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Automattic CEO 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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Oinkers 🐷🐷🐷 are making fake #FlockCameras to arrest people teari g them down
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AI klonuje gry jeszcze przed premierą. Deweloperzy przestają pokazywać swoje projekty
Niezależni twórcy wideo i programiści mierzą się z niespotykanym dotąd zagrożeniem, które uderza w same fundamenty cyfrowej twórczości.
Do tej pory bezczelna kradzież unikalnego pomysłu na aplikację czy mechanikę rozgrywki wymagała od plagiatorów czasu, zaawansowanych umiejętności oraz budżetu. Dziś, dzięki generatywnej sztucznej inteligencji, proces ten został maksymalnie uproszczony. Jak wynika ze śledztwa dziennikarki Nicole Carpenter z serwisu 404 Media, użytkownicy narzędzi AI potrafią na podstawie krótkiego klipu z mediów społecznościowych odtworzyć kod i stworzyć działający prototyp, zanim oryginalny autor skończy pracę nad swoim projektem.
Dla całej branży kreatywnej to paraliżująca zmiana kulturowa. Nie chodzi tylko o gry, ale o jakąkolwiek twórczość cyfrową. Strach przed natychmiastowym sklonowaniem sprawia, że twórcy masowo rezygnują z pokazywania kulis swojej pracy (WIP) w sieci. AI zmienia zachowanie ludzi – zabija kulturę otwartego developmentu, która przez lata była najważniejszym narzędziem marketingu szeptanego dla niezależnych autorów.
Prototyp w 24 godziny i luka w prawie autorskim
Zjawisko to doskonale ilustruje historia szwedzkiej programistki Freyi Holmér. Opublikowała ona krótki pokaz prototypu nowej gry – wariacji na temat Tetrisa, w której obraca się cała plansza. Zaledwie kilkadziesiąt godzin później użytkownicy narzędzi AI odtworzyli jej mechanikę, pisząc proste instrukcje w języku naturalnym. W ciągu kilku dni w sklepach mobilnych wylądowały cztery bliźniacze produkcje. Twórca jednej z nich wprost przyznał, że wygenerowanie działającego kodu za pomocą sztucznej inteligencji zajęło mu niespełna jeden dzień.
Podobne obawy wyraził Lucas Pope, twórca kultowego „Papers, Please”, przyznając, że unika dzielenia się fragmentami kodu, by nie zostały skopiowane przez algorytmy. Problem polega na tym, że prawo autorskie chroni konkretne grafiki, zasoby lub unikalny kod źródłowy, ale sama mechanika, koncepcja czy ogólny pomysł na działanie programu nie podlegają ochronie patentowej. Tę lukę bezwzględnie wykorzystują plagiatorzy korzystający z generatywnych AI.
Fabryki cyfrowego spamu oszukują algorytmy
Sztuczna inteligencja nie stworzyła zjawiska piractwa, ale zradykalizowała jego skalę, obniżając próg wejścia – zarówno kompetencyjny, jak i budżetowy. Na rynku od lat funkcjonują wyspecjalizowane podmioty, które budują biznesy na kopiowaniu cudzych pomysłów. Przykładem jest mołdawska firma Midnight Works, która regularnie zalewa cyfrowe sklepy, takie jak PlayStation Store czy Nintendo eShop, niskiej jakości symulatorami będącymi uproszczonymi kopiami projektów zyskujących akurat popularność.
Byli pracownicy takich hurtowni oprogramowania potwierdzają, że generatywne AI jest tam wykorzystywane na każdym etapie: od tworzenia interfejsów (UI) i modeli 3D, po generowanie grafik promocyjnych. Gotowy produkt jest następnie pozycjonowany w sklepach za pomocą hurtowego upychania słów kluczowych.
Właściciele cyfrowych platform zarabiają prowizję od każdej sprzedaży, przez co ich systemy moderacji działają opieszale. Pierwsze kroki podjęło jednak Nintendo, zmieniając algorytm sekcji „Bestsellery” w eShopie – od teraz pozycje są tam ustalane na podstawie generowanego przychodu, a nie łącznej liczby pobrań, co ma zepchnąć tanie, generowane masowo przez AI klony na margines witryny.
#404Media #gamedev #gamedevSlop #NicoleCarpenter #NintendoEShop #openSource #plagiat #prawoAutorskie #programowanie #sztucznaInteligencja
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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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#ICYMI: For last week's Dot Social podcast, @mike spoke to @jasonkoebler of @404mediaco and @ben of @ProPublica about how decentralization and the open social web create a more equitable ecosystem for quality journalism to thrive.
Read about the conversation here:
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/jason-koebler-and-ben-werdmuller/
Watch and listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts:
https://flipboard.video/w/r7z6QY3dm5EqrFmDFkAgPY
#DotSocial #Podcast #Tech #Technology #Flipboard #Federation #Fediverse #ActivityPub #OpenSocialWeb #MikeMcCue #SocialMedia #Media #Journalism #MediaIndustry #ProPublica #404Media #Decentralization
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Forward-thinking journalists are not letting the “media apocalypse” happen to them. Instead, they’re doing the work that arguably has been most critical all along: building direct connections with their readers. @404mediaco's @jasonkoebler and @ProPublica's @ben join fediverse futurist @mike for a conversation about the discovery and sustainability of quality journalism.
Read more about the episode here: https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/jason-koebler-and-ben-werdmuller/
Watch and listen at PeerTube here: https://flipboard.video/w/r7z6QY3dm5EqrFmDFkAgPY, or wherever you get your podcasts.
#DotSocial #Flipboard #Federation #Fediverse #ActivityPub #OpenSocialWeb #MikeMcCue #SocialMedia #Media #Journalism #MediaIndustry #ProPublica #404Media
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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