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Samsung and Epic Games call a truce in app store lawsuit arstechni.ca/rzMC #EpicGames #android #Gaming #Tech



Kenya: at least 10 dead in ongoing protests, 29 injured nationwide
https://www.africanews.com/2025/07/07/kenya-at-least-10-dead-in-ongoing-protests-29-injured-nationwide/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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:anarchism: Il testo di Cronache Ribelli sul fatto: t.me/guerrillastickers/9034


Sweetfellasofficial.

"You like to argue"
No u say stupid shit and expect me to stay quiet.

Manifesto ✨💅🏻

#illustration

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Liberian president issues official apology to civil war victims
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Still struggling with the manual portrait lens for macro. On this occasion though it was really in its element.

I thought this was Pimpla rufipes but just at the end of the ovipositor there is a slight curve, like a rainwater shoe. So this is the nearly identical Apecthis compunctor. They are ichneumon wasps, parasitic on butterfly caterpillars.

#insects #ichneumonidae





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.”




Lundi 7 juillet 2025, plus tard

Formons une ligne rouge pour #Gaza

Est ce que je verrai certain.es d'entre vous demain ? J'y serai quelques ami.es humanitaires (ou ex-humanitaires).

Belle soirée/nuit à vous !

#Palestine #StopGenocide #LigneRouge #Paris



On Sat I got my first tattoos above the elbows since I started this sleeves project. Filling in the elbow area will be tough bc the art has to be just the right shape so I'm starting on my upper arms too. I'm making progress. Someday I'll have covered both arms wrists to shoulders 💭

Oh and I've already got shin tats I want (triple bars in golden ratio, bottom of shins, reflecting the top-of-wrist tattoos I've got) so it ain't like I'll finish my arms and then just stop getting ink ^_^




RT @minipetite
Hoy en el especial tech de @elpaissemanal explico algo que sigue sin calar. No es Trump quien ha transformado el Capitalismo de plataformas en Tecnofascismo. Es al revés: ha sido el Capitalismo de datos lo que ha hecho posible a Trump. Buscadme dentro!

elpais.com/eps/2025-07-05/cont…



Cherán resists: women weaving life in the face of patriarchal and extractivist siege anarchistfederation.net/cheran…



This mf posing like he actually stopped that bill from passing.🤦🏿‍♀️ #TheDemocrats™ continue to play in our faces.🙄 #hakeemjeffries #politicalactor #politics
#bigbeautifulbill🗑️


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Ocean current scientists are very upset and you should be too | First Dog on the Moon | The Guardian

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It’s bad news for the Antarctic sea ice and everyone who relies on it being there (everyone)

#ClimateChange #SMOC




Tell #TikTok: Fix your algorithm. Remove anti-abortion #disinformation, and stop promoting #propaganda that endangers lives. click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u…
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The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers

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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.”


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There are discussione going on @yunohost’s forum on how #Anubis can be used in it, but it looks like a lot of work 😩


"President Donald Trump took to social media Monday night to promote a limited edition, self-branded fragrance in a bottle topped with a gold statuette of a generic man in a suit, called “Victory 45-47.”

“For Patriots who never back down, like President Trump. This scent is your rallying cry in a bottle,” reads the advertising copy for both a men’s cologne and a women’s perfume sold under the same name.

Trump launched the scents with an announcement on Truth Social, wedged between posts boasting about U.S. tariff revenue and touting the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill.” Hours later, Trump posted: “We brought respect and dignity back.”

“Trump Fragrances are here. They’re called ‘Victory 45-47’ because they’re all about Winning, Strength, and Success,” wrote the president. “Get yourself a bottle, and don’t forget to get one for your loved ones too. Enjoy, have fun, and keep winning!”

Victory 45-47 costs a whopping $249 for 3.3 fluid ounces. Roughly the same quantity of Chanel No. 5 retails for $176.

Last month, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said it was “absurd for anyone to insinuate that this president is profiting off of the presidency.”

Trump’s net worth was estimated at $5.1 billion in March, a full $1.2 billion more than the year before, according to Forbes. It is the highest Trump’s net worth has ever been in the magazine’s rankings. “It’s quite a comeback for the former president, who more than doubled his net worth in a year,” wrote Forbes senior editor Dan Alexander in March. “It pays to be king.” (Just recently, Trump attacked Forbes and Alexander in a Truth Social post.)"

theintercept.com/2025/07/01/tr…

#USA #Trump #Kleptocracy #Plutocracy



I drygt ett och ett halvt år har Datatilsynet i Norge och Norwegian University of Science and Technology granskat Microsofts ai-verktyg Copilot, vilket har resulterat i en rad rekommendationer.

I drygt ett och ett halvt år har Datatilsynet i Norge och Norges teknisk-naturvetenskapliga universitet granskat Microsofts ai-verktyg Copilot. Slutsatsen: man bör vara extremt försiktig med verktyget.#artificiellintelligens #ai #microsoft #copilot #tech





Nino Ferrer - Gaston, y a l'téléfon qui son (1967)



2:47 min music video
#music #pop #french #NinoFerrer



BREAKING: Documents filed in court today assert that officials from El Salvador told the United Nations that it "facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure" by the U.S. but that "the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the" U.S.

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The filing came today in J.G.G., the original Alien Enemies Act before Judge Boasberg, where the case is now about the CECOT class. storage.courtlistener.com/reca…

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Here's my report at Law Dork —> lawdork.com/i/167738457/the-al…


Twin BLOW to Putin as Russian Airfield and Factory BURN BURN BURN... youtube.com/watch?v=TolzT9Gwvd… #Russia #Ukraine

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@patricksudlow I don't see how it's Hasbra to point out that #Russia is conducting a war of #genocide and that #Ukraine has every right to defend itself.



AI Simulation Sparks Alarm After Systems Choose ‘Kill The Human’ To Meet Goals – Reveals UN Speaker Sinéad Bovell shinemycrown.com/ai-simulation… #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfAI #UNSpeaker #SinéadBovell #TechEthics


#Iran #US #Israel
#azerbaijan
@palestine

"Just when you think the Western Zionists are backed into a corner, they come out swinging in a whole new theater"
On US-Israeli machinations in the South Caucasus, involving Azerbaijan, Türkiye, and marginally Armenia.
"Not only is Azerbaijan allowing its territory to be used by Israel to launch attacks on Iran, but relations between Baku and Moscow have gone in the toilet"
Really interesting. Entertaining too.

nakedcapitalism.com/2025/07/ch…

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#Iran #US #Israel
#azerbaijan
"Baku and Tel Aviv are tight with Azerbaijan a key supplier of fossil fuels (transported through Türkiye) powering the genocide in Gaza and in return receiving Israeli tech and weapons like loitering munitions that gave Azerbaijan the upper hand in its conflicts with Armenia"
"What ties all of the outside actors together in the Azerbaijan-Armenia-Türkiye sandwich is the battle for control over a key logistics corridors... Zangezur Corridor"


It was a police-led art heist. The target: Some of the most controversial, but best-studied and most-discussed works in U.S. contemporary photography.

texasobserver.org/fort-worth-s…
#censorship




London council faces legal action after installing road crossing in colours of transgender pride flag

standard.co.uk/news/london/lon….

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA



My promise: I will never knowingly publish anything that is made with AI. Please don't pitch me AI work either.

You’re a human made of atoms and stories. I want to hear *your* stories. Not the robot’s: yours.

girlonthenet.com/blog/please-d… #NoAI

#noai

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UN accuses Rwanda of using M23 to access DR Congo’s minerals
semafor.com/article/07/07/2025…


"Every second the Secretary's dangerous and unsupported decisions regarding the #COVID19 #vaccines stay in effect, the directive is putting up barriers for our members' high-risk pregnant patients to access the COVID-19 vaccine, which is increasing the risk of serious infection and illness and eroding patient trust in all recommended vaccinations." medpagetoday.com/infectiousdis…

#RFKJr




“This administration wants anyone who has ever committed a crime to be held accountable.”

Well, clearly not everyone: Her boss happens to be a convicted felon and sex criminal. Not to mention the 1,500 recipients of Trump’s sweeping Inauguration Day pardon.
trib.al/nvOUc6V



Good evening. It's 10PM, Monday, 7th July. The headlines: Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to meet Donald #Trump in Washington. In #Texas, floods have taken 91 lives, including 27 at Camp Mystic. The #UK commemorates the 7/7 London bombings' anniversary. The US has launched strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. Erin Patterson has been found guilty in a homicide case linked to mushrooms. #BBC #News






They're gonna need all that tariff money for lawsuits!

Pregnant doctor denied Covid-19 vaccine sues Trump administration
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

#BobKennedy #HHS #Vaccines #Covid #Lawsuit #AgentBrainWorm #USPol



#Modelos de #demanda por #acoso o #represalias (tutela de derechos fundamentales) sin abogado. laboro-spain.blogspot.com/2025… a través de @_Laboro



Bonjour à tous ! 👋

Pixel-It passe en version 2.0 ! 🚀

📽️ Une vidéo tutoriel (4 min) à retrouver ici : tube-sciences-technologies.app…

🔗 Lien vers l'appli : lmdbt.forge.apps.education.fr/…

🎨 Pixel-It permet de créer facilement des pixel-arts éducatifs à partir d’une grille interactive. 👾

✨ Quoi de neuf dans cette version ?
1️⃣ Nouvelle interface avec panneau de contrôle latéral
🖱️ Colorier et gommer devient fluide avec le clic maintenu
🔄 Chargement de grilles avec les associations lettres ↔ couleurs conservées

Idéal pour "ludifier" ses supports ! 😉👌

Dispo sur #LaForgeEdudocs.forge.apps.education.fr

Bonne découverte à tous ! 🌈

#pixelart #TeamProf #Cycle3 #cycle4 #TeamPE

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TL;DR: The Trump Administration's immigration policies have led ICE and other agencies to utilize repurposed facial recognition technology to identify protesters and migrants across the U.S., raising concerns over privacy and civil liberties. techdirt.com/2025/07/07/ice-us… #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum


Nearly all major Linux distributions are vulnerable to a couple of sudo bugs that allow users to gain access to root privileges
linux-magazine.com/Online/News…
#Linux #sudo #flaw #vulnerability #bugs

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#SaudiArabia does not recognize freedom of speech or expression, so simply posting something on a social media platform can result in the death penalty for treason. #antideathpenalty Women are not always free in Saudi Arabia due to the male guardianship system. middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-a…


Trump screwing with the 4th largest economy in the world. California doesn't need you, Donny.

latimes.com/california/story/2…




Los mares de lavanda en Brihuega.

Fue difícil sacar fotos sin gente, a pesar de los carteles todo estaba lleno de gente pisoteando las lavandas para poder sacarse fotografías que muestren en sus miserables instagrams lo felices que son destrozando el negocio de los agricultores propietarios de estos campos.

#brihuega #lavanda #lavender



for sale locally

death by 1993 kd is on my top 3 list of tiktok going away videos

#retroGaming

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Bild: Ukraine has provided Germany with a secret list of requested weapons en.news-front.su/2025/07/07/bi…