"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them." --Salvador Dalí

NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books * TorrentFreak #ai #copyrights

NVIDIA executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel its AI training. In an expanded class-action lawsuit that cites internal NVIDIA documents, several book authors claim that the trillion-dollar company directly reached out to Anna's Archive, seeking high-speed access to the shadow library data.

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Nonviolence | The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute #philosophy

King’s notion of nonviolence had six key principles.

1. First, one can resist evil without resorting to violence.
2. Second, nonviolence seeks to win the “friendship and understanding” of the opponent, not to humiliate him.
3. Third, evil itself, not the people committing evil acts, should be opposed.
4. Fourth, those committed to nonviolence must be willing to suffer without retaliation as suffering itself can be redemptive.
5. Fifth, nonviolent resistance avoids “external physical violence” and “internal violence of spirit” as well: “The nonviolent resister not only refuses to shoot his opponent but he also refuses to hate him”. The resister should be motivated by love in the sense of the Greek word agape, which means “understanding,” or “redeeming good will for all men”.
6. The sixth principle is that the nonviolent resister must have a “deep faith in the future,” stemming from the conviction that “The universe is on the side of justice”.

Nearly a third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry, preprint claims | Science | AAAS #internet #socialnetworks

Researchers studying the impact of social media on society—everything from effects on teenagers’ mental health to the spread of misinformation—often work with the companies that run these platforms. But these ties evidently run much deeper than the scientific record acknowledges.

A new preprint reports that in nearly one third of studies on social media appearing in major interdisciplinary journals, the authors have ties to industry that should be disclosed but aren’t. Some received funding from a social media company; others previously co-authored work with industry employees. These ties may be skewing the research, the authors say. The industry-linked studies appear more likely to focus on topics such as why individuals share misinformation than on the role of the platforms and their algorithms.

Zarah Sultana: Palantir has no place in UK public services | openDemocracy #privacy

Palantir is not a normal software company. It was founded with an explicit mission which remains at the heart of its operations today: to maintain US global domination.

We know exactly what that means. Endless wars. Drone strikes. A vast machinery of surveillance and occupation stretching from Afghanistan and Iraq to the ongoing genocide in Gaza. A world in which Washington’s military reach grows ever longer, and the UK prime minister increasingly behaves less like an ally and more like a compliant poodle, nodding along to whatever the White House demands.

German economists push for gold repatriation from U.S. vaults | Seeking Alpha #economy #politics

Germany is facing mounting pressure to withdraw its substantial gold reserves from American vaults, as concerns grow over the unpredictability of the Trump administration and shifting transatlantic relations, The Guardian reported Saturday.

Germany holds the world’s second-largest national gold reserves after the United States, with approximately $194B worth — 1,236 metric tons—currently stored at the Federal Reserve in New York. The country’s total gold reserves are valued at around $530B, with just over half held at the Bundesbank in Frankfurt, 37% in New York, and 12% at the Bank of England in London.

Wiper malware targeted Poland energy grid, but failed to knock out electricity - Ars Technica #security #energy

On Friday, security firm ESET said the malware responsible was a wiper, a type of malware that permanently erases code and data stored on servers with the goal of destroying operations completely. After studying the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used in the attack, company researchers said the wiper was likely the work of a Russian government hacker group tracked under the name Sandworm.

“Based on our analysis of the malware and associated TTPs, we attribute the attack to the Russia-aligned Sandworm APT with medium confidence due to a strong overlap with numerous previous Sandworm wiper activity we analyzed,” said ESET researchers. “We’re not aware of any successful disruption occurring as a result of this attack.”

Sandworm has a long history of destructive attacks waged on behalf of the Kremlin and aimed at adversaries. Most notable was one in Ukraine in December 2015. It left roughly 230,000 people without electricity for about six hours during one of the coldest months of the year. The hackers used general purpose malware known as BlackEnergy to penetrate power companies’ supervisory control and data acquisition systems and, from there, activate legitimate functionality to stop electricity distribution. The incident was the first known malware-facilitated blackout.

Booting from a vinyl record – BOGIN, JR. (2014) #software #hacking #fun

Most PCs tend to boot from a primary media storage, be it a hard disk drive, or a solid-state drive, perhaps from a network, or – if all else fails – the USB stick or the boot DVD comes to the rescue… Fun, eh? Boring! Why don’t we try to boot from a record player for a change?

Your App Subscription Is Now My Weekend Project · Roberto Selbach #software

Wine 11 NTSYNC Explained, Why Linux Kernel 6.14 Matters for Gaming Performance #software

Wine 11 reads like a classic big release changelog with thousands of commits and hundreds of fixes. This is true. However, it misses the point. The most meaningful change in Wine 11 is the idea that the hardest Windows compatibility problems are migrating downward. They are moving closer to the kernel where Linux can emulate critical Windows behaviors with less friction.

The headline feature is NTSYNC support. When the NTSYNC Linux kernel module is available, Wine uses it to implement Windows NT-style synchronization primitives efficiently. This matters because synchronization is where modern games often fail. When synchronization breaks, you might see a crash. More often, you feel something worse. You experience inconsistent pacing, random hitching, and the kind of stutter that ruins a smooth frame rate graph without triggering an error dialog. You can see the full notes at Wine HQ.

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Parliament tells Dutch gov't to keep DigiD data out of American hands | NL Times #privacy #digitalsovereignty

A parliamentary majority has asked the current caretaker and upcoming new Cabinet to do everything in their power to prevent Dutch DigiD data from ending up in the United States government’s hands. There are concerns that this could happen through the American firm Kyndryl’s impending acquisition of Solvinity, a company that is essential for DigiD access.

In a technical briefing in the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch parliament, on Tuesday, MPs spoke with experts about the dangers and risks of this takeover. Parliament has long been concerned about this issue, and the briefing did nothing to alleviate those worries, NOS reported.

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