JavaScript, which some privacy-minded disable in their browsers.
The biggest challenge in developing Anubis, Iaso said, is finding the balance.
“The balance between figuring out how to block things without people being blocked, without affecting too many people with false positives,” she said. “And also making sure that the people running the bots can't figure out what pattern they're hitting, while also letting people that are caught in the web be able to figure out what pattern they're hitting, so that they can contact the organization and get help. So that's like, you know, the standard, impossible scenario.”
Iaso has a Patreon and is also supported by sponsors on Github who use Anubis, but she said she still doesn’t have enough financial support to develop it full time. She said that if she had the funding, she’d also hire one of the main contributors to the project. Ultimately, Anubis will always need more work because it is a never ending cat and mouse game between AI bot scrapers and the people trying to stop them.
Iaso said she thinks AI companies follow her work, and that if they really want to stop her and Anubis they just need to distract her.
“If you are working at an AI company, here's how you can sabotage Anubis development as easily and quickly as possible,” she wrote on her site. “So first is quit your job, second is work for Square Enix, and third is make absolute banger stuff for Final Fantasy XIV. That’s how you can sabotage this the best.”
Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots
"Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself."Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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in reply to Amanda 🐈🗾✊😏🫂☯️ • • •Das Bild zeigt eine Statue eines Seals, die auf einem Rasenplatz liegt. Die Statue ist aus einem dunklen Material gefertigt, wahrscheinlich Metall, und hat eine glatte Oberfläche. Der Seelenschwanz ist nach hinten ausgestreckt, und der Körper des Seals liegt auf dem Rücken, mit dem Kopf leicht erhoben. Die Augen des Seals sind groß und runde, und die Schnauze ist leicht nach unten gebogen. Der Seelenschwanz ist detailliert geformt, mit deutlichen Flossen und Schwanzflossen. Der Rasen ist grün und gepflegt, mit einigen Stellen, die etwas trocken aussehen. Im Hintergrund ist ein weiterer Teil einer ähnlichen Statue zu sehen, der nur teilweise sichtbar ist. Die Statue des Seals ist ein interessantes Kunstwerk, das die natürliche Schönheit und Anmut von Seelen widerspiegelt.
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Das Bild zeigt eine Gruppe von mehreren Dutzend Seelenaufstellungen, die auf einem grünen Rasenplatz verteilt sind. Die Aufstellungen sind in einer natürlichen Pose geformt, als ob sie sich auf dem Rücken ausstrecken und die Sonne genießen würden. Die Seelenaufstellungen sind dunkelgrau und haben eine glatte Oberfläche, die an die natürliche Haut von Seelen erinnert. Der Rasen ist gepflegt und grün, und die Aufstellungen sind in verschiedenen Abständen verteilt, wobei einige im Schatten und andere im Sonnenlicht liegen. Im Hintergrund sind einige Menschen zu sehen, die am Rand des Rasenplatzes sitzen oder stehen, und ein Gebäude mit Glasfassade ist ebenfalls sichtbar. Die Szene wirkt friedlich und einladend, und die Aufstellungen erzeugen ein interessantes visuelles Kontrast zu der natürlichen Umgebung.
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