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Der ökonomische Druck soll aus dem Gesundheitssystem weichen. Dafür soll die Kliniklandschaft neu gegliedert werden. Weshalb Parteien und Verbände vor einer inkonsequenten Reform warnen.
The evolution of this weapon may have had little to do with threats from predators.
Enlarge / The tail clubs of ankylosaur species seem to have been used to bash each other rather than predators. (credit: Henry Sharpe)
New research indicates that the tail clubs on huge armored dinosaurs known as ankylosaurs may have evolved to whack each other rather than deter hungry predators. This is a complete shift from what was previously believed.
Prior to the paper published today in Biology Letters, most scientists looked upon the dinosaur’s tail club, a substantial bony protrusion comprised of two oval-shaped knobs, primarily as a defense against predation. The team behind the new paper argues that this is not necessarily the case. To make their case, they focus on years of ankylosaur research, analysis of the fossil record, and data from an exceptionally well-preserved specimen named Zuul crurivastator.
Zuul’s name, in fact, embraces that previous idea. While "Zuul" references the creature in the original Ghostbusters, the two Latin words that make up its species name are crus (shin or shank) and vastator (destroyer). Hence, the destroyer of shins: a direct reference to where the dinosaur’s club may have struck injured approaching tyrannosaurs or other theropods.
AI-wielding artist must assert ownership and label each piece as “Generative AI.”
Enlarge / An AI-generated watercolor illustration, now eligible for inclusion in Adobe Stock. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica)
On Monday, Adobe announced that its stock photography service, Adobe Stock, would begin allowing artists to submit AI-generated imagery for sale, Axios reports. The move comes during Adobe's embrace of image synthesis and also during industry-wide efforts to deal with the rapidly growing field of AI artwork in the stock art business, including earlier announcements from Shutterstock and Getty Images.
Submitting AI-generated imagery to Adobe Stock comes with a few restrictions. The artist must own (or have the rights to use) the image, AI-synthesized artwork must be submitted as an illustration (even if photorealistic), and it must be labeled with "Generative AI" in the title.
Further, each AI artwork must adhere to Adobe's new Generative AI Content Guidelines, which require the artist to include a model release for any real person depicted realistically in the artwork. Artworks that incorporate illustrations of people or fictional brands, characters, or properties require a property release that attests the artist owns all necessary rights to license the content to Adobe Stock.
Energie und Klima – kompakt: OECD warnt vor dem baldigen Erreichen von Kipppunkten im Klimasystem. Fossile Energie trotzdem weiter extrem hoch subventioniert. Die Summen sind alles eingerechnet astronomisch.
Changes may help devs handle inflation, exchange rates, and new content types.
The backs of the iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro Max. [credit: Samuel Axon ]
Apple unveiled the most sweeping change yet to the App Store pricing model it applies to all apps submitted to its app stores on Tuesday. In the new system, app developers will have substantially more control over how they price their apps.
Apple's App Store has a history of offering relatively limited price point options to app and game developers. With the new policies, the minimum app price has dropped from $0.99 to $0.29, and the maximum has risen from $1,000 to $10,000. Prices can include $0.10, $0.50, $1, $5, $10, and $100. Supported conventions include X.99, X.00, X.90, and X.95.
Here's Apple's specific wording:
After launching a Self Service Repair program in the United States earlier this year, Apple is expanding the program to eight countries in Europe: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. While some folks have found Apple…
After launching a Self Service Repair program in the United States earlier this year, Apple is expanding the program to eight countries in Europe: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. While some folks have found Apple’s approach to be a little over-the-top in a “do I really want to do this” […]
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The countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the UK.
Enlarge / Some of the tools and parts offered in Apple's Self Service Repair program appear in this photo. (credit: Apple)
As of Tuesday, Apple's Self Service Repair program is now available in eight European countries. It had launched in the United States back in April, with promises from the company to expand to other countries by the end of the year.
The countries included in this rollout are Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
The program allows individual customers to purchase the same repair manuals, parts, and tools that Apple uses to perform repairs. Two hundred individual parts and tools are available through Apple's Self Service Repair Store. In addition to buying the parts, customers can rent repair kits for £54.90 with free shipping.
Netflix and several Hollywood studios continue their crusade against pirate sites Down Under. The companies obtained a new blocking injunction at Australia’s Federal Court today, targeting dozens of websites. The companies also obtained the first cyberlocker blocking order recently, with Mixdrop as the main target.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Pirate site blockades are the preferred anti-piracy tool for many copyright holders around the world. This is also the case in Australia, where blocking injunctions are commonplace today.
Today, a group of prominent movie companies including Disney, Netflix, and Village Roadshow, obtained the latest blocking order in Australia’s Federal Court.
The blocking injunction, issued by Justice Nicholas, targets a broad mix of pirate sites. Many of these sites use variations of popular piracy brands, including YTS, Cuevana2, Movies123, and Tamilgun.
The movie companies convinced the court that these sites, some of which have millions of estimated visits per month, are clearly copyright infringing.
“[I]t is apparent from the evidence that the online locations facilitate copyright infringement on a large scale. Some act as proxy servers to other servers and some share Torrent files using the BitTorrent protocol,” the order reads.
The site operators were given the option to contest the blocking request but most didn’t respond. The infringing activities continued and a blocking injunction is therefore warranted according to the court.
This isn’t the first injunction of this kind. Most popular piracy havens are blocked already, but Disney, Netflix, and other movie companies, regularly expand the list to make it harder for the general public to find alternative pirate sources.
Today’s injunction follows roughly two weeks after Justice Nicholas issued another order in favor of the movie companies. That one covered the popular cyberlocker Mixdrop.
The Mixdrop injunction is the first to target a file-hosting service. According to complaints from rightsholders, the site encouraged people to upload popular content, paying affiliates as much as $1,000 a week, depending on the number of views they generate.
Mixdrop has over 20 million estimated visits per month and the court order requires Australian ISPs to block the main domain name, Mixdrop.co, as well as several related domains and IP addresses.
Graham Burke, chairman of Creative Content Australia, characterizes the Mixdrop injunction as an important victory.
“Cyberlockers play a key role in the piracy ecosystem and this judgment will disrupt important criminal operators who facilitate pirated content via Mixdrop,” Burke said.
“Site blocking continues to be instrumental in the reduction of piracy in Australia. Ultimately though, it helps to keep consumers safe from the significant risks that come with accessing content unlawfully.”
There’s no question that site blocking helps to deter some casual pirates, but it’s certainly no silver bullet.
Earlier this year, a Creative Content Australia study found that blocking measures don’t affect all pirates. A survey of Australian pirates revealed that roughly half of them encountered a blocked site. Of this group, roughly a third gave up their pirate hunt or found legal alternatives.
The majority of the people who encountered a blocked site said that they would simply seek alternative pirate sites to find the content they were looking for.
Intriguingly, most pirates don’t appear to be very concerned about site-blocking measures. 58% of all adult pirates and 70% of all teen pirates actually agree that blocking pirate sites and apps is a good idea.
That’s easy to say, of course, once you know how to circumvent blockades. And indeed, the same survey found that VPNs and alternative DNS servers are commonly used in Australia, especially among persistent pirates.
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A copy of Justice Nicholas’ Mixdrop order can be found here (pdf). Today’s blocking order (pdf) targets the following sites, some of which operated from multiple domains:
– Xemovie
– Moviecrumbs
– 2kmovie
– Freemoviesfull
– Watchseriesstream
– Openloadmovies
– Nunuyy
– HDToday
– Azseries
– 1movieshd
– Tamilgun
– Actvid
– Watchfilm
– 5movies
– Cda-hd
– Fullmovieshd4k
– Kissmovies
– Pttplay
– Sockshare1
– Tvshows88
– Movies4u
– Movieffm
– Bestseries
– Aa01
– Poppygreens
– Yts-on
– Icefilms
– Solarmovie
– Hindilinks4u
– Projectfreetv
– Ytsyify
– Yts.land
– Yts.zone
– Yify.pl
– Fboxtv
– Olevod
– Mudvod
– Bemovies
– Fbox.to
– Showboxmovies
– Soap2dayto
– Tvseries
– Watch0123movies
– 123enjoy
– 123films
– 123unblock.us
– 0gomovies.cm
– Movies123
– Yes!movies
– Dongphym
– Movies123-online
– Cuevana2
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
For now it’s only in Europe, with a worldwide rollout coming in 2023.
Enlarge / Waze for Android Automotive. (credit: Waze)
Google's other big navigation app, Waze, is coming to Android Automotive. Today the company announced the move on the Waze blog, saying, "The new dedicated Waze app for cars brings the best of Waze real-time navigation, routing and alerts feature[s] right in the car’s display. When you drive, you can experience safer and more convenient journeys while eliminating the hassle of using a smartphone."
Google has two different car products with really confusing branding. The first is Android Auto. This is Google's version of CarPlay—an app that runs on your phone but projects a special car interface to your vehicle's dashboard display, showing off Google Maps and compatible Android Auto apps on your phone. Waze has been on Android Auto since 2017. Today's announcement is for Android Automotive, a different product from Android Auto. Automotive, the fully spelled-out version, is a full operating system instead of an app. Cars have infotainment computers in them, and Android Automotive OS (AAOS) has the car run Android. Even if there's an iPhone in your pocket, your car runs Android on the car's internal computer instead of something like Linux or QNX. AAOS has a car version of the Play Store, where you can download apps directly to your car, and it's this platform that Waze is arriving on. Android Automotive is pretty rare out there in the world, but you'll see it on new Volvo/Polestar, Ford, and GM cars, mostly. Sometimes Google or car manufacturers will call AAOS "cars with Google built-in."
The app situation on Android Automotive is tough. In-car infotainment systems are heavily regulated due to safety concerns to the point that every app and individual interface needs to be vetted by regulatory bodies around the world. This is incredibly difficult, expensive, and time-consuming for app developers, which is a big reason Android Automotive only has 37 apps right now. You can see the full list here. AAOS only allows for media and navigation apps, and even the media apps don't get a custom interface—you just plug into Google's interface with your own branding and audio stream, which alleviates the regulatory burden but limits what apps can do.
Meta may have to rethink its ad model (again) in the next month.
Meta has already been coping with a slump in ad revenue this year, and now a decision from European Union privacy regulators threatens to reduce Meta’s ad revenue even more next year. According to Reuters, a person familiar with the matter said that the European Data Protection Board ruled Monday that Meta cannot continue targeting ads based on its own users’ online activity—like the Instagram reels they've viewed or Facebook profiles they've clicked.
If the EU data privacy watchdog gets its way, Meta could face “hefty fines,” Reuters reported, for continuing to rely on its terms of service to gain user consent for running personalized ads.
But this decision has not yet been publicly disclosed, The Wall Street Journal reported, and it won’t be finalized until Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) issues public orders. That could take a month, and at any point, Meta could appeal either decision.
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