🚓️️ Matrix.org (Element) Has Broken the Federation Connection

Several posts ago, people suggested using Matrix messenger for bots instead of Telegram. Ironically, it seems that the main Matrix server may be exploited by you know who. Or their admins are just playing dirty games, dunno.

TLDR: Matrix.org has stopped key exchange, making it impossible for users of matrix.org to read messages from other servers, thus forcing people from other servers to switch to matrix.org. This problem has existed since at least from the end of July.

For more information, see: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.org/issues/2483

👮 Telegram Intensifies Pressure on Z-Library Channel

The Z-Library group is no longer appearing in Telegram search results by "Z-Library" query, only by their exact username. Some of their posts have now been hidden with "copyright infringement" bar.

https://torrentfreak.com/telegram-removes-z-library-posts-due-to-copyright-infringement-240923/

Requesting papers will be re-enabled in a while. We have reworked our internals to make downloads more stable, but it will take some time to bring back all downloads and requesting capabilities.

Meanwhile, you can walk through constellation of Nexus projects and our friends:
- Library STC - web interface for bots
- Nexus Aaron - papers and books uploader
- Cassiopeia - AI Digests of recent publications
- #communities - talks about medicine, physics, history, and other fields
- Solar Mind - feed of publications
- Space Frontiers - LLM search over corpus of papers and API for searching

- The request button is back.
- Downloads should also have become faster.
- Additionally, Cybrex processes uploaded files immediately after approval in @nexus_aaron. This way, you can upload any paper and then chat with it using the /c command in the bots. For example:
/c What is the predicted share of renewables mentioned in 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2024.11.018?

Enjoy!

API for STC / Cybrex

Looking for people who would like to get access to an API for searching papers and/or LLM models based on STC (similar to /cybrex in bots) for their own projects.

Let's discuss ideas in the comments, and some worthwhile ideas may be given beta access to the API.

🏴‍☠️ Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database Shiny Libgen

Meta faces a major setback in a copyright infringement lawsuit as a court unredacted documents revealing the company's use of LibGen for AI training. The plaintiffs claim Meta knowingly used the library's material, while Meta argues its actions are protected under "fair use." The court's decision to unseal these documents may have significant implications for Meta and the AI industry as a whole.

🤖 Conversational Memory and Talking With Books

Now you can:
- Have longer talks with our LLMs using the "Reply" button - the bot will do its best to maintain the chat context
- Reply with questions to files, and the bot will keep file content in context (but the file must be stored with STC).

For example: search for shadow libraries in the bot, open the first book, click "Reply" on the message and then ask something like list shadow libraries from the book.

More examples may be found in our #freetalks chat

We have now updatable IPFS directories with part of STC content, the update cadence is weekly:

https://ipfs.io/ipns/libstc.cc/dois - DOI-indexed IPFS directory with STC files
https://ipfs.io/ipns/libstc.cc/repo - Nexus ID indexed IPFS directory with STC files

Sites are not openable directly as they are too large and should be accessed using CLI tools. Do not ask how to use it if you do not know what it is; these are for developers and seeders.

Also, we are going to release two other datasets:
- A new version of the AI dataset soon with many millions of OCRed books and more than 15M OCRed papers + 170M metadata records.
- A new embeddings dataset, more than 2.2TB of jinaai/jina-embeddings-v3 built on top of STC for search and ML experiments.

Freetalks Chat | LibSTC.cc | SolarMind | Communities Chat

🏴‍☠️ LibGen issues

The provider URDN that seems to be a hoster of LibGen has reported recently:

Our installation is currently offline following an act of sabotage by individuals that appear to be from the national police of Ukraine. We are assessing the situation with our legal team.

what might be a reason of unavailability of LibGen during last days.

🎉 5 Years of Nexus

We've lived through another fruitful year, despite the attacks and growing chaos in the world.
Haven't posted updates for a long time, so here it is:

🌍 The IPFS directory with files and a search engine is available at /ipns/libstc.cc (details in the Freetalks group).

🔎 All searches are semantic now; you may pose queries in free form to retrieve more results than before (or use special syntax to use the good old match search, details in help).

📨 Bots are now searching in Telegram channels as well.

👨‍👦‍👦 Our Communities group are growing more and more, becoming an active place to discuss science.

🧐 One publisher has started depositing articles directly in STC and more are arriving.

🤖 Our chatbot Cybrex now uses DeepSeek R1-level LLM and now we are implementing Deep Research capabilities for selected users.

During the next month, we are going to publish an updated AI dataset and embeddings dataset for researchers' tasks.
Thank you for staying with us all this time.

Long ago, this city was home to dragons and their hoarded wealth, but today the wind whistles through the empty halls...

Previous #freetalks has been finally banned, so you may find new one in help of bots.

🌎 Space Frontiers 🪐

Now you can create your own scholarly digest, ask scientific questions, navigate and find related papers, translate articles, and explore an extensive collection of science, books, standards, manuals, and magazines at https://spacefrontiers.org.

Simply enter your question and await the response.
We have used this platform to produce previous digests, and now you can do the same. Join us in pushing the boundaries of AI into space for our shared future among the stars.

Nexus - Pirates of Mind

⚠️ Changes in Aaron group

TLDR: If you are a regular user, nothing has been changed for you, at all.

For a long time, the @nexus_aaron group was a public space where user requests from bots were automatically posted, taken by uploaders, reviewed by librarians, and then accepted into Library STC.

The review process has now been moved outside of the public group. Here’s what this means:

- Authorized librarians are invited to a private, non-public group.
- Files for review are posted in this private group, where librarians vote to accept or reject them.
- Non-reviewed files will no longer be publicly available in the Aaron group, so the uploading process is no longer exposed.

You may still upload files to Aaron (though it’s recommended to use the Defiler bot) and take user requests from there. After review, accepted files will become available through the bots, just as before.

These changes were made to ensure that the file uploading process is hidden from outsiders, enhancing both security and privacy.

🎯 Newly Published Research Feed — Relaunched!

Space Frontiers now offers a live feed and RSS for newly published papers. Discover the latest research from all publishers on your favorite topics - delivered daily to your preferred RSS reader!

🎉 6 Years of Nexus

We have walked this long road, started as a small pet-project search and continuing as a Telegram shadow library and one of the largest suppliers of texts for training AI. None of it would have been possible without hundreds of people who have been uploading papers and books, reading, and building all these years.

As usual, wishing you all the best in these restless times.

🤖 AI for Libraries and Researchers

Space Frontiers provides MCP and API integration with the entire STC database. You are welcome to test it and integrate the search over a vast of scholar publications and other sources into your own research workflows.

Join #freetalks for any questions and discussions, authors of the project is there to answer your questions.

• They know better how to raise your kids.
• They know better if you are allowed to gather on streets or not.
• They know better what you should read on the Internet.
<you are here>
• They know better how you should think.
<or already here?>

What’s the weirdest here: that you’re ordered what should be in your head at all, or that the decision makers here are complete hopeless morons?

#имлучшезнать