Month: February 2022

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Acer is giving its Swift line of thin and light laptops a power boost with the move to 12th-gen Intel Core processors based on the new 28-watt Alder Lake-P architecture.

The new Acer Swift 5 is a premium 14 inch notebook that measures less than 0.6 inches thick and weighs about 2.65 pounds, while the new Acer Swift 3 is a more mainstream model. Both will be available worldwide by June.

Acer Swift 5 (SF514-56T)

Acer says this thin and light notebook will sell for $1499 and up when it hits North America in June, but first it will go on sale in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in March with a starting price of 1,799 Euros before rolling out in China in April for 9,999 CNY.

Powered by either an Intel Core i5-1240P or Core i7-1260P processor, the laptop has four Performance CPU cores and eight Efficient cores (for a total of 16 threads) and Intel Iris Xe integrated graphics.

The new Swift 5 also has an aluminum unibody chassis, support for up to 16GB of LPDDR5 memory and up to 2TB of PCIe Gen 4 solid state storage.

It’s an Intel Evo-verified computer with a 14 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel touchscreen display with 100% sRGB color gamut and 425 nits brightness, plus slim bezels for a 92.22% screen-to-body ratio and an antimicrobial Gorilla Glass coating.

There’s backlit keyboard and an OceanGlass touchpad made from ocean-bound plastic, but processed to feel like glass. And the notebook has a fingerprint reader, a full HD webcam, and support for fast charging: Acer says you can get 4 hours of battery life from a 30 minute chare.

Other features include dual fans and heat pipes for cooling, two Thunderbolt ports, an HDMI 2.1 port, and two USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports.

Acer Swift 3 (SF314-512)

This notebook is also powered by a 12th-gen Intel Core processor, support sup to 2TB of storage, dual fans for cooling, an FHD webcam, and fast charging support.

But it’s a more affordable notebook with USB-C rather than Thunderbolt, a choice of FHD or QHD displays (both with a 16:9 aspect ratio), and it will sell for $849 and up when it launches in North America in June. It will hit the EMEA and China in April for 1,199 Euros and 5,499 CNY, respectively.

That starting price will be fore a model with an Intel Core i3-1220P processor, which is a 10-core, 12-thread chip with two Performance CPU cores and eight Efficient cores. But the laptop will also be available with Core i5-1240P and Core i7-1260P processor options.

You can find out more about Intel’s new Alder Lake-P processors in our article on the company’s new 12th-gen chips in the 9 to 28-watt base power range.

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As one of the more popular user-submitted content sites on the internet today, Reddit and its community moderators have to work hard to keep the platform in order.

In 2021, Reddit’s users created nearly 5.8 billion posts, comments, private messages and chats across the platform, with 297,161,752 later being removed by moderators (around 175.8k), removed by site admins (108.6K), and the authors themselves (12.6K).

Content can be removed for a variety of reasons. ‘Content manipulation’ is the largest category and encompasses spam, community interference (so-call ‘brigading’), vote manipulation, and similar issues. For the purpose of this report, however, we’ll home in on the copyright issues faced by Reddit during the last year and how the site responded to them.

Copyright Removals

In common with the vast majority of large companies based in the US, Reddit has to follow the requirements of the DMCA which means that when it receives a valid copyright notice, it must comply by taking the identified content down. On the other hand, when submitters send notices that are incomplete or invalid in some other way, Reddit does not.

“In 2021, Reddit received 177,450 copyright notices reporting 920,672 pieces of content. This represents an increase of 104% from 2020. We removed 665,898 pieces of content in response to these takedown notices,” the company reveals in the latest edition of its transparency report.

Under the DMCA, Reddit is also required to take “appropriate action” against so-called “repeat infringers”, which in the company’s case can involve the termination of not only user accounts but also entire subreddit communities, especially ones where “excessive amounts” of infringing content keep getting posted.

“In 2021, Reddit permanently suspended 2,813 users and banned 2,625 subreddits for excessive copyright infringement,” the company writes.

These figures represent a substantial increase over those published for 2020. In that year, Reddit banned just 303 users and terminated 514 subreddits.

Although overall copyright complaints are up 104% on the previous year, the site’s termination policy doesn’t appear to have changed significantly. This may suggest that some users and subreddits simply aren’t getting the message that by repeatedly posting infringing content, it can and will result in both them and their communities getting banned.

Invalid Copyright Notices Are Rejected

Any copyright notices sent to Reddit must comply with various rules. Primarily they must deal with copyright, not other issues such as privacy or harassment. When they do address copyright issues they must meet the requirements of copyright law and include specified information. Furthermore, the submitter must also consider whether the content they’re complaining about is being used legally, i.e under the doctrine of fair use.

Should a submitted notice fail to meet these requirements, action by Reddit is declined. In 2021 260,884 pieces of content did not qualify for removal due to invalid, incomplete, or duplicate copyright notices. These included a complaint from a video game publisher that requested the removal of posts purported to reveal game mechanics for a not-yet-released game.

“Although the notice claimed that ‘leaked images of the unreleased game’ infringed the publisher’s copyrights in the game, the only image found in either of the reported posts was a screenshot of further plain text description of game mechanics. Since the reported content was merely related to the rightsholder’s work but did not copy from it in a way that constitutes infringement, we declined to remove the content,” Reddit reveals.

When someone complains about a specific piece of content and that content is taken down, under US copyright law the targeted user has the ability to appeal via a DMCA counter notice. Such counter notices are required to follow a structure but successful notices can result in content being restored. Content can also be restored if the submitter of the original notice issues a retraction.

“Reddit complies with counter notices and retraction requests that are complete, and rejects those that are incomplete or invalid. In 2021, Reddit received 542 counter notices and 72 retraction requests. 285 counter notices were found to be valid, resulting in restoration of all the associated content to Reddit. Similarly, all retraction requests resulted in restoration of the associated content,” the company notes.

With around 297 million pieces of content removed by Reddit in 2021, the 665,898 pieces removed on copyright grounds represent a small fraction of the overall problem. However, with user accounts and entire communities on the line, consequences can be great when errant users repeatedly and intentionally overstep the line.

The 2021 transparency report, which also covers law enforcement requests, can be found here

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Die Software AG will mit ihrem neuen Partner Silver Lake nicht nur organisch wachsen. (Software AG, SAP)

The first laptops with 12th-gen Intel Core processors went on sale at the end of January, but so far the only models available are powered by 45-watt Alder Lake-H processors.

Now Intel is starting to provide mode details about what we’ll be able to expect from thinner, lighter notebooks powered by Alder Lake-P (28-watts), and Alder Lake-U (9 to 15 watt) processors).

Intel had already provided some information about key specs for these chips during the Consumer Electronics Show in January, but Alder Lake-H was the star of that show, with an emphasis on the company’s new high-performance chips for gaming laptops and mobile workstations.

The U and P series chips will most likely show up in mainstream laptops, thin and light systems, and power-constrained devices like 2-in-1 tablets with detachable keyboards as well as small form-factor desktop computers.

Like all of Intel’s 12th-gen processors, the new Alder Lake-U and P chips feature a hybrid architecture that combines Performance (P) and Efficient (E) cores, with the P series chips sporting up to 6 P cores and 8 E cores for a total of 14 cores and 20 threads, while U series chips top out at a 10-core, 12-thread configuration with 2 P cores and 8 E cores.

Intel says we can expect major year-over-year performance gains, with the new 28-watt Intel Core i7-1280P processor, for example, delivering up to 70% better performance than an Intel Core i7-1195G7 processor running at 28 watts. And the 12th-gen chip even brings better multi-core performance than a 45-watt Intel Core i9-11980HK processor, while using half as much power.

The company also compared the i7-1280P to Apple’s M1 processor (Intel says its chip is 20% faster in at least some multi-core tests when both chips are set to 35-watts), and AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800U (Intel says its chip is 40% faster). Of course, it’s worth taking these benchmark results with a grain of salt, since Intel may have cherry-picked tests that paint its processors in the most positive light… and since Intel is comparing its best P series chip with last year’s best Apple and AMD processors in a similar power range, rather than this year’s AMD Ryzen 6000U chips or Apple M1 Pro or Max chips.

Intel isn’t saying much about the performance of its U series processors yet, which could be an indication that Alder Lake-P will ship first… or that Intel just wants to focus on its highest-performance processors.

Either way, an interesting side note here is that while everything is grouped together under U or P series labels, in some ways these are three different sets of chips.

While the 28-watt chips run at higher speeds and have more Performance cores, these chips are a lot like their 15-watt counterparts in some key ways, since both have:

• BGA package size: 50 x 25 x 1.3mm
• 8 x PCIe Gen 4 lanes
• 12 x PCIe Gen 3 lanes and
• Up to 4 x Thunderbolt 4 connectors.

Intel’s new 9-watt chips, meanwhile, come in similar combinations of P and E cores to their 15-watt siblings, but these processors are clearly designed for thinner, lighter, lower-power devices.

They take up less size, use less power, generate less heat, and have more constraints:

• BGA package size: 28.5 x 19 x 1.1mm
• 4 x PCIe Gen 4 lanes
• 10 x PCIe Gen 3 lanes
• Up to 2 x Thunderbolt 4 connectors

So it’s interesting to see that Intel breaks out the 28-watt chips as a new brand that falls somewhere between the energy-efficient U series and the high-performance H series, but doesn’t do anything similar for the 9-watt chips.

I suspect that might be due to the fact that the company’s first crack at using the M label for low-power chips in the 4.5-watt range might not have been well received. Intel only really the M for 6th, 7th, and 8th-gen processors before phasing it out. Last year’s 11th-gen Core processors used the U label for everything in the 7 to 28-watt range.

And honestly, it’s kind of hard to argue with that strategy. Last year I reviewed a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano laptop with an Intel Core i7-1180G7 processor designed to run in the 7-15 watt range, and honestly it felt nearly indistinguishable from a system with a 15-28 watt chip like the Core i7-1165G7 in real-world performance.

I’ll be curious to see whether the same holds true for Intel’s 12th-gen 9-watt and 15-watt chips.

Intel says we can expect more than 250 computers powered by Alder Lake-U and P series chips this year, including new foldables and other thin and light systems with 9-watt chips.

12th-gen Intel Core P-Series (28W)
Chip	Cores / Threads	P / E Cores	L3 Cache	Base / Max Turbo P-cores	Base / Max Turbo E-Cores	GPU (EU / Max Freq)	Base Power	Max Turbo Power
i7-1280P	14 / 20	6P / 8E	24MB	1.8 GHz / 4.8 GHz	1.3 GHz / 3.56GHz	96EU / 1.45 GHz	28W	64W
i7-1270P	14 / 16	4P / 8E	18MB	2.2 GHz / 4.78GHz	1.6 GHz / 3.5 GHz	96EU / 1.4 GHz	28W	64W
i7-1260P	14 / 16	4P / 8E	18MB	2.1 GHz / 4.7 GHz	1.5 GHz / 3.34GHz	96EU / 1.4 GHz	28W	64W
i5-1250P	12 / 16	4P / 8E	12MB	1.7 GHz / 4.4 GHz	1.2 GHz / 3.3 GHz	80EU / 1.4 GHz	28W	64W
i5-1240P	12 / 16	4P / 8E	12MB	1.7 GHz / 4.4 GHz	1.2 GHz / 3.3 GHz	80EU / 1.3 GHz	28W	64W
i3-1220P	10 / 12	2P / 8E	12MB	1.5 GHz / 4.4 GHz	1.1 GHz / 3.3 GHz	64EU / 1.1 GHz	28W	64W

 

12th-gen Intel Core U-Series (15W)
Chip	Cores / Threads	P / E Cores	L3 Cache	Base / Max Turbo P-cores	Base / Max Turbo E-Cores	GPU (EU / Max Freq)	Base Power	Max Turbo Power
i7-1265U	10 / 12	2P / 8E	12MB	1.8 GHz / 4.8 GHz	1.3 GHz / 3.6 GHz	96EU / 1.25 GHz	15W	55W
i7-1255U	10 / 12	2P / 8E	12MB	1.7 GHz / 4.7 GHz	1.2 GHz / 3.5 GHz	96EU / 1.25 GHz	15W	55W
i5-1245U	10 / 12	2P / 8E	12MB	1.6 GHz / 4.4 GHz	1.2 GHz / 3.3 GHz	80EU / 1.2 GHz	15W	55W
i5-1235U	10 / 12	2P / 8E	12MB	1 .3 GHz / 4.4 GHz	0.9 GHz / 3.3 GHz	80EU / 1.2 GHz	15W	55W
i3-1215U	6 / 8	2P / 4E	10MB	1.2 GHz / 4.4 GHz	0.9 GHz / 3.3 GHz	64EU / 1.2 GHz	15W	55W
Pentium 8505	5 / 6	2P / 8E	8MB	1.2 GHz / 4.4 GHz	0.9 GHz / 3.3 GHz	48EU / 1.1 GHz	15W	55W
Celeron 7305	5 / 6	2P / 8E	8MB	1.1 GHz	0.9 GHz	48EU / 1.1 GHz	15W	55W

 

12th-gen Intel Core U-Series (9W)
Chip	Cores / Threads	P / E Cores	L3 Cache	Base / Max Turbo P-cores	Base / Max Turbo E-Cores	GPU (EU / Max Freq)	Base Power	Max Turbo Power
i7-1260U	10 / 12	2P / 8E	12MB	1.1 GHz / 4.7 GHz	0.8 GHz / 3.5 GHz	96EU / 0.95 GHz	9W	29W
i7-1250U	10 / 12	2P / 8E	12MB	1.1 GHz / 4.7 GHz	0.8 GHz / 3.5 GHz	96EU / 0.95 GHz	9W	29W
i5-1240U	10 / 12	2P / 8E	12MB	1.1 GHz / 4.4 GHz	0.8 GHz / 3.3 GHz	80EU / 0.9 GHz	9W	29W
i5-1230U	10 / 12	2P / 8E	12MB	1 GHz / 4.4 GHz	0.7 GHz / 3.3 GHz	80EU / 0.85 GHz	9W	29W
i3-1210U	6 / 8	2P / 4E	10MB	1 GHz / 4.4 GHz	0.7 GHz / 3.3 GHz	64EU / 0.85 GHz	9W	29W
Pentium 8500	5 / 6	2P / 8E	8MB	1 GHz / 4.4 GHz	0.7 GHz / 3.3 GHz	48EU / 0.8 GHz	9W	29W
Celeron 7300	5 / 6	2P / 8E	8MB	1 GHz	0.7 GHz	48EU / 0.8 GHz	9W	29W

via NotebookCheck and Tom’s Hardware

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Die Ära Homann ist vorbei. Der Verbraucherschützer und Grünen-Politiker Klaus Müller übernimmt die Führung der Bundesnetzagentur. (Bundesnetzagentur, Telekom)

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