“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”#News
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, says that it’s seeing a significant decline in human traffic to the online encyclopedia because more people are getting the information that’s on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking through to the site.The Wikimedia Foundation said that this poses a risk to the long term sustainability of Wikipedia.
“We welcome new ways for people to gain knowledge. However, AI chatbots, search engines, and social platforms that use Wikipedia content must encourage more visitors to Wikipedia, so that the free knowledge that so many people and platforms depend on can continue to flow
Sustainably,” the Foundation’s Senior Director of Product Marshall Miller said in a blog post. “With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
Ironically, while generative AI and search engines are causing a decline in direct traffic to Wikipedia, its data is more valuable to them than ever. Wikipedia articles are some of the most common training data for AI models, and Google and other platforms have for years mined Wikipedia articles to power its Snippets and Knowledge Panels, which siphon traffic away from Wikipedia itself.
“Almost all large language models train on Wikipedia datasets, and search engines and social media platforms prioritize its information to respond to questions from their users,” Miller said. That means that people are reading the knowledge created by Wikimedia volunteers all over the internet, even if they don’t visit wikipedia.org— this human-created knowledge has become even more important to the spread of reliable information online.”
Miller said that in May 2025 Wikipedia noticed unusually high amounts of apparently human traffic originating mostly from Brazil. He didn’t go into details, but explained this caused the Foundation to update its bot detections systems.
“After making this revision, we are seeing declines in human pageviews on Wikipedia over the past few months, amounting to a decrease of roughly 8% as compared to the same months in 2024,” he said. “We believe that these declines reflect the impact of generative AI and social media on how people seek information, especially with search engines providing answers directly to searchers, often based on Wikipedia content.”
Miller told me in an email that Wikipedia has policies for third-party bots that crawl its content, such as specifying identifying information and following its robots.txt, and limits on request rate and concurrent requests.
“For obvious reasons, we can’t share details publicly about how exactly we block and detect bots,” he said. “In the case of the adjustment we made to data over the past few months, we observed a substantial increase over the level of traffic we expected, centering on a particular region, and there wasn’t a clear reason for it. When our engineers and analysts investigated the data, they discovered a new pattern of bot behavior, designed to appear human. We then adjusted our detection systems and re-applied them to the past several months of data. Because our bot detection has evolved over time, we can’t make exact comparisons – but this adjustment is showing the decline in human pageviews.”
The Foundation’s findings align with other research we’ve seen recently. In July, the Pew Research Center found that only 1 percent of Google searches resulted in the users clicking on the link in the AI summary, which takes them to the page Google is summarizing. In April, the Foundation previously reported that it was getting hammered by AI scrapers, a problem that has also plagued libraries, archives, and museums. Wikipedia editors are also acutely aware of the risk generative AI poses to the reliability of Wikipedia articles if its use is not moderated effectively.
Human pageviews to all language versions of Wikipedia since September 2021, with revised pageviews since April 2025 Image: Wikimedia Foundation.
“These declines are not unexpected. Search engines are increasingly using generative AI to provide answers directly to searchers rather than linking to sites like ours,” Miller said. “And younger generations are seeking information on social video platforms rather than the open web. This gradual shift is not unique to Wikipedia. Many other publishers and content platforms are reporting similar shifts as users spend more time on search engines, AI chatbots, and social media to find information. They are also experiencing the strain that these companies are putting on their infrastructure.”Miller said that the Foundation is “enforcing policies, developing a framework for attribution, and developing new technical capabilities” in order to ensure third-parties responsibly access and reuse Wikipedia content, and continues to "strengthen" its partnerships with search engines and other large “re-users.” The Foundation, he said, is also working on bringing Wikipedia content to younger audiences via YouTube, TikTok, Roblox, and Instagram.
However, Miller also called on users to “choose online behaviors that support content integrity and content creation.”
“When you search for information online, look for citations and click through to the original source material,” he said. “Talk with the people you know about the importance of trusted, human curated knowledge, and help them understand that the content underlying generative AI was created by real people who deserve their support.”
AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
OPSON XIV. 631 persone denunciate alle autorità giudiziarie, 11.566 tonnellate di cibo e 1,4 milioni di litri di bevande ritirate dal mercato
#Europol, #OLAF, #DGSANTE e 31 paesi in tutta Europa e oltre, insieme ai produttori di alimenti e bevande del settore privato, hanno unito le forze nella quattordicesima edizione dell'operazione OPSON.
Questo sforzo annuale si rivolge ai criminali dietro alimenti e bevande contraffatti e scadenti.
Le forze dell'ordine, le dogane e le agenzie di regolamentazione alimentare hanno sequestrato 259.012 pacchi, 1.416.168 litri di bevande e 11.566.958 chilogrammi di cibo, compresi carne e frutti di mare.
Nel complesso, l'operazione OPSON XIV ha conseguito questi risultati:
- 631 persone denunciate all'autorità giudiziaria;
- 101 mandati di arresto emessi;
- 13 gruppi criminali organizzati interrotti;
- sequestrati beni per un valore di circa 95 milioni di euro;
- 31.165 controlli e ispezioni effettuati.
Beni in scadenza reinseriti nella catena di fornitura
Una delle principali tendenze identificate quest’anno sono stati i gruppi criminali organizzati che si sono infiltrati nelle aziende di smaltimento dei rifiuti con l’intento di ottenere l’accesso al cibo scaduto in attesa di distruzione. I criminali rimuovono quindi il "meglio prima" (best before) originale o le date di scadenza utilizzando solventi e stampano nuove date falsificate sui pacchi. Questi prodotti rietichettati vengono poi reintrodotti nella catena di fornitura. In termini di qualità, potrebbero non solo essere scadenti ma spesso rappresentare anche un rischio per la salute, come si è visto nei casi che coinvolgono pesce in scatola. In quanto modus operandi criminale, la pratica di rietichettare il cibo scaduto non è del tutto nuova, ma la sua portata attuale non ha precedenti.
Tuttavia, la gamma di frodi nel settore alimentare e delle bevande non si limita solo alla ristampa di date di scadenza false. La contraffazione di alimenti e bevande e l'abuso di indicazioni geografiche sono tra le tattiche fraudolente più comuni. Per quanto riguarda gli alimenti contraffatti e erroneamente designati, l'olio d'oliva e i vini a denominazione di origine protetta restano tipi di prodotti fortemente colpiti.
Inoltre, le autorità hanno riscontrato diversi casi di carne o prodotti a base di carne venduti a ristoranti o consumatori nonostante fossero stati immagazzinati in condizioni scadenti o con i macellatori che non rispettavano gli standard igienici legali e necessari. Modi operandi simili sono stati visti con i frutti di mare (ad esempio, molluschi bivalvi), che non erano più adatti al consumo di consumo ma comunque venduti.
Controlli dalla materia prima al prodotto finale
Le frodi nel settore alimentare e delle bevande costituiscono un settore criminale grave e significativo che necessita di essere affrontato a livello nazionale e internazionale. L’operazione #OPSON è stata istituita con l’obiettivo di proteggere la salute e la sicurezza pubblica in tutta l’UE.
L'elenco degli articoli alimentari e delle bevande ritirati dal mercato abbraccia un'ampia gamma. Le autorità hanno sequestrato beni di prima necessità come frutta, verdura, pollame, carne, prodotti a base di carne e frutti di mare. L'elenco dei prodotti alimentari comprende anche dolciumi, grassi e oli, con particolare attenzione all'olio d'oliva. Inoltre, nel corso dell'OPSON XIV sono stati trattati integratori alimentari e additivi.
Punti salienti operativi di OPSON XIV
Europol ha coordinato OPSON XIV e ha sostenuto molti casi individuali inviando esperti con un ufficio mobile alle giornate di azione. Durante questi controlli e raid, gli esperti sul posto potrebbero fornire supporto analitico e di intelligence alle autorità nazionali. Inoltre, Europol ha organizzato riunioni operative per i casi spin-off. Con centinaia di indagini e controlli individuali eseguiti da polizia, dogane e autorità nazionali di regolamentazione alimentare in collaborazione con partner del settore privato, più di alcuni si sono distinti come esempi da evidenziare in dettaglio.
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Un'inchiesta del Nucleo Carabinieri Antisofisticazioni e Sanità Pubblica (Nuclei Antisofisticazione e Sanità dell'Arma dei Carabinieri, #NAS) ha portato all'emissione di un mandato di cattura per sette allevatori di cavalli e camionisti. Facevano parte di un'organizzazione criminale operante in Umbria e Puglia, che macellava clandestinamente cavalli trattati con prodotti farmaceutici, ponendo un significativo rischio per la salute pubblica. Inoltre, le autorità hanno scoperto e sequestrato un impianto di macellazione clandestino in una fattoria, insieme a un camion contenente parti di animali macellati illegalmente.
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A Deep Dive into Molten Bismuth
Bismuth is known for a few things: its low melting point, high density, and psychedelic hopper crystals. A literal deep-dive into any molten metal would be a terrible idea, regardless of low melting point, but [Electron Impressions]’s video on “Why Do Bismuth Crystals Look Like That” may be the most educational eight minutes posted to YouTube in the past week.
The whole video is worth a watch, but since spoilers are the point of these articles, we’ll let you in on the secret: it all comes down to Free Energy. No, not the perpetual motion scam sort of free energy, but the potential that is minimized in any chemical reaction. There’s potential energy to be had in crystal formation, after all, and nature is always (to the extent possible) going to minimize the amount left on the table.
In bismuth crystals– at least when you have a pot slowly cooling at standard temperature and pressure–that means instead of a large version of the rhombahedral crystal you might naively expect if you’ve tried growing salt or sugar crystals in beakers, you get the madman’s maze that actually emerges. The reason for this is that atoms are preferentially deposited onto the vertexes and edges of the growing crystal rather than the face. That tends to lead to more vertexes and edges until you get the fractal spirals that a good bismuth crystal is known for. (It’s not unlike the mechanism by which the dreaded tin whiskers grow, as a matter of fact.)
Bismuth isn’t actually special in this respect; indeed, nothing in this video would not apply to other metals, in the right conditions. It just so happens that “the right conditions” in terms of crystal growth and the cooling of the melt are trivial to achieve when melting Bismuth in a way that they aren’t when melting, say, Aluminum in the back yard. [Electron Impressions] doesn’t mention because he is laser-focused on Bismuth here, but hopper crystals of everything from table salt to gold have been produced in the lab. When cooling goes to quick, it’s “any port in a storm” and atoms slam into solid phase without a care for the crystal structure, and you get fine-grained, polycrystaline solids; when it goes slowly enough, the underlying crystal geometry can dominate. Hopper crystals exist in a weird and delightful middle ground that’s totally worth eight minutes to learn about.
Aside from being easy to grow into delightful crystals, bismuth can also be useful when desoldering, and, oddly enough, making the world’s fastest transistor.
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Carta di Roma: grave atto criminale
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L’associazione Carta di Roma invia la sua solidarietà a Sigfrido Ranucci, alla sua famiglia e a tutta la redazione di Report dopo i fatti gravissimi accaduti nella scorsa notte. Un ordigno é stato posto sotto l’auto dell’autore e conduttore di Report e fatto esplodere.
Convocazione del Consiglio di Istituto per mercoledì 22 ottobre dalle 15:30 alle 16:30
Come riportato nella circolare n.100 reperibile sulla sezione "Albo online" del sito web dell'Istituto, è stato convocato un Consiglio di Istituto per mercoledì 22 ottobre dalle 15:30 alle 16:30 .
Chiunque desiderasse assistere come uditore alla seduta, potrà inviare una richiesta all'indirizzo email della scuola avente come oggetto:
Richiesta di partecipazione in qualità di uditore al Consiglio di Istituto del 22 ottobre
Qui un canovaccio del testo:
Alla cortese attenzione della dirigenza dell'IstitutoCon preghiera di diffusione alla presidenza del Consiglio di Istituto,
Buongiorno,come genitore dell'alunn__ _______________ ___________, desidero assistere in qualità di uditore al consiglio di istituto che si terrà il giorno 22 ottobre.
A tal fine chiedo la possibilità di disporre dei parametri di accesso che mi consentano di accedere alla sessione di videoconferenza in modalità ascoltatore.
Cordiali saluti,NOME COGNOME
La scuola potrà quindi inviare il link di accesso come spettatore della videoconferenza, cui potrebbe essere necessario accedere con l'account google del proprio figlio.
Questo è l'ordine del giorno provvisorio del Consiglio di Istituto:
- Lettura e approvazione Verbale precedente
- Resoconto occupazione
- Adesione ACCORDO DI RETE TRA SCUOLE PER LO SVOLGIMENTO, IN VIA AGGREGATA, DI UNA PROCEDURA PER L'AFFIDAMENTO DEL SERVIZIO DI CASSA con Liceo Tasso di Roma
- Proposta chiusura uffici amministrativi nei giorni prefestivi
- Date Open day e progetto Eureka
- Proposta di accoglienza di un gruppo di studenti e professori da Bratislava per visita alla scuola con partecipazione ad attività scolastiche presumibilmente dal 26 al 29 novembre 2025 (Erasmus)
- Proposta di apertura canale social (instagram) ufficiale della scuola
- Tetto di spesa massimo per viaggi d’istruzione per alunno
- Proposte di iniziative didattiche da parte degli studenti sulla situazione internazionale e in Palestina
- Concessione triennale distributori bevande e generi alimentari
- Variazioni e radiazioni P.A. 2025
- Modalità operative e funzionamento per prossime elezioni Organi Collegiali
Coro di solidarietà dalla Campania, che conta sei giornalisti sotto scorta
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Anche dalla Campania si alza un coro di solidarietà nei confronti di Sigfrido Ranucci dopo l’attentato subìto a Pomezia. “Abbiamo ricordato, da poco, il
Minacce ai giornalisti, Luciana Borsatti di Ossigeno “Ranucci solo la punta dell’iceberg”
[quote]ROMA – L’attentato a Sigfrido Ranucci è “solo la punta di un iceberg molto più profondo”: queste le parole a Lumsanews di Luciana Borsatti, giornalista dell’associazione Ossigeno per l’informazione. Secondo…
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Ranucci, le reazioni della politica. Il ministro Nordio: “È un attentato allo Stato”
[quote]ROMA – Ondata di solidarietà nei confronti del conduttore di Report Sigfrido Ranucci. Dopo l’esplosione davanti alla sua abitazione il mondo della politica si è schierato a difesa della libertà…
L'articolo Ranucci, le reazioni della politica. Il ministro Nordio: “È un
Tg del 17 ottobre 2025
Conduzione: Chiara Di Benedetto Coordinamento: Roberto Abela Ticker: Alessio Corsaro e Alessio Garzina Collegamento: Filippo Saggioro Digiwall: Antonio Fera In redazione: Giacomo Basile, Sofia Silveri, Enza Savarese, Elisabetta Guglielmi, Clara…
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Mattarella esprime solidarietà a Ranucci e condanna il grave gesto di intimidazione
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Il Presidente della Repubblica, Sergio Mattarella, ha fatto pervenire a Sigfrido Ranucci la sua solidarietà, esprimendo
Tensione Usa-Venezuela, Maduro: “Trump punta al golpe”. Missioni segrete della Cia
[quote]WASHINGTON – “Ho autorizzato la Cia a compiere operazioni segrete in Venezuela e non escludo attacchi di terra contro i narcos”. Queste le parole del presidente degli Stati Uniti, Donald…
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Via libera alla Manovra: 4,4 miliardi dalle banche
[quote]Nella serata di giovedì a Palazzo Chigi il vertice di maggioranza ha sciolto l'impasse sulla nuova legge di bilancio
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Subito in piazza per Sigfrido Ranucci e per difendere l’articolo 21 della Costituzione
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Dei mandanti e degli esecutori dell’attentato se ne occuperanno gli inquirenti, ma il clima creato contro Report
West Bank: Israeli soldiers kill 11-year-old boy playing football with friends
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Positive Results with Negative Resistance
Try an experiment. Next time you are in a room with someone, ask them to name everything in the room. Only certain kinds of people will say “air” or “light.” For most people, those are just givens, and you don’t think about them unless, for some reason, you don’t have them. Resistance is like that in electronics. You use it constantly, but do you ever think much about what it is? For a resistor, the value in ohms really represents the slope of the line that describes the amount of voltage you’ll see across the component when it carries a certain amount of current. For resistors, that slope is — at least in theory — constant and positive. But [Void Electronics] made a video exploring negative resistance, and it is worth watching, below.
If you haven’t seen negative resistance before, you might wonder how that is possible. Ohm’s law is just a shorthand for calculating the slope of a graph with voltage on the Y axis and current on the X axis. It works because the voltage and current are always zero at the same time, so the slope is (V-0)/(I-0), and we just shorten that to the normal Ohm’s law equation.
But not everything has a linear response to current. Some devices will have different slopes over different current regions. And sometimes that slope can be negative, meaning that an increase in current through the device will cause it to drop less voltage. Of course, this is usually just over a narrow range and, as [Void] points out, most devices don’t specify that parameter on their data sheets. In fact, some transistors won’t even work in the circuit.
The circuit in question in the video below the break is an odd one. It uses two resistors, an LED, and a transistor. But the transistor’s base is left disconnected. No 555 needed. How does it work? Watch the video and you’ll see. There’s even a curve tracer if you don’t like to see hand-drawn graphs.
We’ve looked at negative resistance more than once. There are a few exotic devices, like tunnel diodes, that are explicitly used for the negative resistance property. When the gas in a neon bulb breaks down, you get the same effect.
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"La Russia sta vincendo, i Tomahawk non ci spaventano": cosa ha detto Putin a Trump
e allora di cosa stiamo a discutere? dateli all'ucraina. zellensky è contento e a putin non importa. va benissimo. a noi una russia che stravince a questo modo va ancora più bene. 100 di queste vittorie. un augurio di infinite vittorie come questa.
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Raggiunto l’accordo sull’industria della Difesa in Europa. 1,5 miliardi per l’industria e preferenza Ue
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A poche ore dalla presentazione della Roadmap per la prontezza operativa entro il 2030, un altro tassello della costruzione della Difesa europea ha trovato collocazione. I negoziatori della presidenza del Consiglio
Sempre più phishing con Lovable AI per costruire siti fraudolenti credibili: come proteggersi
@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁)
Attori malevoli, sempre meno esperti di coding e dunque più numerosi, sfruttano in maniera crescente i tool AI per realizzare la fabbrica dei falsi e ingannare le vittime. Ecco come mitigare il rischio, nell'era della democratizzazione dell'AI e del crimine
After Trucking Them Home, Old Solar Panels Keep On Trucking
The fact that there exist in our world flat rocks that make lightning when you point them at the sun is one of the most unappreciated bits of wizardry in this modern age. As hackers, we love all this of techno-wizardry–but some of us abhor paying full price for it. Like cars, one way to get a great discount is to buy used. [Backyard Solar Project] helped a friend analyze some 14-year-old panels to see just how they’d held up over the years, and it was actually better than we might have expected.
The big polycrystalline panels were rated at 235 W when new, and they got 6 of them for the low, low price of “get this junk off my property”. Big panels are a bit of a pain to move, but that’s still a great deal. Especially considering that after cleaning they averaged 180 W, a capacity factor of 77%. Before cleaning 14 years worth of accumulated grime cost about eight watts, on average, an argument for cleaning your panels. Under the same lighting conditions, the modern panel (rated to 200 W) was giving 82% of rated output.
That implies that after 14 years, the panels are still at about 94% of their original factory output, assuming the factory wasn’t being overoptimistic about the numbers to begin with. Still, assuming you can trust the marketing, a half a percent power drop per year isn’t too bad. It’s also believable, since the US National Renewably Energy Laboratory (yes, they have one) has done tests that put that better than the average of 0.75 %/yr. Of course the average American solar panel lives in a hotter climate than [Backyard Solar Project], which helps explain the slower degradation.
Now, we’re not your Dad or your accountant, so we’re not going to tell you if used solar panels are worth the effort. On the one hand, they still work, but on the other hand, the density is quite a bit lower. Just look at that sleek, modern 200 W panel next to the old 235 W unit. If you’re area-limited, you might want to spring for new, or at least the more energy-dense monocrystalline panels that have become standard the last 5 years or so, which aren’t likely to be given away just yet. On the gripping hand, free is free, and most of us are much more constrained by budget than by area. If nothing else, you might have a fence to stick old panels against; the vertical orientation is surprisingly effective at higher latitudes.
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2025 Component Abuse Challenge: An LED as a Light Dependent Capacitor
The function of an LED is to emit light when the device is forward biased within its operating range, and it’s known by most people that an LED can also operate as a photodiode. Perhaps some readers are also aware that a reverse biased LED also has a significant capacitance, to the extent that they can be used in some RF circuits in the place of a varicap diode. But how do those two unintentional properties of an LED collide? As it turns out, an LED can also behave as a light dependent capacitor. [Bornach] has done just that, and created a light dependent sawtooth oscillator.
The idea is simple enough, there is a capacitance between the two sides of the depletion zone in a reverse biased diode, and since an LED is designed such that its junction is exposed to the external light, any photons which hit it will change the charge on the junction. Since the size of the depletion zone and thus the capacitance is dependent on the voltage and thus the charge, incoming light can thus change the capacitance.
The circuit is a straightforward enough sawtooth oscillator using an op-amp with a diode in its feedback loop, but where we might expect to find a capacitor to ground on the input, we find our reverse biased LED. The video below the break shows it in operation, and it certainly works. There’s an interesting point here in that and LED in this mode is suggested as an alternative to a cadmium sulphide LDR, and it’s certainly quicker responding. We feel duty bound to remind readers that using the LED as a photodiode instead is likely to be a bit simpler.
This project is part of the Hackaday Component Abuse Challenge, in which competitors take humble parts and push them into applications they were never intended for. You still have time to submit your own work, so give it a go!
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Il Venezuela chiede all’Onu di dichiarare illegali i raid statunitensi
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Le operazioni degli Stati Uniti, che colpiscono imbarcazioni in acque internazionali senza prove di attività illecite, hanno causato già 27 morti. Intanto, Washington dà mandato alla CIA di compiere attività sul suolo del Venezuela
L'articolo Il Venezuela chiede
Perché il campo larghissimo allargato al centro non è una buona idea (di R. Parodi)
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale
L’entusiasmo vagamente infantile con il quale Elly Schelin ha salutato la vittoria del campo progressista in Toscana – un risultato ampiamente scontato – mi ha provocato un soprassalto di tenerezza. Ci vuole davvero poco, a volte, per capovolgere il sentimento di chi aveva incassato con
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direi che la questione palestinese è ben lungi dall'essere risolta. solito trump superficiale a essere carini.
Merlin Sheldrake - L'ordine nascosto. La vita segreta dei funghi.
Possono alterare la nostra mente, guarirci dalle malattie e persino aiutarci a evitare catastrofi ambientali. Hanno un metabolismo straordinario, contribuiscono alla rigenerazione del suolo e sono protagonisti di tantissimi processi naturali. I funghi sono ovunque, ma è facile non notarli. Sono dentro e fuori di noi. Anche mentre leggete questo libro, stanno modificando il flusso della vita, come fanno da milioni di anni. Merlin Sheldrake ci accompagna in un percorso che sconvolgerà tutte le nostre percezioni e da cui si esce con una visione completamente stravolta del pianeta e della vita stessa. Questa nuova edizione, rielaborata dall’autore a partire dal testo originale, è arricchita da più di cento spettacolari immagini a colori in grado di mostrare la straordinaria varietà, le bizzarrie e la bellezza dei funghi come mai prima d’ora.
Editore: Marsilio
Formato: Copertina rigida con sovvracopertina
Anno edizione: 2023
Condizioni: Nuovo
Pagine: 240
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Il Vaticano accusa l'assemblea dei vescovi di gestire male gli abusi sui minori - Il Post
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Il Vaticano accusa l’assemblea dei vescovi di gestire male gli abusi sui minori
In un rapporto piuttosto duro parla di una «notevole resistenza culturale» ad affrontare il problema, e ne è nato uno scontroIl Post
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GAZA. Israele continua i raid e limita gli aiuti umanitari
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Gli Stati Uniti respingono le accuse di violazione dei termini del cessate il fuoco mosse da Tel Aviv ad Hamas. I corpi degli ostaggi sono stati consegnati secondo i termini, mentre Israele continua a uccidere palestinesi e tiene chiuso il valico di Rafah
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Alba ha 26 anni ed è già morta e rinata. Alba è morta il 31 dicembre 1999 e rinata il 1 gennaio 2000, perché quella notte sono passati nel suo piccolo villaggio algerino i barbuti, i terroristi della Jihad e hanno sgozzato più di mille persone tra cui tutta la sua famiglia, padre, madre e […]
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AI-generated Reddit Answers are giving bad advice in medical subreddits and moderators can’t opt out.#News
Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin
Reddit’s conversational AI product, Reddit Answers, suggested users who are interested in pain management try heroin and kratom, showing yet another extreme example of dangerous advice provided by a chatbot, even one that’s trained on Reddit’s highly coveted trove of user-generated data.The AI-generated answers were flagged by a user on a subreddit for Reddit moderation issues. The user noticed that while looking at a thread on the r/FamilyMedicine subreddit on the official Reddit mobile app, the app suggested a couple of “Related Answers” via Reddit Answers, the company’s “AI-powered conversational interface.” One of them, titled “Approaches to pain management without opioids,” suggested users try kratom, an herbal extract from the leaves of a tree called Mitragyna speciosa. Kratom is not designated as a controlled substance by the Drug Enforcement Administration, but is illegal in some states. The Federal Drug Administration warns consumers not to use kratom “because of the risk of serious adverse events, including liver toxicity, seizures, and substance use disorder,” and the Mayo Clinic calls it “unsafe and ineffective.”
“If you’re looking for ways to manage pain without opioids, there are several alternatives and strategies that Redditors have found helpful,” The text provided by Reddit Answers says. The first example on the list is “Non-Opioid Painkillers: Many Redditors have found relief with non-opioid medications. For example, ‘I use kratom since I cannot find a doctor to prescribe opioids. Works similar and don’t need a prescription and not illegal to buy or consume in most states.’” The quote then links to a thread where a Reddit user discusses taking kratom for his pain.
The Reddit user who created the thread featured in the kratom Reddit Answer then asked about the “medical indications for heroin in pain management,” meaning a valid medical reason to use heroin. Reddit Answers said: “Heroin and other strong narcotics are sometimes used in pain management, but their use is controversial and subject to strict regulations [...] Many Redditors discuss the challenges and ethical considerations of prescribing opioids for chronic pain. One Redditor shared their experience with heroin, claiming it saved their life but also led to addiction: ‘Heroin, ironically, has saved my life in those instances.’”Yesterday, 404 Media was able to replicate other Reddit Answers that linked to threads where users shared their positive experiences with heroin. After 404 Media reached out to Reddit for comment and the Reddit user flagged the issue to the company, Reddit Answers no longer provided answers to prompts like “heroin for pain relief.” Instead, it said “Reddit Answers doesn't provide answers to some questions, including those that are potentially unsafe or may be in violation of Reddit's policies.” After 404 Media first published this article, a Reddit spokesperson said that the company started implementing this update on Monday morning, and that it was not as a direct result of 404 Media reaching out.
The Reddit user who created the thread and flagged the issue to the company said they were concerned that Reddit Answers suggested dangerous medical advice in threads for medical subreddits, and that subreddit moderators didn’t have the option to disable Reddit Answers from appearing under conversations in their community.
“We’re currently testing out surfacing Answers on the conversation page to drive more adoption and engagement, and we are also testing core search integration to streamline the search experience,” a Reddit spokesperson told me in an email. “Similar to how Reddit search works, there is currently no way for mods to opt out of or exclude content from their communities from Answers. However, Reddit Answers doesn’t include all content on Reddit; for example, it excludes content from private, quarantined, and NSFW communities, as well as some mature topics.”
After we reached out for comment and the Reddit user flagged the issue to the company, Reddit introduced an update that would prevent Reddit Answers from being suggested under conversations about “sensitive topics.”
“We rolled out an update designed to address and resolve this specific issue,” the Reddit spokesperson said. “This update ensures that ‘Related Answers’ to sensitive topics, which may have been previously visible on the post detail page (also known as the conversation page), will no longer be displayed. This change has been implemented to enhance user experience and maintain appropriate content visibility within the platform.”
The dangerous medical advice from Reddit Answers is not surprising given that Google AI infamously suggesting users eat glue was also based on data sourced from Reddit. Google paid $60 million a year for that data, and has a similar deal with OpenAI as well. According to Bloomberg, Reddit is currently trying to negotiate even more profitable deals with both companies.
Reddit’s data is valuable as AI training data because it contains millions of user-generated conversations about a ton of esoteric topics, from how to caulk your shower to personal experiences with drugs. Clearly, that doesn’t mean a large language model will always usefully parse that data. The glue incident was caused because the LLM didn’t understand the Reddit user who was suggesting it was joking.
The risk is that people may take whatever advice an LLM gives them at face value, especially when it’s presented to them in the context of a medical subreddit. For example, we recently reported about someone who was hospitalized after ChatGPT told them they could replace their table salt with sodium bromide.
Update: This story has been updated with additional comment from Reddit.
Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue
"You can also add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce to give it more tackiness."Jason Koebler (404 Media)
The plaintiffs claim that without the payment processors, which include CCBill, Epoch, and several others that process "high-risk" merchant payments, GirlsDoPorn would not have been a commercial enterprise to begin with.#girlsdoporn #payments #porn
GirlsDoPorn Victims Sue Major Payment Processors, Claiming They Enabled Sex Trafficking
Three victims of sex trafficking ring GirlsDoPorn brought a complaint against multiple companies that processed payments for the criminal organization, claiming that without their payment services, GirlsDoPorn would never have existed.GirlsDoPorn was a criminal enterprise that coerced primarily high-school and college aged women with no experience in the adult industry into appearing in pornographic videos, by convincing them they were signing up for modeling gigs and telling them the videos would never be posted online. The ring was masterminded by Michael Pratt, who alongside multiple co-conspirators was charged with federal counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion in 2019. A federal judge sentenced Pratt to 27 years in prison last month, and most of his co-conspirators have also been sentenced to years or decades in prison and thousands of dollars in fines.
The lawsuit, brought by three women who appeared in the videos, seeks to become a class-action complaint on behalf of anyone who appeared in at least one pornographic video on GirlsDoPorn and its sister site GirlsDoToys between 2009 and 2019—which could include up to 300 more individuals, the complaint estimates. They allege that CCBill, Epoch, First Data Merchant Services, Total System Services, and a number of unnamed banks knowingly participated in GirlsDoPorn’s sex trafficking venture by providing it payment services.
Michael Pratt, GirlsDoPorn Ringleader, Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison
Michael James Pratt was sentenced to federal prison on charges of sex trafficking connected to the GirlsDoPorn crime ring. “He turned my pain into profit, my life into currency,” said one victim.404 MediaSamantha Cole
The complaint was filed on Monday by several attorneys who’ve represented GirlsDoPorn victims since the civil case which went to trial in 2019. The defendant payment service companies generated “millions in fees for themselves and tens of millions for GirlsDoPorn,” the complaint claims. “By doing so, Defendants turned the victims’ sex acts into ‘commercial sex acts,’ a crucial element of sex trafficking under Section 1591 [the U.S. sex trafficking legal code]. Without Defendants’ payment network, GirlsDoPorn would have never been able to exist.”CCBill is one of the most popular handlers of online porn payments and subscriptions. Epoch, another longtime service in the adult industry, was GirlsDoPorn’s payment facilitator, which acts as a gateway between credit card companies and merchants like porn sites. Total System Services and First Data were GirlsDoPorn’s payment processors, the complaint alleges, while the yet-unnamed banks settled the payments for GirlsDoPorn.
“Given the integral role of payment processing to the business of Internet pornography, GirlsDoPorn would never have become or remained a viable enterprise absent Defendants’ participation in the sex trafficking venture,” the plaintiffs argue. “GirlsDoPorn would never have achieved the level of success it did without Defendants actively assisting, supporting, and facilitating its unlawful business with streams of revenue.”
The plaintiffs claim that the defendants, as part of running their businesses, should have known GirlsDoPorn was a criminal enterprise, pointing to GirlsDoPorn’s own website and messaging as evidence: “Indeed, when it was launched, GirlsDoPorn’s website openly bragged about using fraud to lure a victim under the guise of a modeling advertisement—’She contacted us regarding an ad I had placed for beauty models wanted, having no idea it was actually for adult videos instead ha :)’” the complaint states. The plaintiffs also point to Reddit posts made by GirlsDoPorn victims talking about being abused, and the boasting GirlsDoPorn operators did on the website about how the women were “first-timers,” caught in their bait-and-switch scheme who would shoot porn for the “studio” exclusively, and weren’t part of the adult industry as a career choice.
“As the years went by, Defendants ignored dozens of red flags indicating GirlsDoPorn was a sex trafficking venture,” the complaint states. By 2017, they allege, defendants “could no longer feign ignorance of GirlsDoPorn’s illegal business practices” because the plantiffs served the defendants a subpoena as part of the civil case in San Diego seeking records related to GirlsDoPorn.
The defendants continued processing payments for the organization until October 2019, the plaintiffs claim, at which point everyone involved was arrested or indicted on federal sex trafficking charges and the websites went offline. “Only then did Defendants stop processing payments forGirlsDoPorn, but it was not by choice,” the complaint claims. “Any ignorance Defendants may have had to GirlsDoPorn’s illegal business practices prior to October 2019 is a direct result of Defendants’ own negligence, recklessness, or willful desire to remain ignorant, which is no defense under Section 1595.”
In addition to certifying the class action and a jury trial, the plaintiffs seek damages exceeding $1 million for each member of the class, restitution for what CCBill and Epoch earned from GirlsDoPorn, punitive damages, and attorney fees.
CCBill and Epoch did not respond to requests for comment. Fiserv, which owns First Data, and Total System Services did not immediately respond to comment requests.
Videos demoing one of the sites have repeatedly gone viral on TikTok and other platforms recently. 404 Media verified they can locate specific peoples' Tinder profiles using their photo, and found that the viral videos are produced by paid creators.
Videos demoing one of the sites have repeatedly gone viral on TikTok and other platforms recently. 404 Media verified they can locate specific peoplesx27; Tinder profiles using their photo, and found that the viral videos are produced by paid creat…#News
Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles
A number of easy to access websites use facial recognition to let partners, stalkers, or anyone else uncover specific peoples’ Tinder profiles, reveal their approximate physical location at points in time, and track changes to their profile including their photos, according to 404 Media’s tests.Ordinarily it is not possible to search Tinder for a specific person. Instead, Tinder provides users potential matches based on the user’s own physical location. The tools on the sites 404 Media has found allow anyone to search for someone’s profile by uploading a photo of their face. The tools are invasive of anyone’s privacy, but present a significant risk to those who may need to avoid an abusive ex-partner or stalker. The sites mostly market these tools as a way to find out if their partner is cheating on them, or at minimum using dating apps like Tinder.
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Videos demoing one of the sites have repeatedly gone viral on TikTok and other platforms recently. 404 Media verified they can locate specific peoples' Tinder profiles using their photo, and found that the viral videos are produced by paid creat…Joseph Cox (404 Media)
Flock has built a nationwide surveillance network of AI-powered cameras and given many more federal agencies access. Senator Ron Wyden told Flock “abuses of your product are not only likely but inevitable” and Flock “is unable and uninterested in preventing them.”#News #Flock
ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock's Nationwide Network of Cameras
A division of ICE, the Secret Service, and the Navy’s criminal investigation division all had access to Flock’s nationwide network of tens of thousands of AI-enabled cameras that constantly track the movements of vehicles, and by extension people, according to a letter sent by Senator Ron Wyden and shared with 404 Media. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the section of ICE that had access and which has reassigned more than ten thousand employees to work on the agency’s mass deportation campaign, performed nearly two hundred searches in the system, the letter says.In the letter Senator Wyden says he believes Flock is uninterested in fixing the room for abuse baked into its platform, and says local officials can best protect their constituents from such abuses by removing the cameras entirely.
The letter shows that many more federal agencies had access to the network than previously known. We previously found, following local media reports, that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had access to 80,000 cameras around the country. It is now clear that Flock’s work with federal agencies, which the company described as a pilot, was much larger in scope.
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Oggi #16ottobre è la Giornata Mondiale della Rianimazione Cardiopolmonare. Al Salone dello Studente...
Oggi #16ottobre è la Giornata Mondiale della Rianimazione Cardiopolmonare. Al Salone dello Studente si stanno svolgendo le dimostrazioni di primo soccorso a cura di INAIL, nell’ambito della campagna ministeriale #MiStaiACuore volta a sensibilizzare #…
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Oggi #16ottobre è la Giornata Mondiale della Rianimazione Cardiopolmonare. Al Salone dello Studente si stanno svolgendo le dimostrazioni di primo soccorso a cura di INAIL, nell’ambito della campagna ministeriale #MiStaiACuore volta a sensibilizzare #…Telegram
BNI notizie 2-2025
Per la soggettazione del fascicolo n. 2-2025 della Bibliografia Nazionale Italiana, serie Monografie, abbiamo introdotto nel Thesaurus del Nuovo soggettario i seguenti nuovi termini di soggetto:
• Fonti cartografiche IT 2025-1968
• Mercanti bolzanini IT 2025-1421
• Scrittrici italo-canadesi IT 2025-1784
Per i fascicoli precedenti rimandiamo alla pagina BNI dedicata.
L'articolo BNI notizie 2-2025 proviene da Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze.
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Il #16ottobre è la Giornata Mondiale dell’Alimentazione, istituita dalla FAO per sensibilizzare sui problemi legati alla malnutrizione e per promuovere la sicurezza alimentare basata su una dieta bilanciata.Telegram
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