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"The Business Court in Brussels, Belgium, has issued an unprecedentedly broad site-blocking order that aims to restrict access to shadow libraries including Anna's Archive, Libgen, OceanofPDF, Z-Library, and the Internet Archive's Open Library. In addition to ISP blocks, the order also directs search engines, DNS resolvers, advertisers, domain name services, CDNs and hosting companies to take action. "
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Belgium Bans Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order * TorrentFreak
A Belgian court ordered intermediaries to block access to major shadow libraries, including the Internet Archive's Open Library.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
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Europe burns! Experts warn that countries must shift from crisis response to prevention
Europe is facing one of its most severe wildfire seasons on record, with carbon emissions from fires reaching unprecedented levels this summer. According toBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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Collapse at Chile’s major copper mine kills 1 worker and leaves 5 missing
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Collapse at Chile's major copper mine kills 1 worker and leaves 5 missing
The U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude 5 earthquake in an area of central Chile where Codelco’s El Teniente mine is located, at 5:34 p.m. local time on Thursday.PBS News
EXCLUSIVE: Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's Longtime Associate, Is Moved From Florida to a Prison in Texas (New York Sun)
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EXCLUSIVE: Ghislaine Maxwell Moved to Federal Prison in Texas
Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime associate, has been moved from FCI Tallahassee to a federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas.HOLLIE MCKAY AND DANIEL EDWARD ROSEN (The New York Sun)
Ghislaine Maxwell Moved to Minimum-Security Women's Prison in Texas (Alan Feuer/New York Times)
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Ghislaine Maxwell Moved to Minimum-Security Women's Prison in Texas
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Here's the videorecording of my recent guest appearance on Michael Burn's show. A really fun discussion about how I basically stumbled into philosophy, just kept on studying it, and eventually started producing videos that quite a few people find useful for their own studies
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Back to School Safety & Child Identity Theft | Lock Down Your Life
The goal here is to help you and your child not become victims of identity theft, and to prepare you for when it does happen.lockitdown (Lock Down Your Life)
Private ChatGPT conversations show up on Google, leaving internet users shocked
From private chats to full legal identities revealed – internet users are finding ChatGPT conversations that inadvertently ended up on a simple Google search.
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UK Plans AI Experiment on Children Seeking Asylum
"The United Kingdom’s announcement on July 22 that it would use AI face-scanning technology to evaluate whether an asylum seeker is under age 18 threatens to harm children seeking refuge. The asylum minister, Angela Eagle, said that the decision was because this experimental technology is likely to be the cheapest option.
Experimenting with unproven technology to determine whether a child should be granted protections they desperately need and are legally entitled to is cruel and unconscionable.
Facial age estimation has not been independently evaluated in real-world settings. Companies that tested their technology in a handful of supermarkets, pubs, and on websites set them to predict whether a person looks under 25, not 18, allowing a wide error margin for algorithms that struggle to distinguish a 17-year-old from a 19-year-old...."
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Ada Lovelace and the Analytical Engine
post by Christopher Hollings, Ursula Martin and Adrian Rice Ada Lovelace is famous for her account of the ‘Analytical Engine’, which we now recognise as a steam-powered programmable …Ada Lovelace
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Brazil's Supreme Court stands firm on Bolsonaro trial despite foreign pressure
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Musk’s Boring Co. Burns $900M, Delivers Tunnels, Not Hyperloops
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Linux Enablement Begins For Intel Nova Lake - The First "Family 18" CPUs
Today the first Linux kernel patch was posted for Intel's Nova Lake as the anticipated successor to the Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Arrow Lake" processors. Today's patch confirms that Intel Nova Lake will be the first Intel processors under their new "Family 18" umbrella...
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Linux Enablement Begins For Intel Nova Lake - The First "Family 18" CPUs
Today the first Linux kernel patch was posted for Intel's Nova Lake as the anticipated successor to the Intel Core Ultra Series 2 'Arrow Lake' processorswww.phoronix.com
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