ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>The Register: Wikimedia Foundation loses first court battle to swerve Online Safety Act regulation. “Wikipedia today lost a legal battle against the UK’s tech secretary to tighten the criteria around the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA), as it seeks to exclude itself from the strictest regulations.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/13/the-register-wikimedia-foundation-loses-first-court-battle-to-swerve-online-safety-act-regulation/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/13/the-register-wikimedia-foundation-loses-first-court-battle-to-swerve-online-safety-act-regulation/</a></p>
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CPOD from 2025/08/13
A close-in image of a protoplanetary disc HH 30 around a newly formed star produced by NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. It is surrounded by jets and a disc wind, and is located in the dark cloud LDN 1551 in the Taurus Molecular Cloud. Herbig-Haro objects are small nebulae found i ...
Artist: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, Tazaki et al.; License: CC BY 4.0; Credit Webb investigates a dusty and dynamic disc
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dommer har afvist #Wikimedia Foundations klage over loven om onlinesikkerhed - Online Safety Act
Retten har besluttet, at Wikimedia Foundation skal begynde at kontrollere besøgendes alder, når de får adgang til voksenindhold på Wikipedia
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/08/11/wikimedia-foundation-challenges-uk-online-safety-act-regulations/
Wikimedia Foundation · Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations – Wikimedia FoundationUPDATE: On Monday, 11 August, the High Court of Justice dismissed the Wikimedia Foundation’s challenge to the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) Categorisation Regulations. While the decision does not provide the immediate legal protections for Wikipedia that we hoped for, the Court’s ruling emphasized the responsibility of Ofcom and the UK government to ensure Wikipedia….
“In an era of online misinformation, declining trust and paywalled services, the [Australian Dictionary of Biography] keeps fact-based, scholarly information in the public domain. Its continued high quality and availability supports our shared mission of making knowledge freely and reliably accessible to all. #Wikimedia #Australia supports ADB as there is no other resource like it, and its depth, quality, and authority cannot be easily replicated.” — @wm_au
Wikimedia Australia · Why the Australian Dictionary of Biography matters to Wikimedians (and the world)The ADB powers Wikipedia and protects our past
CPOD from 2025/08/12
Ensemble of the Solovetsky Monastery in the fog on a summer evening. Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
Artist: Александр Байдуков; License: CC BY-SA 4.0; Credit Own work
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The decision in #Wikimedia Foundation and BLN v Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology came out today from the High Court, concerning the categorisation of #Wikipedia as a Category 1 service under the #OnlineSafetyAct.
Permission on two grounds dismissed for lack of standing. The other two, permission granted, but ruled against.
www.bailii.orgWikimedia Foundation & Anor v Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology (Rev1) [2025] EWHC 2086 (Admin)(11 August 2025)
Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/08/11/wikimedia-foundation-challenges-uk-online-safety-act-regulations/
Wikimedia Foundation · Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations – Wikimedia FoundationUPDATE: On Monday, 11 August, the High Court of Justice dismissed the Wikimedia Foundation’s challenge to the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) Categorisation Regulations. While the decision does not provide the immediate legal protections for Wikipedia that we hoped for, the Court’s ruling emphasized the responsibility of Ofcom and the UK government to ensure Wikipedia….
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openartbrowser.orgopenArtBrowseropenArtBrowser invites you to browse through the world of arts, enjoy beautiful artworks and learn interesting things. We provide paintings, drawings and sculptures all over the world and from many periods.
Wikimedia Foundation enchaîne les revers judiciaire en ce moment, mais celui là peut avoir des conséquences importantes : les autorités du Royaume-Uni peuvent mettre Wikipédia dans la catégorie des plateformes très régulées, obligeant à contrôler les identités des contributeurs. https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/08/11/wikimedia-foundation-challenges-uk-online-safety-act-regulations/
Wikimedia Foundation · Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations – Wikimedia FoundationUPDATE: On Monday, 11 August, the High Court of Justice dismissed the Wikimedia Foundation’s challenge to the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) Categorisation Regulations. While the decision does not provide the immediate legal protections for Wikipedia that we hoped for, the Court’s ruling emphasized the responsibility of Ofcom and the UK government to ensure Wikipedia….
CPOD from 2025/08/11
Common yellow gilder (Cymothoe egesta), Kakum National Park, Ghana. Feeding on overripe banana
Artist: Charles J. Sharp; License: CC BY-SA 4.0; Credit Own work, from Sharp Photography, sharpphotography.co.uk
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Common yellow gilder (Cymothoe egesta), Kakum National Park, Ghana. Feeding on overripe banana
CPOD from 2025/08/10
West side of Hochosterwitz Castle, municipality of Sankt Georgen am Längsee, Carinthia, Austria
Artist: Uoaei1; License: CC BY-SA 4.0; Credit Own work
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West side of Hochosterwitz Castle, municipality of Sankt Georgen am Längsee, Carinthia, Austria
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burg_Hochosterwitz_Westseite_02a.jpg
CPOD from 2021/01/31
Walk across the Hulshorsterzand/Hulshorsterheide. Sand was blown away between the tree roots.
Artist: Dominicus Johannes Bergsma; License: CC BY-SA 4.0; Credit Own work
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CPOD from 2025/08/09
The Colosseum was built between 72 and 80 AD and is the largest amphitheatre ever built. It is the symbol of the Italian capital Rome.
Artist: Anil Öztas; License: CC BY 4.0; Credit Own work, anil-oeztas.de
See explanation at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rom_(IT),_Kolosseum_--_2024_--_0610.jpg
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The Colosseum was built between 72 and 80 AD and is the largest amphitheatre ever built. It is the symbol of the Italian capital Rome.
License : CC BY 4.0
Artiste : Anil Öztas
Crédits : Own work, anil-oeztas.de
CPOD from 2025/08/08
The Comet NEOWISE on 15 August 2020 from Konská, Žilina District, Slovakia. It resulted the brightest comet in the northern hemisphere since Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997, but it would have been exceeded in brightness by comet Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS in 2024.
Artist: Palonitor; License: CC BY-SA 4.0; Credit Own work
See explanation at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kom%C3%A9ta_C-2020_F3_(NEOWISE).jpg
The Comet NEOWISE on 15 August 2020 from Konská, Žilina District, Slovakia. It resulted the brightest comet in the northern hemisphere since Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997, but it would have been exceeded in brightness by comet Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS in 2024.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kom%C3%A9ta_C-2020_F3_(NEOWISE).jpg
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