#scanning — Public Fediverse posts

404 Media tracked a shipment of books (some rare) to an Amazon facility that scans them for LLM training data and destroys the physical books.

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels #books #scanning

https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/

Is AI Burning The Library Of Alexandria? www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP7T4G… (worth watching for correcting alarmist stories, also promotes libraries & Internet Archive) #AI #books #scanning #Anthropic #copyright

Hey, Illinois, go sign up! Join the class action suit (again) against Apple, get $5K!
~Users did not consent to having their faces scanned and matched by Apple
~Other states have won similar fights
~6.5 million can join
~If you had pictures in your Apple Photos after 2016, you may qualify!
#fascist #USA #surveillance #state #BigBrother #flock #cameras #Apple #FaceRecognition #scanning #privacy #laws #folders #photo #app #library
https://www.pcmag.com/news/apple-to-face-325-billion-lawsuit-over-facial-recognition-in-photos-app

I got the Thomas Cook "Egypt, the Nile and Palestine - Season 1928-1929" (and it was not cheap), but the section on Nile paddle steamers would immediately start re-reading the Agatha Christies.

The issue now is how to scan a book that is both very very stiff and utterly friable.

#scanning

Facial Recognition is spiralling out of control in the UK and there are no clear laws in place to protect our privacy

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/07/facial-recognition-is-spiralling-out-of-control-in-the-uk-and-there-are-no-clear-laws-in-place-to-protect-our-privacy/

AI & Books: notes from a moral panic petergasston.co.uk/ai-books-notes… #AI #books #scanning

Timeline Scan – AI fixes the dates on your scanned photos

https://timelinescan.com/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939764

#HackerNews #TimelineScan #AI #photo #scanning #dates #technology

🌍📩 Breaking: The #EU is about to sneeze its way into your private messages with new #scanning rules! Because we all know that #GDPR wasn't confusing enough, now let's add some #Orwellian flavor to your inbox. 😂🔍
https://cyberinsider.com/eu-now-one-step-away-from-reviving-private-message-scanning-rules/ #Snoop #Privacy #Invasion #HackerNews #ngated

Meta's brain-scanning system reads sentences non-invasively, code open source

https://ai.meta.com/blog/brain2qwerty-brain-ai-human-communication/?_fb_noscript=1

#HackerNews #Meta #Brain #Scanning #Open #Source #AI #Technology #Innovation

I bought a CZUR ET Max scanner, assuming it would be nice for the big pile of old computer brochures I have to scan. Never have I been so disappointed...

The software is buggy (doesn't recognize selection half the time), auto-trim and crop is useless, flattening doesn't really work and the quality is piss poor. Yet I was testing on what seemed like an easy candidate: almost flat A4 commercial booklet, in good diffused natural lighting.

Here's a picture of the cover page "scanned" at 600 DPI, and side-by-side details comparison from the scanner and a phone picture. The auto-descreening messed up most of the details, the front page text is oddly sharpened while all the computer details are blurry.

It would be alright for doing quick and dirty scans, but the quality & software doesn't warrant the high price when a phone and ScanTailor have better results... And the phone is less expensive than the scanner. Boo.

In a nutshell, don't bother. I'll go back to my flatbed for the time being and will try to get a Plustek book scanner at a later time.

#vintagecomputing #books #scanning

Pastel Evening (175/365)

Film journey update in Stray Pixels.

https://365pixels.xyz/2026/06/24/pastel-evening.html

#365in2026 #dailyphoto #photoblog #photography #film #scanning #analog #rolleiflex

Texture (174/365)

Big update on the film journey down in Stray Pixels ⤵️

https://365pixels.xyz/2026/06/23/texture.html

#365in2026 #dailyphoto #photoblog #photography #film #filmjourney #scanning

Deep #mutational #scanning of recent #SARS-CoV-2 #variants highlights changing amino acid preferences within epistatic hotspot residues, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/06/deep-mutational-scanning-of-recent-sars.html

Midjourney Introduces Ultrasonic CT That Scans Body With Water; Elon Musk Reacts [WATCH]

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://in.mashable.com/science/111079/midjourney-introduces-ultrasonic-ct-that-scans-body-with-water-elon-musk-reacts-watch

Any #photomanipulation tips for brightening/shinifying gold paint pen from a scan?

#DigitalArt #PhotoEditing #ArtEditing #Scanning #ArtScanning

ID Card Scanning Software for Remote Verification and Digital Onboarding https://visualmodo.com/id-card-scanning-software-for-remote-verification-and-digital-onboarding/ 💡💳 #ID #Card #Scanning #Software #Verification

DEVONthink To Go lets you scan documents directly into your database. You can capture single pages or multi-page documents and even make them fully searchable. Here is how to do it. #devonthink #devonthinktogo #capture #scanning https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20260609-scan-in-devonthink-to-go

The Verge: Google Drive’s upgraded document scanner can capture multiple pages at once.. “The new scanner operates on-device and is available to Android users with 8GB of RAM or more.”

New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2026/05/27/upcoming-stamp-and-postal-history-auction/
An account of the creation and uploading of James and Sons latest auction catalogue, stamp and postal history lots that will go under the hammer on June 23rd, with links to both online platforms, and a coda on the theme of 'computer is not always right' plus a #photo gallery.
#auctions #stamps #PostalHistory #scanning #catalogues #uploading #photography #birds #insects #butterflies #PaintedLady #WoodlandBrown #damselflies

ICE Awards $25M Iris-Scanning Contract to Bi2 Technologies

https://www.projectsaltbox.com/p/ice-awards-25-million-iris-scanning

#HackerNews #ICE #Awards #Bi2 #Technologies #Iris #Scanning #Contract #$25M #Technology

13,000 manuals: Project to rescue manuals destined for the trash and digitize them instead
https://ascii.textfiles.com/
#internetarchive #via:hackernews #textfiles #internet #scanning #manuals #archive #+

New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2026/05/08/a-hard-fought-opening-day/
A look at the opening day at Trent Bridge where Nottinghamshire and Surrey have been in action and an #image gallery.
#cricket #CountyCricket #CountyChampionship #NottinghamshirevSurrey #photography #scanning #auctions #stamps #GWRPerfin #birds #swans #insects #bees #butterflies #shieldbugs

🕵️‍♂️ LinkedIn's latest trick: #scanning your #browser extensions like a nosy neighbor peeking through your blinds. They encrypt the results, so don't worry—no one will know you're into cat memes. 😺🔒 But hey, it's all for "user #experience," just like when your cat "helps" you type. 🐾💻
https://404privacy.com/blog/linkedin-is-scanning-your-browser-extensions-this-is-how-they-use-the-data/ #LinkedIn #User #Privacy #CatMemes #HackerNews #ngated