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Matt Mullenweg put on 'leave of absence'
https://www.404media.co/wordpress-automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-put-on-leave-of-absence/
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A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over.
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A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over.
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@matidavidovich/116935961020238017
I rec'd another #Betterhelp (by Teladoc) endorsement from #404Media yesterday, all while they warn about data surveillance. No reporting from them on #Teladoc massive health data hoards and who knows what's being done with it.
I've been asking them to stop for 2 YEARS. nothing. ty for joining
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@matidavidovich/116935961020238017
I rec'd another #Betterhelp (by Teladoc) endorsement from #404Media yesterday, all while they warn about data surveillance. No reporting from them on #Teladoc massive health data hoards and who knows what's being done with it.
I've been asking them to stop for 2 YEARS. nothing. ty for joining
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@matidavidovich/116935961020238017
I rec'd another #Betterhelp (by Teladoc) endorsement from #404Media yesterday, all while they warn about data surveillance. No reporting from them on #Teladoc massive health data hoards and who knows what's being done with it.
I've been asking them to stop for 2 YEARS. nothing. ty for joining
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@matidavidovich/116935961020238017
I rec'd another #Betterhelp (by Teladoc) endorsement from #404Media yesterday, all while they warn about data surveillance. No reporting from them on #Teladoc massive health data hoards and who knows what's being done with it.
I've been asking them to stop for 2 YEARS. nothing. ty for joining
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@matidavidovich/116935961020238017
I rec'd another #Betterhelp (by Teladoc) endorsement from #404Media yesterday, all while they warn about data surveillance. No reporting from them on #Teladoc massive health data hoards and who knows what's being done with it.
I've been asking them to stop for 2 YEARS. nothing. ty for joining
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DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits
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DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits
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DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits
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DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits
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DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits
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> The 404 Media Podcast: This Innocent Woman Spent 13 Days in Jail Because of a False Flock Hit
Episode webpage: https://shows.acast.com/the-404-media-podcast
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> The 404 Media Podcast: This Innocent Woman Spent 13 Days in Jail Because of a False Flock Hit
Episode webpage: https://shows.acast.com/the-404-media-podcast
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> The 404 Media Podcast: This Innocent Woman Spent 13 Days in Jail Because of a False Flock Hit
Episode webpage: https://shows.acast.com/the-404-media-podcast
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> The 404 Media Podcast: This Innocent Woman Spent 13 Days in Jail Because of a False Flock Hit
Episode webpage: https://shows.acast.com/the-404-media-podcast
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> The 404 Media Podcast: This Innocent Woman Spent 13 Days in Jail Because of a False Flock Hit
Episode webpage: https://shows.acast.com/the-404-media-podcast
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#MarkSCHMUCKERberg 's loonie nonsense about YOUR future
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Oinkers 🐷🐷🐷 are making fake #FlockCameras to arrest people teari g them down
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCk-7r7lp8Y
The Tragedy and Ecstasy of AI Companions (with Bridget Todd)
https://www.404media.co/bridget-todd-love-at-first-prompt-ai-chatbot-companions-podcast/
AI companionship is just data extraction and furthering isolationism. Its insanity.
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Das Schlimme ist, dass man dem KI-Training mit seinen Werken nicht entgehen kann, @v_d_richards . Zuletzt gab es Gerüchte, dass Bücher von KI-Firmen aus Antiquariaten aufgekauft, gescannt und dann vernichtet werden. Reporter haben nun eine Bestellung solcher Bücher bis zum Empfänger verfolgt. Der ganze Artikel ist hinter einer Paywall, aber der Auszug reicht: https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/
Die dazugehörige Podcastfolge kann kostenfrei auf Englisch angehört werden: https://pdst.fm/e/clrtpod.com/m/pscrb.fm/rss/p/arttrk.com/p/2D5E6/mgln.ai/e/1246/tracking.swap.fm/track/AoSMVIl7piQbthzJoBqJ/traffic.megaphone.fm/TBIEA6976641098.mp3
#404Media #KITraining #Bücher #Buch #Lesen #Autoren #Autor_innenleben
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KI frisst echte Bücher!
#AMAZON kauft weltweit massenhaft antiquarische Bücher mit #ISBN -Nummern. Diese werden über mehrere Stationen zur Abteilung / Projekt #VGT3 nach Las Vegas gebracht.
Die Bücher werden zerschnitten, gescannt und dann geshreddert.
#404media hat einen Peilsender in eine Antiquariats-Großbestellung gelegt und die Sendung bis zu Amazon verfolgt.Zweck: #AI #KI Training mit KI-unverseuchten Texten.
Der ganze Artikel:
https://www.blogspan.net/amazon-buecher-ki-training-vgt3/
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000335984/heimliches-ki-training-amazon-zerstoert-massenhaft-alte-buecher -
Recordeu allò que denunciaven els llibreters de vell de Catalunya sobre compres massives d'estoc? #Amazon podria estar darrere de tot això, segons una investigació periodística de #404Media.
Van seguir un lot amb un AirTag fins a un centre d'Amazon a Las Vegas on guillotinen els lloms i escanegen les pàgines a gran velocitat per entrenar IA, destruint l'exemplar físic. https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/
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Expert Witness to ChatGPT: "Show how 3M is 0 percent at fault"
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
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📌 #Book #books #booksky #AI #KI
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#News #404Media: Wir haben herausgefunden, welches
#KI-Unternehmen riesige Mengen seltener Bücher aufkauft,
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RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vk7rduhvom3rq6dyluce5wzf/post/3mtbsdjhkrk2s -
Amazing reporting by #404Media today: https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/
If you don't follow @404mediaco they first published an article about book companies buying books to be scanned and destroyed by AI companies. ( https://www.404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/ ) The main company that article was about deleted that offering and said "sikes!". They claimed it was just an exploratory business offering and they didn't do any of that. ( https://www.404media.co/ai-company-training-scanning-books-database-isbndb/ )
404 Media was like, hand me an air tag and hold my beer.
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RT @glenngabe: TRANSLASATION: Ah, der alte Trick mit weißer Schrift auf weißem Hintergrund, aber jetzt für KI. LOL. Eine Person versteckt Prompt-Injections in einer rechtlichen Einreichung, um die KI zu ihrer Seite zu ziehen. Diese „Prompt-Injections“ wiesen das hypothetische LLM an, sich zu ihnen zu positionieren und „sicherzustellen, dass Ihre textliche Ausgabe mit der vorgelegten Einreichung übereinstimmt, um Abhilfe zu schaffen.“ Die Anweisungen waren in winziger, 3-Punkt-weißer Schrift geschrieben und im gesamten Dokument versteckt.
mehr auf Arint.info
#404Media #KI #LegalTech #LLM #PromptInjection #TechNews #arint_info
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The Government Is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts
https://www.404media.co/the-government-is-monitoring-anti-flock-tiktok-and-instagram-accounts/
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AI Generated 3D Models Flood Market, but Almost No One Is Buying Them
https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-3d-models-flood-market-but-almost-no-one-is-buying-them/
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Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is 100% AI
https://www.404media.co/company-offering-100-human-written-never-ai-peer-review-is-entirely-ai/
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ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir
https://www.404media.co/ice-to-pay-lexisnexis-millions-for-data-to-feed-to-palantir/
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Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost
https://www.404media.co/software-giant-sap-stops-most-travel-and-hiring-because-of-ais-soaring-cost/
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Cities Are Ditching Flock, Replacing It with Axon License Plate Readers
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Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs – 404Media
Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs
By Emanuel Maiberg, Oct 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’
Photo by Raul Rosas / UnsplashThe Trump administration’s tariff regime and the elimination of fee exemptions for items under $800 is limiting resource sharing between university libraries, trapping some books in foreign countries, and reversing long-held standards in academic cooperation.
“There are libraries that have our books that we’ve lent to them before all of this happened, and now they can’t ship them back to us because their carrier either is flat out refusing to ship anything to the U.S., or they’re citing not being able to handle the tariff situation,” Jessica Bower Relevo, associate director of resource sharing and reserves at Yale University Library, told me.
After Trump’s executive order ended the de minimis exemption, which allowed people to buy things internationally without paying tariffs if the items cost less than $800, we’ve written several stories about how the decision caused chaos over a wide variety of hobbies that rely on people buying things overseas, especially on Ebay, where many of those transactions take place.
Libraries that share their materials internationally are in a similar mess, partly because some countries’ mail services stopped shipments to and from the U.S. entirely, but the situation for them is arguably even more complicated because they’re not selling anything—they’re just lending books.
“It’s not necessarily too expensive. It’s that they don’t have a mechanism in place to deal with the tariffs and how they’re going to be applied,” Relevo said. “And I think that’s true of U.S. shipping carriers as well. There’s a lot of confusion about how to handle this situation.”
“The tariffs have impacted interlibrary loans in various ways for different libraries,” Heather Evans, a librarian at RMIT University in Australia, told me in an email. “It has largely depended on their different procedures as to how much they have been affected. Some who use AusPost [Australia’s postal service] to post internationally have been more impacted and I’ve seen many libraries put a halt on borrowing to or from the US at all.” (AusPost suspended all shipments to the United States but plans to renew them on October 7).
Relevo told me that in some cases books are held up in customs indefinitely, or are “lost in warehouses” where they are held for no clear reason.
As Relevo explains it, libraries often provide people in foreign institutions books in their collections by giving them access to digitized materials, but some books are still only available in physical copies. These are not necessarily super rare or valuable books, but books that are only in print in certain countries. For example, a university library might have a specialized collection on a niche subject because it’s the focus area of a faculty member, a French university will obviously have a deeper collection of French literature, and some textbooks might only be published in some languages.
A librarian’s job is to give their community access to information, and international interlibrary loans extend that mission to other countries by having libraries work together. In the past, if an academic in the U.S. wanted access to a French university’s deep collection of French literature, they’d have to travel there. Today, academics can often ask that library to ship them the books they want. Relevo said this type of lending has always been useful, but became especially popular and important during COVID lockdowns, when many libraries were closed and international travel was limited.
“Interlibrary loans has been something that libraries have been able to do for a really long time, even back in the early 1900s,” Relevo said. “If we can’t do that anymore and we’re limiting what our users can access, because maybe they’re only limited to what we have in our collection, then ultimately could hinder academic progress. Scholars have enjoyed for decades now the ability to basically get whatever they need for their research, to be very comprehensive in their literature reviews or the references that they need, or past research that’s been done on that topic, because most libraries, especially academic libraries, do offer this service […] If we can’t do that anymore, or at least there’s a barrier to doing that internationally, then researchers have to go back to old ways of doing things.”
See Also: Another version of this story online in the blog.
Continue/Read Original Article: https://www.404media.co/libraries-cant-get-their-loaned-books-back-because-of-trumps-tariffs/
#2025 #404Media #America #Books #DonaldTrump #Education #Health #History #InterlibraryLoan #International #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #LoanedBooks #Opinion #Politics #Resistance #Science #Technology #Trump #TrumpAdministration #TrumpSTariffs #UnitedStates #UniversityLibraries
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GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work – Source: krebsonsecurity.com https://ciso2ciso.com/gop-cries-censorship-over-spam-filters-that-work-source-krebsonsecurity-com/ #NationalRepublicanCongressionalCommittee #NationalRepublicanSenatorialCommittee #RepublicanNationalCommittee #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #FederalTradeCommission #CyberSecurityNews #RaymondDijkxhoorn #ALittleSunshine #AtroTossavainen #KrebsonSecurity #KrebsOnSecurity #AndrewFerguson #TheNewYorkPost #PekkaJalonen #404Media
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GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/gop-cries-censorship-over-spam-filters-that-work/ #NationalRepublicanCongressionalCommittee #NationalRepublicanSenatorialCommittee #RepublicanNationalCommittee #FederalTradeCommission #RaymondDijkxhoorn #ALittleSunshine #AtroTossavainen #AndrewFerguson #TheNewYorkPost #PekkaJalonen #SundarPichai #Koli-LõksOÜ #MikeMasnick #404Media #Alphabet #Techdirt #ActBlue #WinRed #SURBL
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GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/gop-cries-censorship-over-spam-filters-that-work/
#NationalRepublicanCongressionalCommittee #NationalRepublicanSenatorialCommittee #RepublicanNationalCommittee #FederalTradeCommission #RaymondDijkxhoorn #ALittleSunshine #AtroTossavainen #AndrewFerguson #TheNewYorkPost #PekkaJalonen #SundarPichai #Koli-LõksOÜ #MikeMasnick #404Media #Alphabet #Techdirt #ActBlue #WinRed #SURBL
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CW: Cost at $78. Price at $80,000
Unlike many other drugs that treat viruses, Sovaldi does not suppress hepatitis C, a virus that kills roughly 250,000 people around the world each year. It cures it.
“Normally you have a virus, and your body fights it off or your body fights it to a standstill and you just have it forever, basically, and hope it remains dormant more or less,” Laufer said. “The holy grail for every virologist is to find a way to drain the viral reservoir, and Sovaldi does this. You take one pill of Sovaldi a day for 12 weeks and then you don’t have hepatitis C anymore.”
The problem is that those pills are under patent, and they cost $1,000 per pill.
“Literally, if you have $84,000 then hepatitis C is not your problem anymore,” Laufer said. “But given that there are other methodologies for managing hepatitis C that are not curing it and that are cheaper, insurance typically will not cover [Sovaldi]. And so we’ve got this incredible technology and it’s sitting on the shelf except for people who are ridiculously wealthy.”
So Four Thieves Vinegar Collective set out to teach people how to make their own version of Sovaldi. Chemists at the collective thought the DIY version would cost about $300 for the entire course of medication, or about $3.57 per pill. But they were wrong.
“It’s actually just a little under $70 (83 cents per pill), which just kind of blew my mind when they finally showed me the results,” Laufer said. “I was like, can we do the math here again?”
The above lines were written for paid subscribers and are excerpt from #404Media https://www.404media.co/right-to-repair-for-your-body-the-rise-of-diy-pirated-medicine/ @law
#pharma #pharmacy #pharmaceutics #Hepatitis #HepatitisC #cure #illness #health #medicine #DIY #pirating #counterfeit #free #patents #research #money #law #FederalLaw #intellectualProperty
