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Half of Japan’s samurais were women reveals groundbreaking new exhibition at British Museum | The Independent
▻https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/british-museum-samurai-women-warrior-myth-b2913476.html

A groundbreaking new exhibition at the British Museum reveals the untold history of Japan’s Samurai class, including the fact that half of them were women.

Samurai is the first exhibition to explore how the warrior order’s image and myth were manufactured and purports to challenge everything the public thinks they know about the Japanese icons.

Allemagne : le format ODF obligatoire dans l’administration - ZDN ...
▻https://www.zdnet.fr/blogs/l-esprit-libre/allemagne-le-format-odf-obligatoire-dans-ladministration-492348.htm

The Document Foundation, qui gère LibreOffice, salue la décision du ministère allemand du Numérique, qui impose le format ODF dans l’administration fédérale, refusant ainsi le contesté OOXML de Microsoft.

Trois ans après l’#incendie de tonnes de batteries de #Bolloré Logistics près de #Rouen, un taux record de #lithium dans la #nappe_phréatique
▻https://vert.eco/articles/trois-apres-lincendie-de-tonnes-de-batteries-de-bollore-logistics-pres-de-roue

Les nappes situations. L’embrasement d’un #entrepôt exploité par le groupe Bolloré, survenu il y a trois ans à #Grand-Couronne, a provoqué une #pollution massive de la nappe phréatique au lithium, qui perdure et s’amplifie. Les différents industriels impliqués dans le sinistre se rejettent la responsabilité. Une enquête judiciaire est toujours en cours.

#eau

Quels bots d’indexation laisse-t-on passer sur SeenThis ?

Avez-vous une liste ? Et des argumentaires ?

De mon côté, je dirais « uniquement les institutions », du type BNF ou archive.org, parce qu’ils ne font pas ce boulot pour construire un monde totalitaire.

Si vous avez des liens vers des débats du même genre ailleurs, n’hésitez pas à partager.

Merci de votre participation.

Le robot de la BNF :
▻https://www.bnf.fr/fr/capture-de-votre-site-web-par-le-robot-de-la-bnf

Le bot de la BNF n’est pas encore passé sur SeenThis depuis une semaine.

Par contre le bot archive.org est passé et il s’est fait flasher par fail2ban...

Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦 - Mastodon
▻https://securitycafe.ca/@chetwisniewski/116263842520976605

That’s right folks, it is now easier to buy a #firearm than to load #open_source software on your #phone in #America.

#Android will require a #24-hour #wait before #sideloading #apps

▻https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification.html

How the advanced flow works for users

– Enable developer mode in system settings: Activating this is simple. This prevents accidental triggers or “one-tap” bypasses often used in high-pressure scams.

– Confirm you aren’t being coached: There is a quick check to make sure that no one is talking you into turning off your security. While power users know how to vet apps, scammers often pressure victims into disabling protections.

– Restart your phone and reauthenticate: This cuts off any remote access or active phone calls a scammer might be using to watch what you’re doing.

– Come back after the protective waiting period and verify: There is a one-time, one-day wait and then you can confirm that this is really you who’s making this change with our biometric authentication (fingerprint or face unlock) or device PIN. Scammers rely on manufactured urgency, so this breaks their spell and gives you time to think.

– Install apps: Once you confirm you understand the risks, you’re all set to install apps from unverified developers, with the option of enabling for 7 days or indefinitely. For safety, you’ll still see a warning that the app is from an unverified developer, but you can just tap “Install Anyway.”

Timnit Gebru (she/her) - Mastodon
▻https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/116263058466613099

#Bernie_Sanders just created a video to make a point about #issues of #privacy in #AI (a real problem). His supporters on #Muskrat's platform came for me when I quote tweeted his post saying, “at this point, #Bernie’s job seems to be l#obbying for #Anthropic.”

So I’m going to elaborate on the #corporate psyop that has been happening since the beginning of time and how no one seems to learn their lesson.

#Bernie has been repeating, almost verbatim, #Dario_Amodei's talking points, for a while now, even quote tweeting him. #Amodei positions Anthropic as the #ethical alternative to #OpenAI just like OpenAI positioned itself as the ethical alternative to #Google in 2015 and everyone ate it up. This was an article from then, the headline says that Muskrat, #Thiel, #Altman + friends founded an “#altruistic AI venture” 🙄

►https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35082344

I don’t remember who said this, but it’s like telling you to buy Camels instead of Marlboros while claiming to fight tobacco companies. If any politician parrots talking points of a CEO on a funding round, even on the harms of AI systems, you should be worried.

Remember when Altman schmoozed them and newspapers had headlines of him “begging” to be regulated and hailing him as an #Oppenheimer figure who is so worried about his own creation 🙄?

That was just last year!
►https://time.com/7267797/ai-leaders-oppenheimer-moment-musk-altman

You don’t believe Altman is such a figure but you think Amodei, who insisted that OpenAI use all 10,000 #GPUs and train the biggest model possible, when he was there, is such a figure?

In his video, Bernie is literally creating a #Claude ad, showing the system as an all knowing being that answers all of his questions. An ad for Anthropic, a company claiming that they can’t even confidently say that “Claude isn’t conscious”.

A company amassing #billions saying they’ll at once save us from evil super #intelligent #machines and build the #benevolent super intelligent machine that will solve all of our problems. They’re so worried about people not getting “reskilled” because workers are going to be replaced by their machine god that will do our jobs so much better than us. Investors want to hear about machine gods displacing workers because, well, that’s how they make money.

On another day, we’ll discuss why this is happening.

Effective altruists and overall #TESCREAL bundle #billionaires have infiltrated the #labor movement and #journalism, offering fellowships with staggering amounts of money like they invested ridiculous amounts of money into these companies claiming to build machine gods.

Money for the “problem” and #money for “the solution.”

Tech giants pledge $1bn for ’altruistic AI’ venture, OpenAI - BBC News
►https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35082344

Prominent tech executives have pledged $1bn (£659m) for OpenAI, a non-profit venture that aims to develop artificial intelligence (AI) to benefit humanity.

The venture’s backers include #Tesla Motors and #SpaceX CEO #Elon_Musk, #Paypal co-founder #Peter_Thiel, Indian tech giant #Infosys and #Amazon Web Services.

Open AI says it expects its research - free from financial obligations - to focus on a “positive human impact”.

Scientists have warned that advances in AI could ultimately threaten humanity.

How Musk, Altman, AI Leaders Face the ’Oppenheimer Moment’ | TIME
►https://time.com/7267797/ai-leaders-oppenheimer-moment-musk-altman

This year, hundreds of billions of dollars will be spent to scale AI systems in pursuit of superhuman capabilities. CEOs of leading AI companies, such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk, expect that within the next four years, their systems will be smart enough to do most cognitive work—think any job that can be done with just a laptop—as effectively as or better than humans.

Gel des loyers, aides sur l’énergie… Le plan d’aide « extraordinaire » de l’Espagne face au conflit au Moyen-Orient - Le Parisien
▻https://www.leparisien.fr/international/espagne/gel-des-loyers-aides-sur-lenergie-le-plan-daide-extraordinaire-de-lespagn

Le Premier ministre espagnol Pedro Sánchez espère ce vendredi que « ces mesures atténueront au moins la portée » du conflit et les « rendront un peu plus supportables ».

Pendant ce temps, t’as not’ président qui intervient dans les élections municipales tout en jurant que non en criant FAKE NEWS comme le premier Trump venu. 

On va tous émigrer en Espagne en fait.

QQ’un a googlé Chuck Norris ? 

Apparemment, Isabelle Mergault aussi a été googlée...

RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody Wanted
▻https://www.404media.co/rip-metaverse-an-80-billion-dumpster-fire-nobody-wanted

A few things on the end of Horizon Worlds, the metaverse that Mark Zuckerberg believed in so much that he renamed his company:

1) It’s very sad that many of the people who worked on it have been unceremoniously laid off because their leaders appear to have no idea what they’re doing
2) lol
3) lmao, even

Who could have possibly predicted this?

When Zuckerberg announced Horizon Worlds not really all that long ago at a batshit livestream in October 2021, I wrote an article called “Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company.” During that livestream Zuckerberg said, “I believe technology can make our lives better. The future will be built by those willing to stand up and say ‘this is the future we want.’” The future Zuckerberg wanted, at that time, was not a future anyone else wanted. But he was bold enough to systematically light roughly $80 billion on fire, not because he was willing to stand up and paint a vision of the future, but because Facebook was mired in various horrendous scandals and because he needed to rebrand his company and needed something shiny to point at to keep Facebook’s stock price up. It is bad when actual economists say that money was thrown “into the toilet.”

Ret - Mastodon
▻https://furry.engineer/@ret/116261339761579758

More #systemd shit, sorry... But the more I look at this project the worse it gets.

The reaction to a very balanced, polite, “yeah don’t like this PR because [though-through reasons]” comment?

PEH! Who let the plebs in? Lock the thread quickly before any dissent starts!

Seems like it is infested with cunts, honestly...

https://pixelfed.zoo-logique.org/storage/m/_v2/493151427756716033/a1431798c-70628a/6SiRJ9YXnupR/e3oXbGpT9vFAmSRb9FbhlNrUiyEr2C9sPz302Xpg.png

#age_verification #age_checking #enshitification

Les raisons de supprimer systemd de Linux étaient jusqu’alors plutôt techniques, même si le fait que le mainteneur soit salarié (était) de Microsoft pouvait en choquer certains avec raison. Là, on touche à des principes supérieurs, qui ne sont plus strictement techniques. Le débat va pouvoir reprendre au sein de la communauté.

Parcourir les vieux messages de SeenThis, c’est l’assurance de constater que la pente fasciste, suprémaciste, génocidaire était déjà bien glissante, il y a 15 ans, et qu’en quelque sorte, nous avons collectivement annoncé et documenté la catastrophe en cours.

Being Left Behind Enjoyer - Mastodon
▻https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116251191799076328

Remember that the same people say the same thing about AI

https://pixelfed.zoo-logique.org/storage/m/_v2/493151427756716033/a1431798c-70628a/AHm27GPaI3vr/VOSxXJf15Of2ZXalO4MntpWykIxiSJfMSFWFFofv.jpg

Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record | Electronic Frontier Foundation
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/blocking-internet-archive-wont-stop-ai-it-will-erase-webs-historical-record

Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper.

That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s. The Archive’s mission is to preserve the web and make it accessible to the public. To that end, the organization operates the Wayback Machine, which now contains more than one trillion archived web pages and is used daily by journalists, researchers, and courts.

But in recent months The New York Times began blocking the Archive from crawling its website, using technical measures that go beyond the web’s traditional robots.txt rules. That risks cutting off a record that historians and journalists have relied on for decades. Other newspapers, including The Guardian, seem to be following suit.

Small modular reactors, big dreams: Ontario’s nuclear pitch | Fergus Now
▻https://fergusnow.com/2026/02/27/small-modular-reactors-big-dreams-ontarios-nuclear-pitch

#Small_modular_reactors, big dreams: Ontario’s #nuclear pitch

In January, Ontario Energy Minister Stephen Lecce told a room full of business and #energy officials that communities across the province have been “petitioning us for a small modular #reactor.”

The emerging nuclear #technology is exactly what it sounds like: essentially a smaller nuclear reactor, often referred to as an #SMR, that can produce enough #electricity for up to 300,000 homes. And it’s all anyone in Ontario’s energy space can talk about. It’s poised to be a major facet of the province and country’s plan to become an “energy #superpower.”

New-wave reactors are the face of an American nuclear renaissance. Some experts are sounding alarms | CNN
▻https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/22/climate/small-nuclear-reactors-smrs-holtec-kairos

On the sandy shores of Lake Michigan, set against a backdrop of thick forest, a sharp-angled grey concrete building could be the face of an #American #nuclear renaissance.

The Palisades nuclear #plant, about a two-hour drive from Chicago, was decommissioned in 2022, judged to be #uneconomical in a world of #cheap American #gas. But Florida-headquartered company Holtec is reviving it. It will mark not only the first ever #restart of a shuttered #US nuclear plant, but, if all goes to plan, Palisades will also be the birthplace of a nuclear #breakthrough: America’s first commercial “#small_modular_reactors.”

These advanced nuclear #reactors, known as #SMRs, are like mini nuclear power plants but touted as #cheaper, #safer, #faster to #build and #easier to #finance than their conventional counterparts — and #hype around them is rising fast.

Hallucinated References: Five Excuses for Academic Misconduct - Dr. Dorothea Baur
▻https://dorotheabaur.ch/en/texts-and-media/hallucinated-references-five-excuses-for-academic-misconduct

#Academic #journals increasingly face a problem: #papers citing #hallucinated #references. We are talking about #citations that simply don’t exist – #fake #titles, fake #journals, and fake #authors. When I suggested on LinkedIn that such papers should be desk-rejected and #authors banned for one year, the support was overwhelming. But the #pushback in the comments was even more revealing.

(...)

What follows are five arguments from this debate. I’m deliberately sharpening them – they reveal patterns, not individuals: #defensive_deflection, #TINA #rhetoric, #resignation, #victim #mentality, #nihilism.

(...)

#VSS : huit #femmes accusent #Patrick_Bruel de #viol et d’#agressions_sexuelles
▻https://www.humanite.fr/feminisme/agressions-sexuelles/vss-huit-femmes-accusent-patrick-bruel-de-viol-et-dagressions-sexuelles

Le chanteur est accusé de viol et agressions #sexuelles par huit personnes, dont deux qui auraient porté plainte, selon une enquête de Mediapart publiée ce 18 mars.

Un de plus.

Aura confirms data breach exposing 900,000 marketing contacts
▻https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/aura-confirms-data-breach-exposing-900-000-marketing-contacts

#Identity_protection company Aura has confirmed that an unauthorized party gained access to nearly 900,000 #customer #records containing names and email addresses.

The company states that the #incident was caused by a #voice #phishing #attack targeting an #employee, which exposed the #sensitive_data of 20,000 current and 15,000 former customers.

In a communication this week, Aura states that the data originated from a #marketing tool used by a company acquired by Aura in 2021, which exposed limited information.

Aura is a consumer #digital_safety firm that sells #identity_theft_protection, #credit and #fraud #monitoring, and #online #security tools for #phishing_protection, positioning itself as an all-in-one service for #online_protection.

ON VOUS PROTÈGE !!!

Despite Doubts, #Federal #Cyber #Experts Approved #Microsoft #Cloud Service — ProPublica
▻https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-cloud-fedramp-cybersecurity-government

Reporting Highlights

– “Cloud First”: To move federal #agencies to the cloud, the #government created a program known as #FedRAMP, whose job was to ensure the #security of new #technology.
– Security #Breakdown: ProPublica found that FedRAMP authorized a Microsoft product called #GCC High to handle #sensitive government #data, despite years of concerns about its security.
– Potential #Conflict_of_Interest: The government relies, in part, on #third-party firms to vet cloud technology, but those firms are hired and paid by the company being assessed.

These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Sam Altman - The Onion
▻https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-sam-altman

Why did you decide to devote your life to AI?

I just saw so much suffering in the world that needed to be automated.

L’ensemble de l’interview vaut le coup.

#satire

La cheffe du #renseignement #américain contredit Donald #Trump sur les activités d’enrichissement #nucléaire de l’Iran - franceinfo
▻https://www.franceinfo.fr/monde/iran/guerre-entre-les-etats-unis-israel-et-l-iran/la-cheffe-du-renseignement-americain-contredit-donald-trump-sur-les-activ

Depuis les #frappes #américano-israéliennes de juin 2025, « aucun effort n’a été entrepris » par les #Iraniens « pour tenter de rétablir leurs capacités d’#enrichissement », a rapporté mercredi #Tulsi_Gabbard.

Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild | WIRED
▻https://www.wired.com/story/hundreds-of-millions-of-iphones-can-be-hacked-with-a-new-tool-found-in-the-wi

A powerful iPhone-hacking technique known as DarkSword has been discovered in use by Russian hackers. It can take over devices running iOS 18 that simply visit infected websites.

#oups

Sensores LiDAR chegam aos veículos elétricos de duas rodas com a parceria entre Hesai e Niu | TugaTech
▻https://tugatech.com.pt/t80398-sensores-lidar-chegam-aos-veiculos-eletricos-de-duas-rodas-com-a

A tecnologia de sensores #LiDAR, até há pouco tempo exclusiva de automóveis elétricos de gama alta, está agora a ser implementada em veículos de duas rodas. Segundo as informações avançadas pelo CNEVPost, a fabricante Hesai Group estabeleceu uma parceria com a marca Niu Technologies para fornecer esta tecnologia de perceção aos seus novos modelos, prometendo aumentar a segurança e a inteligência nas estradas urbanas.

L’intelligence artificielle générative dans l’impasse informationnelle - Archive ouverte HAL
►https://hal.science/hal-05126355

Le taux d’erreurs #factuelles énoncées par les programmes basés sur des grands modèles de langue (#large_language_models, #LLM) semble incompressible. Nous proposons une hypothèse explicative théorique à ce constat empirique : nos définitions informationnelles du sens appartiennent à un régime de vérité documentaire qui échappe à ces programmes, dont l’#intelligence #communicationnelle est purement #linguistique. Cette explication peut fonder le choix du non-usage des programmes basés sur des LLM pour répondre à un besoin d’information.

Arthur Perret. L’intelligence artificielle générative dans l’impasse informationnelle. XXIVe Congrès de la SFSIC, Jun 2025, Rennes (Université Rennes 2), France.

StupidAntibot [Wiki de sebsauvage.net]
▻https://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=stupidantibot

De nos jours les #bots sont de véritables plaies pour les #webmasters. Les bots des moteurs de recherche et surtout ceux des boîtes d’#IA viennent sans relâche marteler votre serveur, parfois au point de le faire tomber.

Les solutions existantes

Il est donc intéressant de lutter contre ces bots pour améliorer la santé de votre serveur. Il existe plusieurs manières de contrer les bots :

– Le #robots.txt est désormais parfaitement inutile puisque plus aucun bot ne les respecte (surtout pas les boîtes d’IA).
– Regarder le #User-Agent est inutile : Les boîtes d’IA mentent sur le User-Agent.
– #crowdsec n’a pas vraiment pour but de bloquer les bots, mais plutôt les attaques.
– Bloquer des plages d’#IP (par exemple tout l’#AS de #Google ou #Facebook) ne sert plus à rien : Les boîtes d’IA passent par d’autres IP (IP #résidentielles, #smartphones…)
– Bloquer sélectivement des adresses IP ne sert plus à rien non plus puisque les sociétés d’IA passent par des IP résidentielles (PC domestiques et smartphones comme proxy). Votre site reçoit donc des requêtes de dizaines de milliers d’adresses IP différentes. Bloquer chacune de ces IP est vain. (Sans compter que du coup vous risquez de bloquer des utilisateurs légitimes.)
– #CloudFlare possède bien sûr une #protection #antibots, mais au prix de donner à une boîte #américaine la totalité du trafic de votre site web, en clair. (Ce que je trouve totalement irrespectueux envers les visiteurs. En plus de ne pas être conforme au #RGPD.)
– #Iocaine est tentant pour pourrir les données des IAs, mais cela va augmenter la charge de votre serveur. Ce n’est pas ce qu’on veut ici.
– #Anubis est bien entendu un classique (expliqué ici même), mais c’est la solution thermonucléaire. De plus, Anubis étant très répandu, il devient une cible (il semble que certaines boîtes d’IA aient déjà commencé à essayer de le contourner).