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Intel is developing a new small form-factor desktop computer powered by 10-watt Intel Celeron or Pentium Silver “Jasper Lake” processor options. Code-named “Atlas Canyon,” the new system will be known as the NUC 11 Essential an…
Intel is developing a new small form-factor desktop computer powered by 10-watt Intel Celeron or Pentium Silver “Jasper Lake” processor options. Code-named “Atlas Canyon,” the new system will be known as the NUC 11 Essential and while Intel hasn’t officially announced the new product yet, FanlessTech has the details from what looks like an official […]
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Die “Umweltbewusstseinsstudie 2020” zeigt, dass die Sorge der Deutschen wächst. Mit der Arbeit der Bundesregierung sind nur 26 Prozent der Befragten zufrieden.
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He will work under John Giannandrea, who also left Google for Apple.
Enlarge / AI researcher Samy Bengio (left) poses with his brother Yoshua Bengio (right) for a photo tied to a report from cloud-platform company Paperspace on the future of AI. (credit: Paperspace)
Apple has hired Samy Bengio, a prominent AI researcher who previously worked at Google. Bengio will lead "a new AI research unit" within Apple, according to a recent report in Reuters. He is just the latest in a series of prominent AI leaders and workers Apple has hired away from the search giant.
Bengio will work directly under John Giannandrea, Apple's senior vice president of machine learning and AI strategy. Giannandrea himself used to lead AI at Google (he worked there for eight years) before jumping ship to work at Apple in 2018. We interviewed him at length last year about the growing role of machine learning in Apple's software and services.
Apple uses machine learning to improve the quality of photos taken with the iPhone, surface suggestions of content and apps that users might want to use, power smart search features across its various software offerings, assist in palm rejection for users writing with the iPad's Pencil accessory, and much more.
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Post-FCC Pai will apparently keep pushing deregulation of broadband industry.
Enlarge / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai says goodbye to members of a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee afters testifying during a hearing on June 16, 2020, in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images | Chip Somodevilla)
After four years of running the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai is now working for a conservative think tank and a private-equity firm.
The American Enterprise Institute on Friday announced that the ex-FCC chairman "is joining AEI as a visiting fellow" and "will work on issues pertaining to technology and innovation, telecommunications regulation, and market-based incentives for investment in broadband deployment."
Earlier last week, Searchlight Capital Partners announced the appointment of Pai "as a partner and a prospective board member of a number of Searchlight's existing investments in the technology, media, and telecommunications sectors." Searchlight's current investments include two Internet service providers in the US, Consolidated Communications and Ziply Fiber, and several ISPs overseas.
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Webkit flaws in just-released iOS 14.5 lets attackers execute malicious code.
Enlarge / The 2020 iPhone lineup. From left to right: iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12, iPhone SE, and iPhone 12 mini. (credit: Samuel Axon)
A week after Apple issued its biggest iOS and iPadOS update since last September’s release of version 14.0, the company has released a new update to patch two zero-days that allowed attackers to execute malicious code on fully up-to-date devices. Monday’s release of version 14.5.1 also fixes problems with a bug in the newly released App Tracking transparency rolled out in the previous version.
Both vulnerabilities reside in Webkit, a browser engine that renders Web content in Safari, Mail, App Store, and other select apps running on iOS, macOS, and Linux. CVE-2021-30663 and CVE-2021-30665, as the zero-days are tracked, have now been patched. Last week, Apple fixed CVE-2021-30661, another code-execution flaw in iOS Webkit, that also might have been actively exploited.
“Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution,” Apple said in its security notes, referring to the flaws. “Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited.”
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Jonatan Correa was part of the piracy Scene group SPARKS that presumably caused Hollywood millions in losses. After pleading guilty, he now faces a prison sentence of 12 to 18 months. However, the U.S. Government is asking a New York federal court to issue a lower sentence since Correa didn’t have a financial motive. In addition, he has been cooperative since his arrest.
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Last year, the U.S. Department of Justice booked one of its biggest successes in its battle against online piracy.
With help from law enforcement organizations around the world, the feds took out the prominent SPARKS Scene group, which was a major blow to the broader piracy ecosystem.
Initially, the number of piracy releases grinded to a halt, but in recent months things have pretty much returned to normal again. The same can’t be said for the three men who were indicted. They still face criminal charges for their role in the SPARKS group.
One of the accused men, Kansas resident Jonatan Correa (aka ‘Raid’), immediately confessed. In January, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and the court is expected to determine his sentence later this month.
With the Department of Justice, the defendant agreed to a sentencing guideline of 12 to 18 months. Last week, however, Correa’s lawyer argued that a prison sentence is not required at all.
The defense attorney told the court that Correa’s role in the SPARKS group was minimal. There was no financial motive either. In fact, the Scene was a hobby that only cost his client money. At the same time, the defendant has a lot to lose, as he owns a company with more than 30 employees.
Late last week, the U.S. Government shared its thoughts on the matter. In a detailed sentencing letter, U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss starts off by recognizing that Correa’s involvement in the SPARKS group was part of a serious and sophisticated criminal conspiracy.
“The defendant had multiple functions in the Sparks Group—he obtained DVDs and Blu-Ray discs and ‘cracked’ the copyrighted protections on the discs by using special software. He also uploaded the copyrighted works to servers controlled by the Sparks Group, and then copied the content across different servers located around the world.
“Over the course of the conspiracy, the Sparks Group successfully reproduced and disseminated hundreds of movies and television shows prior to their retail release date, causing film production studios tens of millions of dollars in losses,” Strauss adds.
However, the Government agrees that Correa’s role was much smaller than those of the other defendants. In addition, he’s only linked to a small fraction of the millions of dollars in damages, $54,000 to be precise, which he agreed to pay back to the Motion Picture Association.
The Government further recognizes that Correa wasn’t part of a conspiracy to make money. He wasn’t considered to be a leader of the group either, he mostly ripped and recorded content, which was then distributed elsewhere.
“The defendant did not participate in the Sparks Group for financial gain, and his role in the Sparks Group was not nearly as extensive as some of his co-conspirators, who recruited and supervised other members of the Sparks Group and defrauded disc distributors into selling discs to the Sparks Group prior to the retail release date.
“The Government believes that the defendant is substantially less culpable than the leaders of the Sparks Group who had more insight into the inner workings of the organization and oversaw its operations on a day-to-day basis,” U.S. Attorney Strauss adds.
There are more facts that speak in Correa’s favor too. According to the U.S. Attorney, he immediately provided a full confession regarding his involvement in the SPARKS group and fully cooperated with law enforcement officials.
While the Department of Justice didn’t learn any new information from Correa, the information he provided did corroborate other evidence, which was helpful.
All in all, the Government believes that Correa’s limited role in the conspiracy and his cooperative stance warrant a lower sentence than the 12 to 18 months that are prescribed by the guidelines.
According to the U.S. Attorney, the arrest and felony charge will already have a significant deterrent impact on others who may consider engaging in similar schemes. At the same time, the Government hopes that this was a “singular mistake in judgment in an otherwise productive and law-abiding life.”
“[T]he Government respectfully requests that the Court impose a sentence below the Guidelines range of 12 to 18 months’ imprisonment, as such a sentence would be sufficient but not greater than necessary to serve the legitimate purposes of sentencing,” U.S. Attorney Strauss concludes.
Needless to say, this recommendation is great news for Correa. While the Government doesn’t state how much lower the sentence should be, hopes of avoiding a prison sentence remain alive.
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A copy of U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss’ letter is available here (pdf)
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Technician said he only had a couple of hours of training and did what he was told.
Real Water sold in jugs. (credit: FDA)
The lead water technician for Real Water—a Las Vegas-based company that produces “alkalized” bottled water now linked to liver failure cases—testified that he had no relevant experience to be a water technician when he was promoted to the position last August.
Real Water’s lead technician, Casey Aiken, 40, is a former vacuum and timeshare salesman who began working for Real Water last June after losing his job as a strip club promoter. According to a taped deposition from late March that was obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Aiken was promoted from his job of loading bottled water onto shipping pallets to the company’s lead technician after “a couple hours” of training.
In late November, just a few months after Aiken’s promotion, five infants and children who drank the water developed acute non-viral hepatitis, which led to acute liver failure, health officials say. The children ranged in age from 7 months to 5 years. Real Water’s branded water was the only common link between the cases.
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Hydrofluorocarbons saved the ozone layer, but they’re killing the climate.
The US Environmental Protection Agency announced a rule Monday that would phase out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), the potent greenhouse gases that are widely used as refrigerants.
Though HFCs aren’t intentionally emitted in the regular use of refrigerators and air conditioners, they often leak out at various phases in an appliance’s life cycle, from manufacturing through disposal. One of the most widely used HFCs, R-134a, causes 1,430 times more warming than an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide over 100 years. Another that is commonly used in supermarkets, R-404A, has a global warming potential of 3,900. Eliminating the use of HFCs worldwide would reduce emissions enough to avoid up to 0.5˚C (0.9˚F) of warming by 2100.
HFCs were first introduced in the mid-1990s as replacements for chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which were the previous standard for refrigerants. CFCs deplete the ozone layer that protects the Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation, and decades of use led to a massive hole, discovered in 1974, in the atmosphere above Antarctica. As concern over the ozone hole grew, countries from around the world signed onto the Montreal Protocol, which called for the phaseout of CFCs and other ozone-depleting substances. Finalized in 1987 and ratified by the US Senate the following year, the treaty is widely seen as a success—as CFC use has dwindled, the ozone layer has begun to repair itself, and by 2040, experts believe the hole will begin to steadily close.
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Mit einem über hundert Jahre alten Bundesgesetz wollen US-Netzbetreiber die Versorgung mit 25 MBit/s für arme Menschen blockieren. (Telekommunikation, Handy)
Mit einem über hundert Jahre alten Bundesgesetz wollen US-Netzbetreiber die Versorgung mit 25 MBit/s für arme Menschen blockieren. (Telekommunikation, Handy) 
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